A New Enemy?
Disclaimer: I do not own Mighty Ducks, the Animated series, nor any of the original characters. I make no profit on this (except my own enjoyment). Back evil lawyers! Any other characters are mine, with the exception of some I may borrow from other authors (only with permission). If you decide you wish to use my character, please e-mail me and I'll be happy to lend her to you. I'll say it right now, no killing her off:-P
Author's Note: Ok, my first attempt at MD fanfiction, and many years in the making. I can't tell you how many origin stories I went through before I finally decided on an idea that seemed more plausible. There may or may not be OOC-ness, I haven't decided yet. For the record, I don't consider my character a Mary-Sue, she's certainly not perfect, although she does become powerful. If you do not like alternate characters, please do not read this story. Any flames regarding her presence will be deleted, ignored, or made fun of at my discretion. I do attempt to thoroughly check for spelling and grammar mistakes, I may miss something. I accept all constructive criticism (not random flames.) Now, for the record, I'm nervous about this posting, so please be gentle. Please note: There will be some things that the reader will not understand, there are parts of this story that will be explained later. The story starts in a different universe……
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Cathy flopped down in a chair to watch one of her favorite shows. It really was a shame, she mused, that the shows were all reruns, but still, she liked watching the Mighty Ducks. Like any major fan, she toyed with writing stories and making new characters, naturally putting herself in once in a while. But things like that couldn't happen; her life was as normal as anyone else's, so she thought. What she didn't know, was that today, things were going to change, in a big way.
When the show was finished, she got up, and moved to turn off the TV. She tried to push the button in, only to find that she couldn't move her hand, either to push it in or take her hand away. A pulling feeling began happening in the pit of her stomach. She closed her eyes as the feeling got stronger, making her feel nauseous. When the feeling dissipated, she opened them, only to find that she was outside, on a wide city street. Palm trees lined the road, and the air was much warmer than it had felt when she had been outside last. Where was she? She wandered down the road, trying to determine where she was. A man came walking down the road, which was otherwise strangely empty.
"Excuse me, sir? Can you tell me where I am, please?" she asked, smiling as sweetly as she could.
"You're in downtown Anaheim, miss. Are you a tourist? Can I give you directions to someplace, maybe?"
"A-A-Anaheim? Are you kidding me!" she exclaimed.
"Nope, you're in Anaheim." he smiled, thinking that she was simply having fun. "Anaheim, California, home of the Mighty Ducks….are you alright?" he added, noticing that she was looking pale.
"Yes..yes, I'm fine. Could you possibly give me directions to the park?" she listened with half an ear to him rattling off the directions, her mind on the impossibility of the situation. How could she possibly be in Anaheim all of a sudden?
A few minutes later, she was heading towards the park, taking a look around to make sure all of this was real. A billboard stopped her cold. It was advertising Duck Dogs at the Pond. She knew this sign; it was the one the Migrator always popped out of when the Ducks were driving out of the Pond on their way to fight crime. She could feel a panic attack coming on. Taking a deep breath, she made herself continue to the park. There was no sense in panicking yet, right? She'd probably just imagined it, yeah, that was it.
She managed to stave off the pacing for a good five minutes. Now she was trying to rationalize the situation. Okay, so, she was in Anaheim, and in another dimension apparently. The Ducks actually existed in this dimension. That in itself was exciting. The fact that she was actually in the same dimension as them, where the things that happened with the show were real…well that was thrilling! She wondered if they were actually at the same point in the show, or if they were behind, or had moved past the last episode. Either way, what fun!
"I don't know how it happened, but this is one of the coolest things ever to happen to me." She giggled to herself. "The only thing that could make it cooler would be if I could be like I was in my stories…….I wish…."
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"No, no, no, you silly girl, no! This is not what it was meant for!" A silver-haired woman cried, looking at the scene in horror. "Stop, stop please before you do something we'll all regret!"
"I wish….." her voice echoed, soft and tremory, like a whisper, around the room.
