The streets of saint canard was looming in darkness, it was mostly just quiet as decent people were sleeping safely in their beds in one of the many tall grey buildings standing close side by side casting the long shadows that covered the streets.
Then there were the less decent people. People out to rub the place or just have fun while creating havoc!
All though, if you should judge from the panting one certain fiend was letting out, the panic on his distorted face and the way he was running... robbing and creating havoc was probably the last thing on Megavolts mind.
He ran so fast that there were sparks in his tracks and yet it wasn't enough for him as he spread out his arms and screamed. "HEEEELP!" in his high pitched voice. "SAVE MEEEE!" he screamed as he spurted around a corner manically waving his arms. "SOME-ONE ANY-ONE! POLICE! TAKE ME IN! Come on please! I am giving myself up here!" he blabbered as he ran straight pass a jewel store where the window was smashed in and the alarm clock was ringing loudly echoing down the street.
First as Megavolt had ran past it did he notice and stopped in his tracks to fall over and then scramble back to his legs to return to the robbed store. "Oh please tell me it's a team mate on work!" he begged leaping for the smashed window. "Hullo?" he asked leaning in through the window, only to receive a fist right in the face sending him straight back at the pavement.
"WHAT!" a dangerous voice sounded. "Are you doing whimp? I should squash you for that!" and a yellow claided masked duck stepped out through the window caring a heavy bag over his shoulders and fitting his red hat.
"NEGADUCK!" Megavolt exclaimed by the sight of him. "THANK GOD!" and he leaped for Negaduck grabbing his legs. "Please protect me! Please-please-please-please!" he begged hugging Negaducks legs.
"HEY!" Negaduck yelled and kicked Megavolt away. "Ewww." He grimaced genuinely disgusted waving the leg Megavolt had been hugging just a second ago, before his eyes turned dangerous as he seized Megavolt. "Don't ever." He sneered in his most dangerous tone. "Do that again!"
"You got it sir!" Megavolt exclaimed as he sat down on his knees on the pavement folding his hands in a begging gesture as he looked up at Negaduck. "Oh all-mighty lord! I'll do what-ever you say!" he promised spreading out his arms.
"As if that is anything new?" Negaduck snorted, and then he frowned looking at Megavolt, starting to fell slightly annoyed that the rat was still clingy, and clearly not afraid of him but something else, squinting his eyes Negaduck scouted in the direction Megavolt had come from, but saw nothing. "Well, unlike other idiots I know of, I actually have stuff to do! Explosives to buy, chainsaws to oil, dipwings to fry." He grumbled taking a step on his way away from the jewellery store.
"DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!" Megavolt yelled launching for Negaduck ones again grabbing his legs.
"HEY!" Negaduck yelled. "I told you not to do that! You're so dead Sparky!"
And not even that made Megavolt stop, he just clinged to Negaducks legs even harder. "Can't I just stay with you? Be your partner for the remainder of the evening?" he asked hopefully.
"NO!" Negaduck yelled kicking and fighting to the best of his ability to get the delusional rat off. "Get off! Off with you!" he sneered as he jumped around the rat still stuck on him. "If you don't stop touching me! I'll have you're head!" he warned as he punched Megavolt over the head, only to receive an electrical shock from the impact himself. "AUW!" he hauled waving his now bristled hand, and then sneered. "All right! Now I'm really mad." He hissed.
"So you'll spend the next.. say.. two hours giving me a lesson right?" Megavolt asked hopefully.
Negaduck halted. "And you want that?" he asked. "What the heck is wrong with you?" he asked.
"If any-one stands a chance against him, it's got to be you!" Megavolt exclaimed in a desperate voice.
Negaduck squinted his eyes. "A chance?" he asked. "Please, I am Negaduck, no one stands a chance against me." He sneered and with one forceful kick kicked the rat away.
"Oh how nice." A third only all the familiar voice sounded. "I have been lacking some challenge!"
"ARGH!" Megavolt screamed as he jumped up hiding behind Negaduck, having to bow down as the duck was way shorter them himself. "It's him!"
