Author's Note: Sorry for the wait, I had school finals and that took up most of my time, so I had to rush with this chapter. Enjoy.
Chapter 10: Fateful Encounter
Dizziness came to the two ducks as they appeared on the inside of the Raptor, luckily it didn't faze Grin as he kept his grip. It only took a few seconds for them to shake it off and take in the area they were in. A long hall that seemed to glow an eerie red, making a small chill run down their spine. "Ok where are we?" Mallory asked, looking at Chameleon.
The lizard gulp as he responded, "An entrance hall, one that we use as we usually teleport."
"Guide us to our destination," Grin stated, applying some pressure as a warning for refusal.
"Just keep going down this hall."
They began walking as Mallory looked eyes with his, "Don't make any loud noises that will attract attention." She threatens, it may have been small but it was enough to keep his mouth shut.
The Pond
Duke and Tanya entered the hanger and one of the first things they saw was that one of the Duck cycles was gone. Most likely Wildwing stole one of them. The next thing they saw made their eyes widen, all the tires for the rest of the ground vehicles were slashed, preventing them from using them. "Tanya how long do you think we can fix this!" Duke shouted, turning his head to the blonde.
"Uh…a few minutes," She responded as she rushed to one of the consoles and typed a few commands. The machinery inside the hanger started to change all the tires on the Migrator. Meanwhile Duke tried to reach the others on the comm. He tried Mallory's but she didn't answer, then Grin and Nosedive but none of them answered. With a frustrated sigh he ran over to Tanya, "They're not answering, they must have turned off their comm's"
"Not good, they don't know what's coming their way."
Looking over at the machine and waiting for it to do it work, but at a slow rate. The one eyed duck was losing patience at the speed, "Can't this thing go any faster!"
"I'm sorry it can't," She responded with a shake of the head.
"But we need to hurry!" He cried out. "They don't know Wildwing's on his way." Even though he was shouting it still couldn't speed things up, they just had to wait for things to be done at the current speed it was at.
The Park
Nosedive still sat with his back against the tree, tossing a small rock in the air and catching it. It had been ten minutes since Mallory and Grin left him and still no word from them. Truly now things were starting to get boring now and he was running out of things to keep himself entertained. It was then he thought to check on Tanya and Duke to get an update on his brother. Tossing the rock aside he brought up his comm. and turned it back on; Mallory had suggested they shut them off in case they went off. Once it powered up he called Duke and his image showed up, "Nosedive, finally you picked up!"
That raised the teen's eyes, the voice of his friend was one of urgency, "Duke what's wrong?"
"Kid you have to warn everyone else, Wildwing escaped and he's headed your way!"
A chill shot through Nosedive's spine, and at the same time his heart rate increased. "Where are you guys?" He asked, his breathing turning shallow.
"We're on our way kid, get out of there!"
"Too late," A voice called out, freezing Nosedive in place as he slowly started to turn around. Slowly the form of Wildwing soon came into view, dread now filling the teen as memories of earlier surfaced back. The eldest smirked as he slowly moved closer, which the youngest started moving back.
"Kid answers me!" The comm. rang out but no answer came.
Duke's voice was completely absent from the teen's mind, all his focus was on his approaching brother, not sure what to do. "Wi-Wing…stay back!"
That response only caused a smirk to appear on his beak, "Well looks like it's just you and me again."
The kid started to panic, eyes not darting off even for a second, "Don't come any closer!"
"There's no one here to save you now."
"Wing…Please you know you can't do this!" The teen's pleaded, trying to use words to get through to him.
"I see you have the mask on you," Pointing out the sack on his brother's waist. "Hand it over to me and I'll make sure your end is quick."
His right hand went to the sack, snapping out of the scared state he was in, "I'm sorry Wing but I can't do that, the mask stays with me."
The eldest started to pop his knuckles; it looked like the response he was hoping for, "Alright then, have it your way."
Nosedive's hand then went for his puck blaster and whipped it out, aiming it towards his brother, "Not another step...I mean it Wing!"
That just caused a small laugh to come out, "Nosedive you know as well you could never fire at me, I mean look at your hand it's shaking."
The kid's eyes looked and was surprised to find that his hand was indeed shaking; and he didn't even know it. He had never aimed at something like this at his brother. It even pained him doing so, "I'll do it Wing."
"Then do it," He responded smugly, a grin creeping onto his beak. The teen's hand continued to shake, finger barley grazing the trigger, but yet he couldn't pull it. "I knew you couldn't"
With that Wildwing then jumped his brother, tackling him to the ground, the weapon being knocked out of his hand, as the two rolled about. Nosedive snapped out of his hesitation and tried his best to get the upper hand. After a few seconds he managed to get the upper hand but then was kicked off, landing flat on his back. Dazed a bit the kid looked up and searched for his puck blaster. But out of the corner of his eye he could see Wildwing getting back up, following his example the teen jumped out of the way to avoid a huge punch.
"Wing please stop!"
Standing back up he saw his brother approaching and launched a few more punches, but the kid managed to dodge them, not sure what he could do, "Hold still!"
Just then Nosedive's back hit a tree, which was enough for Wildwing to launch a punch to his face, knocking the young one to the ground. Pain radiated from the hurt spot on his face.
"I knew you were weak," Wildwing responded Reaching down and grabbing his brother and pulled him back up to punch him in the gut, then throwing him over the shoulder.
Nosedive landed on his stomach; coughing a bit to regain his breath he had lost. His eyes were straight and right in front was his weapon, rapidly crawling over to it he got closer to it and made a leap for it. Unfortunately his brother must have grabbed his ankle since he was sharply pulled back and dragging him further away from the weapon.
"Not so fast there." Turning on his back the teen look up at his brother and moved his head to the side to avoid another punch. Using the free leg a swift kick to the arm released his captive ankle, using the change he got up and put some distance between them. He needed to put up a better defense, Wildwing was tough and that's what made him dangerous right now.
The Raptor
One of the doors opened and Mallory was the first to enter, weapon point forward scanning the room. It looked like a small armory, most likely weapons for the drones, and for Dragaunus to use. Once the room was deemed clear she motioned for Grin to come in, with Chameleon still in his grasp. "Now where is it?"
All he did was point in the direction in front of them, causing them to turn and look where he pointed. In their sight was the weapon they saw him use, but it was inside some sort of case. Moving over to it Mallory inspected it, seeing if there was a way to open it. "How does this open?" Grin then asked.
"It has a coded lock."
"Open it then!" The red head demanded.
He gulped again as he told him were to place him, then he entered the code and just like that the case opened and the weapon was free to grab. She reached up and grabbed the weapon with a smile, but just then the only exit to the room opened and in came Siege, "Chameleon is that- it's you two!"
Just then he pulled out his weapon and opened fired on them, while activating an alarm that was nearby.
Mallory and Grin both ducked under the stand the weapon was at, avoiding the fire that came their way. Firing blindly back Mallory looked back at the lizard, "Get us out of here and back to the park, now!"
Chameleon franticly started fiddling with his teleporting device but then got an idea. Using his tail he snapped it in Grin's face, causing the burly mallard to release his hold. But unfortunately the teleported activated and the two disappeared out of the raptor, with the weapon in tow.
A/N: Hope you like, i'm trying right now it just that I finished my finals and that kind of worn me out so I rushed. But good news is that i'm almost done with this story, so please bear with me. Thank you.