Negaverse Chronicles 2: Three Years

by ahilty

Three years before Darkwing. Three years of destruction, war, and apocalypse. Three years for Negaduck to rise to rule all. How will the Friendly Four survive to be there for Darkwing? The next three years shall be their first of many challenges.

11. Crossed Wires

An Editor's Note: and here is yall's bonus chapter for the week, brought to you once again by moonbird and edited by yours truly. Enjoy.

Chapter 11

Crossed Wires

There were a lot of things that Megavolt had to question in his own life.

How had he gotten where he was? How had he become what he was…One of the grandest lunatics in all of the world, and he even knew it, that was the worst part of it. Powers or no power, he had always been considered an odd individual, now how-ever, he was just a plain lunatic.

And some-how, Megavolt had no idea how; he had ended up becoming best friends with the one single person in the entire universe who was a bigger lunatic than himself!

How in the holy smokes did that happen!

And the reason why Megavolt was asking himself that at the current time, was simply because seeing the insides of Quackerjack's home again forced Megavolt to seriously question his own life, person and predicament.

That enormous doll head just starring down at him, those tin soldiers standing ready on the table, and the worst thing of all. There was no way for Megavolt to tell which once were just regular nice harmless toys and which once were life threatening weapons. Anything in here could be anything, contain anything. Gas, acid, bullets, ancient spells… jelly babies? ANYTHING!

And right in the middle of it all was Quackerjack looking as happy and at home as ever. "Come on come on." He cheered at Megavolt who was still down on the floor looking a little lost in the huge room among all of the big dangerous toys.

"What am I doing here again?" Megavolt asked.

"Trying to get you to have some fun." Quackerjack told shortly as he jumped around, pulling stuff out of a huge pile of wires and toys. "Unwind, get your mind off things."

"And you are going to do that how?" Megavolt asked with squinted eyes.

"Don't forget I know." Quackerjack blinked. "You love building things; you're an inventor by heart! LIKE ME! We actually got a lot in common once you dig beneath the surface, isn't that great?" he asked excited.

"Yeeeah." Megavolt muttered in a resigned tone, almost bitterly, sitting down resting his chin on his hand. "Just great." He muttered sourly looking at the biggest lunatic in the universe digging through his stuff.

"What about this?" Quackerjack asked finding what just looked like a big chunk of wires stuck together. "I've been working on it on and off for years, but doesn't seem to get anywhere."

"What is it supposed to do?" Megavolt asked with a lifted eyebrow.

"I have absolutely no idea!" Quackerjack cheered. "Thought to keep it a surprise, but there is a big red button to push when it's done." He pointed gleefully at the button. Waay to gleefully.

Megavolt couldn't help it; he just had to hand palm himself as he grunted. "Well, if you don't know what you are building, then just maybe that would be the reason that you are not getting anywhere!"

"Really?" Quackerjack blinked. "You really think so?"

"How would you even know when it's done?" Megavolt asked.

"By pressing the red button and stuff happens, obviously." Quackerjack rolled his eyes. "Here, why don't you have a look any-how?" he threw the weird object through the air and Megavolt instinctively caught it in the mid-air, before pulling it down, snorting at the sight of the contraption.

"There's no way I am going to do something so stupid." He muttered though not putting the thing away, and his eyes were locked on it, much against his own will. "I mean look at this! It's just a mess, clearly this wire here is purposeless, but if you put it here, and then re-wire this." All ready his hands was deeply buried in it. "Haha!" he laughed gleefully. "This go here, and that goes here, out with that!" he threw a chip over his shoulder. "Man this is all wrong, here we go."

Quackerjack wisely withheld his 'I told you so' moment and instead laid down on his stomach resting his head on both his hands as he looked up at the engulfed Megavolt with a big grin plastered on his face. Wires flew in all directions, and new parts were taken to be stuffed into the weird mess.

"And then we just need a little power." Megavolt commented zapping the instrument with a finger so it started pulsing. "And PRESTO! If this is ever going to work, now is the only time." Megavolt stated as he clapped his hands.

Quackerjack chuckled from his position. "And you know what it's supposed to do?" he asked.

"What? How should I know, it's not even my invention!" Megavolt exclaimed.

Quackerjack side glanced at all of the exchanged stuff and back on the contraption which looked nothing like it had a some time ago, something told Quackerjack nothing was left inside of that thing as he had left it. "I think that could be argued." He commented. "Megs! Why don't we get to it and see what it does?" he asked excited. "Press the button!"

"Erh, I am not so sure that's a good idea." Megavolt hesitated. "We don't even know what it does."

"Come on! You built it!" Quackerjack pointed out. "Aren't you just a little bit curious about what it does?"

Truth to be told, Megavolt was positively itching, badly, he had to use control to keep his hand away from that nice big red button, on that pulsing thing he just build, only reason kept him from it. And at last he sighed. "I have you know, if anything bad happens, I hold you personally responsible."

"Ofcourse." Quackerjack nodded, that big grin plastered on his face. "Get to it!"

Megavolt took a deep breath and then sighed deeply. "Oki doki, here goes nothing!" he exclaimed and pressed down on the button. In the first seconds the box started vibrating, then the shaking grew harder and harder. Megavolt suddenly got the sense his head was exploding, in a big bang everything turned white, whiter than white. It hurt Megavolts eyes, before his vision grew black, and he lost conscious.

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Megavolt groaned, he had a splitting headache and he felt a bit sore. He was laying on a very hard surface, like a wooden floor, he rubbed his head as he slowly opened his eyes. "What?" he asked. "What happened?"

"Beats me squinty eye, but look at the mess you made!" A very recognizable voice almost laughed.

"Oh Quackerjack." Megavolt hissed annoyed. "This is so your fault."

"My fault?" Quackerjack asked amused as he bounced around. "You're the one who came into my lair and started digging around in my stuff, nimwit!"

Megavolt gaped. "Did not! You dragged me here."

"Ha!" Suddenly Quackerjack stood right in front of where Megavolt was sitting, bowing down so they were only mere inches away. "Trouble with the ol' holed memory again?" he asked knocking on Megavolts forehead.

"Would you stop that?" Megavolt exclaimed pushing Quackerjack away. "What is wrong with you today?"

"The same that is wrong with me every day." Quackerjack sighed.

Megavolt blinked. "Erh, right…fine, that's a pretty good point actually." He muttered. "But if you're going to be like this after I almost got hurt, I'm so out of here." He stated starting to walk for the exit.

"Huh, who peed on your sugar cereal?" Quackerjack asked with a slight raised eye-brow. "At least have a little manically fun, you know, the thing we are so good at." A grin spread on the toymaker's face, a look that Megavolt had never seen before. It was an almost sinister expression, one that promised pain.

"What?" Megavolt asked as he looked over his shoulder, started by the strange, maniacal expression on his friend's beak. He shook his head as he grabbed the garage like door to the exit, pushing it upwards to get out, but then he stopped in mid motion by the sight which met him. He was absolutely and completely stunned, starring wide-eyed at it with open mouth. "Quacky?" he called in a stunned voice. "How long was I out?" he asked.

"A few seconds." Quackerjack shrugged.

"Are you sure?" Megavolt asked. "You are not keeping some-thing from me?" he asked.

"Keeping things from you?" Quackerjack drawled. "What do you think I am, a master criminal whom no one should trust?" he asked in such a gleeful, yet cruel, voice that sent shivers down Megavolt's spine, but not as much as what was in front of him.

The fumes and worn out buildings of his world were gone, instead of the normal gray polluted sky, the sky in front of Megavolt was blue. Clear blue, like a robin's egg. And the streets looked so clean, the buildings so neat.. The people…the people looked, normal, content, busy with their own lives, not at all worried about vicious crime lords or crazy scientists or fire breathing villains.

"This isn't right... isn't right at all." Megavolt swallowed. He knew he should have been happy about this sight, about all this happiness and contentment. And the way everything looked so new! The sprinkling water, the singing birds, but it still seemed very unnerving. He hated the pollution and misery of home, but to find it replaced so suddenly was jarring. "Quackerjack, you are honcetly going to tell me there's nothing strange about this?" Megavolt asked gesturing at the people.

"That's boring and that's all." Quackerjack snorted. "We should go cause some mayhem soon! Spread some chaos!"

"What?" Megavolt blinked. Was Quackerjack saying what Megavolt thought he was saying?

"Come-on Megsy." Quackerjack grabbed Megavolts shoulder. "What do you say? That new mayor sure annoys the hell out of me! What if we go kidnap him and demand a bounty for not dropping him in oil and feathers, just for the fun of it!"

"What?" Megavolt asked once again.

"Your right, not messy enough, I know!" Quackerjack snapped a finger. "That traveling museum with original inventions are coming, it's supposed to have one of the first light bulbs ever created, right down your alley, hey?" Quackerjack asked leaning against Megavolt. "I'll let you have this one, then you help me go kidnap the president of Wiffleboy later, it's going to be fun!"

"Fun?" Megavolt asked disbelieving looking bewildered at Quackerjack. "Quacky… your sure you're all right?" he asked. He knew that Quackerjack could be strange, but he didn't hurt people! Not unless they were villains! What Quackerjack was suggesting now was…downright sick.

"I'm great." Quackerjack told him. "It's you who looks a bit out of it." He commented dryly.

"Oh, do I?" Megavolt swallowed. Something was wrong, and Quackerjack was a part of it. He couldn't let his friend know that he was on to him."Well, I must admit I have been feeling just a little bit under the weather lately." He nodded ducking out of Quackerjack's grip. "A cough." He fake coughed in his hand. "Yes that's it! Terribly nasty!" he backed away from Quackerjack not daring to take his eyes away from the clown.

"Maybe you should try and clean your synapses." Quackerjack suggested with a lifted eyebrow. "There should just be power enough in the museum to give you a shock strong enough."

"Why on earth would I do that to myself?" Now Megavolt was extra dumbfounded. "To subject myself to shocks like that would be a sure way to make my memory banks the equivalent of a leaking boat! My memory problems are bad enough as it is! Why would I further it?"

Quackerjack halted, now looking at Megavolt with squinted eyes. "Maybe you should stay here." He suggested in a tone Megavolt did not like. "Just for safeties sake."

"Urmm…" Megavolt backed away. "No.. no Quacky, I wouldn't want you to catch it, oh I feel so dizzy." He held a hand to his head. "Better go home and rest, absolutely, CIAO!" and Megavolt spoon around to take a run for it escaping down the people filled clean streets. Which again, was so odd! Usually the streets were oftened abandoned, with people hiding away in fear, and even if they had to go out they walked with their heads bowed and their jackets pulled up over their necks, afraid to be seen, even if it was a large group. These people seemed to just mind their own business. Megavolt was twirling around, just trying to take it all in, trying to figure what was happening, looking wide-eyed at the people, wide-eyed at the buildings.. the blue sky.. it was all so much to take in, and Megavolt still had no clue what was going on.

That was until a woman's scream cut through all of the sounds and Megavolts eyes shifted to a middle-aged plump woman pointing at him. "MEGAVOLT!" she screamed.

"Ummm." Megavolt hesitated. "Yeah that would be me, honcetly I am not used to be recognized, but if it's an autograph you want or-"

"GET HIM!" A man suddenly screamed.

"Pardon?" Megavolt asked.

And before he knew what was happening the entire crowd was turning on him.

