Misfit Chapter 25: "The Recruit"
"I think you have something you'd like to tell us." May scowled, looking over at Huey. The girls had shoved Huey into his room and locked the door for privacy.
"Look, I don't know what you mean."
"Oh, I think you know VERY well what we mean." June narrowed her eyes, gesturing at the drawer.
Huey sighed, "Fine. What do you want to know?"
"Why didn't you tell us Louie had split personality disorder?" April asked him.
"I just…I just didn't, okay?!"
"Why?!" The three girls exclaimed at once.
"Well….it's just…you've worked so hard to try and uncover all these clues…what if you gave up when you found out that the person you're looking for had a medical disorder?"
"But this is important!" June insisted, "The villains are going to use Louie's bad side to…to…I dunno! Do something terrible probably!"
"We don't even know what they're going to do!" Huey knocked over a glass of milk on the nightstand. The milk spilled all over the floor.
"Ugh!" He bent down to clean it, "Wait? What's this?!" Huey saw that the milk had seeped through the cracks in the wood, "It's a secret compartment!" He opened it up, revealing a little chest.
"What's in here?" April wondered.
"I don't know, but to get in here, we'll need a key." Huey curled his beak.
June's phone buzzed, "What the heck?" She picked it up, "Oh, just a stupid add."
"Mark Beaks here! Get your shape-shifting key at Waddle! It's high tech, snazzy-looking, and absolutely Beaks-tacular!"
"That guy knows how to make a-May-zing puns." May grinned, and June shushed her.
"They're only 2 million dollars! Get them while ya can! Sale's done by sundown! Pew, pew, pew, pew! Beaks out!"
"2 million dollars?! Where are we going to find 2 million dollars?" Huey questioned.
June smirked, "We live with a billionaire…."
Huey face-palmed, "Oh, no."
June pumped a fist in the air. "To the scheme board!" She pulled Huey and her sisters out of the room and into hers, where a big board was waiting for them, like a fresh canvas ready to be painted on, except this board was waiting to be filled up with ideas.
June took out fat Expo marker, "Okay, here's the plan: We're going to go with Scrooge to his office. While we're in his room with the board of directors listening to business stuff, Huey will distract Scrooge and those buzzards so we can sneak away. Once out, we'll sneak into the money bin and get the money. Any questions, peeps?"
Huey, May, and April all raised their hands.
June ignored them, "Great, let's go!"
"We can't just go in there and not have any equipment to transport the money out of there without raising suspicions." April crossed her arms.
June sighed, "Okay, fine. I guess you're right."
"What do we do then?" May asked, adjusting her orange sweatband/headband.
"I don't know…we need technological equipment…." April snapped her fingers, "That's it! What about we recruit Gyro Gearloose?"
"Recruit him? Knowing that stubborn sack of feathers, he won't do something unless he is given a clear explanation why. We would have to tell him about our plans, and that wouldn't work. He would tell Scrooge." June pushed her hair out of her face.
"Do we have another choice? The sale ends by sundown. This may be our last chance!" Huey hissed.
"Ugh, alright, we'll recruit Gyro." June huffed.
- At Gyro's Lab-
"So, let me get this straight. You want my help so you can find the green triplet?" Gyro asked the four kids standing in front of him.
"Pretty much, or is that too complicated for your tiny brain to handle." June, who was helping herself to some Pep on the chair next to him, teased.
Gyro narrowed his eyes, "Shouldn't you ask Scrooge for help first? If something happens to you, you know he'd never forgive himself. I'm telling him."
"Wonder how Scrooge would react if he figured out that you're spending way too much money on Operation Gyrobotapocalypse." June snickered, "Oh, and about those dirty memes about you on the internet that are currently going viral…"
Gyro hissed, "FINE! But I'm only helping you do this because that boy was the only one that respected my invention." Gyro motioned to Lil Bulb, who saluted.
"Looks like we missed out on a lot, eh?" May elbowed June.
"Let's cut to the chase. Do you have anything that could help us transport the money we're stealing from the bin to here?" June asked.
"Stealing money? I'm not helping you steal-"
"We'll give you some of it." June gave a naughty smirk.
