Hey guys! A little something to kill the time as we wait for tomorrow! Season three Premier yes! And yes I deleted the author note chapter cause it was just me bursting in excitement. This chapter is mainly gonna focus on small details that you're gonna have to know for future chapters.
Disney Boy - Thanks. And I wish I had more time. I have 3 little sisters. One 11, one 5 and one 3. Each one counts for 10 kids. I still see them in my sleep… and Yeah I do enjoy your ideas. I'll be sure to take inspiration from them. But they won't be 100% like how you tell it to me cause I still like to keep my k to k plus rating. Also I have my own style.
Angelwings2002 - What if I said Lizzette is the type to not learn her lesson until it's too late. And you don't want to mess with these two. You'll see what they're capable of soon. Probably next chapter. Hint, Abigor will burn you alive and Lizzette is way too good with manipulating people's thoughts and emotions.
dalek117 - Uuuuu, you are on the right track and you're so close to figuring out what's going on it actually scared me. That's the most I can say.
Jp - Yeah I couldn't resist putting a joke like that, thanks. And you're on the right track about Lizzette but not quite there yet. Her specialty is love though. And telling you now, the villain I have here actually scared me more than magica as a kid.
Average Everyday Sane Psycho - thank you.
Lilbree - You're getting on the right track. You're not on it yet but you are finding your way to it. And thank you for your support.
therealjordan23 - Aww thanks. We can't really compare our stories. Mine is adventure/mystery based with romance as a side but key plot. Like a film for kids. Yours is romance/family based, like a sitcom for teens. They're both different and great. Aaaaand Poe is a charter I plan on having in this story… or maybe I'll move him to a sequel…. That's all I'm gonna say.
Techno Duck - Thanks! And Glomgold is indeed a fun character to impersonate. My sister and I love saying his lines in the most Scottish way we can, and fail epically. I'll be sure to read your fic.
Here we go!
Today was the day Webby would come back from the hospital. Somewhere around after sunset she should be arriving. But to kill the time, Louie was searching around his school website.
"Wait what?" The boys were in their room barely waking up. Louie was looking over his phone.
"What is it?" Huey tried to look over Louie's shoulders to see what's on his phone.
"The school dance got moved up to this Wednesday? That's not even a weekend! Who's idiotic plan was this?" Louie revealed.
"This Wednesday? But that means we'll miss it!" Dewey said, "That means I'm supposed to be there today to help my team set up their fundraiser stand."
"You think you're in a predicament? I didn't pay a 100 dollar fee for a spot in the dance to sell my product just to lose it cause they decided to move up the date. If I don't show up today to set up my stand they'll give the spot to someone else on the waitlist. And it's not refundable so I'll be losing money!"
"Look at that. The location is changed too," Huey noticed when he glanced at Louie's phone. "The school rented out a ballroom at the very edge of Cape Suzette. I thought the school was gonna have it at the gym?"
"Did you read this part?" Louie pointed out. At the end of the page it read….
Thank you to the Quakopoulos family for fudiing our dance to a ballroom.
"Quakopoulos huh? No doubt Lizzette had something to do with this," Louie thought out loud.
"The new location is 5 hours away by car. If we leave now we can make it to set up the stands," Dewey suggested.
"Still too slow. We need a plane if we want to go there on time…." Huey argued back. An idea then struck Louie.
"Well we so happen to have a pilot that can take us," he suggested.
"You think Scrooge will let us?" Dewey asked out loud. The three stood in their room thinking.
10 minutes later
"No," of course Scrooge wasn't gonna give in easily.
"Please uncle Scrooge," Dewey pleaded. Just like his brothers, they were giving him the best puppy eyes and folded their hands together, "I need to help my team or else I won't be allowed to play in the next game. Fund-raising is part of being in the team."
"And I can't get a refund for my spot. I'll be losing 100 dollars for nothing!" Louie claimed. Scrooge looked over at Huey and waited for his explanation. Huey just shrugged.
"I'm not even going to the dance," He said.
"Look laddies, you three are already at risk just being here. Until it's time to leave, you won't be leaving anywhere." Scrooge explained.
"Oh come on Uncle Scrooge," Louie pleaded harder, "This is a huge step up for Louie incorporated. I've only done pep rallies and games. A dance could boost my image. I might not have a big opportunity like this again."
"Schools have dances all the time, what makes ye think you won't have this opportunity again?"
