//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: The Kings of Chaos // by SailorCardKnight //------------------------------// Just how did all of it begin? Why is it that, Negaduck of all ducks, has decided to go to Equestria? What is he planning and how did he get there? What about Darkwing? Lets turn back the clock for one moment, and return to the city of St. Canard for our answers... This side of the story begins in the twilight of the setting sun. As the sunlight began to fade upon the vast metropolitan city, the shadows hidden among the towering buildings crept out from their dark corners. Among these shadows stood an empty warehouse. Well, it was empty at one point, this warehouse is now the new current home of the city's most feared gang of criminals. A gang known as none other than the Fearsome Five! ...Or rather “Fearsome Four” at the moment, as their leader wasn't present at this point in time. He usually gets quite fed up and bored hanging around the rest of the group much of the time. So he tends the leave the rest of the members alone for extended periods of time. Fortunately for them, this allows them to enjoy certain things that their boss would normally ban from the place. Bushroot opened the entrance door and stepped inside, he had a disguise on consisting of a long brown trench coat and a hat. “You get the goods?” Quackerjack asked Bushroot as he walked in. Bushroot reached into his coat and pulled out a small package, he showed it to the rest, “Got it right here!” Quackerjack took the package from him and did little dance, “Success!” While Bushroot began to take off his disguise to put it away, Megavolt spoke, “How lucky are we that the guy down the street at the convenience store happens to be into the same thing?” “They don't call it a convenience store for nothing!” The Liquidator said in his usual watery-sounding voice. The Fearsome Four gathered around the package Quackerjack held and he opened it. They marveled at its contents in awe and excitement. Without a minute to spare, they took advantage of their newly acquired prize and that their boss wasn't there to see it. They soon found themselves immersed in total euphoria of bright colors and happiness. It was pure bliss full of sunshine and rainbows. Suddenly, the entrance door swung open and the one thing that threatened to destroy their moment of peaceful bliss had returned. They all immediately panicked and all dived for the switch at once. They had to hurry and quickly hide it from him, but it was already too late. The final member of their group to complete the Five, and their boss, was already here. “Yo fellas,” Negaduck said, “I caught wind of some important news. The date of the delivery has been changed, the truck is going to be delivering the goods tonight. We need to be ready to go if we're gonna rob...” Then he stopped and saw the really strange, awkward pose Bushroot, Megavolt, Quackerjack and The Liquidator where all in. It was as if they where playing a game of twister over a TV remote and had completely frozen in place. All their eyes where on their boss, faces completely white, all sweating profoundly, in total fear of what was to come. This alone was enough to leave a weird expression on Negaduck's face, completely baffled by what they where doing. Before he could ask them, he looked at what was on the TV. His eyes widened, and his face contorted. For as long as they have known him, they have never ever seen their bosses' face like that before. It was as if someone had taken all of his expressions for rage, shock, disbelief, disgust and blended them all together into blender. “What...the...hell?...You can't be serious.” The four of them where still frozen in terror when they all nervously greeted their boss, “Hi Negaduck...” That same expression was still stuck on Negaduck's face, he was completely dumbfounded. “Are you all watching...” he paused for a moment, he couldn't believe he was about ready to udder the words, “...My Little Pony?” There was a long silence with only the sound of the TV before they could all finally squeak the word, “...yes.” “...a little girls cartoon?” “...yes.” the four squeaked again. There was a long pause before Negaduck asked, “...Why?” “Ah but this My Little Pony series is unlike all of the others, its new and improved and 20% cooler!” The Liquidator explained. “Quackerjack showed it to us the other day after he told us how good it was.” Bushroot said too. Then Quackerjack spoke, “After seeing all those guys at the toy store buying pony toys for themselves, I just had to see what the fuss was about.” With all those expressions on Negaduck's face, one emerged, that expression