Confusion: Traitor or Allie
Chapter 2: Final Confrontation
By: Kathy Kid (now known as Ms. prongs)
Disclaimer: I no own the show, or the characters, but guess what I own the lame title AND Lorenna! *grins* the pictures of her I own too, but you can't see those..cause my scanner hates me...
AN: *updated 3/8/02*
Well..alrighty then, I know I know it took me practically FOREVER to get to chapter 2, and I'll understand if nobody reads this, but to any and all who do, PLEASE review...please? I'm not usually one to beg, but I really need to know people's thoughts on this..
Anyways, here's the conclusion (unless of course it turns into a three parter..it better not..)
Enjoy!
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Backing up Duke and Tanya looked at their visitor in complete shock, while Lorenna stood in confusion.
"Lucretia?" she asked softly.
"Well sister dear, you've decided to come visit.." said the older duck advancing towards the three.
"I thought you were, p-ya know pulled into that dimensional limbo." said Tanya.
"The fool, Dragaunus didn't even check the settings before he gave me the transporter. I switched it around.." she smiled evily.
"So what are you doing here?" asked Duke.
"What am I doing here? oh that's just so funny..you are the ones at fault for Dragaunus even attempting to send me to that prison! You think I'm going to let you get off? I don't think so." she hissed.
"Where are the others Lucretia." came Lorenna.
"Others? Oh, you mean them, I have them somewhere, maybe I sent THEM to a demensional prison, maybe their in this dump. Maybe they're with Draganus...or maybe they're dead." she taunted.
"DEAD?!?!" all three exclaimed at once.
"Never know.."
"What do you want Lucretia, the protius chip maybe? to get back at Draggy for sending you there? what?" asked Tanya
"I want revenge." Lucretia stated simply and leveled the device she held in her hand.
"hey! that's the prototype I was working on! gimme that back!" she said starting towards the older female, only to be stopped by two hands on her shoulders..
"Rather interesting actually Tanya, very good job. Came in handy for taking out your friends..I don't think Mallory will be having a good few days...if she lives that long."Lucretia said sneering evily.
"You know Tanya..you could help me, like you did when you were 16...remember? rewiring the schools computers? So that the whole thing crashed and all the scores were lost."
Tanya made a strange face. "I only helped because you said there was a virus, or something like that! if Id'a known you were just using me...well I definatly wouldn'ta helped! and don't think I'm going to help you this time either!" she snapped, then set off her blades, and charged at Lucretia, who started to pull the trigger, but when she did it malfunctioned and didn't go off, cursing under her breath she looked ahead and gasped as Tanya about tackled her, but she disapeared just before they contacted.
"Whoa?!" and she crashed into the wall and fell over.
"Tanya? Ya ok kid?" said Duke as he helped her up.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, soon as the ringing in my head stops." she said shaking her head then going to pick up her prototype.
"What now Tanya?" said Lorenna walking over to her.
"I don't know, we have no way to track her.." replied Tanya with an exasperated expression on her face.
Duke had been silent for a second as he eyed Lorenna messing with the necklace around her neck, suddenly a thought hit him. "Lorenna, that necklace..."
"Yeah? what about it?" she asked
"Well you said you were looking it over just before, well you woke up on earth right?" he questioned.
She thought for a second and then nodded slowly. "Yeah...so what's your point?"
"Yeah Duke, what's you're point?" Tanya asked, apparently her echo going unheard.
"Well, do you think maybe there could be some kind of transportation device in that necklace of Lucretia's" he asked.
"I.." she paused.
"Hello!? I'm still here ya know!" came Tanya's indignant voice as she walked up. "And am totally bef--conf-...lost, mind explaining yourself Duke?"
He turned to her with a slight smile as he spoke. "Do yeh think that the necklace Lorenna's wearing could be some sort of mini gateway generator Tani?"
"I--" she thought for a second before her eyes lit up with understanding. "It IS possible, It does look like it could, the crystal in the middle, if there was a vortex when you ran your hand over it Lore then perhaps it's activated by touch or something, ya know? This could be our way to find Lucretia!"
Tanya's realization brought hope to the other ducks and Duke spoke up. "Tanya, Lorenna, you two go to the Lab and see if you can trace Lucretia, I'm gunna go for a little walk, check the place out." he said and at their nods they split up.
"Comm me if you find anything out."
"Right." "Gotcha" and they split up.
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Duke walked down the corridors of the pond, desolate and dark, with an airy sense of self defeat. Something he really didn't like at all.
He'd told Tanya that he was going to go look around, but really just wanted a chance to clear his mind. Mind you, every so often in his wandering he would stop and his glare would fixate at a certain spot on a wall, or on the floor as if trying to picture the fight, if there had even been one.
He couldn't quite understand it, what was happening?! One second the groups just fine, maybe a little paranoid, and the next there's only two, and a visitor. This seemed majorly unfair.
Continuing his trek down the silent halls he tried desperatly to figure something out. But his mind for some reason would permit no rational thought. Anger? Probably, Lucretia was playing dirty, would that mean that they'd have to as well?
Consentrating now on nothing but the clicking of his boots against the cold metal floors he let his mind wander and his subconsious lead him to some unknown destination..
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One the girls reached Tanya's Lab, the 1st thing on Tanya's mind was how this object worked.
But Lorenna was more into small talk as they examined it. "So Tani, hows life been treaten ya here on Earth?" she asked softly looking around the lab.
Pausing only slightly in her work Tanya continued her research as she spoke. "Well I've had my share of mishaps, but overall it's been ok."
"Mishaps?" asked Lorenna raising an Eyebrow
"Well most of them were, well ya know Nosedives fault." she said with a smirk. "If you would'a gotten here 2 weeks earlier you woulda found us deaged. Again HIS fault, he can't keep his hands off anything...and don't even think that Lore" she said as if reading her friends mind.
Laughing softly Lorenna sighed. "How do you like it though?"
"It's ok, I really miss Puckworld, I'd say family but--well you know that's obviously out of a question." her voice wavered slightly then went Neutral again. "Speaking of which...how IS Puckworld holding up?" Tanya asked, then dropped into her work ducking under the bench to pick up a stray bolt that 'clinked' to the floor moments before.
"Peaceful finally, we've started to rebuild..everybody thinks that you guys are dead ya know. Or atleast that's the rumor, Let's see...schools start up in two years or so, and everythings looking alot better now. Future looks bright."
"Well that's good..I'm really glad to hear that everythings going.." she stopped when she ran her omni-tool over the pendent, she typed something in, and then pointed a little laser at it, soon she heard a small beep, and it came out looking like a locator. "Lore! I got it!!"
"Really?!" Lorenna asked turning around to look at the pendant as it pulsed a deep red and beeped, showing a location in which they could find LuCretia..
"Yeah!" Tanya grinned furiously then slapped her communicator open. "Duke! Duke we got it! we've got her location!"
*Beep* "Alright, I'll be right there." came his voice over the comm
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Mallory awoke with a pounding in her head that made her wonder why it hadn't woken her up sooner. Just how long had she ben out anyways? "ohh..." was all she could do at the point.
"Mallory?" came a familiar voice somewhere close.
"Huh..." she said softly.
"Bro! Mal's awake!!"
It was Dive she heard, and apparently he was talking to Wildwing.
As she opened her eyes fuzz and spots swam in her vision before fading and making way for Wildwings concerned face.
"Mal...Mal can you hear me?" he asked when her eyes finally focused on her.
She nodded slolwy, but regretted it "What--happened--uh--where are we?"
Keeping her down as she tried to sit up he replied. "I honestly don't know but it looks strangely like a Saurian Dungeon, so maybe the Raptor, but I'm not sure." he replied.
"What?! But weren't we facing L..Decoy?? what about..I..." she trailed off as everything hit her at once giving her a major migrane.
"Rest.." he said as she tried to sit up again. "You need it, you took a blow to the head earlier, we just stopped the bleeding a while ago, just lay down ok?" came his voice strangely soft, and his eyes full of worry..
Something in his eyes made her smile softly to herself as she followed orders and closed her eyes. Thoughts of Tanya and Lorenna being free made her scowl, but she had no time to reflect on the unfairness because darkness shrouded her view and she surrendered to sleep once more..
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Tanya ran out of the Lab with Lorenna close on her heels as Duke ran up. "So you got it working?" he asked
"Yup, we got her!" answered Tanya grinning.
"I still don't understand why we can't just teleport there.." muttered Lorenna.
"Because--" Snapped Tanya who turned around to face her. "It'd be a rather unethical idea to do that, because we don't even KNOW if the Teleporter will function co-cor--right...we just can't go take foolish changes every time they show up.." she chided.
"Well...excuse me for being alive.." retorted a slightly insulted Lorenna.
Tanya sighed and turned around, running down the corridor.
Lorenna watched her in hidden anger and started after her, only to be held back by Duke.
"Hey, kid--don't take it to heart what Tani said, she gets rather, impersonal when battles come around. She's just worried about the others." he said wit a comforting smile which faded as he let go of her shoulder and took off silent after Tanya.
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Mallory re-awoke to a slamming noise.. "What the--" she was cut off by Wildwing.
"I KNEW you were behind this Dragaunus." he seethed to the looming form of the Saurian that appeared infront of the cell.
"Me? No, unfortunatly I'm only one part in a plan to take over this blasted planet." came his evil voice.
"What's going on.." Mallory muttered sitting up.
This time it was Dive at her side. "Well apparently Draggy isn't behind capturing us.." he pointed out rather blondely.
She growled. "I KNOW THAT FEATHERBRAIN!"
Jumping slightly he added. "Well while you were out Lucretia came down with somebody who stayed in the shadows and she sneered at us, then she talked quiety with the same shadow person then left." he finished.
"You couldn't have told me that in the first place?" she rubbed her head.
"Dragaunus! let us out of here!!" shouted Wildwing.
"Keep calm friend." came grins soothing voice.
"I don't think so---DUCK, you're gunna die a horribly painful death as soon as we find that Techi of yours..and the thief.." he threatened...
"Horribly painful death? Is there a Choice B?" dive questioned mostly to himself only to recieve a slap behind the head from Mallory.
"Take Tanya, please...then again you should ask her to join your side, she'd probably jump at the idea." came her bitter voice.
