I wake up to hear someone talking in a hushed voice across the hall and decide to investigate. I sneak across the hall silently and peek inside my brothers’ room to find Louie talking to someone on the phone.
The second he hangs up the call, I ask, “Who were you talking to?”
Louie jumps, saying in a nervous voice, “Uh, nobody you know!”
I raise an eyebrow in suspicion and curiosity, and Louie sighs, admitting, “Ok, fine. I was calling someone so she can teach me to be a better businessman.”
I keep my eyebrow raised for a moment, then smile, saying, “Alright, cool. Can I join you? She must be smart if she’s gone into business for herself.”
Louie rolls his eyes, saying, “Fine. Just this one time.”
I shrug, following him to Uncle Scrooge’s office where he said the lady, Goldie, would meet him. She eventually arrives, and she sits down in Uncle Scrooge’s office chair and turns it around before telling us to hide. She said Scrooge’ll be back soon and she wants to surprise him. I guess they know each other somehow.
After a few minutes of waiting, we hear Uncle Scrooge’s voice in the hall, “I’ve checked the whole blasted mansion. What can it be?”
Goldie tosses one of Uncle Scrooge’s coins in the air when he enters the room, then turns the chair around, calmly greeting him, “Morning, Scroogey.”
Uncle Scrooge exclaims, “Goldie?! What’re you doing here?!”
Louie and I come out from behind the window curtains, and Louie says, “She’s with me.”
I add, “And I’m just here to hang out with Louie.”
We walk into the hallway, and Uncle Scrooge angrily exclaims, “Why?! How?! Why?!”
Louie responds, “Your whole ‘work really hard, make money square’ thing doesn’t really work for me. Goldie’s ‘make money easy with no downsides’ works much better with the Louie Incorporated brand.”
I mutter, “What the heck’s Louie Incorporated?”
Goldie reaches for something on a shelf, and Uncle Scrooge shoves her hand away, saying, “Hands off, you common thief.”
She instead sneaks a hand into Uncle Scrooge’s pocket and nabs a few coins, holding them in her open palm.
Uncle Scrooge snatches the coins back, adding, “Don’t let her get too close, kids.”
Louie leads Goldie and I back toward his room, stating, “Oh, please. I’m a professional! I can handle this.”
The second we get to Louie’s room, Goldie jumps us, locking Louie in an empty treasure chest and tying me to a chair. Mom taught me how to escape capture when I was much younger, so I could easily get out of this, but I’m honestly curious what Goldie’s up to as I watch her grab little trinkets from Louie’s desk.
Louie exclaims from inside the chest, “How did this go so wrong so quickly?!”
I say, “I don’t know, you’re the one who invited her. I’m just kinda here for the chaos now.”
Goldie grabs a large golden idol from Louie’s desk and puts it in her purse, saying, “Rule number one, kids; if you want to pick a pocket, you’ve gotta get close.” She steps on a creaky floorboard and kicks the rug off of it, opening the floorboard to investigate as she adds, “Better luck next time, rookies.”
Louie takes offense to that, exclaiming, “Rookie?! I’ll have you know I am the evil quadruplet, okay?”
Goldie mocks as she roots through his wastebin, “Sure, you’re the scariest bunny in the pet shop. Let me guess, you see all the angles? You’re sharper than the sharpies? Didn’t see this angle, Sharpie.”
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DuckTales: The Moon
Hayran KurguMy name is Clover Duck. My mom accidentally took my egg with her on the rocket, and we got stuck on the moon. I've only ever seen the vast nothing of the moon, but the colors on Earth look like they would be beautiful. Mom and I chew a gum called Ox...