Louie only glanced down at the floor from this question. He was clearly holding something back, "Louie?"
Scrooge stretched out his name to get it out of him.
"He got suspended from school dances for selling illegal fireworks in our very first year of High School. The band only got lifted for this dance after he begged them to let him set up his stand," Huey revealed. Scrooge glared at the green triplet who was trying so hard to not make eye contact.
"I got scammed ok! The man who sold them to me said they had permits!" His family cocked their heads to the side, confused as to how he got scammed, "Hey I'm sharp, not perfect."
"Fine," Scrooge caved in.
"Really?" The triplets' eyes lit up. Scrooge made his way down some stairs followed by the boys, "Under one condition."
"Anything!" Louie excitedly jumped down the stairs.
In the money bin, Scrooge was happily marching to the lab with the three boys. Louie being the one with a grumpy face, Dewey was neutral, while Huey was smiling ear to ear. His whole body was shaking and his hands were clutching into a metal box so tight he could've bent the metal.
"You ok Huebert?" Violet asked him. Her and Lena were invited to the trip as part of Scrooge's condition. Huey shook his head yes before shaking it no then back to yes. Violet chuckled at his anticipating actions, "Relax, they'll love H.E.R.O.I.C."
"You think so? I feel like I could've done more. 7 years is a lot, maybe I under performed? Maybe H.E.R.O.I.C isn't as impressive as I thought? What if it's not what they were expecting? What if….." Huey began to enter his craze faze again. Violet set a hand on his shoulder to help him settle down.
"Take a deep breath, you don't want them to see you as a nervous wreck," Violet tried to get him to calm down, "From what I heard, you worked day and night to perfect your invention. Microscopically small robots that build and disable at will are already impressive enough. Process data, lift 100 times his weight…."
"1000 times his weight," Huey corrected.
"... And is programmed to heal anyone who is hurt? You clearly did some serious coding on him," Her encouragement was enough to calm his nerves. Huey took a deep breath in and thought of all the things Fenton and Gandra would say about his invention. He felt Violet give a light squeeze to his shoulder to remind him she's here for him, "They'll be impressed. Don't worry."
"Thanks," he slowly placed his hand on top hers and gave a small smile.
"Uncle Scrooge we don't need any babysitters," Louie tried to argue.
"They're not gonna babysit you lads," Scrooge debated back, "They're just gonna watch over you three when I'm not around."
"In other words, babysit," Louie concluded to Scrooge annoyance. He pushed the elevator button and began to leave.
"You five go to the lab and ask Fenton if he can go with you to school. I just need to do a couple things at the office," their uncle said. The teens did as they were told and entered the elevator.
"Hello!?" The triplets called out as they entered the lab.
"Is anyone here!?" Huey called out. Nothing but an echo was heard, "Strange, Scrooge said that the three would be here."
"Maybe they left for a lunch break?" Lena suggested. Not too long after, they heard the sound of a door slamming open.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" All the teens looked up to the balcony inside the lab to see a familiar female scientist running for her life. She zoomed down the stairs and straight past the teens still screaming like someone wanted to murder her.
"Gandra?" They all said in a confusing tone. The girl didn't have time to respond to them, instead she ran across the lab and went straight into a door to another room.
"Look out!" They heard a males warning. They looked back up just in time to see a wooden table falling towards them.
"Whoa!" Dewey pushed his brothers and the girls ahead to avoid the table.
"Sorry about that!" A duck in a gizmo suit apologized once he went down the stairs, "Robotica is a little bit out of control right now."
"Fenton?" Huey said his name.
"Robotica?" Louie had no idea what was going on.
"Hold still!" They all heard Gyro screaming. Again, the teens looked up to see the scientist trying to pull back what looked like a female robot, "Your emotional chip is very unstable!"
"I'm stable enough!" The so-called Robotica flipped Gyro off of her and threw him over the balcony.
"I got ya!" Fenton caught his work partner, allowing the robot to go past them with ease. It ran across the lab and to another room leaving them alone.
"What is going on!?" Huey couldn't seem to wrap his head around this.
"I created an extra maid to help Beakley around the house. But I'm afraid her emotional chip is….. Well, emotional," Gyro didn't know how to explain this well, "The chip seems to have developed some strong feelings towards everything. Sunshine, flowers, animals, Gizmo Duck….."
"Wait, GizmoDuck?" This only seemed to confuse Huey even more.
