"You look surprised! Is this surprising?"

Open, independent roleplay blog for Zhen from Kung Fu Panda 4 Written by Scout.

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"Ele-what-sity?"

She asked looking at the little doll nailed to the wall of the room, giving a strange vibe.. maybe that kid was more a 5 anyway..

Her face turned into a slighty proud smirk as Webby asked the question about her home. "Oh, originally from Juniper City, you know, one of the biggest cities in all of China.. Most recently though, Valley of Peace. Totally settling in with my new roommates in the.... Jade Palace"

She couldn't help but brag a little, only stopping before mentioning her training to be the next Dragon Warrior.

"Also that would be like, the first time I hear of a rich guy giving something back.. let alone after putting it into his fortress." She huffed, added onto the girl's comment about asking Scrooge directly... Money bin on a whole seperate Island, sounded like someone who really wanted to hold on to their valuables.

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"Ohhhh, China. Neat! I've been to Macaw before, you know, with the family. But never Juniper City."

Nor the Jade Palace... why did that sound familiar? While Webby was a girl with an absolutely fantastic memory for facts about things that she found interesting - most especially history, and also practical survival skills - not even she could retain everything at all times, and it took her a moment to catch on.

When she did, her eyes widened.

"WAIT! The Jade Palace, as in, the home of Kung Fu? I remember reading about it..."

She punched the air in front of her, enthusiasm visibly rising.

"I'd love to someday go there and take on some of its training courses, I've heard they're supposed to be extremely deadly..."

Should she sound so excited about that? Maybe not... but Webby had been trained by Granny to be ready for anything, and had an itch to really prove herself. Taking on the world's most deadly training course sounded less intimidating and more like a good challenge to a duckling who had plenty of combat skills but still only a fraction of experience to match.

Back on the subject, though...

The girl deflated a bit as Zhen raised her objection, and Webby couldn't say that she was exactly wrong. It took extraordinary circumstances indeed for Scrooge to give up any of his hard-earned treasure, but all the same...

"Well, yeah, but. While I'd love to help you find it, I can't exactly agree to help break through all of my honorary uncle's security systems?"

She shuffled her webbed feet, eyes darting around the room as her mind spun to try and find a solution.

"I mean, maybe Scrooge hasn't taken it to the Money Bin yet?"

She wouldn't count on it; but all the same, Scrooge did have a whole garage full of old mementos of his adventures, so it wasn't like he was always organised in immediately packing everything away into the Bin. And it would certainly make for a much easier solution...

"You said you saw him bring it in here, right? If it's still in the mansion, I can scout out for it, if you just wait in here..."

Leaving a stranger alone in her bedroom, Webby knew, was probably not the smartest suggestion she could make... but it was smarter than letting said stranger wander the mansion with her, at any rate, where anyone - from one of the other kids all the way up to the literal ghost butler - could intercept them with awkward questions.

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"Yeah, the training hall.. takes time to get used to.."

Zhen admitted, her mind bringing up the several times she either got stuck, had her tail singed by the fire straps or one of the rebounding training dummies hit back when she first started in there. Part of her didn't think a small duck would last much longer in there but Webby was.. certainly something else.

"Took more to get the feeling of Master Shifu's disapproval out of the way. Sure he'd still prefer Po picked someone else as the next Dragon Warrior."

Part of her wasn't sure if she should have mentioned that, another part was just happy to brag on about it. Then again, folks in Juniper City knew Shifu, but never heard of the Dragon Warrior till then sooo..

Coming back to the Staff shaped issue at hand however....

"Right yeah.. I saw them get out of their... Wagon... "She spoke that part partially questioning this place once again. "...right in front of this palace earlier today.... Didn't see them leave for some money fortress, but I also was busy scouting the place. "

"Well if you wanna look for it, big Jade Staff with a Yin-Yang Symbol at the top. Don't see why I'm supposed to wait here tho... you know, four eyes, right?"

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Zhen would find herself momentarily blinded once all the lights turned on around her, The shock was immediatly followed by another as the rope holding her up was cut, giving her just enough time to unfurl the rope arond her enough to catch the fall with her hands.

Rubbing her eyes briefly as she got stood up she looked at Webby. "Okay, seriously, whats up with the lights? Is this some special torches or magic going on here.

She'd get a betetr view of the room as a whole and almost nothing looked like back home, neither Juniper City or the Jade Palace, the bed certainly looked a lot more comfy than the straw mats or Bamboo leaves she was accustomed to.

She'd get snapped out of looking when Webby asked about the staff. Zhen was unsure if she should mention its magical properties.