"ARGH!" Megavolt exclaimed and quite literately had to run for it. "HEELP!" he exclaimed running through the buildings. "Oh boy I really don't want to do this." He sparked, letting electricity fly from his whiskers, an intimidation tactic that really didn't do anything, but was scary to see. The people in front of him started scattered, screaming, and then he turned around sending a zap towards a truck on the road, and dragged in front of him, cutting the angry mob away from himself. "SORRY!" Megavolt yelled taking a turn down and alley, and around to the other side of the building where he pressed himself up against a wall taking deep breaths. "What's going on around here?" he asked bewildered before he sighed relieved by the site of a blue uniformed official. "Oh thank god." He sighed. "OFFICER!" he called and ran for the blue uniformed dog. "Officer there's a rampage happening!" Megavolt exclaimed pointing at the place he had come from. "People are going completely mad!"

The officer starred wide-eyed at Megavolt, almost shaking. "Me-megavolt" he stammered.

"Oh brother, when did I become a celebrity?" Megavolt groaned rubbing his forehead. "Officer you better call backup, you better…" Click.

Megavolt looked down on his writs to suddenly discover that he had just been handcuffed; confused Megavolt lifted his arms looking at the handcuffs.

"Megavolt.. I .. I.." the officer stammered. "I place you under arrest, so please.. co-come with me to the police station, and we.. we'll just talk this over.. right?"

Megavolt swallowed as he looked at the stammering police officer and then sighed. "I'm really sorry, but I can't let you do that." He looked sadly at the officer. "The world has gone mad, thus far I am the only one who realizes it, so believe me when I say, I did not want to do this." And closing his eyes Megavolt zapped the officer sending the poor fellow down on the ground. Megavolt twirled around to take a run for it, squinting his eyes at the handcuffs as he aimed at the lock with his finger. "Come on, come on." He hissed trying to send a spark with his front finger as he ran; at last he succeeded, roasting the lock good enough for it to spring open but him not hurting himself.

Megavolt sighed. He had to get to someone who could help him! Anyone! His friends would be ideal, but Quackerjack was out ruled... the greenhouse! Megavolt needed to get to the greenhouse! But at the sight of people heading his direction…Megavolt had finally learned his lesson. He threw himself into hiding in an alleyway. In fact he almost dived into a sack of clothes, and after some shifting around he carefully peered out, now with a bonnet over his usual helmet, and as he fell out of the sack, some-how he was now also wearing an old worn out dress. Megavolt sighed deeply as he sat up leaning back against the wall, hopelessly resting his chin his hand looking out in the air. His mind for once, just in a complete and total blank.

"Are you lost? Confused! Find yourself in strange places while wearing a woman's dress! Then look no further, for the Liquidator has come to spread light for the dim bulbs!"

"ARGH!" Megavolt immediately fell over in shock, only to brighten up in less than a second. "Likky!" he exclaimed gladly by the sight of the watery ex-salesman. "Man aren't you are sight for sore eyes!"

"Whether the trouble is big, medium or high, Liquidator will sort it out in five!" The Liquidator said with a grand gesture.

"Huh?" Megavolt asked confused.

"For a reasonable price or favor of course." The Liquidator smirked. "Nice dress."

"Oh! Oh this." Embarrassed Megavolt looked down at himself. "I rather not talk about."

"Oh good one anyhow Megsy!" the Liquidator laughed. "For new and interesting ways to cause chaos and fear, look no further then Megavolt's latest scheme! I commend you for that one!"

"Which one?" Megavolt muttered, now also feeling ill at ease around the Liquidator. He seemed to be using that weird salesman's jargon exclusively now.

"So simple, just step outside in sunlight, and voila, instant havoc, why did anyone else think of that!" Liquidator exclaimed. "Plus in the middle of the day, so Dipwing Doofus is probably a sleep, he can't reach the place before we are long gone. All the fun, though none of the profit, the only fine print to the contract!"

"Who?" Megavolt asked. "No wait, urh." He hesitated. "What I mean is.. Likky this may sound strange."

"Buddie, anything coming out of your mouth is strange, guaranteed and certified." The Liquidator sighed.

"Yeah… okay." Megavolt hesitated. "Haven't you noticed.. Anything strange going on, people acting differently than they should, the city looking different than it used to, like, everything thing being wrong."

"How wrong?" Liquidator asked.

"I don't know.. just wrong." Megavolt told. "You haven't noticed anything?"

"The only thing strange I have noticed." Liquidator stated. "Is you right now."

Megavolt silenced and then looking straight forward. The water dog's tone had changed as soon as he dropped the jargon, and the tone was not at all like his normal, calm, professional mannerisms. "Do you always talk like a salesman?" Megavolt suddenly asked.

The Liquidator laughed. "One hundred percent guaranteed, the Liquidator can find what you need, and how else can he do that unless he is alwas selling selling selling!...even when he is actually robbing robbing robbing!" The Liquidator laughed.

"Stealing?" Megavolt asked. The look of greed on the Liquidator's face was obvious, especially when he mentioned robbing.

"Of course! How else can we five get the big bucks?" The Liquidator said, studying Megavolt. "Is your mind running away again? Are your synapse not firing right? The Liquidator suggests you get your act together! Besides the police will be here soon." Liquidator pointed out.

"I had planned to go to Bushroot's but I am not so sure anymore." Megavolt sighed.

"How come?" Liquidator asked.

Megavolt swallowed. "I'm a bit afraid to." He admitted.

"Man, you really are acting strange." The Liquidator commented. "Don't forget the meeting tonight!"

"What meeting?" Megavolt asked.

"All of us, the old storehouse at the docks, and don't you dare not come!" Liquidator demanded. "Or I will not be the only one who's really sour." He stated. "Write it down or something."

"So that's why you decided to pop up, to make me write down where we meet." Megavolt hesitated.

"Wouldn't be the first time you forgot, your mind doesn't have an extended warranty after a while." Liquidator commented as he started to slip down the drain. "And I would really hate to endure more pain just because of your dumb memory." Was his last words as he disappeared down the drain.

Megavolt shuddered lightly as he wrapped his arms around his knees. Quackerjack was wacky, but he was never sinister, but now he looked so… Like he truly wanted to be sinister. That smile had been too cruel, to mean to be the real Quackerjack's smile. And the Liquidator, he was like the parent of the group, always just a little caring. He certainly would never call Megavolt's memory troubles dumb, not when he knew how much Megavolt himself was afraid of some day loosing it and forgetting everything, because of his own stupid head.

He didn't want to go to the docks. Didn't want to see these twisted versions of his friends, but…hurt?

Megavolt didn't want to see any of his friends hurt, even if they were acting strange.

Feeling to disturbed to be humiliated he pulled the bonnet over his face so no one could see and peered through the corner where he saw all of the commotion from where he came from and then just collected the dress around him. He tried to sneak away as quietly as he could keeping his head bowed, before he just ran for it.

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Well, Megavolt was at the port, but which storehouse was he supposed to meet up at? Confused Megavolt looked around as he squinted his eyes. "Where is this storehouse?" Megavolt exclaimed annoyed spreading out his arms. "You got to be kidding me! Why can't we use the greenhouse that usually works fine?"

"Because dear friend." Out of nowhere Quackerjack was beside him, laying an arm around his shoulder. "Negaduck hates flowers."

At once Megavolt's mouth ran dry. "Negaduck?" he asked confused. "Why-why Negaduck?"

"Wow you must really have short circuited bad!" Quackerjack exclaimed. "Our boss, Negaduck remember?" he asked grabbing Megavolt in his arm and gave him a nuggy.

"Boss?" Megavolt asked horrified trying to push the arm away.

"Of course." Quackerjack laughed. "We are the Fearsome Five after all."

It was like all air was punched out of Megavol, and he was stunned into silence. "Fear… fearsome?" he asked. "Why?"

"Becauuuuuse." Quackerjack chuckled. "We are the most fearsome there is! And both fearsome and five starts with an F."

"It's so wrong." Megavolt yelped. "So very wrong!" he pushed Quackerjack away. "WHAT'S HAPPENING?" he yelled. "HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD!" he yelled with waving his arms.

"Hm." Quackerjack snorted from where he laid on his back. "The only thing wrong here pal, is you." He commented dryly.

Megavolt swallowed. "Me?" he asked. "No that's not it, I'm positive, I'm fine."

"Oh really? I must say I don't like this new you. You're to ugg, serious, All though I do love the dress." Quackerjack commented. "There is something wrong with you." He gave Quackerjack a stern look.

Embarrassed Megavolt looked down at himself and then hissed. "Oh bite me Quackerjack!" he hissed tearing the dress off and throwing it away, then the evaporating it with a single zap.

"Oh my god, Megs is back!" Quackerjack cheered jumping up and down.

"I was never gone you nitwit!" Megavolt hissed sourly passing by with grumbling moments.

"Uhh, Megsy." Quackerjack smiled rocking back and ford on his feet.

"What!" Megavolt hissed.

"The storehouse is that way." Quackerjack pointed in the complete opposite direction that Megavolt was going.

"Oh for the love of!" Megavolt swore turning around with a sour expression.

"And that bonnet really sells the picture of the dreaded Megavolt." Quackerjack chuckled.

"Good." Megavolt hissed dragging off the bonnet. "Then why don't you try it?" he exclaimed forcing it down on Quackerjack's head before keeping on walking muttering beneath his breath.

"Man it's good to have you back Megsy." Quackerjack chuckled as he pulled in the strings of the bonnet. "I must admit I was a little suspicious, but heck, we all have our strange days."

"You don't say." Megavolt muttered more annoyed than ever, though annoyance was also the only thing just to keep away the dread.

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Megavolt swallowed for the time number one hundred and twenty as he tried not to show that he was shaking. He just sat as still as he could by the table on a wooden chair with folded with clinched hands his eyes fixed on his blue gloves.

"So he did meet up on time for once." The liquidator in conversation with Quackerjack snorted.

"I had to point him the right direction." Quackerjack chuckled. "You would so have been too late and wander around aimlessly if I hadn't shown you." He grinned at Megavolt.

"Oh shut it." Megavolt muttered annoyed.

And apparently that was the right thing to say, because both teammates were now smiling and amused. Just in time for a third party to enter.

Megavolt almost didn't dare to look at the green frame, and his eyes averted down to the root like feet instead of the person himself.

"Hiya guys." Was Bushroot's first cheerful greeting.

And that made Megavolt life his eyes and look at the mutated plant duck, to sigh in relief, he looked and sounded just as his usual easy going self. There was a slightly nervous air about him, but other than that the gentle smile and friendly face was the same. It was such a relief.

"Bushbrain!" Quackerjack greeted with a big grin, and that made Megavolts smile falter once more, Quackerjack would never call Bushroot mean names, not ever.

"Quackerjack." Bushroot responded as if nothing had happened. "How is it going Likky?" he addressed the Liquidator.

The Liquidator shrugged. "Same as always, got caught last week and the prison finally thought they had a way to contain me, hah! That aquarium wasn't even air tight! One crack, that's all it takes for the Liquidator to return to freedom and his next big scoop."

"Well that's good." Bushroot nodded sitting down on a chair.

"And I suppose you have just stuck to the plants." The Liquidator sighed. "No branching out for your trees!"

"Of course, same as always." Bushroot smiled gladly. "My daisies are just about to bloom, I don't have time. There's too much trouble at such a vital stage."

Megavolt couldn't help it, he was just looking oddly at Bushroot. Out of all of them, the old Doctor was the only one being honestly and completely like himself.

