"Are you sure Drake 1 said the gem is here?", Wildwing asked.

Canard , Nosedive, Duke and Mallory had gotten a reading on unnatural smoke billowing around the forest from Drake 1. Tanya and Grin stayed behind so Tanya keep a watch out and Grin to meditate( as he normally would).

"Tanya said it.", Canard said calmly, "And whenever something unnatural is going on, it's enchantium at it's peak. I can feel it around here too."

They had gotten to the forest edge when a thick cloud of smoke formed out of the ground.

"Ducks, looks like it found us!", Nosedive called out.

The smoke twisted in the air into the form of a huge skeleton with boney wings a swirling tornado from the waist down and a gray jewel embedded in it's forehead.

"Yep, that's enchantium alright.", Canard concluded, "I'd recognize Smoke enchantium anywhere since my first encounter back in Limbo."

Wildwing, Duke and Nosedive opened fire, but Canard paused. The pucks went right through it without any sign of injuring it or even getting it's attention.

"Physical attacks are useless.", Canard said as he avoided a ball of smoke that exploded when it touched the ground, "We need energy based attacks."

"Man, Grinster's Earth would come in handy here.", Nosedive complained as he jumped out of the smoke's hand as it swiped at him.

"That won't help, but I think I know what will.", Wildwing said as he got an idea, "Duke, I need you to get the gem."

"I'm on it.", Duke answered.

As Duke made a jump, Wildwing invoked his Fight spell and Duke was soon flying around the thing avoiding it's assaults until Duke got close and grabbed the gem. After a struggle, Duke managed to pry the gem free and the smoke got sucked into it. Duke was coming back down as the gray gem vanished and reappeared in a gold pendent that appeared around his neck.

"Looks like Duke can use smoke now.", Canard said smiling.

It was cut short a their coms went off.

"Hey guys, we got some kind of disruption downtown.", Tanya said over the coms, "Grin and I will head over and catch up with you there."

"We better get over there.", Wildwing said firmly as they headed to the Migrator.

Wildwing got into the driver's seat with Canard at his side and Canard noticed Wildwing looking a little tense.

"You okay bud?", he asked.

"Yeah.", Wildwing answered, "I just hope that whatever is going on downtown isn't something too risky for Grin and Tanya."

/

Charyus smiled devilishly as Chameleon, Siege and Wraith looked unsure.

"Why exactly are we at a closed fish market?", Chameleon asked, "We can't do much here."

"We can't.", Charyus said with a chuckle, "But I have someone from Dimensional Limbo who can change that."

"You're opening a portal to Dimensional Limbo?", Wraith asked impressed.

"I can only open certain kinds on my own.", Charyus answered, "And since we warped here, the duck's computer detection system will have detected us and when they come here, the trap will be sprung."

"Just make sure it doesn't assault us.", Siege said menacingly, "Or I'm going to have to get rough."

"Strong words from someone who doesn't consider who stands before him.", Charyus stated, "Now for the summoning."

Charyus started chanting a weird language and a pendent similar to the ducks' appeared around his with an opal gem and a poisonous green one. A strong wind picked up and sounds of crashing came from the docks. Waves of water started twisting on the surface as a tentacled hand slithered up onto the ground from beneath the water. The suarians watched as a kelp wrapped thing hoisted itself up out of the water alongside another one and they walked on crab legs. Charyus stopped chanting and watched the things come close with his smile shining.

"Gentlemen, meet the dwellers of the shallow seas of Typhos.", Charyus said with pride.

"What can they do?", Chameleon asked, "There's only two of them."

"You'll see.", Charyus said before turning to the dwellers who continued to come and called out, "Dwellers of Typhos, this planet has murdered their ocean life and poisoned their waters! Rise and flood the earth and all air breathers that dwell upon it shall feel your wrath!"

At that moment, a giant kelp coated dragon like creature burst from the waves and roared loudly.

"There you are my sea dwelling friend.", Charyus said calmly, "Have fun around here."

With that, the saurians warped away and the Dwellers started running amok. At the sound of some kind of plane, they retreated back into the waters and just below the surface, they waited.

/

The Migrator arrived about the same time as the Aerowing did. After the plane parked, the Migrator came into the haul and both teams got out to look around.

"We're looking around a closed fish market?", Nosedive asked, "What could be around here that caused the disturbance?"

"Drake 1 detected teleporting energy which hint that the saurians were here.", Wildwing said calmly, "But what were they doing here?"

"One must not rely on outward appearance.", Grin said sagely, "I feel a presence in the waters."

Canard tensed. It was too quiet around here. Something he learned from Dimensional Limbo: the more quiet somewhere was, the more danger was near.

"Spread out.", Wildwing said, "We'll cover more ground that way."

"No. Bad idea.", Canard answered, "Nobody goes anywhere alone."

