Chapter Eleven
Back at the Money Bin, Huey, Dewey and Louie were playing cards in one of the dusty hallways to keep themselves from boredom. Suddenly Dewey felt a cloak brush against his back and turned to see who it was.
"Who was that?" Dewey said dropping his cards as Huey and Louie followed the mysterious person.
The boys finally caught up to the mysterious person where Scrooge laid in the glass box, the cloaked figured revealed herself to be Glittering Goldie. She quietly opened the box and held Scrooge close to her.
She said with little tears dripping down her eyes staring at him. "Oh how much I hated you and yet I loved you. But I guess my feelings for you will forever remain mixed." She finally leaned in and kissed him.
Ludwig walked in and stood there dumbfounded and shocked to see this, the boys on the other hand were just plain grossed out. But something caught Ludwig's attention, he noticed black ooze dripping off of Scrooge's hands and remembered instantly the serpent that attacked Clarabelle. Realizing that black ooze and the serpent were the same, and he knew it was Goldie's kiss that cause that black ooze to fall.
Scrooge had finally opened his eyes and looked around at everyone and noticed Goldie, suddenly in a moment of panic both him and Goldie jumped back.
Goldie slapped Scrooge across the face and shouted. "How dare you give me such a fright! I was told you died!"
"Apparently not." Scrooge replied rubbing his sore cheek.
"Uncle Scrooge!" The boys hugged their great uncle.
Scrooge was relieved to see the boys. "Wait where's Donald!"
Ludwig tried to explain. "Well you see he went adventuring off to this place called 'Wasteland'."
"How do we get there?"
Later Scrooge reached to the mirror in Mickey's home, he was preparing to enter the Wasteland when Goldie came behind him.
" I'm coming with you." She said in stern tone. Finally they both jumped in to mirror.
Scrooge replied when they jumped. "I could have done this by myself!"
Meanwhile at the gates of the castle everyone stood there waiting.
"What are we waiting for again ?" Screeching Sam said with boredom.
"Just a minute." Horace said trying to keep the peace.
Just then Gus crawled out of the broken security grid, his clothes were blackened again. He coughed and said. "They really know how to keep EVERYONE out." he glanced at the Lonesome Ghosts.
"What! We didn't think it was able to keep us ghost out." Gilbert remarked.
Everyone stepped inside, when suddenly they were all ambushed by spatters.
"What the - an ambush!" Daisy shouted.
"They knew we were coming!" Mortimer shouted.
"Attack!" One of the pirates shouted
"How nice of them to give us an ambush." Ian said spooking off a spatter.
"Oh, the nerve of some." Ortensia shouted.
Henrietta was swatting a few with a heavy iron skillet , when one spatter jumped on her, knocking her to the ground. Damien Salt came to her rescue and soon the two double teamed to stop the spatters. Horace ran ahead of everyone, Gilda followed him to break the door down. She raised her climbing axe and broke the door to pieces. Gus and Jiminy were far behind, when they got captured by Professor Ecks, they were taken to one of the labs.
"You two are gonna be the first to try our new weapon." Professor Ecks cackled.
"One that will wipe you both from existance!" Professor Doublex exclaimed
"It's fueled by Thinner." All three cackled.
Professor Doublex locked both of them in a glass container, and Professor Triplex was preparing to start a machine that would erase them both.
"For Professors they really are idiots" Gus said as he used his evaporating teleportaion power escaping from the glass box.
Professor Triplex saw Gus and shouted. "But of course, you're a gremlin!"
"and don't forget it!" Gus laughed back.
Gus soon began to dissapear from one place to another, until he finally tricked them into a holding cell. Gus used his wrench and broke the glass box allowing Jiminy to escape. Suddenly they discovered the glass pods that held Oswald and Mickey, Gus broke the first glass pod setting Oswald free. Oswald coughed and slowly woke up.
"Gus, Jiminy!" Oswald was surprised. "How did you find us?"
"Ortensia and everyone joined together to look for you two and stop this madness." Jiminy said with exclamation.
" What about Mickey?" Gus asked.
Oswald kicked the glass pod causing it to crack and finally break, Mickey slid out coughing and shaking.
"He's gotten weak, what happened to him?" Oswald asked.
"From what I've heard they've been extracting the remains of the Blot from Mickey." Jiminy explaied.
"That's what's wekened him." Gus realized.
Oswald found the paintbrush and had an idea, he sprayed paint on Mickey to see what would happen. To their surprise it worked as Mickey was starting to stand up and was able to talk.
"What going on?" Mickey asked.
" A battle that's what." Gus said quickly.
"We've got to get going before we're all erased." Jiminy reminded everyone.
The fight went from being in the courtyards to going inside, Ortensia this time was clashing with a beetleworx. She was knocked to the ground and was about to be sawed in half when suddenly The beetleworx collapse from its broken core. Ortensia looked up and was overjoyed with tears, for Oswald stood above the broken machine.
Ortensia tackled him with a kiss. "You're alive! You're alive!"
"I thought I'd never see you again." Oswald held her.
Minnie was in tears of joy when Mickey helped her back off a horde of spatters, She held Mickey and didn't want to let go but of course they had plague of spatters to fight.
Meanwhile Gilda had wondered away from the fight and roamed the hallways and corridors, soon she reached the lab and discovered Clarabelle. Gilda never knew of Clarabelle's pregnancy so it was a shock for her, Clarabelle was more weaker than the day before. This time she could barely keep her eyes open.
