Break the ice (Mighty ducks x reader)

25. Boredom vs action

Thrash and Mook acted very suspicious. They kept talking to Dive but to me, they didn't even exchange a single word. Even as Nosedive said my name, not a single sign of movement in my direction. It got even worse as they got the young duck into a conversation, while I noticed how long we been walking around the village. The arcade can't be so far away for crying out loud! I felt really unsure as we stood at the building...the same one we passed three times. How blind are they today? Nosedive didn't seem to see the weird behavior for the two. The arcade was more important to him than anything else, too bad that he had to wait to get in. Since the arcade belongs to the old engineer, they needed his keys to open the doors. In the meantime, we had to wait for them to return.

To kill time, we played rock, papers and scissors.

It was already getting dark and we already were playing for an hour. After that, I didn't want to hear the three words for the next few months. The biggest surprise was, that Wild wing appeared. He didn't look happy, more concerned about something. He felt that something wasn't right in this town. Not only the town, I thought to myself. Even their device on the wrist was disturbed by something, making it unable to take contact to the other ducks. For Nosedive another sign, that the humans wanted to get rid of them. Through a tracking device, the goalie could find Duke nearby. I wanted to join him, but Wild wing finds it for the best if I stay with Dive.

The minute his beak opened, I stopped him, "...if you dare say one of those three words...I break your hands."

Nosedive closed his mouth quickly, just leaning against the wall, "so, now what?"

"We wait"

"Oh come on N/A, this old man won't come here in the middle of the night"

"You bet?" pointing my finger down the road, we both say a figure coming closer. It was the old engineer, but without Thrash and Mookie. Anyhow, he opened the doors to the arcade, at least one good thing happened today. At least that was it for a moment. One peek inside the arcade and we both had the same thought. It was old and had 'boring' written all over it. Despite all that, we had another thing coming our way and these were another bunch of humans. We knew them from this morning, but their eyes were glowing red. It didn't take long to realize, that those humans were actually robots, programmed to capture Nosedive. Why him? Because they just went passed me, grabbing the young duck by his arm. Now I know why thrash and Mook didn't react to me, but what can I do now to save him? Dive had the answer already, opening his device. Wild wing told us about ht effect it had on chip as he tried out his own. It seems that it causes them some sort of pain, as they held their heads, releasing Nosedive. The escape was pretty quick. In one go, he activated his shoes into skates, grabs me around the waist and jumped into the cellar of the mayor's estate.

This day turned even more bizarre.

Inside the cellar, were several coffins? They looked more from a sci-fi movie, where aliens might pop out f them any moment, but in this case, we knew the people inside. The villagers from before, the real ones I assume. Nosedive opened the one that Mallory spoke to this morning, finding out about the hidden secret of this village. Someone had put them all to sleep and replaced the people with robots.

"But who would take so much work to replace the village with robots?"

I looked over to Dive. He shrugged, "Beats me."

Opening the next capsule, Mookie woke up. Nosedive wasn't sure if it was the real one, as he waved his and towards me, "Hey N/A, long time no see"

I sweat dropped, "It is him alright"

"So who is responsible for your little beauty sleep?" The old man from before gave us the hint, that the smoke they breathed in came from the old engineer's workshop, also known as pop's garage. On our way there, we guessed who caused all this. My money was on Dr. Droid, because of all the robots in Sunnyville. He wouldn't have trouble to build so many of them, especially when he got the right factory for it. Nosedive just guessed humans as the culprit, remembering the interview on TV.

No one expected this insane guy to be the one responsible for all this.

Through a small window, we saw Wild wing, Mallory and Duke tied against boards. Dr. Pretorius took off his disguise and began to explain his plans for the ducks. Being successful with his invention, so he can claim fame and fortune, he even works together with Lord Dragaunus, who helped him controlling the village. I had enough of this, "Come one Dive, let's get cracking...oh no."

First we got to get passed a bunch of robots.

Dive didn't have enough strength to defeat them all alone. Although they didn't attack me, I couldn't prevent them to capture the duck. Only with the help of the real villagers we had a chance. For once, I heard Dive compliment the human race.

"You can tell them that in person later on, but first we got to help the others."