"You got to be joking." Negaduck hissed as he had also recognized the voice. "It's just Dipwing you idiot!" he grabbed Megavolts throat and held the rat in front of him. "And the us two against him, number one and two most wanted! all though I'll never know how you got to rank just below me.. He shouldn't be able to have a chance, so grow a spine will you?" he asked throwing Megavolt down on the ground.
"I thought that doctor slug was number one most wanted." Megavolt pointed out in a dazed voice clearly having been beaten a little senseless.
"And if you want to survive this night, I suggest you watch your mouth." Negaduck snarled. "And come on out Dipwing!" Negaduck challenged at the shadows. "You don't scare me." He hissed.
"Oh, I look so much forward to this." Darkwing voice responded filled with anticipation.
And Megavolt covered his eyes covering away behind a container not even daring to see what came next.
Annoyed Darkwing had to admit this simply wouldn't do! That alarm at the jewel store had gone off a good while ago now, he should have been there at least ten minutes ago, but oh well, now at least he were here ready to kick some villain butt, and he wasn't late to fire his trademark blue smoke and swing right in. "I am the terror that flaps in the night!" he started. "I am the kitchen sinks that always leak.. I am."
"I surrender!"
Darkwing had to stop in the middle of his speech and just wait till the smoke had cleared away as he starred wide-eyed at a rat in yellow jumpsuit stretching out in his arms ready to be handcuffed.
"You… surrender?" Darkwing asked in a odd voice, as if he couldn't connect what had just happened.
"Yeas! Come on take me to a cell where it's safe!" Megavolt pleaded.
"What's going on?" Darkwing asked in a disbelieving voice.
"Well, when Negaduck is taken out that easily, what sort of chance do I have?" Megavolt asked. "Please! Just take me in!"
"Erh… right.." Darkwing hesitated pulling a pair of handcuffs.
"You shouldn't know if Quackerjack is in prison at current time?" Megavolt asked impatiently waiting to be handcuffed.
"Urhm.. I don't think so." Darkwing hesitated. "He escaped last month and I haven't managed to capture him yet." He told feeling incredible odd as he handcuffed megavolt, and.. conversed with him?
"Oh shoot." Megavolt groaned. "I probably should warn him.. but I don't really want to.." he muttered. "To dangerous."
"Urh… sure.." Darkwing blinked. "But if you just follow up.. to the police station."
"Oh yeas of cause." Megavolt willingly followed up. "So how's it going with you?" He asked in a conversationally tone. "What have you been up to?"
"Urh.. you know.. crime fighting…" Darkwing responded still sounding as stunned as before, as of he seriously didn't know what to do with himself.
"Good, good." Megavolt nodded. "Well, I was just trying to make some havoc as usual, but things just seems to keep getting in the way all the time." He shrugged.
"Yeah… right…" Darkwing responded still just as bewildered.
And his bewilderment lasted over night, and into the morning as Drake Mallard sat at the morning table, simply starring out in the air, completely gone from the real world.
"Dad?" Gosalyn asked in a rather loud voice. "Earth to Dad?" she asked. "Any-one home?" she asked.
"Right here sweety." Drake responded without even changing his look or a single muscle in his body, absent minded as he grapped the carton with juice and then just poured it over his cereal without even looking at it, obviously not even realizing his mistake.
"So erh.." Gosalyns finger circled on the table. "You remember to be early tomorrow right?" she asked.
"hmm." Drake responded, still without moving.
"And drive me to the match?" Gosalyn continued. "You promised, so you got to remember! This match is important!"
"Of cause." Drake responded in still as distant a voice.
Gosalyn frowned as she observed her father and then sighed. "Well, I better head off to school!" she stated pushing the chair away. "See you later dad! Try and get some sleep it looks like you seriously need it, you're not even here! Love you!" and she was out of the kitchen with her school back over the shoulder.
