OOC NegaGosalyn? Moody teenager times, we all were there, and I refuse to believe that for all her sweetness NegaGosalyn didn't have this, teenage girls... raise your hand if you can remember yelling at someone because you became upset out of proportion to the situation.

A/n: I'm a fan of Top Gear, my apologies if I start ranting on about horsepower or the apex in a corner, I know my stuff mostly from those boys...

Chapter 2

Needing Practice.

Gosalyn frowned as she stood, driving? Her? She closed her eyes harnessing the sounds of gunshots and chainsaws once more, for some reason it always worked, she looked up at Megavolt and asked. 'C-can I drive?'

Megavolt's eyes went wide in surprise and he looked back to her, his mind whirling he gave a nod and a smile. 'Sure. Why not, we're just popping down-town for milk after all.'

Gosalyn smiled and skipped over to him. 'You're going to help me learn?'

'What are Dad's for?' He asked as she hugged him. 'I'll help you get all 120 of those hours you need.'

She looked up at him again. 'Really?'

'Yeah.' He said smiling.

'Keen Gear!'

He handed her the car keys and they headed to the door quietly.

Megavolt's car was parked in the driveway already wearing the L plates.

Gosalyn smiled at him 'You knew?'

'I was going to offer.' He said with a shrug.

They walked over and hopped in.

Gosalyn looked up at the house that had previously been Negaduck's, no one knew where he was living now in the Negaverse, he was certainly back though.

Gosalyn put the key in the ignition and adjusted the seat.

'Mirrors.'

Gosalyn nodded and set about playing with the electronic side mirrors till she could see out of them properly, she reached up and adjusted the rear-view mirror and settled back into the drivers seat.

She clicked her seat belt on and turned the key sideways.

The car started up and she took a deep breath checking the rear-view mirror, she took the gear lever and put the car into reverse.

She nervously put her foot on the accelerator and the car zoomed backwards.

'Gently Gos!' Megavolt yelled.

Gosalyn pulled a face as the car met the road and narrowly avoided hitting an oncoming vehicle.

Megavolt gulped nervously as Gosalyn slammed on the brakes and the driver of the other car yelled some angry words as he drove by.

Gosalyn felt her heart beating nervously and she closed her eyes for a moment, bringing up an image of Negaduck driving out of the very same driveway just as fast and not fazed by hitting another car, this wasn't the best comparison to draw on so she searched for another memory.

'You alright Gos? I... I'm sorry I yelled.'

Gosalyn looked at him blank faced, if he classed that as yelling Negaduck and Launchpad must've been beyond screaming in his definition.

'No, it's okay, I was just thinking about the last time I was in a car that nearly hit someone else.'

Megavolt's brow furrowed sadly. 'Negaduck was driving?'

'Yeah...' She blinked a few times and reached for the gear-stick again putting the car into drive.

She took hold of the wheel and gently tapped the accelerator, the car hopped forwards and she started turning the wheel as she pressed down lightly, the car crawled around, she pressed down a little harder and the speed climbed a bit, 20... 'Gosalyn.' She pressed harder, come on, 50! The car jolted and the speedo climbed.

Gosalyn looked up suddenly realising that she was supposed to be looking at the road not the speed, no wonder why people had accidents!

She swerved taking the car back to the side she was supposed to be driving on, speed limits weren't able to be matched if you weren't staring at the speedometer.

'Slow down a bit Gos, there's an- Intersection!' Gosalyn glanced to him as she slammed on the brakes.

He closed his eyes breathing heavily for a moment.

Gosalyn watched the traffic, car after car zoomed by, she scowled, We're going to be here all day! She watched the cars and after a long moment gritted her teeth. 'Stuff this! I'm going!'

'What-Gos No!'

Gosalyn slammed on the accelerator and two cars swerved to avoid colliding with them.

Gosalyn glanced to Megavolt who had his eyes tightly shut.

'You can look now.' She said rolling her eyes, maybe she should've gotten a driving instructor instead...

Megavolt looked to her and back to the road. 'Gosalyn... slow down!'

She lifted her foot a bit and the car slowed.

Megavolt breathed a sigh of relief.

Gosalyn shrugged as they headed over the bridge into the city, why did they do their shopping at this one particular place? She shrugged, Bushroot was a big supporter of the shops organic foods, and it was the only place that sold frozen yoghurt.

'Gosalyn, watch out for that little old lady!'

Gosalyn hit the accelerator instead of the brake. 'Jaywalkers!' She scolded.

Megavolt looked at her horrified as they barely missed the old lady who had indeed been about to jaywalk.


