Honker Muddlefoot was busy working on something in the lab just as he did everyday. His wife, Special Agent Gosalyn Muddlefoot was busy testing out gadgets that her husband created in the testing room. Derek Mallard, Gosalyn's little brother was at school, making friends with all of the children that were descended from the old members of the Fearsome Five, save for Negaduck and Liquidator's kids; though Liquidator didn't have any anyway. Morgana was taking care of her granddaughter, Ariel Muddlefoot. Drake Mallard, also known as Darkwing Duck, was investigating a simple crime of missing swamp creatures from the zoo with Launchpad; most likely the work of Jambalaya Jake and his pet gator, Gumbo. Everything was normal in the Posiverse, but what of the Negaverse?
***Darkwing Duck***
Negaduck found himself in a rare position of watching his granddaughter while his daughter was out doing the grocery shopping with her mother. They were planning a special dinner. His son was at school, no doubt tormenting the teachers and scaring them into making him get good grades or he'd tell his parents. Ariel looked up at her father with her dark green eyes that were no doubt her mother's. Negaduck had been informed of Nega-Honker raping his daughter and forcing her into marrying him or he'd take the child. He was quite angry with that being allowed to happen to his little girl while he was gone. True, it was a normal custom of the Negaverse to do something like that, but his little girl was special. She was someone who deserved respect, and if that no good Muddlefoot biker boy came over again, he was going to skin him alive himself before Gosalyn had the chance. This said little about the boy that she really had feelings for; his granddaughter's uncle, Tank. His Gosalyn had really wanted to marry Tank, if only for the fact that he respected her and was her assistant in all of her work, be it hero or villain. He was the creator of her specialized arrows, bow, and even her special gas gun and equipment as both Quiverwing Death and Crimson Avenger.
Thinking about all that Tank had done for his girl, Negaduck put the thought in mind of allowing him to at the least date his daughter if asked. He wasn't going to force her to not go out with him, knowing full well what she was really capable of if angered. Ariel tilted her head to the side as she observed her grandfather.
Negaduck had never dealt with a baby before. "What?"
"Lo' Negadu'" She pointed at him, trying to call him by his title, startling her grandfather.
"Um… yeah… so?"
The little toddler startled him more when she pushed herself up on his desk, stood, and waddled over to him and grabbed his hat. "Me Lady Negadu!" She exclaimed happily with an evil looking smile on her face.
This caused Negaduck to let out a dark chuckle. "Lady Negaduck, huh? Yeah, right! Maybe when my hat doesn't fall over your bill kid." He said as the hat fell on her face. She just laughed, thinking it was a grand idea. He looked at the door where Gosalyn and Morgana just entered. "Hey, girls. This kid wants to take over my job!"
Morgana didn't know what her daughter's reaction to that would be, seeing as how she was unaware of her daughter's dark side, at least unaware of how dark it was. She wondered if Gosalyn would allow her daughter to become the next evil ruler of the world.
Gosalyn just smiled as she put down the groceries and picked up the toddler. "Is that so? Give grandpa his hat back, Ariel." Ariel obliged, leaning out of her mother's hands to place the yellow hat back on the older duck's head. "There, much better. Now, as for your future job as ruler of the Negaverse…" She glanced back to her father with a wicked smirk that gave him some worry. "We'll let you start training with uncle Tank first, that way you can make your own gadgets and you won't have to ask him to help all the time like momma does." She pretended to think about it while bouncing the little pink dressed tyke in her hands. "I think we'll let Grandpa Negaduck train you in weapons when you turn five."
"YEAH!" The two year old clapped her hands and smiled widely while her grandparents were surprised, one more than the other. Negaduck smirked.
"What weapon do you want to learn first, Ariel?" He asked coolly, trying to think of how to make a weapon that would be dangerous in her unexperienced hands to start her off with, but wouldn't get her killed.
Ariel laughed and pointed to her grandfather's gun and knife collection. "Boom boom! Slash!"
"I think I can get you a switchblade for a start… maybe even a little pistol that shoots out acid instead of water. . . that is if your mother approves."
"No on the acid, Negaduck. Why not some knockout gas for now? I don't want the gun to melt on her and burn her at first." Gosalyn smiled as she cuddled her daughter. "The switchblade will work perfectly though!"
Morgana just looked at the red head with confusion while Negaduck nodded his head slowly. 'She'll end up just like her mother if we aren't careful… I'll have to encourage some positive time with her counterpart, no matter how sickeningly goody goody she is… can't have her skinning people alive at age nine… especially me…' Negaduck then looked at the groceries the girls brought in. "Gosalyn, why don't you go cook dinner while I talk to Morgana, alone."
Gosalyn smiled her usual sugar sweet smile, once more confusing Morgana, and brought the groceries and Ariel with her into the kitchen. Morgana looked to her husband with confusion. "Okay, what just happened? She's okay with Ariel growing up to be like you?"
