A Christmas Peril

A Disney Duck Fanfic:

Instead of being purely based on one entity, this story takes background from Classic Donald Duck cartoons, Duck Tales, and Darkwing Duck.

Contains Major Spoilers to Double Triangle Trouble and Braced Company

Written By:

Stef with an F and Nightw2

Disclaimers: Still don't own many of these characters but have created some of them. Same ones I mentioned in the disclaimers of previous chapters. The ones I don't own were created by Disney.

Chapter 12

Darkwing and Launchpad were out patrolling Future Megavolt's hideout.

Bonnie was peaking from her curtain, watching as the two patrolled the area.

"Should we wait for the others DW?" Launchpad asked.

Darkwing shook his head. "No. This is my time, not theirs, therefore this is my shift! The sooner those future interlopers return to their own time, the better. Even if some of them are related to me!"

Launchpad smirked before jumping.

Darkwing looked at Launchpad strangely.

"Sorry DW, still not used to this phone. I have it on vibrate."

Darkwing narrowed his eyes. "Why?"

Lauchpad did not answer Darkwing but the phone instead, he noticed a text message was left for him.

"Daisy is having the baby. Is everything alright? Love you. – Bella."

Launchpad starting to key a response.

"How could you even stand writing on one of those things!?" Darkwing shouted. "It's like finger pecking!"

"Yeah, maybe one of these days I will get myself one those could phones with the Qwerty keyboard."

"Before you do, you owe me that fifty bucks," Darkwing responded nonchalantly. "What is it?"

"Daisy is having her baby."

Bonnie touched the glass of her window. Not too long ago she would alert Mr. M without a second thought.

Darkwing looked so much like that man that raised her. She wished he was her father. Maybe he was in some other parallel universe. She was the ash-feathered stepchild in her family and she craved love. Megavolt loved her right?

She left the window and listened at her bedroom door where Megavolt and Quackerjack were discussing their plan. It made Megavolt happy talking to his dead friend. Her brother Beau wanted to take her away. She loved her brother, but part of the reason she never left Megavolt was the pain she saw in Megavolt's eyes when he thought about what happened to Quackerjack years ago. He was trying to prevent it.

Still as she rubbed her hands together, and sat against her bedroom door, she also thought about Ashely. Her very pregnant sister with the same ash-color feathers.

"Oh my goodness!" Ashley shouted again. She turned to Dr. Frances Duck, her eyes wide.

Frances glanced at the Ashely's fetal monitor and gently grabbed her hand, "Shh, it's okay."

Beau felt a hint of dizziness take over him as he stood in front of Ashley's door. He leaned against the door and slightly bowed his head and took a few breaths.

"Take a deep breath," Frances ordered before she gave Ashley more ice water.

"Is she okay?" Officer Pincher asked.

Ashley nodded. "I'm okay. Is there someone at the door?"

On the other side of the door, a nurse approached Beau. "Are you okay?"

Beau took a deep breath before replying, "Yes, nervous, I guess."

The nurse nodded, assuming he was an expecting father. She smiled. "Get yourself something to drink, you can't let your wife sense all your nervousness. You have to be there for her, you hear?"

Beau nodded.

He took another breath, before he opened the door.

Elsewhere in the hospital...

"Just a few more pushes now," Dr. Webster called.

Donald, who was pacing near the door of the birthing room returned closer to the bed now at the call.

Daisy looked up at her husband. "What's wrong with you!? I am the one doing the hard part here!"

Donald gulped and moved quicker then and stood by his wife's side.

Daisy pushed as the contraction came.

"I see the head!" Donald shouted excited.

"That's how you do it," the doctor praised. "Now take a deep breath"

Just at that moment Bella and Melanie ran into the hospital doors, nearly running into her sons Huey and Louie.

"Mom?" Huey shouted.

"Melanie?" Louie shouted.

"Cosmic timing." Bella smiled.

"Actually Mom," Huey began. "I figured, you would have beaten us. I mean we were way off in St. Canard."

"And well, we came here as ourselves," Louie added, knowing his Fury persona could have gotten them there almost as face Ronnie could. "Oh...let me guess, you didn't know the rugrats decided to go to the tower."

"Yup. And well traffic too. Where's your brother Dewey?" Bella asked.

Louie bit his bill.

"What are you not telling me?" Bella demanded.

Melanie looked up at her two brothers, her eyes wide with concern.

Huey and Louie were saved by the explanation however when a loud familiar scream interrupted the conversation.

"Daisy!" the three ducks shouted in unison.

Bella made her way to the information desk.

"Which way to Daisy Duck's room?"

