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Sunset was over Anaheim, California. In the Rec Room of the
Pond, the others were all chillin. Jessica Lockheart, in her
light blue jeans and green tank, was listening to a Britney Spears
CD on her mini CD player and yellow headphones, while Nosedive
was reading a comic book of his, being careful not to make eye
to eye contact with Jessie. Mallory and Tanya were playing checkers
while Grin Hardwing was a farther corner of the Rec Room, meditating.
Calandra Drakeler was trying to read a good historical romance
novel, but was having a LOT of difficulty, since Duke L'Orange
kept kissing her neck.
"Ah; C'MON, sweetheart! What does it take to get a little
bit of 'action' from ya?"
"Maybe--if you keep your beak--OFF my neck--it might happen--eventually.
Now STOP it!"
With that, Callie grabbed Duke's neck and pushed him to the other
side of the couch, stuffing his face in the feathery softness
of the coushins. Realizing that she meant what she said, Duke
laid off her for the rest of the peaceful moment.
Wildwing Flashblade, Nosedive's older brother and the team's
leader, was hiding a look of longing for a lover of his own.
Ever since Calandra and Duke called a truce and became an item,
he felt a bit jealous. Not of Callie and Duke together, but because
he didn't have a girl of his own to do the same things Duke and
Cal did together: talk with, cuddle, and make-out half the time
they were alone. Mallory McMallard WAS there, but she didn't
seem interested in any of the ducks at the moment, and was too
temperamental for him. Tanya Vanderflock was already married..........to
her machine work, that is. What WOULD a girl see in a guy like
HIM? Ever since he became the leader of the Mighty Ducks, he tried
to remain as serious as possible, but he felt that cold shell
he took so long in building would crumble any minute from a longing
for a girl of his own.
However, there wasn't much time to worry over that matter at
the moment, for the alarm on Drake 1 sounded off again, signalizing
grave danger. Tanya quickly scanned the situation with the keyboard
panel on Drake 1, scanning for the solution to the problem. The
fearless leader glanced at Tanya to try to find out the situation
of the problem.
"Well, Tanya? What's the problem?"
"Drake 1 says that it's another power surge at the electric
company."
"ANOTHER one?" Nosedive grunted. "This has been
going on for the past two WEEKS!"
"What does old lizard-lips want with all of that electricity?"
Mallory wondered.
"Maybe he can't pay his electric bills," Jessie suggested.
All of the ducks stared at Jessie. Suddenly, she's been trying
to turn into the next best source for comic relief if Dive could
never provide it. But not ALL of her jokes made much in the way
of sense, and were ALWAYS kind of corny.
"Jessie, that's not VERY funny," Wildwing lectured.
At least I have a sense of humor! Jessie thought to herself as
she adjusted the mid-length pony tail of her hip-length cinnamon
brown hair. "Well, how about if I come along this time and
see if my guess' right or wrong?"
"Nice try, Jessie," Duke noted. "But we made
a promise to yer uncle that we would make sure that ya stay outa
trouble. And we're gonna keep it, okay kid?"
"I'm NOT a kid, Cyclops-duck. I'm 14, and I can make my
own decisions."
"Then stop calling me Cyclops-duck."
"Then stop calling me kid!"
Wildwing rolled his eyes in disbelief. From the way Duke and
Jessie argued, you'd think that they were brother and sister.
"Cut it out, you two. We don't have time for this. Sorry,
Jess. But we can't let you come for a while. Maybe in 4 years,
when we're no longer responsible for your safety."
"Fine....dad," Jessie grunted as she crossed her arms
around her chest.
Wildwing rolled his eyes yet again. He was getting TIRED of
Jessie calling her dad, although he did start to think of her
as his own daughter and everything. Dealing with Jessie was like
dealing with a fourteen year old of his own. If it weren't for
the fact that she was a human and he was a duck, people WOULD
suspect that Jessica Lockheart WAS Wildwing Flashblade's daughter.
Realizing that they couldn't waste anymore time, everyone of
the ducks loaded up into the Migrator. Onward they sped into
battle, the engines spewing flames and pushing the wind in the
back of their direction. A while's length of a drive the spent
until the electric factory was in their sights. What did Draguanus
want with all the energy THIS time? He already tried to fry Drake
1 before, and he already made a giant energy creature before with
all the energy.