"Love you to." Drake responded in his distant voice even though she was long gone and then he stuffed a spoon full of cereal into his beak, only to choke. "Yuk!" he exclaimed looking down at his bowl to discover his cereal floating in the orange juice. "Oh this is to much." He muttered picking up the bowl taking it to the sink where he spilled the content, just able to catch a glimpse out of the window of Gosalyn strolling down the street talking to Honker who had met up with her at his own drive way exit, then he slammed his bowl down in the sink. "All right! Back to work!" he exclaimed heading straight for his green armchair. "Something must be up! A sinister villain.. a new villain.. Or megavolt is planning some, yeah. He must be planning some-thing! Absolutely!" he decided as he hit the mouse statue and very soon was back in uniform and back at his lair leaping up in front of the computer. "Okay! First we see if there has happened something unusual! Some patterns! Who's out of prison and who's in prison at current time?" he murmured to himself as he pressed buttons in a incredible fast pace.
A few hours after that the floor was strayed with papers and notes, most of them either torn apart or pencilled out, a few hours more and then mess was even grander but the lair was nothing compared to Darkwing himself who looked completely messed up as his feathers stood up straight, his eyes wide-opened and worst of all, his cape was downright wrinkled! "It doesn't make any sense!" Darkwing exclaimed rubbing his head feathers under his hat looking bewildered at all of his notes and all of his own mess, as if that would help him find a clue, he hadn't even noticed the two intruders before they addressed him directly.
"Dad?" Gosalyn asked.
"Argh!" Surprised Darkwing jumped up. "Gosalyn, what are you doing here?" he asked honestly surprised. "Aren't you supposed to be in school?"
In response Gosalyn simply pointed at the window, and as Darkwing followed her finger he was faced with the fact that the sun was just about to go down, meaning it would have to be afternoon.
But instead of that making Darkwings face falter he actually brightened up. "Allright!" he exclaimed. "Almost time to get some real work done! Some investigation through town, questioning! Launchpad remember to bring a note blog!"
"Dad, have you slept at all doing the last twenty-four hours?" Gosalyn asked. "Or eaten?"
"I'm fine." Darkwing mumbled looking down on a piece of paper while chewing on his pencil.
"Oh there we go again." Gosalyn groaned rubbing her eyes.
"So what is bugging your mind this time DW?" Launchpad asked leaning against the thunderquack.
"The dastardly fearsome five!" Darkwing pronounced. "At least that's what I think.." he muttered spreading out even more papers. "Been a while since Likky broke out, he could have been planning right?" he asked. "Where's Bushy?"
"In prison." Launchpad told. "ya got him last week remember?"
"AHA!" Darkwing exclaimed. "Then it's about time for him to make an escape attempt, that plant never stays inside of the walls for long, to worried about his green house."
"If he had escaped.. you would have known of it right?" Launchpad hesitated. "We would have been out investigating the prison cell.."
"Shoot." Darkwing mumbled grumbling another piece of paper together to throw it over his shoulder. "Perhaps I need to think outside of the box." he pondered sitting down on his office chair, resting his chin on his hand as his head clearly ran thousand miles an hour as he thought. "F.O.W.L.s high command may finally decided to sat their mark on the city... they are all about being hidden right?" he asked.
"There's only a fifty percent change he is going to make it to my game tomorrow isn't there?" Gosalyn asked as she sighing dropping down on the floor sitting on her knees as she collected the papers around her to try and see if she could gather any sense from them herself.
"That's silly, of cause he'll come." Launchpad assured padding Gosalyn on the head. "he promised after all. When have DW ever broken as much as one single promise to you?"
That actually made Gosalyn brighten up as her beak tipped upwards. "You're right, I'm sorry." she acknowledged.
Darkwing how-ever hadn't heard any of that at all, he was to busy digging through his own notes. "There's got to be a clue down here some-where! there's got to be!" he exclaimed. "Otherwise nothing make sense! in which case the world is collapsing, and I as a hero is supposed to stop that to! So come on!" he yelled taking a head dive down in the papers.
"Wow, must be serious." Gosalyn commented as she blinked a little wide-eyed.
"Why don't we just leave him to it?" Launchpad asked hushing Gosalyn away from the purple menace. Worried casting a glance over his shoulder to witness the messy looking Darkwing going through the papers ones more, his eyes almost becoming bloodshot as he just starred maniacally at it all. If it weren't because Launchpad knew Darkwing had such and easy tendency to get obsessed like that, he would have been seriously worried, so right now.. it was more just category off putting and cause for slightly worry.