Dragaunus shook his head and left while Wildwing shot her a very dissapointed and hurt look.
"What?!? she's a traitor Wildwing, face it.." she snapped. "All I did was tell the truth to that Lizard." and that brought silence throughout the cell.
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"Hey?---Duke..what's this?" asked Lorenna, at Navagations in the Migrator.
"Huh?" he turned around. "C--..Comm Signals! Tanya, it's the guys! they're alive!!" he announced. "Good--no..great Job Lore." he commended her.
Lorenna smiled with pride but the look of distant anger in her friends eyes through the Hollow smile she was giving her made her realize maybe Tanya'd been hiding something. But before she could voice her thoughts she spoke.
"Duke stop the migrator." she snapped. "I'm going after Lucretia..You and Lorenna go free the others."
Duke was about to protest, but as he pulled over Lorenna got up.
"I'm going with you." she said and at Tanya's argumentive look added. "You know very well they'd never trust ME to free them, if you're going to get yourself in danger, I wanna come too."
"Sh--nevermind.." came Duke at the Amused look in Tanya's eyes, then he proceeded to open the back of the Migrator.
"Hope you can handle one of the duck cycles Lore.." the blonde said.
"You bet I can" replied Lorenna with a smile.
"Ready?"
"Ready"
As they mounted the cycles Tanya gave one last order to Duke. "Duke, if you get the guys bring them to these corridinants.." she said comming him them.
"Ok..."
"And one more thing.."
"What?"
"Tell the others Lore and I will take out Lu-..Decoy, make it final...you guys don't have to help, and I'll understand if they really want me off the team.." she finished softly and without leaving a window for reply took of with a squeel of tires followed by Lorenna casting Duke an assuring smile.
"Becareful Kid.." he muttered, before taking off in the rain to help the others.
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It was a few hours before anybody spoke in the cell, but by the time anybody was READY to talk, there was a small clunk behind Dives head which caused him to freak out and dive next to the spot where Mallory was laying down.
"Shhh...kid, you wanna get us all caught?" came a familiar voice from out of no where..
"Duke!?" hissed Wing in surprise.
"You got it.." he then flipped himself from his spot in the cieling and landed next to Grin.
Mallory was silent for a second before looking around. "Well, where's Tanya?"
"What you forgive her?" asked Wildwing with a twang of hope in his voice that this whole argument would be solved.
"No..I was just wondering if Dragaunus actually caught up with her and Decoy number 2..maybe they took his offer if he made it." she said spite plain in her voice.
"Huh?" came a confused Duke.
"Don't ask." mumbled Dive who was now standing next to him.
"So what's say we get outta here."
"Sounds good." said Wildwing.
"Oh..by the way..we have to make a pitstop a few..cells down. The Control center is down a few feet. They have your equipment." added Duke as an offset who then pulled the bench up to the celieng panel and jumped up and waited for the others to follow.
Grin was the last so he closed it over with a thud, which echoed down the corridor, catching an ear.
"So...they're trying to escape huh?" the female voice said evily. "We'll just see about that."
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"It's over here.." came Duke's voice a few feet ahead of the others.
"What? ack! SPIDER!" cried Dive who then knocked into Mallory, who fell into Duke who was trying to take the panel off silently, but failed and fell through. "WHOA"
"Guys!" called Wildwing as the three clambered through the hole in the tunnel.
As Wing climbed down after them Grin looked at the little spider and shrugged, then jumping down from his spot he grabbed Mallory's arm as she tried to attack Dive for being "such a wuss."
"Calm now my friend, it was merely an accident." he said and to everybody's amazement she releted with only muttered threats.
But before anybody could make any moves towards their gear the door burst open, revealing drones, and two half hawk/half human villans.
"Stay right there.." they ordered.
"Guys.." said Dive with a nervous smile.. "We have comp'ny.."
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"Tanya!!" shouted Lorenna who had to punch the gas once again, going up to nearly 90 to keep---CATCH up with her friend. "TANYA!! SLOW DOWN!!"
Suddenly Tanya stopped, almost on a dime, which knocked Lorenna into then over the duck cycle front when she attempted the same thing.
"Oomph."
"No time to lay around, we have to stop Lucretia.." said Tanya who walked bye, pulling Lorenna up and along as she went.
"Stop Tanya.." said the older duck grabbing hold of a lamp post pole and halt the two of them.
"Stop what?" asked Tanya.
"Just slow down, you're rushing into this a little too quickly aren't you? I mean this is like, personal for the both of us, you probably on two levels, I'm just worried that is going to cloud up your technical abilities and get ya hurt." said Lorenna with concern plastered on her face.
"That pur--prop--that's nonsense Lore, I know what I'm doing. And I have a hunch as to what she's doing too, if I'm right...time is something we really don't have." finished Tanya a sense of urgency in her voice, which was reflected by the look in her eyes and the pace she set as she grabbed her friends wrist and took off towards the warehouse they had stopped at.
"What are you---" she stopped abrubtly when Tanya threw open the door and revealed something horrifying. "Tanya what--"
"The E-bomb.." muttered Tanya, a look of shock and disgust that could only mean one thing.
"The E-bomb? what's that?" asked Lorenna taking a few steps unconsiously backwards, as if scared the bomb would go off killing them both.
((WARNING: *lol* This next page or so, will DEFINATLY prove Tanya's vast knowledge, it will be very complex, so those of you who aren't big fans of Tanya, or who don't like science very much, can skip it..or be prepared lol, I'm a girl WHO LOVES technology and mechanics.. :):):) ))
"The E-bomb..short for Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb, it's unlike ah-ah-other weapon in America's Arsenal..." she said slowly taking a few more steps forward towards the nearly finished trechory device.
Unbeknownst to both of them a visitor lurked in the shadows...joined by another.
"I'm afraid to ask what it does, and HOW you know what it does.." said Lorenna timidly stepping in after her friend.
Looking at it with dissapointment she sighed. "This device, Lorenna...is the worst thing in this world, worst than Nuke's and Atomic Bombs.." she started.
"I found out about this by an old scientist human friend of mine and by reading. It's a type of weapon that's been rumored to have been used on planets around the Galaxy back on our home world to stop wars from one world. Lorenna this is..is..devistating.."
"Yeah but what's it do..how's it work.." she asked now interested slightly.
"Put it this way, when this thing hits it's mark, you'll hear a sharp crack in the distance. By the time you mistakenly identify this sound as a crack of thunder, the civilized world you know will have become unhinged. Much like Va-Va- Vacemania in the Beta Sector.." she trailed off, then gathered her thoughts as if trying to pull this knowledge out of some hat. "Florescent lights and television sets will glow eerily bright, despite being turned off. And the aroma of ozone mixed with smoldering plastic will seep from outlet covers as electric wires arc and telephone lines melt. CD players will feel warm to the touch, the batteries overloaded. The computer at your desk or at home, and every last bit of data on it, will be toast. And then you'll notice that the world sounds different as well. The background music of civilization, ya know, the whirl of internal-combustion engines, will have stopped, save a few diesels that is. Engines will NEVER start again. Human's however, will remain unharmed as they find themselves thrust backwards about 200 years, to a time when electricity meant a lightning bolt fracturing the night sky. Lorenna, this is the damage that could be inflicted by the E-bombs. And I subconsiously helped to build it.." she said sadly.
Lorenna looked at her jaw dropped. "You read too much about stuff Tanya.." she said then looked around and found a computer. "Hey Tanya, look!" she said and ran over to it, followed by a sullen blonde.
One of the shadowed figures started forwards, but was stopped. "Not yet.." the voice rasped. "Let's see if she knows the missing component...and anything else.."
"So, how's this baby run Tanya? and HOW did you know about this, besides friends.." she asked as she moved over for her friend to start typing.
"Well actually, from what I hear, the theory behind the Elect--Electr-- The E-bomb was proposed in 1925 earth years by, ya know physicist Arthur H. Compton----not to build weapons, but to study atoms."
"Atoms??" said a surprised Lorenna..
"Yeah, from what I've read about this, Compton demonstrated that firing a stream of highly energetic photons into atoms that have a low atomic number causes them to eject a stream of electrons. And earths physics students know it today as the 'Compton Effect'." she said shaking her head. "This is all mainstream in Puckworld, actually we've had this Tecnology for years, we just never use it. It's senseless to fight against your own people.." she said as an offset before bringing up another screen and studying it.
"D'ah, Ironically, this nuclear research led to an unexpected demonstration of the power of the Compton Effect, and spawned a new type of weapon. Apparently in 1958, nuclear weapons designers ignited hydrogen bombs high over the Pacific Ocean. Well, the detonations created bursts of, ya know..gamma rays that, upon striking the oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, released a tsunami of electrons that spread for hundreds of miles..from the book I found, it says that Street lights were blown out in Hawaii and radio navigation, an old form of Navigation for pilots, was disrupted for about 18 hours, as far away as Australia! Then apparently the US set out to sol-soli--harden electronics against this Ele-el--EMP and develope weapons over it.." she shakes her head in disgust. "How these people could argue and battle their own species it just isn't right, you're supposed to be able to find peace between yourselves."
"That's true but--"
"Lorenna, they fight over LINES in the ground." said Tanya to emphasize her sudden anger towards Earths inhabitants. "I can't believe it, they're oblivious to anything happening in other worlds, that's so super--superf--so Ego tisical.." she huffed then the computer blipped twice then beeped.
"What's going on?"
"I got into the main data base, this is the set up of an E-bomb, see this?" she pointed to the screen. "Actually, you know, an FCG bomb or a flux compression generator is an astoundingly simple weapon." she clipped the last word. "It consists of an explosives packed tube places inside a slightly larger copper coil, as shown here" she pointed to the virtual model, then pointed to where it would be at the real bomb. "Now, if I'm not mistaken, the instant before the chemical explosive is detonated, the coil is energized by a bank of capacitors, creating a magnetic field." she took a second to point to where the explosive, tube and capacitors were. " The explosive charge detonates from the rear forward. A-A-as the tube flares outward it touches the edge of the coil....thereby creating a moving short circuit." she said and typed up a few symbols then another screen opened up to show the inside of the bomb. "The prop-probag--propagating short has the effect of compressing the magnetic field while reducing the inductance of the coil" she said and made the motion squeezing her hands together then a reducing motion and sighed.
