Remembrance

Chapter 21

Falling….That's all he knew. 'They say your life flashes before you're eyes' he thought…Every battle…Every villain…Every victory…Defeat…Everyone he cared about….Gosylan, Elmo, Launchpad, Morgana, Honker even Gizmoduck and the other Justice Ducks. He'd never see any of them again. If losing Elmo was bad before, the idea of this happening horrified him. Was this truly the end of Darkwing Duck?

At that moment, two hands from a small opening in the Dam, several floors down from Steelbeaks, shot out and grabbed the chair Drake was tied too. The force of the fall against the sudden stop made Drake shut his eyes. He heard a load groan as he was pulled to safety. He was alive. Still tied to the chair he slowly opened his eyes to see something he didn't expect. The figure was in shadows, but there was no mistaking it, there before Drake Mallard stood Darkwing Duck.

Steelbeak inspected his hair, ever so satisfied. Megavolt looked mortified. Drake…gone…And it was all his fault. Gosylan will be an orphan again, and he would somehow have to explain why her father died today.

"Don't look so glum, chum…It's not like you're best friend died or something…" Steelbeak said, "Oh wait a second, yes it is!" And He laughed harder than he usually did.

Gizmoduck came up at that moment, and saluted his 'superior' "Sir!"

"What is it Chrome Dome?"

"The Prisoners have escaped, it appears we have intruders"

"Hmmm…Probably those medaling Justice Ducks. Strange though, by now Darkwing makes his appearance." Steelbeak began to talk to himself, trailing off.

"Sir, did one of you prisoners escape as well?"

"Hm? Oh Drake…no that Duck's flatter than a pancake."

"Y…You….killed him?" Something in Gizmoduck didn't feel right, something was defiantly wrong.

"Yeah so what?"

"But…"

"Listen pal, old High Command is almost through with that little toy that will restore all your memories, and then you'll remember what a bad and evil duck he was."

"But that's no excuse to kill anyone. The police…"

"The police don't run the show. I do. Now do you want you're memories back or not, what would M'ma want you to do?"

Gizmoduck looked down, he have to figure all this out on his own.

"That's a good little Gizzy." Just then and explosion from under them went off, "It has to be the Justice Ducks, Giz go stop them. Anyone wearing a purple mask, a red dress, or who looks like a giant dinosaur, I want eliminated."

"I won't kill anyone!"

"Fine, then just stop them."

Gizmoduck gave a salute and sped off, leaving Steelbeak alone with Megavolt.

"They'll stop you know?" Megavolt said almost with no emotion.

"Shows how much you knows. I got an escape planned, and when I high tail it out of here, this Dam is gonna blow, destroying Duckberg and submerging St. Canard."

"It won't matter. They will stop you. And once they untie me, you'll never be safe again."

"What are yous talking about Rats."

"Once I'm out of this cage, I'm gonna fry your brain till it pops. It's the only thing remotely painful enough to equal what you've done to me."

"Yeah rats, there's only one problem, you're in there, about to set off my major scheme, and then this place goes boom, you with it."

"You just better hope the Justice get to you before I do."

Two eggmen sat outside, one large and one small, playing cards when they apparently should have been guarding the reservoir.

"Umm..go fish" The larger, obvisously dumber one said.

"Danggit." The smaller one was truly annoyed.

"You wanna play a different game?"

"What's the point, Steelbeak's gonna give us the signal soon once the bomb is activated. We have to get to the escape route, over wise were toast."

"I know, lets play solitaire!"

"That's a one player game, there are two people here."

The large eggman just starred off into space.

"Any other suggestions?" The smaller one tried to gain back that attention of his friend.

"Fish!" The large eggman panicked at the sight of something behind the other's back

"I told you we need a shorter game" The other eggman said, not knowing the impeding danger behind him.

Then he heard a voice, sounding like an announcer of some kind "Why play cards when you can play good old American tag?"

