A storm was coming. A month after Della's return, and a massive El Pato was approaching Duckburg, the effects apparent with the winds blowing everything about and making standing nigh-impossible. People had been advised to stay indoors and to board up their windows, and to prepare of heavy flooding. Save for the last part, even McDuck Manor was preparing.
Dewey and Webby were stacking cans into a pile, asking a passing Louie for help to an obvious result: laughter among the three.
"Least he could do is CONSIDER helping." Rebecca says unamused as Louie heads up the stairs, finding her youngest sibling's recent behavior over the past couple of days rather suspicious.
Webby then drops one while passing it to Dewey, the can rolling away.
Beakley stops and picks up a can and looks at it. "Mr. Chunky's Extra Chunky Chili Chunks?"
"We could be stuck here for days. You said we we should get plenty of food we won't get sick of." Dewey explains, him and Webby pointing to a chili dog stand.
"I said won't get sick from, and you know it. I doubt your mother would approve of the nutritional-" Beakley is interrupted by Della eating a chili dog, disproving her point.
"What? Chilli cheese dogs put the 'hooray' in 'hooraycane party', it's no big deal!" Della defends.
"Until we're on day 8 with nothing but chili cheese dogs and we all get scurvy... again."
"Beakley! You gotta let kids be kids, don't sweat the small stuff."
"Is this your parenting strategy or things you read off a bumper sticker?"
"Honk if you're a great mom! Honk honk!"
"Well, when Mr. Boone gets here he'll be able to make us some good meals." Rebecca says as she boards up the windows beside the front door, getting confused looks. "I offered him to stay here until the storm blows over. He'll need a safe place to stay." She clarifies. Immediately after saying that, there is a knock on the door. Rebecca opens the door, a drenched Ian rushing in and helping her close the door due to the heavy winds blowing in. Once the door is secured, Ian pulls down his hood and shakes his head dry due to the near-sideways rain.
Beakley looks at the time. "You're late."
"Sorry. After helping Dickie prepare her apartment, I had to dodge about a dozen or so fallen and falling trees on the way here, in near-null visibility, with regular debris sticking to my windshield, and there being about two inches of water in my floorboard." Ian explains as he removes his jacket, hanging it up. "But at least I am here now."
"And that is all that matters." Rebecca assures as she dries her face off, Ian having splashed her some. "Now, we need you to help secure the windows. Launchpad is doing them."
"Ugh..." Ian groans as he heads over.
Scrooge then starts to haul in a quiver filled with an assortment of canes. "We need to bring in all these valuable heirlooms from the garage before the storm hits."
"I'm sorry, 'valuable'?" Louie asks, stopping in his tracks.
"These are the famous canes of Clan McDuck, going aaall the way back to our very earliest ancestors."
"Oh... sentimental value, yuck! Anyway, I've got important- Uuuh, stuff, to take care of... in... my room... so... mm." Louie says before leaving.
"That boy's up to something..."
"Oh no doubt. Question is what?" Rebecca asks as she heads to the garage to help bring things in.
Then, they are interrupted by Launchpad being useless with a hammer. "Whoops." He continues to miss the nail, hitting the window frame
"Launchpad, euh... wh- why don't yew keep an eye of Louie upstairs? Far away from here." Scrooge suggests.
"No problem, Mr. McDee." Launchpad says as he runs, tossing his hammer which breaks the central window, not long after Ian had fixed it from Scrooge's fight with Glomgold.
"Ugh, I'll get the wood..." Ian says, frustrated.
A bit later, while Huey is explaining his entry on caveducks to Dewey and Webby, they hear something outside, and rush to check it out.
"Come back, the storm is starting!" Beakley warns.
"Ehhhh what are they gonna find out there, a little rain? Some debris?" Della waves off.
"Hey, cool, a dead guy!" Dewey says.
"I'm sorry, a what?!" Rebecca pops in, confused.
Scrooge also walks in, and looks at Ian. "Lad, did yew-"
"I closed the gate I can assure you..." Ian promises.
Huey, Dewey, and Webby bring the figure in, and it would turn out the 'dead guy' was actually...
"A caveduck..." Huey says, in awe as the prehistoric figure awakes and climbs around, confused.
"Aww... Hey, little guy." Webby says.
"Ooh, maybe he was frozen on an iceberg..." Dewey suggests as the caveduck sniffs the three.
