A/N: Hey, I'm finally back. Sorry for the short delay.
Webbigail: Thanks! Your welcome!
Lena de Strange: Ha-ha, thanks! Funnily enough, I just wrote that line on a whim and didn't really put too much thought into it. Glad you loved it anyway, I appreciate it.
So, after re-reading and editing some of my earlier chapters (mostly chapters 1 to 4), I realized just how much I'm not proud of them. (I'm not too sure how many other writers have this same problem.) Writing dark, unpleasant, intentionally uncomfortable subjects like this is not the easiest thing in the world, but at least there seems to be quite a lot of readers out there who just love to dabble in the deep end of darkfic darkness...
I know I kinda already asked this in a now deleted update chapter, but if you have any good ideas that you'd like to share on how you think I could improve this fic (plotwise), I'd love to hear them. Anything could help at this point. (If you don't have an account on the site, leaving an idea as a review would be perfectly fine. I will give you credit for it. Thanks.)
Just to quickly make things 100% clear, this chapter is a re-telling of the events of chapter 5: The Webby De Spell Regression Session! (the last chapter of 2019 btw), re-told with a vastly different outcome due to certain time travelers.
Hope you guys like this new plot structure I've got cooking, as it's only going to get more and more deliciously complicated from here on.
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"...So, what's it like being a sea creature?" Ma Beagle asked as she slowly walked over to a small fishtank on the floor, filled to the brim with clean water.
Floating underwater as still as possible on the inside of it, a kidnapped eleven year old known by her family and friends as Webby Vanderquack, magically transformed into a merduck with a pink fish tail and everything, remained completely silent in her glass prison.
"Not fun huh?"
"Well I'll tell you what's really not fun. Having a bunch of failure as criminal sons working for you..."
"And I'll admit it. You're more competent then all of my sons combined..."
The criminal's unexpected compliment got merduck's attention.
"...Really?"
Ma Beagle nodded.
"Bigtime and Magica have the same problem, they make things way too complicated."
"If she wanted too, Magica could have struck Scrooge and his entire family dead days ago."
"But did she? Nooooo."
"If I had her powers, you'd all be burning in hell..."
"OKAAY!" A magical booming voice echoed from all corners of the room.
"I'd HATE to interrupt your smalltalk, but it's time for a professional to TAKE OVER."
Magica De Spell suddenly teleported into the large darkened room in a bright red could of smoke.
"Sorry I'm late, I had to deal with one of Scrooge's lackeys..."
"HEEEY WEBBY! It's ME, your loving Aunt Magica!" The sorceress skipped up to trapped merduck and waved with a smile.
"So, what's it like being a sea creature?"
Webby frowned and stared back at her in clear annoyance.
"Ma Beagle already asked that. And you're not my Aunt Magica..."
Magica paused and turned around to Ma Beagle standing still behind her.
"Silly me, already forgot you were here."
"Well, you being here won't hurt anything. Just sit back and relax... AND WATCH. AS I TEAR EVERY BIT OF PRIDE AWAY FROM HER."
"AH-HA. AH-HAHAHAHA!"
"...Would you like some popcorn?"
Not five seconds after the sorceress had asked the question, the locked wooden door to the room was suddenly kicked wide open, revealing a tall, intimidating outline in the hallway.
"Yes, extra salty, with the scared drops from your eyes..."
The figure quickly held up her ray gun and fired off a glowing shot directly towards Magica De Spell's very surprised face, hitting her right in the forehead.
"AAAAUGH-AHHH!" The skeleton sorceress recoiled backwards as her skull sizzled and slightly cracked, distracting her long enough not to cast a counterattack.
"YES! Score one for righteousness justice."
"...Wait, Penny?" Webby questioned after hearing the triumphant familiar voice.
Breathing heavily, the dark figure slowly held her lit up ray gun to her face, illuminating it enough for the merduck to barley recognize her.
"PENNY!"
"Finally! The cavalry has arrived! WOO! Best alien invasion, EVER!" The merduck immediately lit up in joy and did little a spin in the water, pounding her fists on the glass with excitement.
"Highfalutin hornswoggle. Wild women from outer space..." Ma Beagle stood speechless, then quickly realised it was a good idea to back up against the wall.
"...Wait? LENA! Is she okay?! Magica, she-"
"-RaaAAARRRRRR!" The merduck was interrupted as Lieutenant Penumbra quickly charged forward with all her strength and ran a very disoriented Magica hard against the wall behind her, holding her arms down so she couldn't cast any spells.
