Approximately 3+ hours earlier...
Dewey walks into his and his brothers' room, still shaken from his encounter with Webby.
"Hey bro. Uh, you alright? You look like you've seen a ghost..." Huey asks.
"More like I saw my life flash before my eyes."
"What? How?"
"Webby nearly killed me..."
"What!? Why?!"
"I... I don't know... I walked into her room and, well, she grabbed me and held a knife to my neck. Though, she said she was expecting someone else..."
"What? Who?"
"I... I don't know. She never said. Y'know, she actually had a bag packed when I came in now that I think about it. It looked like she was going somewhere..." Dewey says.
"Where could she possibly go? Not like she told us or anything." Louie suggests, drinking some Pep.
"Unless, she doesn't want any of us to know..." Huey reasons.
"Where could she possibly go where she wouldn't tell anyone?" Louie asks.
Then it hits the boys like a freight train, eyes going wide. "The Toppats!"
"She must be sneaking out to that megaship to try and act against them! She could be in danger!" Huey says.
"I can't believe it... She snuck out of the house to infiltrate a dangerous criminal organization's floating base against Scrooge's orders... AND SHE DIDN'T INVITE ME!" Dewey says.
"We have to go help her! But how? If we tell Uncle Scrooge, we'll be force to stay here." Huey says, thinking. He then has an epiphany. "The kayak! We could take that!"
"Won't they see us?" Louie reasons.
"Even if they can, what'll they do against a kayak? Plus, we could approach with it upside down, right?" Dewey says.
"Come on, let's go!" Huey says as they pack up and sneak out, heading to get their kayak.
Much rowing later...
"Ooh... Oh boy... That was a long ways..." Louie pants as they approach in the inverted kayak. Sure enough, the ship suspects nothing. They float into the stern dock, and once it is clear, they sneak onto the ship.
"Alright. We're in. Now to find Webby..." Huey says quietly.
"Yeah, but where could she be? This place is huge!" Dewey says.
"Probably stealing documents. Deck ten, midship, starboard side." Louie says, his brothers looking at him like 'how did you know that'. "I snuck on here with Goldie a couple of weeks ago after they stole from Glomgold so we could steal from them."
"That raises more questions than it answers..."
"Webby could be in danger right now and you are questioning my choices. Can we save the twenty questions for when we get home?!" Louie points out.
The other two agree, and they all sneak through the ship. They work up to deck ten, and move towards midship on the starboard side. However, as they make their way there, they see someone coming, so they rush into a storeroom, closing the door behind them. They sigh, but then, they realize they are not alone, as they hear a muffled voice.
"Bhys?" The hear come from the middle of the room, and turn around to see their mom, Webby, and Violet, tied up.
"Mom!? Webby!? Violet!?" They rush to them to untie them.
"Guys!? H-how did you find us?!" Webby asks as her gag is removed by Louie.
"We were looking for you Webby. But what are mom and Violet doing here?" Huey asks as he unties Violet.
"Well, I kinda tagged along after I caught her sneaking out..." Della admits as Dewey unties her.
"And Webbigail invited Lena and I to come along..." Violet says.
"Hey, speaking of which, where is Lena?" Louie asks, the girls faces turning somber. "W-webs?"
"S-she... Lena is... Dead..." Webby says, starting to get teary eyed.
The boys are shocked.
"What!? What happened?!" Huey inquires, working on the expert knots.
"She saved Webbigail and I from being blown up. She pushed us out of the way, and created a shield in time, but was pushed off the vessel into the water..." Violet explains, about to cry. "We didn't see her when we looked..."
"When I get my hands on these guys, I swear, I'll kill every last one of them!" Della says.
"Jeez! Who tied you guys up!? I can barely get these knots off!" Dewey complains, and accidentally tightens one, his mom feeling it.
"Ow!"
"Mom! I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to-"
"It's alright sweetie, I know it was an accident..."
"I can't get the knots undone! Webby, you have your dagger?" Huey asks.
"Yeah, it's in my skirt." As she holds a hip out to the side.
The guys look with a look of 'sorry we have to grab where', blushing, none wanting to have to reach into a girl's skirt. Especially not one they consider a sister.
"Not it!" Huey shouts.
"Not it!" Dewey shouts.
That leaves Louie, who is none-too-thrilled... "Guh, the things I have to do in this family." He takes a deep breath, closes his eyes and turns his head, and reaches into the waistband of it, finds it in the sheathe, and quickly takes it out, passes it to Huey. "Next time, Dewey does it! He's the adventurous one!"