"...and the iceberg melted and he was washed ashore with the storm!" Webby finishes.
"Yeah, pffffft... frozen in an iceberg. Preposterous!" Scrooge waves off.
"It happened to you twice." Webby reminds Scrooge, who realizes it isn't so wild afterall.
"Even though we are on a hill over 300 feet tall, several miles from the coast." Rebecca points out.
"A real... life... CAVEDUCK?! He could prove my report is accurate to the Junior Woochuck Council and guarantee my entry gets in the new guidebook!" Huey says, excited.
"Great!" Della says.
Beakley, on the other hand, is not so thrilled. "Aaaand possibly disrupt all of time." She states.
"Aww... But it's one little caveduck."
"Small problems can turn into big problems if not prevented early. Step a butterfly in the past-"
"Duuuude, why would you step on a butterfly? That's sick, lady. Sick!" Della interrupts, disgusted.
"It's a hypotethical situation." Beakley explains.
"Good! Keep it that way. Kids, take him to the TV room before the butterfly basher here gets to him."
"No no, I-"
A loud burst of thunder interrupts everyone, startling them.
"We'll deal with these crisis in order of importance. Strange storm first, caveduck second." Scrooge says.
"Good idea. Rebecca, get me some more wood." Ian requests.
"You got it!" Rebecca heads off to get him some more boarding up wood.
Not too much later, after more than just a single caveduck return, including pirates showing up in the manor, the adults, Louie, and Rebecca convene in the tv room to discuss the issue.
"We need to find the cause of this timephoon. Did anyone touch a cursed artifact? Or make some type of improperly warded wish?" Scrooge questions.
"SHUSH Chrono Protocols suggest that someone is tampering with the timestream at specific points. But who? And how?" Beakley says as Scrooge wheels in a whiteboard to draw up ideas, Louie then rubbing something off of it once it it flipped over.
"Well- This could be any of the time shenanigans we've dealt with lately. Why assign blame?" Louie suggests as Rebecca narrows her eyes at him.
"Louie's right. It's not like we haven't faced pirates before." Della waves off.
"Each new arrival adds to the rift. The more contemptible continuum crashes arrive, the worse the storm gets!" Scrooge explains as he draws it out.
"So what you're saying is we have to stop these small problems now so they don't go out of hand and cause big problems later?" Beakley asks in obvious criticism of Della.
"I see how you turned this into a lesson on parenting and I am impressed." Della points out, not getting the point.
"Perhaps Gyro has some Time Tank left that will help us identify that's causing this." Scrooge ponders.
"Pretty sure he does-" Ian is cut off by Louie
"I love where your head's at Uncle Scrooge. Oh- Too bad we can't go ask him.. You know, cause of the storm." Louie points out.
Suddenly, in a bolt of lightning, Gyro appears, and grabs Scrooge. "Someone stole my Time Tub and DESTROYED TIME AND SPACE!"
"Oh boy..." Louie says
...
After Gyro explains everything from the beginning, Ian suspicious of his boss, they realize someone has been using the time tub to steal artifacts from throughout time, with which Louie, suspiciously, leaves.
"So we need to find the master thief capable of both the lab, and the mansion." Della says.
"It's one of the kids." Scrooge immediately answers as it is a no-brainer.
"Absolutely. I'll get Dewey." Beakley says as she starts to leave.
"What-" Della is about to protest, when a bolt of lightning brings a ninja into the room.
The ninja hops onto the couch, startling Gyro before climbing into the rafters.
"Ninjas. Worse than termites! Cannae ever get them out of the rafters. Ae'll spook him down!" Scrooge says as he runs off. "Come along lad!" He says to Ian, who follows.
"The kids couldn't have done this." Della argues as, then, the ninja drops down to attack Gyro, but is tossed aside by Beakley.
"I'm sure they didn't mean to." Beakley says as she, Rebecca, and Della get ready to fight.
Then, the ninja appears behind them, drawing their sword as they try to attack, Della kicking them away before the ninja runs away.
"I'm sorry I don't yell at them for every little thing, but they are good kids!" Della argues as she and Beakley run out, Beakley pulling Della out of the way of kunais.
"Even good kids do dumb things, and we have to make sure those dumb things don't turn into bad things, like destroying all of existence!" Beakley explains as they fight off the ninja, which soon smoke bombs away, leaving behind a log.
"Wow, they actually DID use logs!" Rebecca says, a tad too excited.
