I am just soooo proud of myself for finishing this much (between classes and homework) so let me know what you think since I'm running on a totally caffeine high right now... ;)
"Dive, don't you remember my sister-"
"Kristy?"exclaimed Nosedive in disbelief.
"Uh, yeah..." answered Kristy.
"Ah man, T-girly-girl, how'd you get here? And who are those guys?"
"Um Dive, I'm feeling pretty tired right now," said Kristy, she turned to Canard, "is there somewhere I could go lie down?"
"Yeah, sure, you can use my room," offered Canard, "I'll show you where it is."
"Weird," muttered Nosedive, the Kristy he remembered was usually full of energy to spare. "So, who're you guys?" he asked, walking behind the two teenaged drakes who were following Duke out of the plane.
"I'm Jason," said the Black-feathered one, offering his hand. He nudged the brown feathered one, "and this is my brother Zack."
"Cool. Name's Nosedive, but friends call me Dive."
"Whatever." Zack picked up his pace to walk ahead of them.
Nosedive raised an eyebrow. "Don't worry, he's just shy," assured Jason.
"Kristy, is there anything else you need?" asked Canard, standing uncomfortably in the doorway.
"Oh yeah, I just really need to lie down for a while."
"Okay..." Canard left and shut the door behind him. He'd never spent a lot of time hanging out with Kristy, and they weren't as close as Dive and Wing, but he thought she'd at least look a little happier to see him.
Once the door had shut Chameleon morphed into his true form and took out his communicator to call Dragonus. "Hey boss, I'm in."
"Excellent," replied Dragonus, "what have you learned so far?"
"Uh, whado you mean?"
"Fool!" roared Dragonus. "You have infiltrated their secret headquarters, yet learned nothing?"
"Um, well, ya see...I did find out that the the new ducks aren't from the military...oh yeah, and the girl," he morphed back into Kristy, "is actually Canard's kid sister."
"You imbecile! Don't contact me again until you have something worth reporting." Dragonus stormed away from the monitor. He was heading for his private prison, a single cell kept separate from the others.
Kristy had woken up to find herself lying in a strange new cell, and all alone. "Hello?" she called, leaning against the metal bars. She eventually slumped down against the wall, pulling her knees to her chest. She sat like that for a while, frightened by the prospect of being totally alone in the shadowy prison. Kristy wasn't sure how much time had past when the sound of loud footsteps echoed down the dark hall.
Dragonus stepped into the light given off by the one small bulb in her cell. Kristy gulped
"Who are you?" he demanded.
Kristy stared at the Saurian Overlord, not understanding. "What?"
"Your name!" growled Dragonus. He slammed his fist against a control panel on the wall and the metal bars receded into the ceiling. Kristy scrambled backwards, but Dragonus grabbed her by the throat, lifting her so her feet just bearly brushed the ground. "Tell me or I'll wring your neck."
Kristy clawed at his hand, but Dragonus just tightened his hold. "Kristina..." she gasped, struggling for breath, "Kristina Thunderbeak."
Dragonus released her and the teen collapsed on the floor holding her neck and breathing deeply. "So he was right," muttered Dragonus, exiting the cell. The bars dropped bak into place and Kristy stared blankly into the darkness, wondering what was so important about her name.
"Jase! Check out the 'puter they got here!" exclaimed Zack, staring up at Drake-1. "Just imagine the codes we could crack with that..." He trailed off, glaring suspiciously at Nosedive.
"Do, ah, you know a lot about computers?" asked Tanya, already seated at her usually spot in the ready room in front of Drake-1.
"What? Oh, uh, no, not really," stammered Zack.
"But you do know all about hacking, don't you?" asked Mallory, but it was more of a statement than a question.
"Mal, lay off," said Duke.
"So how'd you two get here?" asked Wildwing
"A couple of thugs from the Assassins society tried to kidnap us, but we used their Dimensional gateway to escape," explained Jason, telling them the condensed version.