"Robotica may have a tiny crush on me and is having trouble controlling her emotions," GizmoDuck let out a nervous laugh at this.
"GET HER AWAY FROM ME!" Gandra burst through the doors with the robot maid close behind her. Now usually, Gandra wouldn't have trouble fighting back, that is if the robot chasing her wasn't trying to murder her with a laser gun.
"Get back here, you date snatching buffoon," the female robot screamed at her. Gandra ducked under a lab table to avoid being hit by the crazed girl. This didn't help for long. The robot ripped the metal table into two and tossed them aside like nothing.
"No!" Gyro screamed at the sight of his lab being torn apart. One by one, Robotica tossed whatever she could find towards Gandra. Whether it be something small like a ray gun to something big like a table, if she can lift it, she'll throw it. Gyro ran behind the girls, gathering up all the remaining pieces of his inventions and attempted to save some, "Can't you run for your life somewhere else?!"
"Robotica, calm down," GizmoDuck wedged himself between the two girls.
"I won't calm down until this little pest is out of your life for good!" Robotica looked to the side of GizmoDuck, trying to get her hands on the raven haired girl. She lunged herself towards Gandra, tackling the girl to the ground.
"Get off of me!" Gandra kicked the robot off but she wasn't down just yet. The second Gandra got on her feet, the robot slid her leg across her feet and knocked her back down. But before she can jump her again, GizmoDuck grabbed the robot from behind before looking back at Gyro.
"Gyro! A little help," he asked in distress. Gyro slipped a new chip from his pocket and ran to the robot. In a swift move, he switched out the chips shutting down the robot for a split moment. It then opened its eyes again making all the teens back away.
"Robitca, what is your purpose?" Gyro asked, a little nervous. Ok, very nervous.
"To serve my master," The robot said. Fenton let the girl go hoping she wouldn't go berserk again.
"Good," Gyro felt really relieved and held onto his heart. He then straightened his posture and glared at the robot as he shouted, "Now pick up everything you just destroyed in my lab!"
The robot gave him a salute and went straight to work.
"Wouldn't turn evil he said," Gandra mocked Gyro under her breath. She got back up on her feet and dusted herself, "Don't worry, she won't take over the world, She's completely harmless, Gandra don't get mad when my emotionally unstable killer robot tries to rip you apart!"
"Don't mock my great mind like that! My inventions so happen to be the best thing society will ever lay eyes on. They are just…."
"Wildly misunderstood, yada yada yada. You use that same excuse all the time. It's getting old." Gandra was clearly having enough of Gyros antics.
"You ok?" Fenton got out of his suite and was quick to check on Gandra. The girl nodded yes but that didn't stop him from checking every inch of her for injuries.
"So it is true…" a soft voice filled with surprise entered the conversation. The two scientists looked back to see the group of teens. Huey was the one in front and shaking the most with the metal box in hand, "They really did find her."
The two were more shocked than ever to see the boys again. They heard rumors they showed up at the party but never bothered to look for them in fear it was just a rumor.
"Huey, Dewey, Louie?" Fenton was barely able to get out from his shaking voice.
"Fenton!" The boys shouted in delight. Without a second thought, the three boys tackled their favorite scientist into a huge hug.
"Whoa! I never thought I would see you boys ever again!" Fenton laughed in great delight and hugged the boys.
"It's been so long! Still flying around keeping the town safe from bad guys?" Huey asked even though he knew the answer already.
"Sure have! And I've made some room to spend time on my work in the lab as well," the scientist answered gleefully. As they all separated themselves from the hug, Huey went past the scientist and to Gandra.
"And you! You're actually back! I was so nervous we may have caused you to disappear forever," Huey laughed out of nerves and relife. Gandra smiled and shrugged.
"Here I am. Hubert am I right?" She sounded uncertain.
"Yeah, but Huey for short," He chimed.
"Sorry, my memory is still a bit fuzzy," Gandra explained. She put out her fist for Huey to fist bump back.
"I heard. You must've been through something awful," Huey fist bumped her and realized a bump over her gloves. He looked at her hand to see a silver ring with a gem on it. The gem was a bit sharp, dark purple with electric blue streaks. The red triplets eyes lit up like stars when he saw this, "An… an engagement ring?"
