Beyond Sight.
Chapter Fourteen:
Wildwing bit back the cry of pain as Draganus switched the torture device on once more. He should have known they would never have given him the antidote, he should have known Canard wouldn't let him go alone. Duke had followed and had also become the overlord's captive but was currently residing in one of Draganus' not so comfortable holding cells.
"How does it feel Wildwing?" Wildwing felt the lizard by his ear, "how does it feel to know your dear brother is dieing and you can do nothing to stop it." He chuckled, "But don't worry once I have broken your spirit you will give me the codes to get into that infernal base of yours and how to get past the security systems."
"Go to hell!" Wildwing spat through gritted teeth. Draganus sneered and switched the machine on again relishing in the duck's pain.
Miyuka finally finished her little potion and wiped the thin dusting of sweat on her brow. She bottled it up and placed it into the sleeve of her kimono then hurried out of her room. She past Siege and Wraith along the way and heard them mention that they had two prisoners aboard so she went down to the holding cells to see if they might be of any help to her. Once down there she found a gray duck lying semi conscious on the floor. She stood staring at him for a good few minutes before deciding that he looked like he could help her so she typed in a code she'd seen used on other doors and to her delight it worked.
"Wake up now." She said shaking his shoulder, receiving a groan in return, "you must wake up now!" She said a little more urgently which seemed to get the duck's attention.
"Wha . . . Who are you?" He asked rubbing the back of his head.
"Miyuka," she said pulling at his arm frustrated that he wasn't already moving, "you must help!" She pulled and pulled until he finally got up and began to follow her.
"I ain't leavin' without Wildwing." He stated firmly, "You know where he is miss?" Miyuka shook her head looking upset.
"We must leave quickly," she told him all the while dragging him along the corridor and glancing all over the place, "if Loki finds out I will hurt, hurt bad, very bad." Duke raised an eyebrow and stopped taking the woman's hand. She had jet black hair and almond skin, with blood red eyes and pointed ears. She was quite tall and looked like she could have been very proud once but now all he could see behind the red eyes was fear. Almost like a little child wishing to escape some terrible torment.
"Who's Loki?" Duke asked no longer allowing her to move.
"Brother I have been bad, he will punish." She began to make a high wailing noise, not all that loud but enough for Duke to hear it then she place her hands over her ears and closed her eyes tight, "Miyuka has been very bad, very bad, Loki will punish Miyuka. But boy need help! Miyuka does not know what to do!" Duke felt sorry for whoever this woman was, she didn't seem to have an ounce of sanity left, she obviously knew right from wrong but as for anything else, she had obviously lost her mind.
"I won't let him punish you miss, I promise, we just have to find my friend and we can go far away from here where Loki can't hurt you no more."
"Away?" Miyuka looked up hopeful.
"Sure thing!" Duke gave her a warm smile and offered his hand which she took then she began to lead him down a corridor to his left.
"Friend could be down here, yes definitely no other place, surely." She mumbled away and Duke allowed her honing his senses listening out for any indication of the enemy. Just as they reached the end he pulled Miyuka into a doorway and put his hand over her mouth. Draganus stalked past without even noticing and when Duke was satisfied he'd given him enough time to get out of ear shot he rushed over to the room Draganus had exited. Miyuka stayed behind him as he checked to see if anything was inside but all there was was Wildwing strapped to an upright table connected to various wires and small burns showing all over his body. "Found friend we go now?" Duke nodded and went over freeing Wing and hoisting the younger duck over his shoulder with a little difficulty and followed Miyuka down various halls to the exit avoiding drones as they went. Once they were a safe distance away Duke left Wildwing in Miyuka's care and called the others from a pay phone as they hadn't wanted to stay around to find his saber let alone his comm unit. Before long they were well on their way back to the pond where Wildwing could be treated and Miyuka would be safe.
"Where is he!" Draganus fumed as smoke billowed out of his nostrils.
"I'm afraid that traitor of a sister may have aided their escape." Loki said coolly with a slight grin on his lips.
"What!" Draganus yelled.
"Never mind that," Loki waved his hand absently and turned back to the computer screen he'd been looking at before he'd been interrupted, "it seems someone from my own galaxy is here. I wish to greet her Draganus so," Loki pressed a button and the ships lasers fired repeatedly on a ship entering the earth's atmosphere, "I need to use your weapons for a few minutes so I can utterly destroy them!" Loki laughed and watched the radar screen to make sure the ship he was aiming for was shot down.
