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Chapter 25
Let's Get Dangerous
"You!" Negaduck exclaimed, surging forward in rage, "You don't know when to stop, do you?!" He made a motion in preparation to unleash the super suit's power onto Gosalyn.
"Well, keen gear, I guess I don't, do I?" Gosalyn replied cooly and deliberately.
"No!" Negaduck exclaimed, as the super suit heard Gosalyn's voice utter it's activation password, and quickly began to melt off of Negaduck, heading towards Gosalyn.
Negaduck reached for his tape recorder that had the recording of Gosalyn saying the password on it, but it was too late, the suit had already reformed on Gosalyn, giving her the powers now. And she quickly tried to make use of them, by sending out a wave of energy at Negaduck to knock him aside, but ending up flying straight up into the air instead.
It was Honker that reacted, by firing an arrow off at Negaduck, making the villain back off. Gosalyn quickly stopped her ascent several feet over the street below and quickly reoriented herself, trying to get enough control of the suit to use it to it's full potential.
This time she tried super-stretching her arms, like she had seen Negaduck do, out to grab Honker and pull him to safety. Instead, she accidently let loose a bolt of electricity in the opposite direction of her target, nearly hitting Megavolt. Even though he was immune to the bolt, Megavolt fled, and his fellow villains did likewise, leaving Darkwing alone and unguarded.
Darkwing took this chance to pounce on Negaduck, who was about to draw his pistol. The two rolled around on the street wrestling for several moments, both of them throwing insults at each other intermittently. While they were doing this, Gosalyn used the only power she could control and flew down to Honker and pulled him out of immediate harms way, which was fortunate, because Negaduck finally broke free of the fight and open fired at the spot Honker had been at only moments before.
That done, Gosalyn then swooped down and landed, throwing her arms forward at Negaduck, hoping something would happen that she could use to her advantage. To her surprise, she released a small snowstorm at Negaduck, freezing everything in it's path. Negaduck saw it coming, however, and nimbly leapt aside. The storm zoomed onward, narrowly missing Darkwing, then striking the ground, creating a large patch of ice.
Negaduck then reached into his pocket and began to pull something out. Thinking it was a weapon, Gosalyn took to the air, soaring right over Negaduck's head. It was a mistake. Negaduck pulled out not a weapon, but his tape recorder, pressing play in the process.
"Keen gear!"
Like a vacuum turning on, the super suit was sucked off of Gosalyn and onto Negaduck, leaving Gosalyn suspended in the air for a split second before gravity took over and she fell to the ground.
Gosalyn quickly leapt up again, beginning to say the suit's password again, but all that she got out was "Kee" before Negaduck reacted quicker and released the same wave of energy that Gosalyn had tried to produce earlier, knocking Gosalyn aside.
Darkwing tried pouncing on Negaduck again, but the supervillain then turned the wave onto the superhero, and immediately afterwards on Honker and Launchpad, both of which tried to do the same as Darkwing from different angles. Gosalyn tried to rush forward to help, but then Megavolt appeared and stood in her path.
"You're not going anywhere!" he exclaimed, building up a charge of electrical energy to fire at Gosalyn.
Gosalyn stomped on his foot in response, and quickly side-stepped him as Megavolt bent over to clutch his aching foot. Gosalyn ran forward, but Quackerjack and Bushroot stood in her path, cutting her off from the rest of the fight where Negaduck singlehandedly kept his foes at bay.
Except for Gosalyn.
"Keen gear!" Gosalyn quickly shouted, then quickly ducked as Quackerjack and Bushroot dived at her, heard Negaduck's outcry of rage, and stepped forward to accept the arrival of the super suit again.
Feeling the suit take shape on her, she swung a punch at Negaduck. Her arm super-stretched out unexpectedly in the process, knocking not only Negaduck over, but swung around and knocked over Bushroot and Quackerjack in the process.
Seeing a nearby alley, Gosalyn ran towards it before Negaduck could regain his orientation and follow suit. The plant Bushroot had enlarged earlier to fight Darkwing stepped in her way, but was easily moved with a swipe of Gosalyn's hand, and it fly upward, over her head, and down upon it's own, or at least what Gosalyn considered to be it's head.
She quickly ducked into the alley, and found Darkwing, Honker, and Launchpad awaiting her there.
"What's the plan Gos?" Launchpad asked urgently, knowing time was short.
"First we got to keep the super suit out of Negaduck's hands, and since I'm the only other one who has a means to give it commands, it'll have to be me." Gosalyn said. "Second, the rest of the Fearsome Five are starting to get in the way. We need to even out the playing field a bit if we expect to win."
"Sounds like a plan!" Darkwing said, and gearing up to run out of the alley, "Let's get dangerous!"
He then turned and ran smack into a forcefield Gosalyn quickly whipped up to stop him.
