"Remind me why we're letting Phil talk us into attending a cooking shoot at the performing arts center again?", Canard asked clearly uncomfortable.

Duke sighed.

"I don't know. Something about charity being the cause?"

Mallory rolled her eyes.

"Only a complete moron would think this is fun."

"Someone like him?", Canard asked.

Nosedive was already at a stand where pancakes were being flipped obviously indulging it.

"I can't wait to start cooking!"

"Need I remind you that the last time you cooked you set the stove on fire?", Mallory asked him.

Nosedive looked a little hurt.

"Hey, I've been practicing."

Duke raised an eyebrow.

"When?"

Before Nosedive could come up with something, Phil came over with a bunch of chefs and clearly overeager to get the photo shoots going.

"Okay boobies, remember, you need to look like upcoming amateurs learning from the best."

"Um, Nosedive is a long way from amateur Phil.", Canard said rolling his eyes though he doubted Phil was listening.

After getting paired, the chefs started lecturing while the photographers started shooting. Canard could see Nosedive was overeager, but luckily with a chef beside him he couldn't possibly get it wrong. Before it could go on much longer, Wildwing came through the doors.

"We got an issue."

"The world's in danger?", Canard asked relieved that he didn't have to wear that ridiculous chef hat and apron.

Wildwing nodded as the others shifted into battle gear.

"Charyus is onto something, and we got to cut him off at the pass."

/

Charyus and Wraith observed as Siege tore a wall of an abandoned building apart.

"Try and be careful if you please.", Charyus said firmly, "This enchantium will not be indestructible."

Siege rolled his eyes. He didn't like this new guy giving orders even though he was a good wizard and worthy ally.

"Just be sure you know where we're looking for it.", he grumbled, "If this one is anywhere close to as dangerous as the others you found-"

"Oh you worry too much.", Wraith stated cutting Siege off, "Charyus, if I may invoke the dark power our saurian ancestors use, I believe we'll have less to worry about."

Charyus grinned.

"I agree."

Siege stood aside even though he was ready to object. Wraith placed his hand outward and the wall slowly gave away like an invisible door was opening. A dark gray gem lay inside the wall and Charyus approached it. The sound of the Migrator caught his ears and he froze.

"Well?", Siege asked impatiently, "Aren't you going to get it?"

Charyus' smile widened.

"No. I have a better use for it and to get our issue off our scales."

Charyus chanted something ancient sounding and a dark mist flowed from his hand and into the gem that lay before him. When it was done, Charyus backed up.

"Let's go."

Siege was beside himself.

"We're just going to let them take it?!", he snorted, "After we went so far to-"

Charyus waved his hand and Siege froze up.

"Finally.", Wraith said in his usual tone, "I'd thought he'd never pipe down."

Charyus waved his staff and the saurians warped away leaving the gem behind just as the Migrator showed up. The ducks filed out and looked around the area. Canard noticed the gray gem and pointed it out.

"I think I found what Charyus was looking for."

Duke came forward and retrieved the gem before returning to the other ducks.

"So what's the magic this time?", Nosedive asked.

"We'll know when we get back to the Pond.", Wildwing decided.

From inside the Raptor, Dragaunus watched the ducks take the gem away and smiled Charyus' way.

"Everything is going as we planned it would.", Charyus said calmly.

"Indeed.", Dragaunus agreed.

/

Back at the Pond, Duke examined the gem he had collected while Canard ran an aura check over it.

"Anything?", Wildwing asked.

"It's definitely enchantium.", Canard confirmed, "But I'm not sure what exactly."

Just then, the gem lit up and shifted into a hand mirror with the gem at the top of the handle where it met the glass.

"It's a...mirror.", Wildwing said as he noticed it's new form.

Canard's eyes narrowed.

"Yes, but what does this mirror do?"

As if to answer him, the glass started glowing when Duke looked into it and then it dimmed and went back to normal.

"We better keep this in the safe.", Wildwing said, "Until we know what the mirror did."

The other ducks had already hit the hay so Wildwing led Canard and Duke to the safe and after punching in the code, Duke placed the mirror inside and the safe closed itself. They headed off to bed unaware that the mirror was glowing again. The following morning, Nosedive was watching the tube while the other ducks were doing their own thing until a news bulletin came up.

