A Rewritten Family History

So More Insight about Launchpad's Fanfiction...Yes Please...and another fun little cameo why not! Again thanks for reading and going on this adventure with me...

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Friday afternoon found Launchpad waiting outside the Gearloose brownstone rocking back and forth on his heels a wide smile crossing his bill. He couldn't believe this was happening, he was going on an honest to goodness Darkwing Duck stakeout this was what dreams were made of!

The door soon opened as he watched as Della exited holding her hand out for him to hand her the limo keys.

"Good, you're dressed normal too, I was wondering if I should have dressed in all black to look more stealth.

"You look great," he said, lowering his voice as he handed her the keys, "Delphine would be envious."

He could see a slight flush to her cheeks as he mentioned the original character he had created in his Darkwing Dark fan work that had been loosely inspired by her.

"Does Drake know?"

Launchpad couldn't help but smirk.

Three weeks ago:

Launchpad watched as his friend was still slightly rattled from fighting against the moon, the realization beginning to settle in that he'd actually become his childhood hero.

"Hey DW," Launchpad spoke with a smile as he crossed the room to sit besides his new friend on the couch.

"I still can't get used to hearing you call me that LP," Drake said with a smile back as he took the battered notebook that had been handed to him with a raised brow, "anyway what is this."

"It's my personal continuation of Darkwing Duck, I've been working on this off and on since I was thirteen…after defeating the nefarious Negaduck, Darkwing teams up with a dashing pilot named Thorn and a scrappy orphan named Lennon and they become an adventure family."

He watched as Drake opened up the book and began to read. He hoped that his companion liked where his mind had gone through the years especially as he was just as big of a super fan and was planning on becoming Darkwing himself.

"So, I take it Thorn is a personal self insert?"

Launchpad couldn't help but shrug back his shoulders.

"Guilty."

"And Lennon and Delphine? A sibling and girlfriend perhaps?"

There was a moment of silence as Launchpad dropped his jaw in shock...how could he...was he that transparent.

"Lennon is based on my younger sister Loopy, though in real life she is only eleven months younger than me and has no interest in Darkwing."

Reaching for a framed photo on the shelf he flashed Drake a photo of a blonde teen. Clearly this was an old photo but he could get the gist.

"And Delphine, well, she's based on an older woman I had a schoolboy crush on."

He watched as Drake curled his bill into a mischievous grin.

"Let me guess, babysitter? Cause I've been there done that reaped the embarrassment."

Launchpad shook his head allowing for a chuckle to escape his lips as he carefully took the notebook back.

" 's niece actually, my parents were her flight instructors."

"Delphine… Della...makes sense."

"She's the total package...beauty...brains…"

Pausing for a moment he soon had an epiphany.

"You should totally have her help you out with some of your tech."

"You think she'd go for it?"

"Of course, she was late to the game but she was totally into Darkwing."

"Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask."

The drive to St. Canard was rather smoothe, perhaps he'd ask Della to give him driving lessons some day.

Soon they had reached the address that his friend had given him the last time that he had stopped by.

"Are you sure you have the right place, Launchpad, it looks kind of ominous."

"I think so, I mean how many abandoned towers are there in St. Canard?"

Just then light seemed to fill the room a cloud of purple smoke soon following.

"I am the terror that flaps in the night…"

"Hey, it's just me and Della."

Launchpad heard Drake or rather Darkwing let out a slight sigh as the smoke soon cleared allowing for him to get a full look. It never got old seeing his friend dressed as Darkwing outside the confines of a set. It simply gave him chills. He watched now as Della began circling the hero like a shark.

"I didn't get much of a good look before as I was too busy thinking about stopping Lunaris but great attention to detail."

Launchpad watched as the purple clad bird's bill curled into a grin clearly glad that his friend had approved.

"Now to see if you have substance as well as style." Della commented as she dragged her hand teasingly across the hero's cape.

Darkwing's grin got bigger as he gave Della a slight nod before adjusting the fedora on his head.

"Well then, LET'S GET DANGEROUS!"

Launchpad couldn't help but get a bit giddy as his friend said the line...the realness of it all like he thought before just never got old.

—-

They had driven to an alleyway adjacent to St. Canard's downtown district as they had felt would be the center of crime. An hour had passed and not a peep on the police scanner that they kept on them.

"So much for getting dangerous," Della spoke letting out a sigh as she shrugged back her shoulders.

"Did I forget to mention that the city's new mayor has made it her mission to dethrone the reign of organized crime?"

"Well then she should be pleased that Darkwing Duck is on the prowl." Launchpad spoke as his friend simply shook his head and had been about to say something however Della's voice soon cut in….

"Beagle Boy...three o'clock."

And with that Darkwing soon sprang to action in a swirl of purple smoke.

"Gizmoduck's loss is Darkwing's gain, huh?"

Launchpad didn't hear her comment however as he watched the action play out on the street singing the Darkwing Duck theme song in a low whisper, Della reluctantly getting into it singing along with him as the cops soon arrived.

Launchpad couldn't tell from a distance if the bobcat's animated body language had been praising his friend or accusing him of overstepping but he wasn't led off in handcuffs alongside the criminal canine so that was a plus.

It took almost another hour before the cops fled the scene allowing Darkwing to return to where Launchpad and Della were waiting.

"That was AWESOME!" Launchpad said as His friend flashed him a grin.

"I KNOW right!" Darkwing spoke with the same spark in his eyes as he turned toward Della, "hopefully enough AWESOME for you to say yes?"

"YES!" Della replied, "also, I may or may not have already spent the past few days doing some sketches and now that I've seen your secret lair I think I have some good ideas.

Launchpad and Darkwing both smiled.

That's my girl the pilot silently thought to himself hoping he wasn't flushing as he watched the engineer light up like the sun.

"If it's okay with you do you think that I could get a friend to help?"

"Penny?" Launchpad mouthed as Della mouthed a 'no'

"Your fiancé?" Darkwing asked.

"His lab assistant actually," she spoke.

As Darkwing agreed to this proposal, Launchpad couldn't help but glare at Della shaking his head thinking about the various scenarios that could happen if Fenton were involved in team dangerous . On the one hand if Drake found out Fenton was really Gizmoduck it could he catastrophic however on the other hand it could be the greatest crossover ever!