LeaMarie sighed as she looked at the sheet of paper in her hand. [This bites!] She thought to herself. [I just get comfy in Manhattan and Mother pulls me back to California, and then sends me to Anaheim, to another relative's place.] "Well let's see what Mother has to say about me this time." LeaMarie muttered as she pulled out some papers. "Can't get along, needs more attention... same as the last time." LeaMarie sighed again. "To bad Dear Uncle Phil will never see this. It's really more information than he needs." The young girl was well aware of the others on the bus watching her. She really didn't care. She was use to the limelight, and was aware that she could be being watched at any time. She pushed back her long, curly, brown hair out of her eyes. "Let's see just how good this little team that Uncle Phil has really is." She muttered pulling out a list of statistics.

***

"Nosedive, great shot! But next time can you make it a bit more snazzy?" Phil asked. Nosedive rolled his eyes.
"What time did you say your niece was comin'?" Duke asked.
"I should start heading for the bus station. Remember, fancy!" Phil yelled as he walked out.
"I don't like having a stranger coming to live with us." Mallory muttered.
"It's Phil's family. And you've seen that apartment. It's barely big enough for a cockroach." Nosedive pointed out.
"It would have been bad for our karma, had we not offered." Grin pointed out.
"Let's get back to practice. We've got a big game coming up." Wildwing pointed out. The others followed him back out to the center of the ice.

***

Phil silently tapped his foot impatiently waiting for his 16-year-old niece. He didn't have to wait long as a bus pulled up and a teenager got off. Phil looked down a photograph and back at the girl. "LeaMarie?" He called out questionably. The girl's head snapped towards him. She pulled off her sunglasses and tucked them on her head as she walked to him.
"Uncle Phil?"
"Yep. You look a lot different then the pic your mom sent me." Lea looked over his hand at the pic and laughed. It was the same girl only instead of the blue jeans and sweatshirt the girl in the pic was wearing, the girl that stood before him was wearing tight black pants, a red tanktop, and a pair of black boots.
"Yeah, we thought Mother would like that one." LeaMarie reached into her bag and pulled out a plastic picture holder. And showed him a pic with her wearing a similar outfit to the one she wore now. The only major difference was that in the photo she had two blue streaks running through the front part of her hair. "Mother would freak if she ever saw this."
"Sis still a big conservative?"
"Only when I'm involved. Oh, look my luggage!" LeaMarie cried running to her bags.
"Nosedive's either gonna love her, or hate her."

***

LeaMarie and Phil walked into the arena just in time to see Nosedive hit the ice, beak first. "Skate much?" Duke asked.
"Well at least only you guys saw me fall."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Wildwing told him. The group followed Wildwing's look towards Lea and Phil.
"Team hussle up. I want you to meet some one." The team skated in, and Phil continued. "LeaMarie, this is Wildwing our team captain, Mallory, Tanya, Duke, Grin, and Nosedive. Guys, this is my niece LeaMarie."
"You can call me Lea if you want."
"It's nice to meet you, sweet hear." Duke said politely.
"Yeah, it's great to have you here." Nosedive jumped in excitedly.
"Welcome little friend." Grin offered.
"Thanks."
"I'm going to show her around now." Phil told the group.
"I'll come too!" Nosedive exclaimed.
"No, you'll finish practicing with the rest of the team." Wildwing instructed.
"Aw man!" Lea smiled and followed Phil out of the room.