being rage. He walked over to the corner where his flamethrower was at, grabbed it and made his way back over to the TV, bearing his fangs. “I don't give a rat's ass! Its still a show about a bunch of frilly candy-colored horses meant for snot-nosed 'lil brats that grown men like you shouldn't be watching! I can't believe you imbeciles are watching such garbage in my presence to begin with!” The four quickly scrambled to get out of the way, they didn't want to be caught in the flames of Negaduck's wrath. Negaduck stood before the TV, his flamethrower posed and aimed, ready to kill it with fire, until something happened on screen that piqued his interest. A strange-looking character popped up on the screen, his design alone caught his attention, as he never expected to see anything like him on a show meant for young girls. He lowered his flamethrower for a moment, and asked, “Who's this weirdo? He ain't a pony.” He continued to watch for a moment longer, “Whats he doing anyways?” “That's Discord, hes one of the main villains...” Quackerjack told him. Negaduck continued to watch the episode play out on the TV. He watched the strange fellow named Discord trick one of the cute colored ponies into believing her friends where against her and she turned gray. Then a purple pony appeared, who was this other pony's friend, and the pony that turned gray proceeded to be mean to her. Negaduck's fangs vanished and a slight grin appeared. Making cute ponies turn against each other? He liked this idea. “I'm liking this guy. What else does he do?” The four blinked in surprise, they looked at each other for a moment, then back at their boss. They never expected this to happen. Days later in very a different part of the city, Drake Mallard, his adopted daughter Gosalyn, and Launchpad, had all stopped at a toy store. “So why are we here Launchpad?” Drake asked his trusty sidekick as they stepped inside. Launchpad had asked if they could stop there after running some errands, he didn't say what he was looking for exactly, however. “Oh, just want to pick up a little something if they have it, it shouldn't take too long, I'll be right back.” Launchpad explained, then left. Gosalyn was quite thrilled with this sudden unplanned stop at Super Toy Mart. She was already in the amidst of formulating a plan to try and talk her father into buying a new video game she wanted. She was especially happy to be here as the copies sold at Super Toy Mart came with free collectables. “Hey dad....” she asked her father, “is it possible while we are here if I can get a little something?” She looked up at him, trying to act like the sweetest little angel she could possibly be, complete with Bambi eyes. While Drake has managed to build up an immunity to such acts from his daughter whenever she wanted something, he figured it wouldn't hurt to give in and let her have something this time. “Alright, just one thing.” “Yah-who!” she leapt with joy and bolted off, “I know exactly what I want!” Drake wanted to catch up with her, but then decided she should be fine by herself. Drake, who was now alone, decided to check up on Launchpad to see where he disappeared to. He searched up and down the aisles, but had a hard time finding him. After he searched in all the other places of the store, he found in in the most likely place. He found him in the pink colored aisles of the section of girl's toys, going though the packaged toys on the shelf. “There you are LP, I was wondering where you where at.” Drake said to him. “Oh, uh, hi DW...” Launchpad felt a little embarrassed when Drake found him going through the girl's toys like this. Launchpad returned his eyes to the packed toys in front on him. A smiled beamed across his face when he found something. “Oh boy! They have it!” Launchpad happily held the pink and purple package. Drake took a closer look at it. “My Little Pony? LP you know Gosalyn isn't into this sort of thing.” “But it isn't for her.” “So who is it for?” “Heh, heh...It's for me.” Launchpad said with a sheepish grin. Drake raised an eye brow. “You can't be serious?” “B-but, its Fluttershy...” Launchpad held the toy closer to Drake to show him. Drake took the toy from him for a better look, and a thought occurred to him. “Come to think of it, the artwork on the box looks an awfully lot like that one cartoon you where watching on TV the other day.” “That's exactly it alright, and they have all of the main characters right here.” Launchpad went and dug though the packages picking out 5 more ponies,“The one you have there is Fluttershy. Shes adorable, kind and loves taking care of all of her little animal friends...” Launchpad then held up the packaged ponies