a peach/tan duck made her way through the city. Her light purple mane fell loosely down her back and she jumped over a broken wall, rolling before standing up and running again.

Had she deserted her group? Probably... but they were goners anyways, and she was a survivor.

She crossed through what used to be Downtown but stopped as one of the fuzzy pictured jumbotrons switched on. On the screen appeared... she couldn't believe it, but a living, breathing saurian. His complexion was red and he wore blue robes.

"Ducks of puckworld!" his voice echoed around city square...

"Um, general?" A young red haired duck had been sitting at the radio. General McMallard walked over, "you're gonna wanna hear this..." she said, switching the knobs to speaker mode.

"Hundreds of years ago, my ancestors were banished to Dimensional Limbo by one, Drake Ducaine. Now, I, Lord Dragaunus, have returned to exact my revenge! There's nowhere you can run that I won't find you! Now, ducks, your planet belongs to me!" the saurian chuckled menacingly as the screen went fuzzy once more. Everyone who had been in the square began running around in terror. Suddenly, on the corner of the street, Hunter drones appeared everywhere.

The hunter drones began firing warning shots before capturing the ducks that had been in the square. All of the ducks were kneeling with their hands behind their heads.

In a flash of green, an orange saurian appeared before them.

"Oh, yeah! Dragaunus is gonna be happy once he sees how many ducks I've got for his first... enslavement camp!" he growled towards the group. the purple maned duck stood up. The hunter drones moved to fire on her.

"Wait!" she shrieked. The saurian raised his hand, stopping the drones.

"What do you want?" he asked with a sneer.

"I was just going to let you know that if you lock me up, you'll never conquer this planet to it's full benefits." she tried.

"What are you getting at?"

"Well, you want to conquer the planet... I want to survive. Help me, help you to help me!" she tried.

"Yeah right, and what could a duck offer a saurian..." the orange once trailed off.

"I know where the East side military base is." she promised. Ducks on their knees in the circle started cursing at her.

"You lousy traitor!" came just one of the calls from the group.

"Shut up! Web footed whimps!" he growled at them before turning back to the female duck. He rubbed his chin, seeming to be in thought.

"Come with me." he said, grabbing onto her. Green light encircled her and suddenly she was standing in an almost red room.

"Siege, what is the meaning of this!" came a growl and the saurian from TV, Dragaunus, stepped into view. Siege grabbed her arm, shoving her towards him.

"This duck said she wants to help us." Siege explained.

"Really... why?" Dragaunus asked, looking intrigued.

"Look at this planet. It's all but already taken over. I know what the winning side looks like." Dragaunus looked amused at this.

"And what kind of services, exactly, can you offer?"

"Come on, we gotta hurry." rushed Anna once the TV changed back to static. They happened to be passing a television store when Dragaunus' speech came on. As the message went off the air, hunter drones began marching the streets.

"Let's move!" she hurried as they partly jogged, partly limped away. They carried on like that for a little while before Anna stopped, reaching for her injured ankle.

"I can't..." she sighed out as Trent sat her against the wall to an alley.

"Come on, Annie. We've got to. I bet your brother's waiting for us right now!" he tried.

"Trent, I can't hardly walk! There's no way we're going to get through these streets without being seen!" she insisted, looking away from him. That's when she saw it.

"Anna, we-"

"look." she cut him off, pointing at the sewer lid that lay just ten feet away.

"Come on..." she said, partly crawling over to it.

"Annie, what-"

"This is how we avoid detection." she promised, scooting the lid off. Trent looked like he would protest, but the sound of hunter drones marching nearby drove him to help her down into the sewers.

Canard and his team made their way through the sewers. His flashlight bounced around the walls.

"Hold up!" he commanded in a whisper, holding his arm out so everyone would stop walking. The ducks sensed his seriousness and went deathly quiet.

"Wait, why do you have a flashlight?" they heard a female voice.

"I got it out of my nightstand, along with a lighter, a pocket knife, and gum." came the male response.

"Wait, you've had gum this whole time!" the female pouted.

"Hold it!" Canard jumped around the corner the voices were coming from, his gun pointed out in front of him. His eyes went wide, seeing it was his sister. He lowered his weapon and Anna let go of Trent, partly limping to her brother. She about lost her footing as she reached him. He caught her, pulling her into a huge hug.

She almost started crying instantly and it made him pull her tighter, wanting to fix whatever was bothering his baby sister.

"Sh, sh. it's alright." he soothed, brushing her mane. Why was she crying so hard? Was it because she was hurt? He could tell she was limping.

"Anna, what happened? Where are you hurt?" he asked, holding her out to look at her.

"Canard, it's mom..." she trailed off, throwing herself back into his arms.

"What?" he asked, knowing her despair was real. He looked over to Trent.

"I'm sorry, Canard." was all he said, but he sounded so distant.

"Anna, it's... I mean, it can't be true..." he tried.

"Canard, I..." she shook her head, tears running down her face. "She told me to come find you. There was nothing I could do... she... she's gone." Anna partly sobbed while trying to explain what happened.

"Canard?" he heard Henry behind him and he felt the tears start to come. He tried to hold them back as he turned to look at his friend.

"Are you alright?" Henry asked. Canard hugged Anna tighter and just nodded, a few stray tears falling on his cheeks. He was embarrassed. His team couldn't see him cry!

Henry walked forward, hugging around both Canard and Anna. "I'm sorry, guys. This sucks. It all sucks."

"We're gonna stop these saurians, anyway we can." Canard's determined look scared Henry. Canard was pissed, and he was going to get his revenge.