It is a lovely evening at McDuck Manor, as Scrooge McDuck sits in the TV room, reading the daily newspaper and drinking a cup of his favorite nutmeg tea as he does every day. It is nice, calm, and quiet...
"Ahh, finally, a perfect evenin'. No noise. No distractions. Not a worry in the world. Nothin' could possibly ruin this moment..." As he takes a sip of his tea.
*CRASH* As something breaks, followed by the sound of Scrooge's grand-nephews and his honorary grand-niece running through the halls, and a subsequent second loud CRASH.
The sudden noise and commotion startles Scrooge enough for him to spit his tea out all over his newspaper, soaking it. Subsequent events see the kids running through the TV room, hitting the serving tray with the kettle of tea on it such that it is launched in the air and lands onto Scrooge's top hat, drenching him in the tea, much to Scrooge's annoyance.
"Ugh, I knew it was too good to be true..." Scrooge grumbles, giving his typical annoyed Scrooge face.
"What is blazes is going on!?" He yells out as the kids pass in front of him again, bringing them to a halt.
"Well-" As all four children talk over each other trying to explain what happened, the mashup of voices unintelligible.
"One at a time, kids!" Scrooge orders.
"Well you see Uncle Scrooge while I was updating the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook after our last adventure, but LOUIE spilled Pep all over it!" Huey says, looking angrily at Louie.
"Hey, it was an accident! It'd have never happened if DEWEY hadn't set up a contraction or whatever to try and kill someone!" Louie says as he looks to Dewey.
"Hey, I was trying to DEW an epic trick for Dewey Dew-night and YOU just had to ruin my entire setup by tripping over it and not watching where you were going!" Dewey says looking at Louie.
As the triplets start squabbling at each other, gradually getting louder, Scrooge looking at Webby. "And, your part in all this, lass?" He asks.
"Well Uncle Scrooge, I was helping Dewey prepare for his stunt while helping Huey recall our last adventure. I was in the middle relaying part of the adventure to Huey when I saw Louie enter and tried to warn him about the stunt setup but, well, Huey got confused so I tried to explain it, leading Louie to get distracted by this as he heard me say his name, adding to the confusion and, well..." Webby explains in her typical Webby manner, before a fade out to a flashback of the entire event.
Flashback
We see Huey hunched over his beloved JWG, adding entries to it, discussing with Webby the events of the previous day, as Webby uses her seemingly impossible for her size strength to help Dewey with setting up his stunt for later in the night.
"So, what was it we were attacked by again?" Huey asks as he tries to remember each detail that he deems worthy of an entry.
"A swarm of giant flying vampire ants." Webby says, lifting objects with one hand that an adult using two hands would have difficulty even moving.
"Ah! Right!" Huey responds, quietly saying that while he writes it down.
"Oh yeah! Those things were awesome! Funny I don't remember it better." Dewey says as he directs Webby as to where certain things should go.
"That's because you fell unconscious about five seconds after you tried to take them all on single-handedly, and they drain you of about half your blood. We had to carry you out of the temple AND remove them from you so you didn't die!" Huey states with slight annoyance.
"Pfft, oh please, they got lucky! You all knew I could a DEW it!" Dewey says confidently as he scratches at the numerous medium-small bumps on his back, the center of each having two fang-like marks where the vampire ants bit him.
"Yeah. Right. Anyways, Webby, I was trying to sketch the layout of the third level, but I forgot the precise route we took. Do you remember?" Huey asks.
"Oh, yeah, it was down the left hallway, take a right, straight for two-thirds of the way, Louie watch out..." Webby starts explaining as she then sees Louie enter the room, drinking a can of Pep, not paying attention to where he is going.
"Wait, what? What does Louie have to do with that?" Huey asks as he looks up from the JWG, confused as Webby's warning blended into her description.
"Oh, no, sorry, I was warning Louie about..." Webby starts to explain as Louie then realizes his name was said.
"What about me?" Louie asks as he walks right into part of the stunt setup, tripping and falling right onto Huey, spilling the Pep all over the JWG, and pulling the stunt setup all down, resulting in the first loud crash heard by Scrooge.
"Louie!" Huey and Dewey yell out in anger at the younger triplet.
"Dewey!" Louie yells at Dewey at the same time.
"The Junior Woodchuck Guidebook! Do you have any idea how hard it's going to be to get these to dry without the pages wrinkling!?" Huey yells at Louie.
"Me!? Dewey's to blame for setting up that deathtrap!" Louie argues.
"Hey you should have watched where you were going! You ruined the highlight of tonight's Dewey Dew Night! Now how am I going to entertain the masses!?" Dewey complains.
As the triplets get more and more upset at each other, as Webby can only watch helplessly, feels partially responsible for this as she knows what is about to happen next. "Oh boy..."
End flashback
The triplets are arguing with each other, Scrooge agitated.
"Ugh, could this night get any worse?" Scrooge asked rhetorically when the tv, turned on by the fight, shows a news report.
"Good evening. Tonight we are proud to announce a brand new exhibit at the Duckburg Museum of Antiquities, courtesy of renowned Scottish billionaire Flintheart Glomgold." Roxanne Featherly reports, the mention of Glomgold getting everyone's attention.
"What!?" Scrooge shouts in shock as the kids look as well.
"The artifacts are thought to be relics from a once thought lost civilization. While details are scarce, what is known are the relics, which are solid gold effigies encrusted with gemstones. Estimates put the value of the collection at at least one billion dollars. They-" As the report continues, Scrooge and the kids look on in shock.
"I cannae believe it. How did he find that and we didn't know about them?" Scrooge asks himself, astounded that Glomgold seemingly found something of significant value seemingly LEGITIMATELY. AND one that Scrooge and his family were unaware of.
"-ceremony will be tonight. Stay tuned for details." Roxanne signs off.
Scrooge sinks into his seat, bummed at losing out on an adventure with his family. Huey, Dewey, and Webby are also bummed. Huey because he missed out on learning new stuff. Dewey because there could have been death traps to avoid. And Webby because Scrooge was beaten by Glomgold.
Louie, on the other hand, sees dollar signs, gets a big devious grin on his face, one that implies a scheme as he uses this to sneak out and call someone. "Hey, how're you?" Louie says, making sure no one can hear as he calls the one person who would help him with this scheme. "Good. You saw the news? Uh-huh. Yep, that plan exactly. Alright, see you in a bit." As Louie hangs up, knowing this will be perfect...
Or so he thinks.
