AUTHOR'S NOTE: My second Darkwing Duck/Get Along Gang crossover. Sort of kind of. For some reason that I absolutely can not begin to explain, one of my favorite characters on "The Get Along Gang" is Leland Lizard. I wanted to do something to show that he wasn't a blithering idiot like he was in the pilot. I feel I'm the only one who noticed that he's not all that stupid in the TV series. In any case, Gosalyn Mallard belongs to Disney, the Get Along Gang belongs to Those Characters from Cleveland, and any other characters you meet along the way belong to me.

It was a bright, clear, fall day. It had been a month into the new school year. The Get Along Gang's newest member, Gosalyn Mallard, wasn't looking forward to the school year when she first moved to Green Meadow. She hated school. But then, what kid didn't? Except maybe Montgomery Moose and Braker Turtle, but that was because they were the "brains" of the gang. In actuality, Gosalyn thought school was okay. It was just the work she hated.

"Did you guys do your book reports?" Montgomery asked.

"Mine's all ready," Dotty Dog said.

"Mine, too," Woolma Lamb said.

"I hate to admit it, but the book I read was pretty cool," Gosalyn said with a shrug. "My dad gave it to me when I told him about the assignment. At least we get a cool teacher."

"Yeah, Miss Deering's the best," Montgomery agreed.

"I hope I get Miss Deering for a teacher someday," Portia Porcupine, the youngest member of the Gang, said. She was in a different class from the other kids.

"You'd really like her, Portia," Montgomery replied. "She's the best teacher we ever had!"

Zipper Cat and Bingo "Bet It All" Beaver nodded in agreement, and the seven kids walked to the schoolhouse. They wanted to get there before the first bell rang.

Elsewhere in Green Meadow, the town bully, Catchum Crocodile, was standing outside of the house of his sidekick, Leland Lizard, waiting for him to come out, so they could get to school. Although it didn't really matter to Catchum. School did not interest him. He was only there because his mother made him go every single day. As he was waiting, Leland was rushing around, trying to get himself in order. Mainly looking for his book report, and trying to avoid his grandfather, who recently moved in with him and his parents. He was actually thankful for running late. Then he wouldn't have to put up with his grandfather, talking about "the old days."

Unfortunately, Leland wasn't going to be able to avoid his grandfather. He bumped right into him while looking for his book report, which his grandfather was holding in his hand.

"Looking for this?" he asked.

"Uhh, yeah," Leland said, taking his book report. "Thanks, Grandpa. I gotta go, or I'm going to be late for school."

"All right," Grandpa Lizard said. "But you should learn to be more organized with your homework, boy! Why, when I was your age . . . ."

"Sorry, Grandpa, but I gotta go!" Leland shouted, and raced out the door as fast as he could. He knew he usually had to beat a hasty retreat when his grandfather started sentences with the words "when I was your age."

When Leland came out the door, he saw Catchum standing there, looking bored to death.

"What took you so long?" he asked.

"I had to look for my book report," Leland said.

"That's the last time I wait for you before school starts. Come on. Let's get going."

Catchum and Leland ran off to reach school before the bell rang. If they were late, that only meant detention. Even though Catchum hated school, he hated detention even more. He and Leland made it at the very last possible second.

"What takes you two so long to get to school, anyway?" Gosalyn asked.

"Waiting for slowpoke over here," Catchum said, indicating his sidekick. Then the two of them walked to their desks in the back of the room.

The very first thing Miss Deering did was go around the classroom collecting the class's book reports.

"Nice to see you're turning in your homework for once, Gosalyn," Miss Deering said as she took Gosalyn's report.

"What can I say?" Gosalyn said with a shrug. "This assignment was different."

"Maybe I should try to assign book reports more often," Miss Deering said, and she continued to collect the rest of the book reports.

Catchum was flipping through his book report, waiting for Miss Deering to collect it, when he glanced over at Leland, who was frantically throwing papers out of his notebook in every direction imaginable. Catchum gave him a Look.

"Leland, what in the world are you doing?" he asked.

"Looking for my book report," Leland replied. "I know I did it. I had it when I left this morning. My grandfather handed it to me right before I left! I know I had it then, I just know . . . . ."

"Leland," Miss Deering said. "May I have your book report, please?"

"Uhh, well, Miss Deering, I can't find it," Leland said. "But I did do it."

"You know, Leland, this is the third time this semester you haven't turned in your homework. Your grades aren't doing very well, and this isn't helping."

"I know, Miss Deering, but I really did do my book report. It's probably just mixed up with the rest of my stuff."

"All right. I'll give you until the end of the day to find your book report."

Leland nodded, and continued to dig through his notebook. Gosalyn looked around, and then turned to Dotty, who sat next to her.

"It's amazing he can find anything in that notebook," she said, with a slight laugh.

Dotty craned her neck to see what Leland was doing, and stifled a laugh herself. The panic stricken look on Leland's face was pretty funny.

By lunch time, Leland was still looking for his book report. Montgomery came up to him in the lunchroom.

"Still looking for your book report?" he asked.

"Yeah," Leland said. "I don't know what could have happened."

"Maybe you dropped it on the way to school or something. I heard you and Catchum talking about having to race to get to school this morning."

"That's probably it."

Leland gathered up his papers, stood up, and started to leave the lunchroom. Montgomery looked at him as if he were crazy.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

"To go look for my book report," Leland replied.

"Wait a minute, you can't leave school grounds now! You'll get in trouble."

"Not if he doesn't get caught," Catchum replied. "I've skipped school dozens of times and I've never gotten caught!"

"You will one of these days," Montgomery said. "I wouldn't attempt leaving school do look for your book report, Leland. It's not worth it."

"It is to me," Leland replied. "If I don't turn in that book report, it'll be another note home about not doing my homework, and then my grandfather will kill me."

And with that, Leland left the lunch room. He was planning on retracing his steps to find his book report. Montgomery wasn't so sure that was a good idea. He went to the table where the rest of the gang was sitting and sat down.

"What was that all about over there, Montgomery?" Woolma asked.

"Oh, I mentioned to Leland that he might have dropped his book report on the way to school today, and he's gone out to look for it," Montgomery said.

"He's leaving school grounds to look for a stupid book report?" Gosalyn asked. "Sheesh, what a looney lizard!"

"I'll bet he gets caught," Bingo said.

"I wonder how long it's going to take before he gets caught," Zipper said.

"It won't take too long," Gosalyn said. "Leland's an idiot."

Montgomery shrugged. He wasn't sure he wanted to get into this conversation