Meanwhile, Scrooge, Cherry, and Louie were still inside the elevator and it soon opened up to show a rather interesting room.
"Whoa, this sure is a big room." Cherry commented.
A vault was shown to be open with a pile of gold coins and money bags.
"MONEY!" Cherry and Louie called out and came in to explore.
"Must get money!" Cherry screamed.
Scrooge did a double take at her.
"Hey, you want us to help you count that money?" Cherry asked.
"Or maybe we could try to spend it and see it isn't expired?" Louie added.
"There's more to money than just money!" Scrooge told them before dragging them away from the vault.
"Yeah, yeah..." Cherry said, uninterested.
"Gold is a beautiful thing, but even something as small as a dime can have meaning," Scrooge told Louie and Cherry as he removed a tarp to show a 10 cent coin in a bell jar. "For instance-"
Cherry looked curious of the dime, but Louie escaped to go off the diving board into the coin pile for a money swim. Scrooge soon went and stopped Louie from diving.
"Louie, you can't do that!" Cherry scolded. "You'll get hurt!"
"But Scrooge swims in money all the time!" Louie defended.
"Yes, but I've worked hard to perfect that skill," Scrooge told him. "Building muscles and dexterity. If you want something, ya work hard to get it!"
"That's right." Cherry nodded.
There was soon a sound heard with a voice. 'Mr. McDuck, The Board is here to see you.'
"I don't have a board meeting today," Scrooge said as he looked as his pocket watch. "No matter! Come, children, welcome to the fast-paced world of business."
"Oh, boy, business..." Cherry muttered. "It's my favorite thing in the world to talk about!"
"This is going to be so boring!" Louie groaned.
They soon came into a board room with actual vultures. Cherry and Louie looked disinterested while Scrooge paid attention.
'This is so boring!' Cherry thought herself.
Suddenly, the door slammed open, startling Louie out of his chair.
"Shut up, everyone, I've done something brilliant!" The man smiled as he carried a box.
"Ah, Gyro," Scrooge smiled before looking to the kids. "Gyro Gearlose: my head of research and development."
"Hey." Cherry greeted out of boredom.
"I'm sorry, but we-" One vulture said to Gyro.
"Apology accepted," Gyro replied. "Now try to keep up with my mind-numbing genius."
"That was a bit rude." Cherry said.
"Gyro, what did we say about interacting with other people?" Scrooge reminded.
"The cards... Fine..." Gyro groaned before taking out cue cards. "'Hello, Mr. McDuck, and others. Are you tired of all those single-use gadgets cluttering up your junk drawer? What a mess. There's got to be a better way'!" he then reached into his box to bring something out. "Meet Lil' Bulb, the tiny, all-purpose robot that does it all."
'Wow.' Cherry thought to herself.
"Wait, what does it do?" A vulture asked.
"It all. Lil' Bulb is an artificially intelligent personal robot helper," Gyro informed and demonstrated. "He can make toast, find your keys, serve as a book light for your late-night reading. You'll never have to do anything yourself again."
This excited Louie.
"Sounds like something anyone would want." Cherry said.
"Mm-hmm..." The first vulture hummed before asking, "And how do you ensure this one won't achieve sentience and turn evil like all the others?"
"Wait... What...?" Cherry asked.
"Only half my inventions turn evil," Gyro defended. "The other half are just wildly misunderstood."
"Wildly misunderstood?" Cherry asked.
The invention seemed to slit its throat with a finger which was usually used as a death threat upon someone.
"What's it doing?" The vulture asked before the invention shook its fist.
"Waving," Gyro replied. "It likes you."
The vultures could already tell that was a lie.
"Request denied." The lead vulture told Gyro.
Gyro sighed sharply and soon stormed off in defeat.
"Keep at it, Gyro," Scrooge encouraged with a smile as he opened the door for Gyro. "I know you'll come up with something great."
"I agree." Cherry said.
"Lil' Bulb is something great," Gyro glared like a madman. "I'll show you. I'll show you all!"
"And maybe wait until you're out of the room to say that next time?" Scrooge suggested as he shut the door.
"Crazy Head..." Cherry muttered.
"Yeah, but he invented an amazing robot." Louie said.
"Louie..." Cherry sighed and shook her head.
"Come on, Cherry, a robot that does everything for you?" Louie replied. "How could you say no to that?"
"I have to agree." Cherry said.
"Part of hard work is knowing how to work with others," Scrooge told them. "My board are the only people cheaper than I am. I trust them completely to make good financial decisions."
