Once Mom identified the particular 'hero' she was talking about recruiting, I found myself a little concerned. After all, even given his track record he apparently had no supernatural abilities whatsoever - unless you counted the gods' own luck - and the tech he apparently had available was...well, aside from his plane, the schematics Uncle Bentley was able to call up looked at least a decade out of date. I had my doubts.
Still, Mom seemed confident in his abilities...and I noticed in the list of his accomplishments Uncle Bentley called up a mention of someone that apparently was an employee and acquaintance of Uncle Scrooge. If anyone could tell me if this 'hero' was tough enough and smart enough to keep up with us, it was Uncle Scrooge. So I gave him a call...
Coco held the phone to her ear as Deik-Beck hooked into the telephone network to connect to whatever phone was closest to where Scrooge was at that exact moment. Admittedly, it was more time consuming than calling him directly at home or the office, but it did mean getting patched directly to him. Before long, there was a voice on the other end. "Yes? Who's calling, and how did you get my car number?"
"Hi Uncle Scrooge!" Coco responded eagerly as she recognized the voice.
"Ah, Coco!" Scrooge replied much more warmly as his voice relaxed. "That backpack crab bot of yours is full of tricks, isn't he?"
Coco giggled happily. "He certainly is," she confirmed. "I hope I didn't call at a bad time-"
"Ach, away wit that lass!" Scrooge interrupted immediately. "Ah'm on my way to a rather frustratin' meeting. It's a pleasure ta hear from ya. Now whit can ah do for ya, eh? You wouldn't be hacking the phone network for immediate contact if it weren't urgent."
Coco grinned widely. She definitely wanted to spend more time with Uncle Scrooge if she could manage it when this job was finished. He didn't look that tough or that smart, but she knew both appearances were incredibly deceiving. "Well, we have a bit of a situation on the current part of our latest job, and I was hoping you could-"
"Lass, do get to the point," Scrooge interrupted drolly. "Deik-Beck's obviously made the line secure, and ah know thief speak."
Chuckling, Coco went straight for it. "Well, we're in St. Canard-"
"Yer bein' careful, right lass?" Scrooge interrupted intensely. "There's a lot of dangerous types in that city, and one e'en I step carefully around. Ya wouldn't want ta tangle with him, that's fer certain sure! He's..." She could hear Scrooge shuddering. "Just stay far away from any masked duck dressed in orange, ya hear?"
Coco blinked in surprise. A duck dressed in orange? She had been calling to ask about a duck in purple. Still, she needed to reassure her Uncle Scrooge first. "Don't worry, Uncle Scrooge. I'm being very careful. Besides, I've got some potent magic from Down Under helping me-"
"Don't get overconfident, lass!" Scrooge snapped out intensely. "The one I speak of rightly scares gods! About the only way ye'd be at all safe from him is if ye had the Mask o' Dark Earth at yer command, and even then ye'd just be on a even playing field!"
"...what if I also had the Staff of Moonfire?" Coco asked hopefully.
Scrooge was silent for a time. "...by Merlin's beard, I'm going ta need that story in full when yer done," he groused out. "For now, no more spoilers. But still be careful of the one I spoke of." He took a few calming breaths. "Now, yer probably gonna run inta a duck in purple. He's a real headache when he's on the wrong track, but a powerful ally when he's on the right one. And he'll be teamed up with a pilot by the name o' Launchpad McQuack."
"How do you know that?" Coco asked in surprise.
"Cause I want ya ta ask him when he's comin' back ta Duckberg!" Scrooge declared smugly. "I got another mission comin', and ah need mah pilot!"
"And if he asks who the message is from...?" Coco coached curiously. She doubted this Launchpad would take such a message from a complete stranger...especially if the one he was currently working for thought the Coopers were the bad guys for whatever reason.
"If ya don't think he'll believe ya that ya know me, yer overestimatin' him," Scrooge murmured dryly. "Loyal he is, clever he ain't. Still, if ya want a code phrase so he can talk his partner around...tell him ye got a mutual acquaintance who's tougher than the toughies-"
"And smarter than the smarties?" Coco finished eagerly. "I didn't realize that phrase was so important."
"It ain't, but it'll make his partner think it is. The one who outsmarts him th' most is himself." Scrooge chuckled for a time. "Well, I gotta be goin'. It's time fer meetin' with the IRS. It was good talkin' to ya, Coco."
"I love you, Uncle Scrooge," Coco offered impulsively.
"And ah love ya too, lass," Scrooge replied after a few moments, his voice somewhat thick. "Now git!"
With that playful rejoinder, the call was broken.
Uncle Scrooge's warning had me worried. With everything I'd seen of him, anyone that made him that scared made me nervous...especially since the Mask and Staff weren't at full power. As such, I instructed Deik-Beck to search the local net for 'a duck in orange', to see if I could find anything.
There weren't any results. Normally, I'd have shrugged it off...but Deik-Beck located several instances where criminal activity had occurred, the one we were seeking to meet with had thwarted it...but there was no record - electronic or otherwise - of who had initiated it. It was as though someone had excised a duck shaped hole in the records, in the very history of the city.
...that scared me. Someone going to the effort of making sure there was nothing anywhere for a stranger to familiarize themselves with them? And how were they even able to do it? I decided not to mention that part of the call - or my discoveries - to Dad, Mom, or my Uncles. All it would do is terrify them, and make sure they didn't take me along. Not only was I the only one with a chance to circumvent Magica's spells, staying in one place was asking to be hunted down.
Wait, would that mean he could permanently kill Doomsday from DC? Because the biggest advantage Doomsday has is that he can revive from death, and be immune to being killed the same way after reviving.
THIS NEEDS TO BE TESTED!
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Technically, yes he could.