"Keep talking…ma'am."
"We're going to steal the money to buy a shape-shifting key that can fit into any lock." June hesitated, wondering if she should tell Gyro that it was invented by his archrival, then decided not to for obvious reasons, "We're trying to open a chest that we found. It might have something to do with Louie."
"To transport your money, you'll need this." He handed the girl a small, circular object.
"Seriously? LAME!" May crossed her arms.
Gyro held another one in his hand, "Observe." He put a banana on the device, and the banana disappeared, reappearing on the circle June was holding.
May peeled open the banana and took a bite, "Not bad. I meant the invention and banana."
Gyro and everyone else in the room rolled their eyes.
- At The Money Bin-
"And stocks are down 40% in St. Canard." One of the members of the board of directors noted.
"Uggggggggghhhhhhhh this is so boring!" June whispered to May, trying hard not to fall asleep.
"Where are those to nerds when you need them?!" May hissed, rubbing her eyes.
- In The Other Room-
April paced around the room, "Okay, you got those pies ready."
"Yep." Huey gestured over to the pies in the crate behind him, "Great, let's go!" She grabbed the crate, and two ducklings rushed into the room, "Here are those pies you wanted, Uncle Scrooge."
"Pies? I dinnae want any pies!" Scrooge scratched his head, confused.
"Again with spending money on useless junk." One of the vultures scowled.
"Ye penny-pinching buzzards! Of course I spend money on completely useful stuff! I'm Scrooge McDuck! I don't spend one penny more than I need to!"
"Then how about that velvet pillow for the fake Number One Dime? Yes, we know it's fake."
"Grrrrrrrrrrr!"
"Uncle Scrooge, buzzards, there's a perfectly sane way to sort this out, obviously…." Huey started rambling, and the girl triplets snuck out.
"Okay, now for the big heist…" The three ducklings made their way over to the Money Bin.
"Sooooo…..do we just dive inside or, WAAAAA!" June pushed April off the edge of the diving board in the Money Bin.
"Let Eggplant go in first so we can see if she dies or not. If she doesn't, it's safe." June turned to May, snickering.
"Thanks a lot, June." April said sarcastically.
June jumped in, and May jumped a few seconds later.
April grabbed two sack of gold coins, "Okay, this should be about 2 million-ish, where's the circular teleportation device?"
"I got the doohickey right here." June said, pulling out the device. She placed it on the floor, and April put the sacks on top of it. In an instant they disappeared.
"Let's go!" June told them, "Huey can't stall Scrooge for that long." Suddenly, two sacks of something reappeared in front of the kids. There was a note on one of them:
Two bags of realistic fake coins the same weight as the ones you sent me.
-Gyro
"Wow, he's smart." April blinked.
"Let's get out of here before we're caught by Scrooge!" The kids rushed out of the Money Bin.
- Later, At Waddle-
"Two million dollars for a Waddle key, please." Huey pushed the money in front of Mark Beaks.
"Uh, you again." Beaks rolled his eyes at the red duck. He obviously didn't like him much after everything that had happened with Gizmoduck and internship. He handed the kids a fancy black box, "It's in here." He took his money while the kids opened the box, revealing a small golden key with the Waddle logo.
"Does this thing really open any lock?" April questioned.
"Sure does!" Beaks grabbed the key and took out two different locks with different keyholes. Both of them opened when he tried opening them with the key. He tossed it back to Huey, who caught it and placed it back in the box, "Thanks."
"Wait…out of curiosity, what are you going to use it for? You know, to open?" Mark Beaks asked.
May shrugged, "Just an old chest."
The grey parrot curled his beak, "A chest, you say? What kind of chest?"
"Some old chest we found in McDuck manor. Under a block of wood."
Beaks' eyes widened, "Oh really?"
"Yeah, well, um, we should get going." June laughed nervously.
"You're not going anywhere."
I got the idea for the teleportation thing from Star Trek. I like Star Trek Voyager and most/some of the episodes of Star Trek Discovery, although Star Trek Enterprise is my favorite. Captain Archer is my favorite captain, and he has an adorable pet beagle named Porthos! Captain Janeway's my second favorite.
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