Negaduck held the gun up threateningly as he backed off to his car reaching down for the handle, there was a screech of car tires and he glanced around, a car had come speeding around the corner at the end of the block, it zoomed past and barely stopped in time for the traffic-light.

Suddenly the passenger door opened and Megavolt stepped out, furious, sparking and shaking from head to toe. 'That does it!' He yelled glaring at the driver, Negaduck noticed L plates on the car. 'I'm driving!'

The drivers door opened and a red haired teenager in a pair of jeans and a white shirt stepped out.

The different look aside he knew exactly who it was, his eyes glanced up to the now green light, the two were oblivious to it now standing behind the car.

'You promised you'd help me learn!'

'That was before you tried to kill us!'

'I did not! Stop over-reacting!'

'Over...' Megavolt sparked angrily. 'You: cut through an intersection, nearly hit a little old lady-'

'A jaywalking little old lady, and she wasn't that old anyway!'

'That's not the point!' Megavolt roared, a car had appeared behind them now and beeped moodily.

'Go round you knob!' Gosalyn roared at the driver giving a jerk of her thumb.

Negaduck opened his mouth in surprise and shook his head, bewildered but very amused, since when did his Gosalyn ditch candy-floss and became a moody teenager?

The car sped off around them and Gosalyn watched after it darkly. 'Idiot!' She yelled after him.

Negaduck lowered the gun and covered his beak trying not to laugh.

'Gosalyn!'

'What!' She looked at Megavolt and they glared for a long moment. 'You know...' She threw the keys at him and stormed off. 'Forget it! I'll walk forever!'

'Gosalyn get back here!' Megavolt yelled turning to follow after her, but Gosalyn had vanished.

Megavolt frowned as he stood there another car came up behind and he rushed into the drivers seat shutting the doors and driving around the corner.

What Megavolt hadn't seen was Gosalyn disappearing into the building.

Negaduck opened the car door threw the money inside and shut the door again, locking the car he looked around glaring. 'Anyone so much as touches my car and they'll be in so many pieces it'll take more than all of the kings horses and men to put them back together.' He then stormed off, following the moodiest teenager in the Negaverse up to the top of the tower.

He found her dangling her feet over the edge and stepped over.

The last time he and her had even made eye-contact had been years ago, he'd last seen her standing next to Tank peering in through the window at the bakery.

He stepped over to her and sat down too.

Tempting fate and getting vertigo at the same time, she was clearly more upset than she had let show, she sniffed and wiped her eyes.

He reached into his pocket and found a tissue, well wasn't she the lucky one? He'd actually bothered to put a tissue in his pocket at some point. He handed it to her. 'Here kid.'

She took it without question and after a moment of drying her eyes her head snapped round to him realising who it was sitting next to her.

She was surprised, not horrified, not scared, he rose an eyebrow. 'Got your license, huh?'

'Yeah.' She said turning away from him, wiping her face dry again.

'First lesson didn't go well I take it.'

'Yeah.' She said quietly.

'He's lookin' for ya.'

'He can go to Hell!' She snapped at him.

He rose an eyebrow. 'When did you start talking like that?'

She shrugged.

'It's been a while.'

'Yeah, 7 years, give or take.'

He looked at her. 'You changed styles.'

'Yeah, well it wasn't really working for me when I turned thirteen.'

He smiled. 'Well I did try and tell you to change.'

She looked at him. 'It's not that simple.'

He looked at her and shrugged. 'Well I tried...'

'Yeah, thanks, I had to work it out for myself.'

He looked out at the city. 'Hey!' He glared down, Gosalyn looked down too.

'What?'

'That's my car they want to break into!' He stood and turned to leave.

'What you don't have your rifle on you?' She asked coolly.

He looked to her, had she just questioned why he hadn't just shot them down from up here?

'Okay, forget I said anything...' She said holding up her hands in defence.

'I've got chainsawing to do.' He said turning and he headed quickly down from the tower roof.


Gosalyn walked into the house still quite upset at how her first driving experience had gone.

'Gos...'

She glared around at Megavolt and continued walking up to her room.

'3 out of 4 hero's find it inadvisable to try and mend the damage until the wounds have had enough time to heal.'

Megavolt frowned. 'I didn't mean to go off at her, but the way she was driving, it was like...'

'You said she was a bit shaken up at the start?'

'Well she remembered...' He went quiet as he looked up to the ceiling, frowning at the thought that she had remembered Negaduck so suddenly.