"What do you think old Lizard-lips wants with all that juice?"
Dive asked.
"Dunno, little bro. But what-ever it is..."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah....," Callie grunted. "Can we
just exit and kill?"
"Whoa...calm down, sweetbeak," Duke started. "Don't
want YOU turning into a ruthless killer."
"Sorry. It's my blood rising again, I guess, love."
Soul of a soldier, has but the heart of a thief and cutthroat,
Duke thought to himself.
"Might as well get this over with," Wildwing said, breathing
a heavy sigh. "Everyone; move out!"
All seven ducks exited the Migrator, ready and anxious for battle.
Seige, Wraith, and the Chameleon(the three lizard stooges as
I like to call them:), loyal servants to Draguanus(the head stooge),
were draining energy from the Anaheim Electricity Power Plants.
All employees and guards were tied up, looks of fear deep in
their eyes.
"This plan is TOO easy!" Seige shouted in delight as
he used a type of giant ray to suck up energy.
"It's also very familiar," Wraith reminded. "Hadn't
we done this before?"
"Yeah...and without me!" Chameleon complained.
"Ah, quit yer whinin', ya little twerp, before--"
"We get here to ruin your plans for world domination, Seige?"
Wildwing asked behind his back.
"What the--"
The three stooges turned around, only to see the seven Mighty
Ducks.
"Remember me, Seige?" Callie cooed, wanting 2 seduce
him so she could stab him with her knife.
"Don't you know when to quit, DeMalard?!" Chameleon
shouted at her.
"It's DRAKELER. Calandra Drakeler. NOT Felisha DeMalard.
How many times to I need to remind you fricking bastards?!"
"Easy, sweetheart," Duke whispered to Calandra as kissed
the base of her neck. "Don't want you to lose your temper...again;
that's all they want from you, ya know."
"Sorry, love. I'll remember that in the future."
"Mush," Chameleon muttered. "I think I'm gonna
YACK."
Wildwing then gave the signal to attack the Saurian Henchmen.
Pucks went flying all over the electricity plant. Calandra didn't
have any blasters on her at the moment, so instead she relied
on her bullwhip. But no Saurians were in her range. When she
turned around, Seige teleported behind her, grabbing her by the
arms and pinning her back against his chest. She struggled to
get free, but he proved to be a more powerful match than him.
Callie tried to jab his stomach with her elbow, but even when
the cold silverish steel of her elbow pads connected with his
scaley flesh, little harm was done to Seige. Noticing the danger
to the one he loved, Duke quickly raced to Callie's side and cut
a scrape in Seige's back.
"AHHHHH!!!!!" Seige screamed as he quickly clenched
his back, trying to stop the bleeding. Using that to her advantage,
Calandra did one of her backflip kicks, knocking Seige down flat
on his stomach. Callie brushed back a bang with a color of black,
as dark as the feathers of a raven. Duke quickly took Calandra
into his arms and started to kiss her.
"Are--you--alright--my--sweet?" Duke asked between kisses.
"Yes....I'm fine. Takes more than a giant lizard to harm
THIS girl!"
Just as two were about to share yet ANOTHER kiss, Seige ordered
a bunch of Hunter Drones to knock out Callie and Duke. The only
one of the Ducks left standing was Wildwing. All of his teammates
were out cold, thanks to the Hunter Drones. Wraith and Chameleon
were draining yet MORE energy from the power plant. Seige smirked
as he grabbed his giant blaster out of his waist belt. Wildwing
tried to stop Seige, but he used his superior strength to shove
the muscular white male duck onto the ground. He pointed it at
Wildwing and got ready to pull the trigger. But, before he could,
a young female attacked at him from behind, doing a flying turning
roundhouse kick. She landed on the ground, her hair in the way
of her face, so Wildwing couldn't see what she really looked like.
The female took out a grenade and threw it at Seige. However,
she accidentally missed and hit a few Hunter Drones, but the blast
was enough to knock Seige on the ground. Wildwing looked terribly
shocked. Who WAS that girl that rescued him?
