So the next few weeks might be a little spotty on updates since I am trying to move to a completely different state but I'll give it my best shot and try to get back into the swing of things here. Might try to get back on every Friday. Once I get settled in, I'll actually look and see how my schedule is and depending on how much time I have to myself, I might try to do a full episode every friday (that's 3 chapters). But, like I said, that'll depend on how much free time I have in my new home. Anyways, here's the third chapter of Zap Attack and... I hope y'all enjoy!
"Those little zap heads have us by the pinfeathers!" Nosedive announced.
"Duke!" Anna yelped, grabbing him by the waist and knocking him out of the way of a wrecking ball.
She hit the ground a little way away and glanced back up to see the wrecking ball had lifted back up.
"Anna!" Duke yelled, seeing it was aiming right for her.
A shadow fell across her and suddenly she felt herself being lifted off the ground. The wrecking ball hit nothing but dirt as she was set down next to Duke. She looked back to see who had saved her and was surprised to see a human. He had long brown hair tied back into a ponytail, a black trench coat on and piercing blue/green eyes. Duke's eyes widened in shock at the human's eyes and knew he'd seen them somewhere before.
"Who are you?" Anna asked, but before she could get an answer, they heard the wrecking ball move back up to its normal spot as the vehicle approached them again. The stranger reached out a hand to Duke, helping him up, as he addressed Anna.
"Perhaps formalities are best saved for later." He tried as all three took off, running from the wrecking ball.
A backhoe went to dump dirt on top of Mallory and Wildwing, but they ran out and away before they could get buried alive.
A bulldozer took off after Nosedive. He turned to fire an explosive puck at said vehicle, but an energy creature jumped into his puck launcher, causing it to explode.
"Awe man, you guys are no fun." He muttered, taking off running yet again.
"Hang on guys!" the ducks and one human all turned to see Tanya, Grin and another human, presumably Dr. Huggerman, running up.
"What's that?" Wildwing asked, seeing the device Huggerman was carrying.
"My energy magnet." He announced, setting it down. "It'll attract those little creatures like candy." He said, flipping a switch on and stepping back.
The creatures, all at once, seemed to exit their vehicles, rushing towards the device. The creatures balled up into a yellow and purple ball of energy.
"Alright, I love this guy man! Where've you been hiding him?" nosedive asked.
"Boy, is that ever a long story…" Tanya muttered. "Where'd you find him?" she redirected the question, pointing towards Jason.
"That… is a slightly shorter story." Anna muttered.
"Um, guys?" Mallory directed everyone's attention to the ball of energy that was now evolving into one giant energy creature.
"Where'd you dig up this loon anyways!" Nosedive's opinion did a 180 almost instantly.
The giant creature took off, stomping around the plant, taking down buildings as it went.
"Terrific! Now we've got a turbocharged king Kong on our hands!" Nosedive muttered as Dr. Huggerman shut down his energy magnet.
Wildwing lead the team back to the duck cycles, figuring going after a giant creature would be much easier on the cycles than it would be on foot.
An alarm sounded from the cycles, shocking everyone. Especially the two humans who didn't fully understand how the ducks' gear worked.
"It's a drake one alert!" Wildwing announced.
"Whoa. That thing still works after the pounding it took?" Duke said with surprise in his voice. Tanya sighed out mentally. Duke's comment had all at once reminded her the workload that would welcome her once this mess was over.
"Listen." Wildwing shushed, tapping on a button.
"Zapcom to Washington. Someone's taken control of the space shield. It's not responding!" came the worried intercepted message.
"Yeah, and I'll bet that someone is Dragaunus!" Duke muttered.
"Dra-what?" asked Jason, raising an eyebrow.
"Dragaunus. A power bent lizard out to destroy the world." Anna explained. Jason only nodded, not fully understanding everything that was going on today.
"That's why his goons were at the launchpad! They must have planted a control device on the satellite."
"And we made sure it launched." Wildwing muttered, referring to the out of control space shield, and grabbing his head in frustration.
Anna's eyes softened and Jason watched as she walked over to Wildwing. She put a hand on his shoulder, getting his attention.
"Wildwing, there's no way you could have known." She tried, knowing he was still getting this leader thing down.
"Giant energy monsters, killer satellites, and mysterious strangers." Tanya glanced over at Jason, directing that last one at him, "Why is this all happening at once?" Tanya muttered, glancing over at Nosedive.
"Smells like sweeps week." Nosedive muttered.
"Dr. Huggerman." Wildwing got the doctor's attention. "Electricity can be transformed into radio frequencies. Can't it?" he asked.
"Of course." Huggerman confirmed. "That's the whole principle of broadcasting."
"Than I've got an idea that just might solve both our problems at once. Come on. And bring that energy magnet."
Grin busted down the door leading to the control room, shocking those inside. Tanya, Nosedive and Jason followed. Jason went to draw his gun, maybe give the workers a reason to leave, but they appeared to do that on their own, so he left it at his side, hidden within his trench coat.
Tanya sat down and went to work.
Mallory, Duke, Anna, and Wildwing had gone with Dr. Huggerman, who went to work opening a panel to a satellite dish.
"This is the main power input for the broadcasting antenna." He explained, installing his magnet into place, "the magnet will draw that monster straight to the antenna dish, which will beam it to the satellite." He finished his explanation, switching the magnet on.
In the meantime, Tanya was typing furiously. "Now, to tune that dish to the frequency of the satellite." She said it out loud so the others knew what she was doing.
Jason was surprised by all that was happening. For one, the ducks were smart. Smarter than he had first anticipated. Secondly, he didn't expect to ever get a chance to talk to them and ask them his questions, and now he was standing right next to the one that looked like the duck that had taken his baby sister. He eyeballed Nosedive, but Nosedive was oblivious to the look he was receiving.