***

Wildwing had his head in the fridge as Phil and Lea walked in. "You sure you'll be alright?" Phil asked.
"Yes. I'll be fine. As long as there's food, I'll be fine. And even if there isn't that's what take-out is for." Lea told him. "Now go before you're late." Lea said gently pushing him towards the door.
"Ok, I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Yep, bye!" Lea sat down on a chair.
"Do you like pizza?" Wildwing asked holding up several pizzas.
"Of course. Who doesn't? That and I'll eat almost anything." Wildwing nodded his head and shoved the pizzas into the oven. [This is odd. I'm nervous. Well if I'm going to hang in the kitchen I might as well get a glass of water.] She stood up and started looking through various doors.
"What are you looking for?"
"A water glass." Wildwing walked over to a different set of doors and got one down for her.
"Here."
"Thanks."
"No way, Nosedive!"
"Ah, come on, Mal!"
"I said no and that's final!"
"Please!?"
"What's going on here?" Wildwing demanded. "Nosedive wants Mallory to you know...let him take the Migrator out." Tanya told him.
"I just want to go the mall." Nosedive whined.
"You can go later. Dinner should be ready in a few minutes." Just then, a loud alarm went off.
"What the?" Lea started.
"It's a Drake 1 alert, Let's move ducks!" Wildwing ordered. Lea looked confused but stayed where she was.
"I wonder how much longer 'till the pizza's done." Lea asked out loud.

***

Lea had just finished cleaning up her dishes when the ducks walked in. "Man, that sucked!" Nosedive exclaimed shaking dust and bits of plaster from his hair.
"You and Mal-mal really to the brunt of that." Duck said smirking. Mallory walked in shaking dust out of her hair.
"Mal, you're going gray." Nosedive quipped. Mallory growled.
"What happened? A sheet rock factory collapse on you?" Lea asked putting a clean plate back.
"Was it on the radio?" Wildwing asked.
"You're kidding me?" Lea gasped. Nosedive shook his head. Lea smiled. "Umm...I hope you don't mid, I kinda ate while you were gone. I put what was left back in the fridge." [LM, snap out of it.] Lea scolded herself mentally.
"That's fine." Wildwing told her.
"I'm going to take a shower before I eat." Mallory announced.
"Save some hot water for me!" Nosedive called after her. Tanya pulled out the remains of the pizza. "You ate some?" Nosedive asked looking at he pizza.
"Yeah, two slices, why?" Lea asked looking suspicious.
"It looks like you just wrapped back up both pizzas." Nosedive pointed out.
"Oh, sorry."
"Pizza the food of the gods." Nosedive said taking a bite out of a cold piece.
"Touchy, aren't ya?" Duke asked watching her.
"When you get bounced around a lot, you tend to be." *Ring, ring!*
"Hello?" Wildwing asked into the phone. "One moment." Wildwing pulled the phone away. "LeaMarie, it's for you." Lea raised an eyebrow and got up.
"Hello? Oh, Hi! How'd you find? Oh did they? That's nice. They do? Of course, I understand, I'm not the one with dye leaking into their brain. Well that's put it this way, I will reserve my judgment." The ducks were all watching her. "Yes, they are."
"Pizza's warm." Tanya announced.
"No clue. Yeah whenever the dark one thinks, she knows best for me. Yeah. I know. Ok, talk to you later. Really, would you? That'd be great. Tell you're mom "hi" for me. Luv ya too, Sis. Night!" Lea hung up the phone.
"You want another pieced?" Nosedive asked around a mouth full of food.
"No thanks, I think I'll just head up to bed." Lea said before walking out of the room.
"Talk about ya mood swings." Duke commented.

***

LeaMarie sat on the roof of the Pond looking out at the city lights when she felt someone standing behind her. "Hi."
"You're home sick." Wildwing stated sitting down next to her.
"Not so much home as people. Although I do love New York."
"Who called?"
"One of my best friends. I haven't seen her in, oh man, it's been almost a year now."
"I know what it's like to miss your friends."
"Really?"
"I'm an alien duck. You didn't think I was from here did you?"
"I've seen weirder things. Um...what was that, I think you called it Drake 1 alert?"
"Drake 1 is our super computer. It alerts us when something's wrong."
"What was tonight's problem?"
"Dragaunus's goons were planting explosives at the sheet rock plant."
"Who's Dragaunus?"
"He's a Saurian that's bent on taking over the world."
"Saurian?"
"Think giant lizard."
"Ok. That's for the explanation." Lea yawned suddenly. "I think that's my cue to go to bed now. Night."
"Night."

