A Rewritten Family History
lets press on with the LGD arch...there wasn't any notes for this chapter so I'll just once again say thank you to everyone who has read/reviewed this so far and is still holding tight on this crazy ride...
Della let out a frustrated grunt as she looked over at the screen in front of her. She had been beginning to lose track of the hours since Darkwing, Launchpad and Gosalyn had left to track down the villains and while the news reports of their presence had begun to slow down as time ticked by the radio silence from the team was beginning to be worrisome.
Gosalyn was only a year older than her boys and her maternal instincts were on overdrive in worrying about the teen..she could only imagine how she would be feeling if she had allowed Dewey to join in.
Clicking around on Darkwing's supercomputer WANDA, she soon felt a gentle tap on her shoulder.
"Changing of the guard," Huey spoke, holding out a cup toward his mom.
"It's been three hours already," Della spoke with a slight yawn taking the cup from the boy, it was a far cry from starducks but caffeine was caffeine.
"I was able to take a power nap but Dewey is beginning to get restless."
Della nodded her head before looking back toward her son.
"So multiverse theory huh?"
"You've seen my tabs."
Della nodded as her son shrugged back his shoulders.
"It's just a hunch… I mean I spotted something out of the corner of my eye that looked like something I saw in a book I borrowed from Fenton and that would explain the logic behind antagonists from a television series that's been off the air for more than two decades wreaking havoc on the city plus the way Bulba made that haggis apparate from seemingly nowhere…"
A smile simply crossed Della's face as her son continued to speak as she soon reached out to ruffle the boy's hair.
"You are definitely your fathers son."
Huey smiled at his mothers complement as she let out a slight yawn moving from one son to another.
Della crossed the open space of Darkwing Tower and began to look around for where Dewey had been. Her middle son was quiet...too quiet from the boy she had gotten to know in the past few months.
She finally found him humming an all too familiar tune as he was lying looking out a window towards the city.
"Nice night we're having," Della said in the hopes to break the ice however from their perch she could see the havoc that the fearsome four had wrecked and she watched as her son's expression got more sour and sad.
"I'm worried about Goss, I could have done more...I should have done more."
Della looked at the boy. He was a ticking time bomb and at any moment she was sure that he'd unleash the famed family rage out on an innocent pillow or piece of barware.
"Huey has some theories as to what might have happened to Waddlemeyer," she said, hoping to ease Dewey's anxiety.
She watched as Dewey nodded clearly knowing all about his brother...er...cousin...it was still hard for her to get used to the fact that they weren't raised as brothers even thought it was her wishes that had caused the arrangement in the first place.
"Gosalyn came to Melody…"Dewey soon began to confess however before he was able to say more a sound broke him as well as Della and Huey from what they were doing and thinking.
Flashes of her time with Lunaris began to suddenly dance in Della's head as she thought the worst. A wave of relief washed over her however as she spotted a familiar tuft of red hair causing her to head down, Dewey on her heels.
She practically flung herself into Launchpad's arms not caring that his shirt was soaked to the bone.
"I was beginning to think something happened to you guys," Dewey spoke as he had approached Gosalyn giving the girl an embrace of his own, however instead of reciprocating like Launchpad had been to Della she instead brushed it off as she began to cross the room.
"Note to self," Darkwing said wringing out the water that soaked his fedora before crossing the room to look at what information Huey had up on the monitor at the moment. "On our next patrol bring phone chargers...also bags of rice if the villain's made of water."
"Liquidator?" Della asked.
Darkwing nodded.
"Though we did back Quackerjack into a corner for a while and the police were real close to apprehending him."
"And that's when Liquidator showed up," Launchpad said, "One step forward two steps back but we know what we're looking for next time DW...we will get the upper hand."
"Now all we have to do is change into dry clothes, dry out and charge our phones and then get right back out there." Gosalyn spoke with the same adrenolyn induced voice that she used to have when she went out on her earliest adventures with Scrooge.
"You have dry clothes" Launchpad said with a raised brow as he began to wring out what he had on Dewey moving to help him.
