"Gossy!" Arthur called out for her as he reached his workshop. "Come on, where are you?" he twirled around looking quite like the maniac as he threw up several papers in his wild search.
"Uncle, I'm here." Gosalyn popped her head out of her hiding place behind a large console.
"Oh thank god!" Arthur was by her side in a skip and to Gosalyns utter dismay embraced her tightly so the fedora hat was almost falling off. "Thank god they didn't find you yet." he sighed letting go. "Has Gigi come?" he asked looking around.
"No, sorry." Gosalyn shook her head.
Arthur gritted his teethes. "I guess I'll have to run with it and trust your father." he stated. "You need to get out of here." he told Gosalyn.
Gosalyn starred wide-eyed at him. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"Out!" Arthur stated. "Out of the building, away from the island if you can, right now!" he stated sitting down on his knee. "They mustn't find you, it's game over if they find you let me see." he held her chin as he turned her face as to look probably at her. "You do kind of look like Gigi." he commented.
"I don't have so big teethes." Gosalyn stated annoyed.
"So she need a brace and you don't." Arthur mussed. "It'll have to do, it's our best shot come on!" he grabbed Gosalyn's hand and pulled her with him into another room.. which were an absolut and complete mess, almost as messy as Gosalyn's own room, only this girls favorite spare time activity seemed to be building stuff rather than sport, there was all sorts of things laying around, even an Albert Einstein wallpaper on the wall.. on which Einsten was sticking out his tounge looking pretty darn ridicules..
In his haste Arthur managed to trip over several items. "You leave for three days." he murmered. "Gigi, learn to clean up."
Looking back at the lab they had come from Gosalyn could only note that he weren't the most orderly person in the universe either, that lab sure could use to be systemized or something, it was a bloody mess.
"Here we go." Arthur opened a closet filled with clothes. "Pick something, and hurry. Now where is that helmet." he started looking around.
"I think she had it one when I met her." Gosalyn murmured as she took in the closet.. there was hanging a pretty impressive collection of colored braces from the the closet door, Gosalyn wasn't late to pick the purple ones and as she dug further in found several yellow pants and black t-shirts, exactly like those Gigi had been worn before.
"She got more of them." Arthur murmured from the other side of the going through the heaps on the floor in a wild search. "It's her Gizmo helmets, you must know of Gizmoduck, she had this idea to build her own Gizmo suit one day so we could escape for good, and practiced by building helmets, I just kind of let her, she seemed to enjoy building stuff, here we go." he dusted of another flying helmet looking it over. "I think it's the teethe brush version." he murmured looking it over and then face palmed himself. "She haven't brushed her teethes for three days, Gigi." he groaned annoyed.
At last Gosalyn was ready in the unfamiliar close, Arthur walking over to her with the helmet. "Oh I'm sorry but." he eyed the purple fedora.
Gosalyn sighed defeated and took it off, but only to stuff it under the T-shirt.
"Here." Arthur dropped the helmet on her head and as it turned out it was a bit heavier than it looked, and he pulled out a pair of large round glasses from his pocket, seemingly mended with duck tape several times over with he carefully placed on her beak."There." he said. "Perfect."
Gosalyn blinked. "I can't see a thing."
"Sorry." Arthur murmured, "But all you need to do is follow my lead, Now come on!" he grabbed Gosalyn's hand and pulled her with him out of the room.
"Wait, where is my dad?" Gosalyn asked as they ran.
"He's.. he erh." Arthur swallowed.
"They captured him!" She shreiked.
"All the better reason to get you out wouldn't you say?" Arthur asked. "Bulba wants the both you, not only one."
"But, my dad." Gosalyn swallowed.
"he is a superhero is he not?" Arthur asked. "Gossy, I am doing what I can to help, and right now that is getting you some place that Bulba can't get to you."
"You don't know my dad, he can be very carless!" Gosalyn tried to stop him by putting her heels to the ground.
"Gosalyn for pities sake!" Arthur turned around grabbing her shoulders. "Think about this, do you really think that you, popping up where Bulba can see you is going to help Darkwing situation in any way? Do you think Darkwing would appreciate such carelessness from you?" he asked. "Now, I haven't seen Gigi since that god awful mission of getting you here began, and I pray every second that she's somewhere out of harm's way, don't you think Darkwing is doing the same? wouldn't he be disappointed if you deliberately go out where it's dangerouse?"
Gosalyn squinted her eyes behind the glasses, obviously struggling to focus, but at last sighed and nodded.
"Good. Now come on." and he took her hand again to pull her with him, for a little while it seemed like they would make it out clear, but then of cause, nothing had to be easy.
"Waddlemeyer!" a large woman with a broom stick and several eggmen behind her stopped them.
"Mrs. Pine." Arthur gulped as he greeted her. "What do I owe the pleasure."
"Your filthy daugther." Ammonia squinted her eyes. "On the run with a rust bucket of a hero, you need to help get her out!"
"Gigi." Arthur swallowed. "I'm sorry, but that's impossible." his grip tightened around Gosalyn's wrist.