"Are you still with me?" she asked
((Are you still with ME? lol))
Nodding Lorenna leaned over. "You know, I think I remember learning about FCG bombs in 11th grade...something about wiping out technologically advanced worlds in the blink of an eye. Convienently titled: Taking out enemies FCG 101." she nodded then shook her head. "I just can't seem to remember anything about it. I think blocked that year out." she smirked.
"Well see the result of all that." Tanya started.
"Would be produce a rampaging current pulse...which would break before the final disintegration of the device.." Lorenna finished with a knowing smile.
"Yeah..the pulse that emerges makes a lightning bolt seem like a flashbulb by comparison..see the pulse is emmited at high requencies that defeat protective devices like Faraday Cages." she finished and stood up walking to the bomb.
"It seems finished, I wonder.." she looked around the otherside then made a strange face. "oh! I see, they don't have a stator coil! that's why they haven't done anything yet, but that's what I used in my--ray..gun.." she trailed off as a chill ran down her spine.
Stepping out of the shadows Lucretia stepped out, followed by a male. He was a male, same as them, only a bit taller than Tanya. "Well--Tanya, I must admit, I'm impressed at how--complete you can describe the Device next to us." said her evil voice.
Tanya stepped back and was next to Lorenna.
"And I must also thank you, I was unsure if the coil in your 'experiment' was the correct one." she paused with a smile. "By the way, you're right, it is finished, and now that we have the stator coil, we can get this device up and running without a hitch, and we owe it all to you." she grinned.
Smacking her forehead she kept her hand there and groaned. "Me and my big beak.." she muttered.
"Oh, look at it this way, now all your human friends won't be harmed, they'll just have no weapons against us, and we can take over." said the Male.
"I dunno if I should be angry or grateful." said Lorenna sarcastically.
"Disgusted, how could you even THINK about doing this to these people.." Tanya said taking a step forward.
"Simple, we have the knowledge, and the Technology, they have the technology, but not the real knowledge..they are nieve, they do not deserve this planet, you should be thankful we don't just destroy them." said Lucretia matter-of-factly.
"Remind me to send flowers to the celebration" muttered Lorenna darkly.
"Well, I don't exactally intend to stand here and let you, ya know destroy the world..." she started but was cut off as the Lucretia pulled some sort of weapon on her.
"Well your intentions have changed Tani.." she said evily..
"Tanya." corrected the blonde and the two stared off for a second.
"Suit yourself." And she shot off a laser.
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"Comp'ny eh? Sounds devine, wish I had on better attire.." said Duke who attacked one of the drones destroying it.
"Now there's the attitude" said Nosedive grinning.
Mallory started to attack one of the drones but felt woozy and faltered, allowing herself to get knocked back into a wall.
"Mallory!" exclaimed Wildwing, who fended off two drones who tried to attack him and ran to her side as she struggled to get up.
"You're hurt again, you shouldn't have tried to fight." he said concern plain as day on his face.
"What, and let you guys have all the fun? I don't think so.." she said as she hid the pain in her back and took his hand standing up..
Lingering for a few seconds longer she caught his eye then looked down for a second. "Well..what's say we bash these creeps.." she said and took off for a fight, taking out a droid with a roundhouse kick sending that one into another one. "Alright, two for one..my kinda deal."
Wildwing shook his head with a smile and joined the fight.
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"Only you Nosedive, could take out two droids just by tripping over your own equipment.." Duke said shaking his head as he helped the younger duck up who made a face at him.
"Just shows how extra super cool I am."
"Ts, yeah, an' Draggy's gunna get a make ova."
"There'd be a sight." Dive chuckled.
"Alright children, what's say we get out of here..and, try to put this behind us." Wildwing said as he helped Mallory stay standing.
"We can get outta here the same way we came in, follow me." Duke replied smirking then as Mallory and Wildwing got on the table to climb up he grinned at Dive. "And look out for spiders Dive, I hear they like teenage ducks." and with that he jumped up and missed a flying robot arm aimed at him, leaving two unconsious half hawk half humans and wasted droids in their wake.
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Tanya barely had time to duck before a purple beam shot to her left side as she tumbled into Lorenna.
"Well?" came the male looking at Lucretia darkly. "Get them, and bring them with us, I'll get everything ready." he said smiling evily.
"Of course." Decoy replied and turned to Tanya who was kneeling over a dazed Lorenna.
"What hit me?"
"Um..me and the floor.." replied a sheepish Tanya who helped her friend up then turned to Lucretia who smiled in amusement.
"You two goodie goodies STILL play nice after all these years? pathetic.."
"Do me a favor Lucretia--" started an annoyed Lorenna.
"Yes Lil' sis?"
"One, don't call me that, and two go..go..Tanya?"
Raising an eyebrow the blonde looked at Lucretia who looked slightly annoyed. "Why don't you go jump into a pit of flesh eating raptors Lucretia." she said with a little bit of anger in her voice.
"That was a low blow Tani." said Lucretia sarcastically who then leveled the Laser at her again.
"Why do you even bother? you can't aim anyways." Lorenna said shrugging then gasping as a shot from the Laser that Lucretia held hit her in the side and she fell to the ground unconsious. Tanya tried to get a shot off with her Omni tool only to hear the laugther of Lucretia and stop as the weapon was once again pointed at her head. Settling to kneel down next to her injured friend protectively she eyed Decoy with anger in her eyes.
"Tanya..Tanya Tanya Tanya.." started Lucretia circling her and the unconsious Lorenna. "Did you--no let me rephrase that..DO you honestly think you have any chance of winning? Think about it, Lorenna's out for the count and you're out numbered and outgunned three to one--oh don't give me that look, there are two other gun men, one on your left side behind you, and one to your right side." she finished and Tanya sighed defeatedly.
"What do you want?"
"Well now, that's simple enough..revenge."
"On who? the mighty ducks? Drauganus? me?"
"A bit of all three actually..more so I want your help."
Tanya snorted in mild amusement and Lucretia seethed. "Let me get this straight, you attack and kidnap my friends, injure your own little sister a-and threaten me, and you want me to help you? You expect me to w-wil--just up and help you!?"
"No, of course not, but if you dont' I'll kill little Lorenna." Lucretia replied simply causing Tanya's eyes to widen. "And I know you two are better friends then we ever were, both of you so 'innocent' so trusting..so idiotic!" she taunted then pointed her gun at Lorenna instead. "So what's it gunna be Tani?"
Gritting her teeth Tanya glared at Lucretia, but she couldn't risk Lorenna's life. "Fine..I'll help you, just don't hurt Lorenna, please.."
"Don't worry I won't, as long as you come along nice and quiet.."
With that Tany stood, albeit reluctantly, from her injured friends side and walked towards a back door.
"W-wait!"
"What?" Lucretia asked in annoyance.
"What about Lorenna? are you just going to leave her there..she need med-medical treatement, that injury is bad!"
"Somebody will take care of her, don't worry..."
Tanya's eyes widened slightly but she remained silent.
"Dvek, you have the communicator. If my--friend here doesn't cooperate, I'll contact you, and you kill my dear sister instantly, got it?"
"Yes ma'am." the saurian guard said with a nod.
"Now, Tanya, can we go now..I'm kind of on a schedule here.."
Knowing very well any more stalling could mean the death of Lorenna, she sighed in resignation and nodded. As she followed Lucretia to a huge aircraft she quickly tried to devise a plan to get herself out of this mess.
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Lorenna woke up about 15 minutes later, a searing pain in her side, to see a guard leaning against the wall of the now empty building, asleep. 'Loser' she thought to herself as she looked down to her side which was caked with dry blood, but not bleeding anymore.
Pushing herself up she gritted her teeth to bite back to the cry of pain she almost let out, forcing herself to her knees she sighed. 'That tasks complete, now to phase two..stand up.' she got a wry smile and, very slowly and painstakingly forced herself up, first one knee up, the next, and she pushed up.."Whoa.." she muttered as the world took a quick 45 degree turn and she about lost her balance. Quickly as it happened the world righted itself once more and she stood somewhat steadily on two feet.
'Now..to get out of here..' she thought quickly and turned around, the door was 15 feet from the sleeping saurian sleeze bag. "Great.." she muttered and then took a few steps, and her shoes echoed "click click click" 'oh geez..'.
He started, then looked up with a look of confusion.
'Uh oh..' Lorenna thought nervously as his eyes focused on her. "Heh..hiya."
He growled low in his throat and pulled his laser out and leveled it at her.
Just as he pulled the trigger Lorenna threw herself out of the way and bit back a cry of pain as as heat ran through her stomache. "oh God.." she muttered as she fell to the ground in a heap of pain, hand clamped over a now bleeding old wound.
A feril grin spread over the Saurians face as he closed the space between them. "Heh.." she gulped and got a dejected look as he raised the laser again.
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At the exact same time Lorenna had woken up and everything the other ducks were going down the street in the Migrator and Duke was looking over something, soon he typed in a few buttons and looked at the others. "We got a detour coming up."
"What? why? where?" Mallory asked woozily.
"You forgot who and when.." Dive snickered at her and she shot him an icy glare.
"Old abandoned Warehouse on 35th and main..." Duke replied.
"Why would we want to go there duke?" asked Wildwing seriously.
"Just believe me.." he muttered and took a sharp turn and sped up.
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Soon enough they arrived at the old abandoned warehouse only to find two duck cycles not far from it, and as soon as they got out, Mallory stumbling slightly they heard a crashing noise from inside (which was Lorenna falling to the ground and the laser hitting the wall).
"We gotta get in there!" Duke yelled and ran in as the others followed him.
Soon as he got in there he saw the Saurian guard aiming at Lorenna and pulling the trigger, before the beam hit the injured girl he deflected the beam with his saber back at the attacker and it hit dead on sending him into the opposite wall as Wildwing attacked him.
"Lorenna, ya ok kid?" Duke asked helping her up and watching as Wildwing shot a puck at the saurian and grin knocked him out of comission.
"I'm fine, just a little scratch, nothing big.." the younger duck replied then hissed in pain as she grabbed her side.
