Darkwing Duck shut off the tape machine.  "So it appears that Steelbeak is in this case.  Big deal!  I can still deal with that fatso!"

            Launchpad said, "Gee, DW, you sure made him mad when you blasted off his beak."

            "So, it was his fault.  I had no other choice.  It was either his beak or mine.  It ended up being his.  Besides, if he hadn't lit that bomb, he would still have his beak."  GizmoDuck flew in the window.

            GizmoDuck said, "Hey, Darkwing!"

            "-Sigh.-  Hi, Giz.  How are you?"

            "I'm fine, I'm fine.  And yourself?"

            "Okay.  Mega Volt, Tuskerninni, Moliarity, Bushroot, and Liquidator are still in the High-Surveillance Penitentiary for Super-Villains in the middle of the bay."

            "That is why I dropped by, Darkwing.  Mr. McDuck told me to come by because he'd heard from an anonymous tip that someone will soon be trying to burst the five out."

            "Someone certainly is planning on letting them out. . . F.O.W.L. Agent Steelbeak!"

            "Steelbeak?  The cad!  Well, then, we should stop him!"

            Darkwing sprang out of his chair.  "What is this we?"

            "Well, shouldn't we try to stop him together?"

            "There you go with that we again.  This megalopolis is. . . well, I guess that it is large enough for more than one superhero, especially when dealing with the abilities of Mega Volt, Steelbeak, Liquidator, Dr. Reginald Bushroot, Tuskerninni, and Moliarity combined.  As soon as we beat them, though,. . ."

            "I know, I know, as soon as we fix them, you want me to beat it."

            "Well, not exactly beat it.  More like return triumphantly to Duckburg."

            "I got you!  That sounds swell!"

            "Morganna, look for Stegmutt.  GizmoDuck, look for Neptunia.  We shall reunite in order to become the Justice Ducks Team once more!  I'll try to stall Agent Steelbeak!  Let's get dangerous!"  He disappeared in a cloud of smoke.  GizmoDuck pressed the button that formed his helmet-copter.  He flew away.  Morganna, along with Eek (a bat), Squeak (a bat), and Archie (a spider), her helpful little creatures, poofed away.

            * * *

            Darkwing said, "So, we left to valiantly trounce that tin-beaked rooster, Steelbeak.  I went to the prison.  Little did I know then about Liquidator's wicked plan."  Darkwing leapt up and pulled down a scene showing the Liquidator's head, Liquidator having a smile that was completely evil.  "Now, you might be wanting to what the mind of Liquidator is like."

            "Actually, I was thinking about having a cheeseburger," said Launchpad.  Darkwing threw him an angry glare.  "But your idea sounds much better, DW!"

            "Kids, don't try this at home."  Darkwing snapped his fingers, and Liquidator's ear-flap flipped up, allowing entrance for Darkwing and Launchpad.  Darkwing turned on a light.  "Whoa!  If this place isn't as organised as all get-out!"

            "Well, it's sure got a lot of faucets."

            "Do you remember when we went into Binky Muddlefoot's, Mega Volt's, and my brains, Launchpad?  Liquidator's brain is similar.  These faucets are like those doors."

            "How about his little hero?"

            "This faucet over here!"  A very small knight on a horse was tied to one of the faucets.

            Liquidator's little hero was crying, "Help me!  Help me!  Help me!"

            "Ah. . . okay, now that we've seen what Liquie's brain is like, let's get back to the story," said Darkwing.  He pulled down a scene with the High-Surveillance Penitentiary for Super Villains.  "The High-Surveillance Penitentiary for Super-Villains is on top of a high mountain in the middle of Audubon Bay, equally as far from Saint Canard as from Duckburg.  The villains were getting a trifle upset - okay, okay, very upset - with their surroundings and their current situation."

            * * *

            High-Surveillance Penitentiary for Super-Villains.

            At the High-Surveillance Penitentiary for Super-Villains, a prison created by the secret organisation SHUSH (a crime-busting organisation so secret that no one knew for what the letters stood), Dr. Reginald Bushroot and Liquidator were watering the plants.  "This is no way to treat an intelligent botanist!" whined Bushroot.  "Although I do like being kind to plants."

            Liquidator ceased his watering.  "Are you kidding?  This is no way to treat the top-of-the-line product-maker, the Liquidator.  I tell you, Bushroot, we've got to come up with some fool-proof, guaranteed way to burst us out of this dump."  Tuskerninni and Mega Volt went over to Bushroot and Liquidator.

            Tuskerninni said, "How true, Bushroot and Liquidator.  In some way, we've got to stage a scene to get us out of here."

            "How revolting!" said Mega Volt.  "I, the incredible Mega Volt, am forced to waste my incredible wattage on prison labour and on scaring crows!"  Mega Volt blasted a crow with his wicked wattage.  The crow, squawking, flew away.  "Beat it, crow!  I definitely do agree, guys, that we have to get out of here!"  An officer opened the gates and showed in Moliarity.

            Moliarity said, "I know my darned rights already!"

            The officer said, "Just make sure you don't play with the explosives, all right?"

            "Right, sir.  Mad scientists just can't have any fun anymore."

            As the officer shut the door, Mega Volt said, "Moliarity!  What are you doing here?"

            "Guess."

            Liquidator said, "I am so positive of who it was, I would guarantee it.  It was Darkwing Duck's fault, right?"

            "Right, Liquidator," said Moliarity.  "A super-genius like me shall not settle for such surroundings.  We need to get out of here!"

            Bushroot said, "I second the motion."

            "The Liquidator says, 'I third the motion!' " Liquidator said.

            Tuskerninni said, "I fourth it!"

            "I fifth it!" said Mega Volt.

            Moliarity said, "F.O.W.L. will probably send their greatest agent, Steelbeak, to free us.  I cannot wait to get out of here!"

            Liquidator said, "Neither can I.  I bunk with a loco man named Professor Norton Nimnul.  He's an intelligent scientist, but I think his brain is more frazzled than Darkwing Duck's.  He keeps complaining about four small rodents who keep ruining his plans."

            "Professor Norton Nimnul?" asked Moliarity.

            "You know him?"

            "Yes!  He and I went to the same school for mad scientists!  He once told me that he kept having trouble with a certain group-of-five of vermin that call themselves the 'Rescue Rangers.' "

            "Yes, that's it!  I now remember. . . Norton Nimnul!  Remember that school to which we all went to learn all about becoming villains?"

            Mega Volt said, "Yes!  I was already a villain then.  Let's see. . . there was you, Liquidator.  There were also Bushroot, Quacker Jack, Steelbeak, Moliarity, Tuskerninni, Norton Nimnul, and I.  I recall also that Moliarity and Nimnul went to a school for mad scientists afterwards!"

            "That's right!" said Moliarity.

            Bushroot said, "Let's just find a way to get out of here!  I don't get enough sunlight in this prison!"

            "Hey!" Liquidator said.  "I just got a plan!  Listen up!"  An officer shoved Professor Norton Nimnul into the area.

            "Listen, Norton Nimnul, get in here!" the officer ordered.  "You can't play with the explosives!"

            Nimnul said, "I tell you, this is no way to treat a mad scientist!  And address me as Professor Norton Nimnul!"

            The officer closed and locked the door.  "Yeah, right.  Just don't make any trouble, or things will get hot for you."  Once he had satisfactorily sealed the door to the garden area, the officer left.

            "I swear, if it weren't for the Rescue Rangers, I wouldn't even be here!"

            Liquidator said, "Cheer up, Professor Nimnul!  The Liquidator has the number one, top of the line, quality plan to get all of us out of here without having Agent Steelbeak caught as well!"

            "Oh, right.  Hey!  Is that you, Professor Moliarity?"