Wildwing reconsidered his strategy.

"Duke, you and Grin search together, Mallory, you get Canard and Tanya, you're with Nosedive and me."

They all spread out in their respective pairs and soon were looking all over and then they heard a scream. It was certainly Mallory cause Canard called Wildwing on the com.

"We got trouble here.", Canard said a little antsy, "Mal was right behind me and then she just vanished. I'm coming back to the- hey!"

The transmission went dead and Wildwing got a little more worried.

"What was that?", he asked.

Nosedive was already shaking.

"Um big bro, do you think Charyus may have brought something from Dimensional Limbo?"

Wildwing raised an eyebrow.

"Why do you ask?"

Before Nosedive could answer, he was flung off his feet.

"Bro!"

Wildwing and Tanya managed to grab his wrists and held from being dragged off. They both noticed thick seaweed like plants wrapped around Nosedive's waist and something was on the other end and under the water just beyond the docks.

"What the heck is this?", Tanya asked.

"I don't know, but pull harder!", Nosedive screamed.

A large clump of seaweed burst from the water and Canard was seen clearly using Aura to hold off the tendrils. Duke came running with his saber out with about twenty strands following him.

"Why is this stuff doing this?", Wildwing asked, "It makes no sense."

Then the waters parted and two humanoid things rose up. The seaweed covering their faces parted to reveal black filthy rags over the eyes of killer shark heads. Canard groaned.

"Oh great, not the dwellers from Typhos again."

Duke had come over and chopped through the seaweed holding Nosedive, and it freed him causing Wildwing and Tanya to go flying into a nearby stack of crates. They didn't get hurt though cause the crates were covered with soft insulated material which cushioned the impact.

"Duke, we need some way to choke off the oxygen to these plants.", Tanya called out.

Duke nodded and invoked his gem's power. Thick clouds of smoke covered the area and the seaweed retreated into the depths along with the dwellers.

"I'm thinking..maybe that was a little too easy?", Duke guessed looking thoughtful.

"Yeah, where's Mal and Grin?", Nosedive asked.

As if to answer him, the waves erupted causing the smoke to clear out and the dwellers came back out atop some kind of seaweed dragon that made the ducks buckle.

"Of course they brought one of those.", Canard said rolling his eyes.

Before the ducks opened fire, they noticed Mallory and Grin bound and gagged to the behemoth and the dwellers looked Canard in the eye while babbling some kind of gibberish that it seemed only Canard can understand.

And then a crane nearby swung a huge crate that hit the thing the dwellers stood on which made them sway and caused the beast to loosen it's grip on it's captives and Mallory and Grin to go flying off. Wildwing instantly invoked his Flight spell.

"Tanya, Duke, can you get them?"

Without answering, Tanya and Duke took flight and got their comrades down as Nosedive and Canard noticed Klegghorn operating the crane.

"Well, what are you ducks waiting for?!", he called out, "Blast the thing already!"

That was all the ducks had to hear. After launching a barrage of pucks alongside Duke sending waves of smoke, the dwellers and their beast retreated back beneath the waves and the seaweed tendrils followed. Klegghorn came over looking both shocked and interested.

"Don't tell me that what I saw there wasn't from this so called Dimensional Limbo was it?", he asked.

Canard sighed.

"I'm afraid so. Those were dwellers of Typhos an aquatic environment I visited once. They can manipulate the water and all that live within it."

He looked out in the waters.

"I'm not sure we beat them, but I doubt they'll try to cause anymore trouble anytime soon."

"We better get back to the pond.", Wildwing concluded, "Thanks for the help Klegghorn."

The officer smiled.

"Glad to be of help. Keep up the good work ducks."

As the ducks got into the Aerowing and took off, Klegghorn got back into his car and was speeding off, but under the water, the two Dwellers each held out a small vase and the kelp that formed their dragon dissolved and was sucked into them. Then their heads merged into humanoid looking ones with fish fins on the sides of their faces with gills along their necks and flowing dark hair. The seaweed around their bodies faded to reveal muscular bodies and legs ending in large fan like fins though the tentacle fingers remained. One was a male cause he wore a seaweed like cloth around his waist that came to his knees and the other female cause she wore the same thing along with seashells covering her flowers( your mother will explain this)completely.

"Wow, that was lame.", the male said harshly as he put his vase on the belt at the top of his waist, "I can't believe those cursed ducks had the nerve to try and best our sea magic."

"Oh Poseidon, don't be so tense.", the girl said calmly as she placed her vase on her belt, "This was just to get the targets into a feeling of power. Though impersonating our followers was a little off our style, it did work in the final outcome."

Poseidon sighed.

"My dear sister Priscilla, you always know how to calm my tempest mood."

Priscilla blushed.

