Ch.3: Ten Years Later
, A once proud metropolis, was now the worst place in the world for anyone to be, especially if you were alive. Robots ruled everything now. No place was safe for organics like Gossalyn Waddlemyer and Launchpad Mcquack.
These two had been lucky enough to survive Omega Rex's rampage and were able to form a small resistance out of the few organics that remained. Honker Muddlefoot being one, and the Fearsome Five making up the rest.
Together they fought againist Omega Rex, searching for any way to stop the manicical machine, but they failed time and time again. Ever since the death of Darkwing Duck, the city of St. Canard had lost its will to fight, and ended up becoming machines in Omega Rex's ever-growing army.
Plant and food sources were less to none, leaving to a very disappionted Bushroot. The St. Canard Bay had been tainted with oil thanks to the hundreds of robots, making the Liquidnator very unhappy.
Quackerjack and Megavolt were cowering, hoping for this nightmare to end. While Negaduck sat around brooding, trying to think of a way for this nightmare to end.
Honker kept pouring over the blueprints for Omega Rex, searching for a way to stop the computer once and for all. In fact the little genius is why Gossalyn and Launchpad were prowling around the dump right now.
Honker had needed some spare parts, and the Fearsome Five were getting hungry for dinner. Gossalyn groaned as she and Launchpad shifted through trash, if Negaduck and his friends were so hungry, why didn't they search through this garbage themselves!
In her anger, Gossalyn's hand hit something hard, making her cry out in pain. Worried that the teenage duck had gotten hurt Launchpad quickly ran over to Gossalyn.
"What'd you hit?" asked Launchpad.
"I don't know" said Gossalyn, pointing to the pile she was digging in " something hard and metal,"
Launchpad pulled away some more debris off the pile, and what he uncovered made both him and Gossalyn back up in shock. There, laying right in front of them, was a metal version of Darkwing Duck. His eyes dark black, indicating that he was offline.
"Do you think?" asked Launchpad, stunned " could it be?"
"There's only one way to find out" said Gossalyn, grabbing one of the robot's arms " come on, let's take him back to the hideout!"
With that Gossalyn and Launchpad walked back to the Automan Bay Bridge, with a metal Darkwing cradled in their arms.
Needless to say, Honker and the Fearsome Five were stunned when Gossalyn and Launchpad brought the metal Darkwing back with them. Negaduck studied the metal mallard curiously before he looked up at Gossalyn and Launchpad.
"Do you think it could be him?" he asked, hopefully.
"We hope so," said Gossalyn.
"What if he's just another one of Omega Rex's driods?" said Megavolt.
"That's a chance I'm willing to take" said Negaduck, pointing to Honker " you there, work your magic!"
With that said, Honker got to work on tinkering with metal Darkwing. A restless two hours passed before the black eyes of the andriod suddenly lit up with red light, and started to sit up on the table.
"Whoa" said Darkwing, shaking his head in confusion " what happened to me?"
"He Lives! He Lives!" cheered Gossalyn, Honker, and Launchpad happily.
Hearing the familiar voices, Darkwing turned in the trio's direction, and gasped when he saw that Honker and Gossalyn were no longer pint-sized kids, but nearly fully grown adults.
"I must have hit my head harder than I thought," thought Darkwing.
"Good to have you back hero," said Negaduck.
"Negaduck!" shouted Darkwing surprised, now he was sure he was dreaming. What were the Fearsome Five doing in his room?
"Calm down Dad" said Gossalyn, putting a hand on Darkwing's shoulder " it's ok, the Fearsome Five are on our side now,"
"Gossalyn, what is going on here?" said Darkwing, angry and confused " how are you and Honker suddenly teenagers? What's the Fearsome Five doing here? What happened to Omega Rex?"
"Um" said Honker " Omega Rex now rules St. Canard. You've been gone for over ten years. We thought you were dead,"
"Ten years!" shouted Darkwing, in disbelief " Impossible! I was in Omega Rex's hideout only yesterday! He tricked me into some kind of experiment and I blacked out. So how can it be ten years in the future when I haven't aged a day,"
"Maybe because robots don't age," growled Negaduck.
"Robots?" said Darkwing, leaping off of the table and walked over to his personal mirror.
Once he saw his own metallic reflection he screamed. Everyone in the room had to cover their ears from the high-pitched wail.
"It's going take Yankee Staduim for this guy to shut up," growled Negaduck, holding his hands over his ears.
Suddenly as it started, Darkwing's screams stopped, leaving a greatful yet confused auidience staring at the metal duck. Darkwing's face was twisted in an expression of anger, tiny sparks fizzled around his body, and his eyes glowed blood red.
Releasing an inhuman growl, Darkwing threw one of his metallic fists right into the mirror, shattering it and the wall behind it. Gossalyn, Launchpad, Honker, and the Fearsome Five all backed up in fear at Darkwing's intense anger.
Taking a deep breath, Darkwing calmed himself, making his red eyes glow a soft glow, then turned to the frightened auidience before him.
"Tell me what happened" he said " from the begining,"