            Moliarity said, "It is, indeed, Professor Nimnul!"

            "It's been a long time since we've been to that school for mad scientists. . . or since all eight of us were at that school for villains."

            "I'll say.  You mean six, Nimnul.  Darkwing Duck hasn't caught up with Steelbeak and Quacker Jack yet.  In fact, if it wasn't for that blasted Darkwing Dope, I wouldn't be in here!"

            "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the Rescue Vermin!  Anyway, let's hear the plan, Liquidator."

            Mega Volt said, "Yes!  Let's!"

            "Okay," said Liquidator.  "Step one,. . ."

            * * *

            Outside the prison stood Steelbeak and several F.O.W.L. Egg-Men, toon-ducks dressed in yolk-yellow suits and with shades over their eyes.  Steelbeak said, "I'm still, like, anticipating how to burst our way in there.  Wait a minute!  That brochure F.O.W.L. distributed to all agents."  He reached into his inner coat pocket on the left and took out a brochure.  He opened it up and found the following heading, which gave him an idea:

            "Well, well, well!  Heh, heh, heh!  And I know the 'Ma Beagle Way!'  Heh, heh, heh!  Quick, boys, let's get back to the yacht and make a chocolate cake!"  The Egg-Men shrugged, but they did not question his order.  Back at an egg-shaped yet perfectly seaworthy yacht with F.O.W.L. painted in red on the side, Steelbeak ordered his Egg-Men to make a cake.  "Now, boys, I must add the final ingredient. . ."  He went to the hold and came back with a bundle of dynamite, which he stuffed into the cake.  ". . .a bundle of dynamite!  Heh, heh, heh!  This will pass as an ordinary cake because of the special F.O.W.L. mix we've used!  Now, let's get up there and hand this cake over.  The Liquidator will know what to do with it.  Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!"  At the gate, Steelbeak put on a disguise, that of a possible mother of the Liquidator.  "Now, to get in."  The Egg-Men hid as he knocked.  A toon-dog guard answered.

            "Hello, ma'am.  Who are you?"

            Steelbeak imitated almost perfectly a woman whose voice was slightly watery.  "I am the Liquidator's mother.  I brought him a cake."

            "Okay.  We'll have to inspect it first."

            "That is perfectly all right."  They went up to an inspection room where the guards examined the cake.  Nothing was found inside it but the normal cake innards.

            "Well, this looks fine.  Come on, Mrs. . . Mrs. . . I didn't catch your name."

            Steelbeak slipped on the first word, then repeated in the imitation voice the rest of the sentence.  "I. . . ahem, I am Mrs. Liquidator, Senior, sir."

            "Well, come on, Mrs. Liquidator, Senior.  It's a wonder you still love your son, bad boy that he is."  The guard led her to the garden area.  He called Liquidator.  "Your mother, Liquidator."

            Liquidator almost instantly noticed that it was actually Steelbeak.  "Well, hello, mother.  Officer, would you mind letting us talk alone for a minute?"

            "Why not?  You have 120 seconds."  The guard let Steelbeak in.  Once Steelbeak was inside, the guard shut the door and moved away from the cell.  Steelbeak put the cake on a table and took his mask off.

            "What the devil are you doing here, Steelbeak?"

            "I came to burst you out, Liquidator.  Inside this cake is a bundle of dynamite.  Use it to burst out of here.  My Egg-Men and I will be waiting below with a springboard.  All of you jump out a window after blowing it up and fall to the springboard."

            Liquidator said, "I understand.  Anything else I need to know?"

            "Be careful."  Steelbeak made sure his disguise was still on well.  In his imitation voice, Steelbeak called, "We're done, officer.  I'm leaving the cake with my sweet puddle of water here."  The guard came across and proceeded to try to find the right key to open the door.

            Liquidator whispered to Steelbeak, "I have a more devastating idea."

            "What?" Steelbeak whispered back.

            Liquidator extended water from his hands to the cake's plate.  "You'll see!  Hee, hee!"  Liquidator lifted the cake from the plate.  The guard came in.

            The officer said, "Okay, ma'am.  You said you were done?"

            Liquidator said, "Oh, we're done, all right.  And you are done-for!"  Liquidator bashed the officer in the face with the cake, knocking him out!  Steelbeak came out of his disguise.

            "Excellent idea, Liquidator!  Heh, heh, heh!"

            Liquidator called, "Hey, guys!  Come on!"  Mega Volt, Bushroot, Moliarity, Tuskerninni, and Nimnul came running.

            Mega Volt said, "Excellent!  You clobbered him!"

            "Enough yakking!" said Bushroot.  "Let's just split like a banana!"  Smoke formed.  Darkwing was coming!  "Uh, oh!  That duck!"

            Darkwing said, "I am the terror that flaps in the night!  I am the waiter who gives you the wrong order when you're in a really big hurry!  I am Darkwing Duck!  Thought you could burst your pals out of here, eh, Agent Steelbeak?  Ha!"

            "Well!" said Steelbeak.  "Look whom the tide brought in:  Dipwing Doolittle!  Ha, ha, ha!"

            "Very funny, you demented rooster!"  Darkwing removed his Gas Gun from his cape.  He aimed it at Steelbeak.  "Now, suck gas, evildoers!"

            Bushroot was obviously offended.  "No way!  I hate your gas!  It makes my trees gag!"  Liquidator went over to Darkwing.

            Liquidator said, "Are you tired of fighting crime without getting recognition?  Are the reporters neglecting the importance of putting your name on the top of headlines for capturing us?  Are you sick of not being as famous as GizmoDuck?  Well, then, the Liquidator has the answer!"  Liquidator transformed into a puddle.  He then went under Darkwing Duck and transformed into a huge hand, lifting Darkwing into the air.  "Take the Liquidator's one-way trip to oblivion!"  He tossed Darkwing right out the window, then reformed to his normal shape.  "That takes care of Darkwing Duck."

            Steelbeak said, "Excellent job, Liquie!"

            Mega Volt asked, "By any chance, Steelbeak, would that cake happen to have any dynamite in it?"

            "It most certainly does."

            Mega Volt reached into the cake and pulled out the dynamite.  "Good!  Heh, heh, heh!"  Using his sparks, Mega Volt lit the dynamite and tossed it toward the warden's office.  "Come on!  Let's beat it before that dynamite explodes!"

            Liquidator said, "The Liquidator has a way to do just that!  All of you grab onto me!"  Mega Volt, Steelbeak, Bushroot, Moliarity, Tuskerninni, and Nimnul grabbed Liquidator.  Liquidator transformed the six of them into water.  He then burst them into the pipes.  Before long, they burst out of the pipes and reformed where Steelbeak's ship was.  They then heard an explosion.  "That takes care of Warden Waddlesworth!  Hee, hee, hee!"

            Steelbeak said, "Great idea, Liquie!  Heh, heh, heh!"  Someone came up and tapped Liquidator on the shoulder.

            Liquidator turned around.  "Yes?  Oh, it's you!"

            Soaking wet, Darkwing said, "Right, you villain!  I fell into the water and swam ashore.  I figured out your plan, Liquidator!"

            Liquidator was infuriated and half-boiling.  "Did you figure this out, Darkwing Duck?"  The waters around the island began to rise.  "You six make a break for it!  I'll deal with Darkwing Duck!"

            Tuskerninni announced, "The great breakout has been staged, and the mighty antagonists are loose.  Now, let's exit, stage right!"  Mega Volt, Tuskerninni, Steelbeak, Moliarity, Bushroot, and Nimnul boarded the ship and left.

            "Okay, Darkwing Duck!  We're all alone!  Ha, ha, ha!"

            Darkwing got a big bag of cement out of his cape.  "Ha!  I beat you before with cement!"