"We'll meet those ducks again and then they will feel the full might of the Typhos Twins!"

Poseidon pulled out a clear shard of glass and held it out. A small currant swirled around the glass and Charyus' face appeared.

"The ducks came as you said.", Priscilla reported.

"Excellent.", Charyus said, "You've done well my sea dwelling compatriots. I look forward to seeing the chaos you bring upon this world."

Charyus' face vanished and the Typhos Twins swam off into the open sea already plotting.

/

Dragaunus had been watching the whole thing and when the other saurians warped in, he was his usual questioning self.

"I trust our test run was successful?"

"All according to plan my lord.", Charyus said with pride, "The Typhos Twins should make things more invigorating for us as we search for enchantium and they keep the ducks off our backs."

"But how do we know they won't turn on us?", Chameleon asked.

Charyus' smile got bigger.

"They won't. Have you all forgotten they serve me? And we have a new enchantium in our arsenal."

He held out a ruby which ignited fire in his palm which quickly dispersed.

"So we got an enchantium that makes fire.", Siege said gruffly, "What good is that?"

"It always helps to have extra firepower.", Charyus said firmly, "Though I must say you have a keen eye when details are in order."

"You should see the tank we made that one time.", Chameleon said, "Too bad that large duck tricked Siege into firing the laser at our rear and blowing the tank to smithereens."

Charyus looked interested.

"You actually had an assault weapon?"

"We did once.", Wraith said glumly, "But I predicted that it would backfire on us."

"And it seems you were right.", Charyus stated, "A valiant effort, but we can't let that mistake happen again."

Dragaunus was clearly not in the mood for this.

"I don't care about what happened then.", he said harshly as his nostrils smoked, "I just want Charyus to locate more enchantium and get the ducks out of our way."

The other saurians decided to leave and Charyus bowed.

"It shall be done Dragaunus."

He placed the ruby he held into an eye socket of the skull at the top of his staff and it floated in place as if it was the skull's eyeball since it was small enough to slide in before walking out.

/

Back at the pond, the game was in the final minute and the Ducks had the puck.

"Well fans, this has been one glorious night! We got thirty seconds and the score is tied! If the ducks score this round, they win the game!"

Nosedive had the puck and was heading toward the opponent's goal when three of the opposing team tried to cut him off. He fired a shot and Canard got it.

"Man I miss this feeling.", Canard thought as he avoided getting slammed into the wall.

Canard passed the puck to Duke and they were at the final line when the crowd started counting down.

"Ten..nine..eight..seven.."

Duke passed the puck to Nosedive and Nosedive was in position.

"Five..four..three.."

Nosedive shot the puck and he scored just as the timer hit zero.

"And it's goal! The Ducks win the game! The ducks win the game!"

The ducks got together and crossed their hockey sticks in the air.

"Ducks rock!", they called out.

After the fans cleared out, Nosedive flopped on the couch getting cozy while Grin went off to meditate, Duke went off to read, Tanya was going over her blueprints with Mallory giving a hand, and Canard took some time to talk with Wildwing.

"You did good today.", he said smiling, "Keep this up, and we'll have the Stanley cup in no time."

Wildwing blushed as he removed the mask so Canard can see his eyes.

"Yeah, I did. Even if it took a long time to get the hang of it."

Canard saw Wildwing look at the mask with a haunting look and put a hand on his shoulder. He could tell that Wildwing still was haunted by Canard's sacrifice even though Canard had come back.

"Hey, I did what had to be done.", Canard said calmly, "You can't let the ghosts of your past have influence over your future."

"Did Grin say that?", Wildwing asked.

"No.", Canard said, "That one was something I learned."

Wildwing replaced the mask and felt better. Canard had a point and he wasn't going to let a bad memory hold him back.

"Hey Ducks!", Nosedive called from the couch, "Check this out!"

The ducks gathered at the television which was broadcasting the local news.

"The ducks victory tonight was certainly one for the books, but what about the strange happenings going on lately? Police Officer Klegghorn was recently seen at the scene helping the ducks fight off some kind of creature that doesn't appear to be of this world. Can this be a new alien or something more? More to come after the break."

The ducks were taken a little aback.

"Someone got footage of us fighting those Dwellers?", Mallory asked.

Canard looked calm. A call came in on the coms.

"Ducks? It's Klegghorn. Did you guys see the news?"

"We did.", Wildwing answered, "How did that footage get recorded?"

"I'm looking into the matter.", Klegghorn replied, "I'll go through the video surveillance of the area and see if I can find some explanation to what went on there to give the press."

"Thanks Klegghorn.", Wildwing said as Klegghorn hung up and he turned to the team, "Nothing to worry about. Klegghorn's on the case."

The ducks sighed one of relief. It did feel nice to have Klegghorn around to handle the police side of things without accusing them like he used to.