His face was full of shock and surprise. Fenton gave a nervous laugh and walked up next to Gandra. He took her hand and showed Huey they both had a ring. Fentons was also a silver ring with a really light shade of purple gem. It almost looked white in the light. Hueys surprised face slowly molded into a face full of delight and excitement.
"You have to let me help plan the wedding!" Huey suddenly cheered at the top of his lungs. He was soon jumping around and almost like magic, had his Woodchuck Guidebook in his hands faster than they can see. He turned the pages at the speed of light and said "I've been wanting to plan a wedding my whole life! I would have planned Uncle Donalds but he only made me an assistant. Thinking it was too much for me to handle as a kid. But I promise, I am perfectly capable of planning a complex, beautiful wed…."
"Ok don't get too ahead of yourself," Dewey slowly took Hueys book and closed it. Huey acted as if they just took his soul. He reached for his book, still shaking from excitement. Dewey pushed him as far he could and said "We're only here for a week, remember?"
This one piece of information hit the red triplete like bricks. He finally calmed down and sighed in sadness.
"I almost forgot," Huey said full of disappointment. He's gone for 7 years and his favorite scientist is engaged. Now he can't even help his friend out with any preparations for his big day.
"It's ok," He heard Fenton say, "We're just happy to see you again." This of course brought a little smile to Hueys face.
"What is up with all this gizmos and stuff?" No one had noticed Louie snooping around. In fact, during the whole chaos, no one had noticed all the new tech and inventions that nearly crowded the lab. Louie was just about to touch a metal looking cube until two hands suddenly jerked it away.
"Don't touch that!" Gyro held onto it like a baby, "It's a new invention Scrooge assigned to us. You see, we still haven't uncovered the mystery intruder that was after you boys. So we started making traps. This box can lay flat on the ground like a rug and as soon as someone or something steps foot on it, it snapps close and shrinks the intruder to a small size. The intruder can only be let out by this remote control."
Gyro set the metal cube on a counter where a remote control was. "We're still working out a few bugs here and there….."
"By that he means how highly sensitive the trap is. All it took was a small breeze to pass over and that thing snapped almost as fast as his sanity," Gandra interrupted Gyro to his annoyance. He wanted to tackle this girl to ground but Lil Bulb and Manny had to keep reminding him not to.
"First of all, there is nothing wrong with my sanity. Second of all, true, it may be a bit sensitive and has trouble detecting weight… But other than that, the trap is almost ready. And if you don't mind me asking, why are you boys here?"
Huey was about to mention Scrooge but Louie beat him to it. Louie pushed Huey forward to Fenton and Gandra.
"The king of nerds here wants to show off what he did in the past 7 years."
"Louie, now is not a good time," Huey whispered nervously to him.
"You've been waiting for 7 years to show this thing off, just…." Louie tried to grab the box from Hueys hands but he tugged it back. The two brothers squabble around as everyone just looks at them confused. Louie grabbed the box but Huey wouldn't let go. A game of tug of war happened until a third person took the box from their hands.
"Hubert has been working on this for years. He hopes to impress you with his creation," Violet placed the box on a counter and looked back at the red triplet. Huey began to shake just as much as they entered the bin. He walked to the counter and was extremely hesitant to open it. Violet gave him an encouraging smile and nod before going back to the group. He took a deep breath in and opened his box to reveal the nanites.
"My nanites?" Gandra recognized these right away. She took a step forward and took a closer look, "I thought these got lost in the ship wreck, you had them?"
"I gave your invention to him not too long after you disappeared, hope that's ok," Fenton quickly explained. Gandra didn't say a word, she continued to look at the young boy and waited to see what he had to present.
"Don't worry, I made good use of these," of course Huey hoped he did. He grabbed the metal stick and fumbled a bit with it. Shaky start, that was ok he thought.
He moved the metal wand around letting out the tiny bots from the box. The little bots attached themselves to each other creating the small robot. Huey smiled when he saw some positive reaction from Fenton and Gandra. Well at least Fenton who looked excited. Gandra at least looked intrigued. He tapped it's lil head with the wand making its blue eye's light up. Lil Bulb was definitely interested. He hopped off of Gyros shoulder and took a close look at the robot. He was just an inch taller than Lil Bulb.
"I like you to meet H.E.R.O.I.C 1987," Huey said with a little more confidence. He flicked the stick to the left to make the little guy move left, "Heroic. Electric. Reinvigorate. Outstanding. Intelligence. Computer. You can control this guy manually with the flick of the stick or use voice commands. For example, H.E.R.O, clean this counter please."
