Phil got down to the latest batch of calling gigs while the ducks practiced in the rink below.
"Let's see here there has to be something worth a big payout somewhere."
At that moment his phone rang.
"Hello?", he asked when he picked up.
"Hi, is this Mr. Palmfeather of Anaheim Pond?", came the voice on the other end.
"Speaking.", Phil answered.
"Well on behalf of myself I'd like to say congratulations ans you just won ten million dollars!"
Phil's eyes went wide.
"T-ten...ten millions dollars?!", he asked in shock.
"Please come by the address we're faxing to you now."
Phil saw a fax come in and quickly grabbed it.
"Be there at midnight and we'll deliver to you then. Have a nice day."
The other end hung up, but Phil was just sitting there with his mouth open in shock. When Klegghorn came in and saw Phil's expression, he came over looking both concerned and curious.
"Hey Phil, what's got you so in awe today?", he asked.
Phil tried talking, but Klegghorn smacked him.
"Thanks.", said Phil, "I just got a call from someone saying I won ten million bucks! Can you imagine what-"
"Did you ask who it was?", Klegghorn asked raising an eyebrow.
Phil's expression dissolved into one of curiosity and deep thought.
"Well, no."
Klegghorn smacked himself in the head.
"Geez Phil, you can't just accept a random phone call out of the blue. I had a couple cases like this back on the force and it wasn't pretty."
Phil took out the fax he got and Klegghorn snatched it off his fingers and read it.
"The waterfront and warehouse thirty two at midnight eh? Sounds like we got ourselves a case and you and I are going to investigate without the other ducks knowing."
Phil didn't look on board.
"Um Klegghorn, I really don't think that-"
"Don't think Palmfeather.", snapped Klegghorn, "You're not chickening out of this."
/
Drace chuckled as he slid into the alley before making contact with his communicator.
"He took our bait.", he said with a smile.
"Excellent.", Cerebellum answered, "Hector and Sworg are getting reinforcements from nearby farms and soon you'll have an army that will be the end of all the human race."
"Not to mention those ducks that interfered.", Drace added, "I look forward to cleaving their heads with my ax."
At that moment, a beam of light came over Drace and he looked up to see the new ship that his fellow cluckzerkers built and was lifted up towards it. The bottom made a hole that he floated into and closed when he was in.
"Nice to see Cerebellum was able to rebuild our ship and make modifications to it.", he stated as he got out of the light and to his chair.
Hector was at the controls while Sworg was at the mapping station.
"Our targets are set to be evolved.", he reported proudly.
Hector started up the engines and the ship floated over to a nearby farm where large warehouses were and Sworg did a scan.
"I'm picking up thousands of our dimwitted brethren inside those walls.", Sworg reported.
Drace's expression hardened.
"Arm the evolution beam!"
Hector pressed a sequence into the dashboard and the ship slid out of stealth mode and opened it's front to reveal a beam that aimed right at the warehouse and fired. The beam went right through the roof and the sound of loud clucking and groaning came from inside the walls. The trio watched with glee as the walls of the warehouse shook and then blew apart to reveal more of them only they wore gray pants and they flooded out of the warehouse tearing apart everything in sight.
"I trust the testing was a success?", Cerebellum asked when he called in.
"Smooth as silk.", Drace reported, "And what if the ducks catch up to us?"
Cerebellum smiled.
"Don't worry. I have a special device I've saved just for them."
/
"Why are we going to fight these space chickens again?", Duke asked.
"Yeah didn't we beat them in our last episode?", Nosedive asked(breaking the fourth wall as usual).
"Doesn't matter.", Wildwing answered, "We have to take out their ship and reverse their evolution beam before the whole countryside is full of those rampaging things."
The Aerowing was parting the clouds, but then a beam came out and hit the Aerowing's side causing it to go into a dive.
"Hold on!", Nosedive called out as he whipped up Create, "One repair job coming up!"
A quick scribble later, and the Aerowing got back in the air before it hit the ground, but by then Duke and Canard had gotten to the gliders and were prepared to take flight.
"I've got the ship on radar.", Tanya reported, "It's just off our left side."
"Copy that.", Canard answered, "Duke and I will see if we can knock that thing out of the air."
They opened the hatch and they flew off as the cluckzerker ship came out of hiding and opened fire.
"I sense severe hostility coming from our enemy both here and below.", Grin said sagely.
"Grin, can you and Tanya get those chickens below to stay still?", Wildwing asked.