When the female turned her face, Wildwing looked even MORE shocked;
the female was yet ANOTHER duck! But this one seemed very tall.
Almost as tall as Duke himself. She had light brown feathers
and a patch on her beak, exactly like the one on Nosedive's beak.
Her hair was an emerald green color and so were her eyes. Her
hair went down to her rear, and at the top edge of her hips was
a blue band around her hair, and the end of her hair separated
into two parts. She also had a blue metallic headband underneath
her green hairbangs, and some of her hair were on the base of
her shoulders.
The green-haired wonder wore a low-neckline metallic blue sports-bra
like tank that ended half-way at her stomach and a blue choker
as well. She wore silver shoulder pads that had rods sticking
out of them, which, unknown to the naked eye, contained plastic
explosives. Across her chest there were grenades strapped around
her, the straps starting from her shoulder pads, connecting to
her back. She wore silver arm bands that each held 2 knives on
each side, as well as silver elbow pads. Her gloves were gray
with golden wrist bands around them. Her gloves covered all of
her fingers and had metallic knuckles on them as well as a metallic
rectangular patch in the middle of each glove.
Her utility belt contained AT LEAST half a dozen blasters and
her thighs were strapped with metallic blue pouches, containing
even MORE knives. Her skin-tight pants were a sapphire blue color
and also wore silver knee pads. Behind her back was a giant bazooka,
with 2 cutlasses in a criss-cross form underneath the giant blaster.
Her left arm, underneath the silver elbow pad, had the same type
of tattoo that Grin had. And last, but not least, she wore light
brown hiking boots with dark brown shoe-laces with the lace of
the socks hanging out and golden ankle bands around her boots.
Wildwing was starting to blush deeply under the mask. What was
with him? Coming back to reality, Wing quickly scanned her with
the very mask on his face, shocked in realizing that the female
WAS real. But was she a good guy, or a bad guy? He couldn't
be sure, thanks to Lucretia DeCoy's attempt at nearly killing
all of them in that tank of water. He quickly accepted Calandra
onto the team, but that was because Mallory knew her. He didn't
know whether or not any of the other knew her or not.
At that moment, Duke and Nosedive started to regain conscience.
When they saw the greenhaired beauty, they notice Wildwing blushing
ALOT, his face turning as red as a cherry.
"Man; who IS she?" Nosedive asked in shock. "Talk
about babe material!"
"Tell me about it," Duke said in a low voice, making
sure he wouldn't get smacked by Calandra for saying that if she
heard him. "But who she is, I don't know. But yer big bro
seems REALLY attracted to her."
"Wildwing? MY brother? Actually ATTRACTED to someone?!
Yeah right!"
The green haired beauty walked towards Wildwing, her hips swaying
and her hair bouncing in a rhythm. She held out her gloved hand
to Wing and gave a slight smile at him.
"Need a lift, man?" she asked in an voice pretty similar
to Mallory's, except a little deeper and sounded half American,
half Australian.
Wildwing quickly accepted the offer and took her hand. The brown-feathered
duck quickly pulled him up. Wing was suprised at the girl's strength.
Who WAS she? And he felt this strange feeling, being near this
girl. What was it? Love? Attraction?
"Uhhh...thanks, I guess."
"No probelm. So, uhh...did they, like, give you a name along
with those rippling pectorals of yours?" she asked sweetly
yet brazenly at the same time.
Wildwing blushed slightly more at the green haired woman's remark.
Even Calandra herself was never THIS bold.
"Uhhh...it's Wildwing. Wildwing Flashblade."
"Hmm...Wildwing Flashblade. Sounds familiar...my name's....DUCK!!!!"
The green haired duck grabbed Wildwing's arm and pulled him down
to avoid a blast from one of the Hunter Drones. At that very
moment, all of the ducks recovered, noticing the green haired
wonder. Seige and Wraith quickly grabbed the girl by both arms.
She struggled to get free, but they proved a greater match than
her.
"LET ME GO YOU SORRY EXCUSES FOR REPTILES!!!!"
But Seige and Wraith paid no attention to her commands.
