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The ducks finally made it back to the Pond, a teammate down. Buzz was inconsolable and he had to be given back to his guardian. He kept telling Wildwing that he was positive that he set the device right but hadn't tested it. Besides that they couldn't get any other answers out of him.

The atmosphere was gloomy around the ducks but nothing was a dark as the cloud that floated over Wildwing. Wildwing thought back to the first time he had meet Mallory. Even back then he had felt a connection with her, like he already knew her and was in love with her. At the time he thought it was ridiculous that you can fall in love with someone by one look, but when they started to date, he found he was in fact in love with her from the first moment he laid eyes on her... and now she was gone.

"No." He said to no one in particular.

"What bro?" Ask Nosedive.

"I refuse to believe that she's dead. When Buzz is better I'm going to go talk to him about what that device did and then figure out a way to get Mallory back. Maybe he can help."

"I'm with you on that one Bro!" Nosedive's enthusiasm helped his spirits. Wildwing nodded and went to his room. "You guys alright?" He looked to the rest of the team. They all nodded and Wildwing gave out orders for everyone to get some rest.

Everyone watched their leader walk off and looked at each other unsure of what to do. "Kid I hope for Wildwing's sake that we can find Mallory." Said Duke, never having seen Wildwing like this before. Even when Canard died he didn't take it this hard.

"We will Duke. I don't know what it is but I just know that she's not dead." Said Nosedive walking off to his room. The rest of the ducks decided to follow the brothers example and went to bed to the night. In the morning they would work on getting Mallory back.

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An hour later Mallory had fallen back asleep and Drake was awake and watching over her again, studying her features as she slept. Outside the open room, Mara and William were quietly cleaning up after having healed Mallory.

"Mara, doesn't Drake seem a little attached already?" William smirked, not realizing that he was touching on a tender subject for her. Mara looked over at Drake sitting next to Mallory's bed. He was studying her face in curiosity.

"No, I think he is just being a good person. Just because he is watching over her doesn't mean that he likes her. Not everyone thinks like you William." She bit out at him. William just raised an eyebrow at Mara's strong reaction but shrugged it off as her being tired. Mara was about to walk in when she saw Drake raise his hand and tenderly brush some of Mallory's fiery red hair out of her face. Mara paused, her heart clenching at the sight and a sudden wave of jealously filled her.

"You were saying?" William teased.

Mara didn't answer she just turned away and stormed out of the room. William watched her go in surprise just now realizing that Mara had liked Drake. "How could I have missed that? Stupid William!" He followed her out to make sure she was okay, taking one last glance at his best friend who seemed to be entranced by Mallory.

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A day later found Mallory pacing the courtyard that was contacted to Mara's home. Mara had been kind enough to let her stay in a spare room. In the meantime Mallory had Drake's training planned out. Only now she had to tell him that he was going to train whether he liked it or not. He might not take that well...

Her thoughts were interrupted when said duck walked out into the courtyard. He had been hanging around a lot, wanting to make sure she was safe. He would come by often to check on her, much to Mara's frustration it seemed. "How are you doing today?" Drake asked, walking up to her and looking at her in concern.

"I'm fine but we need to talk." Mallory wanted to get straight down to business.

"Oh ok?" He waited for her to go on, wondering what she needed. What ever it was he would get it for her.

"This is going to not make a lot of sense to you but as of today, you need to start training for war."

"Oh wow, wow! Where is this coming from?" He waved his hands back and forth in front of himself, signaling for her to stop where she was going with this.

"Look I know that I'm a complete stranger but you have to trust me." Drake just raised an eyebrow at her.

"Your right I don't know you. You could be crazy."

"None the less the Saurian's aren't going away. Not unless someone stops them." Mallory realized that if she tried to tell him about his future she could mess things up, besides if she were in his position, she wouldn't have believed her either. So instead she was going to make it seem like she wanted to complete her mission and stop the Saurian invasion. Something told her that he wouldn't let her do something so dangerous alone, so he was either going to help her or she would die trying by herself. Not really but she needed him to think that. "I need your help Drake and you saved me from those patrol droids, so I know you won't trick or trap me. I need you to help me take down the Saurian's by taking out the master tower."

"The master tower!" He whispered harshly. "No one has even seen one! Not to mention two ducks alone aren't going to stop of full scale invasion."

"And that's why we will need to recruit others with special skills." She crossed her arms in front of herself. "I know what I'm doing when it comes to this stuff." "At least I hope."

Drake stared at her like she had lost her mind. "What you are planning to do is suicidal! Those Saurian's have magic that they use to hide their ships! How are we going to find them?"

"By making a something that will let us see through their invisible shields."

Drake just lifted his eyebrow at that. "Like what?"

"...A mask." She smirked and he cocked his head to the side at her.

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AN: Sorry it's taking me so long to update on these stories. I'm having a hard time finding inspiration to write nowadays.