Meeting Duke and Tanya

18 weeks went by since that fateful day when everything first went bleak for eveyone. Penny wandered the amandoned streets where the robots were'nt roaming feeling very misrable and lonely. She haven't seen anyone in days or even weeks and she was getting very worried about her friends and her father. She had looked everywhere for them but they were no where to be found.

"Where is everyone?" She asked herself what she wouldn't give just to see Wildwing, Nosedive and her father again she looked down at her tattered, stained and torn dress, since she had to dodge and hide from the robots for the last few months. "There's just got to be someone there." Penny said "There just has to be."

Suddenly she heard a few smashing sounds near an ally and went over to invistagate. She peeked over a dumpster wreckage and saw a duck with an eyepatch standing on the reakage of some robots while holding a sword before the blade suddenly shined gold and dissapeared leaving only the bottom "I love the sound of smached robots in the morning." The duck said with a strong Brooklyn accsent.

The duck notised Penny before she quickly ducked down "Hey, are you ok? You look like your lost." "You don't know the half of it." Penny said from behind the dumpster "Can you please come out so we can be friends?" the duck asked "I know this must be scary for you but you'll have to trust me, everyone else is at the prisoner camps." "Prisoner camps?" Penny asked as she poked her head out She suddenly had a sick feeling that Wildwing and Nosedive must have been inside the prisoner camps the whole time.

She stepped out and the duck got a more clearer look at the girl in front of him. "You're that alien girl aren't you?" the duck asked Penny frowned sadly and sighed "I'm Penny Thunderbeak." "Canard's kid?" Duke asked with a smile "I've always heard that he had a kid who wasn't like all the rest but i never thought they ment... like this." "Are you making fun of me?" The girl asked "No, i didn't mean that as an offence. Name's Duke."

Duke seemed to be the only duck she had ever met in months and knew that if she wanted to find her father, she would have to trust him.

"So... Duke, i need help." She told him "No surprise," Duke said "When that overlord took over eveyone was soon scattered. Some got sent to the camps, some are still out there, and some are left to die under his claws." "That's terrable." Penny said "Where are we going to go?" "Back to my place." Duke said "It hasn't been ransacked like the other houses since it's underground. They'll never even sespect we're hiding under their feet."

Duke led Penny trough a maze of wreacked houses and buildings that seams to go on forever until they came across a tube with it's end underground "I've gotta warn ya," Duke said as he got Penny into the tube "It's got a sudden drop so if you feel like your falling, don't worry, You'll have a soft landing on a matress." "What do you mean by a sudden dr-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Penny screamed as she fell down the tube and landed on a pile of pillows with a thud.

Then Duke landed beside her and said "Some ride, huh kid?" Penny looked like she was having a heart attack as she stumbled out of the pillows "Let's never do that again." She looked around the room and saw lots of weapons hanging from the walls along with some pictures of ducks from missing, to in the camps to even dead. "Welcome to our hideaway." Duke said as he joined her. He took her my the hand and led her to a room where a yellow duck with blond hair was working on something.

"Yo, Tanya." Duke said "I've just found another one to keap." "That's great! Send him over hear, i need a hand with this arm." "Uh, the 'he' is really a 'she' Tanya." Duke said "Oh, sorry." Tanya said as Penny walked beside her. She could tell she was busy building a strange arm like device "Could you give me a hand and give me the wrench near by. I can't reach it and i have to hold on to this little do-dad or else it could explode." Penny grabbed the wrench and gave it to Tanya who used it to tighten a bolt before she let go.

"Now that that's out of the way, why don't you tell me your name?" Tanya asked as she removed her dark goggles to see Penny more clearly. Surprized to see the human girl, she jolted backwards and landed on the floor. "Are you ok?" Penny asked "Sorry, i've just never met someone like you before." Tanya said as the girl helped her up. "Well, it's nice to meet you Tanya, i'm Penny Thunderbeak."

"Thunderbeak? As in Canard Thunderbeak?" Tanya asked "The same." Duke said with a nod. Penny suddenly felt sad and sighs sadly "I wish i knew where my daddy was." "Don't worry," Tanya told Penny as she placed her hand on her shoulder "We find lots of ducks roaming around. Well, Duke douse i just stay here and invent weapons for us to use. We'll find your father before you can say... uh, pucks."

"Pucks." Penny sighed happily Tanya and Duke giggled and led Penny to the room where she would be staying.

Meanwhile Canard had just returned to the destroyed city from Twin Beaks after all this time. He was worried about his daughter and his best friend and he hoped they were all right.

"Penny!" He called out the abandoned street "Where are you?" Then, to his horror, he found Penny's locket next to a small puddle of blood. He picked up the locket and cluched it tight as tears fell from his eyes, asuming the worse had happened while he was away. "You... you metal loving monster! I'll make you pay for taking my dearest treasure away from me. Penny, honey, i swear you will be avenged!"

If only he knew the truth about Penny...