"Your superfluous spells and hapless hocus-pocuses won't save you THIS TIME YOU EGREGIOUS EARTH WITCH!"
"YES! Punch her! Hit her! Kick in her in sunken shins!" Webby cheered the moonlander warrior on from the safety of her little tank.
'NO-NOOOO! I am, Magica De Spell! The- The Shadow Queen! The infinite DARK CURSE upon generations down- UUUUGH!" The sorceress fell limp as she was punched hard enough to dislocate her skeleton head.
"I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN!" The merduck stuck her face up against the glass.
"Cover your ears! You're still young and innocent!" Penumbra turned her head to Webby and ordered loudly.
"...And NO lip reading!"
"But I'm not, that innocent..." The merduck grinned mischievously.
"JUST, DO IT!"
As soon as Webby covered her ears as she was told underneath the water, the furious moonlander began shouting all of the long stored-up Earth profanity her best friend Della had introduced to her, directly into Magica De Spell's terrified and confused face.
"-AND YOU'LL BE SORRY FOR STRANGLING AND BEATING HER UP, RESTRICTING HER MUCH NEEDED RELIEFS, SEASONING HER EYES, FREEZING HER HALF TO DEATH, PENETRATING HER TONGUE, FORCING HER TO LAUGH HER LUNGS OUT AGAINST HER WILL, VIOLATING HER YOUNG UNDERFLUFFIES, DRESSING HER LIKE A MIDGET HOE POLEDANCER, AND ASSAULTING HER LITTLE FEATHERED KEISTER!"
"Wha-Wha-Wha-WHAAAT?! I never did any of that! I was only THINKING about doing THAT!" Magica tried her hardest to lift one of her hands up to cast a defensive spell.
"...BELLIGERENT BIMBO BASATRD!" Penumbra paused before slapping the sorceress' head, causing it to quickly spin in a circle.
"Your PATHETIC PUNY past existence regards no INNOCENCE!"
"I HAVE NO idea what's GOING ON!" The ecstatic merduck continued to watch in joy as she could still clearly understand everything that the moonlander was saying through her hands.
"Rrragh! Rrragh! RRRAAAGH!" With a final hard shove against the wall, Magica's dislocated neck snapped in half, letting her still screaming head fall to floor with her eyes still alive in her sockets.
"Not in the past, neither in the present, I will allow you to put your hands on any child-" Penumbra stopped to throw the sorceress' motionless decapitated body to the side and lift her right boot high above her head on the floor.
"-EVER, AGAIN!" She effortlessly stomped Magica's head to cloudy dust underneath her weight.
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"I held it in for so long." Penumbra spoke after a moment of complete silence, unaware that someone was slowly sneaking up from behind her.
"So have I..." Webby paused before quickly raising her bubbly voice from underneath the clean water.
"Wait, PENNY! WATCH OUT! SHE'S GOT A-"
CLANG!
Before the moonlander could react, she was hit on the back by of her head by a flying brick through golden helmet, instantly knocking her cold to floor.
"-briicck..." The merduck finished sadly.
"Well, that was unexpected." Ma Beagle straightened her hat and closed her purse.
"I think I should be thankful to my future self for refusing to lay a single finger on you..."
"...What's wrong with ME?!" Webby asked loudly in tired anger.
"I'm soft, cuddly, and absolutely adorable! Not to mention Scrooge McDuck's honorary wee Webbigail!"
"Don't forget, I still hate both your guts remember?" Ma Beagle stood over the merduck in the fishtank.
"And with Magica now out of the way, all I have to do is ransom you back in exchange for the deed to Duckburg..."
"Oooooh, NICE PLAANN!" A familiar loud magical voice rang out from the empty darkness.
"But honestly, it lacks creative thinking, not forgetting the perfect opening for at least an hour or so of gloating afterwards."
"Wait?" Webby began in confusion while looking around.
"How are you-"
"-You'll never get anywhere close to earning the title of anyone's greatest enemy that way. You've got the work in the little details, make it personal." A large dark shadow with glowing red eyes suddenly flew down from the high ceiling.
"It'll work, because it's simple..." Ma Beagle explained with her arms crossed.
"Hmph!"
"So, I see your friendly with this accursed alien fool here..." The shadow sorceress lifted the still unconscious Lieutenant Penumbra up in the air with her magic.
"...HEY! You leave her alone!" Webby pounded on this glass surrounding her from all sides with her fists.