Neptunia game a thrust with her trident with one eggmen while Liki splashed the other until he fell to the ground.

"Not half bad, Liquidator." Neptunia stood admiring their work.

"You're only saying that because you're not on the receiving end this time."

She gave a slight smile at that remark, "Did you hear what they said about a bomb?"

"The Liquidator hears all!"

"I thought I told you to cut it out and stop talking like that. We have to find that bomb or Duckberg and St. Canard are history."

"Maybe we should warn Negaduck."

"N…Negaduck?! He's here?!" Neptunia starred down Liki.

"Wh…why yes. He was dressed up like Darkwing earlier."

"I thought he was acting funny. What are you guys up to?"

"Don't ask me, the boss is keeping me out of this one."

"Then where's Darkwing?"

"Boss said he was inside, don't know if that's true or not."

"Well Darkwing can handle himself, and if does need help, the others are inside. When I get my hands on that low life lying duck, he'll wish Darkwing was there to pull me off of him. Come on, we have to find that bomb. Where do we start looking?"

"The most obvious place of course." The Liquidator gestured to the reservoir.

"Looks like it's a search and destroy mission, well let's get started." And with that the two jump in.

Steggmutt was having the time of his life. He was on all fours running as fast he could through all the corridors of the Dam. Bushroot sat on top of him, 2x4 in hand. It was almost like batting mailboxes or something of that nature as the two ran down as much equipment and eggmen that they could see.

"Oh boy, this is fun" Steggmutt yelled up at Bushroot

"Hehe, I would have to agree. Who would have thought a plant eater would be so much fun."

"Mr. Bushroot? What's a plant eater?"

"Its some one who eats plants."

"You mean like grass and stuff?"

"Well yeah, or any kind of vegetable."

"Ewe. I hate Vegetables. Dr. Fossil always used to make me eat them."

"You mean you don't eat greens? Well what do you eat?'

"Hotdogs!"

"Well that's not exactly meat, but no plants died to make it. Steggmutt, I had you pegged wrong."

"You mean you'll be my friend?" A sparkle appeared in Stegg's eye.

"Well at least for today, tomorrow I got to go back to being a villain." Bushroot tried to simplify as best as possible.

"Oh…Ok Mr. Bushroot…I understand." Bushroot could hear the hurt in Steggmutt's voice.

"Hey….Call me Reggie."

Morgana and QJ looked around the corner, they saw a type of communications room, unguarded.

"This must be where Steelbeak hooks up to high command' Morgana said.

"Yeah, but where is he?" QJ asked.

"I told you we're not looking for Steelbeak, we're looking for Giz."

"So how come Giz lost his memory." It was a honest question.

"I really don't want to talk about it, but let's just say it was my fault, and now I have to fix it, that's why we can't hurt him."

"Thanks for rescuing me and Bushy btw."

"We needed you're guys help."

"I know, but this is the second time you have come to aid the Fearsome Five."

"Only out of sympathy."

"Why'd you ever turn good in the first place, you just seem too dark for Justice Ducks."

"People always do strange things when their in love."

"Oh…I see, Darkwing Duffus."

"He may be your guys' mortal enemy, but he can be quite the charmer when he wants to be."

"I'll have to take you're word for it. He's always spoiling my fun."

"That's because your fun usually involves the suffering of others."

"Well maybe if people would just play by my rules, they wouldn't get hurt."

"That doesn't sound very fun, listen to someone else idea of they think is fun, now does it."

"Well…no…but…"

"Just think about it Quackerjack."

"STOP EVIL DOOERS!" A voice shouted from behind them.

Quackerjack eyed the mechanical hero then turned to Morgana, "Why don't you do the honor's my dear.."

"Why, Quackerjack I'd be delighted," She cleared he throat, "It's playtime!"

Author's note: This story is turning out longer than I planned but is almost done, doubtful I'll get to 25 chapters, but it might happen. Once again thank you to the reviewers, I'm glad you all are enjoying the story.