The Light of the Moon

Chapter 11:

"What are we gonna do?!" Huey yelled, throwing his hands to his head and slightly pulling at his hair.

"Everybody stay calm, we'll find a way out~" Scrooge tried reassuring the kids that there panic was not needed, however, Della unsuspectingly cut him off.

"No." She spoke sternly, standing up and looking out the window of the ship at the approaching Lunaris.

"What?" Everyone questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"I said no. If we can't get out of here then we're not leaving without a fight." She spoke, lifting her sleeves and furrowing her eyebrows.

"She's right." Donald spoke, also looking towards Lunaris and his determined soldiers. "Everyone grab whatever you can, we're fighting our way out of here." Donald started looking around the ship for anything he could use as a weapon.

He may not admit it much, but his sister had a point. They had gone so far, searched ten years and finally found the triplets mother. They have come so far. They risked their lives just to get her back and there's no way they're giving up now.

Scrooge ushered the kids to go find whatever they can but just as he did, the ship shook violently while Lunaris and his soldiers began to climb it.

"They're here!" Penumbra warned.

"Everyone ready your weapons!" Della instructed, holding a metal pipe in front of her as she stood firmly in front of her kids. "I'll die before I let anyone get hurt." She furrowed her eyebrows and clenched her hands tightly around the pipe.

"I will fight for my family, I will fight for my friends and I will fight for Earth. I'm not giving up again." She turned around to her family and lowered her pipe. "This is our home and our people. We can't let Lunaris take that away. Huey, Dewey, Louie, you didn't fight for the truth and almost risk your lives trying to find me to give up, did you? No, you didn't and I didn't fight for ten years trying to get to you boys just to give up now." She turned around, clenching the pipe tighter then before. "If he wants to hurt my family, my friends, my planet, he's going to have to get through me. I will never give up."

"Neither will I." Penumbra stepped forward, holding her gun at the ready. "You're. My. Friend. And whether you like it or not, I'm sticking with you to the end." She smiled, taking Della's hand. "I'm with you, Della."

Della smiled back and looked at their hands. "Thanks Penny." She said, replacing her hand on the pipe. "Now let's do thi~" The ship began to shake violently, almost knocking everyone off their feet.

"Everyone hold on!" Scrooge warned, holding the kids tight.

The rocket shook harder than it did when leaving the atmosphere of Earth.

"I don't know how much longer it can hold!" Donald shouted. "Maybe this isn't such a good idea!" He said.

Donald of all people wasn't one to give up, he was a fighter, a vicious angry, protective fighter. For his family, he would go to space and beyond, and that he did for he wasn't just a fighter but a friend, a nephew, a twin ...... a father.

"What? No! We've come so far! We can't give up no-woah!" Della slipped, dropping the pipe as the moonlanders got further up the ship.

"Whatever we do, we better do it now!" Penny shouted, throwing whatever she could out the window to slow her fellow moonlanders.

"Della ..." Scrooge stepped forward, gently putting his hand to her head and holding her cheek. "It's okay to give up, lass."

"No! No it's not! I gave up a long time ago and look where it got us! What do you thinks gonna happen if we give up now?!" She yelled, tears forming in her eyes. "I'm not letting anyone get hurt! I-I just got you guys back, I can't lose you again!" She yelled, collecting her pipe from the ground and holding it firmly in front of her again.