Grin nodded and invoked Freeze cementing many of the cluckzerkers below while Tanya used Nature to spring up many large vines that helped out. By now, Canard and Duke made it to the ship and they had cut a hole in the side and slipped in. A few minutes later, there came the sound of battle and the evolution beam came out and with a small bang got dislocated from the ship. Morpha reacted quick by slipping outside and using several tendrils to grab on to the beam and keep it from falling as Canard and Duke came back out and glided back to the Aerowing while helping Morpha pull in the beam.
"Hit the gas!", Duke called out.
Wildwing did and the cluckzerker ship exploded the moment they got a good distance away.
"Well, that takes care of that.", Nosedive said pleasantly.
Mallory frowned.
"In case you haven't wondered, we got about a thousand rampaging chicken dinners down there and a beam we have no idea how to use."
Canard raised an eyebrow.
"Mallory, I think you forgot which one of us has spent a year and a half in Dimensional Limbo.", he said smiling.
Wildwing looked surprised.
"You know how to work it?", he asked.
Canard's smile didn't fade as he got to the hatch and aimed the beam below.
"Nosedive, can you whip up a prism for me?", he asked.
Nosedive smiled back and whipped out Create again.
"One prism focus coming right up."
/
Phil and Klegghorn had made it to the waterfront and Klegghorn was more than a bit concerned.
"Okay, we're at the destination. The culprit should make his way right about-"
He was cut off cause three giant beetle robots came out of the water and surrounded them. Klegghorn looked thrilled.
"Alright, I finally get to use my new puck blaster."
Obviously Klegghorn was on board with fighting, but Phil wasn't. One beetle opened it's mouth and fired a missile that exploded a few feet from them and let out a cloud of dark green gas that made them slump and grip their sides in pain.
"Oh geez this hurts.", Phil groaned.
"I see you met my new invention."
The two turned to see Cerebellum nearby on another beetle robot but looking concerned.
"Hey, you're not my targets.", he said, "No matter, all the more reason to test my new gas made from ducktonite I learned so much about."
Phil and Klegghorn had now completely on the ground feeling their life slipping away, but then out of nowhere a grappling hook fired around one of the beetles making it fall over.
"Alright who's out there?", Cerebellum asked.
Thrash and Mookie jumped out and while Thrash whipped out his nunchaku, Mookie had her grappling hook retracted and her saber out. Cerebellum checked a notepad.
"Hmm, back up ducks attack not on the schedule, but all the more reason to test it."
Thrash and Mookie noticed Phil and Klegghorn, but the beetles weren't making it easy. They saw the gas and recognized it immediately.
"Hey where'd you get that gas crazy dude?", Thrash asked while he hit a beetle's head with his nunchaku.
"Oh this?", Cerebellum asked while working his panel, "Just a little gift from the saurians before Charyus sent me to Limbo. I believe you called it ducktonite?"
"Alvin's invention?", Mookie asked in shock while she cleaved a beetle's legs apart.
At the sound of this, Klegghorn looked more energized already and used his last bit of strength to fire his puck blaster to hook around Cerebellum's beetle and pull Phil and himself out of the gas cloud. The moment they were out, they looked better already.
"Okay Professor Quack, you're under arrest in the name of the law!", Klegghorn said firmly.
Cerebellum frowned.
"Time to move to plan B.", he muttered as he pressed a sequence in.
The beetle robots and their broken off parts flew towards his and became a larger version of it with a cannon in it's mouth out. Cerebellum looked out the dome and cackled
"Now you meddlesome pests, prepare to meet your-"
He was cut off cause Thrash(who somehow had gotten inside that thing) came up from behind and whacked the penguin aside and pulled a lever.
Cerebellum's frown darkened.
"Note to self: double check if enemy has gotten inside invention before gloating.", he muttered before he pressed a button on his wrist.
Dr. Droid in his little helicopter body flew out and used several metal cables to lift Cerebellum out of a hole in the ceiling as the beetle started to sputter and spark wildly. Luckily Thrash got out and landed in the water followed by the other three before the thing blew up. After they resurfaced, they got back on the docks.
"Everyone okay?",Klegghorn asked.
Phil just fainted.
/
Back at the Pond, the Aerowing docked and the ducks got into base.
"Well that went well.", Duke said calmly.
Canard carried the evolution beam and placed it on a table.
"Think Tanya can disassemble this thing and see how it works?", he asked.