Then, the ninja reappears and attacks Della, and is kicked into the fireplace where Beakley activates the Santa Trap in it, the ninja crawling up the chimney and escaping.
Then, Rebecca tries to pursue with her katana, but is stopped. "Aw, but I wanna hunt a ninja!" She pouts.
Scrooge then enters, followed by Ian. "There are Spanish freedom fighters on the roof!"
"Are you sure?" Beakley asks.
"Vive la révolution!" The freedom fighters shout.
"Oh, no, they may be French." Scrooge corrects. "Lad, watch the lass and keep her out of trouble."
"But I didn't-!" Rebecca starts to protest as Scrooge, Della, and Beakley run up to the roof to deal with the French Revolutionaries.
Ian just pats her on the head. "In my opinion? This feels like a Louie goof for some reason..." He admits.
Soon, more and more chaos ensues, and it is only after a triceratops arrives that Bubba the caveduck starts riding that Della realizes things are bad. Unfortunately, before Beakley can give advice, she is zapped into the past, joined Scrooge, Della, and Donald when they fought Captain Peghook. Things had officially escalated.
Especially when figures from all across time start popping into the foyer.
"This is officially the second worst situation I have ever been in!" Ian says as he fights as best he can, Rebecca covering him.
"Honestly, Mrs. Beakley getting sent back in time is indeed up there!" Rebecca confesses, fighting fiercely as more and more show up, Scrooge seeing the urgency.
"...Gyro! Find that time tub!" Scrooge says.
"On it! I immediately failed you!" Are Gyro's last words as he is zapped away.
Ian blinks. "I know it is a bit soon, but does that mean I've been promoted?"
"Not now lad!" Scrooge says.
"Right right right!" Ian says,
...
Not too much later, Della and Launchpad bring down the timetub with Louie in it, revealing his part.
"Knew it!" Rebecca and Ian say, fighting the anachronistic intruders.
Then, Launchpad gets zapped away, dropping the time tub down the stairs.
"Time to send those unwanted houseguests- oooh!" Scrooge is interrupted as he is zapped.
"Uncle Scrooge!" Webby, Dewey, and Rebecca cry out.
"This is really bad-ahhhh!" Ian is zapped next.
"No! Louie look what you've done!" Rebecca scolds at her friend being lost to time because of her brother as they are all backed up to the tub.
"It's okay! I know how to fix this." Louie assures as he messes with knobs.
"Says the one who caused ALL of this!" Rebecca adds.
"And how are we going to get all these anomalies into that tiny tub?" Webby asks.
"One of several things I'll know, any second now." Louie adds.
Then, after Bubba beats up a 1920s muscle man, Huey and Rebecca are zapped, followed by Webby and Dewey.
"Noooo!" Della cries out. "Louie hurry!" She says before she is zapped away.
"Mom!" Louie cries out as he gets the time tub figured out, and manages to send all of the anomalies back with the time tub's shower head, Bubba being the last.
After a few seconds delay, Launchpad returns in tattered clothing, followed by Beakley in a pirate hat and Scrooge in Arabian robes, Rebecca and Huey in western attire, Dewey and Webby in 60's hippie attire, Della in a suit of armor, and Ian in mid-1910s attire.
"You're back! I am so, so sorry!" Louie begins his very extensive and very sincere apology to everyone, during which Gyro returns, which everyone seems to accept...
"No. Not this time." Della says, removing the armor's helmet.
"What? But, I really am sorry. We hugged and everything." Louie defends.
"I watched your brothers and sister blink out of existence because you wanted a shortcut to riches!" Della argues.
"Well, I said I was sorry!"
"You took off in that contraption without thinking about the consequences, or the people you would hurt!" Della scold hypocritically.
"I wonder where I get that from?" Louie says, making an admittedly fair point.
"Louie!" Rebecca gasps as does everyone else, Ian backing up from the family drama.
"See here young man-" Beakley starts to scold.
"Your little scheme to bypass the present almost cost us our future. This all stops now. You are grounded! No schemes, no treasures, and Louie Incorporated is done, understand?" Della demands.
"Buh- Let me clean up! Uncle Scrooge? Mrs. B, come on!" Louie looks for help which none of his family unfairly don't give.
"To. Your. Room."
"Stupid perfect scheme..." Louie kicks the time tub as Della and Beakley act like she even remotely did the right thing.