This teenage mood-swing she was going through had started up on the second day of her being 13. Gosalyn had retreated somewhere within herself and brought out someone else to take on the word.

The gang had worked out that it'd been due to a close encounter with the Muddlefoot parents, Negaduck's right hand goons, Gosalyn had been acting strange since the incident, shaken up by their intent to hunt her down and punish her.

'She was driving like him.'

'It's a faze, you know, teenage girls have their fare share of them.' Quackerjack offered to alleviate some of the sad feelings about this situation.

They all frowned, knowing that there would be more to it than just that, but they all decided it best for Gosalyn to work it out herself.


She lay face down on her pillow. She'd been lying awake all night, mentally going through her every mistake whilst driving.

She frowned and sought out her wallet, returning to the bed she lay down and pulled out Negaduck's photo.

She looked at the picture in the moonlight, 'It was good to see you Dad.' She said quietly. 'I know it shouldn't have been.' She sat up and looked down at him, 'Try as I might, I...' She closed her eyes. 'I never get it right.'


Gosalyn walked quietly up the footpath, heading to school, she was early, but that just meant she could sit in the library and study.

'You're kinda early for school kid.'

She stopped and looked around, Negaduck was leaning on one of the car doors. 'I'm always early, you know that.'

He rolled his eyes. 'Yeah, you might've gotten rid of the "little lady" routine but that odd love of school you have remains.'

'I do love school.' She said calmly. 'It's...' she looked to the building. 'Set.'

'Set?' He pushed himself off the car and walked over.

'Structured.'

He rose an eyebrow. 'Life with the geek squad ain't a bed of roses huh?'

'I wouldn't say that... and anyway, a bed of roses has thorns.'

He smirked. 'Got me there.' He said 'But I didn't come up with the line.'

'I know.' She said calmly.

'So... you like living with those losers?'

She sighed in annoyance, so much for her study time. 'They're good to me.'

'Well that didn't answer the question.'

She opened her mouth but mentally caught herself before calling him "Dad", 'I really should go.'

'What? No time for your old man any more?'

She stopped 'You've been replaced.' She said forcing herself to say the lie.

'I don't think I have.'

She turned. 'You're wrong then.'

'Oh really? So why're you still carrying that picture of me around in your wallet?' He said cockily.

'I...' Gosalyn shook her head, how does he know about that? 'What I keep in my wallet is none of your business!'

He blinked in surprise and looked mildly disturbed for a moment. 'Okay, way to make me drop the question.'

'I keep it in my wallet so I can tell you daily just how much my life is better without you.'

'My you're full of lies this morning.' He stepped up to her. 'Is your life really better?'

'What you want me to come back to you or somethin'?' She glared at him. 'Get a life!' She rolled her eyes and made to turn away.

'Don't turn your back on me Gosalyn, you know what'll happen if you do!'

She froze on the spot and looked at him. 'W-what do you want?'

'Sweetie.' He took her hand and she turned to him confused. 'Daddy only wants to help you out.'

'What-'

'Well...' He looked around and leant in to whisper to her quietly. 'I'm doing a bit of business down-town today.' Her eyes narrowed at him. 'And I need a driver.' She frowned, bank-hiest. 'Come on, Gosloid.' She forced herself not to smile at the nickname that he had given her way back, just to remind her that she was strange and out of place in his criminal world. 'I need a driver and you need to learn to drive.'

'The last time I drove I nearly killed Megavolt, a little old lady, and myself, not to mention several other drivers.'

He shrugged. 'You just need a bit of target practice.' Gosalyn smiled almost encouraged by those words. 'Come on, some driving is better than none.'

'You...' She frowned. 'You won't yell?'

He rolled his eyes. 'Not at you obviously.'

'Promise?'

'You know I don't keep promises.'

'Well then.' She made to turn again.

'You've got some nerve kid!'

'I've been working on it.'

He sighed moodily. 'Alright, fine! I won't yell at you.'

'And you're not going to hurt anyone?'

He blinked and considered her for a long moment. 'Aw, come on!' She looked at him, he scowled. 'Alright... I won't hurt anyone so long as they don't interfere, is that alright for you?'

Gosalyn thought about it, in the Negaverse very little was good, and with Negaduck she couldn't ask any more than this.

She gave a nod. 'I suppose so.' She sighed.

He rolled his eyes. 'Still the goody-goody, you're lucky I need a driver this badly.' He turned. 'Come on then kid.'

She smiled, he may have been mean, he may have been violent and cruel, twisted into crime and lost in the darkness, but she'd missed him, he was still her Dad.