The Lost
Rating: PG-13
Pairings - Wildwing/Mallory
Author's Note - This is just the second installment of my new fic brought to you by procrastination and a severe lack of interest in any of my homework. Enjoy!
Chapter 2
Wildwing and Mallory, while still a tad dazed and flushed, were the first to enter the Ready Room. Duke, Nosedive and Tanya rushed in within moments of their arrival. Tanya whizzed her way through Drake One, and immediately saw that the main catalyst for the blaring alarm was a trace of teleportation energy.
"W-Wildwing! There's some, uh, teleportation energy! T-This is impossible, we g-got rid of anyone capable of this w-when we brought down Dragaunus!" Tanya cried. Wildwing examined the screen in confusion, Tanya's statement was correct unless they had overlooked something.
"Tanya, where does Drake One say that energy is coming from?" Wildwing asked.
"I-It doesn't even look like i-it's from this country! L-Let me run the, uh, coordinates through Drake One, and uh, then I can tell you."
Tanya typed away at lightning speed on the main unit of the Ducks' super- computer. Her beak dropped open as the location of the teleportation energy was displayed.
"S-South America?" Tanya examined the screen looking uncharacteristically perplexed. "H-How could Dragaunus and his g-goons have gotten all the way down to the Amazon? I-It's almost impossible, I mean..."
"Tanya, it doesn't matter how they got there, what matters is that we follow them and destroy whatever plans they are hatching." Wildwing announced, "Let's go team, to the Aerowing!"
Mallory was the last to follow her teammates as they left to board; she had a very bad feeling about this trip that she just couldn't shake.
Brief hours later, the team of six arrived at the pinpoint location of the energy disturbance, but soon realized that they had a rather large problem.
"Uh, Wildwing," Nosedive's voice caught the leader's attention, obviously centered on other matters that held more importance at the moment. Nosedive seemed puzzled, Wildwing's attention was solely focused on Dragaunus when energy disturbances occurred, and any thoughts that he had were usually shared, almost at an annoying rate, with the rest of the team. Now however, Wildwing was quiet, seemingly withdrawn from the situation at hand, and Nosedive seemed puzzled as to what could possibly be important enough to distract his big brother from a mission.
"Wildwing we have a bit of a problem. Okay, maybe it's a rather large problem but that's not the point. We can't land in all of this dense forest but we still need to get out there and find whatever is messin' with our detectors."
"Okay Dive," said Wildwing, "Then I'll pick two of us to go out there and scout it out, if anymore of us go then it will be too easy to get separated. Do I have any volunteers?"
No one had raised their hands, none of the ducks wanted to set off into the seemingly alien forest, it was full of hazards and dangers that most of them had not been prepared for.
"Alright, how about this, I'll just choose whoever is going to go, and I automatically volunteer myself, seeing as how I am responsible for you all. This forest presents dangers that none of us have seen before."
Nosedive and Tanya both began to open their mouths to object and Wildwing merely silenced them with a wave of his hand.
"I will have no objections to this, as the leader of this team I am responsible for the well-being of all of us, and the one going into this forest with me will be in more danger than those who will stay behind in the Aerowing."
Mallory looked around her; none of the Avians standing next to her were very well suited for a jungle climate or environment at all. Grin was too bulky, and could easily become aloof and clumsy with his size. Nosedive was too much of a goof-off and could fast become miserable without his nonsense that he called comics. Duke wouldn't know the first thing about survival in the wild, he was too used to living in the posh world of technology and finery, as his thieving days had enriched him in the cash department. Tanya was needed on the Aerowing in case anything went wrong, and as a worry-wort and second guesser, she was almost always a last choice in any combat zone. She knew that he'd pick her, merely for the fact that she had been trained for this, she knew how to survive and could do it with ease; she prayed that he had no ulterior motives for such a choice. She hoped to whatever higher powers that existed to make her visit in the Amazon a brief one.
"Mallory, you're with me."
She sighed, she knew this was coming yet she somehow hoped that he wouldn't make her go along, any extended and isolated period in his company could be too much of a temptation for her, seeing as how this morning they had been walking on that ever-thinning line between friendship and something more. She grabbed her gear, and made sure that they both had everything they would need, and they rappelled out of the Aerowing, uncertain about their future and afraid for the endless possibilities of what could come.