He did as asked and ran around, picking up any trash and throwing them to the can.
"So it's a fancier version of Lil Bulb?" Gyro comment.
"I…. um…" Huey panicked at this.
"Reinvigorate huh?" Gandra thought out loud, "As in give new energy and strength?"
"Yeah, it's like this. Dewey come here," Huey pulled his brother in. He grabbed a metal ruler and slammed it against Deweys hand.
"Ow! Huey!" Dewey angrily pulled his hand back. As if on cue, H.E. eyes lit up with a turquoise color. He ran up to Dewey and took his hand. After scanning, he ran off to grab the first aid kit.
"So it's a metal nurse. Anything else?" Gyro asked.
"Check this out!" Dewey looked down at H.E.R.O before excitedly saying, "H.E.R.O! Do that cool electric thing."
In a blink of an eye, the robot faced a lamp nearby and shot a blast of electricity shattering the lamp. Lil Bulb ducked down just in time to avoid the blast.
"Oh no, nonono," Gyro picked Lil Bulb up and said, "I don't need a mini robot version of my interns reckless girlfriend."
"Heals and destroys, nice," Gandra was impressed. She picked up the robot and looked at it's texture, "This is quite impressive lil red. You managed to create a bigger bot with microbots. I…"
Before she could say anything, H.E. eyes turned black and scanned the girl. After it was done it looked over and Fenton and scanned him too.
"It's scanning to gather information," Huey explained. Once it was done, it gave a ding and spoke in a robot kid like voice.
"Fenton Crackshell Cabrera, male, scientists and studies robotics. Alter ego, GizmoDuck,"
"Great, now I can add a robot to my list of people who know my identity," Fenton sarcastically said. The robot then looked at Gandra.
"Gandra Dee, female, career; chemist and robotics. Once a F.O.W.L agent," Huey quickly snatched H.E.R.O from Gandras hands.
"Sorry, He's not sentiment. Not yet of course," Huey taped H.E. head with the metal wand, making him fall back into multiple nanites. Huey opened the box for all of them to go back in.
"It's cool," Gandra shrugged it off like nothing. This came to Hueys surprise. The last time he saw her, she was a mess about being a villain or not, "You really made something here. With all those nanites combined, H.E.R.O.I.C must have some serious strength."
"1000 times his weight," Huey added in, "1987 stands for the amounts of tests I had to do in order to perfect him. Just some minor setbacks really."
"By minor he means setting the room on fire with mini falmeing robots," Louie added in embarrassing Huey.
"It's ok lil red," Gandra gave him a light punch to the shoulders, "Can't reach your goal without taking a risk to break something, right?"
Huey gave a shy nod to her statement.
"If you like, we can show you kids some new inventions. They're still in the pioneering stage but …." Before Fenton can say anything else, Louie begins to push his brother and friends to the elevator doors.
"That sounds great and all but we should be heading back to Uncle Scrooge. Don't want to keep him waiting," Louie pushed the button in an impatient madder. The doors opened up but to his surprise, Scrooge was already inside.
"Did you ask them yet?" He asked his nephew.
"Ask us what?" Fenton asked.
At the ballroom where the dance was gonna take place, Fenton and Gandra followed them.
"So close," Louie mumbbled, "Why did you two agree to babysit us?"
"Scrooge pays good money," Gandra shrugged.
"Besides, He's right. You boys are still in danger. You can't just leave the mansion without proper protection," Fenton explained.
"Just don't act too protective," Louie begged before going into the ballroom. Inside, students were setting up decorations and stands. Louie rushed to his corner where his stand was gonna be as did Dewey.
As Lena left to help Louie and Huey went to help Dewey, Violet was left behind. She looked around the ballroom, seeing if there was anything she could do.
"Excuse me, move over," Some students shoved her aside and carried their boxes.
"Where's the list!" A girl ran past her, nearly knocking her down.
"Hold onto these will you," A boy just dumped a box full of supplies into Violet's arms.
"I…. what?" Violet was confused.
"Be sure to hang them up all across the room," The same boy commanded before taking his share of boxes and off he went. Violet looked down at the box to see it was streamers. Guess she was decorating.
At Dewey's stand, Huey was helping unpack all the treats the basketball team was going to sell. Cut the tape, open, place them on the counter, repeat.
