The clan came back to the castle, worried about Angela. There had been no sign of her. But then, they went to check on Brooklyn and found that he was gone. This wasn't good.

"Brooklyn will be punished for leaving the castle." Goliath growled. "He knew he wasn't to leave here."

"Don't be too hard on the lad. He only wanted to help." Hudson declared. "And don't forget his condition."

"I know, but when he goes against my orders for his own good, something must be done about it." Goliath said.

"I have a hunch of where he might have gone." Lex said.

"Where?" Broadway asked. He was anxious to get his mate back as well as his brother.

"We didn't try Gen-U-Tech yet, Goliath." Lex pointed out.

"Do you think they would be there?"

"Only one way to know for sure."

The clan knew they had to get there before sunrise.

….

Brooklyn's arms, legs, tail, and wings all had cuffs put on them on his gurney. He could do nothing to fight the drug in his system. He could make out humans in his vision, doing stuff to him. Then, he felt something slimy on his stomach from what he could make out, then something being dragged over it. "Oh… please… don't… hurt me…" he begged.

"Silly gargoyle. I'm not going to hurt you, Brooklyn. Just examining what I want from you. I just want to see my baby gargoyle in there." Ray replied to him.

Ray had the ultrasound going and was seeing onscreen now the image of the fetus inside Brooklyn's round belly. The fetus had the look of a gargoyle alright. Beak, horns, wings, tail. But the horns looked a little different than its father's. That was weird. Oh well.

"You have done well in all these months that I haven't seen you, Brooklyn. You have a good looking baby inside your belly." Ray complimented.

"No… Don't hurt it…" Brooklyn begged.

"I wouldn't dream of it. I know it's not ready to be born yet. It's still going to be a while. I look forward to seeing that belly of yours get bigger and the surgery when it's time for it." Ray explained. "And I just might breed your clan too, when I get a hold of them."

"No…" Brook tried to fight the drug. He didn't want his clan to suffer his fate, of something done on them against their will. If it was something they wanted to do, that was different, but Ray planned to force them like he had done him. He tried to get free but could do nothing being drugged. And would it harm his baby?

Ray looked at every aspect of the fetus inside Brooklyn's belly. It was incredible how it looked at six months along. He wondered what color it was going to be. Likely red like Brooklyn unless there was some other color in his bloodlines.

A monitor was then put on Brooklyn's belly to get the heartbeat of the baby. It was a little different than a human baby's but still fast overall. Ray wanted to monitor the fetus for sure to make sure nothing was stressed from the capture. The gel was wiped clean off Brook's belly then Ray ordered, "Take him to his own cell and make sure to put his arms in cuffs. I don't want him touching his stomach for the rest of tonight. I need to monitor the heart of the baby to make sure it's alright."

The men nodded and Brooklyn was wheeled out of the room. Then Ray declared, "Bring me the female next. I want to examine her reproductive organs."

Two others went with a different gurney to get Angela. She would be sedated as well.

Brooklyn was taken to an empty cell that was across from Angela's. He was taken inside, walking a little bit as the drug was wearing off on him. He was laid on his back in the cell and Angela watched as his arms were placed into cuffs on the wall. His legs were left loose but there would be no way he could reach his stomach if he wanted to. She saw that there was some new piece of equipment on his belly being held on with an elastic belt.

Then, Angela's door opened and she was darted and succumbed to it. She was taken out of her cell to be examined next. "What… did you… do to Brooklyn?" she demanded as she went under.

"Don't worry, my dear. He'll be fine. Nothing he won't recover from." One of the men said to her. She was taken to the exam room next.

Her shirt was pulled out of her belt for an ultrasound to take place on her too. "She asked what we had done to the red one." One of the men told Ray. Angela was also only mildly sedated.

"Brooklyn is fine. I didn't do anything to harm him or his baby, my dear. I only attached a heartbeat monitor to his stomach to keep the records of the baby's heartbeat throughout the night to make sure it's going to be alright." Ray explained.

Ray got the exam done on Angela's reproductive organs as well. They weren't too much different than like how a human woman's were, if slightly different. To think that organ would get big to accommodate an egg. He wondered what one would look like. But he didn't want to wait on a ten year long egg to hatch. A few months was one thing, but not a decade. That's why he would prefer to impregnate the males when they got here or found. He knew the secret to getting them safely pregnant artificially. His experiment with Brooklyn seemed to be proving that.

Her reproductive organs definitely had egg making properties inside it. There were some similarities with a bird's and reptile's. At least she wouldn't make tons of eggs in her lifetime like a reptile would.

Angela was feeling the slime on her stomach and didn't like the feeling one bit. She squirmed even while sedated. But it would likely happen one other day in her life when she was finally pregnant with an egg.

But then, there was a crash through the roof and the rest of the clan stormed inside. Brooklyn heard it from his cell. He tried to break the cuffs on his wrists but couldn't.

The clan stormed into the room where Angela was being examined. They had fought off the guards they had come across. Broadway and Goliath didn't like the sight of Angela being on the table, forcefully on her back, the scientist doing who knows what to her. They growled and their eyes were already aglow.

"Let her go!" Broadway demanded.