I hope I am not mixing 'the Duck in Orange,' up with 'the Duck in Yellow.'
8169832
... Do you REALLY want to risk Doomsday becoming immune to a last resort kill option without first finding a way to insure he can't come back?
8169832 if this fan-fic is part of the pwny-verse then maybe but if not then i don't know
Them accidental para- You get the idea by now.
Asking for that code phrase is a good Launchpad for starting their friendship.
Man, Scrooge really knows how to identify those phoney calls.
Guess our orange vigilante knows how to duck and cover his tracks well.
Good thing she didn't mention Magica- Scrooge would've probably taught her a lot of new words her mother wouldn't approve of
Also: I remember Orange Darkwing, but I don't remember why he's scary. It's been a very very long time.
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I just did a Google image search, and I can see the confusion. Some of the shading on various screen grabs can be mistaken for orange, but canonically, his colors are Yellow, Red, and Black.
8169850 In the DC comics, I believe the only way Superman was finally able to beat Doomsday for good was to send him to the END of TIME! So you tell me if there is a way to insure that he doesn't return.
8169887 IF im remembering right the duck in yellow is Nega Duck... and he CAN be compared to Darkseid
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Seeing how THAT didn't work, I hesitate to speculate on how one would make him stay dead.
Maybe if Death of the Endless personally made sure his trip was one way? Or if they could find a Black Hole that wasn't actually a portal to another universe? Personally, I would favor going back in time and killing the nutjob that created Doomsday while in his own crib, thereby negating Doomsday's very existence. Naturally, there would be a paradox inherent to that method, but it may well be the surest way of removing Doomsday from existence.
Frankly, the best option would be to make sure DC comics was unable to use the character in one way or another. There's no kill like metakill...
Don't Tell me that NegaDuck is active at that Time period... If he is, the mission became exponentially more difficult...
I fear for the structural integrity of that Ponyverse shard if it is so... NegaDuck is.... Annoying to fight...
8169909 I think that was what sending him to the end of time was supposed to do, prevent him from being usable. But then reboot.
The problem with killing the guy who created Doomsday before he could create Doomsday, is that those tests took place on Krypton, most likely CENTURIES before Superman was even born.
8169899 dear old Darkseid Is a noob compared to ND
Ooooh boy! This mission's gonna be a DOOZY if they meet HIM.
8169893 As opposed to two guys (Imperiex and Epoch, i think) that were sent back to the Big Bang?
8169948 Doomsday can punch out of the Phantom Zone, has tanked Darkseid's eye-lasers, he has been ripped apart by a a blast of pure energy, all of which makes him more than capable of surviving the Big Bang in my opinion.
And anyways, would you want a killing machine of pure hatred who, at full power, made Wildebeests an ENDANGERED SPECIES just by walking across Africa around at the START OF THE UNIVERSE?
So the new ally is the troublesome hero who need to be kept by a leash? I'm not worry a bit, since we have a gorgeous interpol who could easily subdue the master thief with just her wink.
8169958 I suppose not. Good point.
8169925 i was refering to the fact that both are THE epic badass of their respective worlds and that both are virtually unchallanged
8169972 That said Interpol agent is esantialy "married" is no problem?
Well... that sounds like a terrifying character to run into.
Nicely done.
8169921 Actually, sending him to the end of time didn't work because some idiot (I forget who) decided to use time travel to pull him back, as he was (at the time) less dangerous then what they were pointing him towards.
As for using time travel to kill The Idiot Who Created Doomsday, I somehow doubt, considering the demonstrated abilities of most DC time travelers, being on prehistoric Krypton would present an obstacle. Even if it did, the Idiot in question was not himself from Krypton, so going back a few more decades and killing him on his own home world should work just fine.
8169990 I don't think you read my comment where I said Doomsday tanked Darkseid's Omega Beams and survived, though I left out that Doomsday has also flat-out KILLED Darkseid at one point. Doomsday is the true epic badass of DC Comics, since he is one of the few characters who is truly immortal in the fact that he can't stay dead, he will only revive.
You've just summoned Murphy's Law, didn't you?
The Duck in Orange?
In accordance with Murphy's Law, the gang's gonna end up meeting Negaduck, aren't they?
8169947 I wonder if the rest of the Fearsome Five will join in...
8169871 You mean "villain." Not "vigilante."
8169832 Someone! Contact Death Battle!
8170185 That is actually where I know most of my knowledge about Doomsday, aside from the Justice League cartoon. The original.
Oh, that blasted NegaDuck.
Meanwhile, Scrooge is dealing with the dreaded IRS...
I remember reading this wonderfully crafted one-shot of Launchpad applying for the Wonderbolts. Truly, a masterpiece
Now I wanna see Darkwing actually make things difficult for Sly and the gang.
8170180 It's a thought!
I can't wait to see the Cooper Gang meet Launchpad and Dark Wing. Though once things get settled down I can also see DW, Sly, Carmelita, Mrs. Ruby, and Mugshot all getting together with Scrooge while their respective kids have fun and trading parenting stories and tips.
Scrooge ain't lying. Nega-Duck is one of Disney's most merciless villains. The guy uses tanks to kill bunnies.
8170990 Welllllll... *thinks back to do princesses dream of magic sheep, and the monster angel*
8171242 I'm saying he is a genuine BAD GUY.
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This is the way that the multiverse ends, not with a bang but a "Cutie Duck Crusaders, YAAAY!"
8169832 Well it'd be awfully hard to regenerate if the universe didn't even acknowledge your existence and therefore you didn't exist.
Let's quack some skulls!
8170990
Wait, THAT'S the duck in orange? But he dresses in YELLOW!
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*Super facepalm* Never....again...
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That, and some people say evey time he talks, a puppy or kitten dies.
Interesting.