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A Shocking Meeting

It was a chilly dark night for early autumn. The insane cackle of a rat in a yellow jump suit was heard from the power plant. “Oops! Looks like there is no power being generated to the city!” he said sarcastically. “Oh well, looks like you’re gonna have to pay me that ransom after all!! He cackles maliciously.
“Not if I can help it!!” Yelled a mysterious voice from the dark.
“Wha?!”
“I am the terror that flaps in the night!! I am the prong of justice that shorts you out! I, am Darkwiiiing Duck!!”
“Oh great!! Just what I needed!! A costumed clown!! Well I’m sorry I can’t stay and charge up your life Darkwing, but I gotta giant magnet to build!!” He built up an energy ball and blinded the crusader as he escaped.

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“And now, with the help of this lovely, lively wire, I’ll soon have the world’s biggest elecrto-magnet!” Megavolt had connected a very long extension cord from St. Canard’s power plant to that place, high above the city. Suddenly, a soft, but assertive, feminine voice disturbed the evil rat’s fun, “What are you doing?!”
He whipped around and saw a female cat peer out from behind his magnet. She had reddish hair with gold highlights. She wore, ironically, a black cat suit, with a belt that supplied her with who knows what, biker gloved, black boots that resembled Splatter Pheonix, and a black mask. “What do you want?!!” he snapped.
“Nothing. A pleasant talk, a pleasant walk, along the briny beach?”
He gave her a cockeyed look.
“I was quoting,” she explained.
“Oh,” he simply said. “Next time make sure I understand you, alright?” he almost snapped. “And what are you doing here, anyway?!!”
She looked up at him through her bangs with big brown eyes. Her hands were already behind her back and she looked over her shoulder and innocently said, “Well, I was just curious and there’s nothing to do in this forsaken city.”
“Oh really?” he said skeptically. “Well, I have things to do and I don’t need kids hanging around, foiling up my plans!” He turned away and returned to do what he was doing earlier.
“K, kid!!!!? I’m sorry, but I ain’t no kid!!!” He ignored her. “I don’t have to take this!! I have other rooftops to haunt!!” She turned around and began to stomp away.
“Oh, wait a minute!” Megavolt called to her before she disappeared. She stopped and turned around to hear what he was going to say.
“I didn’t get your name!”
“Ja Tarra-villainess.” Mgavolt noticed her hair was pulled up in a perfect bun at the back of her head.
“Oh, uh, I’m Megavolt. I’m also a villain. You’re new here, aren’tcha?”
“Yeah,”
“Well, nice to meet you, I guess. Hope we’re on friendly terms?”
She nodded slightly and blinked her eyes, simultaneously, then took off at the end of the building without another word. Megavolt ran after her, concerned, but when he reached the end of the rooftop and looked down, she was nowhere to be seen. He hoped that she meant to do that and was ok. “ ’ be a shame for a villain to get broken before they begin, right Mortimer?” He pulled out a light bulb from his pocket and it didn’t respond. “Don’t get jealous! I only wanted to be friendly, that’s all!!” Silence. “Well fine!!! BE that way! Don’t talk to me!! Humph!!” And he went back working on his magnet.

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In Darkwing Tower the masked mallard paced worrily and anxiously.
“Dad! You’re getting nothing done! Stop worrying and go do something!!”
“Yes, I know Gosalyn! But it’s hard when the crime rate has been dropping like flies, and I don’t know why! There must be pressure building….. something big is going to happen!” He thought a moment. “Gos, I’m going to go scout the city anyway, maybe I’ll find a mugger or something to keep my mind off this bad feeling.” And with that he hopped on his motorcycle and sped out of sight, down the suspension cable.
On the road the masked avenger talked to himself, “Well, now all I gotta do is find a crime in progress…….Wait a minute!! There!!” There was a broken store front up ahead. The motorcycle wheeled around then stopped. He hopped off, brandished his gas gun and looked for the perpetrator. “Empty! Where could he have gone so fast??! The alarm just went off!! Well, I should look for clues, anyway!” But clues, he found not a one. So he returned to his tower over the bridge and started analyzing all the crimes that had the same relation that there were no clues for. He found that their only relation was that they were goods stolen. Jewels, cash, and light bulbs….. “Light bulbs!!? Megavolt was in on this then!! I think that if I find that maniacal maniac I’ll solve this mystery!!” So yet again, Darkwing went, but this time in search of one individual. All he had to do was find an electrical disturbance.