"Hey; who do you think the green-haired chickie is?"
Chameleon asked, smirking at the same time.
"Don't know," Wraith answered. "But I think Lord
DRAGUANUS would."
The duck's emerald green eyes widened in total shock from the
name Draguanus. She was then teleported away with Seige, Wraith,
and the Chameleon following behind her. Wildwing was both shocked,
curious, and angered. What did she hafta do with Draguanus?
WAS she a traitor? She couldn't have been. She looked scared
when she heard his name. She couldn't have been a traitor then.
But still...how DID she know Draguanus? The thought weighed
heavily on his mind.
"Tanya! Use the Migrator to locate the Raptor! We're going
after Draguanus himself!"
"Yes sir! Or should I say...lover boy?" Tanya teased
as she worked the controls on the Migrator to locate Draguanus'
ship.
"What do you mean by 'lover-boy?'" He asked, slightly
blushing.
"You don't need to be ashamed of telling us, Wildwing,"
Duke said. "Dive and I saw the whole thing. You like that
green-haired chick. Admit it."
Wildwing blushed even more. WAS he? Was Wildwing Flashblade
falling in love? Couldn't have been. He barely knew the girl!
Maybe slightly attracted to her, but not LOVE. His face returned
to its regular snow-white color as the Migrator drove off to locate
the Raptor. Meanwhile, inside the Raptor, Draguanus was waiting
for his minions to return. When they did, he was shocked at the
female they brought before him.
"Who the hell is she?!" Draguanus roared.
"We don't know, boss," Chameleon answered. "She
showed up all of a sudden while Seige here tried to destroy the
'fearless leader'."
"She's a very feisty one. Nearly killed me in the process.
The leader seemed to have showed a type of affection for her."
"Let me go or I'll tear your arms in half! Don't think I
forgot what you did to my folks!!!! Either you let me go right
now, or I'll beat you all up SO hard, you'll be lucky if all you
need are STITCHES!!!"
Seige then knocked the green haired beauty on the back with the
side of his blaster. She immediately fell to the floor, her hands
keeping her from crashing all the way down. She then stared up
at Draguanus, looks of fear, shock, and anger mixed together,
shining in her emerald green eyes.
"Well, well, well," Draguanus started to speak in an
evil and cruel tone of voice. "It is nice to see you again......Sonica
Thunderbeak."
"You KNOW this she-duck, my lord?" Wraith asked in shock.
"It's not a suprise you don't remember Sonica, Wraith. After
all, it's been 7 years. But I remember well. I remember her
screaming when I fired at the older Thunderbeak people...."
"And then sent me into Dimensional Limbo to have me die a
slow and horrible death, Lizard-lips!" Sonica shouted. "It's
because of YOU I turned out like this! You killed my parents
and separated me from my big brother! I'll never forgive you
for it! You ruined my life! You took away everything that I held
dear! I swore to myself that if I ever saw you again, I'd make
you wish that you were never born. And I'm gonna KEEP that promise!
Prepare to die, Dino-breath!"
"Still trying to kill me? I'm not sure that it's possible.
I alone know how to activate the gate-way generator. I am the
only one who holds your ticket to return to your home on Puckworld.
And...you don't know where your brother is, do you?"
"What does my big brother Canard have to do with all of this?"
"Four years after I sent you into limbo, I sent him in there
as well. But, apparently, you both ended up in different parts.
Limbo somehow brought you here on Earth, but where your brother
is....Limbo is unknown."
"You....killed my brother?"
"Not KILLED, my dear," Draguanus corrected. "Merely
sent him on a little trip in Dimensional Limbo. Where he is,
I don't know. He may be still alive, for all I know. But he
has NO WAY of returning. And neither will YOU, where YOU'RE going!"
"Wh--what are you talking about?" Sonica stammered.
"Seige; use some of our 'borrowed' electricity to get rid
of this...little vermin."
"You don't mean...."
"Yes, I do, Sonica Thunderbeak. Prepare to die a slow and
painful demise."
Two Hunter Drones then dragged Sonica away. She tried desperately
not to cry as she was to be prepared for execution. At that very
moment, the Migrator approached the Raptor that was disguised
as an old run-down warehouse.