"And you are?" the receptionist asked.

"I'm Bella McQuack," Bella replied. "Her sister-in-law. And these are three of my children."

"Well, I can direct you to a closer waiting room," the lady replied. "Follow the yellow line past the second elevator and then turn right. It's the big yellow door next to the lavatories; you can't miss it."

"Thank you," Bella replied as she walked the yellow taped hall. "Don't think that I forgot what I asked before we all heard that scream boys," she whispered once they left the earshot of the desk.

"Jeff," Dewey said into the phone. "Did you hear what I said?"

Jeff looked up at the ceiling. He held his phone's handset in his right hand but did not say anything.

"She's pregnant?" Jeff finally asked.

"Yes," Dewey replied.

"Was it someone at the prison?" he asked in a quiet voice that was laced with anger and disgust.

Dewey shook his head. "I don't think so."

"From before then. Are you telling me that you slept with my sister?" Jeff asked then, his tone cold.

Dewey sighed. He did. He did sleep with his best friend's sister. But how was he going to answer this question. How was he going to tell his best friend, that not only did he sleep with his older sister, but in his humble opinion, he slept with his friend's already pregnant sister. He did not believe Ashley was pregnant with his children. He saw one of these unborn children's future counterpart and his mind :Beau was not his son.

"Who are you?" Ashley asked.

Dr. Frances Duck turn around immediately and glared at the newcomer. "Can I help you?"

Beau ignored her and stepped closer.

"Are you Ashley?" he asked.

Officer Pincher stood up and placed a paw firmly against Beau's chest. "What business do you have with Miss Ruddy.

"Ashley, You look so much like my sister," Beau replied, looking up above the officer's shoulder.

Ashley gasped, and she turned to the doctor.

"This can't be. How is this happening?" she asked.

Dr. Duck shook her head in confusion, "Ashley, what are you talking about?"

Ashley placed a hand over her seven month old baby bump.

"You're my son. Aren't you?"

Beau nodded, the blood draining from his face.

Dr. Duck looked at Ashley, concern embedded in her forehead, "Ashley, what do you mean?"

Ashley ignored her friend.

"Come closer." Ashley requested, as the tears start running down her face.

Beau walked closer.

Ashley touched Beau's cheek.

"I promise my mother and Negaduck will not get their hands on you, Okay?"

Beau closed his eyes tightly, his breathing constricted in his chest as he felt his mother's touch.

"Are you okay?" Ashley asked, looking up at her future son in concern.

"Yeah...I mean yes, I am just thinking about how life would be if I was raised by you."

"You'll know. Are you going back to the future soon?" Ashley asked, she felt tired all the sudden, her eyes heavy, and she closed her eyes.

"Soon, I hope," he told her. "If the future is right."

Dr. Frances placed a hand softly on Beau's forearm.

"She's sleeping now, she needs her rest. You can visit her later."

"Do you believe me?" Beau asked.

Dr. Duck shook her head, and almost laughed, "No. Definitely not. But you did not upset Ashley and even seemed to have made her feel better."

Beau nodded. "I understand. Thanks for not throwing me out."

When Beau walked out the door he saw Dewey walking up.

"How is she?" Dewey asked. "How did she take it?"

"Better than I expected," Beau replied looking at the man he thought might be his father.

Dewey smiled. "Well, I suppose with all the other crazy things she saw."

"I was just gently kicked out," Beau added. "She's sleeping."

Dewey debated entering anyway when his text alert went off:

Get your tail feather up to the maternity ward, Mom's suspicious and the baby is coming.

Dewey wondered if Tank Muddlefoot will soon be hearing such words.

"I got to go anyway, my aunt is about to have her baby," Dewey informed.

Beau nodded. "I will probably get back to Mage and see if I didn't cause a time line catastrophe."

"Heh," Dewey chuckled. "To the future."

Beau nodded and walked off.

A few minutes later, Dewey walked up to the maternity ward and saw his mother, stepfather, sister and brothers.

"Did she have the baby yet?" he asked Louie.

Louie shook his head.

"But for the sound of it, hopefully soon," Huey added just as a very colorful metaphor was heard from down the hall.

Melanie looked up at her mother and failed to hold in a laugh.

"Wow, Aunt Daisy sounds like Uncle Donald Mommy."

To Be Continued

Author Note: . Ah yes, the egg vs live birth debate... umm I believe a made a comment earlier that ideal is a bit AU in this saga. Like Goofy, the Ducks in this story are humans that happen to look like Ducks.

Updated Note: Ha Qwerty phones. Now we have smart phones. Though, I just have a Qwerty phone at the moment myself. (February 8, 2014)