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The time was nearing so that he could finally use his magnet. “An other hour and the comet will be close enough!!” Then Megavolt spotted the same young woman that interrupted him earlier that week. “Oh! It’s you! Come to see me dominate the world?”
“No, not really. Dominating doesn’t interest me.”
“Oh, too bad. It really is quite fun!”
“But, how are you gonna do it, if you don’t mind me asking?”
“I’m using magnetic energy to pull in a comet the size of Alaska to ransom off the world with,”
“You think they’ll give in?”
“They’d better, or we’re all roasted!”
“Ooh, fun, being roasted,” she said sarcastically.
“No, actually, it isn’t fun. Just in case you wanted to know,”
“Thanks,” She humored him.
“So! What sorta heinous crimes have you been committing? I haven’t heard anything in the news about you,”
“I like to keep it quiet.”
“You mean you haven’t committed anything??!!”
“NO! I have!! It’s just that at each crime scene they haven’t found any clues!”
Pondering aloud, Megavolt said, “You purposely doing that?”
“Yes,”
“Oh! Well, that explains it! Y’ know, it’s been nice chatting with you, but now if you’ll excuse me, I have a world to dominate! It’s been surreal!”
“Uh, wait!”
“Yeah?”
“What do you mean by that? Being surreal?”
“Girls as…..pretty as you don’t usually talk to a psychotic nerd, like me,” he pouted.
“Oh! Oh, I see,”
“Yeah,” He thought a moment. “Well, good-bye,”
“Good-bye Megavolt. Uh, say, mind if I stay?”
“Not at all! In fact, I’d appreciate it! Thanks!”
“Sure, no problem. I don’t have anywhere else to be, anyway and I’d like to spend this time with you.”
“What a nice thing to say!”
“Well, let’s get this over with. Press the button.” She pointed to the big red button.
“Right!” Megavolt hit the button on the remote and the machine started up, making weird noises.
After what seemed like eternity, they could see the comet in the distance and a voice in the darkness. “I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the cintrifical force that throws your comet off course! I am Darkwiiing Duck!! And your star gazing days are over, Megavolt!!”
“Darkwing Duck!!”
“In the feathers. Now give up now, or face the wrath of my Quack Foo attack!!”
“I’d rather get fried! So, eat laser, duck!!” Megavolt started firing at the masked mallard. Ja Tarra, caught up in all this, watched the progress of the comet and the fight all at once from behind the magnet.
Darkwing kicked the blaster from the villain’s hand. Megavolt looked at the duck stunned then raised his hands and began to fire electrical discharges from his fingertips. Darkwing took out a plunger form behind his back and used it like a baseball bat, sending the blasts right back at their owner. Megavolt had to duck and dodge them. Unfortunately, the last one hit him and he and the blast collided with the giant magnet. The magnet frizzled and so did Megavolt. The machine broke down and the comet went back to its original heading. Megavolt said as he recovered, “Ooh, what a blast!”
“Give up now, Megavolt!”
“In your dreams, duck!” He got up. Brushed himself off, and looked around. “Say, where’s the girl?”
“What girl, you magnetic, maniacal maniac?!”
“The one that was here with me! Where did she go!?” he asked worried. While he was distracted, Darkwing slapped the cuffs on him. “Hey!” Megavolt protested.
“Whatever it may be, save it for the judge, pal!” Darkwing interrupted Megavolt from saying anything else.

