"There ya go, Jace." Anna was skating backwards as Jason was skating towards her. Little by little, he was picking up speed. He smiled at her, and she was happy to see that he was enjoying this hobby that was considered a lifestyle on Puckworld.

"Alright, keep going." She said, stopping off to his side so she could watch him and point out anything that was keeping his form from being anything but perfect.

"Alright, straighten up a bit." She ordered, seeing he seemed to crouch forward a little bit. He did as he was told.

"Alright, you're uh… you're getting a little close to that wall there." She commented. He looked slightly worried as he had already picked up some speed.

"Turn, Jace." She tried.

"Anna, I don't know how!" he tried as he found himself sliding towards the wall.

"Shit… try to break!" she ordered, skating after him.

"These things have breaks!?" Came his terrified response before he smacked into a wall.

"Jace! Jace, you alright?" Anna rushed, coming up on Jason. Jason groaned, sitting up.

"Never better."

"Well…. I give you a 9 for speed, 7 for balance, and a 2 for direction…" she trailed off, grinning.

He rubbed his head, "Is that what it feels like to get boarded?" he asked as she helped pull him back to standing on the ice.

"actually, getting boarded hurts a lot worse. Imagine that, except there's a bigger guy right behind you slamming you into the boards." She tried as they skated towards the box.

"Ugh. No Bueno." He murmured.

"Huh?" she asked. He looked sheepish.

"Sorry. I meant, that's no good." He explained.

"Yo, Annie!" Nosedive appeared at the entrance as they reached the box.

"What's up, Dive?" she asked.

"Phil apparently set up a huge, life changing deal. Wildwing wants us all there just in case something happens." Dive explained. "remember what happened last time he was trying to make deals?"

"Yeah, and the scary part is this time he's not under any mind control."

"Or so we hope." Dive muttered. "Anyways, Wildwing wants us in the migrator pronto." He said, turning and taking off for the hangar. Anna glanced over at Jace.

"Good practice, bro. I'll see ya later. Duty calls." She said, taking off for the locker room to get changed.

"Yeah, see ya." He said, sitting down and beginning to untie his skates.

Wired fencing towered over the ducks as they walked through the gate. Smoke hung in the air, and the sky looked red through it. Wildwing led the group towards the towering dark building, Phil yapping his ear off. The group entered the elevator, traveling what easily could have been 30 floors. None of them had really paid attention. As the elevator dinged, Wildwing decided to voice his worries.

"I don't like the looks of this, Phil."

"Come on, just hear the guy out, Wildwing. He's someone we can do business with." Phil tried, walking backwards to talk to Wildwing as they continued down the hall, "Besides, when have I ever steered you wrong?" he then thought about what he'd just said, "don't answer that!"

"I'm getting bad vibes already." Grin groaned.

They stopped in front of a desk with a large backed chair turned away from them. The chair swiveled to reveal a thinner man with black hair petting a snake.

"The mighty ducks!" he greeted, "this is an honor. I'm Phineas P. Viper." He introduced.

"seriously?" Anna muttered under her breath. The guy's name was viper and he had snakes all over the place? Her comment received an elbow in her ribs from Jess.

"Interesting décor, mister Viper." Wildwing murmured with a raised eyebrow. Anna smirked at his comment.

"Snakes are my passion." Viper admitted, "they're excellent business men, you know? They wait for the proper time to strike before swallowing their opponent whole." He swung his snake around, wrapping it around his neck.

"but enough pleasantries. I want to buy your hockey franchise. Lot, stock and pond." He bent down, writing a number down on a piece of paper. "here's the amount I'm offering."

Wildwing took the piece of paper, looking it over. Phil hung over his shoulder, an obvious excited smile on his face.

"Well, that is a lot of money but… forget it." He said, tossing the paper in the air.

"Wildwing! Boobie!" Phil tried, catching the piece of paper out of the air, "be reasonable!" he begged.

"The mighty ducks aren't for sale." Wildwing said, grabbing Phil by his shoulder and dragging him out as the other ducks followed Wildwing's lead, leaving the building.

Once back at the pond, Anna rallied the troops for practice. She sat in the box, staring out at the ice.

"Babes, think about what you're doing! You're throwing away a fortune!" Phil tried. Tanya walked by, putting her helmet on.

"We are not doing business with that… that…" a word to describe him wouldn't come to her, but Nosedive popped into the conversation at that exact moment.

"I'm going out on a limb here… snake?" he asked, taking to the ice.

Anna tuned the remainder of the conversation out. It was the same old thing… Phil was after money… Wildwing wasn't giving in… etc.

She stared down at the ice, her face unreadable.

"That's it! Anna, you're grounded!"

"You can't do that!"

"The hell I can't!" he growled, "you're going to go up to your room and think about the tone you just took with me!"

"Why don't you make me!" she shot at him.

"Anna Marie, go to your room! Now!"

She glared at him as tears entered her eyes. "I hate you." She growled, stomping towards the stairs.

"My lucky puck." Her attention was grabbed by Tanya digging in the puck bin, "the one I brought from Puckworld." She sounded like she might cry. Apparently, Duke had heard the tone in Tanya's voice as well.

"Hey, everything alright, kid?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm just a little home sick." She murmured.

"Hey, we've all felt that way. Earth's a little strange, but it isn't all bad." Duke tried.