"Yeah, ok my tail feathers.." Duke muttered and she glared at him. "Where's Tanya?" he asked suddenly looking around.
"With..Lucretia.." she said softly and ignored Mallory's pointed look. "We tried to fight back, but..I was attacked and I think Lucretia threatened my life to get Tanya to cooperate..cause I know she'd never help that witch willingly after what happened when we were 16.." she trailed off and got a faint expression.
"Kid, you gunna be ok?" he asked again and she waved him off going for her communicator, but she couldn't get a lock on Tanya. "Great..there goes that idea, Tanya, please..just use that common sense of yours and attack her.." she prayed and Duke got a wierd expression as she tumbled into his arms unconsious.
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Tanya looked around the aircraft miserably, if she sat around and did nothing, it'd be her fault all the way around for the troubles cast apon the humans, if she tried to attack and fight back against Lucretia, Lorenna would be killed. "What do I do..." she asked herself dejectedly.
But suddenly an idea hit her, if she took her chances, and did this right, maybe she could knock Lucretia out and then she could use the time to disconnect the bomb, and Lorenna would still be safe..but could she chance it like that? Of course she could..couldn't she?
Oh well, no time like the present.
"Alright Tanya, come on, get out here!" Lucretia said and yanked her to her feet and out the adjoining door to where the Bomb was being held.
Tanya suddenly got a very bad feeling in her stomache and then saw her opening as she kneeled down next to a small pannel, Lucretia was standing right over her shoulder. 'If only I could angle the omnitool laser..' she thought suddenly and kneeled another way, pushed a button and a 'click click' noise was heard. She smiled secretly when one of the wires was disconnected, which would make it safe to do whatever she pleased and the bomb would never go off.
"Whattid you do?"
"Just got one of the wires recon--con--back together, it would have never gone off had you left it like that." she said matter of factly then shifted to the side, pushed a small button on her omni-tool making as if to get a tool to come out only a little laser came out. She aimed correctly and a little beam exploded and hit Lucretia in the foot.
The female duck cried out in pain and fell over to the ground and Tanya scrambled for the pilots area only to be tackled to the ground by a furious Lucretia. 'oh no!' she thought but then as she was being pulled up she used all her strength and flipped the other girl over her head, which knocked the air out of her offender. "Take THAT Lucretia!" she said and jumped over the downed antagonist and hurried to the cockpit.
Bursting the door open she stopped dead in her tracks when she came face to face with the wrong end of a Laser gun. "Bad move--duck.." the holder of the gun said and, with a well placed kick to her stomache, knocked her to the ground winded.
"Oomph."
Lucretia struggled to get up holding her wrist and moving gingerly. "You'll pay for that Tanya..you really will." she threatened.
"Oh great.."
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There was a loud noise over head of the ware house which sounded suspiciously like a Large plane of some sort.
"Guys.." Dive said when he looked outside.
"What?"
"Check it out!"
"What the.." Wildwing stopped when he saw the large plane go over head and head south.
"Hey, that must be were Tanya is." Duke said suddenly, a half consious Lorenna had said something about a bomb, and a large aircraft.
"How do you know?" Mallory asked.
"Call it a hunch." and with that he picked up the now fully unconsious Lorenna and they all ran to the Migrator.
"Follow that plane!" Dive said and chuckled as they sped south in pursuit of the plane.
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Tanya struggled against Valgors (that was the guys name she found out from Lucretia earlier) tight grip as Lucretia studied her evily.
"So, you thought you could play hero and stop our plan from going did you Tanya? huh?, well guess what, you're wrong, infact..I suspected you'd do something like this so I told the soldier watching your friend down on the ground to kill her anyways when we took off. So you lose both ways, the bombs going off AND Lore's dead.." she taunted and got an unexpected reply.
Tanya shuddered, not only had she been duped but her best friend was dead. "How could you.." she said softly and with a burst of energy wripped free of Valgors arms and tackled her angrily to the otherside of the aircraft, a switch was flicked when Lucretia struggled with her and suddenly the air lock was switched and a door opened, depressorization began and tools began to fly out of the plane, and Tanya and Lucretia nearly fell out, but Tanya had grabbed ahold of the side of the Plane and Lucretia had grabbed onto Tanya's legs. "Ah, leggo!" she cried.
"What are you, crazy?!" the other girl snapped and started to struggle to get up as she looked down, her one problem had been a fear of heights. "Oh my god.." she cried and about pulled Tanya down with her.
"No! stop struggling!" Tanya yelled at then looked at where they were, and who was following them down below.. 'The guys, Duke got them out..I hope..' she thought and then she noticed they circled around.
"The vehicle below, attack it!" she heard Valgor order the pilot.
"No!" she shouted and with that Lucretia's weight on her legs caused her to lose her grip and they both fell towards the ground at an amazingly fast speed. 'Talk about Dejavouh..' she said as she closed her eyes and cried out.
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Duke saw to laser beams fired from the exact same plane that they'd been trailing and then, as they dodged the attack narrowly he hopped out of the Migrator and watched with wide eyes as two people toppled out of the plane. "Mother of pearl! Wing!" he pointed as the two figures fell towards the forest that was nearby.
When he heard one of the screams he knew instinctively that was Tanya. His eyes widened and he turned to Wildwing who was watching as well. "Shoot down the plane! shoot down the plane!!" he cried and took off towards the forest followed by Grin and Dive on the blades.
Wildwing got a strange look but complied, and within seconds two large beams emitted from the Migrators weaponry and the planes engines started on fire and they crashed to the lake in a funnel of smoke. A large explosion was the only evidence left behind.
"Now.." he said and waited for the others to return.
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Tanya waited for the painful crashing to come, but it only came with a russel of leaves and crackling branches.
Another crash came from somewhere nearbye with another russel of leaves and crackling branches.
"Tanya!" she heard the familiar voice call out.
"Tani! You there girly girl!?" Dive echoed and she couldn't help but smile happily, but she cringed when she tried to move her arm.
"I'm--here!..up here!" and with that a loud explosion caused both her and Lucretia to fall out of their respective trees at the same time, with two thuds they fell in heaps.
"Tani.." Duke said and kneeled down next to her. "Ya ok kid?"
"Ah...I'm fine..just a little scrape here and there.." she said softly and then watched as Grin picked up the unconsious Lucretia.
"Come on, let's get you out of here..can you walk?"
"Yeah, I think so, just can't move my arm,it kinda, ya know..hurts.." she said and cringed again as he helped her up and with that they made their way out of the forest.
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Wildwing and Mallory looked up in surprise when they saw Dive, Duke, an injured Tanya, and Grin carrying an unconsious Lucretia out of the forest.
"What happened!?" called wildwing as he made his way over to them, while Mallory stayed behind a wierd expression in her eyes, had she been wrong twice?
"Just a little..ah, hehe, accident.." Tanya said and Dive rolled his eyes. "I knew you'd be blowing everything up when we first met."
"Cute..dive, real cute.." Tanya glared at him and he smirked.
"Settle down the both of you, no arguing till we get you back to the pond, and HER in detention.." Wildwing said looking at Lucretia in Grins arms.
"Ah Alright."
"Gotcha Bro"
He rolled his eyes and they made their way back to the Migrator, where..a sullen looking Tanya cried out in surprise when she saw a half alwake Lorenna. "YOU'RE ALIVE!! LORENNA YOU'RE ALIVE!!"
"Yeah...last time I checked I was..have I died lately?" she asked Duke who shrugged with a hint of a smile.
"Lucretia said she had you killed...I thought you were dead..." her voice trailed off as she gingerly pulled her friend into a hug and with that they set off back for the pond.
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A few hours later when both Lorenna and Tanya were bandaged up, and Lucretia was detained, everybody was sitting around in the mess hall, well everybody but Mallory who having an extremely hard time allowing herself to admit she was wrong, again.
"Look, Tanya..I'm..sorry.." she said suddenly when everybody fell silent.
"What?"
"I'm sorry, alright? I'm sorry I thought you were with Decoy, and I'm sorry I told Draggy he should offer you a job."
Duke raised an eyebrow and Tanya gawked while Dive grinned and Wildwing shook his head.
"I..I..I'd never..." Tanya studdered and Mallory shushed her.
"I know.." she said sheepishly.
"Alright..now what are we going to do about Lorenna here, we can't send her back to puckworld, cause there's no telling if that pendant will work right..so.."
"She stays with us!" Tanya said statedly.
"Yeah, we could use a backup just incase one of us get's injured.." Duke said glaring at Dive.
"What?! me? hey! I resent that." the teen said huffing.
"Yeah well..try not getting hurt every day or so THEN come to me saying that." Duke replied smartly and Mallory snickered.
"Fine, it's settled...Lorenna..welcome to the team.." Wildwing said softly.
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A few weeks later, once all was said and done Lorenna had finally gotten Tanya shaped up.
Decked out ina white blouse, Knee length purple skirt and white zip up ankle boots, hair down, and glasses..she looked..well rather nice.
"Now..come on.." Lorenna said.
"Noo...Lore..come on please?"
"Nope.." she said and pulled her reluctant friend out the door, only to walk into Duke and Dive.
"So? what do you think? The new and improved Tanya Vanderflock" Lorenna said grinning.
"New and improved, isn't this what I wore a month ago?" Tanya muttered and Duke smiled secretly.
"Tanya's a girly girl...why didn't ya tell us?" Dive said and grinned, then elbowed Duke who glared at him.
"Secrets.." Tanya muttered.
"Well..come on now..whats say we all go for pizza..or just you and Duke." Lorenna said pointedly.
"Well that was inconspicuous." Dive muttered and grinned.
"So? go on you two.." Lorenna said pushed the both of them to the elevator.
"B-But.." Tanya studdered.
"Just go!"
"Whoa..sheesh" Duke said and smiled at Tanya. "I hear the third Free falling movies out, feel like goin since we're getting kicked out of the pond for the night?"
"I..I..sure.." Tanya said blushing.
"Great, and I STILL got phils keys.." Duke said evily and Tanya giggled nervously.
"Right then, off we go.."
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WOOOOOOO...
I finally finished it! stupid I know..but hey....
*coughs*
Gotta jet! it was a quickly finished one..
Feedback IS welcomed..