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In the darkness with dawn nearing hours away, Megavolt and Quackerjack talk to each other from their cells. “Hoo, hoo! So, what happened after he hit you with your own blast, Sparky?” Quackerjack asked.
“Oh, when I was distracted looking for that girl villain, that dork slapped the cuffs on me!”
“Ooh, hard! Sorry to hear that, Sparky,”
“STOP CALLING ME SPAKY!!!!!”
“Alright! Fine! Be that way……Sparky.”
“Ooh! Don’t call me ‘SPARKY’!! But Quacky, what are you in for?”
“Oh, the usual.”
“Well, what’s the usual?”
“You know!! Breaking and entering a toy store after closing hours, larceny, assaulting a police officer, evading the law, running 3…..no 4 red lights, making a left on a red,”
“Oh, the usual,” Megavolt interrupted.
“Yeah! See, I told you!!”
“Psst! Hey!” came the whisper of a familiar feminine voice. Megavolt turned around and saw Ja Tarra peering in through the bars.
“Oh, thank Edison, it’s you!”
“Yeah, well listen, you two. I’m gonna get you outta here right now.”
“Oh, and how are you going to do that?!” Quackerjack snapped, skeptical of the unexpected visitor.
“Ever hear of C4?”
“Uh, oh!” Megavolt said.
“Yep,” Ja Tarra confirmed. Then she suggested, “Maybe you should get away from this wall as much as possible, an find some cover!”
“Good idea!”
The two jailed villains complied and Ja Tarra got the C4 rigged then detonated it. The blast shook the entire prison and a good mile radius. Before the dust settled Ja Tarra ran in, grabbed both villains and ran out. Holding their wrists she guided them through the dust and rubble.
Using the path that Ja Tarra used to get in, they backtracked and she guided them away from the city. Quackerjack stopped in his tracks and argued, “And where are we going??!!”
“Trust me, Quackerjack! This way’s better!!”
“C’mon Quacky! Trust her! I do!! She got us out, she must have a plan! Let’s stick with it!! Right?”
“Yeah,” Ja Tarra agreed.
“All right, but this had better be good,” he said skeptically and continued to follow her.
They had wondered into a forest and suddenly Ja Tarra began to climb a tree.
“Ja Tarra, this is no time to be climbing trees! We got hounds on our trail!”
“Exactly, Megavolt! If we climb this they can’t follow us any more! Have you ever heard of a dog climbing a tree before? And besides! The wind’s heading towards the city! Any air scenting hounds can’t follow us either way!”
“Oh!! I getcha!” The other two villains began to climb too. Carefully following the cat from branch to branch, they lost their pursuers. She had made sure that the other two were all right and could follow her. Eventually, they descended onto the ground and the men watched her as she looked for something under the dead leaves of the forest. When she found what she was looking for she asked for help.
“What are you doing?!” Quackerjack asked.
“Gotta get this cover off to finish our get away!!” she explained.
So all three of them managed to get the cover off and Ja Tarra lowered herself down into the revealed hole in the ground.
“Where’d that come from and why is it here in the middle of nowhere!?” Megavolt pondered.
“I made it!” called the voice of Ja Tarra. “C’mon guys!!” As the other two descended into the hole Ja Tarra asked them to replace the cover. It was done and they ventured further into the tunnel.
“Where does this lead?” Megavolt asked.
“Home” was the reply from the villainess.
“Whose?”
“Mine,”
“Can you answer in complete sentences?!”
“Alright! I built a series of tunnels leading to the sewers of St. Canard and I memorized the under ground network of the city so I’m ready for a get away just in case I need it.”
“Whoa! You came prepared, didn’t you?!!” exclaimed Quackerjack.
“Have to, when you’re a villain.”
“True,”

They got to her hideout and chilled out the rest of the day, healing any cuts the trip gave them. Quackerjack and Megavolt were talking, alone after dinner that the female villain made them. “She’s ok,” Quackerjack commented.
“Yeah,”
“Cute tail,”
“What??!!” Megavolt couldn’t believe what his pal just said.
“Hey, you gotta admit, she’s cute,”
Reluctantly, Megavolt agreed, “Yeah, I suppose,”
“No supposing! She is!”
“I’m what?” Ja Tarra walked in on the conversation.
“Nothing!” Quackerjack quickly said.
“So, uh, can we stay here the night?” Megavolt asked.
“Sure”
Megavolt yawned widely.
“We should go to bed,” Ja Tarra suggested.
“Quacky, you can have the couch,”
“What do I get?” Megavolt whined.
“You can get the spare room. I assume you guys would hate to sleep together, so…”
“Good idea! He snores!” Quackerjack agreed, gratefully.
“Oh yeah?! Well you’re too active when you sleep! I got bruises to prove it!” Megavolt retaliated in saying.
She and Megs left Quackerjack alone and she showed him where to sleep for the night. Then she went to put herself in her own room.