"That's certainly getting dangerous." Honker remarked snidely.
"Not yet!" Gosalyn hissed as Darkwing peeled himself off of the field. "Let's not blow our element of surprise!"
"There they are!" Megavolt's voice suddenly rang out.
"Too late!" Launchpad shouted, pointing at the alley's entrance.
Megavolt stormed in, and let loose a lightning bolt. The others instinctively ducked, but didn't need to, for Gosalyn's forcefield quickly enlarged into a bubble, surrounding them like a shield, absorbing the bolt.
Gosalyn then retaliated to the attack by using the telekinesis power to grab hold of Megavolt's foot and fling it into the air, dragging Megavolt with, effectively sending him head over heels.
The party quickly stormed out of alley and rejoined the fight. Launchpad quickly sat himself down on Megavolt, pinning him to the ground. Honker fired off a few arrows at Quackerjack, how had to back off from attacking. Darkwing retrieved his fallen gas gun, and fired canisters of weed killer at Bushroot and his superplant henchman, also making them back off.
Gosalyn took on The Liquidator, who proved to be quite a foe, swirling and spiraling around and around Gosalyn as she desperately tried to pin him down, until she let out a yell of fury, while at the same time releasing another snowstorm, this one bigger than the last. It caught Liki head on, who was unprepared for the attack, and froze the living liquid solid, putting him out of commission until he melted.
Gosalyn allowed herself a grin of victory, and started to turn to help one of her friends in the fight, when a voice stopped her.
"Oh, Gosalyn!" the voice cooed, sounding like her father.
Gosalyn promptly turned to face it, only to find a grinning Negaduck, pressing play on his tape recorder.
"Keen gear!"
The super suit promptly melted off of Gosalyn and started for Negaduck. Gosalyn was quick to and her own retort.
"Keen gear!"
The suit stopped and started sliding back to Gosalyn. Alarmed, Negaduck quickly rewound the tape and replayed the recording.
"Keen gear!"
"Keen gear!" Gosalyn replied quickly.
"Keen gear!"
"Keen gear!"
The suit, stuck in-between them, confused and lost as to what it should do, began to quiver from the stress, getting too much input to function properly. And it would've only gotten worse had the constant exchange of commands kept coming, but Darkwing finally intervened by using his trademark triple-flip-web-kick on Negaduck's exposed and unprotected back, giving the suit chance enough to return to Gosalyn, and for Gosalyn to flee.
Negaduck was quick to pick himself back up, and shoved Darkwing out of his way as he raced after Gosalyn, preparing to play the tape again as soon as he got in range. However, as Gosalynr an, she was confronted by Quackerjack, beginning to lob firecrackers at her, only these firecrackers had a lot more juice than most, exploding violently in small plumes of fire.
Gosalyn dodged the firecrackers until she felt she was close enough to Quackerjack, and swung a punch at the demented toy maker. Normally the punch would've been too far away to cause any real damage, but as she swung the punch, Gosalyn's arm super-stretched outward until it was long enough to cause proper damage. And damage it did, the strength of the punch hurling the toy maker backwards into the still-frozen form of Liki, collapsing to the ground unconscious.
It was then that Gosalyn heard Negaduck's pounding footsteps as he raced towards her, and instinctively ducked. The dive Negaduck had went into to pounce on Gosalyn took him straight over her and into the ground. Dazed, the villain began to pick himself up, but was helped by Gosalyn, using the telekinesis to hurl him high into the air, out of her way until she was ready for him.
Gosalyn then focused her attention on the iced-over Liki and the limp form of Quackerjack, gently used the telekinesis to lift them into the air, then used the power to throw them into the back compartment of the still-idling Negacopter.
"Gosalyn, help!" Honker suddenly shouted out.
Gosalyn whirled about and saw Honker backing away from the advancing Megavolt, completely out of arrows, and having no other means to defend himself. Gosalyn reacted quickly, and just as Megavolt was about to unleash his power onto Honker, he suddenly flew backwards, half-somersaulted in mid air, then crashed to the ground in front of Gosalyn.
Megavolt picked himself up and released a bolt of electricity at Gosalyn. Gosalyn reacted at the same time, and managed to produce the same, an identical bolt of energy. The two bolts met with each other in-between the two, the hero and the villain, created a brilliant ball of white energy.
Both of them struggled to keep the ball of energy that they had managed to produce away from them, and push it towards their opponent. They circled each other in the process, and soon Gosalyn stood where Megavolt originally was, and Megavolt standing where Gosalyn had stood. This continued for several moments, before Gosalyn decided she had enough and gathered her strength and used it to push against the ball of energy. It surged forward unexpectedly and impacted Megavolt with enough force that it hurtled him backwards and into the rear compartment of Negacopter.
