After… Eh, I think the narrating thing is a little cliche, but what do you think? Remove the narration here? Yay or nay? Anyways… ONTO THE STORY!


Chapter 3: I'll Be The Actress Starring in Your Bad Dream...


Back at the apartment, the raven-haired duck sat on one of the chairs, looking at the ceiling, without his jacket on.

He wore a cyan shirt with a smiley face on it, with one of its eyes crossed out.

He begins to wonder, why did Goldie take the scabbard and left the bin in such a rush? Did the cops find out that she was entering a restrictive area? Is it because of the haunted money bin even though there's no proof of it being haunted? Was it because she's part of a mafia group? Okay, the last part wasn't true but it could be, to M.C.

Whatever it is, the raven-haired duck plans to find the golden-haired duck and try to reason with her, even if it involves harm.

What's up with that scabbard anyway? Was it because she needs to send it to the cops? If she was, then why did she run with the scabbard like if she was on the run? What could it mean? It's not like she was-, the raven-haired duck stopped thinking for a bit. As he ponders and ponders, he soon realizes something.

What if she was planning to murder one of us?!, he thought in fear. What for god's sake is he going to do?! He knew that he isn't strong and that he couldn't even hurt a fly. The only way to prevent this is to warn his roomie and his co-workers to call the police but how the hell can he tell them? He already made one of his co-workers mad at him and distrust him. He'll think he's a sociopath and will hate him more! But, who cares? There must be a way to tell them without telling them physically. But then, he looks at his notepad and got an idea.

He grabs his notepad and his pencil as he starts replicating the scabbard by drawing to tell them what's going on. Despite forgetting a little bit of what it looks like, he kept trying to remember and recreate the scabbard the golden-haired duck had taken. As he tries and tries to recreate the casing, he heard a little thud and turned around to noticed the scabbard, that somehow appeared in his room. Oh god... Is she breaking into houses now?!, the raven-haired duck thought nervously, recognizing the scabbard. But as he looked at the window, he noticed that there's no broken hole on there.

He sighed in relief as he looked scabbard. He got up from the chair and proceeds to go near the scabbard to have a closer look. But as he tries to go the scabbard...

"Hey, Mercury! Guess who came?", the white-haired duck exclaimed.

"Seth! ... I just was looking at this... Scabbard?", M.C. saw that the scabbard disappeared. Mostly cause of his schizophrenia or something, "But it was right here..."

"Wow, guess he's much more insane than I thought."

That voice... I recognized that voice... Wait... Gyro Gearloose?!, the raven-haired duck thought to himself as he saw Dr. Gearloose, Fenton, and Glendy, in his apartment.

"Hey, M.C.!", the wacky duck waved to the schizophrenic duck.

"M.C., Mercury, Casey, whatever your name, how's your mental health going?", said the intern.

"Mental health-"

"Seth told us...", mentioned the inventor, as Seth shrugs his arms and laughs nervously.

M.C. got up and tries to apologize to Gyro about what happened, "Look, about-"

"No need, Mercury.", the inventor interrupted, "I just don't want to talk about it right now. Or ever."

"So, why are you here-?"

This time, Fenton interrupted the raven-haired duck, "Well, since you are kinda schizophrenic, we booked an appointment with a therapist. I know it's probably not your therapist, more like a random one but hey! We thought it could help you."

"Yeah! And to prepare you for your appointment, we all have decided to give you an inkblot test! I helped Gyro with the inkblots!", said the wacky duck.

The raven-haired duck looked at Gyro. "She did all of the pictures while I fixed the mistakes.", said the inventor.

"Guys, it's great that you showed sympathy towards me but I don't really need a therapist for my schizophrenia-"

"M.C., you're probs wanting therapy but you pretend that you don't want to get one.", intervened the brunette.

"No, really, I actually have-"

"Casey, just sit down. None of us give a shit if you don't want to. We just need to test you to make sure you're not an attention seeker. Got that?", said Gyro.

Mercury nodded, "Good."

The raven-haired duck sat down as the intern and the white-haired duck hold his hands, making sure he doesn't run out of the house.

