"I can't believe I fell for that." Atticus glared.
Cherry just laughed. "Come on, guys, let's go."
Louie and Cherry were soon caught by ropes.
"Of course, why is it always me?" Cherry groaned.
"I'll consider that as karma." Atticus teased.
Huey and Dewey were soon then both caught next. They were soon all dangling upside down and Atticus came to see them.
"I'll put the marbles back, I swear!" Dewey cried out in distress.
Atticus was about to get them down.
"Who are you working for?" A girl voice asked.
"Who said that?" Cherry asked.
"Ma Beagle? Glomgold?" The girl demanded firmly. "Answer me!"
"Webby, what are you doing to our guests?" Mo's voice sighed.
"They're spies!" The girl replied sharply.
"U-Uncle Scrooge!" Dewey cried.
"Uncle Scrooge?" The girl asked before gasping. "Oh, my gosh, the nephews!" She then clapped her hands to turn the lights on which revealed herself to be a young female duckling and she soon went to cut everyone down.
"I am so sorry for Webby tying you up." Mo said.
"Of course!" Webby smiled to the boys. "Researching Mr. McDuck and his family is kind of my hobby."
"Who are you guys?" Cherry asked Webby and Mo.
"This is Webigail, but you can call her 'Webby', I kind of look after her like a big sister..." Mo explained. "And I'm Monique, but please, call me Mo."
"Why?" Huey asked.
"Or else." Mo replied.
"Or else what?" Cherry huffed.
Mo soon tackled down Cherry and forced her face against the wall while squeezing her arm. "Or else THIS!"
"Okay, I get it." Cherry muffled.
Mo soon let go and folded her arms as Cherry slid down the wall.
"Sorry about her." Atticus sheepishly told Mo.
"Is she always like this?" Mo asked him.
"On a good day..." Atticus nodded. "I'm really sorry, but she can be quite cynical and dark."
Webby began to ask the triplets three questions.
"Is this, uh, your sister?" Atticus asked Mo about Webby.
"I guess you could say that..." Mo shrugged since she technically lived with Mrs. Beakley and her granddaughter. "What about you and her?"
"Well, Cherry's been like a sister to me all my life, but we're not truly related..." Atticus replied. "I don't even remember where we came from... She says she remembers when we were really little, our parents dropped us off to stay with Donald... And then they said they would come back for us, but they hadn't..."
"That's terrible." Mo frowned.
"I know..." Atticus replied. "So, what happened to your parents?"
"I never met them..." Mo shrugged. "Mrs. Beakley said I ended up on her doorstep when I was a baby."
"Mo, get this, they think their family is boring." Webby laughed before showing a family tree of the Duck family.
"What?!" Mo asked before laughing with Webby.
"Whoa..." The triplets looked in awe of their family tree.
"Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck, Scrooge McDuck's great-nephews on his sister Hortense's side with Quackmore Duck twice removed!" Webby announced after putting up their photograph on the tree.
"So, do you two have any friends?" Atticus asked.
"Oh, please don't tell me he's doing what I think he's doing." Cherry groaned.
"Well, we... Wait!" Webby replied. "Are we friends now?"
"If he says yes, will you let us live?" Huey asked.
"Pfft!" Webby snorted. "Good one, new best friend!"
"Yep, I knew it." Cherry said.
"Hey, come on, some new friends will be good for us." Atticus put his arm around her in a friendly sense.
"Atticus, remember, I don't like being touched." Cherry glared.
"You know you love me." Atticus replied.
Cherry soon got him off and shook off his touch. "So, new friends, what do you do for fun around here?" She asked.
"Oh, I'm the best at fun!" Webby beamed.
Mo soon opened the air vent.
"Thanks, Mo." Webby smiled as they then crawled through the air vent.
"At least it's not the marble room." Dewey shrugged to his brothers before following the girls.
Atticus soon followed afterwards. Cherry stayed put while everyone else went. Atticus soon came back and dragged Cherry with him.
"Of course I'm being included." Cherry groaned.
"Stop being a sourpuss." Atticus replied.
"Yeah, yeah." Cherry said.
Webby kicked the next vent down before rolling on the floor with a smirk. "Whoo-hoo, vent crawl!"
"Yeah!" Mo smiled.
Dewey and Atticus were about to join them. Cherry fell first with Huey and Louie landing on top of her.
"You guys don't get out much, do you?" Huey asked Mo and Webby.
"Sort of." Mo said.
"Eh, Granny's a bit overprotective," Webby replied. "She trains us to be ready for anything, but then she says we got everything we need in here. But one day, I'm gonna see the world, I'm gonna be an explorer with Mo as my helper! We're gonna eat hamburgers!"
"We can buy you two some hamburgers." Cherry said.
"You really are my best friends." Webby smiled as she followed them.
Soon enough, Atticus and Dewey caught up with the others.
"Welcome to the Wing of Secrets!" Webby announced before opening the door behind her and Mo.