"Something's wrong Megs?" Bushroot had discovered that he was being watched.

"Oh! Erh, no." Megavolt exclaimed looking the other direction. "I'm fine, nothing odd going on around here, not a single thing!"

Bushroot frowned slightly. "You're sure?"

"Megs is having one of his funny days." Quackerjack chuckled, plummeting down on his seat. "Complete memory drain this morning, couldn't even remember he had gone into my workshop."

"No I knew that!" Megavolt defended at once. "It's just.." and he halted. "Doesn't matter." He muttered. "Forget it." He had to keep his cool. Had to watch and observe. See what was going on.

"Oh Megsy don't be shy." Quackerjack chuckled. "We know of your little problem, we don't make fun of it…okay maybe we do, but only all the time!"

The only thing Megavolt could do was look at Quackerjack while his mind was still speculating.

"Guys let it rest." Bushroot at last sighed. "Leave him alone."

Again Megavolts eyes averted to Bushroot, his lip twitching a bit, sending Bushroot a tiny smile and an appreciating glance.

Bushroot blinked surprised by the gesture, but then returned the friendly smile with a thumbs up.

"ALL RIGHT GEEKS, LISTEN UP!"

Megavolt froze in his seat, his heart stopped beating and his heart chilled, no.. it couldn't be, slowly Megavolts eyes turned towards the door, and his heart sank all the way down to his stomach. It was him, a duck, wearing a yellow jacket, a red fedora and a black mask, his intimidating eyes and mad grin, only all too familiar. It was Negaduck.

And he was standing right there, right in front of them.

"Yes Negaduck!" Megavolts teammates shouted simultaneously, as Megavolt prepared to jump up and fight. He looked at his friends in confusion. What was going on?

Negaduck to sneered and his eyes zoom straight towards Megavolt. "So you have decided not to listen up, is that it dim bulb?" he drawled.

"Erh.." Megavolts eyes was darting to both right and left, until he looked wide-eyed in horror at Negaduck. "No..." he hesitated. He had heard that tone every time he had spied on Negaduck. It was the tone he used when talking to a particularly dumb gang member.

"No you won't listen or no you'll listen?" Negaduck sneered.

"What?" Megavolt asked his heart all the way up his throat and his neck sweating as it never had before.

"ANSWER ME!" suddenly Negaduck was right in front of Megavolt. He grabbed Megavolt's jumpsuit to shake him violently. "SPEAK UP SPARKY!" he yelled straight into Megavolts face.

"I'LL LISTEN UP I'LL LISTEN UP!" Megavolt shrieked almost cried, to find himself being dumped down on the chair, unharmed, not even bruised, and Negaduck assumed prior position.

"Now back to business." Negaduck stated in a very businesslike tone.

Megavolt was at a complete loss, it just didn't make any sense what so ever! What was the deal, the city was as nice as Megavolt could ever have dreamed off, Quackerjack was sinister, Liquidator was greedy and mean, Negaduck wasn't trying to kill him on sight...what was going on! It was like he was in a completely different planet, as if he had taken a stranger's place, as if he was walking in a bizarre alternative world, an-"AN ALTERNATIVE DIMENSION!" Megavolt shouted up before even thinking.

Suddenly there was silence, everybody looking straight at Megavolt.

"Excuse me?" Negaduck asked in a pleasant voice, which when it was him always meant danger.

"Urh.." Megavolt halted. "No... nothing." He swallowed.

"Well, I am pretty sure, that as I was so kind to brief you on my latest scheme, which you are going to be a part of tonight by the way." Negaduck told still in that ever pleasant voice. "You just shouted alternative dimension."

"Really?" Megavolt fumbled. "I... I did?" he asked. "Gosh, I don't remember at all!"

"Oh so typical!" Quackerjack slapped his hand over his face. "Megs, do something about that memory!"

Megavolt blinked and then quietly sat down looking down at the table, well one thing was for sure, his counterpart would have to be a complete wacko, burned out, over using his power, a criminal, electrocuting himself. If these memory comments were anything to judge by…Suddenly an icy chill went all the way down Megavolts spine and a horror struck his mind.

If he had somehow swopped places with a wacko, maybe even downright evil, incarnation of himself. Would his counterpart then be back in the other world? With his friends? What would they think?

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"I feel so responsible!" Quackerjack almost cried as he pulled down the two points of his jester hat, horrified at what was happening in front of him. "He said I would be responsible if anything horrible happened, why didn't I listen? WHY?"

Way up above, on the roof top, laughing in maniacal glee was Megavolt. "OH I LOVE IT!" he shrieked in a mad voice. "The fumes, the lack in law and order, not to mention no stupid Darkwing Duck! This is my kind of paradise!" he started sending electrical zaps in all different directions, for no apparent reason, zapping the behind of a citizen, vaporizing a car, blasting the windows in a baker shop only to laugh loudly and clearly amused.

"WHAT-DO-WE-DO-WHAT-DO-WE-DO?" Quackerjack loudly asked his two team mates, who was standing right beside him, no more than a few centimeters away, so both groaned and covered their ears by the loud yell.

"Calm down Quacky!" the liquidator demanded.

"How can I?" Quackerjack exclaimed. "I've just turned my best friend and the best crime fighter among us into a raving evil lunatic!" he shrieked. "Although, it's kind of nice seeing him loosen up a little, that can only be good for him. And that laughter almost suits him."

"Quackerjack!" The Liquidator exclaimed sternly.

"Well." Bushroot hesitated. "Shouldn't we capture him or something, just... to make sure he doesn't hurt anyone, and... make sure any-one doesn't hurt him?"

"What do mean if anyone hurts him? He's doing all the zapping!" Quackerjack exclaimed as he gestured at the place Megavolt had been a moment ago, but now he was clearly on the run.

"Imagine if Bulba and the police force get to him before us." The Liquidator hesitated.

"They... they would have to take him in." Quackerjack realized.

"Or it could be Steelbeak who turns up." Bushroot injected. "Then we would have to really work hard to even see him ever again."

"THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" Quackerjack yelled loudly, and in an instant he was all ready half way over the road in a full sprint. "Let's capture him and capture him fast!"

"You heard the guy." Liquidator nodded at Bushroot and the two were off trying to gain just a little bit to the colorful jester, though that proved to be a hard task. Quackerjack was running very fast, extremely fast, so fast that he would be a match worthy for the Olympics and rather than gaining on him, Bushroot and the Liquidator were losing him.

"MEGAVOLT!" Quackerjack was shouting on the top of his lungs as he ran. "MEEEEGAVOLT!" he tried again turning street corners, until at last the sound of screams came from his right and it was only to clear, Quackerjack had to go that way. "MEGAVOLT!" he shouted and saw a jewel store where the windows had been smacked in and the alarm was ringing on full. That street was totally deserted as the people had long since run away in terror. "Megavolt!" Quackerjack ran for the smashed in window, and there he was, true enough, Megavolt standing over the case with expensive jewelry.

"Oh my pretties." Megavolt sighed in a happy tone. "Come to daddy." And he aimed a zap at the case, making the glass splinter.

"Megavolt stop it!" Quackerjack hopelessly tried to stop his friend.

"Oh hey Quacky." Megavolt greeted without even looking up.

"Oh good, so you do know who I am." Quackerjack sighed relieved.

"Why wouldn't I?" Megavolt shrugged as he reached into the case and grabbed… the light bulb?

Quackerjack blinked confused by the sight as Megavolt quickly and very purposely unscrewed all of the light bulbs before holding them in a hugging grip.

"My little darling, snugly wugglies!" Megavolt cheered as he hugged all the light bulbs. "Time for you to taste freedom as well! No more captivity."

"Are you insane?" Quackerjack gaped. "And that's me saying that!"

"What's wrong with you now?" Megavolt asked with a lifted eye-brow. "Say, how did you even get here?" he asked in a suspicious tone.

"What do you mean get here? I just followed you!" Quackerjack exclaimed.

"Oh well." Megavolt shrugged. "A helping hand is always nice, if you'll just take the jewels. I kind of have my hands full." He gestured at all the light bulbs he was cuddling.

"What?" Quackerjack asked disbelieving. "You are asking me to steal?"

"And that's a big surprise to you?" Megavolt asked. "Come-one Quacky, it's a fortune just waiting for us, which we don't have to share!"

"What?" Quackerjack exclaimed. "You should know, better than anyone, I don't steal! I don't commit crimes! I am one of the good guys! And so are you!"

Suddenly Megavolt stood still, as in absolutely still, his beady eyes fastened on Quackerjack. His expression looked mean, his mouth retrieving in a frown, and without warning, as if he had completely forgotten all about them he dropped all of the light bulbs so they crashed down on the floor. Megavolt aimed his hand, which Quackerjack knew to be deadly, straight at Quackerjack. "Who are you?" Megavolt asked in a serious tone.

"What?" Quackerjack asked. "Me-megs!" he hopelessly gestured. "It's me, Quackerjack."

"Absolutely not." Megavolt hissed. "You have to be an imposter."

"Megs..." Quackerjack hesitated before silently speaking. "Elmo, listen."

Megavolt blinked confused. "Who's Elmo?" he asked genuinely as if he didn't know.

"Elmo?" Quackerjack blinked. "It's you! You're Elmo, don't you remember?" he asked.

"Oh I had enough of this! And I hate imposters!" Megavolt hissed. "Good-bye, whoever you are!" Megavolt hands lighted up in blue sparkles just ready to fire, until suddenly, a great wave of water splashed over Elmo making the poor rate jump into weird angles as he screamed, sparks flying in all directions as he short circuited. at last he fel down on the ground in the pool of water, completely unconscious.

Quackerjack looked up and saw his two team-mates looking in through the window, the Liquidator with his arms raised, clearly having just send a big splash of water at Megavolt.

"You... you short circuited him!" Quackerjack exclaimed, horror filled in his voice.

"I sort of had to!" The Liquidator snorted.

"But you'll know what that does to him!" Quackerjack shrieked. "It makes him lose all his memories and stuff, he hates when that happens! It makes him defenseless he says! And you know the more he short circuits the more likely it is his mind would be in real permanent damage to his brain! He is terrified of it!"

"Permanent damage?" Liquidator asked with a lifted eyebrow. "You don't say." He glanced at the unconscious Megavolt. "I'm not going to apologize for this one; I did what I had to. I didn't want to see you roasted by our mutual friend, something I know Megavolt would never forgive himself for once he comes back to his senses."

Bushroot sighed. "Likky is right." He told Quackerjack before kneeling down and lifting Megavolts arm over his shoulder. "Better hurry, before the police come."

Sighing Quackerjack nodded lifting the other of Megavolts arms over his own shoulder. "Right." He mumbled. "Lets go." And they determinedly hurried away to Bushroot's hideout where they could safely hide Megavolt away.

---

Meanwhile, the real Megavolt of the Friendly Four, now stuck with the Fearsome Five could feel the dread inside of him growing constantly.

He found himself in a situation he could never have quite imagined, just about to burst into a big military like facility, surrounded by weird alternative versions of his team-mates, and for some reason, the only one not being opposite what Megavolt was used to was Negaduck!

And Megavolt didn't know what to do, he couldn't fight, then he would lose in less than a second. It had all ready been proven that he was no match for Negaduck but both Negaduck and alternative versions of Megavolts team mates? There was no way for Megavolt to win in this situation! He just had to play along until he could find a way home.