"Okay, M.C., although I'm not a therapist, I will show you 5 pictures and you'll tell me what you see.", said the nerdy chicken.

The raven-haired duck nodded again as the inventor reveals the first picture.

"Bird"

Then, the inventor shows the next picture.

"Moon"

Then the next picture.

"Sky with clouds"

Then the next.

"Lightbulb"

Then the next.

"Heart"

Then the next.

"Keys"

Then the next.

"Diamonds"

Hope y'all get the reference, wink wink.

Then, the last one-

"Hang on... I think I got the wrong one.", said the inventor, as he puts it back and looks for another inkblot picture. As the inventor looks for another inkblot picture, the raven-haired duck stared at the bookshelf for a little bit but as he looked at it more and more...

"Mercury?", the white-haired duck then noticed the raven-haired duck's shivering and nervous whimpering.

"M.C.? Are you okay? Do you need water or something?", worried Fenton.

Mercury's expression looked as if he had witnessed a mob crime or a murder. The raven-haired duck was staring at the bookshelf alright. But not in a normal way. In fact, something wasn't normal here, or anywhere right now. M.C. was stuck in that state and the only words that came out of his beak were:

"Someone is standing there..."

"What?", noticed the inventor.

"Someone, over there, is staring at me...", said the raven-haired duck in fear.

The others looked at the wall and saw nothing there.

"M.C., you're probably hallucinating.", said the intern.

"N-no! Really!", said the raven-haired duck, "Someone is standing next to Gyro..."

"Uhh... All I see is a wall...", said the brunette, "but I could add something to make you not so lonely."

"It didn't work on you with a cardboard cutout.", mentioned Fenton, letting go of M.C.'s arm, along with Seth.

The raven-haired duck got up and walked to where 'someone' would've been standing. He took a good look at 'them'. As the others were talking or IDK, basically about some therapy shit, the raven-haired duck noticed that 'they' ran out the door. Mercury decides to go after it, pushing the brunette and the white-haired duck out of the way. The raven-haired duck nearly bumped into the manager and followed someone to somewhere.

"Mercury?", noticed Seth Damon.

"Where is he going?", asked the intern.

"Wait! We have 5 more inkblot pictures!", shouted Glendy.

"You run off and it's off to the looney bin!", yelled the inventor, "No one ever listens to the smart one..."

"Can we go after him?", asked the brunette.

"Eh, give him 10 minutes...", said the white-haired duck.


M.C. Tristan's POV

Note: I will put the character's POVs if necessary. Anyways...


One, Two, Three, Four,

Should've closed the f-king door,

Five, Six, Seven, Eight,

What is your fate today,

Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve,

You do run off like a coward so well.

First the nightmare I had before meeting Helga and Seth, then the person from the abandoned Money bin, and now this? I just moved in and they just randomly appeared out of nowhere.

Why didn't they believe me? They were right in front of me yet they didn't see them. How could they not see them?

I had to run to town to chase after them so I can hold them down and alert the cop. If the cops want to know what did they look like:

They wore what seems to be a redshirt with stitches and a burnt hat...

Were they injured? Were they stabbed? Were they nearly burned? Or were they burned in a fire and then was nearly stabbed? Okay, that last part was stupid of me to say but could be possible.

Even if they were injured, why the hell would they break in? I mean if they were to break in, they should've broken the window or lockpick the fucking door and steal a fucking knife and murder us already.

But how would they do that without making any noise?

And wouldn't the others noticed and called the police?

And if they did lockpick the door, they would've made a squeak noise on the front door's floor. And if they make the squeaking noise, we would've noticed it! And if we noticed it, we-

** BUMP **


Normal POV (in the same town but in a different street.)


"M.C.?", shouted the light-brown duck.

"Mercury?", shouted the white-haired duck.

"Crazy person?", shouted the inventor.

"Weirdo who is weird like me but I'm much weirder 'cause I liked one of my friends who friend-zoned me?", said the brunette, before being smacked in the head by the inventor, "Ow."