            "Ah, but I've improved my body chemistry through experimentation!  Now, your cement doesn't soak into my body!  It will just slide off harmlessly!"  Neptunia emerged from the sea.

            Neptunia said, "Back off, Liquidator!"

            "Well, if it isn't the big mouth of the sea, Neptunia!"

            "Ha, ha!  Look who is talking about big mouths!"  She leapt into the Liquidator and spun him out.  Neptunia left Liquidator's body just before Liquidator spun across the sea.  "Hello again, Darkwing."

            "Hello again, Neptunia," said Darkwing.  GizmoDuck came down with his helmet-copter.

            GizmoDuck said, "Neptunia, we need your. . . oh!  I see you've already gotten to Darkwing."

            "Yes, it sort of looks that way, GizmoDuck.  Now, let's get back to the city.  There is no telling what Steelbeak, Mega Volt, Liquidator, Bushroot, Tuskerninni, and Moliarity will do to the city."

            "Both of you grab onto me.  I'll fly us to Saint Canard."  Darkwing and Neptunia grabbed onto GizmoDuck.  The helmet-copter came out of the top of GizmoDuck's helmet.  He flew them all back to Saint Canard.

            * * *

            "Well, I sure didn't feel like swimming ashore.  As it turns out, I had already decided to go through with the plan.  If nothing else, my pals could help me to trounce those baddies.  I didn't know it at the time, but it was about to get much worse than that."

            * * *

            Darkwing Tower.

            GizmoDuck, Darkwing, and Neptunia had returned to Darkwing Tower.  GizmoDuck said, "Listen, Darkwing, you probably took some hard hits back there at that prison."

            "You don't have to keep telling me!" Darkwing retorted.

            Neptunia said, "Darkwing Duck, I don't know about you, but I think we all should join up as the Justice Ducks again - although I'm not a duck - and crush Mega Volt, Liquidator, Bushroot, Tuskerninni, Steelbeak, and Moliarity.  All in favour say I.  I!"

            GizmoDuck said, "I!"

            "I!" said Gosalyn.

            Launchpad said, "I!"

            Darkwing said, "Okay, okay.  I!  As soon as Morganna finds Stegmutt, we'll look for those larcenous lawbreakers and kick them back where they belong:  behind bars!"  The phone rang.  "Get it, LP."

            Launchpad said, "Okay, Darkwing."  He answered the phone.  "Yes, Darkwing Duck's sidekick speaking?  . . .  Okay!  I'll get him."  He covered the mouthpiece.  "DW, it's Director J. Gander Hooter."

            Darkwing let Launchpad hand him the receiver.  "Thanks, LP."  Into the receiver, he said, "Hey, J. Gander!  How are you doing?  . . .  Well, is that so?  . . .  Well, we'll be down there on the double.  . . .  Yes, we, J. Gander.  GizmoDuck, Neptunia, Morganna, and Stegmutt are joining with me again to help me pounce those vile villains.  Okay.  See you later."  Darkwing hung up.  "Okay, guys.  We have an appointment at SHUSH Central.  LP, make a note to Morganna."  Launchpad wrote a note explaining to Morganna that Darkwing and the others had gone to SHUSH Central.

            Launchpad said, "Done, DW!"

            "All right!" said GizmoDuck.  "Let's get dangerous!"

            Darkwing said, "That is my line, GizmoDuck!"

            "Then say it, for crying out loud!"

            "Everyone, let's get dangerous!"

            * * *

            Director Hooter's Office, SHUSH Central.

            J. Gander Hooter concluded, ". . .so, Darkwing Duck, you and your friends will have to help stop Steelbeak, Mega Volt, Tuskerninni, Moliarity, Liquidator, Bushroot, and Professor Norton Nimnul from terrorising the city.  It's very unusual for seven arch-villains to team up.  Dr. Sarah Bellum, come over here, please."  Dr. Sarah Bellum went over to Hooter.  She was a toon-duck about as tall as Launchpad with geeky glasses and a lab coat.  Hooter was a toon-owl with an office suit and glasses; he was a little shorter than Darkwing.

            Sarah Bellum said, "Yes, J. Gander?"

            "Report to Darkwing's team what you have found out that Moliarity and Professor Nimnul can do with their combined strength, please."

            "Yes, Director.  Darkwing, I'm afraid that Professor Moliarity and Professor Nimnul can, by an 'accident' planned by themselves, 'create' a new super-powered villain out of an already existing person."

            Darkwing said, "Oh, dear."

            "And there is one person in the city that just might make a good target.  You see, with a device created by Nimnul and Moliarity they can create, with another person, a crazy, insane maniac."

            "What's the big deal?"

            "Well, there is a man who went out of business because Whiffle Boy, a video game.  You know him; he's Quacker Jack."

            Darkwing said, "Yes.  His company was the Quacker Jack Toy Company, and he's extremely upset about it going out of business.  Yes, I've dealt with the maniac before.  He tried to sabotage the Whiffle Boy tournament.  I stopped him, of course, but he got away.  He was also in Negaduck's Fearsome Five organisation of himself, Quacker Jack, Mega Volt, Liquidator, and Bushroot."

            "With their skills, Moliarity and Nimnul can transform him into a person who can create almost any kind of toy, lethal or not, almost instantly."

            "This seems like a job for my team."  Morganna and Stegmutt entered by way of the door.  "Morganna and Stegmutt!"

            Morganna said, "I thought that I'd never find you, Dark!"

            "I left a message at the tower."

            "I didn't know where SHUSH Central was until just now.  I found Stegmutt."

            Stegmutt said, "Hi, Darkwing!"  He was about Steelbeak's height.  Stegmutt was a toon-duck who had been mutated to a green stegosaurus.  He had spikes along his back, and he was bipedal.

            "Hello, Stegmutt.  Well, J. Gander, I guess that we shall be off.  Dr. Bellum, do you have a copy of your notes that I may have?"

            Bellum handed him a copy of her notes.  "Here, Darkwing."

            Darkwing said, "Thank you.  Justice Ducks, let's get dangerous!"

            About herself and Stegmutt, Neptunia said, "But, remember, we're not ducks."

            "I used to be," said Stegmutt.  Darkwing whisked them all away in a cloud of smoke.

            * * *

            In the ThunderQuack, the Justice Ducks were looking for the villains' hideout.  Launchpad said, "Nothing yet, DW."

            GizmoDuck said, "Well, I guess that they may be hiding out near the Quacker Jack Toy Company."

            "Why is that?" asked Darkwing.

            GizmoDuck pointed out the right window.  "Just call it a lucky guess."  Darkwing looked out the right window and saw the villains next to the Quacker Jack toy company.

            "Oh, yeah.  LP, take us down!"

            Launchpad said, "Sure thing, DW!"  He slammed the steering bar to its front-most position.

            "No!  Not that faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. . .!"  Just before they crashed, Launchpad yanked the steering bar toward him and landed with all the wheels touching the ground.  "Launchpad!  You actually landed without crashing!"

            "Oh, darn it!  I knew that I shouldn't have pulled up on the steering bar."

            Darkwing examined him as though he were strange.  "Uh, right.  Come on!  Let's all go!"

            Gosalyn asked, "Does that mean me too?"

            "No, Gosalyn, everyone except you.  Yes, all of us!"

            * * *

            Liquidator said, "He should be here any minute now."

            Darkwing's voice came from a cloud of smoke.  "Wrong personal pronoun, Liquidator. . . you mean that they should be here any moment now!"

            Mega Volt said, "Oh!  It's him again!"

            Darkwing said, "You mean them, shocking cad!  You used the wrong case.  We are the terrors that flap in the night.  We are the ugly, ingrown toenails on the feet of crime.  We are the Justice Ducks!"  The Justice Ducks appeared.