"All right Megavolt, do your thing." Negaduck commanded with crossed arms.

"What?" Megavolt twirled around to face his mortal enemy and greatest fear. "Wha-what am I supposed to do?"

Worried the remaining teammates looked at each other.

"Megs." Quackerjack moved closer to speak in a silent voice. "Blast the door apart."

"To this government base?" Megavolt asked surprised.

"OF COURSE TO THE GOVERNMENT BASE YOU DOPE!" suddenly Negaduck had simply grabbed Megavolt and now held the unfortunate rat out in front of him at arm's reach. "Use your powers, and blast that door to smithereens!" Negaduck commanded as his hand found its way to Megavolts throat and now squeezed it so Megavolt was losing all of his air. "NOW GET TO IT!" Negaduck yelled into Megavolts face before throwing the rat away.

Megavolt has to gasp for air as he took himself at the throat, for a moment having believed he was genuinely going to die. He fought the urge to blast Negaduck, as he had been doing for the past several hours. It was hard pretending to be his flunky…

"Be-better just do it." Bushroot carefully whispered to Megavolt in a shaking voice. "Or he'll just be really mad."

Quackerjack yawned. "This is the third time we tried to break in here." He muttered. "Why would it be any different now?" he asked casting a suspicious glare at Megavolt.

"The third time?" Megavolt blinked.

"Plea-plea-please." Bushroot now stammered, and Megavolt didn't like seeing Bushroot being that scared, not even an alternative version of him, it was to off putting. "His starting to get impatient!" he almost squeaked glancing at Negaduck, whom true enough, looked ready to explode.

Megavolt swallowed as he looked at the plant duck, who looked back with him with eyes asking him to just do it, and then at last Megavolt sighed as he slowly got up on his feet. "All right, step back." He demanded. "This could end up being a little wild." Megavolt told all ready loading up as his hands was sizzling with blue electrical energy. He could feel how his hair was standing up and his body buzzing as the electricity was building up for a go, and then he let go, the electricity soaring through his body in a way he rarely used it, it was accelerating, it made him want to almost laugh as the sheer power was in his control and his alone. He was always so controlled and precise with his energy, for fear or wasting it, and it sometimes felt good to just let it out. He saw the door blasting apart on his command, and then he ceased the energy, leaving him with the adrenalin running and his head in a dizzy spell.

"ALL RIGHT!" Quackerjack laughed. "Time to get loaded!" and the clown bounced inside, laughing all the way, the Liquidator following in his slithering manner.

"Come on lets go." Bushroot whispered at Megavolt. "What are you waiting for?"

Megavolt nodded as he followed the plant duck inside with the others.

"Remember stay clear of the left corridors! Those are where the laser lights are as dear Megsy found out last time, Now hurry!" Negaduck demanded. "Only take the stuff which is obviously worth a lot, carry as much as you can and clear out, then we divide up a fair share at the base."

"Meaning you'll take all of it." Quackerjack snorted as he rolled his eyes.

Megavolt still had no choice but to simply follow up the stairs, several times the group made maneuvers obviously previously learned, seemingly by prior mistakes, until they at last busted into what looked like a control room, filled with buttons and all sorts of blinking lights.

"HAHA! FINALLY!" Negaduck triumphed. "A clear passage into this room!"

"So what now?" Quackerjack asked. "Do we use the missiles to blow up the city?" he asked excited.

"Absolutely not." Negaduck snorted. "Takes all the fun out of it, for now, I want to make it suffer a bit. JUST TAKE ANYTHING WORTH SOMETHING AND GET MOVING!"

Megvolt's brow furrowed. Sine when did Negaduck not want to blow things up? Besides that, all these missiles could be used to take over a city or two. Why in the world would Negaduck only want the money?

"Hey guys!" Liquidator called from the other end of the room. "I found the treasure chamber!"

Quickly the rest of the four ran to the room, and stopped in awe, as the room was indeed filled with all sorts of artifacts... gold, jewels, gold-things with jewels attached to them.

All ready Quackerjack had happily smashed the glass case to where a big diamond was standing, the Liquidator was slithering upwards, to grab a scepter which looked like it was made out of gold and precious stones, from where it hang height up on the wall, even Bushroot was just grabbing loot and throwing it in a bag.

Right to his left, Megavolt could see a cranium, covered in small diamonds, so easy to grab as it just stood there. He had to take something if he weren't to be found out, Megavolt knew that. He hesitated slightly; just looking at the sparkling old artifact, then closed his eyes and turned his head around, as he zapped the glass catch with a little spark, just strong enough to shatter the glass. Then he looked at it, and there it stood, ready for him to take. Megavolt holding his breath, his entire mind screaming against this simple action, that he just shouldn't steal, shaking he reached for the thing. And then at last, grabbed the diamond covered skull.

"ALL RIGHT THAT'S ENOUGH!" Negaduck yelled. "NOW CLEAR OUT BEFORE THE DOFUS ARRIVES!" he instructed.

Quickly the others simply nodded and took their backs to run out, and then aim for the stairs to go even further up. "Remember, don't take the last corridor, it is booby trapped." Negaduck sneered.

"Yeah, still remember the pain from that one." Quackerjack rolled his eyes, wincing slightly as if he could still feel that said pain.

As they reached the door highest up Megavolt very easily blasted the lock, against his better judgment, to allow all of them exit to the roof.

Outside it was windy and cold, the middle of the night, and Megavolt couldn't help but look himself over the shoulder constantly, trying to figure if there was some alternative, something else he could do, when suddenly, a new voice came, from far above.

"Hold right there."

Megavolt stopped dead in his tracks together with the other four. That voice…

"Oh no." Quackerjack groaned.

"Just what we needed." The Liquidator drawled sarcastically.

"I am the terror that flaps in the night!" The voice began chanting.

Megavolt was scouting up, desperately trying to figure who this new person could be.

"I am the stick that catches in your wheel, I am!"

And then Megavolt saw, at the opposing building slightly higher up than then, he could see the silhouette. A duck with a cape and a fedora, a well known silhouette yet different. It couldn't be Negaduck! Megavolt could just see Negaduck out of the corner of his eyes.

"DARKWIIIIIIING DUCK!" the silhouette proclaimed as he fired a grabbling hook and swung into view, in purple cape and fedora he swung until he landed in front of them. "Fearsome five I see?" the purpled clad duck asked in cocky voice. "Up to trouble again, well to bad, because now the hero is here."

---

Megavolt couldn't believe it, standing right in front of him, a hero version of Negaduck! Megavolt's lip was twitching, he couldn't help it.

"Yuck! No you are going down do gooder!" Negaduck proclaimed pulling a bomb out of his jacket. "Down in shame!" he yelled throwing the bomb at Darkwing, who gracefully caught it with one hand to threw it straight back at Negaduck in time for it to explode, leaving Negaduck a burning crisp as he blew out a smoke-ring.

Megavolt had to hold up a hand towards his mouth not to chuckle, never could he have imagined his mortal enemy looking like that, but there it was.

"GET HIM!" Quackerjack then shouted jumping forward with Bushroot and Liquidator on his heels.

Darkwing jumped by the sight of the advancing supervillians. "YIKES!" and then barely managed to dodge the long vine-arm of Bushroot's, then the big slush of water that came from Liquidator. Until at last discovering both Quackerjack and Negaduck was going for a full body assault from each side.

Calculating Darkwing bend his knees, and then just stood there for what seemed for so long, before he in the last moment jumped out of the way so Negaduck and Quackerjack rambled straight into each other.

"YOU IDIOT!" Negaduck yelled at Quackerjack grabbing the jester by the hat.

"Haha!" Darkwing laughed triumphantly aiming his gun at all four of them. "Eat gas suckers!" he exclaimed as a gas capsule was released covering all of the four villains in gas which obviously made them cough and render them defenseless for some-time.

Fascinated Megavolt had been observing all of it, his intrigue and a strange form of glee watching with each past second, so fascinated had he been that his mind hadn't quit yet reached what would logically happen next…until the sound of a small voice down near his knees spoke up.

"I got you now, Megavolt! Surrender!"

"Huh?" Megavolt looked down to see a little red headed girl in a jersey looking up at him with a determined expression, an end of a rope held in her hands. He looked down to find that the girl had somehow wrapped the rest of the rope around his ankles. The girl tugged, apparently trying to trip him up, but Megavolt grabbed one end of the rope and jerked, making the knot fall apart.

"You might want to work on your knots." He said gently, and the girl glared up at him. Megavolt heard a shout, and he looked up. He gasped at what he saw. Launchpad! Negaduck's main bodyguard and muscle, charging towards him!

It was one thing to face your greatest enemy, try to fool him, and get you to think you are on his side. It's something else to face your greatest enemies hired muscle (who had personally tried to plant you in the ground like a lightning rod on several occasions), and keep a clear head. All Megavolt saw at that point was a thug charging him. Megavolt instinctively scooped up the kid, who started to whack him over the head with her fists, and blasted Launchpad back with a well placed bolt.

"MEGAVOLT!" A voice filled with fatherly rage bellowed, in an almost Negaduck like manner, save for the concern in it. "Put her down or I put your lights out permanently!"

"I'll kick your tail, you bast-"

"Gosalyn! Language!" Darkwing screamed, at the same time Megavolt said. "Hey! Language!"

Perhaps it was this moment that brought Megavolt back to his senses. He saw Launchpad struggling back to his feet, and grinned.

"Catch!" He bellowed, and tossed the girl to him. He figured that this must be this universe's Launchpad. Now that he could see that the man was dressed as a pilot and not as a thug, and that he lacked certain things such as flamethrowers or missile launchers. It was probably a safe bet. Fortunately Pilot Launchpad caught the girl, who was shouting at Megavolt like an enraged banshee.

"That girl has some spirit." Megavolt muttered as she shook a fist at him. "And a right hook like Dingo's." He was suddenly aware of someone behind him.

He turned to see a purple gas gun right in his face, and a hero who had just single handedly rendered Negaduck and the three other villains temporarily incapable, staring at him, with a satisfied smile on his beak. "Megavolt." Darkwing greeted him.

"Err…hehe." Megavolt swallowed holding up his hands. "Darkwing Duck, was it?" he asked.

"Really need to do something about that memory bank of yours." Darkwing rolled his eyes.

"So I've been told." Megavolt answered in a distant voice. "Several times today, if you just knew what I strange day I am having today… Darkwing." He added. "Darkwing Duck." He whispered, as if almost tasting the word.

Now Darkwing looked oddly at Megavolt, but still didn't remove the gun. "You're still going to jail." He informed.

Now Megavolt started to actually be scared, if he went to jail, he wouldn't be able to get back to his own universe and his own friends, he knew that much.. he had to get out. "Believe me, I didn't want to do this." He said. "And neither do I want to do this!" without warning, Megavolt turned raised hands downwards, and through them send an electrical charge straight at the masked hero, making Darkwing fall backwards, Megavolt however decided he didn't have time for that as he turned around and ran for it, jumping towards the next building, just managing to catch the fire escape with his hand. He pulled himself up to safety, just managing to look up at where he had come from, where the battle had continued again.

It was now Negaduck and Darkwing one on one, as Pilot Launchpad was hurrying away with the girl. The two caped ducks seemed to be equals, in so many ways... Darkwing was every bit as strong as Negaduck, and just as resourceful. But what was even more, he was winning! And Megavolt could not stop watching.

"Aww, so cute to stick around to make sure the rest of us got out safely."