He turned back, finished getting ready for bed, then he turned off the light and laid down on the bed. After a moment, out of some skewed sense of guilt, he got to his feet and padded out of the room toward an other door, open a crack. He peeked in. “Goodnight…uh,”
“Ja Tarra,” she reminded him, opening her eyes to gleaming orange slits in the darkness.
“Yeah, goodnight.”
Her expression was somewhat surprised, but the cat sang in return, “Goodnight,”
Megavolt shut the door and returned to his room to sleep. But sleep refused to come see him after two hours. The ceiling really wasn’t that interesting either; nice wallpaper though. He then decided, after being bored another few moments, to see if Ja Tarra was getting any sleep. He got up and headed over to her room again. “Hey, Ja Tarra?”
“Hmm?” He didn’t know where she was, but he heard her voice.
“You mind if I come talk with you?”
“No,” A shadow on the bed in the middle of the room sat up. The top of the figure turned and looked at him with wide glowing eyes giving Megavolt a chill.
Glowing eyes, weird! “How do you do that anyway? The eyes, I mean,”
“I don’t do anything. They naturally glow in the dark. It’s sorta like night vision.”
“Well I’ve never seen anything like that before. How’d you get it?”
She sighed as Megavolt sat “Indian style” on her bed, eagerly awaiting a story. She looked at him. “You really want to know?”
“No, I’m sitting here because I wanna stare at you all night long,” After a moment he added, “Sarcasm,”
Giving him an incredulous stair Ja Tarra responded, “I know,” She hesitated for a long time then began, “I was always a shunned kid in school. Always made fun of ‘n stuff. It hurt like hell and I had to put up with the hell right up from Kindergarten through twelfth grade…until I beat up a guy.” She said with a monotone voice. Megavolt winced. She continued after she scooted down into the covers, “The pain and torment I went through molded me to the evil you see before you now… Not only that, but back in, I guess, middle school, I went roller-skating and had got into a head injury. I assume that it knocked the ‘civilized’ out of me and put in a little ‘wild animal’. Anyway, I went to college for four years and after I graduated I ran away to St. Canard. Now we’re here talking.”
Megavolt stared at her a long time. “Wow… That’s almost the way it happened with me, I think,”
“Really?”
“Yeah, I think so… But you look younger than a college graduate.”
“Good.”
“Did you ever get revenge?”
“It would take a long time to seek revenge on all those who hurt me.”
“Oh,” Megavolt sounded disappointed. “I didn’t either, and I’ve been in the villain business since high school, so…”
“Ah, I guess we’re in the same boat.”
“Yeah,”
Ja Tarra props her head up with a hand. “You’ve been a super villain since high school? That outta be a long time.”
“I don’t remember.”
“How old are you?”
He shrugged.
“Not even a guestimate?”
He shook his head. “Ask Quacky; he knows,”
“Uh, huh,” she said puzzled. Whether she was interested in the facts or not, he couldn’t tell.
Megavolt yawned and looked out the window, seeing the sun peaking over the horizon. “Whoa, what’s up with the sun?!”
“Oh. Wow. We’ve been up all night!” Ja Tarra informed him, looking in the same direction. She sat up and leaned closer to him. “I love watching the sun rise, don’t you?”
Megavolt silently looked to her and saw her eyes stop glowing. She looked at him and they stared at each other a moment. As she leaned closer he got off the bed. “Well, thanks for letting us stay the night. Uh, we outta get going.” he referred to him and the jester in the other room.
“Alright,” She seemed disappointed that they were going.

After the guys got ready and Ja Tarra was dressed in her usual outfit they said their good-byes. Megavolt extended his hand to the cat. “Thanks for everything, but we outta go now.”
“Alright,” she took the rat’s hand and they shook. “Good bye Quackerjack, it’s been cool,” She extended her hand to him and he grabbed it, stood up and shook it. He asked, “Mind if we visit anytime?”
“No, I don’t mind. Just make sure I’m here. Here call me before you come over,” She gave them each a piece of paper with her number on it. “I’m not listed, so it’s ok,”
“Smart,” Quacky approved.
“Well, good-bye,”
“Bye,” the guys said, then reluctantly left.

