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Magica DeSpell crawled carefully to what was left of her scrying mirror and cautiously peered into the largest shard that remained in the frame. She HAD been spying… trying to think up a way to keep people looking toward Morgana and the Normals so she could put distance between herself and Lafayette. Ever since Magica had tied Lafayette to her curse spells; she had been plagued by feelings of dread and unease and Poe had flat out refused to have anything further to do with the rooster no matter what she threatened or promised.
Magica had been fighting off a feeling of foreboding all day and finally had locked herself in her workroom inside the inscribed gold circle in order to shield herself from any interference then LOOKED for the rooster. Knowing where he was and what he was doing magically might not be vital, but Magica needed inspiration for her next move and since she wanted to place the blame securely on Lafayette it had seemed a good idea at the time.
Shuddering, Magica gasped again and wiped tears from her face; most of her mirror was in scattered fragments all over the floor. The warding circle had shielded her from physical damage so the broken glass was all around the outside of the gold ring but the razor sharp shards were the least of her worries now.
Magica had made the mistake of looking for Lafayette just before the unfortunate Morgana Macabre and her familiar had sent their agonizing cries through the planar energies. The resulting shockwave had knocked Magica off her feet and from the feel of it; Poe was still unconscious in his nest in the large Elm tree in the front yard of the house.
At least Poe was safe for now; it was time to run for a deep hole to hide in now that a dark adept was loose again. By killing KIN and draining mages; Lafayette was WAY too much for any one mage to stop as far as Magica was concerned.
Magica was no coward, but it would take a lot more experience and energy than she had to stop Lafayette now. The only plan her panicked mind had come up with in the few minutes since she had shaken off her shock was once she got back to her lair in Italy she planned on contacting the head of the DeSpell clan. Her Uncle Mathew DeSpell was a Warden and he could bring hands of Warden's with him to hunt the rogue magic user down and lock him away once they were informed.
Magica felt her energy draining far too quickly as she struggled to her feet and wobbled to her workbench while the sharp bit of glass that had been her scrying mirror crunched beneath her shoes. The repercussions of Morgana's cry of agony had come as a complete and unwelcome surprise.
Their desperate cries had shredded through Magica's mind; and the damage from her voyeurism, while not nearly as serious as it could have been; was still painful and fairly incapacitating. Thanks to Poe she was still conscious and capable of getting them out of here, but if it hadn't been for the filters built into the wards and the mirror it was safe to think that nether of them would be functional at all and as for Morgana, well….
Magica knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Morgana needed help but…. Turning away from the remnant of her mirror, Magica ignored her conscience and staggered to the workbench beside the circle. Leaning heavily on the tabletop and reaching painfully into the drawer of her worktable Magica carefully removed the last white duck feather she had bought from the Beagles from its envelope. Using an ordinary lighter she incinerated the container to break any magical ties between herself and the gang of criminals.
Feeling more exhausted than she could recall in recent memory, Magica gathered her will and forced herself to look in the mirror shard again. In spite of her many years of independence and self reliance her heart gave a lurch as she saw that she wasn't the only one to have felt the magical repercussions from Morgana's agony. Torn between fear of being found out and relief that Lafayette had already overstepped himself and been discovered Magica stood transfixed and watched the vision unfold.
Admittedly the mirror fragment was much smaller than the original surface had been and the resulting picture was correspondingly small but even so she recognized none other than Council-head Bellarmine and at least three hands of Wardens from the different visible faces and the glyphs on the cloaks.
They were escorting Agatha, one of the few true healers the Mage-born had. Unable to look away, she continued to watch the council enforcers and senior council members as they were joined by various Normals including Scrooge McDuck! Magica KNEW things were bad, but she was forced to admit just how bad when the sight of Scrooge away from his precious dime failed to ignite her usual hunger for power.