"Oooo, loving the color," Lizzette was looking at all the stands. She soon came to the basketball stand with a tray of ice tea for the team, "Very sporty looking."
"Thanks Lizzette," One of the teammates took a tea, "And thank your father for funding the dance so we have it at a ballroom. Very fancy."
"Thanks, when I heard the triplets were gonna be in Duckburg for the week, I wanted to move the location closer so they can still attend." Lizzettes words confused both Dewey and Huey. The brothers looked at each other for a moment before looking at her.
"Take it as an apology for accusing you for being thieves last night. Tea?" Lizzette told them and handed them the tray of tea. Dewey was about to grab a glass but Lizzette picked it up first.
"That ones specifically made for Huey," She gave it to the red triplet, "No sugar, otherwise Huey would cause more damage than help."
"Thanks," Huey shrugged and took his tea.
"Why are you being so nice?" Dewey asked,a little suspicious, "I beat up your cousin and insulted you. Not to mention you were being so spoiled towards us."
"Yeah, that's my ugly side," Lizzette looked down in shame, "I'll admit, I am spoiled. I'm just not used to having lower class people mix in with higher class. So I assumed you boys were up to trouble."
Dewey wasn't buying this for a moment but Huey sure did.
"It's all cool," Huey said, "Misunderstandings happen. I'm sure you didn't mean to hurt anyone."
Lizzette gave a sweet smile and placed her sunglasses on. Once Huey and Dewey were done with their drinks, Huey felt his head go light.
"You ok," Dewey set his and Hueys drink down.
"Yeah, just a little light headed," Huey shook it off right away. Lizzette took the cups back before speaking.
"I could use some help in the kitchen if you boys don't mind. It's right outside since we can't use the ballroom kitchen yet," She asked.
"Sure, we'll help out when we can," Huey happily replied. Lizzette responded with a smile and left.
"Help? That girl is nothing but trouble," Dewey gave Huey a light smack to the head.
"Ow, I know she might be a little dramatic but she's still a nice girl," Huey rubbed his head where Dewey just hit him.
"Nice? That girl wouldn't know nice if it slapped her in her pretty little face," Dewey argued.
"She is pretty, we can both agree on that," Huey chimed like it was no big deal. This left the blue brother utterly speechless. Is Huey really being nice to the same girl that broke up with him, insulted them and just acting rotten towards them?
With Violet, the girl used a stepping stool to hang up the streamers but her short height was still a problem. She was always shorter than all her friends.
"Need some help," Violet felt one of her friends hold onto her waist and lift her up. This was just the boost she needed to tie the streamer on the hook.
"Thanks Hubert," Violet happily thanked him as he set her down.
"No problem," Huey said proudly, "You don't have to have to help around Vi. The school has enough volunteers."
"I know, but if I'm gonna be around I want to at least feel helpful," Violet told him. She grabbed another box and took out more streamers, "Besides, this is a perfect opportunity to spend time together before you and your brothers leave Duckburg."
The reminder only saddened Huey. It was true, him and his brothers only had this week to spend in Duckburg and it was back to Cape Suzzette. He didn't want to, he has so many friends here, so many events he wants to experience.
"I know it's tragic to think we have to separate again but it is for your well being," it was almost like Violet could read his mind, "Missing out on so many events like birthdays, holidays, weddings is a small price to pay to assure your safety."
"I just wish we could still be in contact. To at least text each other," Huey noticed Violet was still having trouble putting up streamers. He slipped out his metal box from his backpack and assembled H.E.R.O. "May you help us decorate."
The little robot nodded and climbed up to Hueys shoulder before hopping into Violet's hands. H.E.R.O took the streamers and let Violet raise him to where they should hang them.
"It would be nice to hold a conversation with you from time to time. Not many people share my interest," Violet explained, "Lena is an incredible sister but I would like to talk about the science behind paranormal entities without having the other person fall asleep."
"You have trouble fitting in?" Huey asked, a little confused. He figured someone as intelligent as her would be able to talk to anyone. She had so many ideas and theories about the unknown. One would think someone would share her interest.
"I wasn't kidding when I said it's never been the same since you left," Violet finally hopped off the stepping stool and faced Huey. H.E.R.O looked up at the two, his eyes turning black. It was rather hard to read the hummingbird. She always held a still expression and never showed any kind of emotion unless it was strong like fear, "I'm not as cold as I may seem. It's just easier to convey no emotion. That way no one can judge you for your passions or interests."