Megavolts eyes shifted to right over him, where Quackerjack hung over a platform looking down at him. "Darkwing is winning." Megavolt pointed out, staring at the fight going on in front of them.

"Of course he is." Quackerjack snorted rolling over on his back. "He always wins."

"Against Negaduck?" Megavolt asked.

"Over and over and over, yes even Negaduck." Quackerjack muttered annoyed. "You should think with someone as tough as Negaduck, able to beat the heck out of the four of us, working with us, we would win just once in a while. But noooo, man this sucks." He muttered. "Of course the only one able to beat Negaduck turns out to be Dipwing over there, the yutz."

"The only one able to beat Negaduck." Megavolt mumbled to himself as he just kept on observing the fight from where he sat, not wanting to miss it.

"Man you are dull company today." Quackerjack muttered. "You are almost like a little spine-less sap, a wimp." He informed in a disappointed voice. "No I know!" he told. "You are almost like a goodie do gooder!" he told in a disgusted voice.

Megavolt turned around, only to squint his eyes at Quackerjack, this Quackerjack whom Megavolt did not like at all.

"Leave him alone." Suddenly Bushroot became visible up there at the same level Quackerjack was at. "We all have down days."

"Leave him alone." Quackerjack mimicked in a disgusted voice.

"Quackerjack!" Megavolt hissed.

"Fine, fine." Quackerjack rolled his eyes. "Better just too clear out before the two ducks over there are done, I rather not go to prison." He shrugged. "See ya next crime!" he greeted before simply just jumping off the building and fell all the way down where he made a summersault by the impact with the ground, to run for it.

Megavolt sighed deeply as he shook his head. "Finally." He muttered.

"Quackerjack is right though." Bushroot remarked looking down at Megavolt.

"About what?" Megavolt asked.

"You are acting really strange." Bushroot informed. "More strange than usual."

"How so?" Megavolt asked almost not bothering.

"Well for one thing you haven't called any-body any mean names today." Bushroot told slowly climbing down on Megavolts level. "Not even me."

"Why would I call you names?" Megavolt asked.

"It's what we do." Bushroot shrugged. "We are villains."

"But you are not really evil, are you Doc?" Megavolt asked. "I mean the others are, but you didn't seem too happy to fight."

"Oh you had to point it out." Bushroot groaned. "Look, I need the money, so I can grow plants, and experiment! Someday I'll find a way to produce another living plant!"

"And that's your goal in life?" Megavolt asked with a lifted eyebrow.

"To be a mutant plant duck is lonely." Bushroot shrugged. "And now you are acting very strange again, not like you at all."

Megavolt sighed deeply. "Okay, this might be quite of a gamble for me, but I need help."

"You're asking me for help?" Bushroot asked disbelieving. "But no one ever wants my help!"

"So you would want to help?" Megavolt asked.

"Of course!" Bushroot cheered gladly. "What are friends for?"

"Hm." Megavolt smiled a vague smile. "All right listen, and try to believe me. Just let me speak out."

"Okay..." Bushroot hesitated.

"Okay... here goes." Megavolt took a deep breath. "Yes you are all right, I am not really Megavolt!"

Stunned Bushroot stared, and then blinked.

"What mean is, that I am Megavolt, but not your Megavolt, I am a different Megavolt, we swapped places!"

Now Bushroot just looked at Megavolt as was he a maniac.

"From an alternative dimension!" Megavolt tried to tell. "A world, completely like this, but opposite! I'm actually good, and so are you! I mean the other you, my Bushroot, We are the Friendly Four, a superhero team and best friends, kind of like a family, Negaduck is our mortal enemy and we are fighting him!"

Again Bushroot was just left to stare.

"I can see this takes a bit more legitimate argument." Megavolt sighed.

Without moving a face-muscle Bushroot nodded, just looking at Megavolt as was he a nutcase.

"This is going to be difficult, oh let's see." Megavolt murmured tapping his fingers on his arm. "Umm…Well we have Negaduck." He hesitated.

"So?" Bushroot asked.

"Negaduck is Darkwing's opposite don't you see?" Megavolt asked. "Negaduck is from my place, he came from there."

Bushroot blinked. "Well, he did show up later than Darkwing."

"How long has he been here?" Megavolt asked.

"Dunno, about a year I think." Bushroot told.

"Strange, he's had his way in my world fine enough during that time." Megavolt pondered. "Somehow he must have found a way to go back and forth at will, damn! If I only knew how, I could go home!"

"Home?" Bushroot asked.

Megavolt nodded. "To my team, my friends." He told. "You know what they say, you never know what you got before you lost it, I really miss my friends right now, all of them."

Bushroot nodded, a little thoughtful then he eyed the roof-top beside them. "Uh-oh." He commented. "They stopped fighting, better get moving before Darkwing thinks to look for us here!"

"Where are you going?" Megavolt sincerely asked Bushroot who was on his way away.

"To my greenhouse, where else?" Bushroot asked.

"I'll come with you!" Megavolt stated at once jumping to his feet.

"Really?" Bushroot asked surprised.

"You are the only friendly face I had ever since I got here, please let me tag along." Megavolt asked.

"Well of course." Bushroot blinked stunned. "Just, follow me." He gestured.

---

Back at the Negaverse, the three members of the Friendly Four were in what could be called a frenzy. Worst of all of them had to be Quackerjack as he kept on frantically stumbling around, randomly yelling his fears and anxieties. "I didn't mean for it to happen! HONESTLY!" why didn't I listen?" he cried.

"Quackerjack snap out of it!" Liquidator demanded.

Megavolt had been tied firmly to a chair, his mouth gagged, but that didn't stop his eyes from squinting at them while sparks randomly escaped his body.

Bushroot hesitated as he took a step away from the rat. "Maybe it will be fine with time." He suggested.

"That has been known to happen." Liquidator nodded. "When he lost all of his memories and started panicking the last time, it did all come back to him when enough time passed."

"YES!" Quackerjack exclaimed. "He'll be all right! Just with some time! I know it, maybe he's all right now!" he pointed out leaping in front of Megavolt pulling out the cloth from his mouth. "Megsy speak to me! How are you feeling?"

"LET ME OUT SO I CAN FRY YOUR SORRY TAIL FEATHERS!" Megavolt yelled straight into Quackerjacks face. "HOW DARE YOU TIE ME! MEGAVOLT MASTER OF HAVOC… mmmrph!". Quackerjack had stuffed the cloth straight back into the rat's mouth.

"No, still a maniac." Quackerjack pointed out the obvious.

"Argh." Liquidator groaned messaging his temples. "And I still have no idea what's going on! Quackerjack can't you tell, from the top this time, and in an orderly manner what happened. I know it's hard, but just try."

"Yeah." Bushroot nodded. "What happened? Did he become possessed by a demon? Short circuited? Brainwashed by an alien…What? Stranger things has happened to us." He remarked by the odd look his two team mates were giving him.

"Okay." Quackerjack hesitated, and slowly walked back and forth. "There's not that much to tell really, I thought I would try to have Megsy unwind a bit, he's always so tense you know. But I know he has an affection for inventions, did you know that?" he asked the two. "Well he does, he loves tinkering around with all kinds of machines, so I took him to my work-shop so he could tinker a bit around, then there was this machine." He hesitated.

"What kind of machine?" Liquidator asked with crossed arms.

"I have absolutely no idea!" Quackerjack exclaimed with lifted arms. "That was the point of it! I had no idea what it was supposed to be as I built it! It was a surprise you know, for fun. I gave it to Megavolt, he tinkered with it and got it working, pressed the button, there was a big white light, it kind of blinded me, when I could see again, Megsy had been knocked out. I hurried over and tried to shake him awake and the moment he woke he started accusing me of tricking him.. Then he attacked me.. And then.. he ran amok, you know the rest." He told. "He almost hit me with that electric beam, that could really have hurt." Quackerjack swallowed rubbing his chin as if that was the place he had almost been hit.

"You're all right?" Bushroot asked.

"I'm fine!" Quackerjack snapped. "It's not Megavolts fault! It isn't! He didn't know what he was doing! He would never hurt any of us if he were all right! I know it!"

"I know." Bushroot assured. "Relax."

The Liquidator didn't answer however, he just frowned challengingly at the fighting rat.

"Aren't you going to say anything?" Quackerjack asked the Liquidator.

"What would what I have to say possible change anything?" the Liquidator asked.

"You never saw eye for an eye, but at least try!" Quackerjack complained. "Why do you have to be so cold!"

"Quackerjack be quiet!" the Liquidator demanded. "Just because I don't panic it doesn't mean I don't care! It's called being professional and coping with pressure!"

"But!" Quackerjack began.

"Quackerjack no." Bushroot shook his head. "Leave it alone."

The Liquidator merely shook his head as he started to walk out.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Quackerjack called out after the Liquidator.

"Out to clear my head!" The Liquidator responded annoyed. "And I so hope that someone has calmed down when I get back!" he hissed in an almost angry tone.

As Liquidator came outside he sighed deeply, almost falling together in a puddle, before he straightened up in full form with crossed arms, thoughtfully sloshing back and forth, deep in thought. That was till he got company.

A certain rooster came walking up nonchalantly towards the green house, in his smart white suit and a smile on his beak, as if he had all the rights and reasons in the world to be there, just enjoying the fume filled day. "Well I'll be darned, Likky ol pal, how's it hanging?" Steelbeak greeted Liquidator with his usual smile.

The Liquidator lifted an eyebrow. "What are you doing here?" he asked in a hostile tone.

"Me?" Steelbeak asked in a surprised tone as if Liquidator had just said some-thing stupid. "Can't a friend go on social visits?" he asked.

Liquidator gave Steelbeak that look as he crossed his arms.

"Oh all right, I guess it's a given." Steelbeak sighed. "Apparently, a certain super-powered being ran amok in the city earlier today, and well, I am suppose to stop him. Now there wasn't any footage taken, because it didn't last all that long, so there's little proof, other than we know it was some-one with massive electrical powers." He told. "Wearing a yellow jumpsuit." Steelbeak looked squarely at the Liquidator. "I know it's here you pals hangs out, and I know you'll always stick together."

Liquidator frowned at Steelbeak, then looked past the rooster. "Where's the back up?" he asked.

"Back up?" Steelbeak asked. "What back up, I was just taking a stroll!" he defended.

The Liquidator lifted an eyebrow.

"I mean, if you just told me now, that you were with a certain... jump suited rat this morning, he obviously couldn't be the fiend, riiiiiight?" Steelbeak asked. "Because, as I can see, nothing is going on here."

"An alibi." The Liquidator suddenly realized. "I mean, how dare you accuse Megavolt, I was with him this morning! We where, ere.. helping Bushroot with his experiment!"

"Meh, I guess I'll have to go" Steelbeak shrugged. "So I can just go back to my high command, and tell I have you guys' word right? And that it's an incident not going to happen again, it is neutralized right?"

"Errr." Liquidator hesitated. "Yeah, sure it is... we have everything perfectly under control!" he stated. "Nothing wrong here! We didn't even realize there was something going on."

"Liquidator, you really need to practice your lying some more." Steelbeak stated a little dryly. "Be a bit more swave, relaxed. I should have thought this sort of stuff would come naturally to you, you know being a salesman and all."

"So just because I worked in selling I am supposed to be an accomplished liar?" Liquidator asked dryly.