"Indeed," The vulture replied. "Which is why we've called this meeting to discuss cutting your unnecessary spending here at the Money Bin."
"How so?" Cherry asked.
"It's says here he's spending $15 million on magical defense." The vulture replied.
"Do you have any idea how many vengeance curses I have on my head?" Scrooge glared before sitting down firmly.
"We'll just leave." Cherry told them, referring to herself and Louie.
Meanwhile...
"The Collected Treasure Maps of Peruvia," Webby geeked out as she looked at the various books. "The Topographical Atlas of Plain Awful. Scrooge's Favorite Smells, Volume 12," she then opened a page and looked victorious. "Fresh cookies. I knew it."
"Focus." Mo told Webby.
"Oh, right, uh, sorry." Webby smiled sheepishly.
"So, um, you have anything on Della Duck?" Atticus asked the librarian.
"So the boys seek to learn of their past, but are they strong enough to learn the truth?" The librarian replied.
"Yes." Atticus nodded.
"WRONG!" The librarian replied. "You must first prove yourself worthy by passing the trials!"
There was then an explosion which made them cough. This made the others cough except for Webby.
"Is she always like this?" Atticus asked Mo.
"Pretty much, I have no idea where she gets it from." Mo replied.
"This is my favorite place." Webby smiled.
"Of course it is." Mo gave a small smile back to her.
Meanwhile, Louie and Cherry came out of the elevator.
"Cherry, gimme a dollar." Louie said.
"Why?" Cherry asked. "Don't you have one?"
Louie checked his pockets and then saw that he did have one and used it for a Pep vending machine.
"Criminal." Cherry muttered, feeling like he was trying to get her into getting him more money.
The vending machine soon showed a 10 cent sign, telling how much more Louie needed to pay for a Pep.
"I guess you need change too." Cherry said to Louie.
"$1.10?!" Louie complained. "Who keeps dimes on them anymore?"
"Hmm... Let's see..." Cherry said as she checked her coin purse.
Louie had another idea and soon left the vending machine to go pay for the deposit.
After not finding a dime, Cherry noticed Louie gone. "Louie? LOUIE!"
Louie soon came back and put the dime in the vending machine to get his soda.
"Louie, where did you find that dime?" Cherry asked.
"I finally figured it out, Scrooge saved that dime for emergency." Louie smiled as he collected his soda.
"Um, you sure?" Cherry asked.
"You worry too much," Louie shrugged before drinking his soda. "I'll pay him back later."
"Alright, fine." Cherry said.
"I guess we better go back?" Louie asked.
"Yes," Cherry told him before walking him back to the board room. "The board room..." she then had to let out her own groan. "Emphasis on 'bored'."
"No kidding." Louie told her.
"That dime deserves its own velvet pillow!" Scrooge snapped at the vultures. "It's my number 1 dime! The first dime I ever earned!"
Cherry and Louie soon looked surprised and scared.
"I was a young shoe shine in Glasgow when a man came in, his boots cemented in mud," Scrooge informed. "I worked and worked until those boots sparkled. In return, he gave me an American dime. That dime inspired me to move to America and find my fortune. It means more to me than every bit of bullion in my Money Bin."
They all soon heard Louie finishing his can of Pep.
"Um, we have to go..." Cherry said about her and Louie, nervously.
"Yeah... Bye!" Louie added as they rushed out the door.
"So, that's why that dime's so special to him!" Cherry exclaimed once they were far from the board room.
"Gotta get the dime! Gotta get the dime!" Louie panicked.
They rushed to the elevator, but it closed before they could get to it.
"Ugh... Just my luck..." Cherry groaned.
They soon look and saw what floor the elevator stopped at.
"Come on, Cherry." Louie said before running.
"Stairs...?" Cherry asked uneasily. "Ay, carumba..."
"Come on, if I have to do this, you do too." Louie said, using her words against her.
"Curses." Cherry groaned.
The two soon ran over many flights of stairs to get to the floor where the vending machine was.
Cherry gasped and panted, sweating as Louie looked to the vending machine as a man emptied the coin tray. "No, stop!" She then tried to tell the man.
The man didn't hear her as he did his job and walked away going in another elevator.
"No, no, no!" Louie panicked, and like last time, the doors shut on them.
The floor then went up to 57.
"OH, COME ON!" Cherry yelled.
They soon traveled up the stairs, looking more tired than the last set of stairs. Cherry passed out as Louie panted and they saw that they were only on the second floor.
"COME ON!" Louie and Cherry complained before they kept going.
"WHY?!" Cherry screamed.
They finally made it to the floor and the man was wandering off.
