Ch.6: Releasing The Hate

"Grr!" growled Duck, as he struggled to get free from his binds " Let me out of here!"

"You shouldn't have tried to escape from us first Duck" said Dark Ace, looking over to where his prisoner lay. "Don't even bother to try quacking out this time. My friends and I have spent weeks going over your skills."

Duck grunted and glared over at Dark Ace, who stood most with the other evil Loonatics standing in Tech's lab. His mind briefly flashed back to how he had gotten himself stuck in this situation.


(FlashBack)

"You're not my friends!" stated Duck sourly " Who are you?"

"You'll know soon enough" said Dark Ace, smirking an evil grin " Given time, I think you will like us better than your old team. Now Duck, time to join the dark side."

With that said Dark Ace stepped closer, his evil grin growing more and more. Duck stepped backward in fear. Whoever these guys really were, he pretty sure that he didn't want their hands on him.

"Sorry pal," said Duck, and instantly quacked away.

"I knew he would run" said Dark Ace smugly "Tech!"

"Already on it Chief," said Dark Tech, and with the press of a few buttons he sealed off all possible exits.

Now there was nowhere for Duck to run, he was trapped in here with them.

Down a few floors, Duck breathed in relief that he had somehow managed to avoid his enemies, but knew that they would probably be after him soon.

For a brief moment of hope, Duck tried the door, but wasn't surprised to find it locked. Whoever these fakers were they had every move planned out, working tight like a team.

Duck wondered for a second what had happened to his friends. Did they even make out of the subway collapse? Had these losers left them to die?

The thought of all of his friends being dead quickly sobered Duck up, and he shook the gory thought from his mind.

He wouldn't believe unless he saw just one of their bodies. But first, he would have to escape, and that was easier said than done.

"This way" suddenly sounded a female voice " I can hear his breathing from here."

Darn that Lexi and her supersonic ears! If she located his hiding spot, he was toast! And from the sound of the footsteps it looked like she had brought Slam with her, double doomed!

"This is not good!" thought Duck as the footsteps came closer.

How was he supposed to avoid both Lexi and Slam when Lexi could hear every hiding spot he went to, and Slam smashed through walls?

"Think fast Duck!" Danger chided himself, racking his brain to come up with a plan.

However, before he had time to settle on one, a swirling, purple tornado suddenly bashed into the boxes he was hiding behind, slamming him halfway across the room.

"Ugh," grunted Duck, trying to stand back on his feet.

"Got ya!" said Dark Lexi, and shot a brain blast Duck's way.

Fortunately, by the time the blast reached him, Duck had recovered and managed to quack himself away, hiding once more in the shadows.

"You can't hide forever" said Dark Lexi " I can sense you wherever you run."

"Who said anything about running?" said Duck, suddenly appearing near a wall, a steaming box of pizza in his hands. "Hey Slam! Pizza!"

"Pizza!" cried Dark Slam excitedly.

"Oh no!" thought Dark Lexi as the Tasmanian tornado headed her way.

The black and pink rabbit had made a terrible mistake, standing between a hungry Slam and food.

She didn't have time to correct before Dark Slam blasted his teammate straight to the ground, heading for the pizza still steaming in Duck's hands. Mentally, the black-feathered drake started to count down.

3….2….1….Quack!

Duck teleported straight out of Dark Slam's path, leaving the pizza hovering for a second as he vanished out of sight. Dark Slam continued to charge forward, getting the pizza in his mouth before burrowing through the steel wall. A massive hole was left in his wake.

"Ugh," Dark Lexi, feeling dizzy as she tried to stand, recovering from Slam's attack.

"Hurts doesn't it?" asked Duck, reappearing just beside Dark Lex.

Growling and confused, Dark Lexi narrowed her pink eyes and aimed right where Duck stood, in which the mallard quickly quacked out of the way. Dark Lexi's attack continued to move forwards, towards the hole in the wall that Dark Slam was just stepping through, pizza hanging from his jaws.

The purple Tasmanian let out a shriek of pain as Dark Lexi's attack struck against his skin, electrifying his fur before he slammed unconscious to the ground.

"Thanks doll," said Duck to Lexi before the dark counterpart could regret her mistake, and then knocked her out, leaving her lying on the floor.

Relieved that was over, Duck walked out of the room to see if he could find another place to hide.

"Well, that was eas…Yipe!"

He had almost spoken to soon, because at that second, Dark Rev came speeding up the halls with Danger Duck right in his sights.

Acting quick, Duck quacked himself away, but as soon he reappeared, Dark Rev was right on top of him, and started speeding towards him. Curse his speed and that GPS! It would take hours before Rev would run out of steam, but only a few minutes for Duck he kept up with this quacking for much longer.

Breathing hard as he reappeared from another quack, Danger Duck caught a glance of Dark Rev running towards him, and decided to switch to some desperate means.

"Look!" shouted Danger, pointing excitedly behind Rev " Cindy Clovis is over there!"

"Cindy Clovis?!" said Dark Rev, suddenly getting excited himself " Where?!"

BANG!

"Ooo," Duck cringed, as Dark Rev lost his focus, tripped, and slammed head first into the floor. " That had to hurt."

Honestly, Duck was surprised to see that his desperate tactic actually worked. He knew it worked on the real Rev, who would have thought it worked on the dark one as well?

"Heh" said Duck, shaking his head " Fake Rev, same supermodel."

Blast! A hard hit suddenly struck Duck straight in the back the moment he lowered his guard, and the world he saw as he fell disappeared into black spots.

But before he completely blacked out, the sound of Dark Ace's eerie voice leaned down close to his ears.

"You did well Duck" whispered Dark Ace " but now you're mine."

(End Flashback)


And now he was here, listening to the sounds as Dark Tech prepared his machine, Dark Ace playing spectator sport, while all of the other Dark Loonatics he had to beat just watched from behind.

"Almost ready Ace," said Dark Tech to his leader.

"Good" said Dark Ace to his teammate " soon, we will be able to finish this."

"Why are you doing this to me anyway?!" asked Duck, tired of beating around the bush. " Who are you guys?! Where are my friends?!"

"Hmm" mumbled Dark Ace " so many questions, but where do I start? How about, you're friends are dead Duck."

"You're lying!" said Duck, glaring at Dark Ace " That can't be true!"

"Am I?" said Dark Ace with a smirk. " Tell me, why would you care so much about them anyway? Have they ever been true friends to you?"

"Of course they have!" said Duck while thinking, 'Most of the time' "They've always had my back when I needed it."

"Not according to you they didn't" said Dark Ace, glaring down " We've read your diary Duck. We know how you really feel about your team. All of those secrets you wouldn't share, they're common knowledge to us now."

Duck gulped, clearly not expecting this turn of events, and winced a little as Dark Tech plugged something sharp into his arm.

"Who are you anyway?" Duck stumbled.

"We're clones Duck" said Dark Ace " made to protect Acmetropolis because you guys were flying in space. But why should we use this power to protect them, when they don't show a proper respect to our team? The injustice dealt against us, we all make them suffer for it and pay. And your revenge will be icing on the cake, once we make all your past enemies suffer."

"What? No!" yelled Duck, shocked by the cruelty of Dark Ace's plan " I don't want this to happen!"

"Unfortunately, you don't have that choice," said Dark Ace, and then nodded towards Dark Tech to start the machine.

Within a second, the machine switched on, and Duck could feel a burning pain start to sweep up and down through his skin.

His body tensed as he screamed, trying to fight against the change. But the darkness was winning, and soon there would be nothing left to his soul.