A Disney Duck Fanfic:
Instead of being purely based on one entity, this story takes background from Classic Donald Duck cartoons, Ducktales, and Darkwing Duck
Note: Awww, we've already done this in the previous nineteen chapters, so you probably know this by heart by now. Well, just to keep the copyright lawyers off our backs, we'll do it again anyway. Disney owns all of the characters in this story except Melanie, Ronnie and Lisa (who are owned by Stef) Therefore, there is absolutely NO profit intended in this story whatsoever. As aforementioned, we've made that point clear in previous chapters, but better safe than sorry.
Chapter 20
Written By:
Brad Eugene Palmer (Nightw2/comickook)
Speed Prince maintained pursuit of the Cyber-Eggman that was allowed to "'get away'" in order to be tracked to his hideout. The Cyber-Eggman stopped a few times to check his rear, but the Speed Prince always got out of sight just in time to avoid the scrutiny of Steelbeak's cybernetically enhanced lackey before resuming the chase. Eventually, after about fifteen minutes (okay, seventeen, but only because two of those minutes were eaten up from all the times the Cyber-Eggman stopped to check his rear), the Cyber-Eggman came to the entrance of Steelbeak's back-up lair; about 600 miles from the city in questions. After memorizing the location of the lair, the Speed Prince zipped back at best speed; getting back to his brothers and girlfriend in seven-and-a-half minutes.
"Okay. Mission accomplished. I got the location of Steelbeak's lair and we can go over there and kick the rears of him and his remaining cybernetic stooges all the way to a South American military prison." the super-speedy teen said to Kid Quackules, Major Mind and Quiverwing
"Knowing the location of his hideout is only the battle. We don't know what kind of security the place might have. Therefore, let's make the preparations we have to in order to make sure we can handle our quarry's defenses." Major Mind pointed
Meanwhile, at the museum, Morgana was picking up the diamond's mystic energy trail; faint from the past few hours, but still traceable; barely. The theory, as she already explained to her husband, was that if Taurus Bulba really DID steal the Divine Eye Diamond, they might be able to follow the trail straight to Bulba's hideout.
"Bingo, Dark. I managed to pick up the trail. It isn't very strong yet, but I can still follow it." Morgana announced.
"And the signal will get stronger as we get closer as long as we're quick about following it." Darkwing responded, already knowing that's what his wife was going to say.
"Well, then let's get tracking." Morgana said as she started on the trail like a magically powered bloodhound. Fortunately, the fact that the diamond travelled mostly through the air didn't diminish the faint but traceable energy trail QUITE enough to through her off (ALMOST, but not quite).
Darkwing nodded and began following immediately. He knew this was his best bet of apprehending the sinister cyborg that had been arguably his most dangerous enemy for the last seven years; not just because of Bulba's power, intellect and ruthlessness, but because he usually deliberately targeted those closest to the hero (at least those he knew about). It was bad enough when Bulba was targetting primarily Gosalyn and Morgana in addition to him, but now going after Ronnie and Lisa? Morgana and Gosalyn, at least, had enough experience with dangerous situations to be able to hold out long enough for him to get there and, quite often, even help him defuse the situations (over the years, he has learned to pocket just enough of his ego to admit THAT). Ronnie and Lisa, however, were just toddlers (albeit toddlers who were developing magic powers of their own; which, thankfully, Bulba didn't know at the time he tried to grab them) and didn't have anywhere near the experience with dangerous situations that their mother and older sister did. By endangering those who have stayed OUT of Darkwing's adventures, the villaionus cyber bull had gone WAY too far this time and had to be stopped at any cost.
Elsewhere, but at the same time Speed Prince, with Quiverwing riding piggy-back, led the others to Steelbeak's lair at about 800 miles per hour (to give Kid Quackules and Major Mind a chance to keep up so that they could discuss their plans on the way).
"Remember. I go in first so that I can disable the security system with a comination of my super-intelligence and my telekinesis." Major Mind said as they started.off.
"Yeah, and when we reach the villains, I hit them with my second-to-last combination tear gas/sneezing powder/itching powder arrow. Sure, the itching powder probably won't do much good, but the sneezing powder tear gas should disorient them long enough for Louie and Huey to get in surprise attacks. Those attacks will disorient the Cyber-Eggmen long enough for you to drop the super-super-glue bombs we prepared to trap them and give ME a clear shot at Steelbeak." Quiverwing added.
"And we promise to only help you against Steelbeak himself if it looks like you're going to absolutely, postively need it." Speed Prince reassured.
Elsewhere, Darkwing and Morgana arrived at Bulba's lair thanks to the mystic energy trail the latter was able to pick up. However, the effort of following the trail that far left the sorceress exhausted, which Darkwing noticed. Not that the hero was complaining. He wouldn't have been able to find Bulba's hideout at all if not for her mystic sense AND he intended to go in first and draw the cyber-bull's fire anyway. This would give his wife enough rest time to regain enough strength for her surprise attack while Bulba was busy with Darkwing. All that was needed was a quick check to see if he had everything he'd need to keep Bulba busy.
"Smoke bombs laced with tear gas? Check. Auto-retractable grappling hook? Check. Electro-disks? Check. Freeze gas cartridges? Check. Super-super-glue bombs? Check. Ready-fire titanium alloy net? Check." the masked hero said as he carefully examined the gear he brought.
To Be Continued