"No, no, NO!" Cherry yelled out as she ran to the elevator to stop it from closing. "Stop!"
The doors then closed up.
"No..." Cherry groaned and nearly cried. "NO!"
Louie and Cherry soon checked the door next to them. Inside was a big pile of coins, but the door was locked.
"Okay, easy," Louie said. "Break in, steal the dime, sneak back downstairs, ooh, maybe stop at a vending machine~"
"Forget it, Llewellyn." Cherry replied in a scolding tone.
"Please don't say my full name." Louie begged.
Cherry stuck her tongue out.
Suddenly, a machine broke out and claws came out to take the coins.'
"What on Earth is that and what is it doing with the coins?!" Cherry's eyes widened.
"Well, we're dead." Louie shrugged.
"Lets try to find a video telling us how to unlock a door." Cherry said.
Louie nodded as the coins were being sucked away. Cherry brought out her phone and soon found a video on how to pick a lock. Unfortunately, it included a dime.
"If we had that, we wouldn't need the video!" Louie snapped.
Cherry tapped the screen as an ad suddenly popped up, but it was for 'Ottoman Empire'. "Skip, Skip, SKIP!"
Unfortunately it didn't skip.
"Someone's out to get me, I just know it." Cherry groaned.
Cherry and Louie looked into the window and looked nearly hopeless.
"There's gotta be a better way." Louie frowned.
"But how?" Cherry asked.
Gyro muttered to himself as he came into the elevator.
"Ding!" Louie said. "Hey, hold the ele-"
The elevator then went to the floor called L.
"You gotta be freakin' kidding me!" Cherry groaned. "Why does this have to happen to us?!"
Meanwhile...
"So, what do you know about my mom?" Dewey asked.
"Along with my parents?" Atticus added. "And my... Sister... I just can't get over that."
"SILENCE!" The librarian snapped and Webby struck a fighting pose. "Behold your first test: You must decipher the ancient and mysterious code within and a magic spell."
"Magic spell?" Atticus asked out of confusion.
"Yes! I love codes!" Webby cheered.
"Why a magic spell though?" Atticus asked.
"Your family was of magic... That is, if you are a Fudo family member..." The librarian said mysteriously.
"No wonder Mr. McDuck doesn't mention the Fudo family." Mo said.
"Dewey, you start with a Number Shift Cipher while I try a Monoalphabetic Substitution." Webby suggested.
"And we'll find the magic spell." Mo added to Atticus.
"I suppose I should be able to do that." Atticus said in determination.
"Pretty sure this is just a library card catalog," Dewey said as he flicked a card away. "Mystery solved."
"Oh, really?" Mo smirked.
"If it's just a card catalog, then how does it know your name?" Webby added, pointing to a plaque that said 'Dewey Decimal'.
"Uh, girls?" Atticus spoke up. "That's just-"
"Come on!" Webby interrupted as she climbed up the file cabinet.
"Never mind." Atticus groaned.
Cherry and Louie ran through yet another flight of stairs, looking quite weary and exhausted. Gyro then came out of the elevator only to run into the two.
"Hey, Gyro Gearlose." Louie smirked, leaning against the elevator door.
"And before you close the elevator doors, you should know that this is Louie, Scrooge's super rich nephew." Cherry added with a lie about the being super rich.
"Keep talking... Sir and ma'am..." Gyro smirked out of interest.
"I can't believe Scrooge and that tired old board of his didn't see the potential in Li'l Bulb here," Louie smirked back. "We'd love to invest, but we're gonna need to test this little guy out first. Do you mind if we borrow him for the afternoon?"
"Anything you say, rich nephew," Gyro replied. "Li'l Bulb, you be good. Don't you rise up against your masters."
"What was that about?" Cherry asked.
"Just a little robot humor." Gyro told them before going up the elevator.
"Wait don't-" Cherry cried out only to sigh. "...Close..."
They soon looked at the door to the stairs.
"Put in a hard day's work," Louie muttered as he imitated his granduncle. "I think I'm so much smarter than Louie!"
"Kids!" Scrooge called out, opening the door and startling them. "Where have you been? Trying to get out of work again."
"What? No, of course not!" Cherry said nervously. "We were just thinking about what you said."
"And we were just looking for a notepad and pen to write it down." Louie added.
"Good kids! Yer free to take as many pads as ye want," Scrooge smiled as he bought that before glaring at the vultures and slammed the door in the board room. "Or are we not allowed to use those either, ye penny-pinching buzzards?!"
Cherry and Louie looked relieved until Scrooge came right back.