"You're surprised?" Negaduck chuckled darkly.
"Well… yes… I mean, she's always so…"
"Sweet? Nice? Good?" Negaduck labeled off the adjectives that usually described his daughter. "Yes, but have you ever seen her as Quiverwing Death?"
"Now that I think about it… no… I've only heard of her…" Morgana was now starting to question what she knew about the young girl that everyone thought of as innocent.
"Let me put it to you this way. . . I'm just glad that Hexmaster didn't see her when she was shooting. He said that his eyes were surrounded in dust clouds until she released us. She's fierce, vicious, and accurate. I've never seen her miss with that thing." Negaduck folded his hands together over his desk and looked like he was thinking deeply about something. "The fact that she wants me to teach her daughter how to use weapons means that she wants her to be feared, but not hidden like her talents. I'm sure Gosalyn wants her to stay on a nicer personality, but for public appearances of me training her, that will make Ariel almost as feared as me when she proves good enough."
"You think she will?"
"I have every confidence that before she is nine years old, Ariel will have learned how to handle any knife and gun she gets her hands on. Bows and arrows she'll go to her mother on. Inventing she'll learn from her uncle. What I'm most worried about is her father coming after her before she's ready…"
"Really?"
"Trust me, I know of nothing more dangerous than that of Gosalyn when she's in a pure rage. I can only imagine what will happen if she or Ariel ends up in one against Honker."
***Darkwing Duck***
Honker looked over the remnants of F.O.W.L. with disgust. Without Hooter or Grizzlykoff, they had no leader, no backbone, no hope of conquering the world. Honker gave an evil grin as he adjusted his black biker's cap. He had gathered all he could of the organization and had a plan. "Ladies and germs, we're going to make a portal to the Posiverse where I shall capture my genius counterpart. With him in our grasps, we can take over both worlds!" He had heard that there was a Posiverse counterpart for everyone and was sure that his was a wuss, easy to control and manipulate. What he hadn't counted on, was the broken water fountain in the middle of the building having ears… dog ears…
***Darkwing Duck***
"HE'S WHAT!" Gosalyn had been the one to pick up the phone at her father's office/house on Avian Way. She snarled into the receiver of the phone. "You had better repeat that, Liquidator!" Hexmaster looked up at his sister with his niece on her hip yelling most uncharacteristically into the broken phone. Negaduck had heard her anger and was waiting in the hall with an unimpressed look on his face. He had been informed of Gosalyn turning the Friendly Four into her private squad of balance keepers. They were allowed to do some goody things so long as they didn't mess with the main structure of the Negaverse, which apparently was alright with them, and they found themselves willing to take orders from Gosalyn. "Tell Bushroot and Quackerjack to get my portal ready. I have to warn Quiverwing Quack!" She slammed the phone, making Ariel look up at her mother with her beak in an "O" form.
"What's going on?" Gosalyn looked to her father with her eyes filled with darkness, startling her little brother. "Why do you need to go to the Posiverse?"
"Because that monster, Honker, is going after his counterpart so that he can get help to take over this place." She made her way over to the broken recliners that would send her up to her father's base of operations, Negaduck Tower on the St. Canard Bridge. She sat down in her chair with her baby in her hands. She looked down at her daughter and said in a motherly voice. "Mommy's going to go kill daddy this time, okay sweetie?" It was almost normal again.
"Kay, kay, momma!" Ariel giggled as though this was normal.
"I do hope you are not thinking of going to your counterpart's home with her in your pouch." Negaduck pointed out the infant. "Leave her with me. I'll watch her. You go do whatever goody stuff without drawing attention to me, got it, kiddo?" It was one of the rare times when he actually acted like Darkwing, though he would deny it with every fiber of his being that he was even similar to the duck in anything but looks.
Gosalyn paused for a minute to contemplate it before holding the little girl up to her face. "Be good for grandpa and do what he says, got it, sweetie?" The toddler nodded with a serious expression on her face. Gosalyn then handed her over to Negaduck. "Take care of her and don't let her near any weapons unless its absolutely necessary. I don't want to lose you guys again. Oh, and don't feed her anything with too much sugar in it unless you have Morgana around and able to control her magical outburst." She then walked over to the chairs that would take her to Negaduck tower. "I'll be back after I finish dealing with this, and don't worry, Negaduck. I'm just sending Crimson over. You're in the clear." Negaduck nodded. She rarely called him that anymore. During her teen years she had started to call him dad, and while that had startled him at first, he realized that she had no real father figure before him. Now that she was calling him Negaduck again, that meant she was in serious mode and would be very dangerous to deal with.
Negaduck looked at his granddaughter with a raised eyebrow. "You have magical outbursts?"
