A/N- Negaduck is a little OOC in this chapter, I hope you don't mind. He'll be back in character before the end of this story, so don't worry!

Chapter Three

Quiverwing, Honker, and Launchpad flew over the city in the ever-trusty ThunderQuack. This plane, which only Launchpad was able to fly, was painted maroon and purple and was in the shape of a duck's head. Quiverwing, sitting in the front passenger seat, sighed.

"No sign of anything, Honker?" she asked. Honker was in the back, looking out the window with a pair of binoculars at the city below.

"Nope," he replied. "Sorry."

"I'm sure D.W. is all right, Q.W.," Launchpad said, swerving suddenly to avoid collision with one of St. Canard's many skyscrapers. He always saved his collisions for landings. The ground was always an easy target.

Suddenly, a large blast of light, followed by flames and screaming, erupted in front of them.

"What the--? Launchpad, land us somewhere near where that blast went off!" Quiverwing said.

Launchpad did almost exactly that. As said before, the ground was always an easy target. The ThunderQuack made a spectacular beak-in-ground crash. Launchpad just couldn't pull that crash off with any other plane. Well, not properly anyway.

The cockpit door popped open, and Quiverwing jumped out.

"Be careful, Quiverwing! Whatever caused that has to be pretty bad!" Honker called as Quiverwing sped off.

Suddenly, a good ways away from Honker, Launchpad, and the ThunderQuack, Quiverwing ran into something very solid.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" said the solid thing.

Quiverwing looked up. Looming over her, with a bazooka in hand, was Negaduck.

"You! So, you're the one who has Darkwing!" Quiverwing said, jumping to her feet.

"What?"

"You've kidnapped him!"

Negaduck laughed.

"So! That's why ol' Dipwing isn't showing?" he said, grabbing Quiverwing by her red-haired pigtails. "He's gone and gotten himself captured, has he? Who's got him, Missy?"

"I don't know!" she protested, kicking franticly at him.

"Well, then, you're going to take me to him. You obviously had a lead if you were out here, right? I mean, that's what you superhero types do, right?"

"Uh, actually, not really..."

Quiverwing had stopped fighting and was staring somewhat apologetically at Negaduck. He scowled.

"What were you doing then? Just hanging out a window with binoculars waiting for Dorkwing to jump out at you?!"

"Well, not exactly. We weren't hanging out the window…"

"Quiverwing!" Honker yelled as he and Launchpad finally came running to find her.

They both gasped and stopped when they saw Quiverwing in the clutches of Negaduck.

"Let her go!" Launchpad yelled.

Negaduck growled at him, and he jumped and whimpered slightly.

"Thanks a lot, you guys," Quiverwing muttered.

Negaduck laughed a deep, cold laugh and released Quiverwing from his hold. She stared at him.

"What is it you're playing at?"

"A partnership, Sweetums. The two of us--"

"Four," Honker corrected timidly.

"Right," Negaduck growled in his direction. "The four of us team up to find that wretched do-gooder."

"Why would you help us?" Launchpad asked.

"Because whoever took Dipwing, took my loot!"

Quiverwing and Honker exchanged a quick look.

"Uh…stolen loot was stolen from you?" Quiverwing asked.

"Yeah, what's it to ya?"

Launchpad sighed. "Uh…nothing. So, when do we get started?"

"Not when, how. We have no leads! Not even a suspect!" Honker said.

"I do," Negaduck said, pulling out the note.

Quiverwing took it, then handed it to Honker.

"We have to find some way to analyze this," Honker said.

"What? Don't you do-gooding dips have a hideout?" Negaduck asked.

"Yeah, but we're not likely to take you there!" Quiverwing said.

"We can use the college's lab to analyze this! It's open all the time," Honker said as he turned to return to the ThunderQuack.

"There's a college around here?" asked Quiverwing, Launchpad, and Negaduck in unison.

Honker sighed and chose not reply.

"Fine. Launchpad, ready the ThunderQuack Negaduck, did you do all of this?"

Quiverwing gestured to her soundings. There were cars blown apart and the few that weren't in pieces were on fire. Bits of buildings had been blasted off and there was general chaos everywhere.

"Yeah. Not some of my best work though," Negaduck said, staring around and shaking his head.

Quiverwing gave an aggravated sigh. She grabbed his cape and proceeded to drag him to the ThunderQuack.