"I just wish we could go home. You wouldn't find any Phineas Viper's on Puckworld." She murmured, dropping the puck on the ice as the ducks began practice.

"Yeah, unless you looked under a rock or something." Nosedive murmured, slapping the puck into play.

Mallory tuned into what the ducks were talking about. "we're not leaving until we capture Dragaunus!" she practically ordered, skating past Nosedive. Duke got ahold of the puck and shot it at Wildwing. As Wildwing stopped the puck, he commented on the conversation.

"more to the point, we can't." he murmured.

"Hey." Anna's attention was pulled from the practice as she saw her brother come and sit by her.

"Hi. I didn't know you were back." She murmured.

"What was that look?" he asked.

"Nothing. I was just thinking."

"About what?"

"Home." She murmured, and he looked taken aback.

"I wonder… do you think when you guys go back… to Puckworld, I mean… I would end up going with you?" he asked.

"Well, it's kind of up to you. But, honestly, I kind of just assumed you would. I mean, you're my brother and now you're a duck." She tried.

"True. I just… I haven't been with the team that long. I wasn't sure if…"

Jason's thought was interrupted by a beeping from all their coms. Wildwing opened his, silencing the beeping.

"Drake 1's picked up signs of teleportation energy." He announced as he did a quick change. The rest of the ducks followed suit, except for Jason who stood up, ready for a fight.

"We'll uh… we'll get you set up with that later." Anna murmured, running after the rest of the ducks with Jason toward the migrator.

The migrator pulled up to the chameleon and Siege blasting apart a jewelry store. Wildwing put the migrator into battle mode before firing a warning shot.

"We've got 'em by the scales now!" Mallory said with a hint of excitement.

A green blob of light suddenly appeared before revealing Dragaunus.

"Dragaunus!" there was surprise in Duke's voice.

Jason gave Anna a questioning look and she knew what he was wondering.

"it's not very often Dragaunus actually shows up to these fights. He usually lets his stooges do the work." Anna explained. Jason nodded, accepting that explanation.

"Annihilate him!" Mallory ordered.

"Wait! I admit defeat!" Dragaunus tried from his spot.

"What's he up to now?" Wildwing asked, crossing his arms.

"It's obvious I will never stop you. So, I'll make you an offer instead." He said, reaching into his robes. He pulled out a teleporter, setting it on the park bench beside him. "This teleporter is linked to my dimensional gateway generator. It's set for Puckworld. Use it! Return home, and leave the earth to me!" Dragaunus offered.

"All together now… it's gotta be a trap!" Nosedive said sarcastically. Wildwing activated the mask.

"He's on the level." He said after a second, "that thing's set for Puckworld."

"Let's do it, Wildwing. Please! Let's just go home!" Tanya begged.

"We'll vote on it. I say we stay." Wildwing said. "Grin?" he asked, turning his attention to the gentle giant.

"I'll have to meditate on the matter."

"I'll put you down as abstaining." He murmured, turning his attention to everyone else.

"Yeah this place is heinous, man. Let's get out of here." Dive said.

"No, we have to complete our mission!" Mallory insisted. "I say we stay."

"Hey, we've been away a year." Duke tried. Anna had to think about that. A year was a bit of a stretch, but she could understand why he stretched it out that much. It definitely felt like a year. "There could be other threats to Puckworld. We should be there to defend our home." Duke tried.

"Yes, but we're not done defending Earth… I say we stay." Anna tried.

"Maybe, but what exactly are we defending on earth? I have a little brother back on Puckworld. Who knows what's going on back home. I need to be there to defend my brother. I say we go home." Jess argued.

Jason hung back.

"Jason?" Wildwing asked.

"Hey, I've only been apart of this team for a couple of weeks. This is a big decision. I'm with the big guy… I am abstaining from this."

Wildwing sighed out, but obviously understood why Jason had made the decision he had.

"In that case… Tanya?" he grabbed the blonde's attention. "it's up to you."

"Oh well. Um, that's a lot of pressure I mean…. Okay, okay, I guess I'll vote for…" she never got her vote out as their attention was grabbed by the appearance of a rougher looking Phil holding a staff.

"It's a trap!" he exclaimed. "Grab onto this, if you want to live." He said, holding the staff out.

"Two movie references at once?" Anna asked under her breath with a raised eyebrow.

"Phil?" Mallory questioned. Everyone was obviously hesitating.

"Just do it!" Phil ordered. All at once, the ducks grabbed onto the staff and in an instant, the Migrator disappeared from the streets of Anaheim.

"Incredible!" Dragaunus exclaimed at the disappearance of the vehicle, "It appears someone else got rid of those meddling mallards for us."

"What if they turned you down?" Siege asked.

"The wraith would have blasted them to smithereens." He gestured to the other saurian, perched on top of the jewelry store with a bazooka.

"I never get to have any fun." The wraith murmured as the saurians disappeared from the scene in a flash of green light.

"Where are we?" Wildwing asked, looking out the windshield of the migrator. Buildings were toppled… the place looked deserted.

"Where do you think? Anaheim." Phil said.

"ten seconds ago, Anaheim did not look like a bomb hit it." Tanya said.

"Well it's not ten seconds ago. It's ten years from now." Phil crossed his arms, "you're in the future."

Nosedive leaned forward, a look of uncertainty on his face.

"Fellow ducks, we are seriously out of time."