"All right! time to bust some crime!" Darkwing gleefully announced as he was racing down the street with the rat catcher Launchpad in the side-wagon. "a Computer store is getting ripped!" he informed glancing at his little computer in front of him placed on the middle of the handle. "Or rather... smashed into pieces.. So it must be the fearsome five up to something.."
"huh?" Launchpad asked.
"It was Megavolt I apprehended yesterday, and this has to be Quackerjack.." Darkwing mumbled thoughtfully.
"Why does that mean they are planning anything?" Launchpad asked. "I mean, they also like to work by themselves if they can get away with it." he pointed out.
"Well because.." Darkwing was just about to answer but then halted. "It's just." he tried but all ready run out again. "Something is seriously going on!" he stated. "Or maybe Megavolt has finally flipped entirely which means I had worked myself up over nothing." he defeated muttered as he drove straight forward.
Only to suddenly having a multi coloured yester running straight towards them, and then past them. "HEEEELP!" Quackerjack yelled as he ran with his arms spread out and fake teethes falling out of the pocket.
"What the?" Darkwing asked imideatly stopping his bike. "Or maybe I had it all wrong, some-one is menacing my arch nemesis's!" he exclaimed turning around zooming after Quackerjack. "HEY QUACKY!" he exclaimed. "Stop at ones!"
shortly Quackerjack looked himself over the shoulder and then his eyes widened in sheer horror by the sight of Darkwing. "HOW DID YOU CATCH UP SO FAST!"
"What do you?" Darkwing gritted. "All right! That's it! I want some answers!" he stated pulling his gas gun, and then fired the grabbling hook right at the jester catching Quackerjaks shoulder and caused the jester to fall backwards and down on the pawement, hopelessly captured.
Swiftly Darkwing stopped the bike and jumped off to hoist up Quackerjack. "Now, what the heck is the matter with you?" he asked shaking Quackerjack. "First Sparky and then you?" he asked.
"Wait a minute." Quackerjack blinked. "You're not him?"
"I'm Darkwing duck, whom else am I supposed to be?" Darkwing asked annoyed. "Your nemesis remember?"
"DARKWING!" Quackerjack exclaimed gladly suddenly embracing Darkwings neck. "So good to see you!"
"What the?" Darkwing exclaimed surprised. "Get off me!" he demanded pushing the clown away.
"But I don't understand." Quackerjack muttered as he rubbed his chin looking thoughtfully out in the air as he sat down on the ground. "How can the two of you be at the same place on the same time, theoretically it shouldn't be possible.."
"What?" Darkwing asked.
Quackerjack looked up at Darkwing as he frowned. "I'm not entirely sure that I should tell you.." he told honestly. "You see, alternative dimensions and timelines messing around with each other could end up in many unforseen consequences and collapses, and.. I would hate to suddenly figure that I had never existed."
"What are you even talking about?" Darkwing asked. "And since when did you become such a genius?"
"Since always, obviously." Quackerjack sniffed in a scorned tone.
"Look." Darkwing hissed. "Some-thing is up, I can tell that much, something tells me you are not happy about it either, so really, it would only be to your benefit if I try to stop it! but how can I when I don't know what is happening?" he asked. "So why don't you just tell me?" he asked in a stern tone.
"I don't know.." Quackerjack muttered his eyes flickering from Darkwing to Launchpad who had gotten off the rat-catcher as well.
"If dimensional collapse is what you are afraid, ask yourself this." Darkwing tried. "Would I ever want that? Don't you think I would do what-ever I could to stop it?" he asked.
Quackerjack sighed deeply. "All right." he muttered. "So listen closely will ya? a while ago I and Megsy." ´CLANK'
Quackerjack hadn't gotten any further, what looked like an empty smoke capsule had been rammed into his head as had it been fired as a misil and knocked him out cold so the Jester fell to the ground. Darkwing and Launchpad blinked as Quackerjack slunk together, and imediatly Darkwing turned to the direction the capsule had come from. "THERE!" he exclaimed. "Launchpad, keep an eye on the clown! if i'm not back in fifty minutes take him to the police station!" he instructed running in the direction he thought the fiend had to be.
