CHAPTER 1
The story begins at an ol' abandoned warehouse which was located by the docks of St. Canard, to any other villains in the world this warehouse would be known as the lair of the Fearsome Five. Chattering and giggling could be heard from the inside of the building, they echoed throughout the area as it was a quiet night.. around that area anyway. Going in, the villains known as the Fearsome Five would all be gathered around a huge table that had piles of cash, jewelry and a few pieces of gold on top of it. The team stood there admiring their stolen treasures, one member who goes by the name of Reginald Bushroot let out a laugh of joy as he scooped up some cash with his hands, throwing them above his head, showering in 20s and 10s.
"This had to be the best loot we've ever come back with, now I'll finally be able to buy back that fertilizer factory." said the Plant man who then picked up the cash that fell onto the floor.
"Just imagine.." Quackerjack, a jester dressed villain spoke holding his hands together, with that dreamy look in his eyes as he was imagining his plans. "I could finally afford to buy myself a new toy factory!." He sighed, sounding like a teen who had just gotten back from their first date.
"I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to buy your monstrosities." Bushroot snickered, this caused Quackerjack to pop out of fantasy land, he gave Bushroot an angry look before blowing a raspberry and turning the other way with his arms folded.
"Nonsense!" An anthropomorphic dog appeared by the unhappy clown, his entire body was made out of pure water! He placed a hand on Quackerjack's shoulder. "It's not toys that customers need, it's the Liquidator's natural magic in a bottle!" with his free hand he pulled out a bottle of water, on it was a logo of his face, Quackerjack glanced at it completely unimpressed.
Megavolt, the team's second most whacked out whack job had risen up from the other side of the table. "Factories?!. Boys! I just got a bright idea!." He said excitingly, jumping over the table to join the others, knocking a bit of coins off the edge as he landed onto his feet. "Megavolt's power plant! Who needs the city's power when you could get mine, it'll have twice times the amount of electricity than those other companies out there—for an insanely LARGE PRICE!.." He squeezed his fists, jumping up and down in excitement.
"Yeah right-" Bushroot said and just like that the four of them began arguing which soon led to fighting, they all charged at eachother and all that can be seen was a dust cloud moving around the room with bits of leaves, toys and even electricity and water shooting out of it. Fortunately the fighting was put to an end as the group heard two loud gunshots.
BANG! BANG!
The group's heads each turned to the corner of the room where they assumed the shots came from, sticking out of the shadows was the tip of a shot gun, smoke can be seen emitting from it. A duck dressed in yellow with a black cape and red hat stepped forward from the darkness, it was their leader.. Negaduck! Boy, did he not look very happy. "I leave you alone for five minutes!." He spoke angrily. "Look at the mess you've made! I bet the folks heard you all the way from Canada!!!" He shouted, the group immediately stood up all were clearly terrified of this man. And there was a good reason for it, Negaduck is one of St. Canard's most vicious villain of all.
"W-w-we can clean up! No problem.." Bushroot said, his voice sounding very shaky, from his hand he grew a stick with leaves at the end of it making it look like nature's version of a mop. He then ran over to one spot in the room, which ironically was the most cleanest spot, he was mopping up smiling nervously. The others looked at eachother then nodded, they all scattered now holding cleaning supplies and got to work.
Negaduck stared at the crew, completely dumbfounded. He wasn't being serious about the mess, he honestly couldn't care less about the condition of the building just the loot that was in it. "WOULD YOU ALL CUT THAT OUT!!!" The group paused staring wide eye at Negaduck. "You knobs are just lucky that dimwitted goody two shoes didn't hear yo-" the duck was then cut off, by one of the windows there was a cloud of smoke and emerging from it was what could only assume to be none other than the crimefighter Darkwing Duck! Doing his whole introduction thing. "I am the terror that flaps in the night.. I am the annoying neighbor you just can't convince to move!" the duck dressed in purple reached into his pocket for his gas gun, changing the settings on it he aimed it at the ceiling and pulled the trigger, a grappling hook shot out from the gun and attached itself to one of the ceiling's lights. It pulled him up and once in the air Darkwing let go of the gun landing in front of the group of villains. "I am Darkwing Duck!." He stood there trying to be as imtimidating as possible.