"You want me to pick the lock, Wildwing?" Duke asked
eagerly.
"We don't have time for finesse, Duke," Wildwing answered
as he shot the door open with the Migrator's weapons.
The Ducks sped into the Raptor. At that very second, Sonica
was over a hover chair, above a field of electricity(I know it
sounds like Wildwing's near fate in the First Face Off, but this
was the only plot of death I could think up at the moment). Draguanus
couldn't take any chances, so he had the three stooges remove
every single one of her weapons, including her headband &
shoulder pads. She tried to tear off the bands around her feet,
but they were impossible to remove. The head stooge and the other
three lizard stooges(Draguanus and Wraith, Seige, and the Chameleon
to those who hadn't caught on yet :)), were watching the view
from another side, where they could not only WATCH Sonica die,
but CONTROL the anguish of her fate.
"We're ready to begin the execution, Lord Draguanus,"
Seige said.
"Excellent," Draguanus laughed evily. "Lower her
into the pool of electricity. I will ENJOY seeing the younger
sister of Canard Thunderbeak die miserably."
"You'll pay in the end, Lord Scale-Tail!" Sonica shouted
through the other side of the execution room.
Draguanus only laughed more as Sonica was lowered into the pool
of electricity at a miserably slow rate. Sonica was now desperate
to make an escape. She started to try yanking off the bands around
her feet, but they were stuck to the hover board, being lowered
in the pond of sparks. Just then, an explosion was heard on Sonica's
side. Was it a rescue?
"What the blazes?!" Draguanus shouted. "What's
going on?!"
"Someone's broke in!" Seige promptly answered.
"Yes, I KNOW that," Draguanus growled. "But I
want to is WHO broke in!"
"I feared this would happen eventually...." Wraith sighed
heavily.
Just then, Wildwing broke through the other side of the torture
chamber.
"WILDWING?!?!?!?!?!" Draguanus shouted in shock. "HE'S
here?!"
"If the LEADER'S there," Chameleon started. "Then
where are the OTHERS?"
"Why don't you look behind you to find out, scale-brain,"
a female voice asked huskily.
The foursome turned around, and all of the ducks were there,
except for Wildwing.
"The DUCKS!" Seige shouted.
"Were you expecting....the Justice League of America, palie?"
Nosedive asked teasingly.
Draguanus only growled. Callie pulled out a razor-sharp dagger
from her left Resistance boot and tied a part of her bullwhip
to it, and handed it to Tanya. Taking her hint, Tanya grabbed
the bullwhip and flung it at Draggy's arm. The knife easily entered
Draguanus' arm, cutting through his scaly flesh, releasing some
of his of his blood.
"OWWWWWWW!!!!" Draguanus shouted in pain.
"Believe me, Lizard-lips," Callie started to speak.
"We could have done WORSE."
Tanya then handed Nosedive the whip and he threw it around Draguanus
and his 3 minions. They were all stuck together, with no hope
of escaping. The rope was so tight, they could barely breathe.
To make matters worse for the evil Saurians, Duke and Mallory
shot pucks into their mouths, making it impossible for them to
speak.
At the same time the others were battling Draguanus and the others,
Wildwing was trying to rescue Sonica. Without a second thought,
Wildwing shot a puck whip at the wall and swung down. However,
he didn't have a sword on him. Then again, he wasn't a swordsman;
that was Duke's job. He launched two ice pucks at the bands around
her ankles. The liquidness of the ice caused the electric bands
to malfunction. Sonica was now free from the bands around her
ankles.
"Quick; grab on to me!" Wildwing shouted to her.
"First of all, you don't hafta shout; I can hear you perfectly.
Second, how can you carry me? I'm almost your height for crying
out loud!"
"Trust me, miss! Now grab hold of me before you fry us BOTH!"
Sonica wasn't sure whether or not to listen to Wildwing. What
if he was only rescuing her for one specific purpose BESIDES to
keep her breathing? She would worry about that later, because
this man was trying to save her life! Sonica quickly wrapped
her arms around Wildwing's thick white neck. Keeping one arm
around her back, he grabbed the hanging wire above him and climbed
up before the hover chair could sink into the pool of voltages.