"No…"she pleaded. "Don't, please…"
"I wish I could be like I am in my stories." She said with a slow, dreamy smile.
"No, no, take it back! Take it back before it's too late, girl!"
"I really wish I could." She finished with a sigh. The silver haired woman, whose name was Rhianna, echoed the sigh, and lifted her hand. A silvery wisp drifted from her.
"Granted," she began, then watched, horrified, as the silvery wisp contorted violently, growing and rapidly changing color to a vivid green. It had soon grown to her height, shaped itself to a ball, and was spinning rapidly. Before she could rein it in, it shot itself into the crystal she had been watching the girl from. "What have you done?"
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"Oh well, it's just a wish. Wishes don't come true." Cathy laughed softly to herself. "Then again, I'm here, that shouldn't be happening either. Maybe I'll get lucky at some point." But that brought up another question. What in the world was she doing here? It couldn't be a totally random thing, not even this show was that weird. So she'd either been brought here, which would indicate the Saurians, though what purpose they could have for her she couldn't fathom, or she'd been sent here, which would involve some outside power bringing her in. Given the lack of lizards, her money would have to be on the second option. But who would have brought her here?
She probably would have stayed on this thought train for a while, but her attention was diverted by a light streaking across the sky. "A shooting star, or an insidious plot to take over the world? You be the judge." Cathy giggled to herself. Corny maybe, but so many of the jokes in the show were. That's when she noticed that the light was still moving, and it was getting bigger? "I wasn't serious, I wasn't serious! I don't want it to be an insidious plot to take over the world, I'll take the shooting star…" She trailed off to a whisper as the light grew closer and closer. The nearer it came, the more she could make it out. Now it was a roughly spherical shape, green in color, …and gigantic. It was also slowing down as it got closer to her. She stared, entranced, until it began actually circling her. The thing was taller than she was and it was circling like a vulture.
"This…is just a little freaky." She muttered, watching it circle around and around. Suddenly it stopped directly in front of her. It felt almost like a staring contest for one extraordinarily long moment, before the light encompassed her. At first, nothing much seemed to happen, the light was simply there, almost like a cocoon. Cocoons, however, wouldn't have contracted like the light suddenly did. It absorbed into her skin, so she seemed to glow a fluorescent green for a moment, then the pain wracked her…and the world seemed to explode.
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An eerie silence encompassed the city of Anaheim, California. A person who was walking around the streets would have been able to attest to the strange event that was occurring, but there were precious few of those around at this time of the evening. Tanya was on watch with Drake One, currently rather bored. Nothing had been going on recently, even the local criminal element was laying low, it seemed. There had been so little activity lately that it was actually on screen saver mode. Wildwing was going nuts waiting for something to happen. This was usually the point, she reflected, when something actually did.
The thought had perfect timing. Drake One blinked out of screen saver, registered what looked like a huge energy reading, then was suddenly blank. That coincided with the lights going out. Tanya stared for all of two seconds.
"Wildwing!" She shouted. Mallory, Grin, and Duke were out on a publicity stunt Phil had arranged and wouldn't be back until tomorrow, so it was just herself, Wildwing and Nosedive in the Pond tonight. Nosedive wasn't exactly the first person you would call on during a crisis, so hopefully Wildwing was within hearing distance. The backup generator would kick on after two minutes, but the base would be dark until then. Fortunately, she heard him running right towards the Ready Room.
"Tanya, what happened?" she heard him ask. All she could see of him was the red glow of the Mask's eyes. Just as he reached her, the emergency lights flickered on.
"D'well, Drake One was on screen saver, then popped back to normal, showed a huge energy reading. It must have caused a massive power surge, Drake One cut out, our fusion generator cut out, everything electronic that was on cut out"
"Everything? Including our teleportation shield? And our security system?"
"Everything. We need to figure out exactly what happened and fix it, fast. We're really vulnerable until we get it all repaired."
"Where's Nosedive? We're going to need his help."