"She's my granny's boss' long-lost niece's best moon friend now close bedside roomie tooth brush sharer! You can do whatever you want with me, JUST LEAVE HER ALONE!"
"Really now? That's cute." Magica smirked.
"...You see Webby, for a long while now, I've had this SPECIAL little spell in the works, prepared SPECIAL, just for YOU."
"Buuuuttt, I haven't tested it out yet. It could be dangerous, it might possibly even kill you..."
"And we wouldn't want THAT now, WOULD WE?" The sorceress telekinetically grabbed at the merduck's cheeks through the fishtank.
"Ow- Ow- Ow- Ow- STOP IT! RrrrRRRAAGH!" Webby swung the back of her first hard against the glass in anger, leaving a small visible crack in it to her side.
"...If I were you I'd possibly refrain from doing that."
"Now then! How would you like to be my Guinea pig for today?" Magica shook the unconscious moonlander back and forth in the air, making her nood her head.
"So brave."
"NOOOO! PLEASE DON'T HURT HER!" Webby begged as she tried to lift off the locked lid to her tank.
"She- She didn't know what she was doing! She just gets real excited sometimes. Like Uncle Donald! That's ALL!"
"...Okay, I guess I can fix that then. We'll just have to teach her a little lesson." The sorceress turned away to cast her spell.
"HERE, MAGICA LOOK!" Webby quickly pulled up her long drenched shirt and swam up against the glass.
"Just TICKLE TORTURE me instead! You know how badly you want to do IT!"
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"Sorry. But your obvious lack of feet right about now would just make it boring." Magica turned back away.
"But I have other ticklish spots! Like the inside of my right ear! And also MY SPLEEN!" The merduck admitted loudly then stuck her finger in her ear, causing herself to genuinely laugh underneath the water.
"SEE?! I have a nice loud youthful laugh, AH-HA-HA-HA! And you obviously LOVE LAUGHING RIGHT?!" She asked with wildy frantic expression on here face.
"Your both ruddy insane..." Ma Beagle spoke coldy to them.
"...Sorry, but no." The sorceress quickly snapped her shadowy fingers together, instantly causing a bright light to flash in the darkness as she lifted up Penumbra's ray gun up in her hand.
"UUUUGH! Where is that subspecies lunar twi- Oh, she's already dead." Pausing for a bit after seeing Magica's battered skeleton on the floor, Gyro Gearloose suddenly walked into the room with Fenton in the Gizmosuit following close behind.
"Hmmm, not sure what I expected."
"She is so aggressive..." Fenton stared down at the dusty skeleton through his visor.
"...GIZMODUUUCK! HURRY, HELP PENUM-" Interrupting Webby's shrill muffled call for her friend's help, Magica shot a fully charged blast of burning enegry directly into Penumbra's face, following with two sharp slaps and a kick between her legs, knocking her and all her oversized golden armor hard onto the floor in her now fifteen year old body.
"PENNNNYYY! NOOOOO!" The merduck cried out loudly trapped underneath the water as Gyro and Fenton just stared silently at the still unconscious moonlander on the floor.
"Whoops! Sorry. I'm such a klutz with these things." The shadowy sorceress twirled around the still hot ray gun in her hand and laughed.
"And of course I love laughing. Especially when they're laughing so hard they can't breathe. HA!"
"...Blathering blatherskite! Penumbra!" Fenton paused after getting a good look at Magica's young aquatic captive in the fishtank.
"Webby? Wait WHAT?! Why are you, much more of a of FISH, than normal?"
"Don't mind me! JUST HELP PENUMBRAAA!" Webby pounded desperately on the glass.
"What?! You again?!" Magica looked on in surprise.
"...Yyyou!" Gyro took a step forward and pointed his finger at the dark living shadow in the air.
"You absolute mONSTE-"
"-Dr. Gearloose?! What's going- AAGH?!" Scrooge McDuck's head scientist was interrupted as the other Fenton burst into the room and bumped into him.
"WHAT?! You again again?!"
"Okay, I'm completely lost now..." Ma Beagle commented.
"...My tired fish eyes must be deceiving me! THERE'S TWO FENTOONNS! Wait! That's actually kinda cool! Oh sorry, I just revealed both of your secret identities again." Webby chuckled nervously.
"Blathering blatherskite! What happene- Waaahh!" The other Fenton was quickly incased in the Gizmo armor and driven uncontrollably around the room.
