Disclaimer : Did not make, do not own, am not making money off the Characters (Duke, Mallory, Grin, Wildwing, Tanya, Nosedive, Draggie, Thrash or Mookie) from The Mighty Ducks : The Animated Television Show. Did not make, do not own, am not making money off of Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Point Of View: Duke

KNOWN

He recognized her the moment he saw her. She was deadly, she would do anything to get her ends. It was what the Brotherhood looked for in knew members:cruelness but not senselessness. This Buffy that Nosedive seemed to love (what else would make him miss goals?) would of been someone Duke would of picked for an apprentice.

Except she had a problem with authority, and that is what made Duke wary of her. She had power, he knew, he could sense it. If she had been on Puckworld...

He chuckled to himself. If she had been on Puckworld, she would of had the chance to be the first female to ever take control of the Brotherhood. But that was providing she put her pride aside and let herself be taught, guided.

He would have to watch her, make sure she didn't do anything. Nosedive might think she was an angel, but Mallory had been right - this human girl needed to be watched.

So he volunteered to be on Buffy's. If she proved to be working for Dragaunus, then he'd do what was right.

MISSION

When she told them why she needed their help, he was a little reluctant to believe her. The Saurian Overlords were brutal, not intelligent. They attacked with brute force.

She said they had created a virus. She had stopped the launch of it barely in time, and no, she didn't know what it was suppose to do. She just knew it would be only as few days before they fixed her little 'present' in their system.

Dragaunus was going to spread the virus all over the world, so it must be damaging. He wasn't going to do anything environment friendly. Unless he was going to make it Saurian Overlord environment friendly.

Either way it wasn't good.

RAPTOR

They split up into their respective teams after leaving the Migrater in a hiding spot that might not be too good if the Lizardheads actually looked for it, but counting on the fact that the Saurians never actually stole the Migrater when it was in plain sight, they didn't fret.

Wildwing and Buffy agreed to take a side of the Raptor respectfully. Both teams were to look for the virus, and find out what it did and why - and how the Lizardheads got it in the first place. Duke followed Buffy and Nosedive around the right.

He would have to give her credit. She was a leader. Her attack plan wasn't that bad, either; sneak in, go undetected to the lab, get the virus, and then sneak back out. No unnecessary battles. Maybe he underestimated the kid. Most kids her age would want to go in and attack, just fight whatever moves. Trying to prove themselves.

The expected Drones were patrolling. Buffy had to stop Dive from going in and shooting everything to Kingdom Come. Duke realised then how deeply the kid was in love. He let Buffy 'talk' him out of shooting up Drones just by placing her hand on his forearm.

This might prove trouble.

LABORATORY

They didn't go where they were expecting; a patrol came down unexpectedly, forcing them into an out-of-way room. The Patrol went by with out notice, but the room...

Buffy said it was like the Innititive. He didn't know who they were, and neither did the kid. She explained then about a group of humans that experimented on demons and people who were unlucky enough to be bitten by werewolves or vampires. She said the lab they were in reminded her of those cells - except everything here was red or dark purple. The cells of the Innitive were white.

The people in the cells were not demons. They were normal humans. Some of them had scales, others had tales. All of them were in an induced sleep.

Buffy said to leave them - if they could they'd come back and try to help them, but that wasn't their priority. Duke and Nosedive just nodded. The kid wanted to say somethin but didn't, andDuke remained silent. SinceDukewas following orders, Dive, too,simply let it go.

They looked for notes in the ajoining rooms.

He just kept getting junk - things that were useless. A few minutes later Dive gave a yell.

The kid had found exactly what they needed. None of them knew what it meant - just formulas and numbers. Buffy said to call Wildwing and tell him they had got what they came for.

WAITING

Back at the Pond, Tanya looked over the notes. She said it would take her time, but on a glance it looked like a complicated formula for turning one organism into another - something small micro-organisms did naturally.

While Tanya did that, Duke watched (discreetly) the kid and the girl.

Dive was different around her. He still joked, but he was different. More confident, if that was possible. More happy, too.

Duke had known something was wrong with the kid, more then being stranded on this planet, something deeper then the Saurian camps.

Duke had always thought the kid was pretending, but he did it so well the Thief had been almost fooled.

Until Buffy.

And whatever it was that had tortured the kid, Buffy was curing it.

NIGHT

He knew even Tanya would take awhile to go through all those notes, but that didn't stop him from wishing her to go faster. As night came the Thief left the Pond, aiming to let off steam.

Duke knew. He knew what had happened to those humans, because Dragaunus had started to do it on Puckworld. He didn't understand it then, he didn't understand it now. He just remembered all the mercy killing that he had done with other Brotherhood members when they found that camp...that secret lab...

It was bad enough Dragaunus had done that to Puckworld, but now he was doing so to Earth? Duke felt a new wave of hatred, and he decided to take it out on any criminals he happened across.

Like that idiot over there, thinking he was tough from beatin' up on an old man...