"Don't even think about it.", said the inventor, before stopping, "Dammit, where could he be? I mean he could easily be lost due to the fact he's a new guy in this town."

The white-haired duck stood silent before answering, "Yeah... new in this town...", in a sarcastic tone.

Ignoring the white-haired duck, "Look, wherever he is, we got to find him. It's getting a little late.

"Hmmm... If we can find M.C., we gotta think like M.C..", said the wacky duck, before realizing something, "Uhh, who here knows M.C. cuz I only met him and don't even know much of him."

"Same, we just talked a bit.", mentioned the light-brown duck.

"I clearly met him and never even get to know him better.", said the inventor.

"I know him," said the white-haired duck, "I think with all of the place he and I could've been, he must be where I think he is."

The brunette gasps, "Really?". Seth nods to her, smirking.

"Then what are we waiting for?", shouted Glendy, "Let's go!".

The brunette runs off, leaving her friends behind, before coming back. "Oh yeah... Show us the way, Mr. Damon!"

"Seth."

"Whatever."

The gang follows Seth as they search for the raven-haired duck in the city of Duckburg.


Mercury laid down for a bit as he opens his eyes from that bumping. Let's hope that he didn't injure anyone from that.

"Ow...", a voice groaned as the raven-haired duck got up from the ground. Spoke too soon.

Mercury looked at the pink/purple highlighted duck, on the floor, in a little pain. He curses himself out for doing such a thing to a girl, curses himself more if a boy. He must've been distracted by his thoughts for so long, he didn't even notice the girl in a long jacket.

"Oh my god... I am so sorry! Ar-a-are you o-ok-oka-okay?", questioned the panicking duck.

"Just a little bruise on the arm, no worries...", replied the girl with a pink/purple highlight, dusting her long jacket after being pushed a bit.

The raven-haired duck let out his hand to the girl with the highlight to help her up, which is what cliche protagonists would do in romantic series...

But she got up on her own and grabbed her amulet as she attempts to walk somewhere else.

"Thanks but no thanks, sir... I guess", said the girl holding her amulet- I mean necklace.

The raven-haired duck reached her shoulder before she left for whatever reason she's going. "Wait, I kinda didn't get your name..."

"It's Lena de-... LeStrange... Lena LeStrange...", said the girl with the highlight as she tries to leave but then thinks for a bit.

"I'm... M.C. Tristan. I recently moved here and I'm concern about my new friends here and I think it may be related to the death of Scrooge McDuck and I was wondering if you might have-", said Mercury.

"Okay. I-I don't know what your t-talking about some death or something. But, did you say new friends?", asked Lena.

"Well, yeah? Is there something wrong?"

"No! No! It's just that... Uhh... I recently lost a best friend and now I've been waiting for the upcoming eclipse and with no one to invite... I was wondering if you could join me for that event?", said Lena, "You could invite some of your friends along with me to steal the dim- I mean getting a dime from an abandoned place or something since the old coot died."

M.C. stood silent. Again with the invitation to the abandoned place. It'll be a bad idea since that happened with Gyro Gearloose and the golden-haired duck. Plus, he didn't want to get into trouble with the cops. But who gives a crap? With no other options, "Well... Okay. But just this once. Just once."

"Good. Good. Just making sure.", said the girl with the highlight, "See you there, Mercury!". She leaves the raven-haired duck behind as he wondered, "How does she know my full first initial?"

"Good... Now, that newbie is fooled by our 'invitation'," said 'Lena', in a different tone of voice, "He'll lead us to the dime and put Duckburg under my control! Then, the world! Then I'm so getting my body back."


The blue-dyed haired duck was holding his phone, reading the text from his boss, "Bring snacks for the special surprise. - M.B.". Groaning, he wished that he would reply to him in a very harsh way and give his boss the middle finger. But that would've resulted in him getting fired and he really needed this job since his last job ended up being destroyed for some reason. Christopher had no choice but to agree with his boss to make it to the 'surprise'. Wishing that he would've found another job, hoping that when he gets a raise, he'll use that to move away and find a better one in a different town. Hoping that he'll work as an actual businessduck and earn a lot of money to please his father.

