Remembrance

Chapter 7

Tired…so tired……

That was he could think about as he packed away his daughters lunch for the new day of school. Rings under his eyes could tell anyone he hadn't slept in days. In a zombie-like state he was trying his best for his daughter.

"Dad!" Gosylan came running into the kitchen, a smile wide across her face. She had a duffle bag in tow. "Don't forget to pack my pudding."

"Hmm…what? Oh Pudding. Right." Was all Drake could say in his drowsy sleep-like state.

"Dad? You ok?"

"Oh I'm fine." He tried to focus as best he could. "What's left of the Fearsome Five ran amuck last night. Didn't get any sleep. It was one store after the other. I tried to catch up, but every time I headed in the direction of a police report, another one would go off. It was so random. They've never acted like this before. And what's strange, they didn't even steal that much."

"Maybe it's a new strategy on there part."

"Maybe. When dawn came up, the reports stopped, and so did I." He handed her the packed lunch and they started to head to the door.

"Well try and get some sleep Dad, I got a hockey game after school, so the house should be quite until then." She gave a big smile.

"Thanks kiddo, I will" they were about to open the door, when it suddenly rang. Drake and Gosylan looked at each other, gave a shrug, then opened up. It was Drake's favorite neighbor.

"Hello Herb" Drake said with a slight bit of disgust.

"Drakster! And Hello little Miss Goyslan."

"Hello Mr. Muttlefoot."

"Listen, Drake. Honker's got an eye check up after school, and wouldn't you know it, me and Binki forgot all about it."

"What am I supposed to do about my goalie?" Gosylan asked.

"Well Gos, guess you're gonna have to play the big game without the Honkmister."

"Great, another game where I play more than one position."

Drake spoke up with a bit of pride, "Look at it this way, with you pulling for two, the odds are more even, and it's more of a challenge for you."

Gosylan smiled at that comment, she loved it when her Dad thought the best of her.

"Anyway Drakester, I wont be able to pick up Gos at the game due to the check up."

"That's fine Herb, where's the game being held?"

"Across town, at P.S. 116. Well I gotta go pick up a new shipment of Quackerwear products, Drake you're gonna love the new models."

Drake just shut the door. "Out of all the houses in St. Canard I got that guy for a neighbor." He then turned to Gosylan, "If I'm not too tired, I'll try and make it to the game"

"Don't kill yourself Dad, it's not the finals, and you need some sleep, you can just pick me up."

"And miss my daughter wallop those clown!"

The doorbell rang again. "If that's Herb…" He opened the door to reveal his neighbor's young son. "huh…Oh Hi Honk-man"

"Hello Mr. Mallard."

"Ok kiddo, time for school. Good luck at the game." He kissed her on her forehead and shoed her out the door. He then used every once of energy he had to make it to the couch and then collapsed in a deep sleep.

Outside, Gosylan and Honker began there walk to school. It was only a block away so they did this every morning. Drake had picked that particular school for Gosylan because it was the one he had attended years ago.

"Your Dad seems really tired, Gosylan."

"Yeah, the Fearsome Five have kept him up these past few nights, and I think he's having nightmares about something"

"That's no good, maybe he should talk to Morgana."

"They have a date tonight, that is if the Five don't ruin it. I'll mention it to him."

They walked some more and a silence passed between them. Honker needed to ask Gosylan something. "Hey Gosylan, you know those pictures in your Dad's office?"

"Yeah, my dad goes a little over board with the camera sometimes."

"No it's not that. You ever notice that guy in some of the older pictures. He's kind of a nerdy looking with suspenders and a pocket protector."

"No….Then again I'm usually not allowed in my Dad's Den, and there are a lot of pictures on his desk. What about it?"

"Well I think that's Elmo Sputterspark."

"Who?"

"He was the Nation Chess Champion for 6 years in a row. They say he could've broken records."

"Could?"

"He stopped attending the tournaments; no one knows what happened to him. I think your Dad knew him."

"Ok, so my dad hung out with nerds in High School, big surprise there. Why are you so curious about it?"

"I was just wondering if you Dad knew where he was, I wanna get some chess pointers from him."

"Well if he's awake when school's over, you can ask him. I've never heard of this guy."

"Ok, I should have time before my appointment."

The two children walked on, unaware there were being watched.

Gizmoduck and Morgana had been searching the city all night. They had done as Darkwing had, follow the Five's trail, only to be led nowhere. They had come close to running into Darkwing a few times, but Morgana had used an invisibility spell to hide them both.

"We are getting no place slowly" Giz said

"Well we could check their hide out again, they might be back by now."

"They probably abandoned it after they revealed its location to you."

"Maybe…."

"We should stop and eat something. I'm famished."

"Oh I know this great little place in the cemetery and that serves the best goulosh"

"Ummm…I think I've lost my appetite"

"That's strange, the same thing always happens to Dark"

"It figures the one time we actually are looking for Dipwing, he takes a vacation." Quackerjack was pouting

The three villains sat in Megavolts lighthouse, still gripping about the nights events.

"Yeah, can you imagine if the boss was back and we pulled something last night" Bushroot asked.

"Ohh…This isn't solving my problem guys!"

"Face it Megs, even if we did run in Darkwing, he wouldn't have helped us."

"I'm not giving up on this, guys."

Quackerjack sighed, he wasn't going to win the game, and he didn't like playing it all that much either.

"Let's not fight." Bushroot tried to think positive on the situation. "Why don't we start from the beginning? What else do you remember Megavolt?"

Megavolt scathed his head. He got up and began pacing around the room, only to stop at the window. He looked out and saw it. "Audubon Bay Bridge!"

"What? The bridge leading into Duckberg?"

"YES THAT'S IT!" And with Megavolt ran out the door.

"I hate it when does that" Quackerjack wined as he and Bushroot ran after their friend.