Instead of the euphoric surge of adrenaline that the thoughts of being able to increase her power usually gave her, Magica fought off feelings of nausea as the room spun. Carefully she halted the vision and put her head between her knees to try and counteract her physical reaction to the evil she had witnessed so closely.
The damage to her mindscape was painful, but Poe had taken the brunt of the damage before passing out and through their connections, Magica was holding him stable. Once they got far away from here Magica planned on going to the Eldritch Academy for help. It would mean releasing Poe from the spell and returning him to his avian form but the teachers there would heal him first and ask questions later.
Magica knew that if they were going to escape, she was going to have to act fast. The Wardens were trained to detect portals and other magical means of travel as a way to track the people they hunted. Very few Mage-born or Monster kind even bothered to understand, much less pay attention to; how Normal travel worked unless they went outside of the boarders. With the way her karma was back-lashing though, the Wardens were likely to own bus passes and have frequent flyer credit cards.
Magica clung to the hope that as long as she used the last feather to create a compelling enough distraction; she would be able to portal to St. Canard and take a plane to Italy from there. She HAD originally planned on using a portal to go directly to her home, and then she had planned on taking an airplane from Duckburg and avoiding magic completely to muddle any investigation. But NOTHING would force her near the airport in Duckburg now.
Poe groaned and tried again to force himself to move more than his eyelids but they weighed fifty pounds a piece and he HURT from every feather shaft and muscle. Mr. Pinchwife curled around his beloved master and tried to think, but that poor, poor familiar…. In all his plans to free them from Magica's control, Pinchwife had never even considered anything like this!
As the initial disorientation and nausea faded Mr. Pinchwife carefully probed Poe's mindscape to make sure the damages weren't worsening. As he did so, he sent a little energy to Poe hoping to help him revive. They HAD to get out of the way and soon, even Magica's obsession was going to have to take a back seat to their safety. Mr. Pinchwife's whiskers flared as he realized that Magica was trying to support Poe and was taking a lot of the pain from their damage on her own body to ease her brother. Maybe Magica wasn't as far gone as he had thought.
Poe stirred again and managed to force himself upright but without the support of the nest walls and Pinchwife he would have fallen back inside the nest. He was very frightened, with his head spinning and the very sunlight causing him agony as his head felt like it was going to explode, Poe knew he couldn't count on being able to fly. Magica wasn't likely to be patient OR understanding about it if he held up their escape and given what they had witnessed, for once Poe couldn't find it in his heart to blame her for that.
Mr. Pinchwife purred reassuringly and leaped out of the nest saying, 'Wait here beloved, I'll make sure Magica is alright, her familiar Igor is trying to connect to her and if he succeeds he can help hold the damages to her mind stable. Try and gather your strength my dear and I'll return as soon as may be.'
Lucidia Macabre was wearing an official council cloak over her usual dress and after visibly gathering herself together she fastened an identical cloak around Mintaka's shoulders as he tried to stand on his feet. Agatha looked more than a bit upset at them as they both started forward toward the warehouse even though they were obviously dizzy and still affected by Morgana's pain.
Ignoring the other people in the group since they were milling around trying to organize themselves, Agatha moved with the inescapable strength of a healer on a mission, gathered her skirt and moved past the wardens to touch Mintaka and Lucidia who straightened up and stopped trembling as her healing energy cleansed them. Grimm stood on his own four paws again as Kaa and Raa released him and Bellarmine glanced at Mintaka who gestured to Director Hooter to indicate the Normal's leader.
Bellarmine moved to Hooter and said swiftly in what he hoped was a compelling and conciliatory tone, "I would consider it a personal favor if we could save Morgana and conclude our official introductions and negotiations afterwards."
Agatha was already moving into the warehouse while the wardens trotted along trying to keep up and Palou realized what was going on and moved after her to insure her safety. His chosen was fully shielded and was paying attention, but Agatha was clearly a female on a mission and nothing as mundane as being among strangers in a strange and potentially dangerous place was going to interfere with that.