"How so?" Ammonia asked and suddenly she got eye of Gosalyn. "How did you?" she asked bewildered. "Oh, hiding behind Daddy again are we, but I tell you you wont get off so easy this time." she reached for Gosalyn only to have Arthur push Gosalyn behind his back and out of Ammonias reach.
"I'm sorry mrs. Pine, but I need her assistance right now." and he blinked. "What did she do?" he had to ask.
"Why don't you ask her!" Ammonia pointed at Gosalyn, her voice full of loathing.
"All right." Arthur swallowed."I might just do that."
For a moment that was silence, Ammonia crossed her arms. "Well?" she asked.
"Urh, right." Arthur turned to Gosalyn. "Gigi, what did you do?" he asked.
"Well I." Gosalyn swallowed. "I erh.. got the floor dirty?" she tried.
"And even more than that!" Ammonia angered. "She is dirty!
"Well she's a kid." Arthur huffed Gosalyn behind him ones more as he stepped backwards. "You know kids, they erh, sometimes they just leave a mess."
"And that's why they need straightened out!" Ammonia hammered her broom into her hand.
"Now now, Ammonia." Arthur swallowed. "Lets not be hasty why don't we... why erh.. Why don't we make a deal?" he asked.
"What kind of deal?" Ammonia asked.
"Well, I'll just take Gigi with me now, so she can help me with the machines, and after we are done, she's all yours, at least five hours a day for a month, how about that huh?" Arthur tried hopefully.
"Hm." Ammonia brushed her chin. "Tempting."
"Come on Ammonia." Arthur offered her a slight smile. "Would I ever cheat you."
"You do say something." Ammonia mussed. "You're the nicest honest person around, all right, but only because it's you honney."
"Much obliged." Arthur nodded making his way past Ammonia. "Well, I guess I'll be seeing you around.. bye." and he made haste down the corridor pulling Gosalyn after him, first as they had rounded a corner did they press up against the wall.
"Wow that was close." Gosalyn breathed pulling off the glasses and blinked. "I thought I was a goner."
"That's twice I lied today.. what desperate situations can bring up in you." Arthur gasped.
"Well you know what they say, it's only in the worst of times that people can truly flourish." Gosalyn told wisely. "In fact, I think it's more and more believable that we are family."
"You're telling me this is the stuff you get up to on a daily basis?" Arthur lifted an eyebrow.
"urh well, not exactly.. but kind of..yeah." she at last nodded. "Yeah, this is actually pretty right for a friday."
"If I had the guts I would have a long talk with your dad." Arthur murmured silently.
"urh yeah, your daughter is the one crawling around in the vents of a evil villain facility." Gosalyn crossed her arms.
"And you don't think I tell her not to?" Arthur asked.
"Yeah, and my dad tells me not to tag along on his adventures, as if I would ever listen to that." Gosalyn rolled her eyes. "What would you want me to? sit around and wait in my room while all this stuff is going on?" Gosalyn asked. "Fat chance."
"Why do kids become bored so easily?" Arthur asked as he took himself to the forehead. "And why do they have to be so irresponsible."
"Indeed a question for the ages." Gosalyn nodded.
"Come on." Arthur at last said pulling Gosalyn with him. "Put the glasses back on."
"Where we even going?" Gosalyn asked.
"The washing basement and from there, the only way out." Arthur answered.
"Oh no." Gosalyn grimaced. "The sewer system."
"How did you know?" Arthur asked mildly surprised.
"It's always the sewer system." Gosalyn answered as she made a grimaced. "And what then from there?" she asked.
"You'll just walk through the pipe." Arthur told. "And you'll stay out of sight, hide out on the shore, just don't come any-where near the building."
"what, me?" Gosalyn asked. "What about you?" she asked.
"I am not leaving without my daughter.. and, I have personal buisness to finish." he told.
"Bulba." Gosalyn stated defeated. "And you really think you can just make me run for it?" Gosalyn asked. "While all this is going on."
"Yeas." Arthur answered.
"Not bloody likely." Gosalyn crossed her arms.
"Gosalyn please." Arthur pleaded as they finally reached the washing basement.
Gosalyn sighed. "All right then." she admitted. "So where from here?" she asked.
Arthur sighed relieved. "Here." he found a deksel in the floor. "Strange." he commented as he opened it. "It's like it's already been opened ones today." he murmured. "Okay there the ladder, and ones your all the way down there, just keep on walking to you get out, when your out see if you can find a cave or something, just stay as far away from this building as possible." Arthur told.
"Okay." Gosalyn nodded and found the first step on the ladder.
"Gosalyn." Arthur hesitated. "Good luck, I'm so happy I got to meet you."
"Hey." Gosalyn answered. "When this whole thing is over, we should all try and spend some real family quality time, all of us."
"That sounds nice." Arthur nodded. "Now hurry."
"Okay." Gosalyn nodded and crawled downwards so Arthur could set the lead back on.. to bad he had forgotten to make Gosalyn promise anything this time around, too bad he didn't knew her better. Then he would have known that there was no way that she was going to sit and wait around in a lair while her family was in danger.