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“WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU TWO BEEN??!!!!” Negaduck screeched.
Megavolt, one of the cringing villains, spoke up in stuttered sentences, “We, well, we g, got arr, arrested,” Then Quackerjack spoke up, “But we got out!”
Back to Megavolt, “A, and we stayed at this other villain’s p, place,”
“And now we’re back here,”
Negaduck, who was impatiently tapping his foot stopped and circled his cowering prey. “And, WHO might this be?”
“H, her name’s Ja Tarra!”
“She planned the entire get away!”
“A GIRL??!!!!” Negaduck stood, shocked.
“W, well, yeah,”
“Oh GREAT!” the masked mallard threw his hands up and walked away from his co-horts. “Just what we needed, a GIRL trying to be a villain!”
“But boss,” Bushroot spoke up. “We DO have female villains in the business!”
“That’s not the POINT, Veggie!! It’s the fact of OTHERS TRYING to be villains, you moron!!” He turned to Megavolt and Quackerjack. “Get her here! NOW!!!”
Megavolt and Quackerjack scramble out of the hideout and head back to Ja Tarra’s place. “We outta call her, she said we had to before we drop by.”
“Alright, here’s a payphone,” Megavolt picks up the receiver and digs out 25 cents from his pocket, places it into the slot and dials her number. “Hey, we gotta come over to get you……Why? Because Negaduck wants to meet you, and believe me, that’s a BAD thing……We’ll be over soon, k?……..Alright, bye.” He hangs up the phone and the two villains start walking.

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“Hi, what took you so long?” the cat asked.
“We walked it from the hideout here,”
“Oy, you outta be tired!”
“Yeah,” Megavolt sighed tiredly.
“Tell you what, I’ll drive you to your hideout, k?”
“Oh that sounds great!” Quackerjack said gratefully.
As they walked down to her car she apologized, “Sorry that I live on the top floor, guys,”
“Oh, it’s alright, as long as get to rest for a while after climbing all those stairs,”

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They guided her to their hideout and climbed the stairs in the abandoned building. Quackerjack peered in the doorway at the top then began to walk into the room. Megavolt and Ja Tarra followed in. They heard Quackerjack introduce Ja Tarra. He stepped aside so his boss could see her. What she saw was a dark figure standing in the shadows.
“So you’re Ja Tarra?”
“Yeah, what’s it to ya?” she said threateningly.
“You are the one who got these two out of jail?”
“Yeah,”
He started to walk towards her. “You are the one who let the same two stay at you place?!”
“Point, Negaduck?! Get to the point.” she snapped, letting her eyes glow threateningly in the dim light.
“What the hell is the matter with you?!” he hissed. “A true villain NEVER lets another know where they sleep!”
“Says you! I feel I can trust them! And I could care less what you think!!”
“You do realize that there is more than one way to skin a cat, don’t you?”
The cat’s eyes narrowed and gleamed brighter as her temper grew and she pulled back her lips to reveal her fangs. Letting out a deep and threatening growl the villains around her backed up a step or two. Negaduck studied her with a grimace on his face. Then out of nowhere, Ja Tarra took a swipe at the duck standing before her with sharp claws. Negaduck barely dodged in time only to get his clothes shredded. “Hey! Watch it, witch!” He looked himself over and discovered his outfit ruined. “Ooh, you’re gonna pay for that!!” he growled as his eyes gleamed pure hatred. He pulled out a Magnum and started shooting at her, but she kept dodging, gracefully and skillfully. She managed to get a hold of the phone cord and used it like a whip to snatch the gun away. He cursed her out and pulled a knife out on her.
In heat of his anger, Negaduck lunged at her and she flipped over him and pinned his knife welding hand behind his back, but not hurting him with it, and with her other arm restrained his neck.
“What the..!”
“Drop the knife Negs!”
“In your dreams, cat!!”
She threatened him with his own knife by jabbing it gently to his back. He let go of the weapon and awaited his fate. She was too strong for him and she had the height advantage. “Well, thanks to your association to this little spit fire, you two knobs are out of a job!” Negaduck said to Megavolt and Quackerjack.
“What! Negaduck, you are such an asshole!!!” She shoved him into the nearest wall and he hit it hard. He hit the ground had too and as he propped himself up they could see blood on his bottom lip. He attempted to get up.
“DAMN!” Ja Tarra cursed.
“W, what?” Megavolt whimpered.
“He’s not unconscious!” She went over to the dazed duck and went to kick him, but he dodged, causing her foot to go through the wall. He moved to get his hits in with the fight but even with her foot stuck Ja Tarra dodged.
As Negaduck went to punch her another time, she blocked it and restrained him as she freed her foot. Ja Tarra launched Negaduck into a wall and he dazedly got to his knees. She yanked him to his feet, slammed him against the wall again then gave him a violent punch to the head. Negaduck fell to the floor again and landed on his side and slid a few inches. Wincing in pain, he moved to get up, but the infuriated cat came over again and slammed him against the nearest wall then across the room. Crashing into the table, he fell limp and stopped moving.
The Fearsome Four looked between their defeated boss and his attacker scared and worried that they were next. Ja Tarra calmed down, her fur smoothing out, and looked at the others. Saying innocently she said, “He had it coming!”
They stared at each other a minute longer then Ja Tarra said, “C’mon guys, lets get outta here!” Ja Tarra set out with Megavolt close at hand then Quackerjack following.
Bushroot took half a step towards them and spoke, “Say, c, could we come too?”
Ja Tarra stopped and turned around. “Sure, if you like,”
Bushroot trotted to catch up with the others and The Liquidator followed.