one by one, introducing them all to Drake. “...this is Rainbow Dash, shes cool, and a total tomboy. She has need for speed and loves to fly...I'd love to race against her sometime. Then Pinkie Pie, shes so funny and random...” After when Launchpad was finished, he put the toys away and Drake handed him back the Fluttershy toy. “I still don't get why you like a girls cartoon so much though.” “You really should see it for yourself sometime DW. In fact, why don't I put it on for ya when we get back?” “I'll have to pass LP, I have work I need to get back to.” Launchpad looked around to make sure nobody was within ear's reach before speaking to Drake in a very low voice, “You mean that case that S.H.U.S.H. has you currently working on?” “Correct.” Drake glanced around himself before he spoke again in a low voice too, “A special device has gone missing and they want me to find it. S.H.U.S.H. has uncovered some mystical artifacts with power inside them and this device has been designed to help draw out the power within these items and put them to use. They want me to find it as they are worried about it ending up in the hands of F.O.W.L. While I have yet to find out any leads, I suspect that the thief is not a F.O.W.L. agent.” “What makes you say that?” “The thief only stole the device. According to J.Gander and Dr. Bellium, the artifacts that where with device at the time when it was stolen sound exactly like the sort of thing F.O.W.L. would eagerly snatch up if they where given the chance.” “Maybe they only wanted the device itself, and they already have something even better themselves?” “Perhaps,” Drake now saw a young girl and her mother approaching the aisle, “but lets hope not LP.” Drake, now speaking in a normal tone, pretending that the talk about the case had never taken place, spoke again to Launchpad. “So is that all you want LP?” Launchpad reached back over to the toys on the shelf, grabbed two more of the pony figures and a keychain. “I think I'll get an Applejack and Rainbow Dash, and this keychain too.” He showed the keychain to Drake, “I thought Rainbow Dash would make the keys to the Thunderquack 20% cooler, heh heh.” Just then Gosalyn came running up, “There you are dad!” She held the video game before her father, “It's Zombie Mutant Blood Rain Chainsaw Apocalypse part III! Can I get it, please, please, please?” Drake took one glance at the game, he narrowed his eyes and looked at his daughter. He then gave her a very firm, “No.” “But why not? You said I could have one thing.” Drake pointed to the game his daughter held, “The Mature rating tells me to not let you have it.” “But dad...every copy you buy here you get a special collectable book with production info about the game, a DVD with a short movie, and a shirt!” Drake folded his arms, 'That's not enough to convince me.” “If I don't get this game, I'll live a sheltered childhood, deprived of knowledge of the harsh reality of the real world, and thus when I become an adult, and when we have a zombie apocalypse, I won't know how to defend myself?” “Nice try, but still no.” “...Rats.” “Now go pick out something else.” Gosalyn walked off, sulking, annoyed that her attempts to get the game ended in vain. “I'm going to head after her.” Drake said, following her, leaving Launchpad behind, “I need to make sure she doesn't end up picking out another one of those type of video games.” “Okay Drake, I'll look around for a bit while I wait for you guys.” After looking around the store for a bit while killing time, the most unusual thing happened. Launchpad just happened to glance at the right moment and time and he saw them! At first he rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things. After when he confirmed he wasn't, he was in total shock. It was the Fearsome Five! Well Four rather, Negaduck wasn't with them, and they where walking though the toy store! Upon seeing this, Launchpad quickly dashed over to the video game section to find Drake. Meanwhile, Drake was trying to convince Gosalyn to get a game that that didn't have 'blood' in the title. “Look Gos,” Drake said holding up a game, “it's Wiffleboy Tennis!” “Pass.” Gosalyn said without hesitation. “...but its Wiffleboy.” Drake defended. “Its just an ordinary tennis game with Wiffleboy characters because they too too cheap to make a real Wiffleboy game. Its all a marketing poly to make easy money from the gullible public.” Drake looked at the game, then decided, “Well, I'll get it for myself then...” Just then, Launchpad came running up, he was breathing heavily, trying to explain what he just saw, “Fear...Fear...Fearsome...” Drake broke the 4th wall for a moment as he glanced at the