Tanya smiled.
"Hey, it's my specialty."
Morpha was in it's dog form again and looked up at them with a curios expression.
"What's with you?", Nosedive asked.
Morpha shifted into a version of Thrash, then one of Mookie, then of Phil followed by Klegghorn and then a question mark before shifting back into itself again.
"Looks like our dog is worried about our fellow ducks.", Mallory said.
"Morpha clearly shows concern for our comrades well being.", Grin said sagely, "It's inner peace reaches my own."
At that moment, the elevator dinged and the ducks turned to see the other four come out only Thrash and Mookie were ducks and Phil and Klegghorn were back in human form again.
"What happened to you?", Wildwing asked.
"It's along story.", Thrash said showing concern.
Wildwing raised an eyebrow.
"We're listening."
Klegghorn came forward and took a breath.
"Okay, Professor Cerebellum showed up and had some ducktonite gas he was planning on using on you, but Phil got a phone call from him which would get you to come to the waterfront. But I got Phil to go investigate, but then he used that gas on us. Thrash and Mookie here showed up before he did me and Phil in and we took him out, but then there came a light and next thing we know, Phil and I were human and Thrash and Mookie were the same."
Canard looked thoughtful.
"Hmm sounds like a Change crystal was involved."
Nosedive looked thoughtful.
"You mean like that one crystal that made us human back in our last season?", he asked(breaking the fourth wall as usual).
"That would appear to be the case.", Duke said.
Wildwing looked determined.
"We have to get over there and use it to change Phil and Klegghorn back."
Phil looked nervous.
"Um..Wildwing, I...I was kind of-"
"Can it Phil!", Klegghorn snapped, "You and I are getting our feathers back whether you like it or not!"
/
The Migrator pulled up to the waterfront where the fight with Cerebellum took place. Wildwing, Nosedive, Morpha and Canard went with Phil and Klegghorn while the rest stayed behind.
"Is this the right place?", Wildwing asked.
Canard nodded.
"I certainly feel enchantium acting up around here."
A bit later, the Migrator got zapped and turned into rubber before changing into cement and then to normal before parking.
"Yep, it's close."
Klegghorn pointed to a ledge.
"It came from up there, but we won't get near it without getting zapped and turned into who knows what."
Phil was heading to the wheel.
"Well that's too bad I guess we go home then."
"We're not leaving that magic around to cause trouble.", Wildwing said firmly, "And since you seem to be so eager to leave Phil, how do you feel about getting it?"
The others smiled, but Phil went pale.
"Me?!", he asked in shock.
"Perfect Phil.", Canard said pleasantly, "Thank you for volunteering."
Phil's eyes went wide and he fell to the ground sobbing.
"But I don't wanna die!"
The ducks and Klegghorn taking no notice just pushed him out the door.
"Oh come on guys, can't we talk this out?", he asked obviously trying to get out of it.
"Just get the gem.", Nosedive said calmly, "We're right behind you."
Phil didn't look the least bit assured.
"Did I mention I chicken out at the last second?"
"The sooner you get that gem, the sooner we leave.", Wildwing said calmly.
Phil looked up at the ledge and gulped.
"The things I do to get a payout.", he groaned as he started forward.
/
Okay, here is where it gets interesting. The gem started sparking and sent out large bolts of energy at Phil who clearly freaked out and tried avoiding them, but failing. His arm got zapped and turned into a whip, his leg turned to jelly, and by the time he got to the ledge, his face was a turkey with eyes.
"This better be worth it.", he muttered.
He touched the gem and he turned back to normal and it didn't spark any more when he carried it down and to the Migrator.
"Nice job Phil.", Klegghorn said, "We should do this more often."
Phil then looked mad.
"Hey, while you were here in this safe house, I was out there getting changed into some freakish sideshow just so that I can get this thing and say, 'Make me and Klegghorn ducks again'."
The gem then flashed brightly and then when it faded, Klegghorn and Phil were ducks again and the gem was gone. Phil smacked himself in the head.
"Me and my big mouth."
Wildwing smiled as he turned the Migrator back to the Pond.
"Nice to have you back Phil."
Phil then lost it.
"Hey, I was planning to just smash that thing and be normal, but I had to say that me and Klegghorn be made ducks again. I could've said that I would be the best looking person around California, but you guys got me worked up about changing back to having feathers and a beak."
The other ducks and Morpha ignored Phil as he continued to rant and the Migrator sped off towards the Pond.