"I can go on this mission right? You promised!" The boy said looking at his mother with a pleading look.
Della didn't want to tell her son no as he was right she did promise however at the same time she really truly did not want him 'Getting Dangerous' with Darkwing.
"Why not let the team take a break for a moment before we decide who is going out and what our strategy...I mean you aren't going to be able to wrangle any villains super or otherwise if you pass out from exhaustion."
Gosalyn pouted from where she sat in the corner rifling through the duffle bag she had been carrying with her that had been filled up with spare cloths from living on the street since her grandfather vanished.
Letting out another sigh, Della made her way across the room where Darkwing had been standing besides Huey clearly trying to make heads and tails as to what the boy was researching.
"So, did you give your fiancé a call?" Darkwing asked Della taking her off guard a bit.
"No, but I did talk to Fenton."
Hours Ago:
"What's it like out there?" Della asked from her spot.
"I really couldn't say, I've been trying to assess how to detangle myself from Bushroots well...roots for the better part of the past few hours.
She thought of how at least Fenton had the Gizmosuit to keep him safe even if he was tangled up at present but Darkwing's costume and Launchpad and Gosalyn's civilian clothes had no protective layers whatsoever.
"In the meantime while I've been hung up I have managed to…is Scrooge with you?"
"No, he decided to stay back at the office to keep tabs on his investments."
Fenton nodded from where he'd been positioned.
"I managed to hack into the McDuck Enterprises security mainframe and managed to track down footage from the night Gosalyn said her grandfather disappeared."
"And…"
"And it doesn't look good… one minute Waddlemeyer and Bulba are arguing and then the next there is a flash of light that could have been blinding if not on grainy security footage and poof."
"Poof…"
"It was as if Waddlemeyer vanished out of thin air and then the footage just stopped all together."
"Curiouser and Curiouser," Della replied as she began to type on a few keys haphazardly before looking back toward Fenton deciding to lighten the mood with a subject change. "So, have you talked to Selene since my birthday?"
Della could see Fenton's cheeks begin to slightly flush at the goddesses name.
"St. Canard is literally burning in areas thanks to MegaVolt and you want to talk about my love life."
"Love Life huh...so I take it as a yes then."
"No comment."
"When this is all over we are so going on a double date."
"I think I'm losing you."
"Check back in with me in a few hours"
"Poof?" Gosalyn said now sitting around listening as Della had relayed what Fenton had told her about his viewing of the security footage.
"It further backs up my suspicions," Huey said, "From what I've been able to surmise the Ramrod wasn't some kind of fancy next generation 3D printer creating something from seemingly nothing. No, everything that's some out of the machine has been borrowed from another universe."
Multiple pairs of eyes soon flashed upon Della's son causing him to take pause before giving his mother a look as if silently asking if he should go on in his infodumping. Della gave him a silent go ahead and so he continued.
"The multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists. The Ramrod was meant to tap into these universes however Waddlemeyer realized that it was unstable..if overpowered the multiverse would fold in on itself and the world as we know it would cease to exist."
"English please?" Dewey asked.
"Bulba felt threatened and so he pushed his partner into another universe, perhaps it was the fictional St. Canard of the Darkwing Duck TV Show where he pulled the villains from, perhaps it was another universe all together though the point is that the machine probably has only a few uses left before it goes….."
Huey made a hand gesture to simulate an explosion.
There was a moment of lingering silence as Della and those in the room processed Huey's words in their own ways.
"So," Della said looking around at the faces in the room...the self proclaimed Super Hero, her friend, the superfan who deemed himself the sidekick, the young girl who just wanted to find her grandfather, and her two darling boys who she didn't know what she'd do if they were separated once more. "We find a way to pied piper the fearsome four back to the lab and zap them back into their dimension and then we figure out where Gosalyn's grandfather is and pull him out and then we destroy the machine before any other harm can be done….ooooh I'm starting to get a second...or maybe third...fourth...yes a fourth wind."
"It will be easier said than done," Huey mumbled, however his worrisome voice was overshadowed by his cousin.
"LETS DEWEY THIS!"