"Exactly!" Steelbeak cheered. "Well, Likky, sure was fun running into you out of the blue, good to hear that everything is under control, because that is what you said. See ya around babe." He greeted as he turned around and started strolling back even whistling a happy tune on his way.

"Phew." Liquidator sighed relieved. "Well, that's one problem less." He commented.

---

Megavolt was relieved to say the least over the familiarity of the green house. It was just as he remembered, with all of the big plants Bushroot took such good care of, the peacefulness, the thorny sharp toothed fly traps that seemed like they were starring at Megavolt… wait what?

Suddenly Megavolts eyes shifted to those big fly traps, and they did indeed have large teeth, and they were moving! Swaying from side to side as if just waiting to take a bite out of him, quickly Megavolt moved away almost running into Bushroot in his haste to get moving. "Whoa!" he exclaimed. "Sorry."

Bushroot blinked at Megavolt, then shrugged. "It's all right, if you'll excuse me, I have been away from my daises all day, and they are a very vital stage."

"Ah yes, you said that." Megavolt nodded. "I mean of course.. I'll just hang around."

Bushroot send him an appreciative smile, and then immediately turned around. "Hey babies, come on out! I'm home!" and immediately, five cat seized daises came running towards Bushroot, all letting out grim growling noises. Each one had sharp fangs and claw like leafy hands.

"YIKES!" Megavolt screamed jumping backwards.

"Hey look at you! You've grown since I've gone!" Bushroot cheered sitting down on his knees. "Ten centimeters each I should think!" Bushroot turned to Megavolt. "They should be around three food tale by the end of the month!" he proclaimed proudly.

"Umm, he-he." Megavolt laughed nervously backing away. "What...cute little things."

"Yeah aren't they." Bushroot sighed affectionately scratching one of the daisies behind its leaves. "I'll actually hate to send them out in the field." He muttered genuinely sounding regretful. "But that's the life of a flower, they grow, they bloom and then it's over so quickly." He sadly stroked another daisy.

"What do you mean the field?" Megavolt asked.

"The university recently found a new formula to plant growth. It could maybe be the key to create better strong plants, and I really badly want a sample." Bushroot told.

"So you are just going to steal it?" Megavolt asked sounding just a little disgusted.

"Of course." Bushroot shrugged. "Only the best for my darlings." He smiled and scratched the daisies some more.

Just in time for Megavolt to have his legs knocked away under him as some creature ran straight through him. "WHOA!" Megavolt exclaimed falling down on his back.

"SPIKE!" Bushroot cheered just as a fly-trap ran straight into his open arms so both plant and plantduck fell down on the floor. "Oh Spike! Stop it!" Bushroot laughed, at last Bushroot managed to push the fly trap away, though still smiling all over.

"Oh, Spike." Megavolt smiled. At least this was normal. Then he really got a good look at the other mutants. "Wait…you've made other mutant plants...to steal for you?" He felt horrified.

"Of course I did." Bushroot told. "Doesn't your Bushroot?" he asked. "I mean, from what you said about your world I guess he must not be into stealing, but he must make other mutants, right?"

"Actually no." Megavolt told honestly. "I suppose, with me, Quacky and Likky always crashing in any minute of the day, company isn't something that he lacks."

"You sound like you are really close." Bushroot commented.

"We are." Megavolt hesitated. "I guess you could say we consider each other family. And then there are all the others always wanting some time with the Doctor. He's a very popular guy… for a mutant plant duck..."

"So there's another version of me, some-where else, who has so many friends that he barely got time to experiment?" Bushroot asked almost sounding overly excited by such a prospect. "That's...wonderful, your world sounds like a great place!"

"Don't I wish." Megavolt muttered sitting down on a thick tree branch lying on the ground. "The crime rates are astounding, most people in the upper class are frauds and cheaters. My world is pretty much controlled by scammers and they very well know it. The law doesn't really have a say. The illegal industrial factories take up the city, leaving it muddy and unbearable for plants. Negaduck has been killing off the few good people there are, normal people are scared, and that is not all that fun when it's all the time, every second of the day." And then he sighed once again even deeper. "Your place is so good and peaceful. I wish my world was like this! Really I do! It's what I am fighting for! I'm so jealous!"

"Then why do you want to go back?" Bushroot asked.

"Because my friends are there!" Megavolt told at once without hesitation. "Obviously."

"Funny, I'm kind of jealous now." Bushroot remarked in a deep sigh. "A lot jealous." He then admitted.

"Don't be, so you don't have a heck of a lot friends around here." Megavolt told. "And those you have call you mean names…no scrap that." He asked as he got up. "Your world can be so beautiful, it's nice and pleasant! You can do what you want, without being afraid of being really badly hurt, or see your babies be hurt all the time! You have it very neat! So don't be like that. Hell, I can't remember that last time I saw an actual blue sky!"

"Wow you sure are nice." Bushroot remarked. "Not like the other Megavolt."

"Which my friends are dealing with him right now." Megavolt grimaced. "I have to find out how Negaduck gets through dimensions so I can get back and explain!" he growled.

"You are not going to spy on Negaduck are you?" Bushroot asked in a voice which sounded genuinely scared. "Tha-that could be…very dangerous."

"I don't care! I want to go home!" Megavolt told a little sharply making Bushroot jump slightly back. "And something else doesn't fit." Megavolt groaned rubbing his temples. "Why would Negaduck go through all of that trouble, to find out how to get to the control room of that base and not use it? He just took mere gold, it doesn't make any sense." He complained.

"I made it a point to never ask questions to Negaducks plans!" Bushroot stated at once.

And now this Bushroot's constant fiddling and cowardice was actually starting to bother Megavolt, but still retaining a wish of not being alone Megavolt pushed it away. "Hm, back home that place is a highly guarded facility to." He commented. "They say there is stuff in there so dangerous it could blow up half the planet, or at least really mess it up." He commented, then he grew silent, and his eyes widened.

Bushroot lifted an eye-brow. "What is it?" he asked.

"I got to get back!" Megavolt suddenly stated. "RIGHT NOW!" he yelled. "Don't even have time to figure out how Negaduck crosses dimensions! He could be back there as we speak?"

"Wha-wha?" Bushroot asked slightly stunned.

"Don't you see?" Megavolt asked Bushroot. "Negaduck used this dimension as a test run! And you as his test subjects! To figure how to get to the control room, so he could do the same at my universe and gain control of the city, once and for all!"

"That." Bushroot blinked. "Doesn't sound too good."

"IT'S HORRIBLE!" Megavolt exclaimed grabbing Bushroot arms, shaking the unfortunate plant duck who was now starring wide-eyed at Megavolt. "There must be a way for me to get back and warn my friends, there has to be!" he exclaimed.

"May-may-maybe." Bushroot stammered from Megavolts grip. "How did you get here in the first place? Maybe if you did that again?"

"OH OF course!" Megavolt exclaimed. "Doc! You truly are a genius!" he cheered now hugging Bushroot.

Bushroot blinked. "Thanks.. I guess."

Finally Megavolt let go now smiling all over. "I think I left the device at Quackerjack's, so we will have to either sneak in or break in." he started instruction.

"Wow, wait a second!" Bushroot exclaimed holding up his leafy hands. "What do you mean us?" he asked. "I don't want to fight against Quackerjack!"

"Oh come on!" Megavolt pleaded. "I need you! I need you to help me save my friends! Maybe even my entire city!"

"No! I'm out!" Bushroot stated. "There's no way, I'll fight Quackerjack!" he stated. "Do you have any idea how crazy he can get?" he asked in a shaking voice.

"I'm starting to get an idea." Megavolt snorted. "And I am starting to get the idea of where you stand as well." He told in a coldly tone. "But in either case, I just don't have the time!" Megavolt stated. "Negaduck could be at that facility in my universe as we speak! Worst case scenario he could take the city, well not as long as I have a say!" Megavolt stated. "Goodbye Bushroot!" he snorted stomping outside, and then started to run, leaving Bushroot behind.

---

In the Negaverse the Friendly Four were still in the same predicament.

"Oh man!" Quackerjack almost cried. "It's been over twelve hours! It never lasted that long before! What was the maximum prior?" he asked.

"Four hours that one time I short circuited him." The Liquidator admitted in a grimace.

"Perhaps it's time to be innovative." Bushroot commented in a deep sigh. "What can we do?"

"Well maybe." Liquidator drawled in a sarcastic voice. "What started the problem is what is needed to solve it." He stated looking saying at Quackerjack. "You said you two were tinkering with some-thing, do you still have it?" he asked.

"Well." Quackerjack hesitated. "I suppose, but it would be back at my workshop."

"Then why don't you go get it?" Liquidator asked.

"But Megsy." Worried Quackerjack eyed the annoyed rat who was still mad as ever.

"Both I and Bushroot will keep a keen eye on him." Liquidator promised.

"Right." Bushroot nodded.

"So go!" Liquidator demanded. "The quicker you get to it, the quicker we may have this mess solved!" he stated.

"YES!" Quackerjack exclaimed twirling around running out and back towards his own workshop.

---

Their own Megavolt had reached the evil Quackerjack's workshop now though, and silently tried to tiptoe through it, unfortunately it was very dark inside and Megavolt couldn't see a thing, he ended up almost stumbling through the gadgets, and twice he almost tripped.

Before at last he decided to be sensible, and sheet some light by simply snapping his finger so the electrical charge worked just good enough to be stand in for a candle, and then he saw it, laying precisely where Megavolt had left it, unharmed. "Aha!" Megavolt triumphed heading for the device, only to discover that the button was missing and that he would need to fix it.

"Well what a surprise!"

"QUACKERJACK!" Immediately Megavolt doubled his light so now it filled out the room, and there the jester was, standing on top of a pile of deadly toys.

"Megsy." Quackerjack grinned all over. "T what do I owe the pleasure?"

"I was just.. going to borrow this." Megavolt informed holding up the device. "And then I will be on my way, so if you just excuse me..." he asked trying to turn around and get away.

Only for Quackerjack, in one great leap, jump in front of Megavolt so they were only centimeters apart. "Why the rush Megsy?" Quackerjack asked.

"Oh you know me, always heading for the next big thing." Megavolt shrugged apologetic.

"What is that thing anyway?" Quackerjack asked as he without warning took the contraption away from Megavolt and turned it in his own hands.

"Oh doesn't matter, just give it to me." Megavolt pleaded.

"Oh you don't want this, it's just trash." Quackerjack commented dully throwing it up and down the air. "Why don't I just smash it for you… Megsy?"

Megavolt squinted his eyes, and then they festooned on the machine, which Quackerjack so casually threw up and down in the air, the decision was taken in a split second, suddenly Megavolt pushed Quackerjack aside and grabbed the device, turning around and took a run for it.

"HEY!" Quackerjack yelled. "COME BACK HERE!" he demanded as he started to pursue.

Megavolt half turned around, trying to send a lightning bolt after the Jester, who jumped up in the air thus dodged it, and then squinted his eyes. "I knew it, there has been something off about you all day, you are not the real Megavolt are you?" he asked. "The real one would never fight me like this; at least he would have an explanation."

"Look…" Megavolt tried the only thing he could think of. Maybe his double and Quackerjack's double were friends? That line certainly indicated that. Maybe if he said something only he and Quackerjack would know…"Billy, relax, what would your brother think?"