            "Justice Ducks?  Team up with them again?  What a laugh!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

            Steelbeak said, "Oh, now I get it, Darkwing.  You finally got tired of winning and have summoned the geek squad to help you lose!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

            "Au contraire, Steelbeak!" said GizmoDuck.

            Moliarity said, "I have just the thing for these do-gooders."  He got what appeared to be a fan that could not cool an atom out of his pocket.

            Tuskerninni said, "Are you crazy?  That wouldn't blow a flea off the stage!"

            "He's a certified mad scientist, just like me!" said Nimnul.  "That fan can pack some punch!"

            "True!" Moliarity said.  "Prepare to get blown away, Darkmeat Dope!"  He switched the fan on.  The Justice Ducks got blown away.

            Darkwing screamed, "Yaaaaaah!  I'm really getting carried awaaaaaaaaaaa. . .!"

            "You nut!" said Bushroot.  "Don't you remember that we need him for our scheme?"

            Nimnul said, "Of course he does!  Uh, don't you?"

            Moliarity said, "Of course I do!  I wasn't born yesterday!  Darkwing always comes back."  Someone jumped him.  "Aah!  Who was that?"

            "It was the master of disguise, Darkwing Duck!" Darkwing answered.

            "Ooooh, you addlepated Dimwit Dope!"

            Bushroot saw the rest of the Justice Ducks behind Darkwing.  "Yaah!  How did you guys do that?"  The door opened.  Quacker Jack emerged.

            "Yes?" said Quacker Jack.  "You wanted to see me, Liquidator?  Oh, no!  It's that blasted Darkwing Duck again!"

            Darkwing said, "You know better than to tangle with me, Quacker Jack!"

            Quacker Jack grabbed the two parts of the object on his head connected to the bells; it was shaped sort of like a pair of rabbit-ears.  "Oh, you may have helped in stopping Liquidator's plan to take over the world, but I say that you will be going now!  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"  Toy snapping teeth came to the door.  "Troops, attack!"

            Darkwing aimed his Gas Gun at Quacker Jack.  "Suck tear gas, you felon!"  He blasted Quacker Jack with a tear gas capsule.  Quacker Jack started crying.

            "Wah, hah, hah!  You do-gooding menace to evil!  Waaah!"

            Moliarity said, "Thank you, Darkwing Duck!"

            Nimnul said, "Yes!  Now we can improve his body with our new device!"  Nimnul and Moliarity took two large parts of a device out of their pockets.  They put their parts together into one master unit, which Nimnul used to blast the crying Quacker Jack.

            Quacker Jack cried, "Woaoaoaoaoaoaoah!"  A cloud of smoke blasted around him.  He sprang up, laughing and bouncing.  He found himself able to produce and control toys, as Liquidator controlled water, Mega Volt controlled electric appliances, and Bushroot controlled plants.  "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  Oh, thank you, guys!  Ha, ha, ha!  Thanks for making me the new and improved Quacker Jack!  Now, I can go to this year's Whiffle Boy tournament and blast the winner into sawdust!  Ha, ha, ha!"

            Steelbeak said, "Yeah.  Hearing the little brats cry would make me laugh almost as loud as you, Quacker Jack!  Heh, heh, heh!"

            Liquidator said, "See you later, Darkwing-gator!"  Liquidator 'melted' his body to a puddle of water.  As a puddle, Liquidator went under all members of Darkwing's team, turned himself into a huge, watery hand, lifted them into the air, and tossed them and the ThunderQuack all the way back to Darkwing Tower.  Liquidator reassumed his normal shape.  "Have a nice trip!  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  Thank you for using the new-and-improved Liquidator-brand propulsion system!  It's a real quickie!  Ha, ha, ha!"

            Steelbeak said, "Let's not just sit around.  We'll plan a wicked master plan at the hideout, which is in the penthouse of the tallest hotel in the city."

            "Ha, ha!  Excellent!" said Quacker Jack.  "Get moving, guys!  I have some evil toys to make!  Ha, ha, ha!"  He bounced off slinky-style by jumping on his feet and hands.  "See you later!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

            Bushroot said, "I think we turned him into a laughing fool."

            "Maybe, Bushroot, but at least he's laughing because of evil thoughts. . . just like me, sometimes," said Nimnul.  "Ha, ha, ha!"

            Mega Volt said, "I have an idea to bring back Negaduck!  Let's go!"

            * * *

            Darkwing said, "They went to the Old Abandoned Power Plant Just Outside of Town.  I found a clue - probably planted by one of them - that led there.  Little did I know that Mega Volt had continued his experiments with that darned tron-splitter of his and discovered how to pull Negaduck back out of the Negaverse.  Those villains didn't realise, however, that they were messing with the wrong duck."

            * * *

            The Old Abandoned Power Plant Just Outside of Town.

            Mega Volt said, "Ah, here we are!"

            Darkwing began materialising out of smoke.  "I am the terror that flaps in the night!"

            Mega Volt rubbed his hands together with sparks flying off his 'electric plug.'  "Well, if it isn't Darkwing Duck!"

            "Right!  I am the winged scourge that pecks at all evildoers' nightmares.  I am the huge pimple that forms when you have a really big date.  I am Darkwing Duck, here to put an end to your criminal careers!"

            Steelbeak asked, "What happened to your pals, the Justice Wimps?  Got tired of them in a hurry, didn't ya?  Ha, ha, ha!"

            "For your information, Steelbeak, I still happen to be affiliated with them.  I just decided to make a small appearance."  Something snapped onto his foot.  "Yow!"  He leapt high in the air.

            "Hoo, hoo, hoo!  What goes up must come down!" laughed Quacker Jack.  "Ha, ha, ha!"  Darkwing crashed on the ground in front of Quacker Jack.  "Oh, my.  I hurt the little ducky.  Ha, ha, ha!  He needed to be hurt!  Ha, ha, ha!"

            Mega Volt laughed, "Ha, ha, ha!  Hello, Quacker Jack!  To complete my plan, we must go inside!  Ha, ha!"  The evildoers ran inside.

            Darkwing revived.  "Come back here, you larcenous lawbreakers!"  He ran in after them.

            The evildoers were climbing the stairs to the upper floor.  Mega Volt said, "Keep him busy, Quacker Jack, until we need him."

            "Whatever you say, Mega Volt!" said Quacker Jack.  "Ha, ha, ha!"  Quacker Jack bounced back down in cartwheels and engaged into physical conflict with Darkwing Duck.  Up at the top of the stairs, Mega Volt was getting something out of his pocket.

            "We need this, guys," said Mega Volt.  "You also are essential to my plot, Liquidator."

            "What is that?" Liquidator asked.

            "It's a pocket-size tron-splitter."  Mega Volt plugged the tron-splitter into an electric outlet at the top of the stairs.  Down at the bottom, Darkwing was getting to be a little too much for Quacker Jack to handle.

            Quacker Jack cried, "Steelbeak!  Tuskerninni!  Bushroot!  I need a little help down here with this idiot!"

            Steelbeak said, "Tuskerninni and Bushroot, let's give Quacker a hand."

            "Just stall him," Mega Volt said.  "He is necessary.  I want the darn duck when we finish our operation."

            "Will-do, Mega Volt!  Heh, heh, heh!"  Steelbeak, Tuskerninni, and Bushroot quickly descended the stairs.  Darkwing whacked Quacker in the kisser.

            Quacker Jack yelped, "Ow!"

            Darkwing said, "Ha!  It takes more than a clown, a rooster with a metal beak, a fat movie producer, and a mutated half-plant-half-duck to stop Darkwing Duck!"

            After engaging in the battle with Darkwing, Steelbeak said, "You almost through up there?  This duck is pounding us!"