TBC...
Rating: PG-13
Pairings - Wildwing/Mallory
Author's Note - This is just the second installment of my new fic brought to you by procrastination and a severe lack of interest in any of my homework. Enjoy!
Chapter 2
Wildwing and Mallory, while still a tad dazed and flushed, were the first to enter the Ready Room. Duke, Nosedive and Tanya rushed in within moments of their arrival. Tanya whizzed her way through Drake One, and immediately saw that the main catalyst for the blaring alarm was a trace of teleportation energy.
"W-Wildwing! There's some, uh, teleportation energy! T-This is impossible, we g-got rid of anyone capable of this w-when we brought down Dragaunus!" Tanya cried. Wildwing examined the screen in confusion, Tanya's statement was correct unless they had overlooked something.
"Tanya, where does Drake One say that energy is coming from?" Wildwing asked.
"I-It doesn't even look like i-it's from this country! L-Let me run the, uh, coordinates through Drake One, and uh, then I can tell you."
Tanya typed away at lightning speed on the main unit of the Ducks' super- computer. Her beak dropped open as the location of the teleportation energy was displayed.
"S-South America?" Tanya examined the screen looking uncharacteristically perplexed. "H-How could Dragaunus and his g-goons have gotten all the way down to the Amazon? I-It's almost impossible, I mean..."
"Tanya, it doesn't matter how they got there, what matters is that we follow them and destroy whatever plans they are hatching." Wildwing announced, "Let's go team, to the Aerowing!"
Mallory was the last to follow her teammates as they left to board; she had a very bad feeling about this trip that she just couldn't shake.
Brief hours later, the team of six arrived at the pinpoint location of the energy disturbance, but soon realized that they had a rather large problem.
"Uh, Wildwing," Nosedive's voice caught the leader's attention, obviously centered on other matters that held more importance at the moment. Nosedive seemed puzzled, Wildwing's attention was solely focused on Dragaunus when energy disturbances occurred, and any thoughts that he had were usually shared, almost at an annoying rate, with the rest of the team. Now however, Wildwing was quiet, seemingly withdrawn from the situation at hand, and Nosedive seemed puzzled as to what could possibly be important enough to distract his big brother from a mission.
"Wildwing we have a bit of a problem. Okay, maybe it's a rather large problem but that's not the point. We can't land in all of this dense forest but we still need to get out there and find whatever is messin' with our detectors."
"Okay Dive," said Wildwing, "Then I'll pick two of us to go out there and scout it out, if anymore of us go then it will be too easy to get separated. Do I have any volunteers?"
No one had raised their hands, none of the ducks wanted to set off into the seemingly alien forest, it was full of hazards and dangers that most of them had not been prepared for.
"Alright, how about this, I'll just choose whoever is going to go, and I automatically volunteer myself, seeing as how I am responsible for you all. This forest presents dangers that none of us have seen before."
Nosedive and Tanya both began to open their mouths to object and Wildwing merely silenced them with a wave of his hand.
"I will have no objections to this, as the leader of this team I am responsible for the well-being of all of us, and the one going into this forest with me will be in more danger than those who will stay behind in the Aerowing."
Mallory looked around her; none of the Avians standing next to her were very well suited for a jungle climate or environment at all. Grin was too bulky, and could easily become aloof and clumsy with his size. Nosedive was too much of a goof-off and could fast become miserable without his nonsense that he called comics. Duke wouldn't know the first thing about survival in the wild, he was too used to living in the posh world of technology and finery, as his thieving days had enriched him in the cash department. Tanya was needed on the Aerowing in case anything went wrong, and as a worry-wort and second guesser, she was almost always a last choice in any combat zone. She knew that he'd pick her, merely for the fact that she had been trained for this, she knew how to survive and could do it with ease; she prayed that he had no ulterior motives for such a choice. She hoped to whatever higher powers that existed to make her visit in the Amazon a brief one.
"Mallory, you're with me."
She sighed, she knew this was coming yet she somehow hoped that he wouldn't make her go along, any extended and isolated period in his company could be too much of a temptation for her, seeing as how this morning they had been walking on that ever-thinning line between friendship and something more. She grabbed her gear, and made sure that they both had everything they would need, and they rappelled out of the Aerowing, uncertain about their future and afraid for the endless possibilities of what could come.
TBC...