Later, a vicious-looking yellow, black and red aircraft sped through the skies between the Negaverse Saint Canard and the Negaverse Duckburg. At the helm of the plane, Negaduck replied "Well, I've got to admit, we've done a pretty good job on this craft. At this rate, we'll in Duckburg in two minutes. Good thing I saved the blueprints for this machine years ago. Launchpad might have been a thick-skulled thug, but he DID have excellent attention to detail when it came to machinery. Thanks to my having the foresight to save the plans combined with YOUR magic, Morg, and YOUR strength, Steggers, we were able to completely build this plane from scratch within three hours."
"Yeah! This is a pretty sweet piece of machinery all right, Lord Negaduck." Nega-Stegmutt admitted.
"Indeed, but I don't see why we needed it. I could have teleported the three of us to Duckburg fairly easily." Nega-Morgana said.
"True, partner, but you'd have to teleport a heavier load a longer distance after we recruited Destructo-Duck. Besides, you'd have to LEVITATE us over the ocean since we don't know EXACTLY where to find the last of my planned recruits; just that it would be somewhere in the ocean. We'd have no way of knowing how long you'd have to levitate the combined weight of the three of us AND Destructo-Duck and even YOUR powers aren't infinite; formidable, but NOT infinite. With the aircraft, we can travel at great speeds for prolonged periods and YOU can conserve your magic in case we run into any really persistent goody-goodies." Negaduck explained as he landed the craft right in the middle of Duckburg.
As the aircraft's canopy opened, the Nice Nine launched their attack.
"Tired of getting harassed by busybodies? Don't like getting your nice suit water-logged? Well, surrender RIGHT NOW, you oversized scoundrel." Nega=Liquidator said as he and Nega-Megavolt hit him with the water and electrictiy double-whammy before the evil dinosaur had a chance to make a move against them. Taking advantage of Nega-Stegmutt's current situation, Nega-Camille once more changed herself into an exact duplicate of Nega-Stegmutt and punched the weakening dinosaur right in the jaw rendering him unconscious just before she carried him and the still-unconscious Destructo-Duck onto the bronto=rocket and resumed her normal form.
Nega-Morgana, meanwhile got ensnared by a set of Nega-Splatter's winged coils, which kept her arms too securely pinned for her to use her magic. Just in case, Nega-Magica zapped Nega-Morgana with a freeze spell and Nega-Moloculo levitated the frozen sorceress onto the bronto rocket. "Well done, my dear Magica. Excellent use of your freeze spell to trap my misguided daughter without hurting her." Nega-Moloculo said after he finished levitating Nega-Morgana onboard.
Negaduck, meanwhile, got bushwhacked by two nutty-putty grenades and a set of strong vines, courtesy of Nega-Quackerjack and Nega-Bushroot respectively. The combination of the nutty putty and the vines was more than able to hold the evil duck more than long enough for Nega-Bulba to finish subduing Negaduck with a blast of his stun gun. "Excellent. The element of surprise, combined with teamwork, was the deciding factor. Now, all that remains will be to hold these four villains until the proper authorities are organized enough for these fiends to stand trial for their crimes." Nega-Bulba said as he carried Negaduck onto the bronto-rocket, which blasted off back to the Nice Nine's headquarters as soon as all the team members were onboard.
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Negaduck woke up in a jail cell chained hand and foot to the back wall. Though he tried to get loose, the chains were pretty strong, as were the bricks and mortar the chains were attached to. Negaduck had to admit he was in a pretty tight spot, but one of the few things heroes and villains have in common is that the great ones don't give up no matter how bad the situation looks. Sure, they might alter their plans accordingly, but they don't give up. Seeing that his cell was being guarded by Nega-Megavolt, Nega-Bushroot and Nega-Quackerjack, the villain tried shouting to Nega-Megavolt. "Hey, dimbulb, remember way back when we were teenagers 23 years ago. Think back to when we first met. I robbed the entire Saint Canard senior prom and you tried, but failed, to stop me. Also think back to all the hassles I've caused you AND this city after that. Out of all of these losers, you've been fighting me the longest and, now that you've finally caught me, don't you want to pay me back for all the trouble I've caused to, not only you, but also the so-called innocents?" Negaduck asked.
Nega-Megavolt answered "Actually, yes, but I'm going to let the COURTS decide your fate. It's the right thing to do.".