I mean his father has a company in England but prefers staying there to continue the business. The blue-dyed-haired duck did promise his dad he will be successful in America and find love, but he is not sure about the cons of America, not to mention the amount of Karens. However, the businessduck is willing to make his father proud of him and his boss pleased and stop pestering him to be more 'cooler' and less boring.

But what the hell, he'll just make the most of it and try to get everything under control. He took a breath and looked serious.

As he walks to the car, he saw M.C. standing by one of the trashcans. The blue-dyed-haired duck was going to walk up to him and ask him why he's out this late and why. Mercury looked at him but not actually at him. "M.C.?"

The raven-haired duck looked shocked and jaywalks, or jayruns, towards him and nearly jumped on the blue-dyed-haired duck.

"Jesus Christ, M.C.! What were you thinking?! You could've injured each other!", scolded Christopher.

"I- 'm- I'm so- so- sorry! I was ch- ch- chasing after someone and- and-", Mercury tries to explain himself before Christopher interrupts him.

"You don't have to explain it to me. I can't deal with this shit right now. I already have something to be pissed about and you decided to jump on me like if I did something wrong...", explained the businessduck, "And besides, I actually wanted to be jumped on because my son-of-a-bitch boss wanted me to come to a fucking surprise where..."

As the businessduck ranted, the raven-haired duck looked at the mysterious person as they eventually disappear from his eyesight. The raven-haired duck sighed and then groans in disappointment, before looking at the blue-dyed-haired duck.

"... And I was wondering if you could come to my workplace 'morrow?", questioned Christopher.

"Uhh... Sure?", answered M.C.

"Good! I'll meet you there tomorrow.", said the blue-dyed-haired duck.

"FINALLY, WE'VE CAUGHT UP!" shouted a voice, which is revealed to be the inventor with the two males and one female.

"Look, Dr. Gearloose. I'm so sor-", the raven-haired duck tried to apologize.

"We got no time for this... We'll try again tomorrow.", said Gyro.

"It's great helping you, Mercury!", said the light brown duck.

"I'll make more inkblots for you! Honest!", promised the brunette.

The rest walked back to their homes as Seth stayed with M.C., for a bit.


"So, you met a teen girl with a necklace and she invited you to an event?", asked the white-haired duck as the two walks themselves back to their apartment.

"Yeah.", answered the raven-haired duck, "And I noticed that she has a necklace, a strange one. I'm guessing it's a family heirloom or something."

"She seems interesting. I wonder if she's into weird stuff like Glendy," said Seth.

"Well, we don't know much of her yet so I guess we should invite her in return and maybe we'll get everyone else to know each other and even invite her...", groaned the raven-haired on the last part.

"So, if we did ended up knowing each other, will we tell each our fears and our past?", questioned Seth.

"Uhh, yeah. Why?", this time, M.C. questioned.

Seth didn't know how to answer the question he asked, knowing that his past is not worth telling due to... obvious reasons. Besides, one of them caused his father to kicked him out and disowned him. So, the only answer would have to be...

"No reason!"

Confused, M.C. just shrugged it off and just think it's a valid answer. "Okay...?"

So, the two polar opposites made it back to the apartment. Seth opens the door for him and walked with him inside.

Meanwhile, M.C. couldn't help but think who would that person be, let alone a random person. Even so, how did they suddenly disappeared out of his eyesight and why didn't Christopher see them? Is he the only one seeing things or is it because of his schizophrenia? The answer would have to be...

Only time will tell.


"So, why did you come to M.C.'s house again?", the brunette asked as she brushes her hair with her fluffy brush while calling Gyro.

Although it didn't belong to her since it belongs to one of the residents in the apartment where she stayed... On the roof... Anyways...

"As I said before," said the inventor, "We're just testing him to help him gain the confidence to talk to his therapist and not run away from his problem and lie to them. The inkblot test was just the beginning. Then it's writing a script for him to read from."

"Ohhh, okay! But, I just need to tell you this."