            Liquidator said, "Just a little longer, Steelbeak!  Aw, what the heck?"  Liquidator slid down the steps to Darkwing and tripped him so that he crashed on the floor.  Liquidator then slid back up.  "I carefully timed that, Mega Volt, so we can finish before Dimwit Doolittle gets up here.  Hang on a moment, Nimnul."  Liquidator pressed a couple of keys on Nimnul's laptop, on which Nimnul was studying something for Mega Volt.

            Nimnul said, "Aha!  This is perfect!"  He called, "We're almost ready for the operation, you guys!  Let the quack up here!"

            Steelbeak said, "You hear that?  Let's let this stupid duck get up there."

            Darkwing said, "Almost ready?  Gosh, I've got to stop them!"  Darkwing raced up the stairs.  He went right past the evildoers who were on the stairs.

            Liquidator said, "He's coming!  Ready, Mega Volt?"

            "As ready as I'll ever be, Liquie!" said Mega Volt.

            Liquidator said, "Okay!"  Liquidator dissolved.  Mega Volt placed a string across the top of the stairs.  He attached the string to a switch that would trigger the devices.

            "He's coming!  Get ready, Liquidator!"

            "Ready, Sparkie!"

            "DON'T CALL ME 'SPARKIE'!!!"

            Approaching top of the stairs, Darkwing said, "Your plan is through, Sparkie!"  Darkwing tripped over the string, activating the devices.  He crashed onto Liquidator, getting wet.  The device shocked Darkwing, Liquidator's conductivity helping.  At the end of this part of the operation, Liquidator popped and fell to the floor below in a puddle.

            "Good work, Liquidator!"  Mega Volt facetiously asked, "Where is that blasted Darkwing Duck?"

            Darkwing regained consciousness.  "Darkwing Duck?  Who's he?"

            Mega Volt was sparking everywhere on his body from head to toe.  "I mean you, Darkwing Duck!  This is also necessary for our operation!"  Mega Volt fried Darkwing Duck with electrons.

            "Yowwwwwwwwwwwww. . .!"  Darkwing faded out of consciousness while being fried by Mega Volt.

            "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  Remember, I also control the power of the two charged atomic particles, the proton as well as the electron!"  Mega Volt pointed his right finger, glowing, to the ceiling.  In a near-instant, he thrust it down and fried Darkwing Duck with protons, atomic particles containing positive electric energy.  "Darkwing is ready!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

            Moliarity said, "Mega Volt!  I am glad that you were the one who was finally able to kill Darkwing Duck!"

            "I just fried him.  He is still alive."

            "Huh?"  Darkwing moaned.  "What?  He cannot still be alive!  It's scientifically impossible!"

            "You don't understand; I want him to be alive!"

            "Oh."

            Darkwing got up, despite his dizziness.  "Ohhh. . . am I still alive. . . Sparkie?"

            "Yes, Darkwing Duck, you are still among the living," Mega Volt said.  "Take some positrons. . . and not just for calling me 'Sparkie'!"  Mega Volt blasted Darkwing with positrons.  Darkwing tripped at the end of the stairs where Mega Volt had put the rope and fell at the place where the tron-splitter was aimed.  "Excellent!"  The tron-splitter blasted Darkwing.

            "Ooh, I really ought to try to blast that cursed Mega Volt."  A being formed next to Darkwing. . . a being named Negaduck!

            Mega Volt cried, "IT WORKED!!!  MY EVIL PLAN ACTUALLY WORKED!!!  THE PROCESS CAN BRING A PERSON'S REFLECTION FROM THE NEGAVERSE!!!  HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!!!  I KNEW THAT MY EXPERIMENTS WITH THAT BLASTED TRON-SPLITTER WERE NOT IN VAIN!!!  HA, HA, HA!!!"

            Moliarity said, "Why, of course!  It is Darkwing Duck's mirror-image,. . . uh, who is he?"

            "It's Negaduck, silly!"

            "I am the terror that flaps in the day," announced Negaduck.  "I am the winged scourge that pecks at do-gooders' daydreams.  I am Negaduck, here to put an end all do-gooders' careers!  Ha, ha, ha!"  He had a black and yellow outfit similar to Darkwing's, and he was exactly the same height.

            "You're back!  Will you still help us to conquer that stupid Darkwing Duck?"

            "Oh, Mega Volt, anyone who is an enemy of a do-gooder is a friend of mine!  Let's talk this over lunch."

            Darkwing awoke.  "-Yelp!-  Oh, boy!  Not Negaduck!"

            "But, first, we need to get rid of some unnecessary baggage!  Ha, ha, ha!"  Negaduck kicked Darkwing so that he tumbled down the stairs past Steelbeak, Bushroot, Quacker Jack, and Tuskerninni.

            Steelbeak said, "Wow!  Negaduck's as fond of Darkwing Duck as I am!  Ha, ha, ha!"  The evildoers ascended.  Liquidator, gaining consciousness, sprang back up to the upper floor.  "Howdy, Negaduck!"

            "Hello, Steelbeak!  We finally meet.  I see that my goody-good counterpart, Darkwing Duck, is taking a big fall!  Your pals, here, tripped Darkwing so that their tron-splitter was activated and hit a water-surrounded Darkwing; Mega Volt blasted Darkwing with electrons, protons, and positrons; Darkwing was tripped so that the tron-splitter was activated and blasted him while he was not wet; and I was pulled back out of the Negaverse and here into the universe.  I was battling the counterparts of the Mega Volt, Moliarity, Nimnul, Steelbeak, Bushroot, Quacker Jack, Liquidator, and Tuskerninni while you were battling Darkwing.  I whacked their goody-goody butts, though, before I was pulled here, so there was no loss.  I still rule the Negaverse.  Still want me to help you wicked scoundrels rule the universe?"

            All of the other evildoers promptly responded, "Yeah!!!"

            "Bad!  Bad idea!  Ha, ha, ha!  I mean, of course, the evil equivalent of a good idea.  Now, let's conquer this burg and put an end to this town!"  All the evildoers slid down the banister, ran out the door, and went to their hideout in the tallest hotel in Saint Canard.

            * * *

            Darkwing and Liquidator came on the scene.  Liquidator said, "Mega Volt sure got you that time."

            "Yeah, right.  I was still alive, though."

            "And, now, the Justice Ducks arrive to find you.  It's amazing what you did after hearing Gosalyn's voice, Darkwing."

            "Yeah, right.  I don't believe that I am narrating half-way with a villain!"

            "If you don't put your big beak in PARK, I'm going to whack it right off your face!"  Liquidator and Darkwing disappeared from the picture when the Justice Ducks arrived.  "We had pulled Negaduck back out of his homeworld, the Negaverse, before totally knocking out Darkwing.  It was about ten minutes before the Justice Ducks arrived, enough time for us to get out of the power plant and to get to Steelbeak's high-class hideout in the top floor of the tallest hotel in the city.  Like I just told Darkwing, it was amazing what happened when he heard Gosalyn's voice."

            * * *

            Darkwing was still unconscious in the power plant when the Justice Ducks landed in the ThunderQuack to find Darkwing.  Gosalyn said, "Oh, no!  What happened?"

            Upon hearing Gosalyn's voice, Darkwing immediately sprang up, fine and well.  "Gosalyn, I thought I told you to stay at Darkwing Tower!  Just for this, I'm cutting your allowance in half!"

            "Darkwing!  We just came out to see what had happened!"  GizmoDuck rolled in with sophisticated equipment to scan the place.

            GizmoDuck said, "Hmm!  There are very heavy traces of electric energy in this power plant."

            "Oh, no!" cried Darkwing.  "Then you mean it wasn't a dream?"

            "What wasn't?" Gosalyn asked.