"Figures. You goody-goodies are too WIMPY to pass judgment yourself. I mean, here I am, chained hand and foot and, thus, unable to dodge if you were to try to zap me and you also know I'm guiltier than a raccoon in a room full of garbage cans. Why not save the courts the hassle and taking me out of the picture RIGHT NOW? What's the matter? Too chicken, Sparky?" Negaduck taunted hoping to get Nega-Megavolt angry enough to try to zap him.
"I may HATE being called Sparky, but I CAN control myself and I am NOT stupid enough to let you goad me in making a mistake that might aid in your escape." Nega-Megavolt said matter-of-factly.
"Drat. I'm going to have to find another way of getting out of this." Negaduck thought to himself. Unfortunately, he was thoroughly searched while he was unconscious, which meant he had no weapons or lock picks on him. The mortar and stones were strong enough that he couldn't chip out a lock pick. Then it hit him; he was being held by do-gooders; people who had HEARTS. If he could convincingly play sick, one of his guards might come in to unlock his chains and rush him to the infirmary. It was an old ploy, to be sure, but as they say, cliches are cliches for a reason.
"Excuse me, but I think I need immediate medical attention. I don't know what I have, but it could be serious. I mean, you want me at least just healthy enough to stand trial for my crimes, don't you?" Negaduck said weakly, coughly repeatedly as he did so. Though the villain was just acting, he was actually giving an Academy Award-worthy performance, which his guards fell for hook, line and sinker. When Nega-Bushroot unlocked his chains, Negaduck sucker-punched the mutant plant duck with all of his might. When Nega-Megavolt tried to zap Negaduck, the villain quickly grabbed the arm the super-charged rat was going to shoot his electrical bolt from and forcefully pointed it toward Nega-Quackerjack just as the zap was released. As the toymaker was shocked unconscious, Negaduck nailed Nega-Megavolt with a superb roundhouse kick to the back of the head followed by a hard elbow to the jaw, which put the electrically-powered rat out for the count before he could get off another zap. After that, Negaduck grabbed the keys to the cells and after saying "SUckers.", snuck off, wrapping his black cape completely around himself as to blend in better with the shadows.
"Well, I'd better bust the others out, too. After all, I AM going to be needing them soon enough." Negaduck thought to himself as he crept around the dungeon corridors trying to get enough of a feel for the area to find the cell he was looking for. Sure enough, the fact that Nega-Splatter and Nega-Magica were the ones guarding the cell told him he had found the one he was looking for.
"I know Morgana is a powerful sorceress, but her probability of egress is next to nothing in THOSE restraints." Nega-Splatter told Nega-Magica.
"Yes, but Bulba doesn't want to take any chances, which is why he has both of us guarding her." Nega-Magica replied with a thick Hungarian accent.
That exchange was all Negaduck needed to hear. He was pretty sure that was Morgana's cell BEFORE, but now he knew for certain. Still wrapped fully in his black cape, Negaduck crept up on the pair, slammed their heads together and employed a superb mule kick that finished putting Nega-Magica and Nega-Splatter out cold. Using the keys, Negaduck opened the cell door and pried one of the coils on Nega-Morgana's restraints loose enough for her to free one arm and use her magic to escape. With a quick mind-scan on her two unconscious guards, Nega-Morgana quickly found out where Nega-Stegmutt and Destructo-Duck were being held and then teleported herself and Negaduck to Nega-Stegmutt's cell, which was being guarded by Nega-Bulba and Nega-Liquidator.
Using a freeze bolt on Nega-Liquidator and a lightning bolt on Nega-Bulba while she and Negaduck still had the eliminate of surprise, Nega-Morgana took out both of them while Negaduck opened Nega-Stegmutt's cell and saw that the dinosaur was being held in the middle of a pool of nutty-putty which counteracted his strength since he had nothing solid to push against. After turning the nutty-putty into harmless mist, Nega-Morgana levitated Nega-Stegmutt out of his cell and teleported herself, Negaduck and Nega-Stegmutt to Destructo-Duck's cell which was being guarded by Nega-Moloculo and Nega-Camille.
Deciding not to waste any magic on these two guards, Nega-Morgana simply used a flying kick that nailed Nega-Camille while the sorceress still had the element of surprise and sent the shape-shifter flying right into Nega-Moloculo, who Nega-Morgana socked in the jaw while he was still getting up. Negaduck was about to open the cell door when Nega-Stegmutt, not being able to resist showing off his strength, ripped the cell door right off its hinges. Negaduck had met Destructo-Duck once before; when both villains were trying to steal a top-secret military super-weapon called the EGRET right out from under the noses of the heroic agents of F.O.W.L., who were assigned to guard the aforementioned EGRET; but this would be the first Negaduck would see his then rival without his infamous armor. Upon seeing Destructo-Duck without his armor for the very first time, Negaduck was visibly surprised that the armored evil-doer was actually a scrawny, scruffy duck with an eyepatch and a biker jacket. "THAT'S DESTRUCTO-DUCK?! This is the clown who fought me to a near-standstill when we were both trying to steal the EGRET?" Negaduck shouted out.
