Freeman's Odyssey
Chapter: 7
The Gates of Hell
A metallic rolling object with a person inside is driving down St. Canard Bridge as the person is joined by an armored division of soldiers in tanks and other vehicles. Up ahead the person in the suit stopped to see and what he sees shocked him to the core as he lifted his helmet and sees an all out war for survival as this made no sense to him.
"All right men." said the suited duck "Let's go."
Who is this person you ask?
The suit itself was created in a lab by Gyro Gearloose called the Gizmo suit. It has offensive and defensive capabilities in a matter of seriousness and ridiculousness as well. The password to activate the suit is words that are rarely used by anyone as the words are blathering blatherskite.
Or so he thought until a duck named who regularly used those words in which his name is Fenton Crackshell as the duck worked at first as an accountant for Scrooge McDuck the words richest duck. Now when Fenton Crackshell utters the words blathering blatherskite he becomes the heroic adventurer known as.
Gizmo Duck!
Fenton used to work for Scrooge McDuck until the government and the military needed him more in which that means more money for his mom to be in a better place. What turned to be a simple problem for the local authorities to handle Megavolt a common criminal turned out to be an invasion by unknown forces he has never seen before? Following behind him is tanks and helicopters of the military. How did these unknown forces came to be here is not known to him at least not yet, but he suspected it must be the work of the villain Negaduck.
Gizmo duck wondered where Darkwing is at this very moment.
But at the moment a problem in a form of a Combine Gunship that is coming flying towards his forces as Gizmo duck noted that this thing is not one to mess around. In which he sees with his own eyes he is right on the money. The gun ship opened fired by firing it's pulse gun at several tanks that were rocked by the impact and knocked around a bit, then the gun ship does a u-turn as soldiers who survived the shot from the pulse gun fired back with their M-16 assault rifles however their weapons could only do is annoy the gun ship as it fired belly cannon after making the u-turn right at Gizmo duck.
Gizmo duck rolled quickly out of the way, but not before being thrown forward by the impact of the shot in which Fenton inside his armor is bounced around a bit as the gun ship started to circle again to make another strike. Attack helicopters followed the combine gunship and using their machine guns to fire upon the gunship. Using the suits computer Fenton found a weakness in the armor of the gun ship in a form of an eye. He does have the right tool for the right job as the gun ship came around for another attack.
Gizmoduck fired his arm cannon at the eye of the gun ship.
The shot made its mark, but the gun ship is still flying in the air and shooting wildly at anything that moves. What was left of the tanks opened fired upon the gun ship as the sudden impact of the cannon shells have damaged the gun ship but it still moving. Gizmoduck found a rocket launcher from a fallen soldier and picked it up as the gun ship is firing wildly. He aimed and fried as the missile shoots out of the rocket launcher and slammed into the gun ship as the combine craft is falling fast to the ground until finally exploding at a nearby streets to pieces.
That was not easy. Thought Fenton, then he said "All right let's keep moving men we have a city to save."
Bubbling in the water is happening as the gunship that exploded in the water is rising upwards, but doing the lifting is some sort of green duck creature who looks as if she is in a bed mood as she throws it upon the docks as what is left of the gun ship is bounced around until it slammed into an empty warehouse. She is shocked in awe as she bare witnesses to something she has never seen before an all out war for survival.
"Wow!" said the green duck "I better help before these things attack my waters."
Who is this person?
She was once a normal fish, but a run-in with some toxic chemicals mutated her into what she is today, a protector of the oceans and waters in which she goes by the name of Neptunia She shows not only the ability to speak English, but she can breathe out of water as long as her scales are moist, she swims at amazing speeds, and occasionally performs feats that require superhuman strength. She appears to be very independent and strong-willed.
Neptunia heard to her right cries for help from a city bus as it is being attacked by white armored looking soldiers in which she does not know them as Combine over watch Elites. Leaping from out of the waters in which she draws out her trident she crafted herself rushed towards the over watch elites. While a couple of these elites are firing at the city bus, several of them notice the mutated fish creature and start shooting at her. Neptunia twirled her trident in a way to block the shots as the shots deflected at the armored over watch elites.
Rushing towards them with her fish like speed, she stabs one of them in the chest and throws the armored elite right at another one. She then sliced off the head of another one, then she throws her trident at another one in which her weapon stabs the armored elite in the chest.