***

Duke was staring into his coffee mug when Wildwing walked in. "How's the girl?"
"Sounds like she's a little homesick."
"Poor kid. From what little Phil said she's been moved around a lot."
"We'll have to try to make her feel at home."
"Hey, Wing, didja find out what was up with Lea?" Nosedive asked walking into the Ready Room.
"She's homesick." Duke told him. Nosedive nodded his head.
"I can understand that."

***

The next day Phil paced uneasily on the sidelines as the ducks went down by another point. "How can they do this to me?!" Phil cried. The buzzer rang signaling the end of the first half. "Well come on, let's go down to the locker room and talk to the team." Phil motioned for Lea to follow him. The teen unenthusiastically followed. "Guys! What's going on?!"
"Duh, we're losing!" Nosedive responded sarcastically.
"I know! But why? How?" Lea leaned against a locker.
"Wildwing, when 23 goes to the right he's gonna shoot for the top left corner, and visa versa. Duke, keep away from the boards, 16's been trying to slam you up all night." Mallory's eyes widened.
"You've been studying the game?" Tanya asked.
"No, observing, that and I can hear the fans yelling."
"Half times almost over, let's head back." Wildwing told the group. The others nodded and followed the leader up.
"Oh, Nosedive, watch 32. He's got it out for you. And go for the bottom right corner, the goalie isn't watching it." Nosedive nodded and followed the others out.
"Think that'll help?"
"Who knows, sure hope so. I mean I almost doubt it could get any worse."

***

"Oh! That looked painful as Nosedive takes yet another dive into the ice!" The announcer yelled.
"You had to say that didn't you?" Phil asked sarcastically.
"I didn't count on the other team playing this dirty." Just then, the crowed booed as number 16 tripped Duck into the boards. "Come on open your eyes, ref!" Lea yelled. "Gawd this is bad."
"You're telling me! This is money outta my pocket!" Just the Wildwing called a time out and scatted over to Duke and the others.
"What's with these ref's?" Lea asked. The whistle sounded signaling the end of the time out. "Here we go again." Lea muttered and winced as Mallory took a hit.

***

"I can't believe we lost!" Mallory yelled.
"I can't believe how BAD those refs were!" Lea muttered storming into the kitchen.
"You know, she was right." Duke told Wildwing. He nodded his head. A loud crash was heard from the kitchen.
"Don't DO that!" Lea yelled.
"SORRY!" Nosedive yelled back, as he thundered out of the room pushing Phil out of the way.
"What happened out there?!" Phil demanded.
"They'd done their homework." Duke told him.
"What does not kill you only makes you stronger." Grin offered.
"Or drives you insane." Lea commented walking in with a cup of coffee in her hand. "Coffee's done." Drake 1's alarm started going off. "That thing is REALLY annoying!" Lea yelled above the alarm. Mallory silenced the noise. Nosedive came running back in the room.
"What's up?"
"There's a disturbance at Genutec." Tanya said pointing at a blinking dot. Lea swallowed. "Ducks! Let's rock!" Wildwing yelled, as he ran out of the room. As soon as the other ducks were gone, Lea looked at Phil.
"Can I use your car? I need to go pick something up at the store."
"I could've gotten it for you. What do ya need?"
"Um...it's kinda personal..."
"Say no more." He said throwing the keys to her.
"Thanks."

***

Lea pulled up to the warehouse that was under attack. Lea could see the ducks shooting pucks at some lizard looking things. "Those must Saurians." Lea smiled softly as she saw Wildwing jumping in front of the group to protect the others." [I'd better get what I came for and get going. This place will be swarming with cops soon.] She silently ran to the building and climbed through a hole that'd been created during the battle. A small crash reminded her of the fight and to watch her back. After a few minuets of searching, Lea found the boxes. "G1-G10. Now, to find M1-M10. I can't believe this. It was a good idea, but I think keeping evidence of the Clan is the DUMBEST thing that he's done in a long time." Lea muttered to herself as she continued to search for the remaining boxes. A police siren alerted her that it was time to go. "Oops, almost outta time." She grabbed the boxes are ran out of the building.