They were hanging out at The Old Haunt and talked about “work” and such. The guys realized that Ja Tarra was really a nice person, but if you tick her off, you’re dead meat.
“So, Ja Tarra, where’d you learn to fight like that?” Quackerjack asked.
“Oh, everywhere. On the street and in school and home.”
“Everywhere?!” Bushroot exclaimed.
“Villain with fighting experience will kick the butts of everyone, including that of the great Negaduck!” The Liquidator summarized.
“Ssh! Well, don’t spread the news around!” Ja Tarra hissed.
“Why not? No one’s been able to do that before! You’d be every villain’s hero!” Megavolt explained.
“Yeah, but then again, every other villain might want a shot at me too!! And I don’t have any weapon experience!!”
“Oh! Oops!”
“Saright,” she quickly said. “You four promise to keep this amongst yourselves?!”
“Yeah, sure Ja Tarra.” Bushroot promised. The others nodded in agreement.
“Don’t you worry! Your secret’s safe with us!” the jester said.
“Thanks you guys.” She got up to leave. “Well, I’ll see you around?”
“Yeah, why not?!”
“Umm, Ja Tarra,” Megavolt whispered.
“What?”
“Can I come with you to your place?”
This came as a shock to the cat that he wanted to go with her, but she agreed anyway.

In her car they talked. “I never knew you could do that with telephone cords!!”
Ja Tarra laughed.
“That was so cool!”
“So, why did you want to come over, Megs?”
“Oh, uh, see, when you were fighting with the boss, Quacky and I were talking. He said I should go over your place again and…uh” he stopped his
thought. “Never mind.”
“No, it’s alright, you can say it.”
“Well, just to, I don’t know…It’s a stupid idea, I shouldn’t have asked! I’m sorry…”
“Naw, I had to give you something anyway!”
“Really? What?”
She smiled. “You’ll see!”

When they got back Ja Tarra headed over to a closet and brought out a couple of large sacks. “Here, these are for you!”
“What’s in them?”
“Light bulbs!!”
His face absolutely lit up (sorry for the pun) with joy thinking that as she does her villainy, in addition, she helps free light bulbs too!! He was so happy and excited that he lost himself and hugged her. Ignoring the gasp of surprise from her, he continued to smile happily and hug her shoulders. “Oh Ja Tarra! This is the best thing anyone’s ever done for me!! Thank you!!”
“Sure thing, Megs,” In return, she hugged him, but briefly because he had pulled away and gazed in amazement at all the precious appliances. “Do you suppose you could drive all of us over to my place?”
“Ok… ‘All of us’?”
“Yeah! You, me, and the light bulbs! You do realize that they’re now free now because of you, don’t you?”
“Umm,”
“You didn’t free them just to get on my good side, did you?!” He seemed to be gettingdissappointed.
“Heh, Megs, chill! I free other things too!”
“Like what?!” he crossed his arms, waiting for a good excuse.
“Stuffed animals!”
He looked at her cock-eyed. “You free stuffed animals? From WHAT??!”
“From toy stores! There are some that plead to be freed and I free them!”
“You don’t free them all?”
“No, ‘cause they don’t want to be freed by me! They want others to do it!”
“Children? Other kids free them?!”
“Yeah!! How’d you know?”
“That’s as bad as how Quacky is!”
“Well, I guess we’re all on a mission for one thing or another, huh?”
“Yeah. Can we go now?”
“Ok, I’ll grab some, and you grab some, k?”
“Yeah!” The two of them horded the light bulbs to Megavolt’s lighthouse.
After they got the bags up to the control room, Ja Tarra saw how serious he was with saving light bulbs. “Wow! Have any of them ever broken or …”
“Not too frequently, but unfortunately it does happen.” He said sadly. They’re here to re-energize. Their enslavement weakened them and they couldn’t make their escape. C’mon, lets get these in place!” And the two of them took a long time to get all the light bulbs that Ja Tarra stole in place.