"Uhh, uh, weapons! Weapons! What does this thing have in stock for weapons?!"
"FORGET the weaPONRY! JUST- WAAAUHH!" Gyro ducked just in time to dodge a quick shot of burning ray gun energy from Magica, knocking his hat and his damaged Shadow Control Ray onto the floor behind him.
"...ALLRIIIGHT! YOU ASKED FOR- AAAUGH!" The scientist immediately covered his face with his hands as the shadow sorceress shot directly towards his glasses, blasting out the frames of them and leaving a deep burn across his face.
"DR. GEARLOOSE!" Both Fentons and Webby exclaimed in shock.
"Hmph! Striking down you sorry fools with your own weapons! I see there's quite a bit of ironic entertainment value to be had here..." Magica went back to twilling the ray gun around.
After being helped up to his feet by both of the Fentons, Gyro stared upwards at the blurry sorceress in anger.
"...THAT'S IT! INTERNS, it's time."
"After you needlessly wasted our lab I decided to add a minor adjustment to the final prototype-" He aimed the damaged Shadow Control Ray at Magica and switched it to the highest possible setting.
"-number eleven..."
Shooting off a continuous bright beam of blue light directly at the sorceress in the air, Gyro and the pair of Fentons fought to hold up the powerful surge of energy as Magica only counterattacked with her own red beam of energy from her hands.
"Ooooh! So it's a Beam-O-War I see?! Magic versus science. And as we all obviously know, MAGIC, ALWAYS, WINS!"
"...SINCE WHEN HAS MAGIC EVER WON?!" Gyro asked loudly while still in pain.
"Oh, I dunno..."
"How about right, NOW?! HAAA!" The shadow sorceress increased the power of magical beam, pushing the three rescuers back against the wall.
"Such a pity. Seeing you all try so hard, yet still not hard enough..."
"Hope you enjoy the rest of your sad little existences. AS JUST BLOODY STAINS ON THE WALL!"
"NO! I can't watch." Webby quickly covered her eyes with her hands from inside the fishtank.
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"...Raaaarrrrrarrarrarr!" A much shorter and younger injured moonlander suddenly ran up and helped her three friends hold the Shadow Control Ray steady, forcing Magica backwards instead.
"Penumbra? You're alright!" Both Fentons realized at the exact same time.
"EEERRGHH! LIEUTENANT PENUMBRA!" She almost immediately corrected with her now childishly loud voice.
"Wait WHAT?! SERIOUSLY?! HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD?!" The sorceress questioned aloud as she was now up against the wall instead.
"...Absolute hate." The furious moonlander seethed.
"Hey!" Ma Beagle walked up the four rescuers and stood beside them.
"WHAT?!" Gyro and Penumbra asked loudly in perfect unison.
"During all my long years as a brilliant criminal mastermind, I've learned quite a few valuable life lessons that desperately need to be passed onto the future members of the Beagle clan..."
"Lesson one. Never pointlessly anger your enemies, especially when they're ultra rich and powerful."
"Lesson two. If you need things, you work harder to get them."
"Lesson three. Defeat isn't bitter if you're smart enough not to swallow it."
"Lesson four. The worst thing you can be in life is a damn fool."
"And lesson five. Simple actions, bring simple-" She paused to punch on the light switch behind her without looking back, illuminating the large darkened room in light.
"AAAAAUGH! AUUGH- N-NOOO-NOOOOO!" Magica felt her powers significantly weaken as the bright light and Shadow Ray beam shot straight through her shadowy form, throwing her backwards as red cuts cracked all across her.
With a final ear-piercing shriek that gradually fell into a inaudible curse, her glowing red eyes slowly faded to black as her motionless spirit floated silently with it's head snapped far backwards.
"...Ka-ther...ine."
As quiet as Ma Beagle's slow breathing, the dark shadow turned to dust and was blown into the empty void of non-existence, letting her visible red powers settle down into her savaged headless skeleton on the floor.
"-results..." She switched back off the lights, returning to room to it's original low lighting.
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"You might have just saved all our lives. But, but WHY? You're a villain!" Fenton asked, not sure what to expect to hear from her.
"Yeah, I was kinda thinking the same thing." The other Fenton in the Gizomsuit asked as well.
Ma Beagle sighed and slowly put her hand atop Webby's locked fishtank.
"...We're all the heroes in our own stories. I may be a villain to you, but I'm not an idiot, I do everything for a reason. Did you even hear what I just said?!"