***

Lea walked into the Pound and handed the keys back to Phil. "Thanks, Uncle Phil. I really appreciate it."
"No prob., Doll." Lea walked into her room and pulled out a cell phone. "Hey, tell Uncle D. that I pulled the files outta the warehouse. No I wasn't the one that set off the alarm. I know my own security systems better than that. Yep, no problemo. Ja ne." Lea hung up the phone and walked back out to where Phil was.
"I hate to leave you here alone..."
"Go, I'll be fine. I bet they'll be back soon." As if on cue Wildwing walked into the room. "See?"
"Alright, alright. I'll see you in the morning."
"Night."
"C-ya, Phil." Nosedive waved as he passed Phil.
"So, how'd it go?" Lea asked Wildwing.
"We're not sure what they were after. Most of the stuff there was paper work, but we stopped them from getting what ever they came for."
"That's good. Is every one ok, or should I go hunt down the first aid kit?"
"Besides a few bursas, we're good." Duke told her.
"That's good." Lea responded again, before yawning. "And that's my cue to hit the hay. Night all."
"Night." They responded.

***

The next day Nosedive and Wildwing were out skating on the ice chatting. "So, what do you think of Lea?" Nosedive asked.
"She's interesting. I don't know her well enough to make any judgments. What do you think of her?"
"She seems really moody. But maybe that's 'cuz she's in a new place." A puck came flying across the ice in front of Dive.
"Any one up for a friendly came of hockey?" Duck asked holding up a couple of sticks.
"You bet!" Dive yelled. Wildwing followed his brother over to where the rest of the team was putting on padding. The team had been hitting the puck around for a few minutes when Phil and Lea entered.
"I don't need a babysitter." Lea muttered to Phil.
"Wildwing, can I leave LeaMarie here? I've got a few things that I need to take care of."
"Sure. I don't see why not."
"Great. Well time is money!" Phil waved as he walked out. Lea shook her head.
"Hi." Lea said looking a little embarrassed.
"Hey, ya wanna play?" Nosedive asked her.
"I would, but I can't skate vary well."
"How well is not well?" Duke asked.
"I can go forwards, if I'm lucky."
"Dive can teach you." Wildwing offered.
"I don't want to be a bother."
"It'd be fun. What da ya say?" Nosedive asked.
"Um...I have no skates?"
"I've got an older pair you can use." Mallory offered.
"Ok." Lea smiled at Nosedive nervously. [Well, I've never backed down from a challenge. This will be just one more thing I can add to my list.] She thought to herself, as Mallory handed the skates to her. "Thanks." After Lea got her skates tied, Nosedive helped her up.
"Ok. Let's see what you can do." Lea pushed herself forward and went a few feet.
"That's it." She told him. "I can't really stop either."
"That's ok. We'll have you skating better than Mallory."

***

Phil walked into the television room with a bunch of papers in hand. He nearly dropped them when he saw Lea lying headfirst of the couch with her feet in the air. "ARE YOU OK?" Phil demanded. She sat up.
"Yeah, fine, besides a few bumps and bursas."
"What happened?"
"Dive was trying to teach me to skate."
"You were doing pretty good too." Nosedive said tossing her a granola bar.
"Thanks."
"Ya wanna try again tomorrow?"
"Sure!" The rest of the team walked in.
"So can we borrow a cycle?" Dive asked Wildwing.
"I guess. Just as long as you're careful, and as long as it's alright with Phil."
"PLEASE?!" Lea asked jumping to her feet.
"Please what?"
"Can Dive and I go to the mall? We'll be back before curfew!"
"I guess so..."
"Thanks! You're the best!" Dive and Lea took off running to the garage.
"Yesterday, I thought they'd kill each other. Now, they're running off to the mall like a couple of kids." Duke said smiling fondly after them.

