A few seconds later, Canard, Lucy, and Chameleon appeared on the warship. There, Lucy and the Saurians continued to charade. Siege stepped from the shadows and looked at the new arrivals.

"Chameleon, you brought a couple more ducks?"

"Not on purpose! They got me!" The smaller saurian retorted.

Siege chuckled darkly. "Well, well. Looks like you brought the Captain. How're you doing duck?"

Canard's patience was wearing thinner, he was clearly in no mood to joke around. So, he aimed his puck blaster at Siege's head and demanded.

"Where's Angelwing?"

Chameleon morphed back to his old self and said. "Ask her yourself, feathers."

Canard turned around to find Danielle, curled up in a ball, in the prison cell. The female looked at him with immense worry. "Canard, you gotta get away from here!"

"Release her, now!" he demanded at the Saurian, his weapon unwavering against Siege's head. Chameleon, stepping out of the rope of the polo buck now that he was much smaller, jumped up and down in excitement.

"Can we tell him yet? Can we, can we, can we Siege?"

Siege, watching Canard with a smirk, nodded to the smaller saurian. "You're outnumbered, duck."

Canard's eyes widened, and he barely had a chance to turn around before Lucy hit him over the head with the butt of her own weapon, hard.

The captain fell to the floor instantly.

"Canard!" Danielle screamed, scrambling up and grabbing at the bars.

Chameleon pouted. "Siege, I wanted to tell him," he whined.

Danielle stared at Canard's unconscious form. She went out on her own, Canard still came looking for her, and now look what happened. 'This is all my fault!' Danielle thought guiltily. Then she saw Siege pick up the male duck by the shoulders. And Lucy took Canard's satchel off of him.

"What are you doing?!"

Lucy didn't answer, as she was searching through the bag but then, she started to get antsy. Lucy threw the satchel to the floor, angrily. "He didn't bring the mask with him!"

Siege and Chameleon looked at each other. Then the latter's face morphed into the face of Chester A. Riley. "What a revoltin' development this is!" The former on the other hand looked at Danielle, then he had an idea.

"Perhaps if the Captain trusted you with his little secret..."

Danielle swallowed hard. She knew where the mask is, but she couldn't let fall to the Saurians. Besides, she gave her word not to tell anyone Yet, there was no telling what they would do to her. Wait... She just won't tell them. 'If they kill me...so be it.'

"Oh, this is going to be fun," Siege said with glee, setting the drake down, and walking up to the bars. "You know where the mask is, dontcha?"

Lucretia looked over at her, a brow raised. "Did he tell you?" she asked curiously, watching her steadily.

Danielle maintained composure and put on the act of her life. "No." she stated, her eyes going back to Canard's still form.

The purple-haired vixen didn't take her eyes off her. "She's lying," she concluded, crossing her arms.

"How are we gonna get it if it's back at the base, though?" Chameleon asked, morphing back into his normal form.

"Simple. We make her retrieve it," Lucretia answered. "And threaten this big boy's life if she doesn't return." To emphasize her statement, she nudged the prone captain with the toe of her boot. "I doubt she'd want one feather on her dashing captain to be harmed ... do you?"

Danielle looked down at Canard worried. But that worry suddenly melted into anger. She glared back up at Lucretia. "You..." Then Danielle's arms shot forward between the laser beam bars, and snatched onto Lucretia's hair! "You traitor!"

"Augh!" the purple haired female shrieked in pain. She tried to pry Danielle's hands off, but because of Danielle's grip, her hair was being pulled. "Let go!"

"Oh, girl fight!" Chameleon squealed in excitement. Siege chuckled, his sights watching the two ducks struggle with one another.

Canard peeked an eye open, watching. His hand deftly changed the setting on his puck-launcher, making sure the other two Saurians were distracted. Then, with a quick jump up, he shot a powerful blast into Siege's chest armor, sending the lizard flying backwards.

Chameleon screamed, but before he could do anything Canard shot at him as well. The agile little saurian jumped out of the way at the last second, allowing the blast to penetrate the controls on Danielle's cell instead. A fit of sparks erupted from it and the laser bars disappeared, allowing Danielle to fully tackle the purple-haired duck.

Canard rushed up to them both, but before he could do anything, Lucretia threw a grenade. It beeped and Canard jumped back as it exploded in a cloud of smoke.

"Danielle!" he cried out, coughing.

"I'm here!" she coughed back, unable to see anything from all the smoke.

Danielle felt around, but she couldn't find Canard. She had her eyes closed because of the smoke. But then she felt someone grab her hair! She opened her eyes to see Lucretia. "You little tramp!" She growled.

"Traitor!' Danielle growled back, as she tried to push off Lucretia.'I never should have trusted you!"

"Well you did,' Lucretia smirked evilly. 'You're a fool!"

