Misunderstood

Chapter 18

When the team finally arrived at the location, they can see the site that Prince Tweetums had mentioned from below and landed their ship 5 miles away so that they won't be spotted easily.

Then, after all of them quickly got off the ship, they initially formed themselves into small groups except for Ace, who decided to go over there himself before the others can begin to strike at Deuce and them.

"I should go first. Just to make sure he's okay and then when I give out the signal, you guys can come in afterwards." Ace said as the bundle of them nodded in agreement.

"Okay, we'll right behind you." Lexi said as the team then immediately stayed put from afar until they were given the signal while Ace made his way over to the edge of the base, which was a factory like facility and called out for Duck, hoping that he'll respond.

"Duck! Are you in there?! Say something! Anything! Look, I don't want us to fight anymore. Just please.... come home with us." Ace begged and waited for an answer.

However, it wasn't until a moment later that he slowly hears a whooshing sound and turns his head over at the front entrance to see Duck floating appearance from the shadows of the door and widen his eyes nervously.

He noticed that Duck's form had gotten to be much stronger than last time and way more powerful than he thought that it would be.

Instead of a fire glow that covered him up entirely with red eyes.

It had now morphed to an engulfing black hole with flashes of dark violet energy circling around him, with his eyes turned completely black, just as Pinkster had described.

His anger had created an energy so destructive that even one small mistake could possibly cost him his life.

But Ace continued to risk it anyways, if it meant getting his friend back and listened as it was now Duck's turn to respond.

"Why? so that I can go back to being a failure. Like I was nothing to you! I don't want your pity! I'm fine right here on my own." Duck yelled out in a fuzzy darker voice.

Ace then took the time to pick his words carefully and pushed on forward.

"No, it's because I miss you. We all do. I never once thought that you were a failure at all. You're a good person and my best friend but most of all, you're more than that to me. I care about you, and I want to make things right with you again, if you'd let me." Ace said as he gave him a warm smile that could only make the rainiest clouds shine bright again.

Incredibly somehow, despite the manipulation forces that are tugging in his mind, Duck was able to snap out of it and flipped his eyes from black to normal green.

Which also, dimmer down his energy bubble as well and tries to speak up to him.

"Ace. I...." Duck was going to say until he sees Deuce from behind Ace and panics.

"Ace! Watch out!" Duck yelled out on time as Ace grabs his sword and clashes the weapon with Deuce's.

Causing Deuce to bounce back in reaction from now what was forming into Ace's own force field.

It seemed that the jewel had given him some new powers to his sword which was a certainly a plus to his advantage.

But while Ace was distracted from Deuce's sudden attack, Sypher had come up close to Duck and puts him back into his manipulation spell again with the light touch on the shoulder, causing the poor guy to once again form his dangerous dark energy bubble.

"Hey! Let him go!" Ace yelled out, which was muffled a little from his own force field that he has surrounded around him.

"Or what?" Sypher asked evilly as Rupes and Ophiuchus came up beside him.