"Annoying is right.. say Darkwing! Care to join me at my barbecue, today we'll be frying up FRESH DUCK!" The rat raised his hands as he spoke, sparking up with electricity. When shouting the last word in his sentence he shot out electricity at Darkwing who was quick to dodge it.
"Yikes!" the duck screamed, Megavolt was laughing away as he continued to shoot at Darkwing, nearly hitting him every time. The boys soon joined in surrounding DW, they all gave him sinister looks getting ready to strike at him, Quackerjack was going to smash him with a colorful mallet, Bushroot was going to send spikes shooting at him and Liquidator was gonna go in and tackle him down.
Darkwing wasn't at all phased by this, he's been in this type of situation about what? 20, 80 times? It all ended the same way, with Darkwing being victorious. He looked around him at the crazed maniacs, so how should he do it this time? Tie Bushroot up with his own arms? Stand in front of Liquidator so when Megavolt zaps at him he will move out of the way and witness the two splashacute? So many options so little time, he looked above him seeing his gas gun which still remained hanging down from the ceiling, he smirked knowing exactly what to do.
"Get spiked duck!" yelled Bushroot.
Quackerjack giggled maniacally. "It's playtime!"
"This just in, deadly tsunami coming your way!" announced the Liquidator.
The whole group then attacked, with all his strength Darkwing leaped up thankfully he managed to grab onto his gas gun and had swung himself back and forth before letting himself swing forward, the hook detached from the light, it was a successful landing! DW pressed a button on his gas gun changing it back to it's original settings. Looking in front of him he stood there for a few moments watching the chaos in front of him, they were all so unaware that it wasn't him that they were fighting, but eachother.
"OW! Gee I didn't take you for a biter-" Bushroot looked down at his leg only to find out it wasn't who he expected was biting him, it was the clown. "Ah! Hey- Get- get off!!" He shook Quackerjack off of his leg, the jester was now confused seeing Darkwing was no where in sight, had he been fighting the Plant this whole time?
"Where did WingDark go?." He asked sitting up, Liquidator and Megavolt stopped fighting noticing that the duck wasn't there. That is until they heard a whistle coming from behind them, they turned around to see DW holding up his gas gun at them.
"Suck gas, evil doers!" the group was not quick enough to react and had been blasted with smoke, all except for Bushroot began coughing and coughing from it. Darkwing took this opportunity to pound them all into the ground, starting with planty. He jumped up from behind Bushroot and tapped a few times on his shoulder, he turned around and fear had spread across his face.
BAM!
While all the fighting was happening Negaduck decided to dip before Darkwing notices him, he went running over to the table stuffing his pockets with as much goods as he can then scooped up a pile of cash, he ran for the building's exit making a clean getaway. Megavolt caught him fleeing but before he could say anything he was knocked out by Darkwing's fist.
"Yep yep yep, another day in the life of Darkwing Duck." He said smugly dusting off his suit, the villains lay unconscious on the floor, Darkwing turned to the table his eyes sparkled at the sight of the treasure, he then shook his head snapping out of his trance. "Oh, I better return all of this.." He glanced back at the villains. They should still be here when he gets back he thought to himself, he then turned back to the table and started to load the treasure onto the thunderquack to return all of the stolen goods.
An hour later…
Out of the group of villains Megavolt was first to wake, he groaned in pain from the enormous headache he had gotten, most likely he received it from the punch Darkwing gave him. "Oh.. I am gonna get that duck.." He rubbed the back of his head gritting his teeth, next time he sees Dipwing he won't even give him a second to do his stupid little intro.. why did they even wait for him to finish in the first place?
Quackerjack was next to wake, hearing the angry noises coming from Megavolt, he looked left and right. "Is playtime over already?.." He asked with a frown, he would have wanted to atleast land one hit on Darkwing, but unfortunately he was now gone. And so was the loot! "NO!." Quackerjack cried out which caused the others to wake up.
Bushroot rubbed his eyes looking over at the sobbing jester. "H-hey what's going on?." Quackerjack sniffed pointing at the empty table. "YIPES!.." Bushroot frowned along with Liquidator who stayed silent, his ears drooping down then it occurred to Bushroot. "Hang on, where did Negaduck go?" he asked.