"Early this morning, a string of robberies has occurred and the officials claim that whoever did it ken what they were doing. Officer Klegghorn of the Anaheim police force had this comment to make."

Klegghorn came up and standing in front of a crime scene looking both concerned and pretty mad.

"We'll find out who did this and put that criminal to justice."

The ducks were taken aback. Duke was seeing the scene and looked especially concerned.

"This is no mere criminal."

Mallory looked his way.

"I'd say it's your work."

"He was here with us the whole night.", Canard objected, "If he left last night, I would've felt his aura leave, except I didn't."

"So what now?", Nosedive asked, "We go looking for this crook and get answers?"

Duke raised an eyebrow.

"Hey, what happened when the mirror glowed last night?"

Tanya brought up last nights surveillance footage and outside the safe, a glowing form shaped. The ducks watched as the thing shifted into Duke's likeness with the gem on it's chest and ran off. Mallory looked Duke's way.

"Sorry bout casting doubt on you.", she said to him.

Duke shrugged.

"Let's just get this spell."

Klegghorn was beside himself.

"First an unknown crook breaks in and steals mere trinkets and now I've got a mole on last month's strange encounters."

He looked through the files on his desk.

/

"The dweller incident, the mammoth shark attack, and the centipede attack all got recorded by the same guy who was around the area.", he muttered, "And there's only one person who could get that kind of footage: Reporter Finn Husky."

He pulled out a photo of a male in his late twenties with brown hair and green eyes.

"I'll head over to his place after this is all cleared up."

A while later he was driving around when he noticed the store nearby was broken into.

"All units, this is Captain Klegghorn.', he radioed his fellow officers, "Suspect is at 734 Arrow Drive. I'm going in for closer look."

Klegghorn parked his car only to have the Migrator turn a corner and park next to it. As the ducks filed out, Klegghorn met up with them.

"Let me guess. It's another enchantium?", he guessed.

"Afraid so.", Wildwing answered, "It looks like Duke, but it isn't."

Klegghorn raised an eyebrow and went back to his car.

"All units, cancel the back up. I've already got it."

He turned to the ducks.

"It's inside that store. I'll cover ya from out here in case someone shows up."

"Mallory, can you Dive and Grin hold out here while we go in?", Wildwing asked.

Mallory nodded.

"I'm on it."

She, Dive and Grin went with Klegghorn while the others went inside.

"It's here alright.", Canard said firmly.

That very second, thick smoke filled into the room. Canard used aura to clear out some of it only to have a strong gust of wind blow in. Outside, a huge tornado formed and a humanoid torso and upward formed at the top of it with a glowing set of eyes and a light blue gem around it's neck. As the smoke cleared, Duke was in a sword fight with his doppelganger and both seemed equally matched. Tanya was then lifted off the ground and Canard grabbed her wrist to keep her from floating away. Outside, Klegghorn helped Grin with keeping Nosedive and Mallory from blowing away and then Canard got an idea.

"Okay Tanya, I'm going to let go."

Tanya was surprised.

"You're going to what?", she asked.

"Just get the gem.", Canard told her, "The wind will go away if you do. Understand?"

Tanya nodded and after angling it just right, Canard let go and Tanya collided with the entity. She just managed to grab hold of it's gem as it flung her away. Wildwing invoked his Flight spell land Tanya clutched the gem in her hand. The wind paused and then halted as the entity faded away and Tanya's pendent appeared as the gem in her hand dispersed and reappeared next to her Nature one.

Inside, Duke was nearly out of breath.

"This thing know my moves as well as I do.", he muttered, "But nobody beats Duke L'Orange at sword fighting."

He engage his look alike again and this time, he got an idea.

"Hey, if you're me, what's the number one rule among thieves?", he asked it.

The look alike still fought, but it's facial expression looked questioning. Duke's eyes narrowed.

"You may look like me, you can fight like me, but you're just an image of me and nothing else."

Duke felt stronger as he fought and soon he was able to disarm his look alike and swipe the gem from it's chest.

"Never try and duplicate L'Orange.", he warned as the image disappeared.

The gem in his hand shone and then became half white and half black before it disappeared and reappeared next to his Smoke gem on his pendent. As he came out, Klegghorn looked at him questioningly.