"Oh yeah, the Staff, yeah i'd say it's really old, at least I think so.. Po said he got it from his old master and since that guy must've been older than Shifu.. Made form Jade and the top resembles Yin and Yang."

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"What do you mean? They're just clap-on-clap-off lights..."

Actually...

She was starting to piece things together. Webby had, admittedly, been assuming that this fox was just your average (if criminally-inclined) citizen of Duckburg; but the combination of her outfit style - which Webby was only taking stock of clearly for the first time -, seeking an ancient staff, and her apparent unfamiliarity with electric lighting? That started to paint a bit of a different picture.

"Oh, right. No, this is electricity. It's kinda not as impressive as it looks when you've grown up with it, I guess."

Which was kind of a nice lead in to...

"Hey, speaking of growing up, where is it that you come from? It must be a pretty interesting place, right?"

There was a story of some kind there at least, Webby was pretty sure. She wasn't expecting anything as extreme as Amunet and her people having lived inside a pyramid and cut off from the outside world for thousands of years, or even as dramatic as D'jinn's long quest to regain the lamp of his ancestors... although this lady's outfit did remind her of his at least in passing. But any decent story of adventure was exciting to the duck girl, even now that she'd participated in many of her own with the family.

Oh right, the staff. Focus, Webby!

"Uh-huh... if it's valuable and not at all magical," - and she assumed not, since no such detail had been mentioned - "then Scrooge has probably sent it across to his Money Bin, on the island out in the bay. But, uh..."

She fidgeted slightly.

"...maybe we should just go ask him rather than trying to head after it ourselves? I know it can be hard to convince Scrooge to part with treasure once he's got hold of it, but if we can prove to him that it was yours, I'm sure he'd give it back...?"

Something told her this suggestion was going to go down like a lead balloon, but Webby really didn't want to go sneaking around behind her hero's back if she could help it. Scrooge was a reasonable enough duck when you got down to it, right?

(Webby's room ref images, if it helps! [1], [2], [3] ^^)

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"Ele-what-sity?"

She asked looking at the little doll nailed to the wall of the room, giving a strange vibe.. maybe that kid was more a 5 anyway..

Her face turned into a slighty proud smirk as Webby asked the question about her home. "Oh, originally from Juniper City, you know, one of the biggest cities in all of China.. Most recently though, Valley of Peace. Totally settling in with my new roommates in the.... Jade Palace"

She couldn't help but brag a little, only stopping before mentioning her training to be the next Dragon Warrior.

"Also that would be like, the first time I hear of a rich guy giving something back.. let alone after putting it into his fortress." She huffed, added onto the girl's comment about asking Scrooge directly... Money bin on a whole seperate Island, sounded like someone who really wanted to hold on to their valuables.

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Zhen looked at Webby's face entering the light. She still didn't carry some sort of scared facial reaction to the threat, esspecially now..

"Wait wait wait... You're just a kid? Ugh... Monkey will never let me hear the end of this" she groaned. "You know what? Fine, I lost my master's staff while training with it, the old duck found it, took it with him, i followed him here because I need it back. Happy?" she added in a very casual way. The thieve's den back home had 3 completely wild bunny kids and going by her gut, this duckling in comparison was maybe a 4.

"Now will you cut me down? I can feel the blood rush to my head."

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"Well, I... I mean, yeah?"

The observation threw Webby off her own game a bit, too. If she hadn't exactly been hiding the fact that she was a child, she also hadn't planned to draw attention to it either; and her captive was definitely pointing it out in a way that made it sound like this was weird.

Which... well. Webby knew she wasn't exactly a 'normal' kid, it hadn't taken spending long around Huey, Dewey and Louie to realise that her hobbies were a bit out there compared to most others her age. But they'd also come around to reassuring her that there was nothing wrong with that.

"But I've been trained by the best. You're not getting off the hook easily just because I'm-- huh?"

Oh right, well. That persuading had gone easily...?

Feeling a bit wrong-footed now that her interrogation was seemingly over before it could even begin in earnest, the girl could only listen to the intruder's explanation. If her master's staff was something of historical value... well, it wouldn't exactly be out of character for Scrooge, if he found it somewhere, to decide that made it worth keeping safe in one or other of his bins. And a misunderstanding like that was certainly a more valid reason to try and sneak into someone's home than most of his enemies ever had.

It at last sounded reasonable, and Webby was a believe the best in people kind of girl by nature so she wanted to take the explanation as the truth. Experience had told her, however, that it wasn't always that simple.

