"What do you want with us?" Webby Vanderquack demanded.
She along with her sisters May and June, her cousins Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck and her best friends Lena and Violet Sabrewing were all stuck in metal clamps on a giant metal wall in the Beagle Boy Junkyard.
"How were we even stupid enough to get caught by the Beagle Boys?" Louie moaned.
"You know the answer to that, Louie!" Dewey snapped.
"I know!" Louie snapped back. "It's just I'm not used to being outsmarted by them, that's all. I thought we were usually smarter than this."
"Well, we just have to accept the fact that today we weren't," Huey said.
The young birds were shopping in Duckberg to get presents for Launchpad's birthday tomorrow. They searched every shop in Duckberg, but none of them could find the right presents for him. Then they spotted a shop that was called The Ultimate Birthday Shop and there were balloons, gift-wrapped presents, birthdays cards and birthday cakes with candles on the stalls behind the front window. They never saw that shop before, but, having tried every other shop in Duckberg, they decided to give it a try. But when they went in, they learned that the whole shop was completely empty and even the items they saw through the window were all fake. Then the place went very dark and all of them found themselves in metal clamps before even Lena could use her magic to light the room up. Then they learned that this was all done by the Beagle Boys. Then they took the young birds to their junkyard and slammed them onto the giant metal wall in it.
While they were being tormented and mocked by the Beagle Boys, the young birds tried many ways to escape the metal wall and clamps, but they all failed. They didn't have the tools to break free and they couldn't even manipulate their captives, the Beagle Boys, to let them go, no matter how dim they were. Not even the super sorceress Lena could use all the magic powers she had to break everyone out and not even the great minds of Huey and Violet together could work it out.
"Wait a minute!" Huey cried. "Do you think this metal wall and these metal clamps is magic itself and more powerful than Lena? I just think that's why she's struggling to escape like the rest of us."
"Hey!" Lena snapped.
"Not that it's her fault at all," Huey said.
"Hmm, you have a good point, Hubert," Violet said.
All the other ducks agreed.
One of the Beagle Boys even nodded. "Yeah, that is absolutely cor –"
"Shut up, you!" another Beagle Boy snapped.
"Well, at least, we now know that this is magic now," Dewey said.
"Well done, boys."
The young bird prisoners and the Beagle Boys saw their mother Ma Beagle approaching them and applauding.
"For once, I am very proud of you," she said. "For achieving the easiest task ever in the entire history of easy tasks: resisting the manipulation tricks of young kids."
"Thanks, Ma," all the boys said together.
Shaking her head at her family's inability to recognize her being sarcastic, Ma just approached Lena who was still struggling in the metal wall. "So, how do you like my magical metal wall and clamps that even a super sorceress like you can't escape?"
"I take it that these are all presents from my Aunt Magica?" Lena asked.
"Correct."
"What do you guys want with us?" Dewey demanded.
"You are going to be part of the ultimate downfall for Scrooge McDuck," Ma told them. "One way or another, we will make sure he loses the two things he loves the most – his family and his money."
"Let me guess," Huey said. "You're going to hold us ransom so Uncle Scrooge will give you all of his money, but you'll still get rid of us and therefore he will still lose us as well as his money?"
"Correct. And we've made so many booby traps that not even Scrooge himself will be able to know that they're there let alone work out how to avoid them."
"That is very ingenious."
The bird prisoners and the Beagle Boys all turned to see who said that. All they could see was a ginger rat with metal parts on the face and wearing brown clothes.
"Who are you?" Ma demanded. "And how did you manage to get pass our secret, ingenious, impassable traps in our junkyard?"
"It comes from learning how to outsmart someone like Scrooge McDuck," the rat said. She had an Indian accent. "When I said your plans and traps are all ingenious, I really meant it."
"Thank you, Miss Rat," one of the Beagle Boys said.
"Don't talk to her!" Ma snapped at him, while whacking at him with her handbag. "Only I will talk to her!" Then she turned back to the rat. "I can't help but have a feeling that you have a better solution into bringing down Scrooge McDuck for good."
"Well, I have some ideas," the rat said, "but you will need to wear these metal hats on your heads so my ideas can be passed to you guys and you guys alone and that way no one can hear out thoughts out loud and no one can prevent them."
Ma looked at the sample of the metal hat the rat was carrying in her hands – both her normal and metal ones. They looked more like metal pans without handles. Then she turned to the bird prisoners. "Have you met this enemy of Scrooge McDuck before?"
They all shook their heads and said no.
"Well, any enemy of Scrooge is a friend of us," Ma said. "Come on, boys! Let's bring Scrooge down once and for all!"
The Beagle Boys cheered as they and Ma approached the rat.
The young bird prisoners were very worried as they watched the rat put the metal hats onto the heads of all the Beagle Boys.
"Are you sure none of you know anything about this cyborg rat?" Dewey asked the other birds.
They all said no.
"Even my magic can't get anything out of her," Lena said.
Soon all the Beagle Boys were wearing their metal hats.
"Now, how do we bring down the fall of Scrooge McDuck?" Ma asked the rat.
"Watch and learn," the rat said. Then she turned away from the Beagle Boys. "Now, Daisy!"
Then the young ducks saw Ma and the Beagle Boys being lifted in the air! They didn't stop moving up until the metal hats that they wore caught a giant magnet that was being held by a crane. And they just kept hanging up there and the rat ignored the Beagle Boys' yelling at her to let them down.
Then around the corner came a female duck that the trapped young bird recognised.
"Daisy Duck!" they all cried happily.
"Well done, Daisy," the rat said, who high-fived her. "And your idea to put cement into those metal pans was ingenious."
"Thanks." Then Daisy and her rat friend approached the young birds. "Hi, guys."
"Was it you who activated the crane?" Louie asked.
"It sure was," Daisy said.
"Who's your new cool cyborg friend?" Dewey asked.
"This is Cy-Rat," Daisy said. "Short for Cyborg Rat."
"So I even got her name right before I knew it."
"What up, guys?" Cy-Rat asked. Then she threw something like a sapphire onto the metal wall and soon the young birds were free from it and the clamps around it.
"How did you do that, Cy-Rat?" Dewey asked.
"Are you a sorceress yourself?" Lena asked.
"How much is this sapphire?" Webby asked.
"Is that even a sapphire?" Violet asked.
"One at a time, please!" Cy-Rat cried.
"Where's Uncle Donald?" Huey asked.
"It's a very long story, Huey," Daisy said. "Your mom and Uncle Scrooge will need to hear this as much as you guys do. So, the sooner we get back to McDuck Manor, the sooner Cy-Rat and I will tell everyone everything. I promise."
"I promise, too," Cy-Rat said.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Webby asked. "Let's get back to home! Follow me!"
Then they followed her.
"Wait!"
They stopped when they saw Dewey wearing a dirty hat, mask and cape. He caught up to them and they continued to run to McDuck Manor.
"What do you want with those dirty things?" Louie asked.
"Why, to give to Launchpad for his birthday tomorrow, of course," Dewey said.
"Why would he want those?" Huey asked.
"So he could play Darkwing Duck in his spare time."