"That's the name I've been going by for over six years, but I'm afraid I'm just not that imposing without my armor, ESPECIALLY when compared to the infamous Negaduck." the former Destructo-Duck admitted.
"THAT'S a MAJOR understatement." Negaduck said outloud before adding "Hey, I seem to remember Launchpad telling me about an old rival of his from back when he was still working in Duckburg who happens to match your description. Your name wouldn't happen to be Fenton Crackshell, would you?" out of sheer curiousity.
"Well, it's a name I haven't gone by in over six years but, yes, that IS the name I was born with. However, if you would help me get my armor back, I would be VERY grateful; even grateful enough to serve you." Crackshell said as Nega-Stegmutt ripped the chains holding him right out from out of the wall (Negaduck was just going unlock those chains with the keys but, once more, Nega-Stegmutt couldn't resist showing off his strength).
"Well, you're pretty much useless to me WITHOUT the armor and I DID journey all the way from Saint Canard to Duckburg to try to recruit DESTRUCTO-DUCK so, I'll agree to your terms." Negaduck said as he unlocked the chains from Crackshell's wrists and ankles. Nega-Morgana made one last teleportation; teleporting all four villains to the impound room holding Negaduck's weapons and aircraft as well as Crackshell's Destructo-Duck armor.
After Nega-Morgana repaired the armor with her magic and WHILE Negaduck was recovering all of his weapons, Crackshell said the special code words that reverted him to his evil armored alter-ego. Destructo-Duck then activated his chest cannon, blasted out the entire left wall of the impound room and, finally, used his mechanically enhanced strength to lift Negaduck's aircraft and carry it out to where the four villains would have plenty of take-off room.
After he, Nega-Morgana, Nega-Stegmutt and Destructo-Duck were all onboard the aircraft, Negaduck then started it up and the four villains quickly took to the skies. As he piloted the aircraft out toward the ocean in search of his last recruit, Negaduck thought to himself "Well, this is going pretty well so far aside from all four of us being briefly captured by those no-good do-gooders. I've already gathered three of my four intended recruits and, with enough preparation, I might, just MIGHT be able to whip this bunch into a TRUE team.".
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"Yeah! This is a pretty sweet piece of machinery all right, Lord Negaduck." Nega-Stegmutt admitted.
"Indeed, but I don't see why we needed it. I could have teleported the three of us to Duckburg fairly easily." Nega-Morgana said.
"True, partner, but you'd have to teleport a heavier load a longer distance after we recruited Destructo-Duck. Besides, you'd have to LEVITATE us over the ocean since we don't know EXACTLY where to find the last of my planned recruits; just that it would be somewhere in the ocean. We'd have no way of knowing how long you'd have to levitate the combined weight of the three of us AND Destructo-Duck and even YOUR powers aren't infinite; formidable, but NOT infinite. With the aircraft, we can travel at great speeds for prolonged periods and YOU can conserve your magic in case we run into any really persistent goody-goodies." Negaduck explained as he landed the craft right in the middle of Duckburg.
As the aircraft's canopy opened, the Nice Nine launched their attack.
"Tired of getting harassed by busybodies? Don't like getting your nice suit water-logged? Well, surrender RIGHT NOW, you oversized scoundrel." Nega=Liquidator said as he and Nega-Megavolt hit him with the water and electrictiy double-whammy before the evil dinosaur had a chance to make a move against them. Taking advantage of Nega-Stegmutt's current situation, Nega-Camille once more changed herself into an exact duplicate of Nega-Stegmutt and punched the weakening dinosaur right in the jaw rendering him unconscious just before she carried him and the still-unconscious Destructo-Duck onto the bronto=rocket and resumed her normal form.
Nega-Morgana, meanwhile got ensnared by a set of Nega-Splatter's winged coils, which kept her arms too securely pinned for her to use her magic. Just in case, Nega-Magica zapped Nega-Morgana with a freeze spell and Nega-Moloculo levitated the frozen sorceress onto the bronto rocket. "Well done, my dear Magica. Excellent use of your freeze spell to trap my misguided daughter without hurting her." Nega-Moloculo said after he finished levitating Nega-Morgana onboard.