***Darkwing Duck***
Honker frowned as he glared at the portal that had opened up in his lab. He had made sure that everyone else had evacuated as he saw the evil creature that came out of it. It was, ironically enough, himself. His darker self, his negative half, however one could call it. He knew that his team of scientists weren't prepared to face him. He'd have to stall. He told them all to leave. He was glad that his counterpart didn't object. The scientists kept tripping over themselves to get away from what they knew to be a Negaverse resident. They had to warn the chief and Gosalyn!
"What do you want, Nega-Honker?"
"Heh, right to the chase, I like it. I need your help, and you're gonna help me." The biker smirked as the two of them started to circle each other. 'Why isn't he afraid of me like the other nerds?'
'What's he doing here? Both Gosalyns are going to throw a fit… I'll have to hold him off till one of them comes. I hope they're okay… he better not have hurt them…' Posiverse Honker took a deep breath and remembered the fight training he had taken from his martial arts classes that he had started taking after he had become the Arrow Kid. He also remembered the training on dodging that he had received from Quiverwing. This punk wasn't going to take him down easily. "Now why would you need my help? I don't work for evil in case being in the middle of S.H.U.S.H. didn't give it away."
"Hehe, no, but maybe you'll do it to protect that little family of yours. Now I don't know what you're Gosalyn's like, probably a push over though, but I know that she's supposed to be the opposite of my wife." Negative Honker chuckled darkly. "And you're the weaker but smarter version of me."
Positive Honker rolled his eyes as he adjusted his glasses. "I recommend recalibrating your opinions on how the Posiverse counterparts are. I'm not so weak that I can't defend myself and my family." His voice was steel cold, much to his counterpart's surprise. "I suggest you leave through that pathetic portal right now before I shove you through it, or even worse, my wife shows up and shoves you through it."
"Haha, you're wife!" Nega-Honker laughed. He had heard that the Posiverse counterparts were supposed to be the opposite of the Negaverse populace. "She's the opposite of my wife, right? She's a weakling then. A weak, pathetic stay at home wife who…" Suddenly a gunshot stopped his rant. He had been grazed on the shoulder! He looked up at the rafters to see not only the Crimson Avenger from his dimension, but also an agent that looked like his wife! 'What the hell! This Gosalyn's an agent?'
Posiverse Honker sighed. "I did try to warn you. Now my wife has arrived." He looked up to see his wife and her Negaverse counterpart. "And she brought a friend. Nice to see you again, Crimson Avenger. It's been a while."
"Yes it has." Her voice was stone cold and sounded harsher than his voice. Crimson had managed to portal right in on a meeting with Gosalyn and Director Hooter, startling everyone. She had quickly said her piece and was followed by Gosalyn as the rest of the people in the meeting had gone to check on the others who were escaping. "What are you doing here, loser?" This time she was addressing the biker.
"I'm here for my counterpart. How'd you know I was here ya stupid goody-goody?"
"I have my ways." The two Gosalyns jumped down and made their way over to the two Honkers. Only one of which apparently knew that the girls were both the same bird. "Give me one reason as to not kill you."
"It's not in your nature. Maybe if you were Quiverwing Death, sure, but Crimson, nah. You're a coward. You don't kill. You're weirdo twin does that." The biker sneered as he got closer to the trio of heroes. He was as foolish as the majority of the Negaverse to think that Crimson was Quiverwing Death's twin sister.
The scientist shook his head. "You must think so little of your family."
"Oh, not true. I know my little girl's gonna grow up to be the best of the best, or rather, the worst of the worst. I'm planning on picking her up after this after all. She'll know how to do everything that she needs to when I'm done with her." The biker was unaware of the loss of sanity that was starting to show in the Crimson Avenger's green eyes.
"Pathetic." Everyone was shocked with how calm Posiverse Honker was being. He wasn't even stuttering like he usually did. It was unnerving to the Posiverse Gosalyn who had known him longest.
"Oh yeah? Well let me tell you something, buddy-boy. You're gonna come back to the Negaverse with me, and you're going to help me take over the place. If you do everything I tell you, then maybe, just maybe, I'll spare your wife and brat."
Honker took a deep breath to calm himself down as his counterpart kept yelling and ranting about taking over the world, as though he could actually take down both Agent Muddlefoot and the Crimson Avenger while still dragging his Posiverse counterpart into the shaky portal. The scientist looked at the portal and threw a rock in it. The portal then dissipated, much to his counterpart's shock. "Huh, so it was unstable. What do you know?" He smirked.
"Why you little…!" He rushed to attack his counterpart, much to both of the Gosalyns' horror, as he was apparently quite fast and they weren't fast enough or close enough to exactly hit him. Thankfully, Honker raised his hand and gripped the biker's wrist, causing him to drop his knife. "What the?"
