Flashback

After cleaning up the infirmary the ducks all headed to the kitchen for some ice cream. There's nothing better then ice cream to cheer up a girl. Well, that and a good laugh, and since Nosedive was there they were definitely not short on those. Tanya had almost forgotten about being upset. I said almost. The ducks entered the kitchen and found Wildwing sitting with his feet up on the table, and chewing on the tip of a steak knife.

"Hey bro," Nosedive said cheerfully.

Wildwing sneered at his brother, who was completely oblivious to Wing's bad mood. Nosedive continued over to the counter and pulled out six spoons.

"Ah Ha!" Dive exclaimed happily as he held up his spoon like a sword, "Choose your weapon!"

Duke pulled a spoon from Dive's other hand and the two have a mock spoon fight.

"Oh please," Wildwing rumbled in disgust.

"Come on bro. Cheer up. Want some ice cream?"

Mal and Tanya already had the ice cream out and were dividing it up into six bowls.

"Sure why not. There's nothing I want to do more then to get fat!"

Mal turned and looked at him, "Excuse me."

"What?"

"Are you saying I'm fat?"

"No. I'm saying that you're going to get fat little miss priss."

Mallory gasped in anger, "You take that back!"

"NO!"

"I said take that BACK!"

"Why don't you come over here and make me you psychotic, PMSing, hooker."

"AHHH!"

"Wildwing?" Grin asked.

"Yeah!"

"What is wrong with you?"

"Nothing's wrong with me."

"Your aura is clouded over. Why are you trying to hurt your friends?"

"My friends are not hoochies, computer geeks or annoying little brothers."

"Wildwing your words are hurtful. Please do not go on till your aura had cleared."

"Who are you to tell me what to do?" Wildwing stood up to challenge Grin. "You spend all your time in la la land. You don't even know what you're talking about half the time. Besides the fact that NO ONE EVER understands your incoherent ramblings. If someone should shut up it should be you, you good for nothing stupid lump of muscle!"

"Wildwing," Nosedive said trying to calm Wing down.

"SHUT UP!" Wildwing screamed at his brother before he threw the steak knife at him.

Wildwing stormed out of the room as the other ducks were held in silent limbo. Nosedive was cowering on the floor holding his head. The only sound in the room was the sound of the knife reverberating from where it stuck out of the wall.

"Nosedive are you okay kid?" Duke asked.

"II think so," Nosedive stammered from where he sat on the floor.

"Let me see," Tanya said as she bent down.

"I'm okay Tanya, really I am."

"Little friend.."

"Grin I'm fine."

"No you're not Nosedive you're shaking like a leaf."

"Why Why Why did he throw it at me? He has never tried to hurt me before."

"I think we had better steer clear of Wing for the rest of the day."

"Um, guys, we share a room," Nosedive pointed out.

"You can sleep with me little friend."

"Thanks Grinster."

"Nosedive, do you want some ice cream?"

"No thanks Mal I'm not hungry."

All the ducks had lost their appetites. Wildwing had never been this mad before and he had never taken his anger out on Nosedive. If he could harm his brother what else would he do? Wildwing stormed around the Pond looking for someone or something to take his rage out on. Phil came walking by and posed an excellent target. He'd wanted to pummel that guy for ages.

"Hey there Phil," Wildwing said in a coaxing tone.

"Wildwing, booby, babe, just the duck I was looking for."

"Really?"

"Just hear me out. It's just a small publicity stunt. Nothing extravagant, just a photo shoot at a local zoo."

"Sounds good Phil, when is it?"

"Uh, really you think so?" Phil was stunned. He was expecting read my beak, no', but instead he got a compliant smiling team captain. Something about that smile should have tipped him off that something was wrong, but how can anyone focus on the unusual when you're getting your way. "It's tomorrow booby. Are you sure you'll do it?"

"Sure we will Phil. Is there anything we should be concerned about?"

"Um, I'm not sure what you mean?"

"Anything dangerous. I don't want another ambush by Dragonus and his goons."

"Nope. It's a zoo Wing. What could be dangerous about some stupid animals?"

"Oh I don't know, how about THIS!"

Phil was not expecting Wildwing to lash out at him. Wildwing grabbed Phil by his neck and slammed him into a wall.

"Am I a stupid animal Phil? Well am I?"

"No," was all Phil could choke out as he struggled to get free. "Booby babe come, ugh."

"DON'T CALL ME BOOBY!"

"Wildwing stop it!" Duke shouted as he came to Phil's rescue.

Wildwing tightened his grip on Phil.

"Let him go Wing!" Duke screamed as he jumped onto Wing's back and wrapped his arm around his neck . He finally got Wing into a headlock, which diverted Wing's attention long enough for Phil to slip out of his clutches. Once Phil was clear Duke jumped off Wing's back. Wildwing spun around to face his teammate.

"Look what you did Duke. You let him get away."

"So."

"I didn't want to do this but you leave me know choice."

Wildwing grabbed Duke by his collar and threw him against the wall.

"Wildwing cool it. I haven't done anything."

"Oh yeah? You let Phil get away. You ruined my fun."

"Fun? Beating people up isn't fun Wing. It's wrong, and what you did to Dive is worse."

"Like your opinion means anything to me. Now you develop a conscious. I've been wanting to pop you one for some time now you contradicting old goose!"

Wildwing pulled back and prepared to slug Duke, but Grin grabbed his arm.

"Wildwing you will stop this now!"

"Shut up!"

Wildwing flung Grin across the room and slugged Duke. He dropped Duke's unconscious form and went to his room. Nosedive, Mal, and Tanya watched in horror from the doorway as Wing assaulted their teammates. As soon as the coast was clear Tanya went to check on Duke and Mal and Dive checked on Grin. Grin was fine, but Duke was out cold. A nice purple bruise was already forming on the side of his head.

"Is he all right?" Mal asked.

"He should live," Tanya replied. "I wish the medicom was working. That way I could diagnose his injuries better."

"But Duke is okay, right Tanya?" Dive asked in a shaky voice.

Duke stirred a little and gave a groan, but did not wake.

"He'll be fine," Tanya said as she gave a sigh of relief.

"What on Earth would have possessed Wildwing to go after us?" Mal asked.

"Dragonus' ray," Grin offered.

"But the medicom said he was fine."

"Could it have been malfunctioning?" Nosedive asked.

"NO!"

"Okay. Wildwing has either flipped or he's an imposter," Mallory said flatly.

"How can we tell?"

"Tell what, Nosedive?"

"Tell if he's the Chameleon. He's got the mask."

"That may pose a problem," Duke said as he sat up.

"Duke! You're okay!" Nosedive exclaimed as he hugged the older mallard.

"Thanks kid. I missed you too."

Nosedive pulled away from Duke, but ignored the tears streaming down his cheeks.

"Dive please don't"

"I'm sorry dude. I don't know what's gotten into Wing."

"It's not your fault Dive. Right now we need to find out what is wrong with him and fix it."

"Does anyone know how we are suppose to get the mask away from him?" Mallory asked.

"We could always wait till he takes it off," Grin suggested.