BYE!!
Chapter 2: Final Confrontation
By: Kathy Kid (now known as Ms. prongs)
Disclaimer: I no own the show, or the characters, but guess what I own the lame title AND Lorenna! *grins* the pictures of her I own too, but you can't see those..cause my scanner hates me...
AN: *updated 3/8/02*
Well..alrighty then, I know I know it took me practically FOREVER to get to chapter 2, and I'll understand if nobody reads this, but to any and all who do, PLEASE review...please? I'm not usually one to beg, but I really need to know people's thoughts on this..
Anyways, here's the conclusion (unless of course it turns into a three parter..it better not..)
Enjoy!
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Backing up Duke and Tanya looked at their visitor in complete shock, while Lorenna stood in confusion.
"Lucretia?" she asked softly.
"Well sister dear, you've decided to come visit.." said the older duck advancing towards the three.
"I thought you were, p-ya know pulled into that dimensional limbo." said Tanya.
"The fool, Dragaunus didn't even check the settings before he gave me the transporter. I switched it around.." she smiled evily.
"So what are you doing here?" asked Duke.
"What am I doing here? oh that's just so funny..you are the ones at fault for Dragaunus even attempting to send me to that prison! You think I'm going to let you get off? I don't think so." she hissed.
"Where are the others Lucretia." came Lorenna.
"Others? Oh, you mean them, I have them somewhere, maybe I sent THEM to a demensional prison, maybe their in this dump. Maybe they're with Draganus...or maybe they're dead." she taunted.
"DEAD?!?!" all three exclaimed at once.
"Never know.."
"What do you want Lucretia, the protius chip maybe? to get back at Draggy for sending you there? what?" asked Tanya
"I want revenge." Lucretia stated simply and leveled the device she held in her hand.
"hey! that's the prototype I was working on! gimme that back!" she said starting towards the older female, only to be stopped by two hands on her shoulders..
"Rather interesting actually Tanya, very good job. Came in handy for taking out your friends..I don't think Mallory will be having a good few days...if she lives that long."Lucretia said sneering evily.
"You know Tanya..you could help me, like you did when you were 16...remember? rewiring the schools computers? So that the whole thing crashed and all the scores were lost."
Tanya made a strange face. "I only helped because you said there was a virus, or something like that! if Id'a known you were just using me...well I definatly wouldn'ta helped! and don't think I'm going to help you this time either!" she snapped, then set off her blades, and charged at Lucretia, who started to pull the trigger, but when she did it malfunctioned and didn't go off, cursing under her breath she looked ahead and gasped as Tanya about tackled her, but she disapeared just before they contacted.
"Whoa?!" and she crashed into the wall and fell over.
"Tanya? Ya ok kid?" said Duke as he helped her up.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, soon as the ringing in my head stops." she said shaking her head then going to pick up her prototype.
"What now Tanya?" said Lorenna walking over to her.
"I don't know, we have no way to track her.." replied Tanya with an exasperated expression on her face.
Duke had been silent for a second as he eyed Lorenna messing with the necklace around her neck, suddenly a thought hit him. "Lorenna, that necklace..."
"Yeah? what about it?" she asked
"Well you said you were looking it over just before, well you woke up on earth right?" he questioned.
She thought for a second and then nodded slowly. "Yeah...so what's your point?"
"Yeah Duke, what's you're point?" Tanya asked, apparently her echo going unheard.
"Well, do you think maybe there could be some kind of transportation device in that necklace of Lucretia's" he asked.
"I.." she paused.
"Hello!? I'm still here ya know!" came Tanya's indignant voice as she walked up. "And am totally bef--conf-...lost, mind explaining yourself Duke?"
He turned to her with a slight smile as he spoke. "Do yeh think that the necklace Lorenna's wearing could be some sort of mini gateway generator Tani?"
"I--" she thought for a second before her eyes lit up with understanding. "It IS possible, It does look like it could, the crystal in the middle, if there was a vortex when you ran your hand over it Lore then perhaps it's activated by touch or something, ya know? This could be our way to find Lucretia!"
Tanya's realization brought hope to the other ducks and Duke spoke up. "Tanya, Lorenna, you two go to the Lab and see if you can trace Lucretia, I'm gunna go for a little walk, check the place out." he said and at their nods they split up.
"Comm me if you find anything out."
"Right." "Gotcha" and they split up.
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Duke walked down the corridors of the pond, desolate and dark, with an airy sense of self defeat. Something he really didn't like at all.
He'd told Tanya that he was going to go look around, but really just wanted a chance to clear his mind. Mind you, every so often in his wandering he would stop and his glare would fixate at a certain spot on a wall, or on the floor as if trying to picture the fight, if there had even been one.
He couldn't quite understand it, what was happening?! One second the groups just fine, maybe a little paranoid, and the next there's only two, and a visitor. This seemed majorly unfair.
Continuing his trek down the silent halls he tried desperatly to figure something out. But his mind for some reason would permit no rational thought. Anger? Probably, Lucretia was playing dirty, would that mean that they'd have to as well?
Consentrating now on nothing but the clicking of his boots against the cold metal floors he let his mind wander and his subconsious lead him to some unknown destination..
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One the girls reached Tanya's Lab, the 1st thing on Tanya's mind was how this object worked.
But Lorenna was more into small talk as they examined it. "So Tani, hows life been treaten ya here on Earth?" she asked softly looking around the lab.
Pausing only slightly in her work Tanya continued her research as she spoke. "Well I've had my share of mishaps, but overall it's been ok."
"Mishaps?" asked Lorenna raising an Eyebrow
"Well most of them were, well ya know Nosedives fault." she said with a smirk. "If you would'a gotten here 2 weeks earlier you woulda found us deaged. Again HIS fault, he can't keep his hands off anything...and don't even think that Lore" she said as if reading her friends mind.
Laughing softly Lorenna sighed. "How do you like it though?"
"It's ok, I really miss Puckworld, I'd say family but--well you know that's obviously out of a question." her voice wavered slightly then went Neutral again. "Speaking of which...how IS Puckworld holding up?" Tanya asked, then dropped into her work ducking under the bench to pick up a stray bolt that 'clinked' to the floor moments before.
"Peaceful finally, we've started to rebuild..everybody thinks that you guys are dead ya know. Or atleast that's the rumor, Let's see...schools start up in two years or so, and everythings looking alot better now. Future looks bright."
"Well that's good..I'm really glad to hear that everythings going.." she stopped when she ran her omni-tool over the pendent, she typed something in, and then pointed a little laser at it, soon she heard a small beep, and it came out looking like a locator. "Lore! I got it!!"
"Really?!" Lorenna asked turning around to look at the pendant as it pulsed a deep red and beeped, showing a location in which they could find LuCretia..
"Yeah!" Tanya grinned furiously then slapped her communicator open. "Duke! Duke we got it! we've got her location!"
*Beep* "Alright, I'll be right there." came his voice over the comm
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Mallory awoke with a pounding in her head that made her wonder why it hadn't woken her up sooner. Just how long had she ben out anyways? "ohh..." was all she could do at the point.
"Mallory?" came a familiar voice somewhere close.
"Huh..." she said softly.
"Bro! Mal's awake!!"
It was Dive she heard, and apparently he was talking to Wildwing.
As she opened her eyes fuzz and spots swam in her vision before fading and making way for Wildwings concerned face.
"Mal...Mal can you hear me?" he asked when her eyes finally focused on her.
She nodded slolwy, but regretted it "What--happened--uh--where are we?"
Keeping her down as she tried to sit up he replied. "I honestly don't know but it looks strangely like a Saurian Dungeon, so maybe the Raptor, but I'm not sure." he replied.
"What?! But weren't we facing L..Decoy?? what about..I..." she trailed off as everything hit her at once giving her a major migrane.
"Rest.." he said as she tried to sit up again. "You need it, you took a blow to the head earlier, we just stopped the bleeding a while ago, just lay down ok?" came his voice strangely soft, and his eyes full of worry..
Something in his eyes made her smile softly to herself as she followed orders and closed her eyes. Thoughts of Tanya and Lorenna being free made her scowl, but she had no time to reflect on the unfairness because darkness shrouded her view and she surrendered to sleep once more..
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Tanya ran out of the Lab with Lorenna close on her heels as Duke ran up. "So you got it working?" he asked
"Yup, we got her!" answered Tanya grinning.
"I still don't understand why we can't just teleport there.." muttered Lorenna.
"Because--" Snapped Tanya who turned around to face her. "It'd be a rather unethical idea to do that, because we don't even KNOW if the Teleporter will function co-cor--right...we just can't go take foolish changes every time they show up.." she chided.
"Well...excuse me for being alive.." retorted a slightly insulted Lorenna.
Tanya sighed and turned around, running down the corridor.
Lorenna watched her in hidden anger and started after her, only to be held back by Duke.
"Hey, kid--don't take it to heart what Tani said, she gets rather, impersonal when battles come around. She's just worried about the others." he said wit a comforting smile which faded as he let go of her shoulder and took off silent after Tanya.
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Mallory re-awoke to a slamming noise.. "What the--" she was cut off by Wildwing.
"I KNEW you were behind this Dragaunus." he seethed to the looming form of the Saurian that appeared infront of the cell.
"Me? No, unfortunatly I'm only one part in a plan to take over this blasted planet." came his evil voice.
"What's going on.." Mallory muttered sitting up.
This time it was Dive at her side. "Well apparently Draggy isn't behind capturing us.." he pointed out rather blondely.
She growled. "I KNOW THAT FEATHERBRAIN!"
Jumping slightly he added. "Well while you were out Lucretia came down with somebody who stayed in the shadows and she sneered at us, then she talked quiety with the same shadow person then left." he finished.
"You couldn't have told me that in the first place?" she rubbed her head.
"Dragaunus! let us out of here!!" shouted Wildwing.
"Keep calm friend." came grins soothing voice.
"I don't think so---DUCK, you're gunna die a horribly painful death as soon as we find that Techi of yours..and the thief.." he threatened...
"Horribly painful death? Is there a Choice B?" dive questioned mostly to himself only to recieve a slap behind the head from Mallory.
"Take Tanya, please...then again you should ask her to join your side, she'd probably jump at the idea." came her bitter voice.