reader, this reminded him of one of his past adventures. “I'm having a moment of deja-vu here.” Drake resumed to the story, “So...the Fearsome Four have appeared, which obviously means that they must be up to no good again. Well, little did they know that they have caught the attention of...” Drake looked around and found a display that was against the wall, out of sight from people and security cameras. When no one was looking he quickly dived behind it. Moments later he reemerged, in full costume and he struck a dramatic pose. “Darkwing Duck!” He then reached up, adjusted his hat, and marched off after the villains, “Lets get dangerous!” Meanwhile in the darkest, farthest corner of the backroom of the same toy store, was Negaduck. He was rubbing is hands together, laughing manically, like the typical evil mastermind he was. “Finally...” he mumbled to himself with the most sinister grin, “the preparations are finally complete!” He turned and looked at an old photobooth, it was hidden away behind the shelves of toys that where extra stock. This particular photobooth was placed in front on the store at one point, until one day it stopped working and the owner decided to store it in the backroom and has been there since. Negaduck reached out and placed a hand upon the old photobooth, “I had my doubts at first that I would have been able to find the portal to Equestria, but now...” he clenched his fist “its within my grasp!” He felt something odd in his suit for a moment and reached into it and pulled it out. It was an ordinary TV remote, “Oh yeah, forgot I put that old thing in here, I thought I'd be evil and prevent them from watching stuff they shouldn't be watching while I was gone.” Just then, the door that lead to the inside of the store busted open, and Negaduck tucked the remote back into his suit. He could hear the rest of the members of the Fearsome Five walk into the room. “...I can't believe kids are still playing with those rotten video games, someone needs to show them some good old fashioned playtime!” Quackerjack said. “First things first, we're here to see what Negaduck has been up to, remember? After that you can go do whatever you want, I know I’ll be busy liberating the store's enslaved light blubs. Those poor things...” “Yeah yeah, I still remember the plan sparky.” “DON'T CALL ME SPARKY!” Upon seeing Negaduck, Liquidator said, “And now its time for the duck of the hour, heeeeeerrrreeee's Negaduck!” Negaduck's smile immediately faded upon the sight of the rest of the group, he rolled his eyes, “Not you guys...can't I just work on my latest diabolical plan in peace without the peanut gallery?” Bushroot pointed at him, “We want to know what you have been up to!” “Yeah, we want in on the fun!” Quackerjack said, he then pulled out Mr. Bananabrain and provided his voice, “It's not nice to keep secrets from your friends.” “I ain't letting you fools in on this particular scheme this time, its my idea and my idea alone...well I should thank you all for giving me the idea at the very least.” “What would that be?” Megavolt asked, he and the others where now curious. Negaduck glanced over at one of the shelves with toys, and grabbed a talking Pink Celestia toy. He held it before the rest of the group to see, his evil grin returned. “I need to thank you boys for introducing me to this.” The rest of the Fearsome Five beamed with joy upon this statement. The Liquidator spoke first, “Even ponies can manage to turn the most heartless and evil ducks around!” “Does this mean you're a member of the herd now too?!” Bushroot asked excitedly. These statements made Negaduck's mood violently shift into a storm of fury. He gripped tightly at the Celestia toy in anger, tearing the box up in the process. He furiously hurled the toy at the others, they just barely ducked in time to miss it. “YOU IDIOTS!!!” Then he grabbed another Celestia toy from off the shelf and furiously jabbed it with his index finger, “Just what the hell makes you morons think I would EVER like a show about a bunch of nauseatingly cute, candy-colored horses!?! Especially horses from a toy line where the toys spout crap like THIS!” Negaduck then pushed the button on the toy, it spoke, “I'm a princess, are you a princess too?” “But ponies have an amazing ability to convert anybody, even the most unlikely, into the herd of friendship!” The Liquidator said proudly. Negaduck chucked the other pony toy at the group. The rest of the group ducked as The Liquidator remained standing this time, the toy flying right though him. The rest of the group stood back up, no longer smiling and quite sad that Negaduck had not converted into the herd like they originally