***

"So, how do they feel?" Nosedive asked pointing to the skates on the girl's feet.
"Good. They feel better than the other ones I tried on." Dive helped her to her feet.
"They don't pinch, do they?"
"No. They feel fine." Lea sat back down and unlaced the skates.
"Do you want to get them?"
"Sure. Thanks for helping me pick out some skates."
"No problemo." Lea smiled as she pulled on her shoes. Dive was putting the skates back in the box, as Lea looked up at him. Dive looked up and their eyes met. They sat there for a while, until Lea shock her head softly.
"Um...what do you...where to now?"
"Want to get something to eat?"
"Sure."
"$23.08.." The cashier said.
"Here." Lea said handing her a 50. "It's the smallest I've got." Nosedive's eyes widened. "The smallest?"
"Yea, I cashed my last pay check before I left. Where do ya want to eat?"
"Tacos sound good to ya?"
"Sounds great."

***

"There's like no info on what was being housed in that place." Tanya told the group.
"Was anything missing?" Wildwing asked.
"Originally one of the managers reported that there were 20 top secret files missing. But the owner, David Xanatos, was contacted, and he said that he had the files. But there's no records of the files ever being moved."
"Hmmm...do you think the papers could've been misplaced?" Wildwing asked.
"Then it would have had to been eaten by the computer too. For what I've seen this company keeps vary you...know...good records."
"Ya think this guy could be working for Dragaunus?" Duke asked.
"Don't know. But I think it's kind of odd that this place is based out of New York, is just housing paper work. It's only been here a coupla months, too." Mallory told the others.

***

Nosedive was watching LeaMarie eat her taco. [I wonder what he wants.] Lea thought to herself. She raised her eyes and met Dive's. "Yes?" she asked with her hand in front of her mouth.
"Can I ask a coupla questions?"
"Fire away."
"Where are you from?"
"Earth."
"I know that. I mean where on Earth."
"I was born in California, New York, and Japan."
"What kind of job did you have before you moved here?"
"I worked for David Xanatoses personal assistant. I did I a lot of filing, and typing. I also ended up sitting in on a lot of business meetings. And on the side I baby sat for Alexander, that's Mr. Xanatoses son."
"Sounds like a lot of work."
"It was. But I had a lot of fun doing it. That and the money was more than worth it."
"Now you sound like Phil." Lea faked a shudder. "We should get going. You ready?"
"Yep." Lea said grabbing one last drink of her soda. "Let's go."

***

"Oh, come on! It'll be great! Just think of all the money we'll bring in!" Phil pleaded.
"I don't think Dive will go for it." Wildwing told him.
"What won't I go for?" Nosedive asked walking in the room.
"Phil wants you to be the prize in a contest next Friday." Duke explained. Lea noticed a look of panic on Dive's face.
"Friday? But that's the day Nosedive promised to show me around." Lea whined.
"He/I did?" The group and Nosedive asked before Nosedive recovered.
"Yeah, I thought it'd be fun. Plus she's gonna need to know where all the cool spots are." Just the Drake 1's alarm started going off.
"What's setting it off?" Mallory asked. "There's some weird energy in the warehouse district." Tanya pointed out.
"Let's go!" Wildwing ordered.
"Right behind you, Bro."
"Do they do that often?"
"More often then I like."

***

"Three minutes until the start of the game and the Mighty Ducks still haven't arrived!" The announcer yelled. Phil was muttering and Lea checked her watch for the tenth time in two minutes. The fans started cheering as the ducks stepped out onto the ice. Lea sighed with relief. "It seems the Ducks have gotten here just in the kick of time!" Nosedive waved at Lea.
"I wish they wouldn't cut it so close." Phil complained.
"They're here." Lea pointed out. "Do they normally cut it this close?"
"They've done it too often."
"Have they ever missed a game?"
"Yes. But a while back Wildwing made a promise that they wouldn't miss any more games. But a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
"Dose Wildwing keep his promises?"
"Mostly. Especially it it's to the Kid." Phil was cut off as Lea started to cheer, Nosedive on to the goal. Nosedive's shot was good putting the Ducks ahead two minutes into the game.

