Ch.10: The Final Showdown

"How are supposed to get to Acmetropolis when it's a billion miles away?" said Ace.

The Loonatics were all aboard their ship to go after Duck. Tech answered Ace's question.

"With this" he said pointing to a new gadget " I building it for a while and been waiting to give this baby a test run,"

"So what is it?" said Lexi, looking the thing over.

"It's an instant transporter I built on the ship for a situation just like this," said Tech proudly.

"Why didn't you use it when we chasing after Duck all through space?" said Ace.

Tech stammered at the question and activated his new machine, and just like he said they were transported to Acmetroplis. But, the sight before them was very disturbing. The whole city was a flaming ruin, even the Loonatics tower seemed to be in bad shape.

"Oh-man-I-never-seen-such-destruction-in-my-life. Unless-you-count-action-movies-but-since-its-not-what-are-we-gonna-do? That-egg-Black-Lightning-left-has-made-Duck-to-powerful!!!!" said Rev in panic

Slam grumbles, translation "What are we going to do?"

"I agree with Rev" said Ace, sighing "Duck has become a hazard to this city,"

Lexi didn't like where this was going and asked "What are you saying Ace?"

"We have to take Duck down,"

Meanwhile Duck seemed to be having the time of his life, a little destruction here, a little destruction there, it was a blast. But, it wasn't entirely the real Danger Duck's fault. Black Lightning's egg had hatched inside him, and that's what caused this insanity. Blitz Kreig had the right idea when removing the egg from Duck, but who knows what he would have done with so much power.

The red arua around Duck glowed brighter and hung tighter and tighter to his body as if it was afraid to let go. Duck's red eyes spotted the Loonatic's ship and waited for theteam to come out and greet him. The Loonatics came out flying on thier jetpacks, all except Rev, and flew towards Duck.

"Okay Duck you had you're fun" said Ace "but I liked the old you better,"

"Ha" said Duck " you couldn't stand the old me rabbit, so I wouldn't expect to stand my new form either,"

"Duck listen to us" said Lexi " we're a team,"

"I never had a team" said Duck "even if I did, I wouldn't care, everyone is just stepping stones on the way to truimph,"

"But-what-about-that-song-you-sang-about-us?" said Rev "if-you-never-cared-then-why-sing-about-us-at-all?"

Duck fell silent for a moment then said " My light side was being to friendly at the time, now only my dark side rules. The dark has completely taken control, finally I have what I always wanted,"

""What you always wanted" said Lexi "was to be a hero, to be recongized and respected as one of the team. You didn't want to become a villian who destroyed and got a bad rep for it. Black Lightning's egg has changed you from what you always fought to become, don't let your anger take control of your life,"

Those words that Lexi said struck Duck hard, greater than any weapon Tech could ever think up or invent. The red arua around Duck loosened it's grip and Duck started to fall towards the flaming ruins below, blacking out on the way down.

When Danger Duck reawakened he found himself staring into a bright light, and thought for a second that he was in heaven. But he changed his mind when he felt the cold metal surface beneath him. He didn't need to guess he was in Tech E. Coyote's lab, it was already obivous because of the technogoly in the room. He looked around some more to see that the room was empty.

"Hey where is everyone?" said Duck getting up and walking from the lab " Ace!... Lexi!... Slam!... Tech!...Rev!"

No matter which room he went to he just couldn't find any sign of his teammates, he started to fell very uncomfortable.

"This is sort of spooky" said Duck "what happened to my team?"

When Duck walked into the living room he saw a glowing red egg, sitting on the table. For a second Duck seemed attracted to the egg, and thought he heard it whisper "Go back..Go back,"

Duck stepped closer to the egg even though it kept whispering the same two words. Finally Danger picked up the egg, it was burning hot in his hands, but yet he didn't feel any pain.. Suddenly the whole background behind Duck disappeared into the darkness and red eyes approached Duck and the egg.

Duck turned around sensing what this thing was after and blasted it back to the dark ages. The red egg in Duck's hands suddenly glowed gold, and Danger Duck was blinded by the light.

After the sudden flash he was staring in the faces of his friends.

"Glad that you're back to normal Doc," said Ace with a smile.

"The city too," said Lexi.

"I'm not to sure" said Duck remembering the dream he had before waking up for real "I'm sorry for all the destruction I caused,"

"No sweat" said Tech " you just have to pay the electric bill the next time it comes in,"

The team laughed, everything seemed to be back to normal, or was it?