Chapter 4

Dewey was in the bathroom brushing his teeth when Louie walked in. Dewey started asking his brother questions about what happened at the mall.

"So what exactly made Nathan come up to you guys?" Dewey asked as Louie explained.

"They started to recognize us from the party and they wanted revenge." Louie said emotionlessly. Dewey was now concerned for his brothers, it seemed as if Nathan was really out to get them. "I don't think he'll be much of a problem anymore now that Webby knows what a jerk he is." Dewey felt relieved.

"Yeah, I was worried that she might actually consider going out with him." Dewey said wiping the sweat from his forehead. As the brothers walked out of the bathroom, Louie started thinking about something.

"Hey Dewey?" Louie started asking. "Why did you fight Shark?" Dewey didn't know how to answer that question.

"Um, because he manipulated Huey into doing things he didn't want to do." Dewey answered as Louie shook his head.

"I mean why did you fight him instead of telling somebody?" Louie asked expanding the question. "There had to have been other ways. I got some money from it, but still." Dewey started to sigh.

"I don't know exactly why, I just did it." Dewey answered shamefully. "I said I felt great about beating him, but to be honest, I didn't. I felt like a huge jerk. Yeah sure, he was an even bigger jerk, but I beat him by becoming a jerk. I'm starting to learn that violence isn't the answer to everything and that there are other ways to solve a problem." Louie eyes widened.

"That was too deep." Louie stated as they arrived in their bedroom. "I'm going to bed." The boys drifted off to sleep as Dewey started having another dream.

Dewey and Webby were in an apocalyptic setting. Everything in Duckburg was gone. Everything had been destroyed and turned into a wasteland of nothingness. Dewey and Webby were sitting by a campfire, cooking meat from the monster they just killed. Dewey started to offer Webby some of the meat.

"Want some Cactar?" Dewey asked as Webby took the meat that Dewey offered.

"Thanks, I'm starving." Webby said as she bit into the meat. Both of them started laughing as Dewey shifted his focus to the stars in the sky.

"Sometimes I think the stars represent them." Dewey said deeply as Webby knew what he was talking about. "I'd like to think that each star is a different person. The red star represents Huey, the green star represents Louie, the orange star represents Uncle Scrooge..." Webby cut Dewey off.

"Dewey, we can't change the past." Webby said trying to keep him from breaking down. Dewey started to calm down and looked into Webby's eyes.

"Can you sing that song again?" Dewey asked as Webby was confused. "That old traditional Scottish song, it reminds me of Scrooge." Webby smiled and agreed to sing the song. Her voice sounded beautiful as all the noises in the wasteland stopped just to hear her sing. As Webby sang, Dewey noticed another presence with them. Dewey went to investigate and found nothing. When he came back, Webby was singing to Nathan. She looked sad and lonely but her voice still sounded beautiful. As he started to run to her, he seemed to be getting further and further away. As Webby continued to sing the song "Parting Glass", Dewey watched and cried as the love of his life was held in the arms of another person. Just then, Dewey woke up in a cold sweat.

Dewey got out of bed and brushed his teeth. He realized that he had to go to school so he got ready as quick as he could. He went downstairs to get his stuff packed and saw that Huey and Louie were already ready. They all went in the limo that Launchpad drives and they went to school. Once they got there, they each went to their respective classes. As Huey walked to his chemistry class, he noticed Nathan standing next to his locker. Huey was confused and intimidated. He started walking the other direction until Nathan called him over.

"Oh red, can you come here for a second?" Nathan asked as Huey started walking over to him. Huey tried to resist, but his body kept walking forward.

"What's going on, why can't I move?" Huey asked worriedly as Nathan started laughing. Huey felt chills down his spine when he was standing just inches away from Nathan.

"I don't like how you gave me a black eye at that party." Nathan said as Huey gulped loudly.

"Look, I'm really sorry, it won't ever happen again, just please..." Huey said quickly as he was cut off.