Negaduck, who up until now had been held back by Darkwing, finally broke free and charged at Gosalyn, pressing play on his tape recorder.
"Keen gear!"
Gosalyn reacted quickly, and before the suit had even fully melted off of her, she shouted "keen gear!" as well.
And again they got into the constant exchange of the key phrase, the suit caught undecided in the middle. And then the suit did something completely unexpected. It split into two. One side went to Gosalyn, and the other to Negaduck. Surprised, the two stared at each other for a moment, but Negaduck quickly recovered.
Using the telekinesis power, he picked up a nearby parked car and the Ratcatcher and hurled them at Gosalyn. Gosalyn reacted quickly, throwing up a forcefield shield, the vehicles simply bouncing off and crashing to the ground. Negaduck then stomped his feet, and a small earthquake was produced, creating a large crack in the ground that spread from Negaduck to Gosalyn.
Gosalyn then took to the air to avoid the crack opening up from underneath her, soaring over the street and her opponent. Negaduck fired off blue bolts of energy at Gosalyn, which she had to now dodge, and even phase through, in order to avoid. As Negaduck fought, he failed to see Darkwing sneak up behind him, and pounced onto him, latching himself to the villain, breaking his concentration. Gosalyn landed again, standing near the Negacopter. A shadow then fell over her, and looking up, she saw Bushroot's super-plant henchman he had produced.
"Go get her!" Bushroot commanded from behind the plant with glee.
Gosalyn whirled around and used the first power that obeyed her commands. The plant suddenly froze, twitched involuntarily, then began to shrink back into it's original form, which was a pansy.
Buhsroot stared at it, then, with fear, looked back at Gosalyn.
Gosalyn raised an eyebrow at him. "Never underestimate this suit's power." she remarked.
Bushroot then began backing up, fearing Gosalyn's impending onslaught of power, but that wasn't what he should be fearing, for suddenly Honker and Launchpad lunged out of nowhere and tackled the mutant plant-duck, hurling into the back of the Negacotpter where the rest of the group was and slammed the door shut on them.
They gave Gosalyn a high five in victory, but the victory ended quickly when Negaduck broke free of his fight with Darkwing, and while using part of the telekinesis ability to hold the hero at bay, he used the other half to bring Gosalyn to him, suspended in midair, and to immobilize Launchpad and Honker by rasing them into the air, where they couldn't do anything.
Ngeaduck grinned victoriously. "Any last words, Gos?" he asked darkly.
"Yeah, just two." Gosalyn said, then exclaimed, "Keen gear!"
She and her companions flopped to the ground as the half of the suit she wore melted off of her, as well as Negaduck's half. And just as she had hoped, the suit ran into a programming error, and didn't know what to do now, for now there was two of it, and it didn't know how it should react to the other half.
Gosalyn used that to her advantage by running away, yelling at the top of her lungs, "Keen gear!" over and over again. "Keen gear, keen gear, keen gear, keen gear!"
The suit began to tremble, and spark, and suddenly, it began to convulse violently. Negaduck caught on to what was happening, and ran for the Negacopter. Darkwing, Launchpad, and Honker followed Gosalyn's example and sought shelter.
"Keen gear, keen gear, keen gear, keen gear, keen gear, keen gear, keen gear, look out!"
The suit shook violently, shaking the street along with it, and began to flash various powers at random, then, it suddenly stopped, shrank inward slowly, then suddenly expanded outward and exploded violently, taking half of the street with it, blowing Darkwing, Launchpad, Honker, and Gosalyn over.
Meanwhile, Negaduck clambered into the pilot's seat of the Negacopter, and started taking off, knowing that his plan was pretty much unsalvageable now, and the police where starting to arrive. The helicopter lifted off of the ground until it hovered over the rooftops of the nearby buildings, pivoted around on it's z-axis, then soared off into the sunrise and was gone.
Slowly, Gosalyn picked herself up, favoring the many sore spots she had all over her body. Glacing over, she saw Darkwing doing the same. Launchpad simply lay on the ground, too stunned to move yet, and Honker was sitting up, clutching his head. The citizens that had sought shelter when the fight began surveyed the damage, and the situation, and slowly began to step out into the open.
They saw who were the only ones still present at the fight seen, put two and two together and began to applaud. Gosalyn and Darkwing looked at each other in surprise, and they began to bow in acknowledgment. This only stirred the crowd up even more, and the applauding grew louder, added, now, with cheering.
"I think, over the seven years I was gone, this was what I missed most about being a superhero." Darkwing remarked idly to Gosalyn.
"The applause?" Gosalyn asked, "Because you didn't get much of that in your day."
"Not just the applause." Darkwing said. "It's the sense of victory that I missed. That, and the fact that I usually shared that victory with friends...and family."
He embraced his adopted daughter, Gosalyn returning the gesture, listening to the encore all four of them were receiving...