Agatha's familiar who was shaped like a tiny tree owl, was perched on Agatha's shoulder and from what little Palou could tell she was already trying to establish a link to Morgana's Kin. Unfortunately however, from the growing silence in the warehouse, and emotional undercurrents Palou was picking up from the owl; he had the sinking feeling it wasn't going well.
Theo's familiar moved so calmly that most people didn't react to him in spite of his being a pale yellow, twenty foot long, wingless dragon. Palou HAD taken into account the fact that he was at best an exotic oddity to even Mage-born and Monster kind so as a precaution he was carefully projecting a selective ward to lessen his impact. Even so, he understood the reactions from those Normals who were sensitive enough to feel his presence.
First Agent Grizzlikof turned back from the warehouse as he heard the commotion, only to see the large bear-like female stalking past him and froze for a second at the sight of the HUGE creature rushing after her. Then he saw Hooter's hand signal.
Without another sign of hesitation or surprise to mar his reactions, Grizzlikof and half of his agents moved in a wedge taking the Wardens with them to stay with Agatha who wasn't slowing down in spite of the fact that a Warden was trying to engage her attention.
Grizzlikof hid a grin and moved adjacent to the grey cloaked figure offering, "It is useless to interfere; we are better served by securing the building than by trying to stop her."
Surprised at this wisdom the warden hesitated before nodding and readying his staff to fall in beside Grizzlikof; there would be time enough to sort out details later, delay now would be tragic. His personal feelings aside, Warden Vladimir Vlach was not a fool. His family was actually nowhere near as wealthy or as collectively powerful as the Macabre's but they too understood what the council was trying to accomplish by befriending the Normals. Besides, this attack on Morgana Macabre HAD to be stopped. As this Dark Adept in the making was successful in draining and killing more Mages, he would become more and more difficult to stop so now was the time to act and thanks to Morgana's connections to these Normals, they had a chance to finish this before it spread.
As they went the Wardens stretched their shields to cover the S.H.U.S.H. agents in pairs, these Normals were clearly brave, dedicated and trained but letting them go up against a Dark Adept without magical protections would be criminally negligent not to mention stupid. Council-head Bellarmine had made their orders very clear and none of the Wardens wanted to be on the receiving end of his wrath if they allowed the Normals or Agatha to come to harm through carelessness or stupidity.
Director Hooter nodded in agreement to Bellarmine and said grimly, "It has been a very long time since I was on a field raid but Agent Grizzlikof and I still remember what to do."
Drawing his own weapon as Theo adjusted his Mage shields to cover the diminutive owl; Director Hooter nodded and the two leaders moved just behind the wedge of Mage-born, Wardens and Agents who were now just ahead of but not slowing the healer.
It wasn't safe to leave anyone without backup with super villains like the Fearsome Five around, and that didn't even take into account any extra difficulties like a suspected serial killer being involved in the area. This being the case, Sarah Bellum touched Scrooge on the shoulder and grinned conspiratorially as she winked.
Dr. Bellum nodded at Scrooge and offered, "Anytime Darkwing is involved, there is usually something interesting to see. Why don't you and I just toddle along and get Steggmutt and Neptunia out of the way of the med team. I'm sure Gizmoduck and the rest of the Justice Ducks will be glad of their support and besides, I need to refill my containment dispenser."
Flabbergasted at her take charge attitude and NOT being willing to be shuffled to the sidelines of a fight, Scrooge started to object. Then his intellect kicked in overriding his temper; the canny old duck had just realized that getting Steggmutt and Neptunia here from the hospital would allow him to watch out for Gizmoduck and the others as well as stay informed of events.
Fenton's teammates weren't going to take no for an answer when they came on the scene. All Scrooge would have to do is wait for the right opportunity and he'd have his answers, hopefully Giz and his friends would be alright until then. Scrooge's instinct's said there was major trouble in that building and he'd wager his last million that that Darkwing character was involved up to the brim of his ridiculously sized grey hat and more than likely that meant Launchpad was involved in this mess too.