Where was the harp of Mervana when you needed her? Or even Louie who, cynical as he was, would probably be able to recognise a lie from a mile away? Webby herself, in contrast, was a relentlessly honest girl, and that made it difficult for her to judge when other people weren't being the same.

Still... she'd already proven she could take down the intruder, right? She could always do so again if the fox tried to cause any more trouble, couldn't she? No big deal, right?

"Oh, heh, sure. Let me just get that..."

Hastily clapping her hands to bring the lights back up to their normal brightness, Webby hopped up onto the nearest chair, yanked a wicked-looking dagger from where it had been embedded in her board, and sliced through the rope, dropping her captive to the floor.

"So..."

She clasped her hands in front of her, still clutching the dagger's hilt between them - albeit with the blade pointed relatively safely down at the floor - as if it wasn't a ludicrously dangerous weapon for a duckling her age.

"What sort of staff are we talking about here? Like, ancient and historical, or maybe magical? Because if it's either of those, I probably know where Scrooge would be keeping it."

Maybe she should just ask Scrooge about it though, rather than trying to find it themselves...?

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Zhen would find herself momentarily blinded once all the lights turned on around her, The shock was immediatly followed by another as the rope holding her up was cut, giving her just enough time to unfurl the rope arond her enough to catch the fall with her hands.

Rubbing her eyes briefly as she got stood up she looked at Webby. "Okay, seriously, whats up with the lights? Is this some special torches or magic going on here.

She'd get a betetr view of the room as a whole and almost nothing looked like back home, neither Juniper City or the Jade Palace, the bed certainly looked a lot more comfy than the straw mats or Bamboo leaves she was accustomed to.

She'd get snapped out of looking when Webby asked about the staff. Zhen was unsure if she should mention its magical properties.

"Oh yeah, the Staff, yeah i'd say it's really old, at least I think so.. Po said he got it from his old master and since that guy must've been older than Shifu.. Made form Jade and the top resembles Yin and Yang."

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"Ma Beagle? I heard scarier titles, Lord Shen, General Kai, the, yes THE Chameleon?" And still, What's Beagle even supposed to mean? Some fringe name noone ever heard off?"

She had to think about Po, how his reputation as dragon warrior never even made it to Juniper City, probably something like this.. then again, it was doubtful she even was back home anyway.

"And again, no clue who the Scrooge is supposed to be, but McDuck? With how fancy his palace is I'm not surprised he'd give himself a fancy title as well. And the hard way? Not the first time someone tries to Interrogate me. What are you gonna do, knock me out? Add waiting to the time you'll need to get your information?"

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"Oh, I can do a lot with this other than just knocking you out."

She tossed the mace into the air and caught it easily by the handle again, as if it wasn't even heavy. Not even showing off, since her captive probably still couldn't see her in the shadows; just for her own benefit.

"For instance, do you know how it feels to have every bone in your body broken, one at a time until you talk, while you're still conscious? The secret is to start with the toes and work on up..."

Her tone had at some point slipped away from threatening and into casually conversational instead, as if this was a perfectly everyday subject matter to her. Whether the girl would actually go through with her threats or not might have been the question; but Webby certainly sounded as though she wouldn't think twice about what she was suggesting, if she could talk about it so lightly.

What could she say? Granny had taught her well.

She leaned in close, possibly affording Zhen her first glimpse of her captor as her beak poked slightly into the pool of light. This time, the casual tone was completely gone again.

"I am Webby, bringer of death. I am prepared to haunt your nightmares."

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Zhen looked at Webby's face entering the light. She still didn't carry some sort of scared facial reaction to the threat, esspecially now..

"Wait wait wait... You're just a kid? Ugh... Monkey will never let me hear the end of this" she groaned. "You know what? Fine, I lost my master's staff while training with it, the old duck found it, took it with him, i followed him here because I need it back. Happy?" she added in a very casual way. The thieve's den back home had 3 completely wild bunny kids and going by her gut, this duckling in comparison was maybe a 4.

"Now will you cut me down? I can feel the blood rush to my head."

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The rope prevented Zhen from doing anything but letting the dragging continue, she still couldn't fully make out her foe, but could hear the whaping sound of goose feet... or maybe a duck? The thought of being jumped by someone like Mr Ping just felt embarrasing.

She couldn't linger on that thought for long tho as she felt herself be hoisted up by her legs, not the first time she hung upside down, but the first time tied up. She peeked open her eyes again just as Webby turned on the spotlight, temporarly blinding the fox immediatly, even catching her off guard enough that she didn't even keep up with the feign death masquerade.