Negaduck, meanwhile, got bushwhacked by two nutty-putty grenades and a set of strong vines, courtesy of Nega-Quackerjack and Nega-Bushroot respectively. The combination of the nutty putty and the vines was more than able to hold the evil duck more than long enough for Nega-Bulba to finish subduing Negaduck with a blast of his stun gun. "Excellent. The element of surprise, combined with teamwork, was the deciding factor. Now, all that remains will be to hold these four villains until the proper authorities are organized enough for these fiends to stand trial for their crimes." Nega-Bulba said as he carried Negaduck onto the bronto-rocket, which blasted off back to the Nice Nine's headquarters as soon as all the team members were onboard.
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Negaduck woke up in a jail cell chained hand and foot to the back wall. Though he tried to get loose, the chains were pretty strong, as were the bricks and mortar the chains were attached to. Negaduck had to admit he was in a pretty tight spot, but one of the few things heroes and villains have in common is that the great ones don't give up no matter how bad the situation looks. Sure, they might alter their plans accordingly, but they don't give up. Seeing that his cell was being guarded by Nega-Megavolt, Nega-Bushroot and Nega-Quackerjack, the villain tried shouting to Nega-Megavolt. "Hey, dimbulb, remember way back when we were teenagers 23 years ago. Think back to when we first met. I robbed the entire Saint Canard senior prom and you tried, but failed, to stop me. Also think back to all the hassles I've caused you AND this city after that. Out of all of these losers, you've been fighting me the longest and, now that you've finally caught me, don't you want to pay me back for all the trouble I've caused to, not only you, but also the so-called innocents?" Negaduck asked.
Nega-Megavolt answered "Actually, yes, but I'm going to let the COURTS decide your fate. It's the right thing to do.".
"Figures. You goody-goodies are too WIMPY to pass judgment yourself. I mean, here I am, chained hand and foot and, thus, unable to dodge if you were to try to zap me and you also know I'm guiltier than a raccoon in a room full of garbage cans. Why not save the courts the hassle and taking me out of the picture RIGHT NOW? What's the matter? Too chicken, Sparky?" Negaduck taunted hoping to get Nega-Megavolt angry enough to try to zap him.
"I may HATE being called Sparky, but I CAN control myself and I am NOT stupid enough to let you goad me in making a mistake that might aid in your escape." Nega-Megavolt said matter-of-factly.
"Drat. I'm going to have to find another way of getting out of this." Negaduck thought to himself. Unfortunately, he was thoroughly searched while he was unconscious, which meant he had no weapons or lock picks on him. The mortar and stones were strong enough that he couldn't chip out a lock pick. Then it hit him; he was being held by do-gooders; people who had HEARTS. If he could convincingly play sick, one of his guards might come in to unlock his chains and rush him to the infirmary. It was an old ploy, to be sure, but as they say, cliches are cliches for a reason.
"Excuse me, but I think I need immediate medical attention. I don't know what I have, but it could be serious. I mean, you want me at least just healthy enough to stand trial for my crimes, don't you?" Negaduck said weakly, coughly repeatedly as he did so. Though the villain was just acting, he was actually giving an Academy Award-worthy performance, which his guards fell for hook, line and sinker. When Nega-Bushroot unlocked his chains, Negaduck sucker-punched the mutant plant duck with all of his might. When Nega-Megavolt tried to zap Negaduck, the villain quickly grabbed the arm the super-charged rat was going to shoot his electrical bolt from and forcefully pointed it toward Nega-Quackerjack just as the zap was released. As the toymaker was shocked unconscious, Negaduck nailed Nega-Megavolt with a superb roundhouse kick to the back of the head followed by a hard elbow to the jaw, which put the electrically-powered rat out for the count before he could get off another zap. After that, Negaduck grabbed the keys to the cells and after saying "SUckers.", snuck off, wrapping his black cape completely around himself as to blend in better with the shadows.
"Well, I'd better bust the others out, too. After all, I AM going to be needing them soon enough." Negaduck thought to himself as he crept around the dungeon corridors trying to get enough of a feel for the area to find the cell he was looking for. Sure enough, the fact that Nega-Splatter and Nega-Magica were the ones guarding the cell told him he had found the one he was looking for.
"I know Morgana is a powerful sorceress, but her probability of egress is next to nothing in THOSE restraints." Nega-Splatter told Nega-Magica.
"Yes, but Bulba doesn't want to take any chances, which is why he has both of us guarding her." Nega-Magica replied with a thick Hungarian accent.