            "We now have to worry about ol' Negaduck again."

            Dr. Sarah Bellum came in with Agent Grizzlykov.  "Uh, oh!  I was afraid of this," Dr. Bellum said.

            "Dr. Bellum!"

            Grizzlykov asked, "They have powered Quacker Jack, have they not?"  He was a large, strong Russian toon-bear with an office suit.  He was big, brown, bipedal, and strong, and he always followed procedure.

            "They sure have.  They then came here; blasted me with a tron-splitter while I was wet; blasted me with electrons, protons, and positrons;  and blasted me with that same tron-splitter while I was dry.  After that, my blasted archenemy, Negaduck, formed beside me and kicked me all the way from up there."

            Bellum said, "He was pulled out of a universe parallel to ours through an effect obtuse to this universe and acute to that other one."

            "I must admit, Negaduck's a pretty handsome devil, as handsome as I, except for that tacky yellow, crimson, and black outfit of his."

            "Maybe, Darkwing, you should follow proper procedures for once!" suggested Grizzlykov.

            "Can it, Agent Grizzlykov!"

            Launchpad asked, "Now what shall we do?"

            "There is only one thing left to do, Launchpad:  let's get dangerous!"  Darkwing saw something.  "Wait a minute; what's this?"  He picked the little pellet of something up with a pair of tweezers.  He examined it with a huge microscope.  "Why, of course!"

            * * *

            Darkwing and Bushroot came on the scene.  Bushroot said, "Okay!  Okay!  I admit to having planted that breadcrumb from our hideout there in the power plant, Darkwing, but. . ."

            "But nothing, larcenous legume!" said Darkwing.  "It led us right to your hideout.  MEGA VOLT, LIQUIDATOR, AND QUACKER JACK, HERE IS THE ONE WHO LET US JUSTICE DUCKS FIND YOUR HIDEOUT!!!"  Mega Volt and Quacker Jack leapt onto the scene and engaged into weed-whacking Bushroot.  Liquidator came up to Darkwing.

            Liquidator said, "You're not nice."

            "Why are you not crushing Bushroot?"

            "I knew that, if he had planted that breadcrumb, he was thinking that we all would smash you into oblivion!"

            "Well, he was quite wrong."

            "Let's just get back to the story."  The scene changed to Steelbeak's high-class hideout.  "It was getting late.  We were conferring with High-Command when those blasted Justice Ducks showed up and, eventually, ruined everything."

            * * *

            Steelbeak's Hideout, Penthouse of the Tallest Hotel, Saint Canard.

            At Steelbeak's hideout, the villains were having a conference with F.O.W.L. High-Command.  ". . .and that is basically it, High-Command," concluded Negaduck.

            The Duck-Leader said, "We're glad to hear that Agent Quacker Jack has been powered up as planned, Steelbeak.  We're also glad that you managed to bring back Agent Negaduck from the Negaverse."

            "I don't know about you, Quackie, but I'm ready to burst something!" Mega Volt said.

            Quacker Jack said, "Sounds fun, Megzie!"

            "I'm feeling the same way, Mega Volt!" said Liquidator.  "Tired of sitting around all day?  Ready to feel like a really evil criminal?  Then, get out and blast some Darkwing!"

            Mega Volt said, "An assault on an agent of SHUSH?  Oh, Liquie, what an electrifying idea!  Let's get shocking!"  Darkwing and his friends appeared in a hill of smoke.  "The Justice Dopes!"

            Darkwing said, "We are the terrors that flap in the night!  We are the springs that come loose on your toys!  We are the circuit breakers on the electric system of crime!  We are the Justice Ducks!"

            "Fry 'im, Megzie!" said Negaduck.

            Mega Volt said, "Okay, Negzie!  Ha, ha, ha!  Get ready, Darkwing!"  Mega Volt blasted Darkwing with some more lethal voltage.

            "Ouch!" said Darkwing.

            Liquidator asked, "Tired of fighting crime?  Sick of winning all of the time?  Then, take an all-expense-paid-trip to oblivion!"  Out of his body, Liquidator formed a huge bow.  He used his arm and hand as an arrow.  He fired himself at Morganna and knocked her out.  "Triumph now with the Liquidator!"

            "Okay, fish, prepare to be taken out of water!" said Bushroot.  He grew his weeds and trapped Neptunia.

            "Ack!  Watch it, bub!  I hate this seaweed!" said Neptunia.

            Quacker Jack laughed, "Ha, ha, ha!  Hey, GizmoDuck!  Stop this!"  Quacker Jack did cartwheels and whacked GizmoDuck into the wall so hard that he was knocked out.  "Have a nice nap!  Ha, ha, ha!"

            Steelbeak went over to Gosalyn and Launchpad.  "Ha, ha, ha!  The rest of these guys are just wimps!"

            Gosalyn said, "Watch whom you're calling a wimp, Steelbeak!"  She gave him a hard kick in the leg.

            "YOW!!!  THAT DOES IT, KID!!!  GET HER, PROFESSORS NIMNUL AND MOLIARITY!!!"  Professors Nimnul and Moliarity came in a strange device.

            Moliarity said, "You're dead meat, girl!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!"  Nimnul pressed a button.  An arm from the machine reached out and grabbed Gosalyn.

            "Ungh!  Let me go, Professor Nim-nut!"

            "Never!" said Nimnul.

            Stegmutt said, "All right, you villains!  Prepare to get hurt for messing with my friends!"

            Tuskerninni said, "Oh, how unfortunate, big guy."  He opened a suitcase.  His three penguins popped out.  "Roll it!"  The three penguins rolled a movie camera.

            "Oh, boy!  I'm on candid camera!"  A fist sprang out of the camera and knocked out Stegmutt.

            "That's a rap!" said Tuskerninni.

            Launchpad said, "All right, you evil-doers!  Prepare to. . ."  Liquidator, Mega Volt, Negaduck, and Quacker Jack surrounded Launchpad.

            Liquidator said, "Prepare to do what, Launchpad McQuack?"

            "Ah, prepare to accept my surrender?"

            "That is more like it!" said Negaduck.  "Isn't villainy grand?"  All the bad guys laughed.

            * * *

            Later, all the super-heroes were tied up to special torture-devices in a room in the building.  Negaduck sprang into the room and shattered the darkness by turning on a light.  Negaduck said, "Ha, ha, ha!  The science of pain!  Oooh, it gives me. . . chills!"  He went over to a device to which GizmoDuck was tied and turned on a video screen via remote.  The Vulture-Leader and the Duck-Leader of F.O.W.L. High-Command appeared on the screen.  "My vile F.O.W.L. High-Command leaders, you are about to witness the payback that is about to be received by these good-guys messing with the valedictorians of the Class of '78 of the University of Evil-Doers, who so happen to be. . ."  As Negaduck calls their names, they leapt in.  ". . .F.O.W.L. Agent Steelbeak, Mega Volt, Liquidator, Dr. Reginald Bushroot, Quacker Jack, Tuskerninni, Professor Moliarity, and Professor Norton Nimnul!  Ha, ha, ha!  Witness, my audience, the helpless GizmoDuck.  These electrical wires drain his beloved gizmo-energy, but, once I throw the switch, the energy reversal will fry him!  Hee, hee!"

            GizmoDuck gasped with revulsion.  "You cad!  You. . . you. . . you CAD!!!"