Scrooge was still suspicious, but as the few remaining agents and a group of police began setting up a defensive perimeter around the smoking warehouse and the fire department pulled up to ready their equipment he saw more than one way to skin this cat and agreed.
Grudgingly Scrooge offered, "Alright then lass, I'll escort ye. Now is no time to be leaving a lady alone for sure."
Sternly suppressing a laugh and her nerves, Sarah Bellum nodded and took two agents and a police officer with them to the hospital to retrieve the rest of the Justice Ducks. They had been left to guard the hospital once they had been medically cleared and with the Fearsome Five here, the hospital was safe enough it was the forces of the law that needed help.
Dirk felt his world narrow to a small tunnel of light and he viciously fought off the urge to faint. Carefully Dirk moved Quiverwing's hand just enough to try and assess the injuries to Morgana's hands.
He was a hardened criminal, well used to inflicting violence and viewing it's aftermath but even he sucked in a deep breath and had to force himself to remain calm as he saw her bleeding, shredded palms and lacerated fingers. Morgana was also bleeding from several places where bits of the former cage had penetrated her feathers as well as the ragged remains of her dress. Quiverwing gulped and clutched at Darkwing's jacket as she felt her father's body tense. He was fighting to remain conscious and losing the battle, his breathing was labored and as Launchpad attempted to help support their weight, QW begged, " Stay with me Dad, help is here."
Archie and Eek had stopped moving and were both crouched on their Morgana as Squeek struggled to hang on but even with the help of his brothers, Squeek was teetering on the edge between life and death and he didn't know which way led back to life and his family.
Negaduck got a hold on himself and lunged up toward the strangers that had arrived in what was left of the warehouse. He wasn't normally one to be impressed with appearances, but the sheer presence and weight of personality involved in the people coming in combined with his own emotional uncertainty had caught him off guard at first.
Relying on his own bravery and sense of self, Dirk managed to shake off his sense of awe as he realized the floating light that was glowing in the dust and debris was shining just ahead of what looked like a twenty foot long four legged, scaled, lizard-like creature with six inch fangs, a long tapered tail and a whiskered muzzle. But as he stepped forward the very large female bear held up a hand and stopped him in his tracks.
Her voice was almost gentle, but the timbre of POWER held barely in check within her forced Dirk to listen and held him motionless. Off to one side, Megavolt, Gizmoduck and the rest of the combatants were stirring; but none of the Normals dared to interrupt the tableau of Agatha, Negaduck and the dragon.
Surrounded by the semicircle of wardens and agents, the threesome might as well have been alone with Dirk standing just between the healer and the injured ducks as she spoke, "We have no time to argue young one, if they are to survive I MUST help them now. It is time for you to choose…. Either stand with them or stand aside. Understand this though, your choices now will affect far more than just you or even them. Without you, I will have far less to draw on and I can't promise they will forgive you for that and I know they won't forget."
Dirk wasn't stupid, he DID recognize the edgy, itchy feeling in his feathers as being the same as his reaction to that old Granny Beagle on a MUCH larger scale and even a total idiot (which he wasn't) would have figured out that a twenty foot wingless dragon was something you didn't see every day and for one to be here meant SOMETHING but…. He also knew that Drake and Morgana were hurt far more than their physical injuries would suggest.
Under any other circumstances, Dirk's being able to touch Drake when he was hurt would have been the stuff of dreams and/or nightmares for both of them and yet nether Morgana nor his fool of a twin had even attempted to react when he had tried to examine some of their wounds. All by itself, THAT would have told Dirk that the woman was right and that didn't even take into account Dirk's own instincts; which were shrieking at him. Still a lifetime of lies wasn't something he could overcome just like that….
Without really thinking about how his words would sound to anyone else, Negaduck imposed himself between these weirdo's and the injured ducks and demanded, "He's MINE why should I trust you to help him? No one gives away something for nothing, what's your angle?"
