For Every Action, There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction

Chapter 7

The weight caused the plane to start tilting again and a lot of the things in the plane slid towards the jeep and bumped into it.

"LAUNCHPAD!" Scrooge shouted, "You need to counterbalance the plane! Everyone to the front!"

Mrs. Beakley glared at him but obeyed.

"Go! Go! Go!" She instructed the kids and they all ran to the other side of the plane.

While running, the crate with all the secrets started sliding towards them. Mrs. Beakley stopped it and let the kids run ahead.

"What is in here!?" She asked.

"NOTHING!" The kids shouted.

Eventually, everyone was safe. Scrooge had saved Launchpad and the plane wasn't tilting anymore. However, Scrooge was giving Dewey, Louie, and Webby a lecture about being safe and everything.

Suddenly, Dewey saw the paper fly and land under a chair. He cautiously walked over to grab it, but stopped once Scrooge announced, "From here on out, YOU HAVE TO STAY PUT!"

Dewey looked over at the paper and slowly stepped backwards, causing the plane to shake.

"...Great..." Dewey sighed.

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"There's the missing piece! We just have to get it! Come on! That puzzle piece may be our best chance to find out why Della disappeared!" Dewey exclaimed.

All three of them were sitting on some seats now, unable to do anything.

"Maybe..." Webby whispered.

"Beg your pardon?" Dewey asked.

"It's just... You said that in the archives, and on Ithaquack, and... How can we know for sure?"

"By Grabbing the piece! Guys, this is the greatest mystery of our lives!"

"We can't solve it if we're dead!" Louie responded.

"We'll be fine! Scrooge isn't going to let anything bad happen to us!" Dewey explained, getting up from his seat and slowly walking away.

"STOP MOVING!" Scrooge shouted.

Dewey sat back down.

"See?"

"This couldn't get any worse!" Louie whined.

And then, "This is your captain. To take your minds off our potentially grim fate, please enjoy another action-packed Darkwing Duck video!"

The TV came back down, but once the credits finished, they repeated.

"The tape player seems to have been damaged in the crash... Enjoy!"

Sometime later, Louie and Webby were singing along to the theme song, just doing anything to try and cure their boredom. Dewey, on the other hand, was done with having to just sit around when the answers he was looking for were right in front of him.

"I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" He shouted. "I'm going for it!"

Dewey got out of his seat and ran towards the front of the plane, where the piece of paper was. The plane did begin to tilt, but Dewey didn't care. He had worked so hard to find out what happened to his mother and he wasn't going to stop now. Not when they were so close to figuring out the truth!

"DEWEY!" Louie and Webby shouted in unison.

"DEWEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!? SIT BACK DOWN RIGHT NOW!" Scrooge shouted at him.

Dewey just tuned them out. They didn't understand, they didn't know how he felt! He ran up to the chair and finally grabbed the piece of paper.

"FINALLY!" He shouted.