Dragaunus shook his head and left while Wildwing shot her a very dissapointed and hurt look.
"What?!? she's a traitor Wildwing, face it.." she snapped. "All I did was tell the truth to that Lizard." and that brought silence throughout the cell.
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"Hey?---Duke..what's this?" asked Lorenna, at Navagations in the Migrator.
"Huh?" he turned around. "C--..Comm Signals! Tanya, it's the guys! they're alive!!" he announced. "Good--no..great Job Lore." he commended her.
Lorenna smiled with pride but the look of distant anger in her friends eyes through the Hollow smile she was giving her made her realize maybe Tanya'd been hiding something. But before she could voice her thoughts she spoke.
"Duke stop the migrator." she snapped. "I'm going after Lucretia..You and Lorenna go free the others."
Duke was about to protest, but as he pulled over Lorenna got up.
"I'm going with you." she said and at Tanya's argumentive look added. "You know very well they'd never trust ME to free them, if you're going to get yourself in danger, I wanna come too."
"Sh--nevermind.." came Duke at the Amused look in Tanya's eyes, then he proceeded to open the back of the Migrator.
"Hope you can handle one of the duck cycles Lore.." the blonde said.
"You bet I can" replied Lorenna with a smile.
"Ready?"
"Ready"
As they mounted the cycles Tanya gave one last order to Duke. "Duke, if you get the guys bring them to these corridinants.." she said comming him them.
"Ok..."
"And one more thing.."
"What?"
"Tell the others Lore and I will take out Lu-..Decoy, make it final...you guys don't have to help, and I'll understand if they really want me off the team.." she finished softly and without leaving a window for reply took of with a squeel of tires followed by Lorenna casting Duke an assuring smile.
"Becareful Kid.." he muttered, before taking off in the rain to help the others.
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It was a few hours before anybody spoke in the cell, but by the time anybody was READY to talk, there was a small clunk behind Dives head which caused him to freak out and dive next to the spot where Mallory was laying down.
"Shhh...kid, you wanna get us all caught?" came a familiar voice from out of no where..
"Duke!?" hissed Wing in surprise.
"You got it.." he then flipped himself from his spot in the cieling and landed next to Grin.
Mallory was silent for a second before looking around. "Well, where's Tanya?"
"What you forgive her?" asked Wildwing with a twang of hope in his voice that this whole argument would be solved.
"No..I was just wondering if Dragaunus actually caught up with her and Decoy number 2..maybe they took his offer if he made it." she said spite plain in her voice.
"Huh?" came a confused Duke.
"Don't ask." mumbled Dive who was now standing next to him.
"So what's say we get outta here."
"Sounds good." said Wildwing.
"Oh..by the way..we have to make a pitstop a few..cells down. The Control center is down a few feet. They have your equipment." added Duke as an offset who then pulled the bench up to the celieng panel and jumped up and waited for the others to follow.
Grin was the last so he closed it over with a thud, which echoed down the corridor, catching an ear.
"So...they're trying to escape huh?" the female voice said evily. "We'll just see about that."
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"It's over here.." came Duke's voice a few feet ahead of the others.
"What? ack! SPIDER!" cried Dive who then knocked into Mallory, who fell into Duke who was trying to take the panel off silently, but failed and fell through. "WHOA"
"Guys!" called Wildwing as the three clambered through the hole in the tunnel.
As Wing climbed down after them Grin looked at the little spider and shrugged, then jumping down from his spot he grabbed Mallory's arm as she tried to attack Dive for being "such a wuss."
"Calm now my friend, it was merely an accident." he said and to everybody's amazement she releted with only muttered threats.
But before anybody could make any moves towards their gear the door burst open, revealing drones, and two half hawk/half human villans.
"Stay right there.." they ordered.
"Guys.." said Dive with a nervous smile.. "We have comp'ny.."
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"Tanya!!" shouted Lorenna who had to punch the gas once again, going up to nearly 90 to keep---CATCH up with her friend. "TANYA!! SLOW DOWN!!"
Suddenly Tanya stopped, almost on a dime, which knocked Lorenna into then over the duck cycle front when she attempted the same thing.
"Oomph."
"No time to lay around, we have to stop Lucretia.." said Tanya who walked bye, pulling Lorenna up and along as she went.
"Stop Tanya.." said the older duck grabbing hold of a lamp post pole and halt the two of them.
"Stop what?" asked Tanya.
"Just slow down, you're rushing into this a little too quickly aren't you? I mean this is like, personal for the both of us, you probably on two levels, I'm just worried that is going to cloud up your technical abilities and get ya hurt." said Lorenna with concern plastered on her face.
"That pur--prop--that's nonsense Lore, I know what I'm doing. And I have a hunch as to what she's doing too, if I'm right...time is something we really don't have." finished Tanya a sense of urgency in her voice, which was reflected by the look in her eyes and the pace she set as she grabbed her friends wrist and took off towards the warehouse they had stopped at.
"What are you---" she stopped abrubtly when Tanya threw open the door and revealed something horrifying. "Tanya what--"
"The E-bomb.." muttered Tanya, a look of shock and disgust that could only mean one thing.
"The E-bomb? what's that?" asked Lorenna taking a few steps unconsiously backwards, as if scared the bomb would go off killing them both.
((WARNING: *lol* This next page or so, will DEFINATLY prove Tanya's vast knowledge, it will be very complex, so those of you who aren't big fans of Tanya, or who don't like science very much, can skip it..or be prepared lol, I'm a girl WHO LOVES technology and mechanics.. :):):) ))
"The E-bomb..short for Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb, it's unlike ah-ah-other weapon in America's Arsenal..." she said slowly taking a few more steps forward towards the nearly finished trechory device.
Unbeknownst to both of them a visitor lurked in the shadows...joined by another.
"I'm afraid to ask what it does, and HOW you know what it does.." said Lorenna timidly stepping in after her friend.
Looking at it with dissapointment she sighed. "This device, Lorenna...is the worst thing in this world, worst than Nuke's and Atomic Bombs.." she started.
"I found out about this by an old scientist human friend of mine and by reading. It's a type of weapon that's been rumored to have been used on planets around the Galaxy back on our home world to stop wars from one world. Lorenna this is..is..devistating.."
"Yeah but what's it do..how's it work.." she asked now interested slightly.
"Put it this way, when this thing hits it's mark, you'll hear a sharp crack in the distance. By the time you mistakenly identify this sound as a crack of thunder, the civilized world you know will have become unhinged. Much like Va-Va- Vacemania in the Beta Sector.." she trailed off, then gathered her thoughts as if trying to pull this knowledge out of some hat. "Florescent lights and television sets will glow eerily bright, despite being turned off. And the aroma of ozone mixed with smoldering plastic will seep from outlet covers as electric wires arc and telephone lines melt. CD players will feel warm to the touch, the batteries overloaded. The computer at your desk or at home, and every last bit of data on it, will be toast. And then you'll notice that the world sounds different as well. The background music of civilization, ya know, the whirl of internal-combustion engines, will have stopped, save a few diesels that is. Engines will NEVER start again. Human's however, will remain unharmed as they find themselves thrust backwards about 200 years, to a time when electricity meant a lightning bolt fracturing the night sky. Lorenna, this is the damage that could be inflicted by the E-bombs. And I subconsiously helped to build it.." she said sadly.
Lorenna looked at her jaw dropped. "You read too much about stuff Tanya.." she said then looked around and found a computer. "Hey Tanya, look!" she said and ran over to it, followed by a sullen blonde.
One of the shadowed figures started forwards, but was stopped. "Not yet.." the voice rasped. "Let's see if she knows the missing component...and anything else.."
"So, how's this baby run Tanya? and HOW did you know about this, besides friends.." she asked as she moved over for her friend to start typing.
"Well actually, from what I hear, the theory behind the Elect--Electr-- The E-bomb was proposed in 1925 earth years by, ya know physicist Arthur H. Compton----not to build weapons, but to study atoms."
"Atoms??" said a surprised Lorenna..
"Yeah, from what I've read about this, Compton demonstrated that firing a stream of highly energetic photons into atoms that have a low atomic number causes them to eject a stream of electrons. And earths physics students know it today as the 'Compton Effect'." she said shaking her head. "This is all mainstream in Puckworld, actually we've had this Tecnology for years, we just never use it. It's senseless to fight against your own people.." she said as an offset before bringing up another screen and studying it.
"D'ah, Ironically, this nuclear research led to an unexpected demonstration of the power of the Compton Effect, and spawned a new type of weapon. Apparently in 1958, nuclear weapons designers ignited hydrogen bombs high over the Pacific Ocean. Well, the detonations created bursts of, ya know..gamma rays that, upon striking the oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, released a tsunami of electrons that spread for hundreds of miles..from the book I found, it says that Street lights were blown out in Hawaii and radio navigation, an old form of Navigation for pilots, was disrupted for about 18 hours, as far away as Australia! Then apparently the US set out to sol-soli--harden electronics against this Ele-el--EMP and develope weapons over it.." she shakes her head in disgust. "How these people could argue and battle their own species it just isn't right, you're supposed to be able to find peace between yourselves."
"That's true but--"
"Lorenna, they fight over LINES in the ground." said Tanya to emphasize her sudden anger towards Earths inhabitants. "I can't believe it, they're oblivious to anything happening in other worlds, that's so super--superf--so Ego tisical.." she huffed then the computer blipped twice then beeped.
"What's going on?"
"I got into the main data base, this is the set up of an E-bomb, see this?" she pointed to the screen. "Actually, you know, an FCG bomb or a flux compression generator is an astoundingly simple weapon." she clipped the last word. "It consists of an explosives packed tube places inside a slightly larger copper coil, as shown here" she pointed to the virtual model, then pointed to where it would be at the real bomb. "Now, if I'm not mistaken, the instant before the chemical explosive is detonated, the coil is energized by a bank of capacitors, creating a magnetic field." she took a second to point to where the explosive, tube and capacitors were. " The explosive charge detonates from the rear forward. A-A-as the tube flares outward it touches the edge of the coil....thereby creating a moving short circuit." she said and typed up a few symbols then another screen opened up to show the inside of the bomb. "The prop-probag--propagating short has the effect of compressing the magnetic field while reducing the inductance of the coil" she said and made the motion squeezing her hands together then a reducing motion and sighed.
