Drake-El rode home, the aching Scarlet in the passenger seat. She mumbled throughout the ride. The only word Drake-El could understand was "Help".
He cradled Scarlet in his arms as he brought her inside.
"Rubie, look what I found while I was spelunking!" he exclaimed.
Rubie petted Scarlet. "The poor thing! She must be starving!" Rubie screamed.
"Huh?" Scarlet mumbled.
"Mommy? Me and Adeline heard you screaming," Darkwing said. Adeline kept her hand in Darkwing's, like she always did.
"Wanna see something, Dark-a-roo?" Drake-El asked his son and his girlfriend.
"Yeah, daddy!" Darkwing giggled excitedly.
Darkwing and Adeline stared at Scarlet. "Is she okay?" Adeline asked.
"I found her under a boulder. She's in serious pain and she's starving. She wants to talk," Drake-El explained.
"Help me," Scarlet mumbled.
"The poor thing!" Darkwing exclaimed. He petted Scarlet's fiery red hair.
A few minutes later, Rubie had wrapped Scarlet in bandages. She had started to move around a little. Darkwing and Adeline sat on the floor and petted her. Scarlet opened her eyes to look at Darkwing and Adeline.
"Hey," Darkwing murmured.
"Huh?" Scarlet exclaimed.
She jumped up suddenly, and in serious pain. She anxiously looked around. She clutched her aching arm and wailed in pain.
Adeline scooped Scarlet up carefully in her arms. Scarlet was crying now.
"Maybe you should take it easy. I mean, Daddy says you were in pretty bad shape when he found you," Darkwing suggested.
"Can't argue with that, buddy," Drake-El chuckled.
Darkwing smiled at his father.
Scarlet jumped out of Adeline's hands and ran madly around the rug. "But...my family was murdered! I...I gotta go to Fraggle Rock! And I gotta do it right now!" Scarlet whined.
"Your family was...murdered?" Darkwing asked.
"Yeah...Momma, Daddy, Cornflower, Violet, Sunny, and Luna...all of them..." Scarlet answered.
"That's horrible!" Darkwing exclaimed.
"And you say you have to go to Fraggle Rock, and you gotta go right now?" Adeline asked. Scarlet nodded.
"But who killed your family?" Darkwing inquired.
"The Rock Fraggles," Scarlet mumbled.
"You're going to the place where the people who killed your family lived. Yeah, that makes lots of sense," Darkwing said, sarcastically.
Scarlet ran around the rug for several minutes until all the energy was drained out of her. She watched as everyone went to bed, and decided she might as well doze off, too. She curled herself up in front of the TV and went into her slumber.
Several hours later, Scarlet awoke to a sound she had never heard before. She ran into the kitchen, and saw Darkwing, who was making coffee.
"Hey Scarlet," Darkwing greeted, in voice that sounded like he wasn't woke up quite yet.
"What's that?" Scarlet asked?
"That? Oh, that's the coffee maker! I'm just brewing coffee for everyone," Darkwing explained.
"Oh," Scarlet said.
"Scarlet, I have some random question for you," Darkwing blurted out.
"Okay, what is it?" Scarlet replied.
"Do you ever have random thoughts in the middle of the night?" Darkwing asked.
"Yeah. Sometimes, I wonder if I could be called something other than Scarlet," Scarlet answered.
"Well, what do you want to be called?" Darkwing inquired.
"Uh...I always wondered if I could be called Red," Scarlet murmured.
"Then I'll call you Red! I'll tell everyone you know to call you Red!" Darkwing exclaimed.
"Well, to be honest, 'Red Fraggle' is a lot better than 'Scarlet Fraggle'," Scarlet, now Red, chuckled.
"So, Red, do you want some coffee?" Darkwing asked.
"Yeah, sure," Red answered.
A few minutes later, Darkwing watched as Red bounced off the walls - literally - with energy.
(Darkwing Duck, Drake-El Duck, and Rubie Duck belong to Disney. Red Fraggle belongs to the Jim Henson Company. Adeline McQuack, Ruby Fraggle, Blue Fraggle, Cornflower Fraggle, Violet Fraggle, Sunny Fraggle, and Luna Fraggle belong to me.)