“Whew! Wow, that was a work out!”
“Thanks for your help! This would’ve taken me days to do!”
“Sure thing,” She started to walk away, but Megavolt snatched her wrist. She turned to see what was up.
“Thanks, thanks a lot.” He said in a tone that was quieter than how he usually talks. He shook her hand and smiled dreamily at her as she returned a smile. “Sure, anytime!” The moment seemed to last forever for Megavolt. Unfortunately for him, Ja Tarra broke the moment. “Say, Megs, I outta go; I got stuff to do, k? I had a nice time here! Thanks!”
“Yeah, I had a good time too. If you must go, I understand. Off to do non heinous crimes?”
“Yeah, maybe. Well, see ya!”
He sadly waved good-bye as she descended the stairs. “*sigh*”

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”Oh my sweet darling, you’re the transister of true love!”
“Megs?” came an interrupting voice.
“Uh,”
“What are you doing?”
Quackerjack caught Megavolt with a wanted picture of Ja Tarra that had a heart drawn around it. “NOTHIN’!!”
“ ‘Nothin’’, huh? What’s this?!” He snatches away the picture.
“Hey! Give it back!”
“Ooh hoo hoo! Ja Tarra?! Megs! You like her, don’t you?!”
“No! Don’t be absurd!”
“C’mon! I heard you whisper sweet nothings at her picture, for crying out loud!!”
“I did not!!”
“If you like her that much, tell her!”
“I can’t! She’ll hate me if I do!”
“Megs, we’ve known her for half a year now! Only recently has her picture come out! ‘Sides, I know she likes you too!”
“WHAT??!”
“Yep! I can see it in her eyes when I talk to her about you!”
“Really?”
“Yeah!”
“Yeah, well you know that I can’t just go up to her and propose!!”
“ ‘Course not!! So what are you gonna do?”
“I’ll think of something, if my name isn’t Megavolt!” he said deeply.

