Remembrance

Chapter 13

The door to a small musty apartment opened. He ran inside, out of breath. After hearing the news, he had to get out of town, he had to get away from what was about to happen. He ran to his dresser and started packing everything he could fit into a small suitcase. Costumes, one after the other filled the baggage.

"Have to get away……Curtain time in 10 minuets……" He muttered to himself. He opened the bottom draw and three heads popped out, all with menacing eyes, none of the three penguins said a word. "Get the car ready! I, the Great Tuskernini, have decided to take a vacation from St. Canard." The three got up, grabbed a few bags and left.

Tuskernini was alone; trying to decide on what would be that last costume he would bring. He only had room for one more, but dozen were left in the apartment. That's when he noticed the window was open….his assistances never left the window open. He looked around, but found nothing.

He went back to his task at hand, mumbling to himself every now and them. He really didn't have time for this. He heard a creak in the floor boards and froze instantly. Slowly he turned around….

All he saw was a shadow figure and piercing blue eyes. The figure remained in the shadows as he spoke, "Leaving town Tubbo?"

"Oh…I….was just thinking about taking a vacation….you know go out to Hollywood for a few days and maybe direct a major motion picture."

"That's not what I hear. I hear St. Canard's entire criminal underground is skipping town and no one will tell me why."

"That is….unfortunate….Who might I ask are you and why would you care?"

"Simple question, simple answer." The figure took one step into the light to revile the city number one criminal.

"Negaduck?"

"You know I'm getting kind of tired of people thinking I'm a ghost."

"But they said you died."

"They say a lot of things Tubbo, now tell me what else do they say, what happened?"

"FOWL is taking over everything here. They've been recruiting like never before. Word is there going to pull something soon, might destroy the whole city. Such a pity to, I really liked it here."

"That's besides the point, I can guess who's behind this."

"Who else, FOWL's number one super spy, Steelbeak."

Negaduck looked away, silent for a moment, and then he spoke in almost a somber voice. "What about my team?"

"The Fearsome Five?"

"Of course you Knob! Who else?"

"They say there was a battle. Witnesses claim it was something to be held. You would have been proud at how Bushroot and Quackerjack fought."

"Where are they?"

"Don't know. FOWL is changing hideouts almost every 5 hours from what I hear, getting closer to Duckberg is the rumor."

"What about Sparks and Liki?"

"Megavolt was spotted running down the city streets almost in a panic last night. As for the The Liquidator, no one knows. I figure he'll make his grand entrance when he feels like it."

"Hmmm….And what about you?"

"Me?"

"What do you plan to do about this? FOWL is taking over our city."

"I am no match for the likes of them. Not even you on your own could handle FOWL. I'm afraid I must bow out early on this one."

"You'll run away, and hand the city over them. Think about it, there are not many places left where you can go around robbing banks any more."

"Which is why I will be saddened to give my goodbyes, but as I said, I have nothing compared to them. Why….you'd have to get the Fearsome Five and Justice Ducks to even have a fair….." He stopped when he saw an evil grin form across Negaduck's beak.

Negaduck ran back to the window, "Don't pack up too soon Tubbo, I'm not giving up my playground without a fight." And with that he was gone.

"Was it something I said?"

Megavolt was snoozing in the chair next to Gosylan. He had another bad dream, but this one involved QJ and Bushroot being imprisoned. He woke up and walked over to the window. The sun was coming up. It had been a long night for him, but he got through it. Now all he needed to do was have Gosylan contact Darkwing and he could go save his friends.

Gosylan stirred slowly and opened her eyes. "Where…." She looked around, and stopped when she saw the Super villain.

"Hello! You gave me a little scare last night." He said with a half smile.

"Are we at a hospital?"

"Yeah, After Liki drenched you, you almost died of hyperthermia."

"Well thanks….again"

"No problem, I need to contact Darkwing"

"Darkwing!" She panicked when she realized that is was morning and she hadn't contacted her Dad at all. Now she was in a hospital, and still with Megavolt. There was no doubt about it; she was grounded till High School. "Um….I really need to call my dad."

"The phone's right there."

She picked it up, but there was no dial tone. Then the lights flickered and went off. Megavolt looked around. "That's strange, I thought I felt something wrong in the electromagnetic spectrum"

"What's going on?"

"A rolling black out. If the power surges again, I'm in for an interesting shock."

"What do you mean?"

"My body collects any amount of electricity it can around me. When massive power serge happens, extra energy bursts through every possible electric item plugged in. My body acts as a magnet for that, basically making me a walking power strip to deal with that burst. I get shocked, hard."

"Will that happen this time?"

"Possibly."

A doctor walked in, almost in a panic. "I do apologize for the black out, half the city's power is gone at the moment."

"Don't the hospitals have back up generators or something?" Gosylan asked.