That exchange was all Negaduck needed to hear. He was pretty sure that was Morgana's cell BEFORE, but now he knew for certain. Still wrapped fully in his black cape, Negaduck crept up on the pair, slammed their heads together and employed a superb mule kick that finished putting Nega-Magica and Nega-Splatter out cold. Using the keys, Negaduck opened the cell door and pried one of the coils on Nega-Morgana's restraints loose enough for her to free one arm and use her magic to escape. With a quick mind-scan on her two unconscious guards, Nega-Morgana quickly found out where Nega-Stegmutt and Destructo-Duck were being held and then teleported herself and Negaduck to Nega-Stegmutt's cell, which was being guarded by Nega-Bulba and Nega-Liquidator.
Using a freeze bolt on Nega-Liquidator and a lightning bolt on Nega-Bulba while she and Negaduck still had the eliminate of surprise, Nega-Morgana took out both of them while Negaduck opened Nega-Stegmutt's cell and saw that the dinosaur was being held in the middle of a pool of nutty-putty which counteracted his strength since he had nothing solid to push against. After turning the nutty-putty into harmless mist, Nega-Morgana levitated Nega-Stegmutt out of his cell and teleported herself, Negaduck and Nega-Stegmutt to Destructo-Duck's cell which was being guarded by Nega-Moloculo and Nega-Camille.
Deciding not to waste any magic on these two guards, Nega-Morgana simply used a flying kick that nailed Nega-Camille while the sorceress still had the element of surprise and sent the shape-shifter flying right into Nega-Moloculo, who Nega-Morgana socked in the jaw while he was still getting up. Negaduck was about to open the cell door when Nega-Stegmutt, not being able to resist showing off his strength, ripped the cell door right off its hinges. Negaduck had met Destructo-Duck once before; when both villains were trying to steal a top-secret military super-weapon called the EGRET right out from under the noses of the heroic agents of F.O.W.L., who were assigned to guard the aforementioned EGRET; but this would be the first Negaduck would see his then rival without his infamous armor. Upon seeing Destructo-Duck without his armor for the very first time, Negaduck was visibly surprised that the armored evil-doer was actually a scrawny, scruffy duck with an eyepatch and a biker jacket. "THAT'S DESTRUCTO-DUCK?! This is the clown who fought me to a near-standstill when we were both trying to steal the EGRET?" Negaduck shouted out.
"That's the name I've been going by for over six years, but I'm afraid I'm just not that imposing without my armor, ESPECIALLY when compared to the infamous Negaduck." the former Destructo-Duck admitted.
"THAT'S a MAJOR understatement." Negaduck said outloud before adding "Hey, I seem to remember Launchpad telling me about an old rival of his from back when he was still working in Duckburg who happens to match your description. Your name wouldn't happen to be Fenton Crackshell, would you?" out of sheer curiousity.
"Well, it's a name I haven't gone by in over six years but, yes, that IS the name I was born with. However, if you would help me get my armor back, I would be VERY grateful; even grateful enough to serve you." Crackshell said as Nega-Stegmutt ripped the chains holding him right out from out of the wall (Negaduck was just going unlock those chains with the keys but, once more, Nega-Stegmutt couldn't resist showing off his strength).
"Well, you're pretty much useless to me WITHOUT the armor and I DID journey all the way from Saint Canard to Duckburg to try to recruit DESTRUCTO-DUCK so, I'll agree to your terms." Negaduck said as he unlocked the chains from Crackshell's wrists and ankles. Nega-Morgana made one last teleportation; teleporting all four villains to the impound room holding Negaduck's weapons and aircraft as well as Crackshell's Destructo-Duck armor.
After Nega-Morgana repaired the armor with her magic and WHILE Negaduck was recovering all of his weapons, Crackshell said the special code words that reverted him to his evil armored alter-ego. Destructo-Duck then activated his chest cannon, blasted out the entire left wall of the impound room and, finally, used his mechanically enhanced strength to lift Negaduck's aircraft and carry it out to where the four villains would have plenty of take-off room.
After he, Nega-Morgana, Nega-Stegmutt and Destructo-Duck were all onboard the aircraft, Negaduck then started it up and the four villains quickly took to the skies. As he piloted the aircraft out toward the ocean in search of his last recruit, Negaduck thought to himself "Well, this is going pretty well so far aside from all four of us being briefly captured by those no-good do-gooders. I've already gathered three of my four intended recruits and, with enough preparation, I might, just MIGHT be able to whip this bunch into a TRUE team.".
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