Wing climbed up and swung himself and Sonica to the bridge.
Landing on the bridge, he took his free arm and placed it under
Sonica's legs, holding her in a sitting position. His gaze met
her emerald green eyes and he started to blush yet again.
"Uhhh...can I have your name now, miss?"
"It's Sonica, and that's all you need to know at the moment,
Flashblade."
Wildwing gave a low whistle when Sonica told him that. What
caused her to be so ruthless all of a sudden? Not only was she
a brazen beauty, but a RUTHLESS and sassy one at that matter.
Something about her seemed very familiar to him. The patch on
her beak, her brown feathers, and her tattoo looked much like
his old best friend, Canard. But they COULDN'T have been related,
could they? I mean, it was probably just a coincidence.
"Umm...uhhh...do I owe you anything for saving my life?"
Sonica asked more politely.
How about your lips against mine? Wildwing thought to himself.
But he couldn't bring himself to say the words. She would probably
slap him across the face for that...or worse. "Well...I,
think we're even now. You saved me, I saved you. Fair deal.
But only if you tell me how you got to Earth and why Draguanus
is trying to kill you."
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," Sonica said
to him.
"Try me."
"Trust me; you wouldn't."
"Miss...I've seen PLENTY of strange things around here.
So many you wouldn't believe, even if I had solid proof right
in front of your beak."
'Who cares about........that?" Sonica started to question,
but then a realization came to her.
Wildwing realized the same thing. There lips were SO close to
touching. Wildwing's wild side told him to go in for the kill,
but his brain told him that it would be wrong to do so. That's
not how the REAL Wildwing Flashblade would react, anyways. But
the urge inside of him was trying to overcloud his better judgment.
Sonica felt the same around Wildwing as she felt her beak coming
closer to his. Even though she was still a little bit angry at
him for snapping at her earlier, she felt this strange arousal,
telling her to go for it. When Wildwing's and Sonica's beaks
were within a fraction of touching Nosedive arrogantly peeked
through, unaware of the strange attraction that was going on between
his older brother and the strange green-haired femme fatale.
"Yo, bro! What--oops! Ehhh..sorry,"
Sonica then realized what almost happened and immediately broke
her beak away from Wildwing's, barely INCHES from touching his.
Suddenly returning to reality, Wildwing reluctantly lowered Sonica
onto firm ground. She rubbed her arms together to get the warmth
of Wildwing's touch off her body. If Wing's little bro hadn't
barged in so suddenly, who KNOWS what would've happened between
the twosome. Later on, Mallory, Calandra, and the others followed,
wanting to know what happened.
"Hey; what's going on?" Cal asked.
"I was gonna ask the same thing," Tanya responded.
"Well....uhh..." Wildwing stammered.
"I...think we get an idea of what's going on," Duke
chuckled.
Wildwing's face started to turn into a cherry again while Sonica
rolled her emerald green eyes.
"You...need a place to stay?" Wildwing suddenly blurted
out without thinking straight.
"I, uh, that is..." Sonica started to speak. She wasn't
sure whether or not she should accept his offer or not. The proposition
sounded too good to be true. A place to stay....was she dreaming?
Wildwing's remark made Mallory explode.
"Are you NUTS, Wildwing?! We can't trust her! What if this'
a plan Draguanus came up with to kill us?!"
"Draguanus tried to kill her, Mallory," Wildwing argued.
"Why would he wanna kill one of his loyal soldiers?"
"Because he's a crazy overlord and maybe he set this up as
a trap for us," Tanya answered.
Sonica felt hurt deep inside, even though she wouldn't show it
to anyone. To admit her feelings to be the same as admitting
defeat or pusillanimity, she believed. Instead, she just folded
her arms across her chest, looking like she wasn't offended one
bit. Then again, they didn't know her. It would be hard to put
your trust in someone you barely knew, not knowing what they were
capable of.
"TANYA!" Wildwing exclaimed in anger. "You shouldn't
judge someone that you barely know without solid evidence. I'm
sure that someone with your abundant intelligence could figure
that out."