"That doesn't mean I want to touch a girl there! Especially not Webby!" Dewey defends, finding the idea, well, a bit disturbing and creepy.
Huey sighs as he starts to cut the girls free. "Just hang on, I'll have you free in a bit..." Then, the door opens. "Crap..."
In the doorway, is the rpg Toppat, with a few others, who is not happy that there are three more people he has to deal with. "For the love of..." He aims his shotgun at them. "I wanted to do this the clean way, but look like I'll have to take time cleaning up this damned mess!" He says agitated.
"Don't you dare hurt my kids!" As Della puts herself in front of the five children.
"I'll just kill you first then your kids." As he starts to pull the trigger. "Say goodbye you worthless-"
BOOM
The a cloud of dust and debris engulf them as an explosion rocks the room. The rpg Toppat is knocked back, confused. Everyone looks at the side of the ship, the wall to the outside now having a massive hole in it. The McDucks' eyes go wide at what they see, as floating in the middle of the hole, emitting a light blue glow, is Lena, in super sorceress form.
"Lena!" The kids yell in surprise and relief, glad she is alive and well.
Lena looks at the Toppats, eyes glowing pure blue, a look of hatred on her face. "Get away from my friends!" As she launches a powerful energy ball at them, the Toppats barely dodging. They'd fucked up.
On the bridge...
"What on earth was that!?" Boone asks as the explosion shakes the ship, audible throughout.
"Sounds like an explosion in the empty storeroom. Aft-mid, starboard side, Deck ten." The security ops reports.
"What caused it!?"
"No clue. Wait, we have gotten a massive spike of magic detected in that locale!" As more, smaller blasts come from that area.
Boone's eye twitches. "Magic? Did you just say, magic?"
Everyone on the bridge gets scared. They know what that means, as they see the Captain leaves the bridge, calling his right hand and the four other primary leaders. Someone was going to be brutally murdered by the captain, because magic had been brought on the ship.
The Toppats fire at Lena, who blocks them with a magic shield, and beats the crap out of the Toppats. The boys free Webby, their mom, and Violet, then watch the battle, ducking, and cheering Lena on. More and more Toppats flood in, only to be put out of action by a blast to the chest, head, or elsewhere. Soon, the battle prepares to further destroy this section of the ship, just in an effort of the two sides to destroy each other. Then, an interruption.
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF EVERY DEITY IS GOING ON!?" Is heard coming from the side, all looking to see, standing in the doorway, armed, is Henry, Ellie, Reginald, RHM, Cross, and Boone, the last of which is pissed off. The other Toppats gulp. They know the captain is unhappy. More so than his expression would suggest.
Lena looks at him and can tell he is a leader. "You the guys in charge around here?"
"Are you the one responsible for turning this section of the ship into swiss cheese?" He asks, seeing the McDucks and the rpg Toppat.
"What if I am?" Lena asks sarcastically as Boone glowers at the sight, dropping his rifle, and pulling out an absolutely massive, silvery-looking revolver from a waist cross-draw holster. Lena readies for a fight.
Boone approaches, gun aimed up in one hand. He cocks the hammer, reaches and grabs... The rpg Toppat by the throat, slamming him into the wall, to the surprise of the McDucks.
"Wait what?" Louie asks as the scene unfolds.
"You..." As Boone chokes the rpg Toppat, pistol held at his side now.
"S-sir, please, I-I can explain!" He begs choking.
"You fucking bastard... You hold civilian intruders, including children, instead of releasing them right after capture. You plan to kill them against the code. But worst of all, you piss off a magic user and unleash her wrath... Upon MY SHIP!" He booms.
This was... Odd. He was mad at one of his own men for causing Lena to do this? Not at Lena who actually caused it? What was going on?
He turns to the McDucks. "Leave... Now... The kids shouldn't see this..."
"Uh, r-right... Okay kids let's, uh, get out of here..." Della says as she drags the kids along, getting the message. The last thing they see is Boone hitting the rpg Toppat across the head with the pistol, the Toppat crumpling to the ground before being dragged off, the captain holstering his pistol.
Lena uses her magic to fly them all back to the manor, everyone now just confused by this. They never got the intel they were after, but do realize that there may be more to this clan than they first thought. What that meant, though, was up for debate.