"What did you do!" Angel yelled throwing the wet towel she'd been using to dry her hair to the side and sitting down in the pilot seat.
"I didn't do anything!" Taro yelled jumping into the copilot's seat and strapping in, promptly placing his hands over his ears and squeezing his eyes shut.
"Yeah like that's going to help." Angel muttered rolling her eyes, "why do these things always happen to me?" Angel whined dodging another barrage of laser fire and wincing when a laser hit her main engine, "great the shields were already down and now my main engine's hit," she made sure the ship wouldn't hit anything populated then grabbed Taro's hand who yelped in surprise, "I couldn't wake up a normal kid, she grumbled as she hoisted the young boy up into the mini jet attached to the top of the ship, "I had to wake up able to fight, why couldn't I have woken up and only remembered how to do something safe," she activated the mini jet's own shields and deactivated the safety clamps keeping it attached to the main ship, "like knitting, oh yeah knittings a nice safe thing to do, not like being a bounty hunter!" The damaged engine finally blew and she used the blast as cover to get away then set the jet down once she felt they weren't being followed.
"What do we do now Miss Angel?" Taro asked looking around at the scenery of sand and desert.
"Well' it's getting late and I always keep this thing stocked with supplies so I guess we stay here tonight and see what classes as civilization on this planet tomorrow. I detected unusual power outages before I went to have my shower and I think we're pretty close to the town I located them in so we go there and see who they are and if they can help us. Who knows they may even know your aunt?" Angel rubbed her temples and felt that annoying urge of stress and depression surging over her, but resisted dealing with it so as not to upset Taro. They spent the night under the stars next to the mini jet then the next morning they made their way into the nearest town. Angel dressed in some shorts and a sweat shirt and put a base ball cap on Taro to hide the fact that he had red eyes and hoped that they wouldn't be too conspicuous. However when you're five foot six with long thick purple hair on a planet where hair colors seemed to be limited Angel found herself wishing she'd dug out a holo-watch to disguise herself a little more. After a few hours of wondering around what they later found out to be Anaheim, Taro decided he was hungry so they found a park to sit in and ate some food she'd packed in her back pack. Angel tried to ignore Taro when he started to pull on her sleeve but he kept doing it and she was starting to get annoyed.
"Taro I don't find that even remotely funny you know." She said gritting her teeth.
"But Angel look." Taro pointed at someone sitting on the grass ahead of them reading a newspaper, on the front cover were the words, "The mighty ducks get yet more house guests!" Then below a picture of a beautiful young woman with jet black hair and blood red eyes hiding behind a large gray duck. "It's Miyuka, Angel we've found her!" Taro squealed and before she could stop him he'd raced over to the man reading the paper and got his attention, "Hey mister that lady on the front, how can I find her?" The man blinked and looked Taro up and down.
"Um, they live under the pond I think."
"Why would anyone live under a pond?" Angel said looking over to a nearby duck pond suspiciously.
"No uh, the pond is an ice rink. I think they built some house under there or something." He looked at Angel who gave him her best innocent young girl look, "Do you know the Mighty Ducks or something?"
"No but we know their new friend and we've been looking for her so now we know where she is and we've got to go mow bye!" Angel said and grabbed Taro's hand and pulled him away, "Well at least we know where they live, just not how to get there."
"Why didn't you ask that nice human?" Taro asked as he tried in vain to keep up.
"In case that nice human didn't like aliens silly the fewer who know we're here the better," Angel looked around and saw an advertisement for something called a hockey match, "besides we don't even know if your aunt's with those people of her own free will yet so we need to keep a low profile okay Taro?" Angel stopped and realized he wasn't standing behind her looking at the poster where she'd left him but across the road asking for directions to the pond. She stomped up to him clenching her fists and trying very hard to keep her temper in check, "Taro."
"It's three blocks that way then left for another four block through the mall and you can't miss it deary." The elderly woman said as she arrived, "such a nice young man you're a credit to your mother young man."
"Thank you so much ma'am, really," he looked up at Angel who didn't look too impressed, "come on Angel let's go now!" He took her hand and pulled her off in the direction the lady had indicated.
"You kids take care now don't talk to any strange men you here!" The old lady called after them then went about her business. Taro made Angel run the entire way and when they finally reached the building they were looking for it looked deserted.
"Taro I thought I said low profile," Angel said folding her arms, "and it doesn't look like any body's here." She sighed and sat down on the curb.
"But that guy said they lived underneath so maybe they're all under there!" Taro pulled on Angel's arm and she reluctantly got to her feet and allowed him to lead her inside the colossal building.