"I'm not hurting her if that's what you think." Ray replied. "Just examining her."

"You will not be doing anything to my daughter." Goliath exclaimed.

"Where's Brooklyn?" Lex demanded.

"Back in his cell, where he belongs to me." Ray stated. "So you are all Brooklyn's clan members? Nice to see a variety of you."

"You won't be doing anything to us, Mr. Scientist!" Broadway exclaimed. "Now get away from my mate!"

Lex went off to find Brooklyn while the others faced off against Ray.

"The name is Ray. I'm sure Brooklyn has told you about me, has he not?" Ray declared.

"So, you're Ray. What did you want with Brooklyn anyway?" Hudson demanded. "And Angela?"

"Angela was just a ransom, but a privilege to examine a female's reproductive organs as well. I've already done a male gargoyle's part. But I wanted a baby gargoyle to raise. To study its development as it grows up. And Brooklyn is going to give me that baby gargoyle. I've already seen the little one inside him, so don't think you can tell me he isn't pregnant." Ray decreed.

"You will let my daughter go." Goliath demanded.

"I'm done with her anyway." Ray replied. "I wasn't going to do anything to her anyway."

Ray gladly let Angela up off the gurney and she stumbled over to her father. He hugged her for dear life, then she went to Broadway. He held onto her.

"You will not be harming Angela or Brooklyn anymore, Ray." Goliath was stepping up to the man to get a hold of him.

"Oh, I don't think so. I'll be back, Gargoyles!" Ray smirked and he threw a smoke bomb on the floor, making it explode and they all coughed in its stead.

Lex found Brooklyn's cell and he fought off the guards before getting inside it and releasing Brooklyn's cuffs. He also removed the monitor on his stomach. Brooklyn couldn't help but rub his belly, feeling his son move inside him. He felt relieved. He was glad the clan came for him and Angela this night.

Lex led Brooklyn back to the others.

"Are you alright, Brooklyn?" Goliath asked.

"Yes, just drugged." Brooklyn replied, a hand on his belly. He was still a little unsteady on his feet.

"We shall be going now, but we will discuss a punishment later, Brooklyn." Goliath said.

Brook's ears were flattened in sadness. "Look, I'm sorry, Goliath, but I couldn't let them hurt Angela. I know she's not my mate, but I still love her too."

Broadway heard what he said. Angela was glad that he loved her, but she didn't love him as a mate. She loved Brooklyn only as a brother and friend now. Broadway still cared for his brother too, as a clan member.

"I know you love Angela, Brooklyn. We will discuss everything more fully back home. Let's go." Goliath ordered.

The clan left Gen-U-Tech. Brook and Angela were helped in gliding as they were still drugged, but they were still able to use their wings.

Brooklyn still felt uneasy about Ray's threat though, that it wouldn't be the last they had heard from him. He now knew he was back in New York and he knew he was pregnant. He had seen his son. The red male would do everything he could to prevent the whacked out scientist from taking his son away from him.

When they got back to the castle, it was only a little while till sunrise but there was still time to discuss things. Goliath had the whole clan in the library. Brooklyn was seated on the couch along with Angela and Lex.

Brooklyn looked up nervously at his leader with a hand over his stomach.

Goliath glared down at his Second. "Brooklyn, I know you wanted to help rescue Angela, but given your condition, there are just certain conditions that you are going to have to abide by until after your son is born." He explained. "What you did tonight was foolhardy. We would have found Angela and brought her home. But what you did demands a punishment."

Brook flattened his ears in sadness.

"Brooklyn, until further notice, you are going to be babysitting Alexander for the next month whenever Xanatos or Fox or Owen demand a babysitter." Goliath decreed. "Lexington, I know you love being around Alex, but we need you more than ever out there with us."

"I understand." Lex replied.

Goliath was going easy on Brooklyn's punishment because of him being pregnant. He thought it fitting for him to get more childcare experience. The red gargoyle looked up at his leader sadly but accepted the consequences. "I understand, Goliath." He said.

"Good. Now we must all go get ready for stone sleep." Goliath declared.

The clan all headed out of the library and to the high tower. They all got on their places and waited for sunrise. But then, perhaps it wasn't wise for Brooklyn to be out there at all. Goliath would let him stay out there for today. The sun rose and they all took their sleep poses.

…

Anton Sevarius came back to Gen-U-Tech the next morning and found that Ray had had the female gargoyle and the red male all last night. And he had missed out on the action. But Ray showed him the results of the ultrasound that he had taken of Brooklyn's fetus. This was intriguing. An actual baby gargoyle.

"We must get the red one back." Anton declared.

"I agree. He is the key to starting this whole thing over for the gargoyle race." Ray agreed.

"It would be way better than cloning. But it also takes young gargoyles a lifetime to mature too, from what Demona told me."

"I don't care about that. As long as there are fellow scientists out there that would be willing to take care of them, and believe me, there will be, the gargoyle species will continue. But this has to happen to the males only. Hatching the eggs takes too long." Ray explained. "I have to have Brooklyn back to know how long he'll be needing to carry his baby. Correction, my baby."

"Agreed." Anton smirked evilly.

They would try a different tactic to get the red gargoyle back…