"Oh my darling, me sweet, my brightly shining star! soon every-one will see you glitter and ligthen up the entire world." Tuskernini danced around a pretty flustered Chameleon. "It's unbelievable, simply unbelievable no one have ever picked up on your talents my dear." Tuskernini continued holding her hands. "You were made for the big screen my darling, the perfect character actor! with you I don't even need to hire other actors you'll be playing all the parts!" He exclaimed. "I keep asking myself, where have you been all my life?"
Chameleon blushed deeply by the praise. "I.. I must admit, I have sort of always dreamt going to Hollywood, but I didn't think I had to talent.. or well, the looks."
"Pfff, what does all those mainstreamers know?" Tuskernini asked. "No my dear, I tell you, you are what true stars are made off, and with me to help you, soon everyone will know your name! there wont be a hotel who wouldn't honored to host you, not a party who wouldn't be honored to let you in, but just remember." Tuskernini smiled. "Who brought you there in the first place."
Chameleon giggled. "Of cause!" she said. "Oh all those people who made a fool of me, they are sure going to be sorry."
"When you walk down the red carpet in your fancy gown." Tusknernini sleeked. "Bathed in diamonds, arm in arm with Brad Pig."
"Raplando Bloom." Chameleon corrected.
"Of cause, whoever you fancy." Tuskernini claimed. "Because you my darling, my shining star, you'll be the biggest of them all!"
"Pff, what ever happened to art!" Splatter Phoenix snorted from the other side of the room. "You know there is more to it than just mindless stuffing people in front of a camera and pour a bucket of pain over a canvas, you need thought, consideration! or it's just crap, not art!" she stated annoyed.
"And that's where you come into the picture my dearest." Tuskernini turned to her.
"What, me?" Splatter phoenix asked.
"Of cause! you're the world's greatest art director." Tuskernini told. "The style you can induce on the pictures, the colors! just imagine!" he wrapped an arm around Splatter Phoenix. "Thousands of people, millions of people, watching the movies you designed and you can provoke them! make them feel with you art, make them see stuff they could never have imagined happening right there on screen, we can show our interpretations of heaven and our interpretation of hell, and everyone will awe and say,.. gosh darn it that is deep!"
"Hm, you say something." Splatter phoenix mussed. "And with all the money.. I wouldn't have to do crime any-more.. I can life of my art, just as I always wanted."
"And you would go down in history!" Tuskernini exclaimed. "When they list the great painters they will say Lion-ardo Davinci, Rap Gogh, Stanpig Kubrick and Splatter phoenix! at last the world will acknowledge your major talents."
The speak seemed to have done it's work, Splatter phoenix had absolutely stars in her eyes.
"We'll begin production as soon as Bulba pays off his money."
Splatter Phoenix rubber her hand. "Lets make it about a struggling artist, an outcast and a drug addict on the street, we'll show what the goverment is worth, and our main heroin is constantly being shunned, lets expose those rotten so called normal people!" she plotted.
Chamelelon looked at her. "I don't like that, what about a beautiful rich high classed woman." she started in a dreaming voice. "Who everyone loves and admires, but she falls in love with a poor boy from the other end of the social class, will their forbidden love succeed? will the stunningly beautiful woman put aside her obligations to be with whom she loved?"
"Yuck!" Splatter phoenix stated. "That's absolutely disgusting! No way! ah-ah, no can't do! I refuse to work on such a lousy story!" She exclaimed.
"Well I refuse to be a star of a movie taking place in the dumps!" Chameleon retorted back.
"Ladies, ladies!" Tuskernini intervened. "I'm sure we can find some kind of middle ground here that would make us all happy and famous, I mean with all this talent, there is bound to be some artistic differences."
"Stay out of it!" the two woman shouted silmustaniously. and then turned back to rant at each other almost starting a cat fight on the spot.
"Urgh." Tuskernini face palmed himself and the hand when all the way down his face as he groaned annoyed. "Artists! they keep saying they are the best humanity have to offer, but there is no way that is true." he commented as the two ladies now where in a real fight across the floor. "And they are all the same to." he murmured. "Always thinking they are so much better than anyone else.. and people wonder why I turned to crime with this is what I got to work with every single time." he shook his head. "Prima donnas!"
It was kind of fortunate though that they were so busy in their fights.. because it was right at this moment that two heroic ducks crawled silently through the air vents right above their heads, the ducks were even able to see the villains through the gitters.
"What is going on here!" Bulba entered the room, followed by a dusins of eggheads.
Darkwings eyes widened and he held up a hand, indicating for Gizmoduck to stop.
"I am told you are professionals and this is what I have?" Bulba asked. "Pathetic! Darkwing could be here any second, and I want you ready for him!"
The three struggling artists backed away together, until they reached the wall and looked frightened at Taurus Bulba. "But... we don't know where he will appear." Tuskernini tried to explain.
"Probably outside of the building, but if he somehow got inside, where do you think?" Bulba asked. "He is here for the girl dimwits!, her cell is secured of cause, no one will ever get in our out of it, but it would be an obvious place to set a trap! So get moving!"
"Yeas sir!" Tuskernini exclaimed. "Right away sir." and the trio darted past Bulba and out of the door.
"Shez, amateurs." the bull murmured. "Men, when they are of no use, get rid of them." he ordered the eggheads and turned around. "I can't imagine what kind of help they will ever be." and they all went outside.
Darkwing and Gizmoduck blinked. "Gosalyn." Darkwing murmured.