"What do you think you are doing?" Darkwing called out for the mysteriouse presence and turned around a corner, only to barely see the flicker of gape dissapearing around the corner. "Stop right there!" he demanded hurrying towards the mysteriouse person. "Run all you will, i'll get you!" Darkwing proclaimed, all though that was seriously put to the test as he was lead further and further away. "Slow down will you?" Darkwing asked as he gaped for air looking upwards to discover his pursue was on the way up on top of the roof tops. "Oh great." he murmered but weren't late to follow.
It took way longer than Darkwing cared to admit to climb the long building and he was gaping for as he reached the top, barely getting over the ledge.. only to halt as he discovered the person he had pursued had stopped and Darkwing was now facing a big black boot belonging to who-ever it was, Darkwing blinked by the sight and his eyes moved upwards seeing the purple outfitt, the black gloves, the long flowing cape, a couple of shoulder pads filled with spikes, a black mask and.. a very well known fedora.. Darkwing was looking at.. himself? "Negaduck?" Darkwing asked surprised. "What's with the make-over?" he asked. "It's so.. urk I don't know, it can't be practical, and purple is my colour!" he exclaimed. "Lay it off! or people might confuse us!"
The duck in front of him squinted his eyes and then bowed down to grap Darkwing at the gape hoisting him up. "God I can't believe I was ever such a whimp!" he snarled easily holding up Darkwing in a streched arm.
"Hey! lemme down!" Darkwing exclaimed. "All right! you asked for it Negsy!" he stated reaching for his gun. "Eat gas sucker!" And was just about to pull the trick, just the moment before the other duck slapped the gasgun away so it fell out of Darkwings hand and all the long way down the tall building. "Urh.." Darkwing blinked suddenly realising what height he was dangling from. "You mind taking a couple of steps back? or.. you know.. put me down. but don't let go!" he exclaimed. "This isn't how you want to kill me, you need it to be a big battle. the fight of the ages!"
"I don't want to kill you." the other duck snorted. "That would defeat the entire purpose of me being here." he informed dragging Darkwing with him.
"Hey! Stop it! put me down and fight as a man!" Darkwing demanded and then grapped the other ducks arm fully intending to throw him away in best Quackfoo style. only to then again having been figured out in advantage and his hand was grapped and twisted around forcing Darkwing to let out a gasp of pain.
"Amatour." The other duck snorted. "I fell so ashamed now."
"AMATOUR!" Darkwing exclaimed. "Who's an amatour! Stop dragging me and we'll see's who's an amatour! I've beaten you plenty of times Negsy! I'll gladly do it again!"
"Fool!" The other duck snarled. "I am not Negaduck! don't even try and compare me to that guy."
"Well ofcause you are." Darkwing rolled his eyes. "Who else would you be?" he snorted.
"Who else indeed?" The other duck asked slamming in a door that went into a store-room and then threw Darkwing inside.
Darkwing landed right on his stomach by some-body elses feet's, slowly Darkwing looked upwards to suddenly vitness his yellow claided double being tied to a chair, angrily staring at the duck that had just thrown Darkwing inside. "Negaduck?" Darkwing asked surprised.
"I knew he couldn't be you." Negaduck snarled. "There's no way I could be taken out like that by you." he stated.
"But if you're.. who's?" Darkwing turned around to stare wide-eyed at his double with the spiky shoulder pads, only to discover now that he had actual red eyes as well.
"Who indeed?" the other duck asked grapping Darkwings colour hoisting him up. "Remember my name Darkwing." he demanded as the two of them was face to face mere inches away from each other. "And remember it well, I'm Darkwarrior Duck!"
And Darkwing was hit on the head, so his entire world suddenly turned black, the last thing Darkwing saw those red menacing eyes.
AN; Sorry.. I know I have a couple of unfinished Darkwing stories laying around.. and I was even praised for always finishing up.. which I obviously havn't done..
But.. I just had this laying on the computer so I just thought.. what the heck? When ever I told I had a Darkwarrior story in mind people got so excited. So why not just post what I got any-how and see where it leads?