"And what could that be, Vasquack?"

"You know what happened yesterday?", asked the brunette, putting her brush away.

"Yes? Why?"

"You were angry at him for stepping foot to the abandoned bin we should never ever talk about, but you are eager to give him therapy. Didn't you-"

"Vasquack, I was angry and only told him that so he'll get away from that building. But the not trusting part is a little true. I can't trust him bringing up the past about... My previous boss...", said the inventor, "He'll wind up getting himself getting into trouble or worse arrested..."

"I get you're a little angry at him but don't you think you might take this not-trusting a little too far if not treated?"

Gyro didn't answer.

"Maybe we should try to... Give M.C. another chance to introduce himself a little more and maybe... Not bring up the cops to.", said the brunette, walking to her bed.

"... Very well."

The brunette duck hangs him up and puts her phone away as she opens her cabinet where photos of her friends, crushes, and what appears to be herself but in different outfits. The brunette put up a sticky note saying "Awaiting Photo" before closing the cabinet.


M.C. tossed and turned as he struggles to go to sleep. He couldn't stop thinking about that kid who he chased after. He didn't know what was the reason why they broke into his apartment room and disappeared from eyesight. The raven-haired duck still has the note he got from the officer but is too afraid to even read it.

Despite that, he's willing to read the letter, but on one condition. If he finds more info on Scrooge McDuck, he'll read the letter. But for now, he'll have to wait.

The raven-haired duck slowly closes his eyes, drifting to dreamland...


M.C. wakes up in a wasteland, where all plane parts are scattered all over the place. The raven-haired duck was petrified from the look of the peak. H-how t-the- What the fuck just happened here, he thought.

He slowly walked through the parts of the plane, avoided the window shards, stood away from fire, and... Blood...

Why was there blood?, Mercury thought. This dreamland is turning into a nightmare land.

Mercury backed up from the blood, only to step on a huge amount of blood.

"Aah! Ew! Ew! Gross! Gross!" squealed Mercury, trying to scrape the fluid off of him. Panting, the raven-haired duck continues to walk through the place, slowly showing more blood and blood.

Then, he bumped into something, falling to the ground. Getting up, he saw what looks to be what's left of the plane. He searched for an entrance to find any survivors, but... There were none.

Only, bodies inside. There were 2 adults, a pilot and a woman, and 3 kids, two boys and a girl. They were all dead. They were shot in the head and/or heart and stabbed.

Mercury felt the urge to vomit and scream so loud-

**BANG**

"What was that?!", M.C. heard a gunshot from a distance.

He ran outside and find the same boy in blue clothing, dead with a katana on his back and scars all over him.

"Oh... Oh... My... OH MY GOD. DID SOMEONE MURDER A FUCKING CHILD?!"

Frozen in shock, the raven-haired duck doesn't know what to say or do. But he did have just one question: WHO MURDERED THEM?!

Shaking and in tears, Mercury starts wanting to wake up from this bad dream, even trying to wake up.

Suddenly, a shadow stood up towards Mercury with a weapon by his side.

I don't trust nobody and nobody trust me,

But I'm still hoping to wake up from this bad dream,

"Wake up, Mercury! Wake up! Or try running away!"

I don't trust nobody and nobody trust me,

But I'm still hoping to wake up from this bad dream,

Mercury tries slapping himself, pulling his hair, pinching himself, and hitting himself but it's no use.

I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me,

But I'm still hoping to wake up from this bad dream,

As he tries to wake himself up, he heard a footstep, making him turn around.

Frightened, he saw a Scottish duck, raising his ax towards the raven-haired duck.

Mercury tries to crawl away but...

It seems that he can't move, like at all!

I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me,

I'll be the actor starring in your bad dream!

The Scottish duck swung his ax towards the raven-haired duck, thus the only sound you can hear is Mercury screaming and a Scottish man laughing...


"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"

"Huh? Aah!", the white-haired duck woke up and fell to the floor, "W-what? What's with the screaming? Thankfully, you woke me up from a- Minor bad dream..."