Bolt/Honker Muddlefoot meanwhile was coming to several conclusions of his own as he tried to move some of the shards of metal away from Quiverwing's feet. He hissed a little as he realized the metal had tiny cutting edges all along the length of the pieces as though it was meant to cause as much damage as possible even though the cage it had made was destroyed. Some instinct made him resist trying to stop the bleeding or touching the cuts to his mouth though and to distract himself he started at Negaduck as the mallard demanded answers from the bear-like female.
Gosalyn on the other hand didn't even realize she was bleeding from several small injuries or that she had pulled the cartilage in her ribcage until she saw the cuts on Bolt's face and hands and Launchpad's wince as he realized that the metal he had removed from DW's thigh had lacerated his hands as he had pulled it out.
Her breathing became much harder to control all of a sudden as she felt her dad weaken but she whispered determinedly, "Hold on Dad…just hold on."
Lifting her head she started to say something to Negaduck but Honker got there first and since drawing a deeper breath had caused spots of color to dance before her eyes, Quiverwing decided to let him have his say while she tried to stay awake. Bolt heard Negaduck claim Darkwing and having seen the expression on the Negaduck's face as he had tried to examine Darkwing and Morgana's injuries, Bolt understood that there was a lot more going on here emotionally speaking for the criminal than he would have guessed in a million years.
Quiverwing panicked as she felt her father's body laboring to keep going and her tears mixed with the blood on poor Squeek as the bat shuddered in Launchpad's scarf. Morgana's body shook in time to Darkwing's labored breathing and Launchpad was crying as he tried to whisper encouragement to Quiverwing, Darkwing and Morgana.
Something stirred in Honker and he spoke up, "Negaduck, no matter what she wants in exchange for helping them it will mean they survive if she is successful."
Negaduck tore his gaze from the woman to glance at the duckling who gulped but didn't back down. Nodding decisively Negaduck said, " I want my brother back, and I know he won't survive if she doesn't But DON'T think you can cross me. I want my gang fixed and I want him to remember me. You can do what you have to too me for them, but that's what I want."
All the mages stilled for a moment as Palou spoke aloud, "Heard and Witnessed, what is meant to be will be but as far as can be managed you will get your payment."
Agatha nodded and had Lucidia and Mintaka help several agents including Agent DD move the injured ducks and Morgana's familiars away from the cage. It was contaminating them all and the infected wounds would have to be purged as well as the other injuries. Fortunately, she was well rested and with the blood ties from the twin and Lucidia the healing was a lot more likely to be successful….
Director Hooter and Council-head Bellarmine waited quietly just out of comfortable speaking distance from the group as Agatha went to work ordering people around without regard for their rank or origin. She DID pause in sympathy for an instant as she saw Liquidator and Quackerjack and before they could be dragged outside to a waiting truck she made sure to have Mintaka and a warden mark them so she could try and set them to rights. The kind of possession they had endured was something that would take a long time to get over, but from the cursory look she had there was enough of each of them left to rebuild on but they were going to have to be secondary….
As Agatha and the others got to work, no one realized that Lafayette was in fact conscious and biding his time. As Mintaka and Lucidia and the other Mages worked to build a clean work circle and called in various tools, potions and things the Normals were busy trying to make sense of the disaster of the warehouse and secure the room so the roof stayed where it should and no one was injured by the left over bits and pieces that were strewn all over the place. Megavolt, and Bushroot were being kept under guard by the S.H.U.S.H. agents but with the distraction of the Dragon and the mages it wasn't entirely the agent's fault that they were caught unawares by Lafayette.
Even First Agent Grizzlikof found himself being drawn into the spectacle as the work on the downed Justice Ducks continued. The entrance of firemen and Scrooge arriving with the rest of the Justice Ducks DID jolt people back to reality a little but even Scrooge's well earned skepticism had met it's match as he watched real mage born wield their power. Using Negaduck to anchor Darkwing and Lucidia to anchor Morgana Agatha began to cleanse them of the death cage's energy and transmuted it to heal the injuries of the children and Launchpad. Once they were cleansed, their strength would buffer the others and leave more energy to work from.