"No, but really. Make sure to use the front and back of every page," Scrooge said before going back and coming back again until he was done. "And write small."
"Finally." Cherry sighed.
They soon came back to the door and luckily for them, the robot was able to get the door for them.
"And that's how you unlock a door," Louie chuckled. "Good job, Louie."
Li'l Bulb seemed to find that insulting.
"Thanks, L'il Bulb..." Cherry told the robot. "We couldn't have done it without you."
"Finding one specific dime in this mess is gonna be a pretty big job," Louie told the robot. "You better get to it." He then kicked the robot into the coin pile.
"Louie!" Cherry scolded.
"What?" Louie shrugged in defense.
"You're making L'il Bulb look for the dime?" Cherry glared.
"Why not?" Louie replied. "Gyro said that he would do anything we wanted, so why not?"
"You're being lazy again!" Cherry glared.
"You make that sound like a bad thing." Louie said as he took out his phone and sat down with it.
The robot soon came out of the coin pile.
"It's, like, a dime..." Louie told the robot before shrugging as he watched his show. "Ah, you'll find it."
"You are hopeless." Cherry sighed at Louie.
Louie rolled his eyes and soon watched his show. Li'l Bulb kept looking for the coin, it then saw the crane and decided to rewire it by going inside of it.
"Uh-oh..." Cherry gulped.
Li'l Bulb soon looked at her while turning red.
Cherry backed up, a bit nervously while Louie was distracted. "Now, now, just calm down." She said nervously.
Meanwhile...
"In order to gain knowledge from the Archives, one must first offer up knowledge." The librarian informed.
"Look, Quackfaster," Dewey stopped her as he stood in front of her book cart. "Normally I would be super-into a mysterious conspiracy quest. But couldn't you at least give me a tiny piece of information on our parents?"
"Dewey, don't question the ancient methods." Webby said through her teeth.
"Yeah or else she'll lose it." Mo added.
"I'm just saying, these are feeling a little less like trials, and a little more like stalling." Dewey said suspiciously.
"It is not for us to understand the ways of the Archives." The librarian replied.
"That is literally your job!" Dewey retorted before storming off. "I'm out. She doesn't know anything."
"You said it, Dewey; she's just stalling because she doesn't know anything!" Atticus added.
"No. None shall leave once the Trials are undertaken," The librarian said as she blocked their way. "There are those who would destroy you for the knowledge you seek."
"Just like the mailman." Webby whispered.
"This is bad." Mo added.
"Who's gonna destroy us?" Dewey glared with his hands on his hips. "Scrooge? The government? The Unicorn Illuminati?"
"Me." The librarian smirked.
"Wait, what?" The others replied.
"How are you going to destroy us?" Atticus smirked at Quackfaster.
The librarian soon brought a sword and chased them.
"Okay, that's bad!" Atticus panicked as he ran, pushing the book cart with the others.
"You just had to make her mad!" Mo glared at Atticus.
"How was I supposed to know she had a sword?!" Atticus argued.
Cherry leaned on the wall, shaking nervously and her heart raced.
"You know, I used to hate this show, but now, I kinda love it," Louie smiled. "It's like every ottoman tells a story."
The dime then rolled up to them.
"Hey, you found it," Louie smiled as he collected the dime. "Great job, little buddy." He soon saw that L'il Bulb wasn't little anymore.
Cherry and Louie soon ran out as Li'l Bulb began to chase them as a killer robot.
"This is like The Terminator!" Cherry panicked. "And I blame you for this, Louie!"
"Me? What did I do?" Louie replied.
"If you hadn't been so lazy, we never would've been in this mess!" Cherry glared. "And L'il Bulb wouldn't be trying to kill us over a dime!"
"You disrespect the Archives, you shall become one with the Archives!" Quackfaster snapped as she slashed her sword while chasing after Atticus, Mo, Dewey, and Webby.
"There's gotta be someway to disarm her!" Atticus panicked.
"Here," Mo said as she handed him a book from Webby. "Knowledge is the greatest weapon of all."
Atticus saw that the cover of the book and found it ironic, but used it anyway. Quackfaster soon grabbed the book. Atticus then threw another book and Dewey threw some more with him. Quackfaster caught them and then used her sword to place them on the shelves, and where they all were placed perfectly.
Gyro was at the soda machine and Cherry and Louie ran out of the elevator as Li'l Bulb chased after them.
"He's trying to kill us over the dime!" Cherry screamed.
Gyro sighed and soon went to go after them.