Quackerjack's eyes widened and he suddenly outright snarled at Megavolt. The expression on his face might as well have been pure bottled murder. "My brother! MY BROTHER! How dare you mention him! You SPY!" Quackerjack pulled out a handful of marbles and tossed them at Megavolt, who dodged. "It's PLAYTIME!"

Somehow that catchphrase was a lot less goofy when being bellowed by a guy who was not only a few screws short of a playset, but also possibly murderous to boot.

"Oh crude." Megavolt hissed squinting his eyes. "Well, now my cover is blown any-way.." he sighed and then turned around to run backwards as he took aim. "TAKE THAT!" he yelled sending lighting after the sadistic jester, enough that it blinded the street and allowed Megavolt to turn a corner and get out of sight. "A screwdriver." He gasped to himself. "Where can I get a screwdriver!" he exclaimed. Funnily enough, only one place came to mind, and Megavolt groaned as he had to back to Bushroot's greenhouse.

As he busted in, Bushroot was with his mutant daises and looked up, surprised. "Me-Megavolt!" he exclaimed. "Again? Or are you…I mean."

"Still the one from and alternative dimension!" Megavolt exclaimed. "Quick! Do you have a screwdriver, I have to fix this thing before Quackerjack shows up!"

"QUACKERJACK!" Bushroot exclaimed. "You brought him here?" he asked frightened.

"Well sorry! But listen to me! Life's are a stake, you can be a hero!" Megavolt told seriously. "Bushroot…Reggie…I've seen you stand up to Negaduck himself! You stood in a bank, just you and him, and you taunted him to his face. All to help us! I know that you have that same courage in you somewhere! Just help me now; I swear I'll never forget you! I'll be in your debt."

"I'll be like always having a friend in another universe." Bushroot hesitated.

"Exactly!" Megavolt stated. "Now I know this has been short, and you barely know me, if this works we are probable never even going to see again, but please, I beg of you."

Bushroot hesitated slightly, then nodded. "Right here." He walked towards his work table and then found a tool box from where he picked a screwdriver.

"Oh that'll do nicely." Megavolt sighed relieved.

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" suddenly Quackerjack was there, standing up on a tree branch. "Don't help that man! It's an imposter!" he accused.

"HERE FIX THE BUTTON!" Megavolt exclaimed throwing the contraption to Bushroot. "I'll distract him!" he stated standing ready to fight his best friend.

---

At the Negaverse Quackerjack had gotten back with the box and now once again stood in front of the four and Megavolt and the others.

"Well…" Bushroot hesitated. "What now?" he asked.

"I guess we'll make Megavolt press the button." Quackerjack hesitated then walked up in front of Megavolt. "Here see this?" he asked holding the device up in front of Megavolts eyes. "This is what made you go all cuckoo, I am kind of hoping it's also going to make you better. I am going to release your hand, nothing else, and then you just press the button, kay?" Quackerjack asked.

Megavolt merely squinted his eyes.

"Yeah, he got it." The Liquidator stated.

"Okay." Quackerjack nodded and then carefully reached for the rope which tied Megavolts hand, before he finally loosened it to release Megavolt's hand.

Only for that hand, not to press the button, but aim a finger straight at Quackerjack, sending a bolt of lightning into him strong enough to send Quackerjack across the room. The hand moved to the rest of the rope, evaporating them allowed Megavolt to stand up and tore out the cloth out of his mouth on his own. "OH FINALLY!" he yelled. "I'VE BEEN STUCK WITH A BUNCH OF SISSIES ALL DAY!" he yelled loudly. "Boohoo this, boohoo that! IT'S PATHETIC!" he proclaimed. "And you!" he pointed at Quackerjack. "Going to make me all better he says, well I have you know, I am fine! BETTER THAN FINE! And I don't need fixing!"

"GET HIM!" Liquidator shouted without hesitating sending a splash of water towards Megavolt.

But this time, Megavolt gracefully dodged. "Oh no! Not twice in one day I tell ya! Or was that today." Megavolt halted. "Or was it ever…umm…was I short circuited all ready?" he asked.

"You mean you don't remember?" Liquidator asked.

"DOSEN'T MATTER!" Megavolt then proclaimed. "I'll turn you into a puddle!" he laughed loudly as he send a charge of electricity straight towards the water canine, so much that Liquidator was suspended in mid air before he fell down at a puddle, unable to move for the moment.

"ALL RIGHT!" Megavolt turned around to face Bushroot and Quackerjack as Bushroot tried to help Quackerjack up. "Who's next?" he asked in a grin holding up both his hands.

---

"WHOA!" The good Megavolt barely managed to avoid the toy teeth send in his direction. "ARGH! That was close!" he commented balancing on a tree branch only for the Jester to charge in a full body assault, knocking them both to the ground.

"WHERE'S MEGSY?" Quackerjack yelled as he pinned Megavolts arms to the floor.

"I AM NOT ENTIRELY SURE!" Megavolt shouted back kicking Quackerjack away. He leaped to his feet and backed off a few paces. "But I am trying to get him back! Honestly!"

"Oh yeah!" Quackerjack snarled before throwing a bouncing ball after Megavolt which Megavolt was smart enough to dodge, and then dodge again as it jumped back. "I hate infiltrators!" he informed in a sneer.

"I'm not too crazy about you either!" Megavolt promised sending lighting straight at Quackerjack before turning his head towards Bushroot. "DOC ARE YOU DONE YET?" he asked.

"Almost!" Bushroot assured fiddling around.

"Bushy don't help him!" Quackerjack sneered, which actually made Bushroot halt.

Megavolt didn't pay too much attention though as he send another bolt of lightning against Quackerjack.

---

The Good Quackerjack however, was busy also trying to avoid lighting on his own, as it turned out, Megavolt was more than a match for the three of them. Each time Liquidator seemed to be able to gain a form, he got a new charge of lighting. Bushroot spend a lot more time avoiding and trying to protect his plants than actually charging. This only left Quackerjack, who was still afraid of hurting his friend.

"Quackerjack I don't want to say this." Bushroot whispered silently. "But I think we may have to..."

"Don't say it." Quackerjack hissed as they backed away from the advancing Megavolt.

"He's killing us off!" Bushroot pointed out.

Then Quackerjack's eyes fell on the machine, now laying on the floor, and his mind skipped to one desperate plan, one last desperate scheme. He took a breath. "Well, here goes nothing." Quackerjack swallowed and then took a leap to in one great swoop picking up the device. Immediately Megavolt was sending a bolt of light after the moving Quackerjack, which Quackerjack jut managed to avoid as he pulled a tennis ball, throwing it straight into the rats head, momentarily distracting the electrical fiend, before Quackerjack jumped up on Megavolt's back where he couldn't be reached.

"HEY!" Megavolt yelled. "What are you up to?"

"SEEMS LIKE I JUST HAVE TO FORCE YOU MEGSY!" Quackerjack started grabbing Megavolts hand with his own as he placed the device beneath Megavolts hand.

---

"MEGAVOLT CATCH!" Bushroot proclaimed as he threw the device through the air which Megavolt caught in mid-air, just in time to dodge another attack from Quackerjack. "THANK YOU SO MUCH FRIEND! I'LL NEVER FORGET THIS!" Megavolt yelled back.

"Well, if there is ever anything." Bushroot bit his lip.

"If you ever get the chance to dump Darkwing down in my reality, I wouldn't mind actually." Megavolt winked. "And if you somehow, someway come over, remember to drop by." He told before just as Quackerjack charged, pressed down on the button. At the exact same moment that Nega-verse Quackerjack was forcing the other Megavolt to press the other button.

And at both places a great with light for a moment disrupted from the device, momentarily blinding everyone who was near it, and the two Megavolts, for them everything just grew black.

---

Megavolt groaned deeply as he laid head first down on the floor, he felt so sore all over, and he had the worst head ache in history. Slowly he opened his eyes, and was met of a world in green leafy trees. It quite frankly looked like he hadn't changed location at all; he was still in the greenhouse. Megavolt felt just about ready to cry as he pushed himself up in sitting position and then finally got to look up. There was Bushroot and Megavolt, right in front of him. Just as before. Megavolt slumped, defeated and squinting his eyes, trying to hold back any bitter tears. Vaguely he realized the two was backing away and then he looked up to see that the two were staring at him with eyes filled with concern.

"Stay back." Quackerjack warned as Megavolt tried to get up.

Bushroot nodded. "Try and calm down." He said.

Then it hit Megavolt, maybe it had worked! This could might as well be his friends in front of him, and not the alternative dimension guys! He barely dared to hope, so filled with anxiety was he that he was shaking. But still, if he hadn't changed location, he would have to be in serious trouble now.

"Megavolt." Quackerjack hesitated thought apparently he didn't dare move closer "How are you feeling?" he asked sounding genuinely concerned, really genuinely concerned, which at moment meant a lot to Megavolt.

Though still Megavolt remained silent as he looked at Quackerjack, for some moments no muscles even moved in his face as he was thinking. "What are we called?" he suddenly asked.

"What?" Quackerjack asked surprised.

"Our team! What is it called?" Megavolt asked a bit more sternly.

Quackerjack blinked, and then exchanged looks with Bushroot before going back to Megavolt. "The Friendly Four..." he then said in a very careful voice.

"Oh my god." Megavolt drew a hand to his mouth as he looked as his two teammates, his two real teammates. "Thank god!" he added. "YES!" and he jumped up in the air with arms spread out. "IT WORKED IT WORKED!" he cheered. "Oh you would not believe the day I just had to day!" he smiled broadly at his friends with stretched arms towards them, but only for them to take an extra step back. "Guys?" Megavolt asked surprised. "Guys it's me! I promise! I'm back."

"Megavolt…" Quackerjack hesitated as if he didn't even dare hope.

"If you just knew what I had been through." Megavolt told sincerely.

"We might have an idea." The Liquidator stated a bit dryly as finally, from the other side of the room had starting re-forming again, but kind of slowly as if he was afraid of being zapped.

"No you don't!" Megavolt exclaimed looking at the slowly reforming Liquidator "I was gone, in another dimension, which was a lot like ours but still not, everything was opposite! The city was nice, the sky was blue, you guys! BLUE!" He halted and then shook his head. "There we were not the Friendly Four, there we were the Fearsome Five." He shuttered. "And Negaduck was our leader, I swear I have never been that scared in all of my life. He was so close to me, inches away, but he thankfully assumed I was my own counterpart." Megavolt looked up to discover his teammates were looking wide-eyed at him. "I'm telling you it's the truth! And here's the weird part, the weirder part I mean, the Negaduck there must have been our Negaduck, the same Negaduck we are fighting! He must have found a way to shift through dimensions at will, because.. he also had a counterpart!" Megavolt excited exclaimed. "As dangerous and clever as Negaduck but fighting on the side of good! They looked exactly alike except the colors. The other one wore purple, and he fought crime. He had no second thought or hesitation protecting the kids, even when it meant someone getting away. He defeated Negaduck, single handedly, and apparently more than once!" Megavolt told hope and happiness filling his voice. "And his name was Darkwing Duck!"

"That." Quackerjack hesitated. "Sounded just a bit mad."

"Are you sure you weren't dreaming?" The Liquidator said. "You mentioned purple Negaducks before."

Bushroot nodded. "How do we know you won't go out on another rampage?"

"Rampage?" Megavolt asked. "Oh." He realized. "You were stuck on my counterpart." He glanced at Quackerjack. "And don't look at me like that, yours was very nasty as well, he was sinister and mean, yours was only out for money." He looked at Liquidator. "Only Bushroot is so damn good through and through that even his evil counterpart was a nice good person…even if he was a bit of a pushover."