"He ditched us, with some of the cash too.." Megavolt answered, all of the members sighed of course he did…
"It's just not fair, Darkwing is always getting in the way of our plans! And the only one who gets left to celebrate is Negaduck!." Complained Quackerjack, he was looking so forward to starting up his company again. He shouldn't have been so excited in the first place, when was the last time him or any of the other team members ever gotten away with their crimes? Petty gas station thefts yes, but not the big ones.
"Yeah, I'm sick of it!. He's always treating us badly too." Bushroot stated with an angry tone, he crossed his arms. He was really fed up with Negaduck, if he wasn't so afraid of him he'd probably be turned into mulch by now.
"If only we could get away from the both of them.." Megavolt said letting out another sigh staring at the floor, using his hands as a place for his chin to rest on. Those words gave Quackerjack an idea, a crazy one too, he sat up straight.
"Eureka!" Quackerjack snapped his fingers turning towards Megavolt who perked his head up. "I know somewhere we could go without Negaduck or Darkwing to bother us." He grinned, they were all looking Quackerjack's way, interested in what he had to say, he brought out Mr. Banana Brain from behind his back and held the doll in front of him. "The future!" He spoke in a high pitched voice that he'd usually give Banana Brain, Liquidator and Bushroot's expressions died.
"Oh no, no way chuckles!" Megavolt folded his arms. "Don't you remember what happened the last time we went to the future?" The two men then froze, both having horrifying flashbacks of their time in the future, remembering that masked warrior duck who scared the crap out of them.
Quackerjack shook his head. "Well that's because that little girl was with us.. How about this, we pick a time where we know Darkwing wouldn't be alive in." Megavolt then gave it a thought, going to the future could be fun, maybe this time he'll actually be able to check out all the new electronics- ooh! Maybe he could bring along his electrolizer and create an army of newly evolved appliances, he snickered at the thought rubbing his hands together, now hopefully this time the appliances wouldn't turn on him. Quackerjack took this behavior as a response to okay! I'm in which made him smile, he looked at Bushroot and Liquidator.
"IIIIII would like to come along ! Although I don't see how we'd get to the future ." Liquidator said, he didn't really buy their story. Both were pretty nuts in the head, but wouldn't that be nice, traveling to a time where maybe all the water in the world ran out, he could be a billionaire selling his water bottles across the globe. Only in his dreams he thought to himself.
Quackerjack's smile widened, he leaned over putting a hand on the water dog's shoulder acting like he was going to tell him a secret but spoke loud enough for Bushroot to hear. "Little do you know, I have my own personal time top!" He squealed. The two blinked twice and glanced at eachother wondering what a time top was, it took them a moment to realize he was actually talking about a time machine, they both smiled.
The Liquidator stood up. "Well what are we waiting for? Next stop the future, population-" he pulled Megavolt, Bushroot and Quackerjack close to him. "Us!" He finished his sentence, the group smiled.
Megavolt's eyes then widened, if there's one thing he knew for sure it's that water and electricity do NOT mix. "HEY WAIT!-" the moment was ruined, the whole team was caught in a mega splashacution! That's electrocution but with water added into the mix.
Later that night…
The Fearsome team approached the Audubon Bay Bridge, the three stood behind Megavolt wondering why he lead them there, he just stayed silent grinning at one of the many towers the bridge was connected to.
Quackerjack walked closer to the electrician scratching the top of his head. "Uh-Sparky, care to explain why you brought us here?" He asked, the nickname right away angered Megavolt, he turned around very quickly and inhaled.
"DON'T CALL ME SPARKY!." The rat shouted in the clown's face, he moved back turning around to face the tower once more after calming down. "This tower right here, believe or not is in fact Darkwing Duck's lair!" he said happily, it was a good thing he remembered this place, especially with his memory not being the best. The rest of the teamed gasped in unison, Liquidator stepped in front of the group.
"Lady's and gentlemen.. the Darkwi-wait a secoooond!" The water dog turned to Megavolt, if he had eyebrows one would be raised. "How do you know that this is his lair?" he asked the rat, wouldn't Darkwing be hiding out in a dark cave on an island somewhere?
"Heheh- long story.." He didn't wanna tell, mainly because he knew the team would make fun of him for teaming up with their most hated nemesis but he had to! Those three little menaces were making a fool out of him. To change the subject he turned towards Quackerjack to explain the situation to him. "You said Dimwit Dunk took your time top right? Well last time I was in his lair guess what I saw.."
"Portraits of himself?.." he guessed raising a finger.