            Negaduck went over to where Neptunia was tied up and pointed his hand in the direction of nuclear fusion sun-lamps right above her.  "Note the nuclear fusion sun-lamps over this unfortunate specimen of aquatic life.  Once I throw the switch, we'll have ourselves a big ol' fish fry!"  He grabbed Neptunia's cheek.  When he let go, she tried to bite his fingers but missed.  "Nyah, nyah!  Missed me!"  Negaduck went over to where Stegmutt was.  "Well, Stegmutt.  You aren't so strong when you're weightless, are you?"  Stegmutt seemed to be having childlike fun in the container in which he was held captive.  He was, as Negaduck just stated, weightless.  "I hope that you can hold your breath for a long time, because all the air is going to be sucked out of this chamber once I throw THE SWITCH!!!"

            Stegmutt said, "Oh, boy!"

            Negaduck went over to the helpless Morganna, who had her head in an open vice.  "Ha, ha, ha!  And you, my pretty, in my mystical-power-draining-vice!  The powers of the vice keep your powers weak.  You are going to have your itty, bitty head squashed. . ."  He squashed a little bug with his foot.  ". . .FLAT!! - when I throw the switch!"  He went over to Darkwing, who was tied onto a metal platter by strong ropes.  A huge axe was prevented from swinging down and splattering Darkwing's guts all over the room only by a rope, which an as-yet-non-swinging pendulum would cut through in several swipes.  "All tied up at the moment, Darkwing?"

            Darkwing said, "Enough of the puns, you fiend!"

            "Fiend. . . I like the sound of that!  Too bad I won't get those compliments once your guts are splattered all over this room by that axe!  The pendulum will cut through that rope, causing that axe to fall on you and destroy you!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!  And remember, the pendulum starts swinging when I throw. . ."

            Morganna, Neptunia, GizmoDuck, and Stegmutt said, "We know, we know, the switch."

            "How true!  Ha, ha, ha!"

            "Do me one favour, Negaduck," Darkwing said.

            "Yeah, what is it?"

            "Don't throw the switch!"

            "-Sigh.-  I was rather hoping you had to use the bathroom or something.  Why should I not throw the switch?"

            "Why should you throw the switch?"

            "To do two things:  one is to destroy you, and two is for the sheer fun of it!"

            "Oh, hilarious.  Just kill me and get it over with!"

            Quacker Jack laughed, "Ha, ha, ha!  Hey, Negs, as long as we have Darkwing here, let's remove his mask and find out who he really is!  Ha, ha!"

            Negaduck said, "Let's find out after we splatter his guts everywhere, all right?  His head will still be in one piece."

            "I remember unmasking him once," said Mega Volt, "but I cannot remember who he is.  It was at the reunion of the Class of '72 of Saint Canard High School a few months ago.  I'll remember who if I think about it."

            Quacker Jack said, "It could probably be some dope that's father of a certain little girl!  Ha, ha, ha!"

            Gosalyn said, "If you're talking about me, Quack, you'd better not be!  I'm of no relation to him whatsoever!"  Gosalyn and Launchpad were clasped to the wall by wrist-cuffs and hand-cuffs.

            Negaduck said, "You have helped him, and that's an equally good non-crime.  This wall will separate where your waists are, ripping you two into two pieces!  Ha, ha, ha!  And the wall will separate when I throw. . . aw, everyone knows that already."  He went to a pedestal.  There was a button.  "And, without further ado, the switch!!"  He pressed the button.  Nothing happened!  He pressed it again several times.  "Whoops!  That's not the right one.  It must be this one!"  He covered his eyes and pressed a rocker switch in the on-direction once.  Still, nothing happened.  "That's not it."  With his hand, he pointed to a large toggle switch.  "It therefore must be this one!"  He grabbed the handle.  "Good-bye, heroes!  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"  He pulled back on the handle a seventh of the total way.  GizmoDuck started getting electrified.  "Ha, ha, ha!  Getting the shock of your life, Gizmo?  Good-bye to the rest of you pains in the yen!!!  Ha, ha, ha!!!"  He yanked the handle back all the way.  Neptunia was getting hot around the collar.  Stegmutt was losing air.  Morganna's head was getting squashed.  The pendulum was cutting Darkwing's rope.  Launchpad and Gosalyn were getting stretched.  "Ha, ha, ha!  Now, it's time to say good-bye to all of our company!!!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!"  Just before Darkwing got cut to death, Morganna turned his table into a yak that suddenly appeared in Negaduck's hands, and Darkwing beat feet.  Lucky him, for he barely escaped before the axe swung right by his cape!

            Mega Volt looked at the large yak, which had just squashed Negaduck.  "Whoa!  A yak!"  Darkwing destroyed the switch with a Gas Gun cartridge.  Everyone was okay.  Darkwing pulled at the bar enclosing Morganna's head in the vice.

            "Did I do well, Dark?"

            "You did great, Morg!"  When he freed her, Darkwing was propelled to where GizmoDuck was captive and freed him in a spin.  Morganna freed Neptunia.  With a glasscutter, GizmoDuck cut Stegmutt a perfect hole in the glass to the outside of the glass.  Neptunia blew on her seashell trumpet at a high frequency and cracked the wall behind Launchpad and Gosalyn, setting them free.  Darkwing leapt to the centre of the room.  "Justice Ducks, assemble."  GizmoDuck, Morganna, Neptunia, Stegmutt, Launchpad, and Gosalyn leapt just behind Darkwing.

            The Duck-Leader ordered, "Agents, blast them to teeny bits!  Ha, ha, ha!"  The screen flipped off.  Negaduck walked over to Darkwing with the yak and tossed it on the floor to his right.

            Negaduck said, "Assemble, Fearsome Nine!"  Bushroot, Liquidator, Mega Volt, Quacker Jack, Nimnul, Moliarity, Tuskerninni, and Steelbeak walked up behind Negaduck.  The two teams backed off from each other seven or eight paces.

            After a moment or two, Darkwing and Negaduck both ordered, "ATTACK!!!"  The two teams rushed toward each other.  After a cloud of smoke cleared, one saw Quacker Jack chasing Stegmutt with a pair of snapping-teeth, Darkwing flipping after Mega Volt (who was firing blasts at Darkwing), and Neptunia going after Dr. Reginald Bushroot.  While she was chasing Bushroot, Liquidator grabbed her.  She leapt into him and spun him out.

            "Oh, no!" said Liquidator.  "Not agaaaa. . .!"  Liquidator spun out of control.  Mega Volt blasted at Darkwing, who landed.  Mega Volt ducked.

            Darkwing said, "Lights out, Spar-. . ."  Quacker Jack sprang out of a hidey-hole and let one of his snap-teeth snap onto Darkwing's cape.  ". . .yoww!!"

            "Ha, ha!  You said a mouthful!" said Quacker Jack.

            Mega Volt pointed a glowing finger at Darkwing.  "This time, it's bye-bye, Darkwing Duck!  I remember who you are now!  You are. . ."  The spinning Liquidator was spinning toward Mega Volt!  "Oh, no!  Veer off!  Veer off!"  When Liquidator ran into Mega Volt, Mega Volt got short-circuited.  "Yaaaaaaaaah!!!"  Liquidator popped and Mega Volt was dizzy.  "Whoa. . . what a doozy!  Darkwing Duck is. . ."  He fell flat on his front and lost consciousness just before he revealed Darkwing's identity.  Quacker Jack sprang out of his hiding place and went after someone else.  Bushroot was trying to scare away Stegmutt with a cactus.

            "Go on!" said Bushroot.  "Get back, you herbivorous plant-eater!  Back, back!"  Stegmutt broke the cactus by whacking it with his spiky tail.  "Yaah!"  Before Bushroot could run away, Stegmutt grabbed him by the neck.

            Stegmutt asked, "What shall I do with Mr. Bushroot, Darkwing?"

            "It's easy, Stegmutt.  Let's pretend Bushroot, here, is on fire."

            Neptunia said, "Yeah!  Put out the Bushroot!  Put out the Bushroot!"