"So what are we going to do about this?"

He pointed to his car and all the stuff that was stolen had somehow reappeared in the back seat.

"Um, the crook made a break and forgot the loot?", Nosedive suggested.

The other ducks didn't look convinced.

"Hey, it was worth a shot.", Nosedive shrugged.

Klegghorn sighed.

"Well, I can't say that someone impersonated you.", he said to Duke, "I really wish there was a way for you to avoid the charges, but you can't be in two places at once."

Duke smiled.

"Don't be too sure Captain."

A while later, Klegghorn drove down to the station with Duke's image in the back while the ducks got into the Migrator.

"Well, this was quite a night.", Canard said, "Tanya got Wind and Duke got Mirror."

He paused a moment to reflect on the enchantium they had gotten.

"Wildwing has Flight and Shield, Duke has Smoke and Mirror, Tanya has Wind and Nature, Mallory has Sword and Water, Grin has Earth, Nosedive has Create and I'm with Aura and Thunder."

Nosedive whistled.

"That's quite a line up."

/

Inside the Raptor, Charyus was inspecting his arsenal.

"Fire, Raise Dead, Illusion, Eternal Life, and the Warp."

He ran a claw over the gem beside his Eternal Life one and Raise Dead.

"How I'd love to possess the Prophecy gem like I did so long ago, but Drake DuCaine's betrayal ensured that that gem was shattered."

He flinched as he remembered that fateful day.

"As much as I wanted to kill him then, his puck would've shattered my Eternal Life gem and my immortality would wane and be undone. Yes I was sent to Dimensional Limbo, but there, I found new components for my work. Not the right ones for another Prophecy gem, but it'll have to work."

He paused to take it all in.

"Celebrate while you can ducks.", he warned though he doubted they heard him, "I'll have what I'm after soon enough and then you will face your greatest nightmare."

Chameleon happened to be nearby and overhear.

"So his Eternal Life gem is is weakness eh?", he chuckled.

He walked off only to have a run in with Dragaunus who as usual was very angry and his nostrils were smoking.

"Charyus' spell was bested in mere combat, the ducks are still alive, but I will triumph!"

Luckily for Chameleon he had managed to avoid his superior enough to get by without Dragaunus noticing cause he blew up another drone, but that was enough to get the saurian moving and not stop until he was safely away. Siege and Wraith were waiting for him near the loading bay.

"Well, what did you find out?", Siege asked him.

"Charyus has a gem of life that if broken will be his undoing.", Chameleon reported.

Wraith sighed heavily.

"As much as I respect him, Charyus is getting a little unpredictable."

"We don't tell Dragaunus anything right?", Siege asked.

Wraith and Chameleon nodded.

"Only between us.", Wraith agreed,

Chameleon shifted into a boy scout.

"Scout's honor."

/

Back at the Pond, Canard was with Duke as the news reported that the "Duke Impersonator" had been caught and put behind bars for the next few weeks.

"Think that image spell will hold up?", Duke asked.

Canard nodded.

"It will. After it gets a good distance from everyone on it's release, it'll fade away and nobody will give it any thought."

The game had gone great and the ducks had pulled of yet another victory.

"Not much time before the big Stanley Cup.", Wildwing said, "Keep it up ducks."

A call came in and it was Klegghorn.

"Hey, sorry I almost had the whole force on ya back there."

"It's fine Klegghorn.", Mallory said, "Thanks for helping with the Wind."

Klegghorn paused.

"Hey, I found that mole who's gotten that footage of you guys fighting those dimensional beings lately. I'm going to interview him in the morning, but we'll come to some arrangement and he'll be given a firm talking to."

"Thanks Klegghorn.", Canard said, "This is good news."

"Keep up the good work.", Klegghorn said proudly, "Good-night."

He hung up and the ducks went back to relaxing.

"Hey ducks!", Phil called as he came down, "Did you hear the news?"

"We did Phil.", Canard answered, "We did."

Phil then checked his planner and walked off muttering to himself obviously thinking of setting up another publicity stunt or something. Canard looked around and couldn't help but feel at home.

"Man, I'm going to miss this planet.", he thought thinking of when the ducks would go home.

"Canard? ", Wildwing asked, "You okay?"

Canard smiled his way.

"Yeah, just a little homesick."