The way she said this caught the triplets attention. She was really good at hiding her emotions but just the sound of her tone gave away some hint of fear.
"You were bullied?" Huey asked.
"Not exactly. When Webby went to a private school, that left me alone. Lena was in her freshman year while I was in my last year of middle school. That left me alone for a good year. Not that I'm not used to it. I spent a majority of my life isolated in my room. Once I met Webby everything changed for the better. Not sure if you want to hear all this…." Violet scoffed it off and walked away to get a new box of supplies. Huey followed the girl to the box and helped her lift it.
"I'm listening," he told her. They placed the box on a table and began to unpack all the paper cups and plates.
"After Webby came into my life, she gave me so much. She was an odd ball like me and she gave me new friends like you,"
"Is that a good thing?" Huey joked a bit. This earned him a light hit by a paper plate.
"What else would it be," Violet chuckled, "I grew so attached to everyone, it made me wish I got out sooner. So I could spend more time with you before you and your brothers left."
Huey felt his heart drop at this. He never thought how much them leaving would affect his other friends, not just Webby. He never experienced loneliness like her. Whether he liked it or not, he always had his brothers in his personal space every single day.
"Well I'm here now," Huey placed his hand above hers in hopes this would make her feel a bit better. Violet gave a small smile but there was still a sting of pain in her eye's.
"For 6 more days. And one of them you'll be at the dance with your brothers," she reminded him. Huey shook his head no and spoke.
"I'm not going to the dance. Nothing for me to do," using his free hand, he unpacked more cups.
"You're not gonna help your brothers with their stands?"
"Dewey has his team and I don't want to get sucked into another Louie incorporated lawsuit," Huey surprised Violet with that.
"He's gotten sued?"
"Should that really be a surprise?" He joked. This got a light chuckle from her, "Besides, I like to spend more time with you before I leave Duckburge."
"We can just go to the dance together," the second Violet said this, Huey nearly dropped everything. He used both of his hands to catch everything in mid air, the movement causing his hat to fall over his eyes.
"Together?" Huey repeated with a blush forming on his white feathers. Violet tilted Hueys hat up so she could see his eye's.
"So you can spend time with your brothers and I," She told him with a calm smile.
Huey looked down at her dark intimidating eye's. Were they always so dark and mysterious? He had to admit, she was rather pretty when she smiled. With her freckles decorating her cheeks making her smile even more adorable. Why is he just noticing this now? All these thoughts brought back his light headedness.
"Something the matter?" Violet noticed Hueys pain right away. She fixed his hat and set everything in his arms down.
"Y… yeah, I mean no! I mean…." Huey shook his head trying to shake off the pain. Violet was quick to grab him a chair and set him down. Huey held onto his head and leaned on the table. He looked up at her, managing a sweet smile, "I would love to go to the dance with you."
While this brought a smile to the two of them, Violet couldn't help but feel the need to help him with his headache.
"Need anything?" Violet asked. Huey shook his head no but someone else had other plans.
"Tea?" Lizzette appeared like a ghost. She placed a cup of tea in his hands, "It'll help with your migraines."
Huey didn't ask questions, he took the cup and drank every last drop. Like a miracle, he was no longer feeling dizzy or light headed.
"Whoa, what was in that tea," Huey was impressed on how fast it worked.
"Just an old family recipe passed down from generation to generation," Lizzette helped him back on his feet and pulled him towards the outdoor kitchen, "Maybe you should get out for some fresh air."
Huey didn't fight it. He let the girl pull him outside leaving Violet alone at the table. The hummingbird couldn't be any more confused. What just happened? Did she just get pushed aside all of a sudden?
She glanced at where Lizzette was letting Huey out. Before she could follow him, Lizzettes sweet eye's suddenly went cruel. She glared over where Violet was like she did something wrong. Violet could feel the glare through Lizzettes sunglasses. Violet shrugged in a way that said what?
"I'm sensing some distress," H.E.R.O spoke. Violet looked down at the little robot and shook her head no.
"Just confused," Violet told him and went back to setting plates and cups.
At this point I believe you guys already know what's going on in Lizzettes side of the story. I will say that she is an expert when it comes to love….. in her own way. I know things have been slow, which is why the next chapter is gonna have some pretty intense scenes and a lot of answers. So stay tuned.