Chapter Seven
Huey, Dewey, and Louie were running down the hallways and heard knocking at the main door, they ran to answer the door. Meanwhile Ortensia was helping prepare lunch with Daisy and was taking an afternoon nap. Jiminy was reading one of the books in Scrooge's Office. Horace was wondering the hallways looking for his hat, cause the boys took his hat while he was sleeping and hid it.
Finally he found his hat in the office where Jiminy was. But something was bothering him.
"Say Jiminy," Horace was puzzled. "We never asked you, how did you escape and where is the lair?"
Jiminy began to try and remember. "Well it was dark almost castle like, I really couldn't see well since it wasn't brightly lit." Jiminy soon paced back and forth remembering. "I was being locked up in a small steel cage, I could hear voices. They were plotting the resurrection of something called 'The Blot'. Then a few days passed and someone came in and unlocked my cage. The both of us were almost out the door until..."
"Until what?" Horace asked.
"He was captured and dragged back in. I couldn't see who it was when I ran, by the time I was out of there no one was there."
"Castle like." Horace though. Then it came to him. The Wasteland, The castle; he now knew where they had to go.
Huey, Dewy, and Louie ran in the office. "Someone's here!" they shouted.
Horace stood up only to discover that it was Mortimer Mouse. Later everyone was acting strange because Mortimer was there. Clarabelle began to remember the car chase, she remebered that he was shooting at them.
Clarabelle finally broke the long awkward silence. "So you were the one that shot at us?"
Mortimer swallowed hard, he knew he was busted.
"So why come to us, if you were gonna kill us?" Horace asked.
"So," Mortimer retorted. "Can't a guy switch sides?"
Everyone knew he had a point.
"Besides," he continued. "if I didn't betray them then Jiminy wouldn't be here and you'd be dead."
By now everyone had gotten a little suspicious, they didn't know if Mortimer could be trusted or was this a trap. Finally Horace spoke up. " Now why did you betray them?"
"Long story."
"That's not a good excuse."
"What do you want! A novel about it!"
Everyone jokingly nodded. Mortimer reluctantly explained why he betrayed the bad guys, it turned out he did it because he wanted to get back at Pete for burning his home down after the impact. So he broke Jiminy's cage in order to allow Jiminy to warn them. It ended up with him being locked up and awaiting a death sentence. Unfortunately the ones that locked him up didn't even lock his cell, so when everyone was asleep he snuck out and escaped.
"How do we know you're not lying?" Ortensia looked at him suspiciously.
"Would I have this?" Mortimer pulled out a blueprint of the villain's plan.
Gus looked at the blueprints. "He's telling the truth. I reconize the castle's interior." Horace, Clarabelle, and Ortensia all nodded in agreement.
"We'll continue this in the morning," Horace rose up. "get some rest everyone. We're leavin' tommorow."
"Where?" Minnie asked.
Horace looked out the broken window. "The Wasteland..."