Double Triangle Trouble
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: Once more, with the exceptions of Melanie, Ronnie and Lisa (all of whom are owned by my co-writer Stef) each and every character in this story is owned by Disney. Ergo, absolutely no profit motive is intended. You probably already know that by heart but better safe than sued. Now, here it is; the 24th chapter of this story.
Chapter 24
Written By:
Brad Eugene Palmer (Nightw2/comickook)
After a quick reassessment of the better field determined that Steelbeak and all of his stooges were accounted for; Quiverwing nodded and started dialing her adoptive father's cell phone number (which only she, Morgana and Launchpad knew). While she was busy with that, Major Mind started calling the proper authorities on Steelbeak's radio equipment to pick up the captured super-spy and Cyber-Eggmen.
"Come on, dad. Please be all right. Please pick up." Quiverwing quietly thought out loud, knowing how dangerous Bulba was.
After Morgana teleported herself and Darkwing back to the remains of Taurus Bulba's hideout, which was at the same time Quiverwing and the Duck triplets STARTED assessing the scene at Steelbeak's hideout post battle, the sorceress was trying in vain to pick up an energy trail to lead them to Bulba again. Unfortunately, picking up the Divine Eye Diamond's mystic energy signature didn't do any good this time because the teleporter beamed him out of the range of Morgana's mystic tracking instantly.
"I'm sorry Dark, darling. Wherever Bulba teleported to, it's out of my tracking range." Morgana admitted in lament.
"And we can't check the teleporter's programming to see where he teleported because it self-destructed just after Bulba teleported away." Darkwing added with a deep, regretful sign.
"Well, we DO have one thing going for us, Honeywumpus. We know where Bulba will be dawn tomorrow since he still has the Divine Eye Diamond. He won't make another try for us until he gets the power he needs the diamond to obtain. The next dawn is nineteen hours away so that gives us eighteen hours to make final preparations so that I can teleport us there an hour before dawn so that we can wait Bulba out. I want to make him pay BIG TIME for the way he threatened our children too, but why waste energy we'll need for the battle trying to chase Taurus Bulba all over Rio when we can fight SMART as well as HARD?" Morgana said thoughtfully.
"Hmmm, you do have a very good point concerning that angle, Morg. All right, then. We'll head back to our suite and make final preparations for our dawn showdown with Bulba." Darkwing said, JUST AS his cell phone started ringing. Knowing that only Morgana, Launchpad and Gosalyn knew his cell phone number, he wasted no time in picking up.
"Hello?" Darkwing began.
"Well, dad, I have great news; the boys and I managed to capture Steelbeak and all of his Cyber-Eggmen. How are things going with Bulba?" Quiverwing responded, beginning in an excited tone and ending in a half-worried one.
"Well, the good news is that Morg and I are both unharmed. The bad news is that Bulba got away again, even though we DO know where he'll be heading dawn tomorrow because our theory about him being the one who stole the Divine Eye Diamond turned out to be correct." Darkwing answered.
"Well, you can count on US for back-up, dad." Quiverwing said courageously.
"Absolutely not, Gos. You KNOW how dangerous Taurus Bulba is just as well as I know." Darkwing said in parental protest.
"Yes, I DO know how dangerous Bulba is, dad. That's why I said US and not ME. I figure you can use all the help you can get. Odds are Bulba will make his own preparations for that temple showdown. Still, between our skills, Morg's magic and the boys' super-hero gear, we should be a match for anything Taurus Bulba can throw at us." Quiverwing said in her "'I'm not staying out of this no matter WHAT you say.'" voice. She had a personal stake in taking down Bulba, after all; the evil bull's henchmen killed her biological grandfather more than eight years ago, though she only found out about the involvement of Bulba's henchmen a little over a year ago.
Darkwing nodded reluctantly on the other end, knowing from experience that it was pointless to try arguing with Gosalyn when she was using that tone. "Oh, all right, Gos. You and the triplets can help, but you have to promise to be as careful as you can be. You and your allies had better meet with Morg and I at our suite as soon as possible so we can discuss strategy and work on the equipment that we might need."
"Thanks, dad. We will. We'll meet you back at the hotel then. Over and out." Quiverwing said as she hung up.
"I take it you just volunteered us to help your father and stepmother in their final confrontation with Taurus Bulba." Speed Prince said; albeit more matter-of-factly than in protest (in fact, there was no protest at all in his voice).
"Well, I knew from experience that you, Dewey and Louie wouldn't stay out of something that big any more than I would." Quiverwing stated factually.
"She is quite correct. Between the fact that the Mallards ARE friends of ours AND the fact that Taurus Bulba stole the very diamond we were trying to protect from the Fearsome Five, the odds of us staying out of the battle if it got to the "'showdown at the temple'" stage were, to coin the vernacular, slim to none; a fact she was all too aware of from when she tried, in vain, to talk us out of helping out against the Fearsome Five." Major Mind added.
"So, we'd better be getting to your family's suite, right, Gos?" Speed Prince said, knowingly answering his own question.
"I've already scanned Gosalyn's mind for the location of the Mallards' hotel suite. Ergo, you and Gosalyn had better get going. Louie and I will go under our own power, but we're only one-sixth as fast as you are so we might comparatively be a while " Major Mind said as he wrote down the location and directions for Speed Prince.
"Gotcha, Dewey." Speed Prince said as Quiverwing got on his back again and he, with his special aura shielding him and Quiverwing from the friction of his hypersonic speed, took off for the Mallards' hotel after he carefully read the directions.
Meanwhile, at his alternate hideout, Taurus Bulba sat back and planned. He still had the Divine Eye Diamond and more than eighteen hours to prepare for the big confrontation he expected at the temple where the diamond was first created. "I've already waited seven years to claim my full measure of revenge on Darkwing and his family; I can wait one more day if it means making absolutely sure." the cyborg said with a cackle.
To Be Continued