Bushroot lifted both his eyebrows.

"No really." Megavolt assured. "Yeah he did commit crimes, but only because it was the only way for him to keep on doing research in his plant house, and he was nice, he helped me, please guys believe me." Megavolt begged. "I'm not insane; I am telling you the absolute truth! That thing Quackerjack had me build, it made me swap places with my counterpart who lives in a dimension opposite ours."

Liquidator shook his head. "It's because I have been through so many weird things that I don't entirely out rule it."

"He sounds like he used to though." Bushroot pointed out. "Way more rational and on focused, plus he is not so nasty… But I am not so sure."

"Well, he hasn't attacked yet." The Liquidator pointed out all though it was obvious that he was bracing himself for any potential attack at the same time.

"I know." Quackerjack snapped a finger. "One question." He then demanded. "Get it right and I at least believe you! Then you are back!"

Megavolt nodded.

"What is your name?" Quackerjack asked.

"What?" Megavolt asked disbelieving. "What kind of question is that?"

"Your real name I mean." Quackerjack corrected himself. "The person you used to be."

"Oh. Oh I see, he didn't even remember did he?" Megavolt glanced at the other two then shook his head as he smiled lightly, as having decided it didn't really matter. "Elmo Sputterspark." He told in a shrug. "Wow, that's actually been a while before I even heard that name." he commented in an afterthought. "And you are William Quacker Jr., by the way…for some reason your counterpart really didn't like it when I mentioned it to him…"

Quackerjack however, practically lit up in joy. "Megsy!" he exclaimed in recognition running up to the rat to give him a big crushing hug. "It's you! It's REALLY YOU!"

"Whoa, easy there!" Megavolt choked. "You are squeezing all the juice out of me!" he proclaimed.

"Elmo?" Liquidator asked in a pleasant tone. "Isn't that the name of a puppet?"

"Hey hey, I do actually like my name, and don't talk to me about that…Bud." Megavolt rolled his eyes.

"There's isn't any puppet with my name on it." Liquidator pointed out.

"All though." Megavolt commented. "Elmo, Billy, Bud and Reginald just doesn't sound as cool as Megavolt, Quackerjack, Liquidator and Doctor Bushroot." He commented. "YAY I'm BACK" he jumped up to run for the window and look out at the fumes and the dirty streets. "My St. Canard!" he exclaimed. "Just as I left it! I have never been so happy to see factories spewing gloop into the air!" he turned around looking at the three teammates. "You have no idea how glad I am to see you again! ARGH!" Megavolt suddenly exclaimed taking himself to the head. "WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TIME FOR THIS!" he proclaimed.

"Wha-what?" Quackerjack asked.

"NEGADUCK!" Megavolt yelled grabbing Quackerjacks shoulder. "He is going to break into a war room and use the explosives available in there to blow up the city!" he exclaimed. "Any time now! But I know where he is planning to break in and how he is planning to do it!"

Worried the three teammates looked at each other.

"Look at it this way." Megavolt pointed out. "If it turns out that I am right, you know that I am not insane and really was on a trip to an alternative dimension, if not we haven't harmed any-one."

"Well that's a point." Liquidator acknowledged. "Still for me, this doesn't sound like a job for us, but more like someone with contacts and manpower, we should just warn them."

Megavolt blinked. "Steelbeak." He realized. "Brilliant." And all ready he was moving towards their emergency communicator, obviously wanting to make the call.

"Ah, I'll better do that!" Liquidator stepped in before Megavolt could reach it.

Megavolt blinked. "Why?" he asked.

"Ummm, it's just…If you are the one to call…Steelbeak might not.. it will look bad." Liquidator then at least sighed.

"Oh no!" Megavolt groaned. "What did my counterpart do?" he asked. "No stop! I don't want to know!" he stated just as Quackerjack was about to open his mouth. "It wasn't me okay?" he asked of them. "It was some-one else!"

"I knew it." Quackerjack nodded.

---

"Wow babe, how on earth did you figure it out?" Steelbeak's voice sounded over the communicator which Liquidator was holding. "Some detective work I'll say. Negaduck came precisely they way you had predicted, you should almost think you were psychic!"

All four Friendly Four members were standing around the communicator and now the three of them looked up at Megavolt whom smiled relieved.

"Told you so." He stated.

"Megavolt!" Steelbeak's voice sounded. "Is that you pal? Good to hear from you, and in such a sensible voice to."

Megavolt groaned. "If you say one thing more, I'll." He grumbled. "I don't want to talk about it!" he stated sourly.

"Gotcha." Steelbeak responded.

"Well did you get him?" Megavolt asked.

"So close." Steelbeak sighed. "The information was last second so we just got to warn the guards who were all ready there. They made it impossible for him to get through with the prior knowledge, but by the time I arrived he was all ready gone, but he is not going to break in there again, the entire security system is going to be changed!"

"Better change it a bit more often to be sure." Megavolt hissed.

"Well anyway, thanks for the help, it was most appreciated." Steelbeak told. "He could have taken over the entire city with those missiles! And I'm out." Was the last word before a click sounded and the rooster was gone.

"So you really were on a trip to an alternative dimension." The Liquidator remarked.

"That is what I keep on telling!" Megavolt hissed annoyed.

"Sorry." Bushroot shrugged apologetic. "It's just a little hard to swallow when we were so sure that we had you. I honestly didn't believe it that much until right now."

"I knew that was how it was all along." Quackerjack snorted. "I mean of course it was! Only logical explanation."

Megavolt shook his head. "Well, it's over now." He stated. "Kind of..."

"What do you mean kind of?" Bushroot asked.

"Well that other universe is still there." Megavolt told. "Only know we know it. And somehow, for some reason, Negaduck is still crossing the dimensions at will. Who knows, maybe someone from over there could come over here, or one of us landed there by mistake... again, by the way, if you do, just go to Bushroot and don't trust any of the other counterparts. Who knows what may happen." He sighed. "It's enough to get you a head ache." He murmured with sunken shoulders silently as he wandered away.

Immediately Quackerjack was on his way after him only to be held back by Liquidator. "Quackerjack leave him alone, look at him, he's exhausted."

"But." Quackerjack started before sighing. "Okay." he then muttered.

Megavolt sighed deeply as he looked out on the fume covered St. Canard, the smoke filled sky, the scarce people walking around looking over their shoulders.

Silently Liquidator sloshed up beside Megavolt but keep an safe distance, but still beside Megavolt and then glanced outside, at what Megavolt was looking at, which for him didn't seem like anything special. "You're." he hesitated. "You're all right?" he finally asked.

"Yeah I'm fine." Megavolt responded. "Being in a situation where you are suddenly alone and friendless again really makes you appreciate what you got." He admitted. "But it was not all bad, this place really has an ability to be nice, very nice even. It was so bright and happy. I wish you guys could have seen it. But, even more importantly, Negaduck can be beaten! It's possible, so I think I took a good chunk of experiences with me which is for the better."

Liquidator hesitated slightly, but then at last took courage. "That other you he...he just wasn't right, in the head. He couldn't keep a thought in his mind, and he kept acting like electrical things could talk…there's." He nervously fumbled. "There's a real possibility something like that could happen to you isn't there?" he at last asked.

Megavolt shook his head. "It's not a possibility." He then admitted. "It's a fact and its started all ready. Sometimes things that should be clear and easy to remember is a big cloudy fuzz, even important things, that's why I write everything down." He reached down in a pocket and drew up a worn out book. "I got a whole shelf of these at home now." He admitted. "I need them, very badly." Megavolt sighed deeply. "When I was a kid, I had an amazing memory, I could remember conversations that had taken place weeks ago, word for word. I could remember the oddest little details from years ago. I only ever needed to read a book once and I would remember it, they called me the child genius. I knew and remembered everything, but that was a very long time ago, now even yesterday can become fuzzy."

"But it has got to be different with him and you." Liquidator pointed out. "His mind was holed as a Swiss Cheese because he kept on using all of his powers. He would even zap himself! You are way more careful and responsible than that."

"Look, Bud, you asked me once what I planned to do after it's all over, and I didn't answer." Megavolt sighed very deeply as if to prepare himself. "The truth is, that I do intend to see it through, and I will get to Negaduck one day. Bring him to justice, that's all that matters, but I don't expect to stay sane for much longer after that. Because, it's really getting worse, not day by day, but at least each month things get a little fuzzier. If I seem extreme and suicidal, it's because for me, dying in a big glorious bang that help the cause and makes a difference. That helps getting Negaduck out of the picture, while I am still at my best, is way better than slowly losing my mind, at least for me, I don't have that much to lose, it is happening."

"And water accelerates the process right?" The Liquidator asked looking down on his own watery hands.

"I'm sorry I was so tough on you in the beginning." Megavolt sighed. "It was never you personally, but can you even imagine? From one moment to the next, being robbed of all your memories, all that is you, and just not knowing who or what you are? It feels completely defenseless, only to find out when the memories return that one day it will be more permanent, and that day just became a little bit closer. What you happen to just be made of." Megavolt nodded at him. "Terrifies me, and I can't change that, it's just how it is."

"I think I get it a little better know." The liquidator nodded. "I'm glad you told me, but isn't there a way to stop it? What if you just didn't charge yourself?"

"I'll lose all energy, literately." Megavolt told. "I did try, thought it could be healthy to completely de-charge for a while, but then even as I was awake I was more a sleep than awake. I was completely drained, I didn't have the energy to even be annoyed, and I was just a walking ghoul with no life. As it turns out I just run on the electricity now, as much as I run on air."

"Oh." Liquidator murmured.

"Look Likky, two things." Megavolt looked seriously at his teammate. "One, this changes nothing, it's just the same situation as when we started out, and I don't want to be treated different in anyway. I don't want pity. I've handled it myself for a long time and I want to keep on handling it myself. I would end up really hating you if anything changed. Two." His eyes squinted looking even more seriously at Liquidator. "This entire conversation we just had is confidential. It's just between you and me, don't tell Bushroot and under no circumstances, ever, tell Quackerjack. He would have a fit and then start to be all worried and clingy and stuff."

"He thinks of you as his new brother you know." Liquidator pointed out.

"Yeah I know." Megavolt sighed. "And that's exactly why I don't want him to have the faintest idea. If it really came to it one day, I want to say it myself, can I trust you with that?"

The Liquidator nodded. "I swear to it." He promised raising a hand.

"If I could I would shake your hand, but you know." Megavolt smiled a little apologetic.

"Yeah," Liquidator nodded. "And it's all right, if I were a normal person again and you were made out of fire, I wouldn't shake your hand."

"So we understand each other." Megavolt responded. "That's great, don't take this the wrong way but I need to rest a bit, see you around." He mumbled turning around walking away, as Liquidator looked after Megavolt he just managed to see Megavolt opening his little book and drawing forth a pencil. He started at once to write, probably the conversation they just had in fear of forgetting it.

The Liquidator sighed deeply leaning against the window. "What a mess." He mumbled.

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E/N: Again, props to moonbird for the new chapter. I hope ya'll enjoy two stories for the price of one.

Speaking of which, I am now going to do something…drastic. Give myself a deadline and make a Christmas episode! Can I do it? We will see.

Hopefully for Christmas: Sometimes it doesn't take a grand statement or a moment of despair. Sometimes all it takes for a little Christmas magic is childlike curiosity…