"Just be sure to not touch anything dangerous." Mo said.
"I knew it!" Huey smiled once he saw Scrooge on top of a shaved bear in a portrait.
"Guys, check it out!" Louie told Atticus and Dewey about one wood carved statue.
"This is amazing..." Cherry commented, sounding positive for the first time in her life.
"Yeah, whatever." Dewey said.
"Hey, that's my job." Cherry glared.
"The Gong of Picchu," Mo showed them a mystical gong with a dragon behind it. "Hit it three times to unleash unspeakable evil."
"Why would anyone want to do that?" Atticus asked.
"You got me, but consider that your warning." Mo advised as she looked deep into his eyes.
"You got it," Atticus said before seeing Louie labeling things. "What are you doing, Louie?"
"Calling dibs on stuff." Louie smiled innocently.
"Why?" Atticus asked.
"What? Scrooge is, like, he's, like, super old." Louie shrugged as he continued.
"Oh, careful!" Webby stopped him. "Medusa gauntlet. One touch can turn organic matter to stone..." she then imitated solidifying.
"Yeah, so be careful." Mo added.
"I'm gonna call this one a maybe." Louie replied before labeling the gauntlet anyway.
"This is so cool." Cherry said.
"Yeah, it's incredible!" Huey agreed.
"It's fake." Dewey scoffed.
The group soon came over to Dewey who was in front of a portrait.
"Is that Uncle Donald?" Huey asked about a certain duck in the picture.
"Oh, yeah!" Webby smiled. "He was Mr. McDuck's sidekick!"
"Dewey's right." Cherry said.
"Totally fake." Louie added.
"Uncle Donald has never done anything cool." Dewey scoffed.
"What?!" Webby glared at Cherry, Atticus, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. "Donald Duck is one of the most daring adventurers of all time!"
"Yeah!" Mo added.
"Oh, what do you guys know?" Cherry scoffed.
"Donald hasn't done anything exciting." Atticus said.
"All he does is yell at us when we're bad..." Cherry rolled her eyes before looking to the portrait. "I'm really curious about this though."
"It's fake, and I bet everything else is too!" Dewey replied.
"That's not true!" Webby glared. "What about this picture with Chupacabra?"
"PhotoShop." Atticus shrugged.
"Or this treasure chest?" Mo asked.
"Probably bought it at an auction." Louie replied.
"Ooh, a scary sheet ghost..." Cherry mocked before taking the sheet off of the lump that came out of the chest. "I'm so scared!"
The lump seemed to actually be an actual ghost of a pirate-like bird.
"It's Captain Peghook, the scourge of the River Styx!" Webby cried out.
"It could be a hologram..." Cherry smirked.
The ghost soon swept past her which made Cherry shake chills all around her body and the ghost pirate breathed on her.
"It is a real ghost!" Cherry shrieked.
"I suggest we run!" Atticus screamed.
Everyone soon ran for their lives as the ghost pirate chased them.
"It's real!" Dewey panicked as he tried to use a sword. "It's really real!"
The sword seemed to come alive as it flew in the room. Cherry ducked down and the sword soon went right through the pirate since he was a ghost and all.
"The Deus Excalibur!" Webby told the others. "It won't rest until its target's slain!"
"But its target is already dead." Atticus said.
The sword soon banged the gong.
"Do not let anything else hit that gong!" Mo panicked.
"Alright, then me and Louie will stay out of this." Cherry said.
"Yeah, we better sit this one out." Louie added before sitting on a saddle which came to life and made him fall on top of Cherry and they both hit the floor.
"The Headless Man Horse!" Webby cried out. "That one feels self-explanatory."
The horse without a head began to go wild and soon hit the gong.
"That's twice!" Atticus panicked.
"One more, and something terrible could happen!" Mo told him.
"What could be worse than this?!" Cherry asked.
"What in Davey Jones's locker is going on here?!" Scrooge's voice glared.
"There it is..." Cherry muttered in misfortune.
"Why aren't ye in yer rooms?" Scrooge glared.
"Explain later," Atticus replied. "Right now, we hide."
The ghost pirate soon took the sword and laughed at his possible victims.
"Quick, behind the portrait!" Mo told them.
They soon all hid together.
"We got this," Huey told the others. "There are seven of us and only three of them! If we-Wait, never mind, they teamed up."
"I can handle the headless horse, but the ghost and the sword, yeah, I'm not sure." Atticus said.
"No worries, lad, that only means one target." Scrooge smirked before going off.
"No, get back!" Dewey cried out. "You're old!"
"Really?" Cherry asked, unimpressed.
"Well, he is." Dewey defended.
"Oi, Beasty!" Scrooge glared at the ghost pirate. "What's it gonna take to shuffle ye off in the afterlife?"
"The head of Scrooge McDuck!" The ghost pirate glared as he blazes in flames.
Scrooge cracked his neck with a determined smirk and used his came in defense. "Would ye settle for his hat?"
"I think he's got this." Atticus said.