            "Uh, oh!" said Bushroot.  "I really hate this!"  Holding onto Bushroot's legs, Stegmutt whacked the plant duck on the floor several times.

            "Put out the Bushroot!  Put out the Bushroot!" chanted Stegmutt.  GizmoDuck had cornered Quacker Jack, who held his hands palm-up in mid-air.  A set of snap-teeth formed in his hands.

            Quacker Jack laughed, "Ha, ha!  Nothing can stop these teeth!"

            "Not even a dentist's drill?" inquired GizmoDuck.  A large drill came out of GizmoDuck's suit.  The two sets of snap-teeth shrieked and flew away.  The teeth in Quacker Jack's mouth flew away as well!  Quacker Jack, in pain, held his beak, which had apparently been supported by the teeth.  "How about some anaesthesia first?"  A boxing glove popped out of GizmoDuck's suit and bashed the daylights out of Quacker Jack.  Tuskerninni was after Launchpad.

            Tuskerninni said, "This will be your final performance, McQuack!"

            "That's it!" said Launchpad.  "You've made me mad!"  Launchpad wound up his fist and whacked Tuskerninni into the wall.  This knocked Tuskerninni out.  Steelbeak was after Gosalyn.  He cornered her next to a window.

            Steelbeak said, "Come on, girlie.  Your interference is doing neither of us any good."

            "Hey!" said Gosalyn.  "Wasn't that Grizzlykov who just walked by down there?"

            Steelbeak rushed to look out the window.  "Grizzlykov?  Where is that worse-than-Darkwing SHUSH Agent?"  Gosalyn grabbed the back of Steelbeak's coat and yanked his back down to the floor.  He crashed on the floor.  "Yaah!  Oof!  Girl, you're starting to get on my nerves!"

            Gosalyn removed a gas pellet from her pocket.  "Catch this, Steelbeak!"  She tossed it on Steelbeak.  Steelbeak started laughing like crazy, helpless as a flea without a bloodsucker.

            "Ha, ha, ha!  Girl, that did it!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!  When you - ha, ha, ha! - blast Steelbeak with a - ha, ha, ha, ha! - laughing gas cartridge, you have really done it!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

            "Yeh, yeh, yeh!  The ol' laughing gas did it again."

            Darkwing came up behind Gosalyn.  "Good work, Gos!"  Negaduck ambushed him.  "Yaah!"  The two ducks started fighting, and they were soon surrounded by 'fight smoke,' obscuring all view of them.  A fist extended from the 'fight smoke.'  When it was thrust back in, the fight stopped like a car screeching to a stop.  Darkwing had delivered the punch line to the now unconscious Negaduck.  "Yeh, yeh, yeh.  The ol' punch-trick did it again."  Liquidator had Morganna cornered.

            Liquidator asked, "Are you under stress?  Tired of the pitfalls of being a superhero's girlfriend?  Are you tired of losing in several fights?  Then, what you need is an all-expense-paid trip to oblivion!"  He pulled the same arrow-trick on Morganna.  She was now ready for it, as she quickly grabbed a bottle and let Liquidator fly into it.  "Hey!"  She put the cork on the bottle.

            Morganna said, "New and improved burglar in a bottle."

            "Those are supposed to be my punch-lines!"

            "Well, you shouldn't keep things all bottled up inside!"

            "Ewww!  Bad choice of words!  Bad pun!"

            Darkwing said, "Justice Ducks, assemble!"  All the Justice Ducks assembled near Darkwing.  "It appears that we have all of them."  A bomb exploded just behind them.  "-Gasp!-  I was wrong!  We missed Moliarity and Nimnul, and there's Moliarity!"

            Moliarity had a powerful missile-launcher.  "Oh, our plans, ruined!  Thwarted. . . by a bunch of rejects from a funny book!  Finesse this, Justice Dweebs!"  He launched several missiles.  The Justice Ducks avoided them barely.  Darkwing did cartwheels and knocked the missile-launcher right out of Moliarity's hands.  He then grabbed the missile-launcher before Moliarity had a chance to do so.  "Aah!"

            "Ha!  I now have possession of your weapon, Moliarity!"  GizmoDuck handcuffed Moliarity.  Nimnul came in on a strange device.

            Nimnul said, "Oh, you are as bad as the Rescue Rangers!  Take this, Deadmeat Slob!"  He blasted at Darkwing and his team with a laser cannon.

            "Suck gas, evildoer!"  Darkwing fired his Gas Gun at Nimnul and destroyed the device.  Nimnul's device broken, he fell on the floor.  "What have you to say now, Nimnul?"

            "Uh, I give up?"

            "Right!  You give up!  Giz?"  GizmoDuck snapped handcuffs on Nimnul.

            * * *

            Darkwing Tower.

            Darkwing said, "I could not have done it so well without you, guys.  Honestly, that was the best display of intelligence and strength that I've ever seen."

            "You know, Darkwing, you're not such a bad sport after all," said GizmoDuck.

            Honker asked, "Where'd you send them?"

            "The High-Surveillance Penitentiary for Super-Villains.  I warned them not to accept any more cakes in the future."

            Morganna said, "That's good.  Well, we'd better all be getting back home, now.  I enjoyed the adventure, Dark!"

            "See you later, Morg!"  Morganna left by magically transporting herself to her eerie house.

            Neptunia said, "Well, I ought to be getting back to the sea.  I'm starting to dry out.  See you later, guys."

            "See you later, Neptunia."  Neptunia leapt out the window into the sea.

            "See you later, Darkwing!" said Stegmutt.

            "See ya later, Steggers!"  Stegmutt left.

            Launchpad said, "There seems to be a pending question of secret identities here."

            GizmoDuck said, "I've been dying to know who's behind that mask of yours, Darkwing."

            "Well, I do have this desire to know who's in that metal suit, Gizzerroo," said Darkwing.

            "Well?" asked Launchpad.

            Darkwing asked, "Honker?"

            "See you later, Darkwing," said Honker.  "See you later, Gosalyn!"

            Gosalyn said, "See you later, Honker!"  Honker left through the secret underground passageway to Drake Mallard's house.

            Launchpad said, "Okay, now is okay, isn't it, DW?"

            Gosalyn showed both hands in front of her.  "I won't blab, cross my heart, hope to die."

            Darkwing said, "I'll go first if you don't mind, GizmoDuck."

            "I don't mind," said GizmoDuck.  Darkwing took off his hat.  He then removed his mask.  "It's you, Drake?  Well, what a great man for the job!"  GizmoDuck pressed several buttons on his suit.  His suit came off, revealing GizmoDuck's secret identity, Fenton Crackshell.

            "It's you, Fenton!"

            "It's I, all right, Drake!"  He looked at his watch.  "Oops, I'm running a little late!  I've got something important to do tonight!  I mustn't be late!  Blabberin' blatherskite!"  The GizmoSuit formed around him.  "Tah-tah, DW!  I'm off to Duckburg!"  His helmet-copter formed, and he flew away.

            Darkwing put his mask back on.  "Tah-tah, GizmoDuck!  See you next crime!"

            Launchpad asked, "Why did you put your mask back on, DW?"

            "I'm going to keep watch on the penitentiary, to make sure that those felonious adversaries of mine don't escape again," said Darkwing.

            "I don't think they'll try to escape for a while, DW.  After all, not every team can stop them as well as we have."

            "True!  For we are the terrors that flap in the night!  We are the winged scourges that peck at all evildoers' nightmares!  We are the Justice Ducks!"

            * * *

            Darkwing came on the scene.  "Yeh, yeh, yeh!  We are the Justice Ducks.  You know, I think I like them better now than before.  They all had a part in whacking those baddies.  Why, my own daughter found out Steelbeak's weakness and took advantage of it.  Well, until my next adventure, tah-tah!"