“…And after I lure Dipwing into my clutches I’ll destroy him, impress Ja Tarra, and take over St. Canard all at once!!   He cackled insanely.
“Not if I have anything to say about it, Sparky!!” Darkwing came and intrupted the villain’s joy.
“Don’t call me ‘SPARKY’!!!”
“I’m putting an end to your evading, electrical escapade!!”
“Ooh says you!! I got a better idea!”
“And that would be?”
Megavolt smiles evilly and takes out a remote with one big red button, a white button, and a joystick. “Say cheese!” He pushed the white button and a flash blinded Darkwing. Using the joystick, Megavolt maneuvers the once unseen grapple down to catch a hold of the dazed duck. Once lifted above the floor, Megavolt brings Darkwing over to a platform and sets him down. After the grapple is out of the way, he presses the red button.
As Darkwing rubs his eyes clear he looks up to see an object falling at him and he screams. Cringing, he contracts his limbs just as it engulfs him. After a moment he pops open one eye and looks around. Darkwing finds himself in a giant light bulb!! Jumping to his feet, he put his hands to the glass, but can’t shake it down.
“What are you doing?” came a feminine voice.
“Ah, come to see me vanquish the hero?!”
“Actually, I was hoping you’d be ransoming off the cities power supply!”
“Oh really??”
“Yeah,”
“Oh, well, sorry, no. But I AM about to do away with this annoying duck!!”
“I see. But how are you going to do it with him in there?”
“You’ll see!!”
Before anything else could happen, the Tunderquack suddenly soared low and removed the glass covering restricting Darkwing.
“Oh darn,” Megavolt muttered under his breath.
“Thanks LP!” Darkwing called to the plane. “And now for you. Hiiiiyyyyy yyyyyyaaaaa!!” Darkwing kicked the remote from the rat’s hands and did a round house to knock the villain down.
Megavolt landed hard and slid near the edge of the building. He tried to get up to fight, but Darkwing was quicker and was upon him in an instant. They fought for the ray gun and it slid a distance away and stopped. The guys looked at each other a second, then Megavolt dashed to get at the weapon, and Darkwing went to stop him. In the mad scramble Ja Tarra didn’t want to anger Megavolt by doing something he didn’t want so she stayed out of it. It just so happened that Megavolt got the gun and he jumped to his feet and pointed it at the duck. In return, Darkwing whipped out his gas gun and they pointed their weapons at each other a second. “You’ve interfered with my plans for the last time, Darkwing!! Now you’re gonna fry!!!”
“Not if I can help it, Sparky!!”
“AND STOP calling ME SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Alright…Sparky,” Darkwing taunted.
“YAAAAA!!!!!!” Megavolt screamed. “That’s IT, DUCK!!” Megavolt began to shoot randomly at Darkwing and the duck kept dodging. Once Darkwing lost Megavolt, he aimed his gun at him and was about to fire. Someone tapped on the duck’s shoulder. He turned around confused, and saw Ja Tarra, but not for long because she punched him and he spun out of his hiding spot.
Megavolt spun around confused, hearing the punch and saw Darkwing fall to the floor and saw Ja Tarra come out. He went over to the unconscious duck and hefted him up by the collar then went over to the edge of the roof. With Darkwing’s head limp to one side, when he fluttered his eyes open, he saw the depths below and snapped to.
“Ah, so glad of you to join the living, for now!” Megavolt said, evilly.
“Eh, M, Megavolt, maybe we can make a deal here? Huh?”
“Hmm. What do you think, Ja Tarra?”
“I say drop him. I wanna see if birds fly,”
“You wouldn’t! Murder won’t let the law get you off so easy!!”
“Who cares?” Ja Tarra said.
The villains laugh and Darkwing realizes that they’re serious and he slaps the electrical rat’s hands off him and grabs his jump suit, but Megavolt shoved the masked mallard. The duck looses his balance and starts to lean backwards, taking Megavolt with him. They both start to fall off the edge, but just in time, Ja Tarra leaps to blindly grab the rat’s gloved hand. She can’t keep her grip with the hand slipping out of the glove with the duck hanging on for dear life at Megavolt’s feet.
“Ja Tarra! Don’t let me fall!!” the rat pleaded.
“I can’t hold you! There’s too much weight!” She looked deep into his scared eyes. Somewhere, she had found the strength to try and hoist both of them up. It was no use and they slid back down to where they started. She was getting weak and the dangling duo continued to slip away.
Getting furiated with the duck, Ja Tarra said, “Darkwing, you’ve been nothing but trouble!! Go away!!” With balance and great strength, she stretched herself to grab Megavolt’s ray gun and pointed it at the duck below.
“What are you doing??!!!! You’ll hit me, Ja Tarra!!” Megavolt pleaded.
“Don’t worry! I’m a crack shot!!”
As she aimed, Darkwing knew he’d have a better chance of survival with the water below than a gun with a crack shot. Darkwing let go of Megavolt’s boot, just as she fired at him and plummeted to the depths below. Both villains watched the duck fall and splash into the dark, cold water, then got their train of thought back and Ja Tarra lifted Megavolt up and to safety.
Both sat on the roof for a while, tired.
“This must be my luck night! Not only did we dunk Darkwing like a doughnut, but I captivated the coil of my dreams,” Megavolt said to himself.
They looked at each other and hugged. When they realized what they were doing they stopped and looked at each other again. Panting, they talked. “W, what did we just do, Ja Tarra?”
“I, I think we hugged, Megavolt,”
“W, why?”
“I’m glad you’re alright; that’s why,”
“Why are you glad I’m alright?”
“Uh…” she was speechless. “Oh whatever!” They hugged each other again and for longer this time. Megavolt’s reaction was that of the unexpected; he hugged her tighter. “Ja Tarra?”
“Mmm, Yeah?”
“I’m glad you’re alright too,”
She released her grip and looked at him. They looked into each other’s eyes for a long time. The next thing they knew they were drawing nearer and nearer to one another. Their eyes shut and then their lips touched; hands wrapping around one another as they embraced, kissing.
The End?