Wildwing awoke several hours later refreshed and ready to go. The ducks had their usual pregame dinner and suited up for that night's game against the New Jersey Devils. Wildwing turned around and looked at Dive, "Are you sure you can play baby bro.?"

"What! You want to bench me!"

"No I just want to make sure your head is alright. I don't want you getting hurt."

Nosedive quickly looked away. He didn't want Wing to see the tears welling up in his eyes. "I'm fine bro., you don't need to worry about me."

"Okay then," Wildwing turned around and put the mask on. "Come on. Lets get going. We have a game to win." He left the locker room and skated onto the ice.

The beginning of the game went by fine. Wing made every save in typical flashy style. The Ducks were leading four nothing by the end of the first period. Wildwing was silent during the first intermission, but he always was. This was his way to keep concentrated on the game. The second period started out great. Nosedive scored two more goals and earned yet another hat trick for the season. Then it happened. Wildwing gave up his first goal of the night. From that moment on the typically cool, level headed team captain turned into a monster. Every time he was not able to stop the puck he would yell at the ducks that they were not giving him adequate defense, or he would curse at the Devil player who scored the goal. The score was eight five in favor of the ducks, but Wildwing still lost his cool. The Devils were called off sides and the face off was taken outside of the zone. Nosedive took the face off and lost. The Devils capitalized on the quick win and scored again.

"Damn it Nosedive, can't you ever do anything right!" Wildwing complained.

"Hey man I'm doing my best. And this attitude of yours is not helping!"

The buzzer sounded, signaling the end of the second period. All the players exited the ice as the zamboni came out.

"Hey Wing are you feeling all right?" Duke asked.

"Of course I am!" he snapped.

The ducks backed away from him.

"He's loosing it again," Tanya whispered to the others.

"Just keep back and try not to talk to him," Mallory ordered. "We'll take care of him after the game."

The last thing Mal said defiantly troubled Nosedive. He had agreed with the others earlier that day, that if Wing flipped out again they were going to do something to him. He didn't know what, but he knew it would not be good.

The third period began and Wildwing seemed to have calmed down a little. The intermission had helped him regain his composure. Wildwing did not give up another goal until there was less then five minutes left in the game. The puck blew past him, and he blew up. He went after the player and tripped him with his stick.

"Whoa bro. calm down," Nosedive said as he pulled Wing away from the guy.

"Get away from me you annoying little fart!"

Nosedive let go of Wing and gave his older brother a look of shock. "Wing please."

"Please this!" Wildwing ripped Nosedive's helmet off before he started to punch him in the face. Wing didn't give Dive any time to recover from the initial blow. He continued to beat his brother up until an official pried him off him.

"That's enough! Get back in the crease," ordered the referee. Wildwing did as he was told. The referee and Duke gave Dive a quick look over before the officials called two major penalties on Wildwing.

"One of you must sit for this penalty," the official told the ducks.

"But Wing drew it, make him sit," protested Nosedive.

"Yes, that's true, but we cannot make a goal tender sit out a penalty, official rules and all. One of you are going to have to sit out."

The ducks looked at one another, who was going to sit out for the last few minutes of the game?

"I will," Tanya volunteered.

"But we need you on defense."

"How about Nosedive," Mallory suggested.

"Why me?"

"Because you just got your head bashed in. You need some time to recover."

"But Mal, I'm our top scorer!"

"Mallory's right Dive. You should sit out," Duke agreed.

Nosedive did not argue any more, instead he skated towards the penalty box. As he neared the box, one of the lines men steered him back towards the ducks locker room. He left the ice and hit the showers. Nosedive could hear the boo's from the crowd as he left, and the cheers as soon as the game resumed. Someone scored a goal, but he couldn't tell which team, because the final buzzer sounded a second after the puck crossed the goal line. The ducks slowly made their way to the locker room. Wildwing was the last to enter. Everyone sat in silence for what seemed like forever, until Duke spoke up, "What the hell do you think you were doing out there Wing! We never take penalties!"

"Shut up Duke. I'm not in the mood to be ridiculed by you."

"No, I'm not going to shut up, and beating up Nosedive was uncalled for. He's your brother for goodness sake!"

"I said SHUT UP!"

Wildwing grabbed the edge of the bench and heaved it into the air. This was not an easy thing to do since it was bolted to the cement floor and it weighed one hundred pounds. He swung it like a baseball bat at the other's heads. They ducked the attack and the bench smashed into the lockers before knocking the lockers over. Wildwing struggled to lift the bench again, but Grin took the opportunity to end Wildwing's rampage. Grin charged his team captain and body checked him to the floor. Duke and Mallory each grabbed an arm and held it down. Grin sat on Wing's legs and Dive jumped onto his chest. Tanya ran to the medicine cabinet to find something to incapacitate Wildwing.

"Wing calm down," Nosedive begged.

"You calm down! I'm fine," Wing raged. "Get off me!"

"Tanya hurry up!" Duke called as Wing pulled his arm from Duke's grasp.

"Wing stop it!" Nosedive said firmly as he pushed his face into his older brother's. "Get a grip man."

"Oh I'll get a grip all right, around your scrawny little neck as soon as I get free."

Nosedive grabbed Wildwing's face and looked past the masks green eyes and deep into his brother's crazed eyes. "Wing please. I don't want them to hurt you."

Wildwing gave a vile laugh before he turned and bit Nosedive's arm.

"AHHHHH!"

Nosedive pulled back and in the process he ripped the mask off Wing's face. Nosedive held his hurt arm close to his chest and wrapped his other arm around the mask. By now Tanya had the anesthetic ready.

"Dive!" Wildwing exclaimed as he looked up to see tears in his brother's eyes and pain etched on his face. "What's wrong?"

Tanya stepped up and she injected the ketamine, ace promazine mix into Wildwing's arm. The drug mix took an instant effect and Wing went limp. Duke, Mallory, and Grin let go of Wildwing and stepped back. Nosedive continued to sit on his brother's chest and cried. Duke stepped up and grabbed Nosedive by the arm, but Dive pulled away from the older mallard.

"Come on kid, ya have ta get up. He can't breath with you sitting on him."

Nosedive didn't move.

"Nosedive your going to kill him if you don't get off," Mallory stated.

Nosedive looked from her then to his brother, before he stumbled to his feet. He handed Tanya the mask before collapsing. Grin and Mal caught him before he hit the floor.