After a quick examination of Darkwing's motionless body, Gizmoduck-Mark-One replies "No, he's alive; JUST BARELY. He's not breathing, but he does have a VERY WEAK pulse and his heart rate has slowed to three beats a minute.".
Felinoa quickly builds up an energy ball from her claws and tosses it at her villainous mother, but Empress Mewlexa dodges the energy ball with ease before unleashing one of her own. Once more, Gizmoduck-Mark-One speeds in front of Felinoa ready to take the blast for his beloved, but this time, the armored hero has his special energy absorbing and redirecting antennae prepared to catch Mewlexa's energy ball. As the energy ball is caught, amplified and redirected back at Mewlexa by the antennae, Morgana takes advantage of this diversion to employ her strongest healing spell in an attempt to save her dying husband. Though Empress Mewlexa dodges the redirected energy ball like nobody's business, she IS kept to occupied to notice Gizmoduck-Mark-Two, Quiverwing Quack and Brain King entering the room via Giz-Two's hypersonic heel jets and phase-cloak device. Quiverwing fires off the third of her adoptive father's super-stink gas cartridges, attached to one of her arrows after Giz-Two de-cloaks but before the three just arriving heroes are spotted. While the stink-gas is strong enough to weaken Mewlexa, she has gotten enough stronger from absorbing the energy of Buggit, Wireius and Supmylo that it isn't enough to take her down. However, the stink gas, combined with Giz-Two's hyper-gravity cannon and Brain King's telepathic assault proves enough to take her down low enough for Giz-One, Stegmutt and Felinoa to finish taking Mewlexa out of the fight with a full-strength triple-uppercut. With Mewlexa out for the count, the Justice Ducks are free to concentrate on Darkwing, who is, by this point, VERY SLOWLY starting to stir. Eventually, thanks to Morgana's healing spell, Darkwing is strong enough to get back to his feet and see the unconscious Empress. He also notices Mewlexa's dimensional transporter device and gets an idea. "Quiverwing, Brain King and Felinoa, please come here. I think that, between the four of us, we should be able to figure out this device enough to give these four interstellar evil-doers a one-way ticket to dimensional limbo.".
While Darkwing, Quiverwing, Felinoa and Brain King pool their technological skills to figure out how to work Mewlexa's dimensional transporter, Stegmutt and Gizmoducks Mark-One and Mark-Two gather the other three defeated space villains into a pile and Morgana rests up from the healing spell she used to save Darkwing. By the time Stegmutt manages to drag the 80-foot Queen Wireius onto the pile (a tough job even for HIS strength), Darkwing, Quiverwing, Brain King and Felinoa have figured out how to use the machine to transport Mewlexa, Buggit, Supmylo and Wireius into dimensional limbo, where they will spend the rest off their lives unable to ever again threaten the innocent. With a quick throw of the switch by Quiverwing Quack (Darkwing figured that, after the way Mewlexa poisoned her, she deserved the honor of banishing their enemies to dimensional limbo), the four space-villains are permanently exiled to an area where they are the only living creatures around and, thus, they have nobody to threaten but each other.
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Meanwhile, back on Earth, things aren't going quite as smoothly for Neptunia and Bushroot. Though the duo fights valiantly, they are still hopelessly outmatched by the Fearsome Five. With a super-powerful sonic vocal blast, Nega-Neptunia is able to disorient both Bushroot and her much less powerful Normalverse counterpart enough for Nega-Stegmutt to rip the ground out from under them and send them flying into in Destructo-Duck's waiting electro-net. After that, Neptunia and Bushroot are frozen by Nega-Morgana's freeze spell. Negaduck cackles "I must admit, it was fun watching those two dopey do-gooders trying to outwit us and I'll even grudgingly give them credit for lasting a half-hour longer than I thought they would, but, in the end, we won. Now all we have to do is wait for the rest of the geek squad to return to Earth. Since this is THEIR headquarters, we merely have to wait them out. Darkwing and the rest of the Justice Ducks will come to us soon enough. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!".
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Unaware of the return of the Fearsome Five, Darkwing, Quiverwing, Morgana, Brain King Giz-One, Giz-Two, Felinoa and Stegmutt rocket back to Earth, exhausted but triumphant. "Look, Morg. Given the circumstances I can understand why you wanted to keep your pregnancy a secret from me until AFTER the battle. You're right; I DO tend to get over-protective about you and Gos as well as Liz, Monty and Alysa, but that's just..." Darkwing says before Morgana finishes understandingly....
"You tend to get over-protective about your loved ones because you DO love them, Dark. I know and I understand. Heck, most of the time, the fact you care THAT MUCH is an excess I LOVE about you.".
"Thanks, honeywumpus." Darkwing says simply just before lovingly kissing his wife fully on the lips.
After Darkwing and Morgana semi-reluctantly end their kiss, Gizmoduck-Mark-One comes up to Darkwing and says "Well, Wingy, I just wanted to say that you REALLY showed the stuff of TRUE heroes tonight. Even though we're not exactly friends, you still saved my life ALMOST at the cost of your own. In spite of our past differences I'd still like to say that I have NEVER been prouder to call you a fellow hero." good-naturedly extending his right hand; a gesture that Darkwing gladly accepts.
While the two heroes are shaking hands, Giz-One sees Felinoa shed a couple of tears. After ending his handshake with Darkwing, Giz-One rolls over to Felinoa and says "What's the matter, Princess? I thought you would be pleased to see your evil mother go down in final defeat.".
"I AM." Felinoa admits before adding "These are tears of mixed emotion. On one hand, I'm happy that my mother finally got what she deserved. On the other hand, I'm now going to have to fill her spot as Empress and assume control of, not only HER empire, but those of the other three villains we defeated tonight and that MEANS a LOT more responsibility than I'm ready for. I can't just give all those worlds they've conquered their freedom; those worlds are so unused to being free that I'm going to have to EASE them into it.".
Gizmoduck-Mark-Two, meanwhile, is talking to Quiverwing Quack. "We did it, Gos. We actually beat Empress Mewlexa. Between YOUR super-stink-gas arrow, MY hyper-gravity cannon and Brain King's telepathy, she didn't stand a chance against our sneak attack.".
"We bad, Webby", Quiverwing says simply as she and Giz-Two exchange a "high-five", which Darkwing quietly observes. Though he won't openly admit it, Darkwing is secretly proud that Quiverwing and Giz-Two are on much better terms than himself and Giz-One normally are.
"We're coming in for final approach. We'll be reaching headquarters in less than twenty seconds." Brain King says as the Justice Ducks' space transport starts to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
To Be Continued