Magica smiled to herself as she watched from her hidden workroom, this was perfect….Gathering her strength she prepared an illusion and an energy siphon and went to get Poe. Timing the spell to begin as the children were cleansed of the taint from the cage she waited anxiously as the healing began and sure enough, once the children and the pilot were clean, the feather in Magica's work circle began to glow and tongues of purple and blue fire began to consume the feather.
Darkwing and Morgana were within the mindscape frantically trying to call Squeek to them. Squeek's image in the mindscape was as transparent as a ghost and he wasn't moving, but at least he'd stopped fading. Whispering reassurances Darkwing held onto his love and her familiars even as he felt a sudden additional drain on his energy. It felt like someone had attached a hose to him and had turned on a spigot and his life was draining out. He began to turn almost as transparent as Squeek and Morgana frantically cried." NO! Dark! Stay with me!"
Palou snarled as he felt the additional spell activate and he and his chosen moved to sever the connection between the intruder and the now badly failing duck gasping for air in Morgana's arms. Finding the tie, they cut it viciously and tied the resulting backlash back to the caster. Magica however had already used the energy flash to disguise her portal and gone to the Academy to beg for help for Poe so the backlash destroyed her workroom in Duckburg but nothing else.
Lafayette meanwhile waited until the mages were completely immersed in their work and gathered his strength. Pulling on his protective amulet he prepared a bolt of power and started to unleash it on the yellow jacketed mallard who had dared to put violent hands on his person. To everyone's surprise though Megavolt twisted away from the agent's holding him captive and unleashed all he had left on the rooster spoiling his aim. The power bolt missed Negaduck and hit a support causing the roof to groan. The Agents had already stripped megavolt of his battery pack and handcuffed him so he was now pretty helpless but he'd done what he'd intended to do.
Before anything tragic could happen, Bushroot stepped up and offered to Hooter, "If it please you your honors, I'd like to point out that my friends can hold the roof up I promise not to try and escape or anything."
With this he called in a dozen more trees who became the supports for the roof and others began clearing the debris from the room although none of the living plants would touch the remnants of the cage. Grizzlikof held a gun to Bushroot who stood quietly in an attitude of surrender clearly Negaduck's followers were not acting the way they usually would.
When Hooter asked Bushroot about this apparent discrepancy the plant duck replied, "We can't help Liquidator or Quackerjack by ourselves and Negaduck want's Darkwing and Morgana to live so…. Well besides, just because we are criminals doesn't meant we don't have standards. That rooster is BAD NEWS and I'll be only too glad to go to prison as long as he doesn't end up anywhere near me. Ah…he's NOT going to right?"
Warden Vlach shook his head reassuringly as his staff pulsed on Lafayette's jugular vein and a controlled burst of mage energy knocked the rooster unconscious. Efficiently the Wardens stripped the rooster of everything, even his outer coat of feathers and used the feathers to build bindings to keep him complacent and helpless.
Council-head Bellarmine said to both Director Hooter and the frightened mutant, "He'll be stripped of his ability to use mage power and our mind healers will take over his care. He won't be able to escape without mage power."
As night fell the group came out of the remains of the warehouse and three of the Fearsome Five were led unresisting to the containment truck. Negaduck looked haunted and none of the others had any will to resist their incarceration after having witnessed the end of the healing.
Mintaka laid a gentle hand on Negaduck who flinched and backed into the side of the truck. The only thing he was wearing was his black mask, a pair of boxers decorated with skulls and a twist of golden chain around his neck although only the mage born could see the chain. Even the string of charms Granny Babalawo had given each of the three villains had been temporarily confiscated. Agents were waiting to help the prisoners into S.H.U.S.H. jumpsuits for the trip to a special holding facility where the mage born were going to come after they rested. The threesome shivered as though cold even though the temperature was comfortable even without their usual clothes.