Tanya only growled slightly and turned her head away, her blond
hair flowing slightly in its upward style.
"Umm...does anyone know where all my weapons are? Draguanus
took all of mine before he tried to kill me..."
"You mean all of THESE?" Calandra asked as Grin gently
setted down a HUGE pile of weapons.
"Yes! Those are them!" Sonica exclaimed as she re-mounted
them across her body in the same position they were before.
"Geez, girl!" Dive exclaimed while Sonica was installed
her weapons back on her attractive figure. "You're armed
to the TEETH!"
"You hafta be, when you're family's a military family,"
Sonica said.
That's a lotta weight on a girl like her, Duke thought to himself.
"Listen, uhhh..." Wildwing started to speak. "You
need a place to stay or anything?"
"I...don't want to oppose or anything," Sonica started
to speak.
"Then don't come back with us," Mallory snapped.
"MALLORY!" Wildwing shouted at her. "Don't mind,
Mall, Sonica. She's VERY temperamental. Takes time for someone
to earn her trust. You'll get used to her exploding temper after
a while."
Sonica smiled slightly, but was still feeling unsure of herself
a bit.
What are you doing, Sonica? she thought to herself. You're going
to be moving in with people who you don't know, and who don't
know you. What if they throw you out on the streets after a few
days? The red-head doesn't trust you at ALL, and the blond with
the glasses doesn't either. Will they accept you? And are there
MORE of there kind at this so-called Pond of theirs?
These questions kept swirling around Sonica's brain as they drove
her back to the Anaheim Pond. In parking the Migrator in the
garage, Dive heard bouncing sounds of sort. When he got out,
he saw Jessie, shooting a few hoops, pretending that she was going
up against someone in a game that determined whether or not one
of them would be entered in the Championship finals. She changed
her clothes again. This time, in semi-baggy jeans and a plain
white T-shirt with a giant red Nike symbol in the middle. Her
hip-length cinnamon brown hair was tied in a mid-length pony tail,
the bangs going down to her shoulders. Every ball the shot into
the basket made it. It wasn't a REAL basketball hoop, though.
Just an old giant ring that Tanya nailed to a wall for an old
experiment of hers. Hadn't been used in years, Jessica decided
to use it for a basketball court. As Jessie was pretending that
the game was tied and there was only a few seconds left until
the final buzzard sounded, she shot the ball to the basket. However,
before she could have the ball make it into the basket, Dive grabbed
the ball from mid-air.
"And the buzzer sounds, with Nosedive Flashblade, winning
by a whooping 1 point."
"Only because you cheated, you feathered phony!" Jessie
snapped at him.
"Phony?! Take that back, ya little tomboy!"
"Only when ya give me back the basketball, ya feathered phony!"
"That does it! Yer dead, ya little tommy!"
Dive then threw the ball onto the ground and started to chase
Jessie around the basketball hoop. She ran around in circles
from him until she jumped on his back, almost as if Dive was giving
the tomboy a piggy-back ride. Jessie laughed while Dive was struggling
to throw her off his back and onto the ground, where he could
wrestle her then. Everyone but Wildwing, Grin, and Sonica were
laughing. Grin just tried to ignore the two teenagers as he walked
past them, possibly into HIS own room to meditate, to deepen his
inner peace and tranquillity. Wildwing just lifted the street-tough
tomboy off of his kid brother with his arms and brought her feet
down on the floor. Jessie looked a bit peeved at Wildwing.
"Hey! Why'd ya do that, Wing? I almost had him at my mercy
4 crying out loud!!!"
"And you were about to break his bones along with yours.
You hafta learn not be so street-tough, Jessie. AND start acting
more like a lady instead of a boy. You're not in Chicago anymore;
you're in Anaheim. Act mature."
"Geez louise, Wildwing. Dive & I were just having a
little bit of fun, that's all. Lighten up, man."
Wildwing only growled as Sonica giggled. Jessie reminded Sonica
of herself when she was a teenager. Jessie noticed Sonica then
and stared funny.
"Hey. Who's the green-haired newcomer?" Jessie asked
meddelsomely.