"Clarabelle," Gilda whispered. "It's me Gilda I came to help you."
Clarabelle turned to look at Gilda. "How did you find me?"
"No time to explain, we've got to get you out of here."
Gilda broke the locks off and helped Clarabelle down, as they were about to leave the lab Gilda felt the ground wet. She turned around and saw Clarabelle was way behind her, she was knelt down on the ground breathing heavidly. Gilda ran back to see what happened and saw Clarabelle struggling to get up, she was moaning in pain once again and this time it was real.
Meanwhile Gus was moving around the room avoiding the beetleworx lashing out at him, but like before the beetleworx sparked and collapsed. Smoke had filled that area as he looked over at the machine, suddenly some parts shot up in the air and as the smoke cleared up Jiminy crawled out feeling bold and proud about dismembring a beetleworx on his own.
"My work here is done." Jiminy simply said walking off.
Gus was totally stunned.
"I didn't teach him that." Gus scratched his head.
Back in the corridors, Horace was brushing his way pass blotlings and even some beetleworx. He was ready to fight the Mad Doctor, the Mad Doctor brought out his weapon which was a rather large scalple. Horace pulled off a hatchet from one of the knight statutes and soon the two clashed.
"Winner takes all." The Mad Doctor grinned.
Meanwhile in the lab, Clarabelle was in labor, this time it real. The pain was real and she had but to go through it, Clarabelle was shaking from her weak state. Gilda knew her condition was bad, Clarabelle was at a very high risk of not surviving. But Gilda knew Clarabelle was too stubborn to give up.
"Just one more and it's over okay." Gilda said as calm as she could be.
Clarabelle let out a loud scream that could have been heard throught the whole castle, but oddly enough it was cancelled out by the fight. Gilda's fear turned to cheer when she heard the sound of a newborn cry.
"Clarabelle you did it, you did it!" Gilda cried with excitement. "You're a brave mother."
Clarabelle was breathing heavily, the pain was gone and she was still alive from her ordeal. Gilda found a clean sheet and wrapped the new born baby to stay snuggly warm.
Suddenly the fight stopped as the sound of the crying newborn echoed througout the castle, Horace followed the cries and was now in a race against the Mad Doctor to get Clarabelle and the baby. Luckily Horace out ran the Mad Doctor with no sign of anyone around to attack him, he heard the baby cry and continued to followed the sound. He finally reached the lab, Clarabelle was sitting upright as Gilda handed her the baby, Clarabelle looked up and tearfully smiled.
"I thought I'd never see you again." She cried.
Horace walked towards her looked at her with tears and then saw the baby. "This is our baby?"
"This is our son Horace."
The baby boy was a horse like his father, he had a very tiny fringe of hair and his tiny feet were slowly kicking the air as he yawned. Clarabelle handed him to Horace, their baby boy moved a little to adjust himself as Horace held him close and smiled.
"That's my boy." Horace said with pride.
"Congratulations, you two." Gilda smiled with a tear rolling down her cheek.
Ortensia and the rest of our heroes came at last, when they first saw the baby they were stricken with relief.
Horace smiled and said with pride. "It's a boy."
"Horace Horsecollar," Oswald said. " welcome to the league of fatherhood."
"Proud of it!" Horace replied.
"You won't be for long!"
Standing in the door way, Magica and The Mad Doctor were there, ready to attack. It was Magic and Science vs. Paint, Thinner, and Everything in between. Donald, Fethry, and Gladstone had their own trap ready, Fethry pulled out a hand mirror given to him by Merlin. The mirror was capable to of back firing black magic and even reversing certain spells. Fethry raised the mirror pointing it in Magica's direction.
"What's that little piece of junk going to do?" Magica heckled.
Fethry didn't reply.
"Never mind I'll just blast you back to Duckberg and even wipeout your entire family as an added bonus." She responded.
Magica shot a fireball at him, Fethry smiled like a little boy playing baseball. Fethry then used the mirror like a tennis racket and swat the fireball, it flew back and hit Magica teleporting her back to Duckberg.
Fethry replied to her comment. "Nah, you can go."
"That mirror save me the trouble, although I could've handle this myself!"
Fethry, Donald, and Gladstone turned around fast and saw Scrooge right behind them.
"Uncle Scrooge!" all three shouted.
Suddenly the Mad Doctor raised his gun and aimed it at Clarabelle and the baby, Horace ran and tackled the Mad Doctor causing the gun to shoot a post causing the ceiling above crushing the bottle with the key part of the blot, Horace, and the Mad Doctor. Everyone stood there in horror, Clarabelle was devistated.
"Please don't die Horace." Clarabelle thought.
Gus, Oswald, and Mickey looked at debris, they saw nothing but the arm of the Mad Doctor.
"He's not dead, he's still moving ." Oswald said.
"But the debris will hold him down for now." Mickey said.
"What about Horace?" Gus asked.
Suddenly Horace rose from the rubble, everyone looked at him with horror for parts of him were wiped out from the blot's thinner showing his blue sketch, one eye was glowing a demonic red and the other was white and sketchy, Horace's ink and paint were dripping as if he was dying.
Mickey used the brush and sprayed Horace with paint. Mickey stopped and realized. "The paint! It has no effect on him!"
Thinner Horace shoved Mickey into a wall leaving Mickey with a sharp pain on his arm. Oswald leaped in to stop him and like Mickey, he was tossed aside.
"Hmmm," Thinner Horace looked at himself. "This body might be temporary so I'll just destroy you all quickly and take over while I'm at it ."