Mintaka spoke gently, "It will get easier for you Dirk, Drake's pain is HIS not yours and his memories will fade slightly. I know this isn't what you thought would happen, but… for what it's worth, he DOES feel for you not just remember you now. You helped save all of them and we won't forget that. I know…."
He sighed and stopped as Negaduck/ Dirk Mallard turned toward the waiting truck and ignored the mage. Grimm padded on silent paws to his chosen to offer quietly, 'once Drake is better and they have a chance to actually BE together and rediscover each other he will be better too. Drake and Dirk won't be able to truly harm each other because it will harm them as well. Not that Drake would anyway, and Dirk won't even consider harming those Drake loves now so some good has already come of this.'
Hoping to distract his chosen who was feeling very shaky about the aftermath of this whole thing. Grimm continued, 'I AM surprised that Drake's Chain divided and bonded to Dirk although considering their feelings I guess I shouldn't be.'
Mintaka watched as the threesome of criminals were taken away and turned resolutely to the two ducks now being wheeled out on stretchers. Lucidia was preparing a portal to take them to Morgana's house since there were supplies there to replenish the potions they were going to need.
Mintaka offered quietly, "I am going to see if Launchpad and the children will allow me to go with them Lucidia my sweet, Agatha is going to cleanse those other two and then the rest of these poor victims but someone is going to have to help Drake's loved ones adjust and keep them from fretting until Drake and Morgana wake up. I'll meet you at Morgana's house with the children and Launchpad as soon as I can."
To Lucidia's surprise and delight he kissed her gently and offered, "I think it might be best if Grimm and I were around for a bit regardless don't you?"
Giving him a gentle smile and a nod Lucidia kissed him back and agreed as she went to open the portal and take Drake and Morgana to St. Canard.
Gosalyn objected, "Dad and Morgana need me. I don't want to leave them Launchpad."
Turning to the duckling Lucidia explained that they were all going to meet at Morgana's house and that Mintaka was going to go with them in the Thunderquack but Gosalyn wasn't comforted until Grimm grabbed her by her costume cloak and dangling her like one of his kittens leaped off toward the plane as she alternated between amazement and anger at being dragged off.
Honker mustered a smile as Launchpad and the elder mage moved after the huge cat, Gos was going to be upset but at least she was distracted from her Dad's condition…he and Negaduck were identical twins! That all by itself wasn't SO amazing, but the mental and spiritual stirring together the Mage-born and the Dragon had done were definitely something Honker hadn't expected…and from the looks of things neither had Negaduck. Shaking his head he hurried to catch up to the others as the S.H.U.S.H. personnel began to move out and clean up the mess.
Anna Tidae watched warily as three of the Fearsome Five were loaded into the containment truck with her. In spite of their reputations they didn't look so menacing, in fact even with the dazed look on the mallards face he actually looked kind of cute. He was a little shorter than average, and his plumage was mussed, but still….
Sternly forcing herself to pay attention to something besides the urge to groom his feathers straight and preen him Anna tried to get his attention. "Hey, Hey you duck, do you really want to spend the next few years in prison?"
The handsome duck didn't react but the plant fellow Bushroot did. "Leave him alone, he's got a lot on his mind and besides, we will escape prison eventually when he want's us too, say…what are you doing in here anyway?"
The rodent Megavolt chimed in, " say, that's right…we don't usually have to share a truck with a common criminal, what did you do to get put in here anyway?"
Anna had been waiting for just such an opening and proceeded to explain to the two super criminals her version of events…
Here it is, I know it is shorter than usual and I Do feel as though it could be better, but I wanted to get this posted and get on to the next bit so please enjoy and review and I hope to post the next chapter very soon as well as another chapter of commitment commencement. Please review and e mail me with any suggestions or comments thank you Irual