"Huh? Ohh...someone trying to escape from Draguanus. Her
name's Sonica."
"Sonica what, Wing?"
"She wouldn't tell me," Wing answered.
"Yet you trust her enough for her to be here?"
Wildwing rolled his chestnut brown eyes as he took the mask off
his face and put it into a pouch on his left side. Mallory and
Tanya left also. Soon, all that was left in the hangar were Calandra,
Duke, Dive, Jessie, Wing, & Sonica.
"U mind telling us yer last name & how Draguanus knew
ya, kiddo?" Duke asked.
"I.....prefer not to talk about it. Too painful."
"We know what it's like to confront Draguanus," Calandra
said, trying to confort Sonica enough so she could admit why she
was so afraid of the Head Stooge. "We all confronted him
time and time again. Don't be afraid to tell us."
"Promise you won't try to shoot me on sight for telling you
all?"
"We don't kill unless we hafta," Dive promised.
"Liar, liar, beak on fire," Jessie teased.
"Watch it, tommy," Dive gritted through his teeth.
"Dive! Jessie! Stop it you 2!" Wildwing lectured.
"Go on and tell us...Sonica...uhh..."
"Thunderbeak. Sonica Thunderbeak," the green-haired
wonder finally said.
"Thunderbeak?!" Calandra asked in shock. "That's
the same last name as....
"Canard!" Wildwing finished.
"Yes. I'm his little sister. I was one of Draguanus' slaves
during the conquest of Puckworld, unfortunately. And what's even
more shocking, and upset to me, is that....well...I, used to work
for Draguanus."
"You WORKED for that slimy lizard?!" Wildwing asked
in shock.
"Canard's own sister....against Puckworld...I dont' believe
it," Callie muttered under her breath.
Canard's little sister started to grow even more furious when
everyone believed she was still with Draguanus because she used
to work for him as a child. Controlling her rage, she stared
at them, her emerald green eyes shining.
"Look," Sonica defended. "I didn't work for him
because I WANTED to. I did because I HAD to. I didn't have a
choice in the matter. On Puckworld, Draguanus captured my parents.
Unless I did what he told me to do, he would've killed them all.
So I had no choice but to help build all of those hunter drones
and monitor tower robots, in hopes that he would free me &
my family. But," Sonica started to speak, tears brimming
in her green eyes. "Even though I kept my end of the bargain,
Draguanus broke his, and murdered them both, right in front of
my eyes."
The ducks and Jessie looked shocked at this. They knew Draguanus
was a ruthless monster, but to murder an innocent life's parents
was just way too low, even for someone like him.
"That no good, sleazy, chicken-legged, snaggle-toothed, cross-eyed,
lying, son of a--," Jessie started to say.
"Jessie!" Wildwing snapped at her. "Sorry about
that, Sonica. Jessie can be like that once in a while. You don't
hafta go on if you don't wanna."
"No, it's okay," Sonica said while she whiped away the
tears in her eyes. "I'll be fine. After he murdered my
folks, he opened up the dimensional gate-way portal and zapped
me into dimensional limbo, expecting me to die a slow and miserable
death. However, two days later after I was zapped into that portal,
I somehow landed in Australia, or as other call it, the Land Down
Under. There, I was taken in by a family called the Jonastins,
who turned out to be a military family in Australia. They taught
me military stealth & combat, helped increase my know-how
of martial arts, and not only deepened my ingenuity in repairing
viecles, but also in how to repair weapons. Four years later,
you all showed up. But I didn't decide to join you until another
3 years past by here on Earth. I think you all know the rest
of the story now."
"Yeah, I think we do," Wildwing answered. "You
saw us in trouble at the electric plant, so you decided to lend
us a hand. Look...Sonica. I'm sorry for your loss and all.
Dive & I aren't sure whether or not OUR parents are still
alive or not."
"They are, Wildwing," Calandra answered. " I know.
I helped free them during the rebellion. I'm just sorry I couldn't
help to rescue YOURS, Sonica Thunderbeak. If I knew...I would've
helped to prevent their death."
"It's alright," Sonica replied, starting to smile.
"You're always welcome among us," Wildwing said as he
placed a hand on her shoulder,