"No- huh well that too, but other than that I seen the time top! Hey Plant, think you could get us up there?" Megavolt looked over at Bushroot who nodded at his question, he stretched a bit before lifting his hand, summoning a vine from the waters below that grew along the wall of the tower up until it reached the ledge.
Bushroot made his way over to the vine tugging it a few times to see if it was safe enough for them to climb, once he made sure he grabbed it getting ready to climb up. "Plants first!" He said before he began heading up, the others did the same but Megavolt made sure to go before Liquidator so no water would drip down on him.
Once all the members were up Liquidator stared at the window for a few moments trying to come up with a way to get through, he smiled getting just the perfect idea his hand morphed into a blade and he begun to cut a hole into the window big enough for them to get through. He tapped the glass and it fell forward, shattering to a million pieces.
"Nice work Liqy!" Quackerjack gave Liquidator a fast pat on his back before he went jumping through the window, he landed head first but luckily he managed to do a cartwheel once he hit the floor, avoiding all of the glass, being a clown meant great gymnastic skills. Bushroot and Megavolt clapped, they were pretty impressed, the clown bowed at them.
Liquidator shook his head, he got into a diving position and splashed down becoming a puddle when spilling onto the floors surface, the puddle then formed back into Liquidator he raised his hands in the air hoping for a positive reaction from the two. They stared boredly, very unimpressed, Liquidator sighed. The last two members jumped down, Bushroot got his feet cut by glass he let out a tiny cry, but not Megavolt since he wore boots. The rat gestured for the others to follow him and headed in the direction where he last seen the time top. While they followed behind they were glancing all around oo-ing and woah-ing at the gadgets they passed by, as well as the costumes and motorcycle they've seen. And of course they saw many pictures of Darkwing Duck, they all just rolled their eyes at them, Megavolt then came to a stop, there it was.
"First things first.." Megavolt then started circling around the time top looking high a low. "Good, no little kid trying to hitch a ride with us!" He said feeling relieved, wiping some sweat off his forehead. He climbed on top of the machine and opened the latch entering inside, Quackerjack, Bushroot and Liquidator went inside as well.
"Oh how I've missed you!." said Quackerjack who attempted to hug the control panel, he had tiny tears in his eyes, everything was just as he left it. He sat down on one of the seats- wait! The seat settings had been messed with. "That stupid Darwin.." The clown muttered, adjusting his chair back to the way it was. He had no business messing with his time top that he worked so hard on.
Bushroot took the seat beside Quackerjack leaning forward as he looked closely at the control panels, he built this? The design for the machine made sense but he had to have had some help he thought. "So, when are we headed?" The mutant plant duck asked the crazed jester.
The team was discussing about the year they wanted to be sent to, all oblivious that not too far from the time top was the sidekick slash pilot of Darkwing Duck, also known as Launchpad McQuack. He came rushing in to grab his lucky scarf he had forgotten inside the tower, he needed it! With Darkwing waiting outside in the thunderquack he expected the place to be dead quiet but instead he heard voices.. very familiar voices, they were coming from the time top. He slowly crept up to the machine so that he could get a better listen, he heard a laugh, he knew he met someone who laughed like that but he couldn't quite place his finger on it.
"Goooood thinking Quackerjack!." The voice of the Liquidator said from inside, Launchpad backed away from the time top. "Oh no- the Fearsome Five!. Here!.. Gee I better tell DW about this!" He panicked rushing to the exit to go tell Darkwing the news.
Darkwing looked out the window when hearing the footsteps of his sidekick. "About time!.-Now hop in we have to go back to the fea--" He was then cut off, Launchpad opened the door he had a very concerned look on his face.
"DW! DW! The Fearsome Five!- The Time Top! The tower!!!" He spoke as fast as he could, pointing at the tower.
"Woah woah, slow down Launchpad I can't understand you!" He yelled trying to calm him down.
Launchpad took a deep breath then exhaled. "The Fearsome Five are in the tower! I think they're hijacking the time top!" He explained, Darkwing narrowed his eyes and quickly hopped out of the thunderquack dashing inside the tower. He stopped when seeing that the time top was missing.
"We're too late!." Darkwing screamed, they could be going anywhere in time, who knows what destruction they might cause, he has to stop them before it's too late again. "C'mon LP we need to head to SHUSH headquarters and fast!"