Danielle stopped struggling for a moment, but that was all Lucretia needed to grab onto Danielle's throat! The cream colored female tried to pry off the other female's hands, and while she could hardly breathe, she was able to say one word. "C-Canard!" Lucretia was about to do more damage when she was hit on the head with the butt of a weapon. Lucretia's grip on Danielle was gone, and the latter could breathe.

Danielle looked up at Canard suddenly materializing through the haze and pulling her to her feet. "You okay?" he breathlessly asked.

"Yeah," Danielle responded, rubbing her sore neck. "Where did she-"

"She ran off after I pulled her off you," the captain quickly explained. He grabbed Danielle's hand and guided them to the far wall. Both were coughing heavily at this point. "We gotta find a way out of here!"

"You ain't going anywhere!"

Both ducks' eyes widened at seeing Chameleon appear in front them. Or, a huge muscled-version of him, anyways. He charged at them, and Canard quickly shoved Danielle out of the way just in the nick of time. The two ducks rolled along the floor, watching as Chameleon rammed into a wall, shook it off, and turned around with a vile smile.

Chameleon held the piece of wall above his head, cackling towards the two ducks. "I'ma ground you ducks into pate!" Canard held Danielle close. "If only we had a distraction..." And then, Danielle had an idea. Quickly, she reached into her bag, and pulled out a little bottle of rubbing alcohol. She unscrewed the cap, and threw the bottle at Chameleon, just right. The liquid spilled onto his face and in to his big, bug-eyes.

"MY EYES!" Chameleon screamed in agony. He reverted back to his old self, but then the piece of wall fell on top of him.

Just at that moment, the wall behind Chameleon blew open, allowing the smoke inside to finally escape into the open air beyond.

Canard and Danielle ran around the prone Chameleon, the captain holding his puckblaster at the ready.

"Canard!"

The voice was recognized instantly, and the captain and Wally a firm handhold in appreciation. "Talk about last second, sergeant!"

"Fashionably late, as always," he easily quipped back. He glanced at Danielle and smiled at her. "I see your damsel in distress is alive and well!" More genuinely, he added, "Good to see ya, Danielle."

Greybeak looked around and asked "What happened to Lucy?"

Danielle was about to answer when Canard beat her to it."She betrayed us."

"What?!" Greybeak and Wally said in unison.

"They were after the mask."

"Dang, she was cute too," Greybeak sighed. "Come on, cap, let's get you two outta here!"

Canard reached over and grabbed Danielle's hand. She looked up at him and he squeezed it reassuringly. She smiled at him.

"I'm glad you're okay," he said to her.

"I'm glad you are, too," she answered.

They kept their gaze on one another for a few seconds longer, before another holler from Wally pulled them back to reality. Canard kept his handhold on Danielle's, guiding them out of the side of the warship.

"Let's head back to base."

"Okay..."

Then suddenly, Siege popped out of the shadows, holding a laser rifle. "Guess again, greasy!"

"These guys just don't die," Canard muttered.

Multiple blasts of lasers came firing at them, forcing the ducks to hide behind some debris. Wally fired a few rounds before throwing himself back against the stone wall they were hiding behind. "Hey cap, you got that grappling hook still?"

Canard looked at him strangely, but handed him the item in question.

Danielle glanced at the sergeant and where he was looking. "Wait," she said as Wally pulled up the weapon. He raised a brow at her. "If you're going to try and pull that roof down on him, then you better wait until he steps closer."

Danielle looked at Siege and the surroundings very carefully. She whispered, "I'll get him to come closer."

Canard looked at her, "Are you sure?"

"It was my fault Canard. I have to..." Danielle stepped out and cried out. "Wait! It's me you want!"

Siege stopped shooting, and the three drakes waited.

"Just leave Canard and the others alone!"

Siege chuckled darkly. "Protecting your little friends, huh? How noble. Yet stupid." Then he dashed toward her. Danielle wanted to run but she didn't. She had to wait for just the right moment. And then..

"NOW!"

Wally shot the grappling hook out. It soared high above Siege's head, causing him to glance at it in passing before laughing. "You missed!" he gloated.

"Think again," Danielle said with a smirk.

There was the sound of heavy crumbling, and Siege's eyes shot open in surprise. The grappling hook had connected with some broken re bar among a destroyed roof. It was clear that the structure was only holding on by threads, though, and a solid yank of the rope from both Wally and Canard brought it tumbling down onto the hefty Saurian.

He cried out and barely had time to take a step before he disappeared within the heavy stone and steel debris of the building.

Greybeak gave Danielle a gentle slap to the back. "Nice distraction, girl!"

"Yeah!"

Danielle felt embarrassed at the positive attention she was receiving. "Uh...i-it wasn't much...really."

Canard put his arm around her shoulders."You did good." He smiled at her.

Danielle's cheeks flushed at his praise, but she smiled back at him regardless.

"All right, now let's get out of here," Wally proclaimed, leading the way.