"Are you still with me?" she asked
((Are you still with ME? lol))
Nodding Lorenna leaned over. "You know, I think I remember learning about FCG bombs in 11th grade...something about wiping out technologically advanced worlds in the blink of an eye. Convienently titled: Taking out enemies FCG 101." she nodded then shook her head. "I just can't seem to remember anything about it. I think blocked that year out." she smirked.
"Well see the result of all that." Tanya started.
"Would be produce a rampaging current pulse...which would break before the final disintegration of the device.." Lorenna finished with a knowing smile.
"Yeah..the pulse that emerges makes a lightning bolt seem like a flashbulb by comparison..see the pulse is emmited at high requencies that defeat protective devices like Faraday Cages." she finished and stood up walking to the bomb.
"It seems finished, I wonder.." she looked around the otherside then made a strange face. "oh! I see, they don't have a stator coil! that's why they haven't done anything yet, but that's what I used in my--ray..gun.." she trailed off as a chill ran down her spine.
Stepping out of the shadows Lucretia stepped out, followed by a male. He was a male, same as them, only a bit taller than Tanya. "Well--Tanya, I must admit, I'm impressed at how--complete you can describe the Device next to us." said her evil voice.
Tanya stepped back and was next to Lorenna.
"And I must also thank you, I was unsure if the coil in your 'experiment' was the correct one." she paused with a smile. "By the way, you're right, it is finished, and now that we have the stator coil, we can get this device up and running without a hitch, and we owe it all to you." she grinned.
Smacking her forehead she kept her hand there and groaned. "Me and my big beak.." she muttered.
"Oh, look at it this way, now all your human friends won't be harmed, they'll just have no weapons against us, and we can take over." said the Male.
"I dunno if I should be angry or grateful." said Lorenna sarcastically.
"Disgusted, how could you even THINK about doing this to these people.." Tanya said taking a step forward.
"Simple, we have the knowledge, and the Technology, they have the technology, but not the real knowledge..they are nieve, they do not deserve this planet, you should be thankful we don't just destroy them." said Lucretia matter-of-factly.
"Remind me to send flowers to the celebration" muttered Lorenna darkly.
"Well, I don't exactally intend to stand here and let you, ya know destroy the world..." she started but was cut off as the Lucretia pulled some sort of weapon on her.
"Well your intentions have changed Tani.." she said evily..
"Tanya." corrected the blonde and the two stared off for a second.
"Suit yourself." And she shot off a laser.
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"Comp'ny eh? Sounds devine, wish I had on better attire.." said Duke who attacked one of the drones destroying it.
"Now there's the attitude" said Nosedive grinning.
Mallory started to attack one of the drones but felt woozy and faltered, allowing herself to get knocked back into a wall.
"Mallory!" exclaimed Wildwing, who fended off two drones who tried to attack him and ran to her side as she struggled to get up.
"You're hurt again, you shouldn't have tried to fight." he said concern plain as day on his face.
"What, and let you guys have all the fun? I don't think so.." she said as she hid the pain in her back and took his hand standing up..
Lingering for a few seconds longer she caught his eye then looked down for a second. "Well..what's say we bash these creeps.." she said and took off for a fight, taking out a droid with a roundhouse kick sending that one into another one. "Alright, two for one..my kinda deal."
Wildwing shook his head with a smile and joined the fight.
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"Only you Nosedive, could take out two droids just by tripping over your own equipment.." Duke said shaking his head as he helped the younger duck up who made a face at him.
"Just shows how extra super cool I am."
"Ts, yeah, an' Draggy's gunna get a make ova."
"There'd be a sight." Dive chuckled.
"Alright children, what's say we get out of here..and, try to put this behind us." Wildwing said as he helped Mallory stay standing.
"We can get outta here the same way we came in, follow me." Duke replied smirking then as Mallory and Wildwing got on the table to climb up he grinned at Dive. "And look out for spiders Dive, I hear they like teenage ducks." and with that he jumped up and missed a flying robot arm aimed at him, leaving two unconsious half hawk half humans and wasted droids in their wake.
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Tanya barely had time to duck before a purple beam shot to her left side as she tumbled into Lorenna.
"Well?" came the male looking at Lucretia darkly. "Get them, and bring them with us, I'll get everything ready." he said smiling evily.
"Of course." Decoy replied and turned to Tanya who was kneeling over a dazed Lorenna.
"What hit me?"
"Um..me and the floor.." replied a sheepish Tanya who helped her friend up then turned to Lucretia who smiled in amusement.
"You two goodie goodies STILL play nice after all these years? pathetic.."
"Do me a favor Lucretia--" started an annoyed Lorenna.
"Yes Lil' sis?"
"One, don't call me that, and two go..go..Tanya?"
Raising an eyebrow the blonde looked at Lucretia who looked slightly annoyed. "Why don't you go jump into a pit of flesh eating raptors Lucretia." she said with a little bit of anger in her voice.
"That was a low blow Tani." said Lucretia sarcastically who then leveled the Laser at her again.
"Why do you even bother? you can't aim anyways." Lorenna said shrugging then gasping as a shot from the Laser that Lucretia held hit her in the side and she fell to the ground unconsious. Tanya tried to get a shot off with her Omni tool only to hear the laugther of Lucretia and stop as the weapon was once again pointed at her head. Settling to kneel down next to her injured friend protectively she eyed Decoy with anger in her eyes.
"Tanya..Tanya Tanya Tanya.." started Lucretia circling her and the unconsious Lorenna. "Did you--no let me rephrase that..DO you honestly think you have any chance of winning? Think about it, Lorenna's out for the count and you're out numbered and outgunned three to one--oh don't give me that look, there are two other gun men, one on your left side behind you, and one to your right side." she finished and Tanya sighed defeatedly.
"What do you want?"
"Well now, that's simple enough..revenge."
"On who? the mighty ducks? Drauganus? me?"
"A bit of all three actually..more so I want your help."
Tanya snorted in mild amusement and Lucretia seethed. "Let me get this straight, you attack and kidnap my friends, injure your own little sister a-and threaten me, and you want me to help you? You expect me to w-wil--just up and help you!?"
"No, of course not, but if you dont' I'll kill little Lorenna." Lucretia replied simply causing Tanya's eyes to widen. "And I know you two are better friends then we ever were, both of you so 'innocent' so trusting..so idiotic!" she taunted then pointed her gun at Lorenna instead. "So what's it gunna be Tani?"
Gritting her teeth Tanya glared at Lucretia, but she couldn't risk Lorenna's life. "Fine..I'll help you, just don't hurt Lorenna, please.."
"Don't worry I won't, as long as you come along nice and quiet.."
With that Tany stood, albeit reluctantly, from her injured friends side and walked towards a back door.
"W-wait!"
"What?" Lucretia asked in annoyance.
"What about Lorenna? are you just going to leave her there..she need med-medical treatement, that injury is bad!"
"Somebody will take care of her, don't worry..."
Tanya's eyes widened slightly but she remained silent.
"Dvek, you have the communicator. If my--friend here doesn't cooperate, I'll contact you, and you kill my dear sister instantly, got it?"
"Yes ma'am." the saurian guard said with a nod.
"Now, Tanya, can we go now..I'm kind of on a schedule here.."
Knowing very well any more stalling could mean the death of Lorenna, she sighed in resignation and nodded. As she followed Lucretia to a huge aircraft she quickly tried to devise a plan to get herself out of this mess.
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Lorenna woke up about 15 minutes later, a searing pain in her side, to see a guard leaning against the wall of the now empty building, asleep. 'Loser' she thought to herself as she looked down to her side which was caked with dry blood, but not bleeding anymore.
Pushing herself up she gritted her teeth to bite back to the cry of pain she almost let out, forcing herself to her knees she sighed. 'That tasks complete, now to phase two..stand up.' she got a wry smile and, very slowly and painstakingly forced herself up, first one knee up, the next, and she pushed up.."Whoa.." she muttered as the world took a quick 45 degree turn and she about lost her balance. Quickly as it happened the world righted itself once more and she stood somewhat steadily on two feet.
'Now..to get out of here..' she thought quickly and turned around, the door was 15 feet from the sleeping saurian sleeze bag. "Great.." she muttered and then took a few steps, and her shoes echoed "click click click" 'oh geez..'.
He started, then looked up with a look of confusion.
'Uh oh..' Lorenna thought nervously as his eyes focused on her. "Heh..hiya."
He growled low in his throat and pulled his laser out and leveled it at her.
Just as he pulled the trigger Lorenna threw herself out of the way and bit back a cry of pain as as heat ran through her stomache. "oh God.." she muttered as she fell to the ground in a heap of pain, hand clamped over a now bleeding old wound.
A feril grin spread over the Saurians face as he closed the space between them. "Heh.." she gulped and got a dejected look as he raised the laser again.
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At the exact same time Lorenna had woken up and everything the other ducks were going down the street in the Migrator and Duke was looking over something, soon he typed in a few buttons and looked at the others. "We got a detour coming up."
"What? why? where?" Mallory asked woozily.
"You forgot who and when.." Dive snickered at her and she shot him an icy glare.
"Old abandoned Warehouse on 35th and main..." Duke replied.
"Why would we want to go there duke?" asked Wildwing seriously.
"Just believe me.." he muttered and took a sharp turn and sped up.
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Soon enough they arrived at the old abandoned warehouse only to find two duck cycles not far from it, and as soon as they got out, Mallory stumbling slightly they heard a crashing noise from inside (which was Lorenna falling to the ground and the laser hitting the wall).
"We gotta get in there!" Duke yelled and ran in as the others followed him.
Soon as he got in there he saw the Saurian guard aiming at Lorenna and pulling the trigger, before the beam hit the injured girl he deflected the beam with his saber back at the attacker and it hit dead on sending him into the opposite wall as Wildwing attacked him.
"Lorenna, ya ok kid?" Duke asked helping her up and watching as Wildwing shot a puck at the saurian and grin knocked him out of comission.
"I'm fine, just a little scratch, nothing big.." the younger duck replied then hissed in pain as she grabbed her side.