Neptunia then picked it up, rushes towards another one and does a forward slash upon armored elite. Several more came out of no where to her let as one of them fired an energy ball right at her. Using her trident as a baseball bat as the energy ball collided with her trident the ball is shot in their direction as the armored elites are disintegrated.
"Cool." she muttered
Finally taking care of the last two, she went to check on the people in the city bus as they are scared, but alive. She is left to wonder where the others at this very moment and where is darkwing. Neptunia goes off to fight some more as there appears to be a lot of them.
At a creepy house a door creeks open as a female duck dressed in red steps out and wondered what is all this noise coming from. What she saw was not good at all, it was bad very bad as a look of serious determination crossed her face. She knows it will take all the skills she needs to take on this menace as she wondered where the love of her life is at.
"Hey get all of my powerful spell books." said the female duck to certain creatures "I'll need it for what is in store on this night."
Who is she you ask?
She has black streaked hair a a la Bride of Frankenstein and always wears a clinging red dress with minor scarves or shawls, two creatures gave her most powerful spell books and does an incantation by absorbing the knowledge of the books like her mother and father had taught her just in case of an emergency. Her name is.
Morgana McCawber.
She could not believe still what she is seeing as the city is at war against unknown forces. Her heart sank as she wondered what her dark is. He must be somewhere fighting these monstrocities, but where is he. Her attention then focused on two machines that leaped from out of no where. Unknown to her these are combine hunters, as they're followed by a couple of over watch elites. Her eyes narrowed as she prepared a magical spell, but was not prepared for what came ramming at her as the hunter charged at her in full speed as she conjured up a magical barrier.
The force of the impact knocked both her and the hunter in opposite directions as the hunter slammed into a telephone pole as an exposed wire falls right on top of the hunter as it is simply electrocuted by thousands upon thousands volts of electricity.
Then it exploded afterwards as the parts are flying around everywhere. Morgana on the other hand landed on her backside and almost crashed into an ice cream truck. She got up and rubbed her bottom, but suddenly a stray shot hits her right on her hair as an exposed hole can be seen. Her eyes narrowed in anger as in how dare they ruin her hair.
Still incased in a magical force field that is protecting her from harm, she started to chant a powerful magical spell as the two over watch soldiers, the remaining hunter using all their firepower upon the force field consisting of pulse ammo and fire fléchette rounds. Then it got bad to worse as a Combine gunship came speeding towards their position to fire it's belly weapon at Morgana. Her eyes glow white and chants a spell a very powerful one two right at the enemies who are attacking.
"Freeze." she shouted.
And so the two over watch elites, a hunter and the gunship did just that as they just froze there. But not what a person expects, no they are frozen in ice. The gunship falls nearby and shatters into pieces, the elites and hunter fall backwards as well in which they shatter into pieces. Looking around at what she is done in which she is satisfied with the end results as she then decided to go help out in the city and to find her beloved dark where ever he maybe. She chanted a magical tracking spell to find him as she hovers away to follow the magical tracking orb.
At one of the street is a large lizard like animal eating ice cream near an ice cream truck as he is eating dozens of ice creams. But all of a sudden, cries and screams for help is heard, along with explosions. The green lizard looked around and sees massive chaos as the city is under attack. A stray shot slammed into the ice cream truck as it flipped in the air and bounced on the street until finally rest on the side walk all the ice cream spilled all around as this angered the lizard animal.
"Hey that is my favorite ice cream." said the lizard "Now I am mad." roared the lizard like dinosaur.
He once was the assistant of a mad scientist named Dr. Fossil. In one of his experiments, Dr. Fossil transformed him into a dinosaur using the Retro-Evolution Gun. Eventually, Gosalyn and Honker convince him that Dr. Fossil is evil, and he turns against him. Before he was a dinosaur, he used to be a duck. He also used to work as a janitor at the natural history museum. Thanks to his friend Darkwing he became a hero and now he is mad at someone who shot at the ice cream truck.
Who is he you ask?
His name is Stegmutt.
The dinosaur noticed a dozen white armored combine overwatch coming towards him as Stegmutts eyes narrowed and rushes towards them as their pulse shots did little effect on him. He plows through them like a bowling ball as the armored elites are flown in opposite directions, then a machine slams into the back of stegmutt as he stumbled forwards into a building. The pieces of the building fall on top of him. Moments later he managed to dig himself out and the hunter lunged forward for an attack as stegmutt does the same as well.