Cherry looked a little nervous for the old duck. Scrooge smirked before throwing his hat at the ghost pirate which seemed to blind him before he slid on the floor. The ghost pirate glared and soon threw the sword at Scrooge to behead him.
"Go, Scrooge!" Mo cheered.
"There's yer head." Scrooge smirked as he took out the chopped statue head of himself in front of the pirate before throwing it.
"I should've been more specific!" The ghost pirate yelled out before fading away and the head landed on the horse.
Once the horse had a head, it was happy. It even thanked Scrooge while tapping its hoof before going away. Scrooge soon put on his hat and looked to his grandnephews.
"That was amazing." Atticus said.
The others cheered in agreed excitement until Scrooge stomped his cane on the floor.
"We can explain," Louie smiled nervously before trying to hug his granduncle. "We came down to your secret museum to look for you, because we love you?"
"That's right." Cherry added.
"Secret museum?" Scrooge scoffed before clicking car keys to open the door behind him. "This is the gar-age!'
"I think it's pronounced garage." Cherry said as she adjusted her glasses.
"You keep all your cool stuff in your garage?" Atticus asked.
"Unbelievable..." Scrooge shook his head. "I invite you into my home-"
"You locked us in a room." Cherry deadpanned.
"I gave ye marbles." Scrooge defended.
"We just wanted to hang out with you." Louie said.
"Well, now ye have, and look at the mess it's got me!" Scrooge glared.
"I guess family's nothing but trouble, huh?" Cherry glared back.
"EVERYBODY OUT..." Scrooge growled.
"But, we-" Huey tried to speak.
"OUT!" Scrooge snapped before banging the gong which made them all gasp. "Well, what are ye gaping at? The curse is only activated if ye ring the gong three times and ye already hit it two times, didn't ye?"
"Yep." Atticus nodded.
"We're kinda dead, right?" Cherry asked.
The stone dragon soon crackled and came to life as a mighty golden dragon who growled before breaking through the ceiling.
"Uh, mind telling us who that dragon is?" Atticus asked Mo and Webby.
"Pixiu, the Gold-Hunting Dragon." Webby and Mo informed.
"Gold hunting?" Louie asked. "Sounds great!"
"Not when you're Duckburg's single largest owner of gold." Cherry scoffed.
Pixiu soon smelled gold and saw where it was coming from and looked like it was hungry.
"AUGH!" Scrooge panicked. "Me money bin!"
The dragon soon licked its lips and lunged out for the money bin.
"TO YER ROOMS!" Scrooge told the others before grabbing onto the dragon's tail and going off with it out the hole in the ceiling.
Webby and Mo began to walk out the garage.
"Where are you two going?" Atticus asked.
"We're gonna go eat hamburgers." Webby grinned.
"We're in." Dewey smirked.
"Good," Mo said about to leave before looking back at them. "Just to clarify, we're gonna go after the dragon."
"Yeah, the hamburger was a metaphor from before, and-" Webby was about to add.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, we get it, but how are we gonna get up there?" Dewey replied.
"We'd need a pilot." Atticus said.
"I'll pilot." Someone came to see them.
"Who are you?" Atticus asked.
"The name's Launchpad McQuack, at your service." The pilot smiled with a salute.
"Alright then." Cherry said.
As they came by plane, Scrooge appeared to be falling in the air only to be caught by Launchpad.
"Whew." Mo sighed.
"I thought... I told ye... To go to yer..." Scrooge grunted and panted.
"No time, we gotta work fast!" Atticus replied as he helped him up.
"How do we stop it?" Huey asked Webby and Mo.
"It's mystical so we need a mystical device." Webby replied.
"Yeah, something like an oblivion mirror or a Medusa Gauntlet." Mo added.
"You mean like this?" Louie asked, showing that he took the Medusa Gauntlet.
Webby and Mo glared slightly that Louie had stolen the artifact.
"What?" Louie asked as he gave Scrooge the gauntlet. "I was gonna give it back."
"Now, we'll just need something to keep Scrooge from falling to his death." Atticus said.
"Garden Hose of Destiny!" Huey proclaimed.
"That'll do." Atticus smiled before getting serious.
"Launchpad, we need to swing him out," Huey demanded. "Nosedive towards the bin and get ready to pull up!"
"Yes, sir, random kid I just met!" Launchpad nodded before doing just that.
"Any questions?" Atticus asked.
Cherry raised her hand.
"No, you can't go home." Atticus told her.
Cherry then put her hand down.
"I have one," Scrooge said. "Since when is Launchpad a pilot?"
"Seriously?" Mo asked after opening the hanger door.
"I just hope this works." Cherry sighed.
"It will." Atticus said.
Launchpad soon did as Huey suggested which allowed Scrooge to dangle and grab the dragon's tail.
"You guys?" Dewey smiled to the others. "Our family is awesome!"
"Yeah, it is." Mo agreed.
Cherry looked a little bitter about the mention of 'family'.