The monster stomped towards the satellite, and the ducks at the base, along with Dr. Huggerman, moved away.
As the creature got close to the base, he began to get sucked into the satellite by the magnet that had been placed within.
The ducks watched as the energy creature shot off into space. Once it entered space, it shot through the satellite, destroying it.
"Target destroyed!" Tanya confirmed as she ran up to the rest of the ducks with Grin, Nosedive and Jason following behind her. Once the group had joined back together, they all seemed to simultaneously look at Dr. Huggerman.
"I was wrong." Huggerman started, "thank you for showing me the error of my ways." He said. The ducks all glanced between each other, a sense of pride between them. Jason hung back, not sure if he should even still be here. The monster was defeated, the battle won. Shouldn't he go home? He knew what held him there. Questions. So many questions.
"Well, gotta go! See ya!" Huggerman's voice changed tones as he started to walk away. It wasn't but a second later, Wildwing realized the doctor meant to return to his solitary island.
"But Dr. Huggerman…" he stepped out of the group, "if we've restored your faith in humanity… why are you turning away?"
"What faith in humanity?" Huggerman shrugged, "You've restored my faith in ducks! See ya!" he chuckled, before continuing to walk off.
"There goes one seriously whacky earthling." Nosedive muttered.
"Speaking of earthlings…" Anna trailed off, turning to eye Jason. Jason's eyes widened for a moment before he returned to a stone expression.
"Who are you? Where'd you come from?" she asked, walking up to him. He cleared his throat. Although she was a duck, she was shorter than him and he couldn't really find her intimidating.
"I just thought you guys could use some help. That's all." He tried. Why was he avoiding asking his questions? He glanced at the one who appeared to be the leader. The one with the mask… the mask with red eyes. He didn't like it. It made the duck look evil and although he was certain he could take the female that was interrogating him if need be, he wasn't so sure he'd stand in a fight against him.
"But why did you help?" the leader asked, stepping forward to stand next to Anna. Jason felt himself take a step back. "Who are you?"
Jason felt himself gulp. He hated interrogations.
"I don't know why I helped. I guess I originally came to ask questions." He tried, shrugging and looking away, not really wanting the meet the gaze of the mask.
"Questions?" Duke asked, taking Anna's other side. This duck was also intimidating, with an eyepatch and a chip in his beak.
Jason felt himself shrinking back. He glanced back at the female. She was wearing a chain with a couple of dog tags around it. They read:
Thunderbeak,
Canard, H.
42-35-789
G+
He doubted her name was Canard. Behind the tags, he could see another set of tags. He couldn't see what they said. Behind those, a heart on a chain. He could make out an A sticking out behind the tags, but that was all that showed of whatever the word was on the heart.
He narrowed his eyes. Why did the design of the heart look so familiar? He couldn't quite place where he'd seen it before.
"What are you staring at?" Anna asked defensively, grabbing the tags that hung around her neck and hiding them, along with the necklace, around her neck.
He blinked, looking around at all the ducks and realizing they were all staring at him. He shook his head.
"I… I need to go." He muttered, before suddenly running off. All the ducks looked at each other in shock.
"And… there goes another whacky earthling." Nosedive muttered.
"What the hell do you think that was about?" Anna muttered, glancing back at the others.
"He was lookin' for somethin'." Duke muttered knowingly.
"He said he had questions…" Anna trailed off, meeting Duke's gaze.
"It's something else. It's not just questions… he's looking for answers. Answers to something, almost like an unsolved murder, or kidnapping maybe. One of those things nobody could have the answers to." Duke said with a matter of fact attitude.
"And? Why the hell would we have the answers to something like that?" Dive muttered.
"Well, all sorts of things could be going through his head… I mean, he could think since we're other worldly, maybe we'd know." Tanya added to Duke's theory.
"What, like gods?" Nosedive asked skeptically.
"Or, he could think we have something to do with whatever happened." Duke added coldly from his spot, his arms crossed.
Anna raised an eyebrow at him.
"Jesus, guys! He was probably just a nervous fan who was too afraid and star struck to ask for an autograph." She muttered.
"I'm with Anna on this one." Mallory finally had an input to give, stepping forward and putting an arm around Anna's shoulders. "You guys are being ridiculous."
The ducks walked into the rec room, nearly forgetting the mess the little electric abomination had left.
"You know, we should really think about hiring a cleaning lady." Tanya muttered.
"Well at least we're rid of all those energy creatures." Wildwing said, crossing his arms.
Suddenly, out of the destroyed console of drake 1 hopped one of the little electric monsters.
"Ah shit." Anna muttered. "Shoulda knocked on wood Wing!"
"Not again…" Mallory drew out.
"This show is going to become a rerun of itself." Nosedive added.
"not necessarily…" Duke trailed off, a sly look on his face.
"We still have Dragaunus' communicator. Why not make it his problem…" he said, setting the communicator down next to the electric guy. The monster seemed to sniff at the communicator a second before rubbing its hands together. With excitement, the creature jumped through the communicator.
"Alright, let's get to work cleaning up this mess." Wildwing stated.
"Awe, come on man. Can't it wait 'til Spring. You know, Spring cleaning?" Nosedive asked, shrugging.
"Nosedive, this isn't your room. You can't just push it off, and still not clean it once spring gets here." Wildwing shot at his brother.
"Just for that little crack, I say Nosedive gets a head start on clean up while the rest of us get dinner." Tanya said.
"Now there's an idea, Tanya. I could really go for a nice hot cup of chili." Duke said.
"ooh, maybe even a grilled cheese sandwich." Anna added as they began to walk away, leaving Nosedive standing there.
"Oh, come on guys! I'm hungry too!" he called as he watched the ducks disappear to the mess hall.
"Awe man… was it something I said?"