The impact of colliding into each other caused a sonic boom that made windows break, cars flip over and ears popping of certain people who are fleeing the chaos that is already taken place. It is a virtual tug of war between stegmutt and the combine hunter. Until the hunter decided to change tactics and used its metal blade to strike at stegmutt, the dinosaur barely dodged as he was struck upon the arm by the metal blade. Stegmutt moved back at and growled in pain as blood trickled down his arm.
"Ow." said Stegmutt "That hurt you big jerk"
The hunter ignored stegmutt's words.
Then it leaps upwards to change tactics in a way to come down on top of the dinosaur creature; however stegmutt rammed his fist into the exposed eye of the hunter as one of the eyes broke apart on contact. The hunter is hit so hard that it slams into several buildings until finally landing on the street as it exploded upon impact of the fall. Stegmutt accidentally turned around as his tail strikes another combine hunter and the machine is thrown into the water fairly quickly. Looking awed at what he had done he scratches his red hair a bit in confusion.
"Oops." said Stegmutt "My bad….where's dark wing at. Oh, darkwing." He called out "Darkwing duck."
Stegmutt shrugs his shoulders and runs off to go look for darkwing duck.
A UFO falls from out of the sky and lands in the middle of St. Canard, and then all of a sudden a large costumed figure comes out of the small UFO. He has a dumb look to him, but he looks powerful as he looked around to see the massive chaos around him
"Time to be a hero." said the costumed person.
This human like being comes from a far away planet that is full of super strong heroes, but he is regarded as a reject and a joke by many of his people. He wears the same UFO upon his head, he has a broad chin and large shoulders, along with chest and a little lower body as his legs look a little stubby. His costume is blue and red like.
Who is this person you ask?
Comet guy is his name.
Like all his people he has certain abilities and array of superpowers, he does have a weakness that he cannot seem to control himself in stopping to do. He has come to Earth once again and to learn from Darkwing duck all about being a hero. Comet guy means well, but sometimes he can be very naïve that often gets him into trouble.
Right now it would seem this city needs a hero and in a bad way from unknown forces. He spotted several combine elites shooting at civilians as he went over to strike at them with a fury of fists and an assortment of powers as these combine elites were taken care with ease.
Two hunters jumped at him from opposite directions as comet guy hovered up as the two hunters slammed into each other shattering into pieces. A combine gun ship is flying towards him, with its pulse cannot blasted comet guy into several buildings until finally landing hard on the park. He was about to get up, but he hears a familiar noise and started to dance, dance and dance some more as he couldn't stop himself. He wondered where darkwing is as he just kept on dancing like an idiot.
At a certain headquarters a goose as his arms folded behind his back as he is watching what is transpiring on the view screen in which this is satellite feed of what is transpiring in St. Canard. What seemed to be a simple thing to catch megavolt or what appears to be megavolt turned out to be an all out war against unknown forces.
"Scramble everything we have." said the goose "The time to move is now."
Outside several fighter jets and helicopters fly off towards the city. Inside the headquarters of a peace keeping force known as SHUSH as it often does battle against Fowl. But on this day it appears it is not the case as J. Gander Hooter gave the order to have his SHUSH agents go out on the field during this invasion.
SHUSH has spy cameras in the city of St Canard as it showed an unknown person and darkwing doing battle in which the unknown person who happens not to be Megavolt at all. Then arriving at the scene is Negaduck with dozens and dozens of unknown forces. That alone is strange enough and two civilians who darkwing duck knows all too well have entered SHUSH's headquarters.
Launchpad McQuack and a young girl named Gosalyn Mallard. The young girl duck is watching besides Hooter the massive chaos that is transpiring and so does Lauchpad as he feels powerless and useless to help now that he is grounded. He should be fighting along side DW as Launchpad is DW's side kick.
However he understands he can only get in the way, as he sighed deeply and takes a deep breath through his beak. Hooter knows that his top agent Vladimir Goudenov Grizzlikof is injured so basically he is out of action for awhile so that leaves his two top other agents Derek Blunt and Femme Appeal as they will arrive shortly in the city.
The helicopters arrive as the massive battle is taking place upon the city that to everyone looked liked the gates of hell have been unleashed. Femme Appeal sporting her skin tight black leather suit and Derek Blunt sporting a cocktail suit leaped out of the helicopters followed by dozens upon dozens of Shush agents brandishing high caliber weapons.
It looked like a war zone that the two top agents have grown accustom to, but this is beyond insanity in which the likes they have never faced before as the both of them wondered and as everyone wondered where Darkwing is.