hoped. “But if you still don't like the show, then why....?” Megavolt started to ask. “Because...its thanks to you guys, you introduced me to a particular fellow who is capable of causing ultimate total anarchy. The one who's power is capable of altering reality itself, and turning even the nicest of ponies into total jerks...” Negaduck's evil grin returned once more, “I plan to make the power of ultimate chaos mine.” The rest of the group gasped, “Discord!” “B-b-b-but, My Little Pony isn't real!” Bushroot couldn't believe what he was hearing. “Yeah! Its nothing more than just a cartoon show on TV!” Quackerjack said, equally surprised to hear this. They all quickly glanced at each other in bewilderment for a moment then back at Negaduck, “....right?” “That's what you think.” Negaduck placed one hand on the photobooth and leaned on it. “I recently discovered that most TV shows do exist in other dimensions, unfortunately, the passages to these worlds aren't always easy to find. I did however find the path to Equestria.” he tapped on the photobooth. Negaduck stood upright, walked over to the entrance of the photobooth, and drew back the curtain, “Well, ciao fellas, was fun while it lasted, cause I’m not going to be needing you boys anymore after my date with the King of Chaos!” All while Negaduck was laughing manically, Megavolt clenched his fist in anger and sparks began to fly, “That dirty double crosser!” “Knowing Negaduck, hes going to destroy Equestria!” Bushroot spoke with concern. Quackerjack pulled on his hat and frowned, “....and hes going to have fun without us!” “We got to stop him somehow!” Megavolt punched his clenched fist into his other hand. Right when the first flash of the photobooth went off and Negaduck disappeared, a cloud of blue smoke appeared at the entrance to the backroom. “I am the terror, that flaps in the night...” When Darkwing was in the middle of making his entrance, the rest of the Fearsome Five had the exact same idea at the same time, and they all dashed after Darkwing. “When life gives you lemons...” The Liquidator started. “Give those lemons to someone else!” Quackerjack finished. “I am the missing piece to your 1000 piece puzzle, I am....wa?” before Darkwing could finish his dramatic entrance, he could feel four sets of hands grabbing him, pulling him out off his puff of smoke. The rest of the Fearsome Five had all grabbed Darkwing and quickly dashed back over to the photobooth. “Hey!” Darkwing said angrily, “can't you all at least wait until the hero finishes his grand entrance?...Not to mention I’m having more deja-vu here.” “Yeah yeah, Darkwing Duck.” Megavolt said, “Just go ruin Negaduck's plans like you normally do for us, okay?” “What better way to rain on his parade then to send the one guy we all hate the most after him!” Quackerjack stated. “...And we can get rid of Darkwing this way too!” Bushroot added. The Liquidator went and drew back the curtain, “Great minds think alike!” The rest of the group chucked Darkwing inside the photobooth and closed the curtain behind him. Quackerjack waved farewell, “Say hi to Negaduck for us!” The photobooth gave a 4th, final flash, and Darkwing was gone. When the final picture had been taken, the photos began to print. The remaining members of the Fearsome Five felt accomplished, and quite proud on how they managed to come up with such a great idea on the fly. However, after a moment of thought, another idea simultaneously crossed all their minds as they realized something. “Wait a minute...this photobooth leads to Equestria.” Brushroot stating what the others where thinking. They all paused for a moment, then realized the golden opportunity that had been given to them and all pounced upon it Quackerjack dived for the photobooth, “I claim Pinkie Pie!” Bushroot used his vines and pulled Quackerjack out of the way, “No way! I'm first! I claim Fluttershy!” Megavolt zapped them with both with a blot of lightening, to get them out of his way, “I want Rainbow Dash! She's way cooler than your guy's ponies!” The Liquidator then slipped in, electrocuting Megavolt with his watery self, “It's first come first served...and the first one will receive the chance to be with Ms. Rarity!” As they all continued to fight over the photobooth, wrecking it in the process, the photos taken from moments before fell from the slot and drifted across the floor. In the first photo of the four was Negaduck, he had his usual evil grin, a wicked grin that perfectly represented the brewing storm on the horizon. The next two where blanks and the final photo had Darkwing. He looked utterly confused, wondering what sort of mess he had gotten himself thrown into.