"Yes, but ours are under maintenance at the moment."

"But what about all the sick people?" She continued, Megavolt remained silent.

"We have 3 major surgeries going on right now, and the doctors are operating by candle light. There's not much we can do, except wait it out. I'm going around to all the patients and I just wanted to make sure your condition fully stabilized."

Gosylan looked up at the super villain, "You can help."

"What! Me?"

"You're a walking battery."

"And I never waste any electricity either!"

"It's not wasting if you put it use and people can benefit from it."

"Ummm…"

"You have to"

Megavolt was silent, doing all these good things was having a major effect on his morals, wasn't he a member of the Fearsome Five after all, what would Negaduck say?

"If you don't help out, the phones wont work, and I can't call my dad to call Darkwing."

"I didn't think of that"

"Now will you help out?"

Megavolt turned to the doctor who wasn't quite sure what they were talking about. "Doc! Where are those generators?"

Quackerjack was board, this wasn't very fun. Locked up in some cell, only able to look at his unconscious friend. They had been moved several times during the night, probably trying to keep SHUSH from finding them, he thought. Each time, he wasn't allowed near Bushroot.

His inner thoughts were stopped when the plant mutant groaned and started moving.

"REGGIE!"

"Quackerjack? What happened?" He got up holding his head.

"They go us Bushroot. Do know where they're taking us, but the only reason we're alive is to use for bait for old Megs."

Bushroot's headache was bad; he closed his eyes, trying to control the pain. "I'll get us out of here, as soon as this headache goes away."

"You can't. Steelbeak says he put something in you're head that won't let you talk to plants anymore."

"What!" Bushroot held out his hand, his mind searched for any whispers he could hear, any plant nearby that could lend a hand, or leaf in this matter. He fought the pain, but all he ended up doing was tiring himself out. "My power….." He said in a sober voice

"When Megs gets us out of here, he can take a look at it, he knows about that electrical stuff and all. We'll get you're power back."

"Thanks QJ, I only hope Megavolt can get some help."

Megavolt, Gosylan., and the doctor had gone to the basement of ht hospital. Megavolt had easily started the generator, and now was controlling the flow of energy from his body to the device. The lights started flickering and came on, instantly the whole hospital's power was restored.

Gosylan smiled at the super villain, he had done good deeds all night, all with the hopes of talking with her dad. She had to make him listen, no matter what punishment he had for her, Darkwing would hear out Megavolt.

"Wait a minuet" Megavolt stopped what he was doing, a look of dread came across his face. "The power's going to come back on"

"Are you sure?" The doctor asked.

"Pretty sur……" Energy burst through the basement, all attracted to Megavolt. He screamed in pain as the overflow hit him. Light bulbs broke open, this surge was bad. In his pain Megavolt did the only thing he could think of, he directed the excess power to the generator, keeping it going. He was as he said before, a walking power strip.

The surge came and went and Megavolt collapsed, still conscious, but unable to stand.

"Are you ok?" Gosylan asked

"I'll be fine, I'm used to it."

"Interesting ability you have friend, if you have some time I'd like to run some scans on you."

"NO! No doctors!" He got up. "I just want to talk to Darkwing."

A few minates later, Gosylan was on the phone, she first tried the house.

"Hello, Mallard residence, Launchpad here"

"Launchpad, where's Dad!"

"Gos! Where've ya been? You're Dads out looking for you."

"On the Ratchatcher?"

"Ya but…"

She hung up the phone and quickly dialed the Racatcher's number; it picked up, "DAD!"

"Gosylan Mallard, where are you? Do you know how much I've been worried young lady? You are in so much trouble!"

"Trust me Dad I know. I'm at the hospital."

"HOSPITAL! Are you ok? If anyone hurt you…."

"Dad I'm fine. Just get here ok."

"I'm on my way!"

She hung up the phone and turned to the waiting Megavolt, "My Dad's coming, you can ask him when he gets here."

"Are you in trouble?"

"Oh yeah! I'll be grounded for life after this."

"You don't sound too upset by that."

"My Dad loves me, he'll ground me till college, but forget about in a week or so. He'll probably take me camping or something."

"You're Dad sounds like a good guy. I love camping, my best friend and I used to do all the time."

"Who? Quackerjack?"

"No, someone I knew before I became a super villain."

"Where is he?"

"Don't know, but I can't really think about that right now, I have to help QJ and Bushroot."

"We'll my Dad will be here soon, then we can get in touch with Darkwing."

"Thanks for you're help Gosylan."

"Hey, I owed ya."

Author's Note: I had to write up on Negs, and I'm glad I fit Tuskernini in there too. Hope everyone is enjoying it. What will happen when Drake comes to pick up his daughter? Stay tuned for the next chapter.