The answer is simple doing battle against the invasion forces and he wasn't alone as Gordon Freeman is with him, Darkwing wondered if this would ever end as Gordon on the other hand is used to this kind of overwhelming odds like black Mesa or the uprisings to retake his dimension.
So, it is basically nothing to new to him, although he has his doubts about Darkwing duck who seems to be a crime fighter fighting street crimes and not prone to invasions like this. Even his choice of weaponry has not done much against the Combine forces. If he was in Gordon's dimension he would not last long, in fact he would be dead.
"I'm not used to fighting odds like this." said darkwing
"Sometimes you have to learn to adapt to the situation." said Gordon as he used the gravity gun to break apart an over watch elite.
"Sounds like you know from experience." said Darkwing
All too well." smirked Gordon "Defying the odds is my specialty, however that is a long story for another time."
"We need help here." Growled Darkwing as he had to admit he needed help as they're being overwhelmed here.
Then help came, firstly Stegmut came charging at two hunters as they are propelled off in opposite directions as Darkwing is relieved he is here. Several elites are frozen by a spell by Morgana as she appeared and noticed her love Darkwing's suit is trashed and a mess. She kept her composure up to continuing to throw spells at these evil people or things. Gizmo duck and Neptunia show up moments later with dozens and dozens of army soldiers. Then after that SHUSH agents came as well bringing along Derek Blunt and Femme Appeal as well in which their clothes are battered as well in getting to this area.
"About damn time." said Darkwing "Here I thought I had to do everything my self." He smiled "Not that I needed the help."
Gordon socked him in the shoulder.
"Don't get cocky." Gordon "There is plenty more in this city to fight so we are not done yet and uh….nice group of people you assembled here darkwing."
"Anybody knows who this guy is." asked Gizmo duck "Nice suit by the way."
"Come on are we going to stand around and talk." said Neptunia "Or are we going to fight."
"Hey darkwing you need a new suit." said Stegmutt
"Oh dark." smiled Morgana "Your still alive, I am very great full."
"Can we save the small talk for later." said Gordon "Let's get back at the task at hand."
"Right." said Darkwing "Justice ducks, attack."
"I'm not a duck." said Gordon.
"I'm not either," said Neptunia, "Whatever let's go."
Meanwhile, in the Nega-verse
Nega-duck still is sitting upon his throne as he is waiting news for the machine to be ready as his beak is salivating in the thought that the two dimensions will be come one in thanks to a machine he can currently see outside. Then finally he sees Herb Muddle foot running inside and kneeling as he bows in his respects to his master. Nega-duck just sighed at him and glared him down in a form of a nod to allow him to speak.
"Lord Nega-duck." said Herb "It's ready."
"About time." said Nega-duck as he pressed a button as the machine outside activates. "Let the gates of hell to be unleashed." The large machine outside fired some type of energy upon in the sky in a form of a pulse in a way it is ripping the fabric of time and space in a way no one understands at least not yet. A hole is opening up.
Back at the other-verse.
Gordon Freeman, Darkwing, the Justice Ducks and so many others in a combined effort are doing battle against these monstrosities until something happened as Gordon's suit picked up a reading and a very familiar one as thunder is heard in the background. He checked out the display screen upon his left forearm to discover something very startling as the energy readings are off the scale. Gordon knows what this is and the others stopped to look up to see they have never seen before in which none of them know what to make of it.
A blue 'wave' which resonates from a source like tornado and moves across the landscape near St. Canard, negating gravity as it goes. As a result, any object in its path would suffer damage from the brief weightlessness effect. Objects and buildings momentarily rise up and down suffering damage as a single image can be seen from in this object to darkwing it is the nega-verse. In which this hole is growing larger by the minute. Everyone else is in shock and awe as they don't know what to make of it. But Gordon knows what this is as this is a method of Combine travel and among other things.
Everyone except for Gordon has the same thought in mind what is this thing?
He has seen a picture of this in an old news paper that details after the seventh hour war and another one after the uprisings.
"A portal storm." said Gordon
Everyone just looked at him in confusion.
To be continued.
After Gordon, Darkwing, Justice Ducks, SUSH and a few others join forces that are battling Nega-Ducks forces. Nega-ducks plan comes in full circle in a form of a Super portal to suck Darkwing's dimension into the Nega-verse, feeling completely useless a certain someone learns to be a hero and is sent on a mission, will it be successful.
Chapter: 8
Explosive results