A/N: Apologies about this one being quite short, I'm working on the next bit, But for now...
Chapter 11
Leaving Home.
Lucy lowered the brim of her hat slightly to hide her face more and reached into her back pocket, she pulled out the shotgun and looked it over and straightened against the wall, the voices in the other room were loud and from the sounds of things this "Business Meeting" between the head of the Beagle Boys gang and his men wasn't going well.
'But boss, Negaduck destroyed that bank.'
'What about the Fifth then?'
'That one's been cleaned out by the Fearsome Five.'
The "Boss" of the gang growled in annoyance. 'Negaduck's messing with the wrong man here!' Lucy smiled to herself and looked to the door-frame next to her, this was too perfect. 'I say we teach him a lesson.'
'Teach Negaduck a lesson? Negaduck?'
'What's the matter boys? You scared of him?'
Lucy looked to the others and gave a nod, she whirled into motion, kicking the door open she strode in with her gun at the ready.
'Did I hear someone mention my Dad?' She glared around at the gangsters as her ninja back-up came through the door. She glared at "the Boss". 'And did I hear someone say they want to hurt him?'
'Whoa, kid! I never said I wanted to hurt him!'
'The names "Nega-Girl", and I reckon you were going to!' She raised the barrel of the shotgun. 'No one messes with my Dad, not even for a second!' She pulled the trigger.
The drive back home was quiet, Lucy's weasel companion was sitting in the passengers seat and Lucy was busy driving.
She was feeling quite numb right now, the news that her Dad was getting the target on his back by the big gang-men was hard for her to understand, who in their right mind would mess with Negaduck? Lucy leant down and switched the radio on, sick of the quiet that was making her think.
They'd reached the town between St Canard and Hillside, there wasn't that long to go now.
"... Head of the Beagle Boys has been murdered."
Lucy nearly crashed the car in response, but managed to slam on the brakes in time to stop short of the power-pole.
The weasel looked to her quite panicked. Lucy was too busy staring at the radio to register his panic.
"Eye witness reports have confirmed that a young girl dressed as Negaduck calling herself Nega-Girl, accompanied by a four masked men, broke into the Beagle Boys hideout and murdered the lead memebers of the gang. Police arrived on the scene quickly, but it was too late to apprehend the perpetrators of the crime."
Lucy gulped and straightened, how long would it take for her Dad to hear about this? She was seriously about to be chainsawed to death, the moment he found out... was he already home and waiting for her?
'Nega-Girl?'
Lucy didn't react, she could see her father standing in the hallway, waiting for her to come in through the window, then he'd jump in through the door with his chainsaw in hand... 'Lucy!' A rough shake brought her out of the scenario and she looked to the weasel. 'You okay?'
'My Dad's gonna to kill me.' She said quietly.
He blinked, his brow furrowed as he thought about it. 'You mean actually right?'
'Yes, of course I mean actually! My Dad's Negaduck! What did you think I could possibly mean other than actual death! That he was going to pick me flowers?' She snorted in annoyance at him. 'Any Dad would.' She muttered sticking the car into reverse to get it clear of the pole.
'Er, no... most Dad's don't kill their kids when they get upset with them, only psychotic ones do that.'
Lucy stuck the car back into gear and looked to him. 'Not where I'm from, in the Negaverse, a Dad who doesn't try and kill you is psychotic.'
The weasel cocked his head. 'So... how come.'
'I'm a quick study, I learnt how to avoid my Dad's weapons, and try quite a lot to avoid his wrath at all. But now...'
'So why're we still heading back there?'
Lucy blinked and looked back to the road, it was true that they were back on the road and were heading back to Hillside, albeit at a crawl since she didn't have her foot planted on the accelerator. Lucy's hands gripped the steering wheel tighter and she focused on the road. 'I've got nowhere else to go.' She said quietly.
'Not true.' The weasel said. 'Hold on a sec and I'll ring in.'
Lucy pulled to the side of the road and waited, since this was just a delay of her agonisingly painful death she didn't mind doing it. 'My Dad's a Super-villain, you can't hide from one of those.'
He looked at her as he put the phone to his ear. 'Not forever.' He agreed. 'But for a while.'
'He'll only get more upset.'
The weasel shrugged. 'He'll kill you painfully either way right?'
Lucy thought about it and gave a nod, he had a point there.
'Hey, Millie, has Negaduck left the warehouse yet?' Lucy blinked and looked at him intently, warehouse? How would he know where her father was so easily? 'No? Right, can you give me a call when he does? Thanks.' He closed the phone and looked at Lucy. 'Right! Now, we swing by your place, grab your stuff and leave real quick.'