"Lesson four. The worst thing you can be in life is a damn fool."
"Magica may have been ultra powerful, but I didn't do thing for her. She was a fool, a disgusting creep, an obvious kiddie fiddler, and a moron."
"...You can look now. Everything's fine." She rapped on the glass of the fisktank to get the merduck's attention, as she was still covering her eyes.
"Your loving Aunt Magica is dead..."
"Wait... She's-"
"-YES! MAGICA HAS BEEN SLAIN! Lena is finally safe! WOOOOO!" Webby uncovered her eyes and began to celebrate with a wild smile on her face.
"Good. Now that that's all over, we leave-"
"...Wait. If- If Magica is finally dead, then- then how long will I be like this?" The merduck suddenly interrupted Gyro.
"Wait! What took you guys so long?! And what the heck?! What was Penumbra talking about? Magica never did any of that awful stuff to me!"
"WAIT! You hurt Penumbra! How could you?! She didn't even anything wrong! You monster!" Webby pressed her tired face up against the glass and glared angrily at Ma Beagle.
"...I'm not sure, I'm not a wizard, time travel, and you have no idea do you?" Gyro frowned, not able to see clearly without his glasses.
"Wait. Time travel?" Webby blinked a couple times.
"Are- Are you saying you guys came from the future to rescue me?"
"Then- Then Magica really did, assault my little feathred ke-" The merduck paused.
"...I'M GONNA FREAKING KILL HER! ...AGAIN!" She pounded on hard the glass.
"Forgive me for intruding, but why are you Earthers now so much taller?" Penumbra asked as Webby was the only one in the room that took notice of Magica's headless skeleton on the floor ever so slowly raise a single dusty hand in the air, slowing curling and flexing it's bony fingers.
"Uh, guys?" The merduck's eyes widened in sudden fear.
"Penumbra, we didn't grow taller, you grew shorter. Or, possibly several years younger." Fenton tried to explain.
"HA! You and your fake dummy Earth explanations. A warrior can't grow shorter, they only grow stronger with the cycles."
"G-Guys?"
"I'm- He's not lying. Here, see for yourself." The other Fenton pulled out his gizmo-mirror.
"GUYS?!"
As soon as the obvious moonlander recognized her much younger reflection in the mirror, she wordlessly fainted backwards into Gyro's arms.
"I've got ya moon kiddo..."
"What? She's a kid now. Do you really think I'd insult a kid?"
"Yes." Both Fentons and Webby simply responded in unison.
"Wait... GUUUUUUUUYYYYS!?"
"WHAT?" Everyone awake in the room turned around to face the now terrified duckling turned merduck pointing towards the floor.
"M-M-M-M-MA- MAGICA!"
"Muh-ha-ha... ha..." The headless skeleton snapped it's fingers together, leaving the room in complete silence.
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"Wait, what is- WAAAHHUGH!?" Gyro fell backwards in shock as Penumbra began violently shaking. Throwing her head upwards, her dark red-eyed shadow emerged from her mouth and flew up to the roof, along with Gyro's own shadow, his two intern's, and Ma Beagle's.
"Aaaugh! What- AAAHHH-AAAAHHH!" Webby clutched her burning chest and screamed underneath the water as her own dark merduck shaped shadow freed itself from inside her of her body and burst through the lid of the fishtank, finally letting her resurface and watch as hundreds of more shadows gathered in the room and tore a large hole in the roof.
"...Oh, my gosh. What is happening?" The little merduck stared straight up into the blinding bright daylight and the now massive black ball of thousands of swirling shadows.
"Everyone STAY CALM!" Gyro stepped forward with the still unconscious moonlander in his arms and aimed the damaged Shadow Control Ray at the quickly growing blurry mass of darkness above.
"I'll just-" Right before the now half-blind scientist could fire off a shot at the shadows, the ray gun quickly fell apart in his hand.
"-Oh." He stared calmly at the scattered pieces on the floor.
"Would, this be a bad time to mention that I need to go? Like, right now." Webby asked as she held herself up out of the fishtank.
"...Go where?" Gyro questioned.
"You know, she needs to go and spend and penny..." Fenton explained.
"What?"
The Latin intern sighed sadly. "You know. Visit my, laboratory."
"...I'd say- AAAAAAAUGH!"
Instantly interrupting the slow-placed and awkward conversation, trillions upon trillions of dark shadows suddenly shot down from above with the force of a rocket and disappeared into Magica's motionless skeleton below.
