A/n: A short little chapter, cos you've been waiting for it and I'm stuck getting the rest out at the moment... named space because that's what everyone needs right now.

Chapter 12

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Nat parked her car outside the bank and headed inside with the empty potato sack and her revolver ready for her new withdrawal from the city's banks.


Negaduck heard the sirens wailing on the other side of the city and rolled his eyes, why bother putting the siren on at all? It was obvious that someone in the city was going to be doing something illegal at one point or another, putting the siren on to speed to the scene of a crime was really just to prove that they were doing their job to the rest of the city.

He turned back to the thug who he had pinned to the alleyway wall. 'I warned you.' He growled as he glared into the thug's eyes. 'I told you if you tried anything stupid that you wouldn't live long, I say you weren't listening.'

'Ne... Ne...' The thug said gasping for air and struggled with Negaduck's choke-hold on his throat. 'Negs... There was nothing I could do...' He struggled for more air. 'They just took over... it wasn't my fault, they got to everyone... they used your kid to prove that you were gone...'

Negaduck rose an eyebrow. 'How?'

'Before I tell you... can you put me down?'

Negaduck looked at him for a moment and slowly let him down. 'Try anything and you'll be sorry!' He warned before letting him go properly.

'Th-thanks.'

'So how'd they take over?'

'Like I said, they used your kid to prove that you were gone and that you weren't coming back.'

Negaduck gazed at him. 'So they forced her to live with them.'

'Yeah, I got to tell ya, Negs, life under the Four's rules is not fair for guys like you and me.'

Negaduck narrowed his eyes, internally angry at being put into the same group with this thug, he thought of himself as public enemy Number One and this thug didn't make the list at all, but then again, this being the Negaverse a large majority of citizens were nearly on the list, and he was talking to one of the more informed citizens. 'Tell me Eddie, are the others just as unhappy with the Four?'

'Sure they are, boss.' Eddie said. 'They can't get much done with the Four watching them.'

'Well, send them word, those who want to get rid of the Four meet me at the warehouse at 9. I've got a plan.'

'Right Boss.' Eddie said and he slipped away from the wall and rushed out of the alleyway.

Negaduck smirked to himself, his plan was perfect.


'Hey, Gosalyn! What was with the whole tears thing this morning?' Gosalyn looked around to the sneering voice of Honker. 'Did you do something nice again?'

Gosalyn frowned and shook her head, this was the only time her nature was tried the most, trying to keep herself calm and patient while it was just her fending off the more hurtful words of the children in her class.

Honkers group laughed loudly and one of them stepped up to her and gave her a rough shove backwards into another of the gang.

'I wouldn't mess with her if I were you guys.' One of the bystanders commented.

'Why not?' Honker asked as he and several of the group turned to glare at the young owl. 'You gonna make us?'

'No, but Negaduck will.'

They hesitated glancing to Gosalyn and then back to the owl, Honker straightened. 'Yeah right, Negaduck wouldn't care less-'

'Didn't you hear what happened to Farnsworth yesterday?'

Honker's self confident smile faded. 'Yeah...'

'And don't you guys know that you're messing with his daughter here, he'll be here in a flash if he finds out about this.'

The group looked around at each other and they all shrugged.

'She's lucky that he decided to take her in!' Honker scoffed and led the way past Gosalyn to the back of the classroom.

Gosalyn watched them go and looked back to the boy. 'Thank you.'

He shrugged. 'I want to make it to 16 without seeing people getting killed.' He said and turned, heading to a seat at the front of the classroom.

Gosalyn frowned, harsh reality swam in her mind, she wished that she was so lucky to not have seen people murdered.

She shook her head, forcing herself to let those thoughts go, it was only a short while now till class started, she walked quietly to her seat at the front, what was keeping their teacher?

After a moment the classroom door opened and in walked Mr Jakeson looking particularly exhausted. 'Settle down class, and take your seats.' He said as he walked over to his desk and dropped a large pile of paper down on it. 'It's time for a test!'

Gosalyn waited as the test was dropped onto her desk. 'You can being as soon as you get it.' Gosalyn picked up her pencil and wrote in her name at the top, just another day.