"Please, I didn't do anything wrong!" Cherry cried out to Li'l Bulb. "I was gonna let you go!"
"Don't you mean we?!" Louie asked her.
"You turned him into a slave!" Cherry glared. "Because you're lazy! You're Lazy Louie!"
"I am not!" Louie argued.
"Yes, you are!" Cherry glared.
"This isn't my fault!" Louie glared back.
"At least I'm not the one who angered a robot!" Cherry snapped.
"At least I wasn't adopted!" Louie retorted.
Cherry soon looked soft and hurt by that. Louie soon realized what he retorted and gasped. Cherry turned from him.
"Wait, Cherry, I didn't mean it!" Louie said to her. "I-I was just venting!"
Cherry didn't say anything and just looked away from him.
Webby and Dewey panted as they rode the book cart. Atticus felt something wrong inside of him, but wasn't sure what it was right now.
"I think we lost her." Dewey said to the others.
"Then why do I feel a chill down my spine?" Mo asked.
"Gotcha!" Quackfaster soon grabbed a hold of them. "Foolish boys. You do not know what you think you know."
"I don't know anything, and it's really frustrating!" Dewey snapped.
"Same here!" Atticus added
Cherry and Louie soon ran into the room and closed the doors.
"Louie! Cherry!" The others called out for them.
Li'l Bulb soon broke down the doors and came right in front of them.
"Uh, never mind." Dewey then said.
"You look busy." Atticus added.
"Look, a distraction!" Louie told the robot.
Li'l Bulb looked over and Louie soon slid into the other room and kept on running. Cherry soon got free and ran off.
Quackfaster smirked and looked confused as her hostages were replaced by books.
"Lazy Tuesday was an afternoon of TV," Louie panted as he and Cherry had to use the stairs again. "Hard working was giant robot attack. Great life lesson, Scrooge."
Cherry didn't respond.
"Cherry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I said." Louie said to her.
Cherry still didn't respond. Once they came through the door, they kept running. Li'l Bulb broke down the wall while still chasing them.
"Seriously?!" Cherry glared.
"Hey, you talked." Louie smiled.
Cherry huffed at him before taking the dime and looking around before finding a couch to hide behind. She soon hid behind a couch once she found one. Li'l Bulb soon came up to the couch and found the dime on its sensors and lifted the couch, sucking up the loose change inside.
"NO!" Gyro yelled out as he soon came to his invention. "You are not evil. You are good, Lil' Bulb. Good."
"Please let that work." Cherry begged.
L'il Bulb soon picked up Gyro and seemed to settle down, but soon sensed coins in his pockets and sucked them up. Louie and Cherry held the dime close as Li'l Bulb was about to take it, but soon, Gyro jumped to stop his robot and the coin flew out of Cherry and Louie's fingertips.
"No!" Cherry panicked.
The coin rolled off and Cherry decided to go after it.
Cherry then froze in place in a panic as it rolled into the board room. "No, no, no, no!" She panicked quietly.
Scrooge was still heard ranting in the board room. Luckily in there, no one noticed the dime. Cherry soon snuck in to go and get the dime without being noticed.
"You cannot get rid of the Bin," Scrooge ranted to the vultures. "You may think they're crackpots and weirdos, but they're the ones who push innovation, and creativity, and spur this company ever forward."
Cherry crawled under the table to reach for the coin. 'Almost there.' She thought to herself.
The coin was then kicked around. Suddenly Li'l Bulb and Gyro came in together
"Just a little malfunction," Gyro smiled nervously before being rode away by his robot. "Definitely not evil."
"Look, they're both mad as loons, so if you fire 'em, they're definitely going to seek revenge." Scrooge told the vultures.
"All in favor of keeping the Bin and everyone in it far away from our offices." The lead vulture told his followers.
"Aye!" The other vultures put their hands up.
The coin soon flew into the vent and was sucked away.
"NO!" Cherry yelped as she panicked. She soon ran out of the board room. She quickly hit the elevator button and the doors opened up and she was about to fall because there was no floor.
"You know where this is going." Louie said to her, pointing to the stairway door.
This caused Cherry to groan out of agitation. Cherry and Louie soon took the stairs, yet again...
"Are you happy now, Atticus? I'm getting exercise..." Cherry groaned and panted.
"I hate this so much..." Louie panted.
Cherry soon opened the door and they fell into the room. The dime soon bounced and came to the diving board inside the vault.
"NO!" Cherry and Louie panicked, going after the coin and it soon fell into the coin pile down below.
"Of course." Louie said as he should have known.
"I hate my life..." Cherry mumbled.