Unbeknownst to the six figures in the room, every single shadow in the universe except one in particular had been caught up in the magical torrent.
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"-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" The last shadow screamed and fell from the now dark and stormy sky, barely stopping herself from being sucked down into the skeleton with the rest of the shadows by clinging onto the hole in roof for her life. Although she was now completely black and had lost most of her features, Webby still recognized her immediately.
"Wait LENA?!"
"UUHHH! Webby?! WEBBY?!" The shadow quickly recognized her young friend's voice and tried to look down to see her, only to finally be sucked feet first into void of held back darkness.
"WEBBIIIIIIIIIIEE!"
"LEEENNNAAA!" Webby fell out of her fish tank and crawled as fast as she could to the skeleton on the floor.
"LENA LENA LENA LENA LENA!"
"NO! GET BACK!" Gyro held the desperately fighting and struggling merduck off the floor right before she could beg the skeleton to release her best friend.
"BUT LENA! I CAN'T LOSE HER AGAIN! Not again! NOT AGAIN! LEEENNNAAA!"
"...Gizmoduck, hold her." The scientist ordered sternly.
"I'm sorry Webby..." The other Fenton apologized as he held her back in the Gizmosuit.
"NOOOOOOO! I NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH! LENA?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?! WHHYYY?!" Webby began to cry as she was quickly losing her breath.
"Webby please, I think your hyperventilating. You need to-".
"-UGH! For cryin' out- She can't breathe! Just put her back in the water already you metallic moron!" Ma Beagle angrily got in the other Fenton's face.
"...NOOOOOOO! I AM being HELD back against MY WILL!"
"Webby please calm down! Lena is safe and sound in the present! You're both safe now. It's okay, you can relax now. Everything's- WAAAHuhh?!" The other Fenton stopped putting the struggling merduck back in her fishtank as dark shadows suddenly burst out from Magica's skeleton and filled the large room.
With the steady pace of a heartbeat, the darkness flashed and began to slowly expand as a shadowy sphere that consumed the head-less skeleton in it's veil grew larger and larger, pulling in reality within itself like a black hole.
"...Oh deus meus." He whispered to himself in fear.
"Stick her back in the tank and go! We need to get out of here NOW!" Gyro ordered as he threw the younger Penumbra over his shoulder.
"Uh, uh... Uh, okay BYE!" The other Fenton quickly waved before tossing Webby aside into the fishtank and raced towards the open door in the Gizmosuit.
"NO! BRING HER TOO, IN THE TANK! FORGET THE TIME STREAM! Interns, to the time tub- WAAAAAAAUGH!"
Bright red magical lightning suddenly struck directly through the hole in the roof and shattered all the glass out of the fishtank, letting the warm water and somehow unharmed soaking wet merduck flow out onto the carpeted floor.
"Oh, no." Her pupils shrunk down in her large eyes as she was slowly sucked backwards into the ever-growing void of shadows.
"-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"
"I'm- I'm about to become ONE with LENA! THIS IS MY FINAL MESSAGE! TELL MY STORY!" Webby dug her fingers into the carpet as her fish tail flapped about behind her.
"Not if I have anything to say about it." Ma Beagle pulled out a strong coil of rope from her purse and swung it around in the air like a lasso.
"This ain't my first rodeo..."
The criminal matriarch successfully threw the loop around the merduck's tail and easily pulled her safely away from the dark sphere of shadows.
"Here! You carry her! She's been in that water for far too long..." Ma Beagle shoved the very confused on why she was saved Webby into Gizmoduck's arms and quickly made her way out the door.
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"...I'M BETTER THAN THA-" The exhausted and irritated merduck was suddenly interrupted by her lack of oxygen and began to panic again.
"I- don't, wanna, di- Uugh. L-Lena-"
"Oh no! Dr. Gearloose, what do we d-" The other Fenton in the Gizmosuit paused after coming up with an idea.
"-Salvation! Manny! Ha-ha, that's it!"
"What? What's IT?! That child, is literally DYING, on the oxygen we breathe!" Gyro explained as he was still carrying the unconscious moonlander over his shoulder.
"No time to explain! We've got a double emergency on our hands! A lack of water, and I'm guessing maybe a little too much water..."
The other Fenton grabbed the half-blind scientist by the hand and dragged him and Penumbra out of the dark room as the original Fenton followed.
"We have all the TIME we WANT! Time travel remembe-" Gyro paused in sudden realization.
"-BAAAAAAAAUUGH!"