Ducktales: Journey To Agartha - Act 2

Chapter 27: Glomgold's Cockroach Tears

Gloria has been trapped in a coffin for hours? Days? She wasn't sure and she was trying her best not to think about it too much. The idea of more and more time passing made her believe that she was truly going to be buried alive and die from suffocation. At first Gloria didn't mind being in a coffin at all! She just took it as an opportunity to take a well deserved nap without any interruptions. After waking up and not knowing how long she had been asleep made her paranoid and her anxiety levels were now through the roof. She tried clawing her way out but the wood was too thick. She tried screaming out of desperation although she knew she was underground. Gloria has been lucky to cheat death for 49 chapters now but she felt that her luck had finally worn out.

Just as she was about to start screaming again, the coffin opened to reveal a smirking Steelbeak looking down at her. She was still in a bit but she hadn't even heard people digging her up. He waved at her. "Good morning, camper."

Gloria covered her eyes from the sun and didn't respond to Steelbeak. She honestly had no idea that she would even see the light of day again and all of the PTSD in her brain trying to process what is going on isn't helping.

"Missed the sun? Yeah, it's pretty nice to look at, yeah?" He pointed toward the sky. "Anyway, you're in luck! I've come to the conclusion that you are of no use to me anymore."

"...what?" Her voice was scratchy from screaming and dehydration.

Steelbeak shrugged. "I already got the information I needed from your dear friend, Ellie." He lied. The truth was he knew Gloria was too stubborn to ever give in and he was fed up with her. Ellie, on the other hand, was much easier to break. "Speaking of which..." He pulled out a waddle flash drive and threw it at Gloria. It obviously wasn't Ellie's but she didn't know that. Messing with her was just plane fun. "I erased all her data and memories so there will be no restoring her, but I figured you would want to keep it anyway."

Gloria slowly sat up in the coffin and picked up the flash drive and immediately started crying. "YOU'RE A FUCKING LIAR! ELLIE CAN'T BE DEAD!"

"Liar?" He raised a brow. "Look at what you're holding."

She clutched the flash drive to her chest and cried harder. Gloria wasn't sure how much more of this she could take.

"Oh save it. It's just a robot." He scoffed. "Anyway, I have more important things to do so I'm just going to send you off to do some forced labor until I get the rest of your little gang together for execution. Sound good?"

"Fuck you!"

"Yeah yeah. I get it. You hate me." He turned to snap his fingers. "God Bots, you mind taking her away to do her new work environment?"

Two God Bots nodded, jumping into the grave to take Gloria into custody. She started screaming, kicking and struggling as much as she could but their grip tightened and the pain was seering, but she held onto the flash drive for dear life.

As Steelbeak was waving a goodbye he said one more thing. "You should probably remember this site because it's soon going to be your permanent home."

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Mark, yawned, taking off his golden silk face mask. Morning already? Damn, he slept like a baby. As always, he immediately took out his phone to start tweeting. "Yo, Ellie, get me a Pop Tart." When she didn't respond he looked over to the other side of the bed where Boyd was sleeping. "Still gone? Damn." He shrugged it off and began taking more selfies with dog filters and peace signs.

He did have a minor freakout about it last night, but there was no way she left the mansion. Gyro was right about one thing in his goddamn life. Miss Glamour's mansion was so huge that they probably just got lost and would find their way back shortly. Mark had done that countless times and still did it.