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"WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SHIP!" The three henchmen cowered at the bellow, the deckplates rattling as the warlord approached. As common an occurrence as this scenario was, you'd think they'd be used to it by now.
"Well, uh..it..you see.." Siege began, glancing nervously at the flickering bridge lights, the snowy monitors, wondering how to explain what he didn't know.
"Mighta been a virus Siege picked up from that video game site, everyone knows they're swamped with those things." Chameleon interjected, only to have Siege's massive orange hand clap down over his mouth.
"You moron, you're the one who goes to those sites, not me!" he snarled.
"ENOUGH!" Dragaunus roared.
"M'lord, I kn-" Wraith began, only to be cut off as a radio signal sputtered through. A few well-placed blows brought the signal in properly.
"-and officials are still searching for the reason behind the massive blackout that has swept throughout Anaheim and parts of LA. Technicians are saying that whatever it was had the same effect as an electromagnetic pulse. If anyone has any information regarding the incident or has seen anything, please call the following number." Immediately after the announcer read off the number, they switched to a commercial.
"As I was saying m'lord, I sensed the disturbance just before it hit us." Wraith intoned.
"And just what would this disturbance happen to have been?"
"Pure energy……from one being." Wraith replied. Knowing the Overlord the way he did, any mention of energy would perk his interest.
"Indeed? What kind of energy?"
"I believe, m'lord, that it was magic, but I could be mistaken. If we can find the entity it came from then-" he was cut off once more, this time by one of the monitors fizzling to a staticky image. Another strategic hit to the main board made the picture clear enough to show Phineas P. Viper, head of Vipertronics Industries.
"Dragaunus! I thought we had an arrangement that you'd inform me before you did anything like this!"
"And just what makes you so certain that I did this?" he hissed.
"Y-you didn't?" Viper's face clearly registered confusion for a moment. "Then who did?"
"I'm not certain, but I intend to find out. To do that I'll need some equipment to make the necessary repairs to my ship."
"But I need it to get my industry back up to full capacity!" the man sputtered indignantly. The Saurian Overlord tolerated that for all of two seconds.
"I'm not asking, Viper. Understood?" he leaned towards the monitor, baring his teeth.
Viper gulped visibly. "Perfectly."
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"Ooooof. Anybody get the number of that bus?" Cathy groaned as she slowly got to her feet. "Talk about your head trips." Whatever had just happened, she had gotten exactly what she wished for…of course, not without consequences. The pain had been excruciating. From what she knew now, her body hadn't been able to handle the initial amount of energy, so the first thing that had happened was the alteration of every single cell in her body so she could handle the energy. That was probably where the pain rolled in.
As her head cleared, she glanced around at the park. Everything seemed much darker than before, she couldn't see any lights on, even those big lights that had lined the path she'd taken to come in here. She didn't hear any car horns, people, any noise at all come to think of it. What would the reason be for that? The streets had been empty before, admittedly, but there had at least been background noise. Now there was just…silence.
Or maybe it was just her. All of her senses seemed to be on hyperdrive. She could feel the energy skittering along her skin, coursing through her veins. And that was just the start. She could feel the people, the plants and animals, all of the life energy of the local area. The sheer amount of it was staggering. She knew that if she needed it, she could tap in. Scary thought, that.
"Well, now that I can handle it, where did that extra energy go?" she wondered. "I know that it tried to insinuate itself. but it's not there now, I can't feel it. If I were a giant mass of energy and couldn't go where I needed, where would I…….oh no." she trailed off as a thought hit her. "It couldn't have…it didn't.." She jumped up into a tree suddenly, not even stopping to realize how amazing it was that she could do so, especially since she'd never managed to properly climb one. A look around at the surrounding park area and buildings confirmed what she suspected: There were no lights on as far as the eye could see, and the stars were brilliant overhead without any light pollution. Far away on the horizon, an orange glow betrayed the presence of artificial light, but nothing like that was really close by. There was only one appropriate thing to do.
"Oops."