The raven-haired duck was cuddling himself and couldn't stop himself from sobbing so hard.

"Don't worry, M.C. It's just a dream. Calm down. It'll get through this together.", Seth tries to comfort his roommate by hugging him but it is useless.

M.C. continues to cry, laying down on his roomie's lap.

Though so horrifying, Mercury doesn't know who were those people in his nightmare are.

But the nightmare's only just the beginning...


Glendy was packing her stuff in her backpack for her daily walk and roof watching. She opens the roof door, heads down to the city, and starts walking.

The brunette usually takes her kitty mask, puts it on, and never spoke a word. She thought it would set a vibe for... Something... Anyways.

The girl with brown hair skips her way into town, in a positive mood, hoping to gather more inspiration and photos. Her phone begins to ring in her backpack. She took it out and answer.

"Hey, Seth! (...) Come over so we can get to know more of each other? Sure! I'm just heading to your place right now as we speak."

Glendy hangs up and stopped at one of the streetlights and hums to herself as she waits for the light to turn green. And it did. The brunette runs by and was about to take a picture.

**BUMP**

The weird girl falls to the ground, dropping her phone right next to her, before grabbing it and getting up. "Oh, sorry! I'm Glendy Vasquack. I'm on my way to a friend's house and I always take a good picture of some stuff."

"N-no worries. It was my fault anyway.", the duck with the pink/purple highlight. Unlike yesterday where she met M.C., Lena looked tired and scared. "I'm Lena LeStrange. I'm not supposed to talk with you right now. My aunt is making- I mean... wants me to be home by 3-"

"Hey hey! It's okay! It happens a lot.", said the brunette, skipping to the left, "Unless if there's a cute or hot boy coming to town. But bumping into someone like you could mean- Hey, wait a minute!"

"I should take you to Seth's. He's offering us to know more about each and every one of us!", offered Glendy, "You should totally meet the others there! They're super nice! While Gyro is nice and aloofly."

"Yeah. Thanks but no thanks. I would love to but my aunt told me not to talk to strangers since-"

"Oh, don't be such a loner. I'm no stranger. I'm your soon-to-be BFF forever!", interrupted the brunette, cheering at the word "BFF forever".

That last sentence alerted Lena, Oh crap. Do I really have to go through this again?. The girl with the highlight wanted to refuse the offer due to the fact she recently lost her friend to an accident and didn't want to lose another one.

"Glendy, to be honest, I-", all of a sudden, Lena's mood changed, "I would LOVE TO! Why don't WE walk TOGETHER as BFF FOR- WHATEVER?!"

"That is the best idea BFFs could do! I'll be right back! I need to buy something for our new friendship!", cheered the brunette before running to a shop near her.

As the brunette left, the shadow changed to a familiar figure, making the girl with the highlight fall to the ground.

"Let. Me. GO!", screamed the girl with the highlight.

"Oh, that's right. I forgot you were here.", said the female shadow.

"I won't let you do this! I already lost my friends and I can't lose another one."

"Yeah, uh-huh. Except she's dumb enough to believe that I'm you and that I wanted to be her friend so she can help us find that dime and get my body back and unleash my powers and destroy everything Scrooge loved, except he won't be here to witness!", the shadowed sorceress laughed evilly before returning to Lena's body.

"Hey, new BFF!", the brunette returns from the shop and gives the mysterious gal a friendship necklace, "I got you that as a gift for our new relationship together!"

"Gee, thanks... new BFF?", said 'Lena', nearly gagging at the word "BFF", but put up a straight face, "Can't wait for a fresh... new... start..."

The weird duck holds Lena's hand and walks with her, on their way to Kiselle Roo Apartment, the apartment where Mercury and Seth live together as roomies. Roommates? Bedfellows? Well, you get the idea.

"Let's make sure this fresh new start becomes your fresh new end soon..."


A/N: That's it for this episode! Today's chapter name is one of the lyrics of Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift, in fact, I added some lyrics from the said song in the nightmare sequence. ... Anyways, stay tuned for the next episode of Insanity AU!

- A Friendly Neighborhood Duck