"Assassin's society, aren't they the brotherhood's old rivals, Duke? I saw their sabers back there, the trademark of your old gang," argued Mallory, "and that one," she pointed at Zack, "was practically drooling over the possibility of using Drake-1 to hack into who knows what."
"Mallory, there just kids," pointed out Wildwing. They looked to be about the same age as Dive, and in his book that made them harmless until they proved otherwise.
"But they're criminals."
"Would you lay off already?" Duke was tired of her insulting the twins, and right in front of them too. But he was prepared to argue their case, it wasn't anymore than what their father, Blade Cooper had done for him, so many years ago. Duke hadn't known anyone when he entered the Brotherhood as a trainee, but Blade had helped him out and Duke thought of him as a brother. Jason and Zack has always referred to him as "Uncle Duke" and he enjoyed playing the doting uncle. "You gonna go interrogate the girl next," he challenged.
"Kristy?" asked Nosedive. "Why?"
"My point exactly." Duke leaned back against the wall and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Duke, that's different," said Wildwing, "we grew up with the Thunderbeaks. Dive 'n I've know Kristy forever."
"And I've know Zack and Jason since their birth."
"Point taken." Canard stepped out of the doorway where he'd been listening. "Duke's right, according to the military's code we can't turn away a civilian who needs help, and if we were following military procedure we should've questioned all three of them before we even brought them here."
"Uh, you think this could wait 'til tomorrow?" asked Tanya. "Cause I'm like kind'a pooped."
"Okay, everyone get some shut eye," said Wildwing, "tomorrow we'll question all three of them. Happy?"
"Hey bro, you notice that Kristy looked sort'a different?" asked Nosedive.
Wildwing placed a hand over his face. "Dive, I really don't wanna know what you're thinking."
"No bro, not that she looks a lot older than I remember-"
"What?" exclaimed Canard.
"Chill, chill, she just wasn't the same, like..."
"Like she's not acting like Kristy." finished Zack.. "Yeah, ever since they brought her back to the cell-"
"What did you just say?" asked Canard, interrupting him.
"Uh, one of Dragonuse's goons grabbed her 'n took her away. When they brought her back Kristy looked really out of it," explained Jason.
"Whoa, Canard, slow down!" Wildwing grabbed him by the shoulder as Canard turned to run out of the room.
"Wing, if those no good saurian slimebags did anything to her..."
"Canard, she's probably just tired," insisted Wildwing, "and if anything did happen she's in no state to talk about it tonight."
"Fine, but could you at least use the mask and tell me what she's doing?"
Even with the mask on Wildwing's eyes betrayed his amusement. "Worried?"
"Just do it," growled Canard.
"Okay..." Wildwing activated the mask and looked through the wall into Canard's room. "What the? There's a Saurian in there!"
Canard immediately blasted the door open. "Kristy?" He was surprised to see her standing in the middle of the room. "Are you alright? Where'd the Saurian go?"
"Huh? What Saurian?" asked Kristy nervously.
"Hold it right there Chameleon," ordered Wildwing, pointing his puck blaster at her.
"Hey, what're you doing?" Are you crazy?" asked Jason, neither he nor Zack had any idea what was going on.
"Dude, that's not Kristy," said Nosedive, raising his puck blaster.
"Where is she?" demanded Canard.
"He-he...beats me." Chameleon morphed back into his true form.
"No!" Canard lunged for the green saurian, but passed straight through as Chameleon teleported away.
"Wait a sec, so if he's not Kristy, then where is she?" asked Zack.
Jason elbowed him in the side. "Real subtle," he muttered.
"Canard?" Wildwing placed a hand on his friend's shoulder, the tan drake was still kneeling on the ground where he'd landed.
"Dragonus still has her!" Canard banged his fists against the floor.
As much as I hate it when other people do cliff hangers, I had to do one... So yeah, this story is NEVER gonna end! muwahahahaha...just cause I keep thinking ofnewideas to add. But I'm gonna try 'n wrap it up so I can start a new story!