"Yeah, ok my tail feathers.." Duke muttered and she glared at him. "Where's Tanya?" he asked suddenly looking around.
"With..Lucretia.." she said softly and ignored Mallory's pointed look. "We tried to fight back, but..I was attacked and I think Lucretia threatened my life to get Tanya to cooperate..cause I know she'd never help that witch willingly after what happened when we were 16.." she trailed off and got a faint expression.
"Kid, you gunna be ok?" he asked again and she waved him off going for her communicator, but she couldn't get a lock on Tanya. "Great..there goes that idea, Tanya, please..just use that common sense of yours and attack her.." she prayed and Duke got a wierd expression as she tumbled into his arms unconsious.
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Tanya looked around the aircraft miserably, if she sat around and did nothing, it'd be her fault all the way around for the troubles cast apon the humans, if she tried to attack and fight back against Lucretia, Lorenna would be killed. "What do I do..." she asked herself dejectedly.
But suddenly an idea hit her, if she took her chances, and did this right, maybe she could knock Lucretia out and then she could use the time to disconnect the bomb, and Lorenna would still be safe..but could she chance it like that? Of course she could..couldn't she?
Oh well, no time like the present.
"Alright Tanya, come on, get out here!" Lucretia said and yanked her to her feet and out the adjoining door to where the Bomb was being held.
Tanya suddenly got a very bad feeling in her stomache and then saw her opening as she kneeled down next to a small pannel, Lucretia was standing right over her shoulder. 'If only I could angle the omnitool laser..' she thought suddenly and kneeled another way, pushed a button and a 'click click' noise was heard. She smiled secretly when one of the wires was disconnected, which would make it safe to do whatever she pleased and the bomb would never go off.
"Whattid you do?"
"Just got one of the wires recon--con--back together, it would have never gone off had you left it like that." she said matter of factly then shifted to the side, pushed a small button on her omni-tool making as if to get a tool to come out only a little laser came out. She aimed correctly and a little beam exploded and hit Lucretia in the foot.
The female duck cried out in pain and fell over to the ground and Tanya scrambled for the pilots area only to be tackled to the ground by a furious Lucretia. 'oh no!' she thought but then as she was being pulled up she used all her strength and flipped the other girl over her head, which knocked the air out of her offender. "Take THAT Lucretia!" she said and jumped over the downed antagonist and hurried to the cockpit.
Bursting the door open she stopped dead in her tracks when she came face to face with the wrong end of a Laser gun. "Bad move--duck.." the holder of the gun said and, with a well placed kick to her stomache, knocked her to the ground winded.
"Oomph."
Lucretia struggled to get up holding her wrist and moving gingerly. "You'll pay for that Tanya..you really will." she threatened.
"Oh great.."
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There was a loud noise over head of the ware house which sounded suspiciously like a Large plane of some sort.
"Guys.." Dive said when he looked outside.
"What?"
"Check it out!"
"What the.." Wildwing stopped when he saw the large plane go over head and head south.
"Hey, that must be were Tanya is." Duke said suddenly, a half consious Lorenna had said something about a bomb, and a large aircraft.
"How do you know?" Mallory asked.
"Call it a hunch." and with that he picked up the now fully unconsious Lorenna and they all ran to the Migrator.
"Follow that plane!" Dive said and chuckled as they sped south in pursuit of the plane.
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Tanya struggled against Valgors (that was the guys name she found out from Lucretia earlier) tight grip as Lucretia studied her evily.
"So, you thought you could play hero and stop our plan from going did you Tanya? huh?, well guess what, you're wrong, infact..I suspected you'd do something like this so I told the soldier watching your friend down on the ground to kill her anyways when we took off. So you lose both ways, the bombs going off AND Lore's dead.." she taunted and got an unexpected reply.
Tanya shuddered, not only had she been duped but her best friend was dead. "How could you.." she said softly and with a burst of energy wripped free of Valgors arms and tackled her angrily to the otherside of the aircraft, a switch was flicked when Lucretia struggled with her and suddenly the air lock was switched and a door opened, depressorization began and tools began to fly out of the plane, and Tanya and Lucretia nearly fell out, but Tanya had grabbed ahold of the side of the Plane and Lucretia had grabbed onto Tanya's legs. "Ah, leggo!" she cried.
"What are you, crazy?!" the other girl snapped and started to struggle to get up as she looked down, her one problem had been a fear of heights. "Oh my god.." she cried and about pulled Tanya down with her.
"No! stop struggling!" Tanya yelled at then looked at where they were, and who was following them down below.. 'The guys, Duke got them out..I hope..' she thought and then she noticed they circled around.
"The vehicle below, attack it!" she heard Valgor order the pilot.
"No!" she shouted and with that Lucretia's weight on her legs caused her to lose her grip and they both fell towards the ground at an amazingly fast speed. 'Talk about Dejavouh..' she said as she closed her eyes and cried out.
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Duke saw to laser beams fired from the exact same plane that they'd been trailing and then, as they dodged the attack narrowly he hopped out of the Migrator and watched with wide eyes as two people toppled out of the plane. "Mother of pearl! Wing!" he pointed as the two figures fell towards the forest that was nearby.
When he heard one of the screams he knew instinctively that was Tanya. His eyes widened and he turned to Wildwing who was watching as well. "Shoot down the plane! shoot down the plane!!" he cried and took off towards the forest followed by Grin and Dive on the blades.
Wildwing got a strange look but complied, and within seconds two large beams emitted from the Migrators weaponry and the planes engines started on fire and they crashed to the lake in a funnel of smoke. A large explosion was the only evidence left behind.
"Now.." he said and waited for the others to return.
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Tanya waited for the painful crashing to come, but it only came with a russel of leaves and crackling branches.
Another crash came from somewhere nearbye with another russel of leaves and crackling branches.
"Tanya!" she heard the familiar voice call out.
"Tani! You there girly girl!?" Dive echoed and she couldn't help but smile happily, but she cringed when she tried to move her arm.
"I'm--here!..up here!" and with that a loud explosion caused both her and Lucretia to fall out of their respective trees at the same time, with two thuds they fell in heaps.
"Tani.." Duke said and kneeled down next to her. "Ya ok kid?"
"Ah...I'm fine..just a little scrape here and there.." she said softly and then watched as Grin picked up the unconsious Lucretia.
"Come on, let's get you out of here..can you walk?"
"Yeah, I think so, just can't move my arm,it kinda, ya know..hurts.." she said and cringed again as he helped her up and with that they made their way out of the forest.
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Wildwing and Mallory looked up in surprise when they saw Dive, Duke, an injured Tanya, and Grin carrying an unconsious Lucretia out of the forest.
"What happened!?" called wildwing as he made his way over to them, while Mallory stayed behind a wierd expression in her eyes, had she been wrong twice?
"Just a little..ah, hehe, accident.." Tanya said and Dive rolled his eyes. "I knew you'd be blowing everything up when we first met."
"Cute..dive, real cute.." Tanya glared at him and he smirked.
"Settle down the both of you, no arguing till we get you back to the pond, and HER in detention.." Wildwing said looking at Lucretia in Grins arms.
"Ah Alright."
"Gotcha Bro"
He rolled his eyes and they made their way back to the Migrator, where..a sullen looking Tanya cried out in surprise when she saw a half alwake Lorenna. "YOU'RE ALIVE!! LORENNA YOU'RE ALIVE!!"
"Yeah...last time I checked I was..have I died lately?" she asked Duke who shrugged with a hint of a smile.
"Lucretia said she had you killed...I thought you were dead..." her voice trailed off as she gingerly pulled her friend into a hug and with that they set off back for the pond.
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A few hours later when both Lorenna and Tanya were bandaged up, and Lucretia was detained, everybody was sitting around in the mess hall, well everybody but Mallory who having an extremely hard time allowing herself to admit she was wrong, again.
"Look, Tanya..I'm..sorry.." she said suddenly when everybody fell silent.
"What?"
"I'm sorry, alright? I'm sorry I thought you were with Decoy, and I'm sorry I told Draggy he should offer you a job."
Duke raised an eyebrow and Tanya gawked while Dive grinned and Wildwing shook his head.
"I..I..I'd never..." Tanya studdered and Mallory shushed her.
"I know.." she said sheepishly.
"Alright..now what are we going to do about Lorenna here, we can't send her back to puckworld, cause there's no telling if that pendant will work right..so.."
"She stays with us!" Tanya said statedly.
"Yeah, we could use a backup just incase one of us get's injured.." Duke said glaring at Dive.
"What?! me? hey! I resent that." the teen said huffing.
"Yeah well..try not getting hurt every day or so THEN come to me saying that." Duke replied smartly and Mallory snickered.
"Fine, it's settled...Lorenna..welcome to the team.." Wildwing said softly.
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A few weeks later, once all was said and done Lorenna had finally gotten Tanya shaped up.
Decked out ina white blouse, Knee length purple skirt and white zip up ankle boots, hair down, and glasses..she looked..well rather nice.
"Now..come on.." Lorenna said.
"Noo...Lore..come on please?"
"Nope.." she said and pulled her reluctant friend out the door, only to walk into Duke and Dive.
"So? what do you think? The new and improved Tanya Vanderflock" Lorenna said grinning.
"New and improved, isn't this what I wore a month ago?" Tanya muttered and Duke smiled secretly.
"Tanya's a girly girl...why didn't ya tell us?" Dive said and grinned, then elbowed Duke who glared at him.
"Secrets.." Tanya muttered.
"Well..come on now..whats say we all go for pizza..or just you and Duke." Lorenna said pointedly.
"Well that was inconspicuous." Dive muttered and grinned.
"So? go on you two.." Lorenna said pushed the both of them to the elevator.
"B-But.." Tanya studdered.
"Just go!"
"Whoa..sheesh" Duke said and smiled at Tanya. "I hear the third Free falling movies out, feel like goin since we're getting kicked out of the pond for the night?"
"I..I..sure.." Tanya said blushing.
"Great, and I STILL got phils keys.." Duke said evily and Tanya giggled nervously.
"Right then, off we go.."
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WOOOOOOO...
I finally finished it! stupid I know..but hey....
*coughs*
Gotta jet! it was a quickly finished one..
Feedback IS welcomed..
BYE!!