"You really need to learn to respect your family more." Suddenly the biker felt something pinch his arm. He looked in shock as the scientist injected him with something. "You know what's funny? I was saving that injection for myself before I met Gosalyn. Now that I have someone who looks like me but acts worse than Tank to use it on… I don't feel so bad for making it." The biker's eyes widened as he realized what he had just been injected with, or at least, an idea of what he had been injected with.
"You wouldn't…you're a coward, you wouldn't do that…" The biker moved back in shock as he felt the liquid go through his system. He had no clue what it was doing, but he knew that he was starting to get dizzy. Suddenly, he started to cough up blood and made one last rush at the scientist before he was thrown onto his back by his Posiverse counterpart. The Negaverse Honker was unconscious, but not dead as he thought.
"Honker… what did you do to him?" Both Gosalyns asked in shock. Was this one really the sweet Honker they knew?
Honker made his way over to his counterpart and checked his pulse. "He's still alive, just sick and asleep. With how weak my system was before I met Gosalyn, this might have killed me or given me a really bad case of the flu. Since these things work differently than it's supposed to for the residents of the Negaverse, I really didn't feel too bad about using it on him and scaring him into thinking he was dying. For him, it'll just work like a flu vaccine. His mind tricked him with fear though. This caused him to cough up blood and think he was dying." Honker explained calmly as the two Gosalyns made their way over to him and his counterpart.
"Might I ask as to why you had something so dangerous and thought to use it before meeting me?" Posiverse Gosalyn asked with a frown and her arms crossed.
Honker smiled. "Because before you showed up, no one really cared for me. I kept it as a reminder. Besides, it would just give me a flu now, and for him, it should just act as a vaccine."
"Wow, you tricked him with medicine… I'm impressed, Honker." Crimson grinned as she disarmed the brute and tied him up. She then hoisted him on her shoulders. "Think you can make me a stable portal that will get me to my world and not in the ruins of this place there?"
The scientist nodded. "No problem. Where'd you like to end up?"
Crimson handed him a set of coordinates. "You don't want to know where these lead, just place me there."
"That bad, huh?"
"I could just feed him to the dogs, but I'm afraid that the dogs might choke."
"Good point." Agent Muddlefoot smirked as Dr. Muddlefoot started working on the machine.
A portal came up and the Crimson Avenger bid them farewell. "Next time I visit, we should just have a nice visit instead of running around in worry because of this loser."
"Considering I am that loser, I suppose you mean you'd like to hang around yourself alone." Honker smirked.
Both Gosalyns laughed and assured him that they meant only the Negaverse version of himself. Crimson Avenger left with the negative version of Honker to do who knew what with him.
Now that the two of them were alone again, Gosalyn looked at her husband with a slight bit of anger and concern. "What were you thinking of, taking him on alone?"
Honker shocked her by hugging her. "As much as I love you for saving me, I couldn't handle him threatening you and the others." He was now shaking with the fear that he had gained from encountering his negative self. "I couldn't handle it. When you two showed up… I was so scared he was going to hurt you…"
"Honker… Honk… it's okay… you did good… thank you…" She calmed the scientist down as she realized just how much he depended on her, and needed her. She felt the same way about him though. "Come on, Honk, let's get those other lazy bums to clean this place up. We'll go and do something fun for old times' sake."
"You mean, you're gonna drag me into danger just for the thrill, aren't you." Honker managed to laugh. It was good to hear that after such a scare to the young couple.
"Heh, you bet your safety gear I am, but how's about a safe danger? Skating sound good?"
"Yeah, that sounds great."
***Darkwing Duck***
Crimson Avenger arrived in her tower an hour after being dropped off in what looked like a cemetery. She had buried the murdering biker after she was sure he was dead. She changed into her usual outfit, a nurse outfit that was pink and gave off the impression of innocence. It was also her work uniform. A pink jumpsuit that basically said, "I'm Negaduck's personal nurse, so leave me alone or you're dead, bub." Being the only one in the Negaverse to really wear pink other than her daughter, she found that it had its uses to get the message across. She sat down in the chair and hit the button that sent her back home. Waiting for her was her father with baby Ariel sitting on the floor in front of him. Negaduck had out a bunch of different plans and Ariel was pointing to them, trying to understand them.
Gosalyn smirked as she sat down with them, wondering what her father was up to now. Her good half wanted him to not go after other universes, but her darker half wanted him to go after only specific universes where even her counterparts were pure evil. It was an interesting thing to have a slight case of Split Personality Disorder, but it helped her keep her family safe, so she didn't mind… so long as they stayed on track with what was really important. Negaduck looked up to his daughter and started to explain things like he was to Ariel, as though she had been there the whole time. That was how it was going to be and how it was supposed to be with family; work together. Even Lord Negaduck knew this, and he was one of the biggest villains in the multiverse!