"Since you like giving black eyes, how bout you give one to yourself." Nathan said as Huey started making his hand into a fist. Huey didn't understand why his hand was moving upwards and he tried to resist. "If you resist, it will only make it worse on yourself." Huey still didn't understand, and before he knew it, he punched himself in the face. Huey yelled in pain as he tried to cover his eye, but he couldn't move his hands. "If you ever do something like that again, I'll have you break your arm and throw yourself down two flights of stairs." Nathan walked away as Huey was finally released from the spell he was under. He covered his eye and went straight to the nurses office.

Once school was over, Dewey and Louie met Huey in the limo and noticed his black eye.

"Woah, what happened to you?!" Louie said as Huey explained.

"I don't know." Huey answered. "I was walking to my chemistry class when I noticed Nathan. And I tried to walk away but I think he was controlling my body." Dewey was confused.

"Is that even possible?" Dewey asked as Huey started looking in his guidebook.

"According to the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, mind controlled manipulation can be caused by three ancient artifacts: a manipulation orb, a seduction orb, and a mind crystal." Huey said as Louie and Dewey started thinking about what he had.

"So he had to have had one of the three." Dewey said as he held his chin up with his hand. Huey held ice up to his eye as Louie started thinking about what Nathan was after.

"What if he want to manipulate Webby into going to the ball with him?!" Louie suggested as Dewey panicked.

"We have to go home, now!" Dewey said as Launchpad started driving them home. Once they were home, Dewey ran all the way up to Webby's room.

"Webby, are you okay?" Dewey asked while trying to catch his breath.

"Um, yeah?" Webby said confused by Dewey's actions. "Are you okay?" Dewey started to lay down.

"I'm doing great." Dewey answered as he started getting back up. Dewey started walking over to his bedroom and started doing his homework. He felt relieved that Nathan didn't get to Webby, but he knew it was only a matter of time before he did.

Nathan walked into his basement with his friends.

"It worked, there was nothing he could do." Nathan said as he held the orb up to present it to the world. "Now all I need to do is seduce the girl with it." One of friends was confused.

"It's called a seduction orb, so why didn't it seduce the red one?" The friend asked as Nathan got irritated by the question.

"Because I didn't want to seduce him." Nathan said holding the bridge of his nose. His friend was still confused but didn't say anything about it. Once the two friends went home, Nathan walked into his room, laid down on his bed and inspected the orb.

"With this orb, I can manipulate anyone into doing anything I want." Nathan said as he thought of horrible things he could make the McDuck kids do. "I don't think I'm ready for the girl yet, I think the orb still need more tests." Nathan pulled out a picture of each of the McDuck kids from a newspaper article. He crossed out Huey's picture and went to the next person on the picture. "I think it's time to stop talking about how powerful my father is and to start talking about how powerful I am. Maybe the blue one will finally see that." He started laughing sinisterly and started making the orb glow. "After I get him out of the way, I'll go for that frightened green one. And then, I'll have what I want." The orb made an image of Webby reflect off of itself. Nathan was surprised because it wasn't supposed to do that. He looked deeper into the orb and found out that it was spying on Webby. She was having a conversation with Dewey.

"Dewey, you're hilarious!" Webby said laughing at Dewey's joke about his brothers.

"But it's true, Louie can't go to sleep without his baby blanket and Huey can't go to sleep without his Junior Woodchuck Guidebook." Dewey said imitating Huey's voice on the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook. As they laughed, Nathan grew increasingly and intensively angry.

"I definitely need to take him out of the picture." Nathan said angrily. "But thank you for that valuable information." Nathan started laughing again as Dewey and Webby were confused.

"Do you hear maniacal laughter?" Webby asked as Dewey tried to inspect the room. Nathan immediately closed out of the orb before it was too late.

"That was close." Nathan said wiping the sweat from his forehead.

End of Chapter 4