"We still don't know where she is." Gizmoduck pointed out.
"That's what you think." Darkwing told in a tone full of smirk. "The ladies were right beneath us, all I had to do was drop one of my chips, and I never leave home without a tracking device." he pulled up the gizmo. "They are headed north." he murmured looking at the small scream.
"So.. what now?" Gizmo duck asked.
"Well.." Darkwing hesitated. "Time to split up I suppose.." he said. "You continue, find Gigi, she got a communicator, so you only need to get there and we can talk, I need to get to Gosalyn."
Gizmoduck nodded.
"Well." Darkwing at last swallowed. "Good luck Giz, it's not that hard, you can do it." and he opened the gitter.
"Good luck Wingy." Gizmo managed to mutter as well as Darkwing jumped all the way down, and the egghead disguised hero ran out of the room.
at last alone Gizmoduck deflated back, this really took a lot out of him.. more than he could have imagined.. to act like Gizmoduck when wearing the suit was easy, it just came to him, but without it it felt like he had been putting up a show and was mentally exhausting, more than ones had he almost slipped back to his normal voice and had to capture himself and again, sighing Gizmoduck pulled off the helmet so he could wipe his brow. "Come on Fenton." he murmered himself in his real voice. "If Darkwing can do this, so I can I!" he stated. "He won't be right! I'm at least as good as he is!" and with a new determination he sat the helmet back on and took his suitcase, to crawl his way towards the goal. "And I can't believe I first figured this now, but people who decides to just go out and be heroes.. they are crazy." he pushed himself through the next room. "Then let me be even more crazy that that Darkwing.. all though that might be impossible."
Arthur had been listening wide-eyed to Gosalyns entire story and explanation, that Gigi for now was out of harm's way, that back up indeed was in the way in form of at least one vigilantly.. it was quite the wild tale, and then things had gotten haywire outside, he and Gosalyn had sprinted to the window him lifting a bit up in the curtain.. to witness his own invention being used in practice, and after that he had experienced the struggle of trying to make Gosalyn stay put, something that proved highly difficult.
"We need to stop them!" was Gosalyns argument.
"No we need to stay out of sight." Arthur held her back.
"you build it! you can dissemble it!" Gosalyn annoyed stated. "Come on!" she pulled and actually succeeded in making Arthur loose footing for a second.
"No, it's much to dangerouse!" Arthur stated.
"God you're a coward!" Gosalyn stated annoyed.
"That might be, but I won't see you getting hurt as well." Arthur pulled her back. "I lost Percy, Marguerite, Vivian and even my father, I am not going to lose you nor Gigi." he succeeded in getting her up in a firm grip.
"Put me down!" Gosalyn struggled to get down. "God! you were a secret agent! what have you been reduced to? just doing Bulba's bidding, that's so pathetic, there's no way I am ever going to respect you!"
"I don't care." Arthur held her in a tight grip. "Think what you will, but I won't let you be hurt! Your all that's left of them."
"I don't even remember them? why would I care?" Gosalyn asked.
"You don't need to, but I care." Arthur told. "Someday you'll have a beloved family to and you'll understand, I don't have much left, but what I got, I am willing to die to protect it, if you have any such connection with your dad, you should know this."
Gosalyn struggled an extra turn as the words suddenly seemed to sink in, and she deflated in his arms. "You were very close to your family?" Gosalyn asked.
"They were my life." Arthur told.
Gosalyn sighed. "I'm sorry.. you're not a coward."
"No your right." Arthur sighed as he put her down. "I am a coward, the biggest coward in the universe, I keep the very man alive who did all this, and I have spend five years just hiding around here.. trying to raise my daughter the best I could."
"Exactly, and you're not a coward." Gosalyn told. "I do know families, I know grandad or my dad would have done the same for me."
Arthur smiled vaguely. "Gosh Gosalyn." he whispered. "What a person you have grown into, it's incredible."
Gosalyn smiled a little smile in return before she frowned. "But you need to get out there and do something!" Gosalyn stated. "You need to end this."
"Gosalyn, I am not a hero, or a food soldier, that was Percy." Arthur told. "I was never able to do much without him."
"What are you talking about, you survived this long didn't you?" Gosalyn asked. "And kept Gigi safe? You can do it! you can be the hero and safe us, I know you can! Gigi is fine, Darkwing should have found her by now.. I hope.. well, I think we would know it if he had been captured, and beside, Bulba wants to kill me regardless of what you say, you really want that to happen?" she looked Arthur in the eyes. "Uncle." she tasted the word. "It's going to end either today or never, don't Gigi disserve to see more of the world than just this stupid place?" she asked.
Arthur swallowed, and then nodded. "Your right." he said. "But Gosalyn, you need to promise me to stay hidden, don't go out there." he said placing his hands on her shoulders. "Stay in here, in this lab, if the eggheads come, hide. Don't do anything rash."
Gosalyn held her breath.
"Promise me!" Arthur stated sternly. "I can see it if you don't mean it."
At last Gosalyn sighed. "I promise." she muttered. "I'll stay in here."
"Good." Arthur nodded, handing over to his work table reaching for a tool box. "And if Gigi comes, make her stay to, we'll be leaving tonight, I'll come back here and pick you up, and we'll escape this place, after I sabotaged that machine."
"That's the spirit!" Gosalyn jumped up and down with raised arms.
"Well." Arthur sighed, running a hand through his hair. "That's sort of a family thing."