Lucy shrugged and turned back onto the road. 'Who was that?'
'My girlfriend... we've got a place in the Old Haunt.'
'And...'
'We live on the corner, Negaduck roars past on his bike, when he leaves the warehouse, you know it.'
'The Troublemaker.' Lucy muttered.
'What?'
'That's what his bike's called, The Troublemaker.'
'Oh... right...'
Lucy sighed as she climbed back into her room. Nat had the TV on and Lucy didn't have to guess that time was quickly ticking away until she was at her mother's wrath.
Lucy started rushing about getting herself a bag of clothes and some of her most treasured possessions, she heard the report come on and rushed to the window and less than quietly she climbed out. Nat was already on the situation, the bedroom door burst open and Lucy's hands slipped on the guttering as panic filled her, Lucy dropped down on the ground and ran for the car.
There was a loud bang and Lucy dived into the car, it sped off quickly down the road.
Lucy gulped and breathed heavily for a moment. 'That's the first time Mum's shot at me.' She said clambering out from the back seat into the front. 'I guess it's cos Dad's usually around to do it.' She said relaxing.
'He's going to take it worse?'
Lucy frowned, knowing that somewhere in St Canard Negaduck was about to hear the news report that would send him tearing out of the city to find her gone.
Lucy didn't know if it was good or bad that she was running away right now... spared that rage for the moment, but was that good or bad?
Negaduck found News 24 and put the remote down, there was never anything good on during the day.
"... Police have confirmed the death of the head of the Beagle Boy Gang."
Negaduck rolled his eyes and picked up his coffee, nothing new on the News.
"And police have told reporters that they speculate this as an act of revenge on behalf of a well-known super-villain, though details are still sketchy."
Negaduck rose an eyebrow. 'Meaning that they've really got nothing.' He translated in a sneer.
"But they have confirmed that the lead perpetrator of the group is the same one behind the kidnapping and killing of several members of the Pali Family. They have released the CCTV footage of the kidnap, anyone with information about this individual is asked to call the number at the bottom of the screen.'
Negaduck blinked and leant forwards as the blue screen showed a short person in a hat and cape force the gangster out of the ally and to the van on the street, Negaduck squinted trying to get a glimpse of the face.
Who was dressing up as him?
The Negaduck look-a-like glanced around and forced the gangster into the van, then turned around, to say something to her weasel companion, Negaduck internally guessed who it was, but his head refused to click at this point, until the girl looked up at the camera and he made out the face beneath the fedora hat, mask or not, he knew who it was.
Negaduck jumped to his feet beyond any angry he had been this week, his coffee and the remote clattered to the floor. 'That does it!' He said glaring at the screen as she pulled out a gun and fired at the camera, he pulled out his shotgun and shot a hole in the centre of the TV-set. 'That kid is history!'
'What kid?' Quackerjack asked confused. Negaduck whirled around in time to see Megavolt give Quackerjack the hint to drop it.
'My kid.' He said bluntly. 'Who's going back home, to the Negaverse, in a body-bag!' With that said he stormed off to get on his bike and back home to see it through.
Lucy answered the phone. 'Hello, this is Nega-Girl.'
The woman on the other end sounded quite awkward. 'Oh, er...'
'He's driving right now.'
'Oh, well... he wanted me to ring when Negaduck left.'
'Any idea what speed he was going?'
'As fast as the bike could go?'
'Damn... er, thanks.' Lucy hung up and frowned, he was very upset. She put her head in her hands. 'He's on his way home.'
The weasel glanced at her. 'Don't worry, he'll have cooled off by the time he finds you.'
Lucy doubted that, if Nat was that mad at her for it then he'd be worse than ever conceived possible.
'What took you so long anyway?'
'I... left them a note.'
He looked at her. 'What'd you say in it?'
'That I'm just filling out the list of "things to do before I get chainsawed to death".'
He frowned. 'And what's on that list of things to do?'
'I'm taking out Pow.'
The weasel looked to her again. 'Is that for your Dad or because he's the main target you've been given by us?'
'Both. But mostly for my Dad. Since I'm such a nuisance to him I might as well do my bit for him.'
'See, if you weren't from a different Universe and if your Dad wasn't Negaduck I'd tell you that you aren't a nuisance to him... but I don't have a clue since you're Nega-Girl.'
Lucy smiled. 'Don't worry, you'll get used to it.'
'I don't think I will.'
'So anyway, where are we going?'
'Oh, you'll see.'