"How are they Tanya?" Canard asked as she finished re-dressing Wildwing's burns, something she'd been doing three times a day since they'd got him back.
"Wildwing should live, he's in a lot of pain and he's exhausted but he'll live," Tanya wiped her brow and looked over at Nosedive, "but we're loosing Nosedive and I'm nowhere near creating an antidote for him." Tanya yelled out and knocked over the small trolley she'd put all the things she'd needed to treat Wildwing and it all fell noisily to the floor.
"It's alright sweetheart," Duke said gently wrapping his arms around his fiance's waist, "you've done your best that's all he'd ask."
"But he's just kid Duke it's his eighteenth birthday in three weeks time and I . . ." Tanya started to sob into his chest as he held her close and spoke soothing words into her ear. Both looked around when Miyuka pulled on Tanya's shirt sleeve, neither had heard her come in. One hand was clutching something against her chest and she held the hand out to reveal a vial of yellow liquid. "What . . . ?" Tanya looked from Miyuka to the vial.
"Help boy now," Miyuka smiled placing the vial in Tanya's hand, "make boy better. I used to have little boys, I had two Chiro and Yosho. I cannot let more die because of Loki. No, no that would be very bad. Bad, bad" Grin came up behind her and placed a hand on the woman's shoulder.
"Perhaps we could go and have some tea whilst Tanya uses your cure?" Grin asked offering her his arm.
"Oh yes I like tea, tea is good. Good good very good." She took his arm and the large gray duck led her away so Tanya could do her work.
"Canard would you get Darren for me please?" Tanya said as she loaded the serum into a needle.
"Sure thing." Canard left quickly and Darren soon arrived.
"I want you here in case anything goes wrong okay?" she told the God whilst looking at Nosedive. She tested to make sure the needle was working properly then she and Darren approached the bed and she injected Dive with the concoction, "Please let this work."
"What is it?" Darren asked.
"I hope it's the anti . . anti . . . the cure," Tanya said gently sliding the needle out of Dive's arm and stepping back, "Miyuka gave it to me."
"Is it wise to trust something given to you by a mad woman?" Darren looked at her.
"I have nothing and you have nothing," Tanya told him and shrugged, "what more can we do but sit and watch him die. At least this way we tried something."
"I suppose your right and with all antidotes I guess now all we can do is wait."
"Yes I guess you're right."
"Come on Tawny," Duke said steering her out of the room, "you need rest, your dead on your feet." Duke took her to her room and bade her good night before going to check on his niece. "You been to see him yet?" Duke asked when he found her in her room.
"Earlier yeah, Duke he'll be all right won't he?" She asked staring at her wall.
"We don't know yet. Candy you do know he's head over heels for ya right?" Duke sat down on her bed beside her.
"I know."
"So do you feel the same way?"
"I'm not sure." Candy said still staring at her wall.
"Well I think you need to think real hard and if you don't feel the same way you have to tell him before you end up hurting him." Duke got up and began to leave.
"I'd never hurt him ever!" She said angrily.
"That's what they all say Candy Floss." Duke left the room and looked up at the sound of the intruder alarm. He raced down the halls sensing Mallory, Candy and Tanya hot on his heels. They ran to the ready room where they found Canard Cassidy and Chase all ready to fire on a skinny purple haired girl holding an energy saber and what looked like someone hiding behind her.
"Who are you and how did you get in here kid!" Canard demanded.
"Aunt Miyuka's here I want to see my aunt Miyuka," a little boy ran out from behind the girl and stood in front of her with his arms held out, "please don't hurt my friend we couldn't find anyone upstairs and I wanted to see my auntie so bad that she said she'd get us in somehow," Duke heard the doors open behind him, "and she did but she set off an alarm and she said a bad word but that's okay cause she's a grown up and grown ups . . .can . . .Aunt Miyuka!" He ran full tilt at the black haired woman and flung his arms around her. She in return hugged him back and shushed him as he started crying. Everyone else turned back to look at the purple haired girl.
"Hi," She waved sheepishly, "sorry about that but he can be so annoying at times and," Canard typed in a few commands into the computer and a ex ray image came up on the screen of her, "hey that's rude you know!" She protested covering up her chest.
"What are your names?" Cassie inquired.
"I'm Taro and this is my best friend Angel," Taro pulled away from his aunt now tear free, "she helped me find my aunt Miyuka cause the rest of my family went away and couldn't come back."
Well there ya go another chapter I hope you liked it, please review. Toodles Angel xxx!