***

"Great game guys." Leas said following Phil into the Ducks locker room.
"Thanks, Sweet heart." Duke said taking off his helmet.
"I think you played one of your best games ever, Dive."
"Thanks, Bro!" Dive responded beaming.
"Yeah, Dive, you played really well." Mallory praised him.
"Wow, all this praise, I think I'm gonna cry. Hold me!" Nosedive said going to put his arms around Lea.
"Not until you shower." She told him holding him at arm's length.
"AW, come on!" Dive whined.
"Shower first, than you get a hug."
"Promise?"
"Sure."
"Come on, you've got autographs to sign." Phil announced.
"Easy, Uncle Phil. Let them get dressed and showered first. Let's go see if every thing's set up for them, ok?" Lea asked shoving Phil out the door."
"Ya know, she might come in handy." Duke noted.
"Yeah, if she can get rid of Phil that fast, I saw we draft her." Nosedive joked.

***

"I can't move my hand." Mallory whined, as every one walked into the Ready Room.
"My hand is frozen in this position." Nosedive said holding up one of his hands.
"Yeah, but the kids liked it." Duke pointed out.
"Didja see the look on that little girls face when you signed your jersey and gave it to her?" Lea asked Dive.
"That was really nice of you, Baby Bro."
"Yeah, Kid. That was beautiful." Duke told him.
"I think I'm going to bed." Tanya announced.
"Me too." came the general reply.
"But, before I forget." Lea said walking over to Dive. She wrapped her arms around the astonished duck.
"Even though he didn't shower?" Mallory asked.
"Knowing me I'll forget, and I ALWAYS keep my promises." With that, Lea walked out of the room.
"Definitely drafting her." Nosedive commented smiling.

***

A Drake 1 alert jolted the Ducks and Lea awake from a peaceful sleep. "That's the loudest alarm clock!" Lea yelled.
"Tanya, what's going on?" Wildwing demanded.
"There's another disturbance over at Genutec."
"Let's rock ducks!" Wildwing yelled as the ducks filed out of the room.
"Stupid alarm." Lea muttered to herself. "There's no way I'm going to fall back asleep after that." Lea went to her room and flopped on the bed. "I'm so not use to sitting on the sidelines." Sighing she pushed herself off the bed and grabbed a book and started reading.

***

Lea was snapped awake by the sounds of the ducks returning to their rooms. She waited a few minutes, walked to Nosedive's room, and knocked on the door. "Who is it?"
"Lea."
"Come in." Lea opened the door.
"Hey."
"Hey, yourself girly-girl. Whatcha' still doing up?"
"Like I was going to fall back asleep after the world's largest alarm clock wakes me up. Plus..." Lea sighed. "I was worried about you guys. It's kinda hard sitting on the sidelines, when you have no clue what's going on. So are you all ok?"
"Yeah. A couple of bruises and a little stiffness in the morning. No big problems." Dive said pulling off his shirt.
[Lea stop starring!] Lea scolded herself. "That's good. I guess I should head back to bed then."
"Ok. Hey, ya wanna do something tomorrow after practice?"
"Sure."
"Coolella!" Lea laughed softly.
"Night, Dive."
"Night, Lea."

Author's note: This is my first MD fic. Please be gentle. I'm working on getting their personalities right. But I can only watch so much MD at a time. Stupid school. If I didn't have to go, I could really watch a lot more TV... Oh, and there is a back-story behind most of this fic, but it hasn't been written out. It's more of a "hey try to figure out what the heck I'm talking about" thing. Although if you do read some other fics with me in them you might get it...

Disclaimer: I don't own the Mighty Ducks. If I did, there would be new episodes. Also, I don't own any one but LeaMarie/Lea. And Tiki owns herself, so I don't own her either.