"Ugh, what kind of torch is that? she asked out, squinting her eyes in reflex.

When the questioning began, her intial idea was to just lie her way through it but none of the stuff she was asked made enough sense to her to piece together some sort of semi-cohesive story.

She sighed.

"Listen, nobody sent me, I don't know any eagles, matter of fact closest one I know is a crane, and I don't know what a glomgold or scrooge is for that matter. Can I go then?" She said with her usual somewhat dismissive, snarky tone while looking towards the source of the voice.

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Narrowed eyes narrowed still further at the series of entirely unsatisfactory answers she was receiving. If Webby was any read of tone at all, it sounded to her like her captive was playing dumb... a fair tactic, actually, but not one that the girl had any intention of being fooled by.

She did, however, have every intention of clarifying the point, whether the fox genuinely needed it or not.

"I didn't say eagle, I said Beagle." She put extra emphasis on her enunciation. "As in, Ma Beagle, local crime boss? She's not exactly low profile; any local thief worth her salt must know who she is."

It was the next part, though, that really convinced Webby that the would-be thief was trying to make a fool of her.

"Oh, nice try."

She also wasn't staying in one spot: now her voice was coming from the fox's other side as Webby circled her.

"You can't convince me you don't know who Scrooge McDuck is: I just caught you breaking into his home. You can tell me what you're after, or we can do this the hard way."

In passing she snatched up the mace she sometimes kept lying around, bounced its spiked head against the wooden floor with a satisfying THUMP to make her point.

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"Ma Beagle? I heard scarier titles, Lord Shen, General Kai, the, yes THE Chameleon?" And still, What's Beagle even supposed to mean? Some fringe name noone ever heard off?"

She had to think about Po, how his reputation as dragon warrior never even made it to Juniper City, probably something like this.. then again, it was doubtful she even was back home anyway.

"And again, no clue who this Scrooge is supposed to be, but McDuck? With how fancy his palace is I'm not surprised he'd give himself a fancy title as well. And the hard way? Not the first time someone tries to Interrogate me. What are you gonna do, knock me out? Add waiting to the time you'll need to get your information?"

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Zhen kept her ruse up as she heard the steps of her foe come closer, she was about to make her move when she felt her ankle getting grabbed and tied to the other, before she could even react her wrists followed suit

Dang it! she thought, unable to move.. whoever this was she was up against was GOOD. She opened her eyes a little to try and see who it was, by the chance that it wasnt as dark anymore. She just felt herself be dragged down the hall, but from what she could tell... her assailant was certainly of a shorter stature.

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For whatever consolation it was, Zhen would, at least, find herself not being dragged far. Two doors down the hallway, the little duckling stopped, kicked open the door to her bedroom, and pulled her captive inside, shutting the door behind them. It was just as dark in here as out in the hallway; and Webby wasted no time in making in darker still, pulling heavy curtains across the windows to eclipse whatever moonlight might try and sneak in from outside.

With that done, the girl swiftly returned to the rope, agilely looping its free end over one of the ceiling beams and, with an experienced tug, used it to hoist her victim off the ground so she was dangling upside-down.

Tying off the rope securely out of reach, Webby let the fox sweat just a minute more while she made final preparations out of sight; only once that was done did she switched on the brilliant spotlight she'd had installed directly above that beam for this exact purpose. While she continued to lurk in the shadows - albeit discarding her goggles so that she could see her prisoner's face clearly - the idea was not only to wake up the vulpine if she was still out, but to dazzle her with the bright light. Make her feel like she was in an interrogation room.

Because that was exactly what this was.

"Who sent you? Who are you working for? Is it Glomgold? Ma Beagle?"

Keeping up the deliberate growl in her voice, she rattled off the questions without giving her captive the space to respond. Before the nephews had come along and her life experience had expanded dramatically, Webby had spent several hours practicing her interrogation technique on herself in front of a mirror, and it was an art that she still found useful.

"Are you just here wanting to rob Scrooge or are you trying to learn his secrets?" She leaned in as close to the unfortunate thief as she could without actually stepping into the light herself, pitching her voice an octave deeper than it normally went.

"A N S W E R M E."

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The rope prevented Zhen from doing anything but letting the dragging continue, she still couldn't fully make out her foe, but could hear the whaping sound of goose feet... or maybe a duck? The thought of being jumped by someone like Mr Ping just felt embarrasing.

She couldn't linger on that thought for long tho as she felt herself be hoisted up by her legs, not the first time she hung upside down, but the first time tied up. She peeked open her eyes again just as Webby turned on the spotlight, temporarly blinding the fox immediatly, even catching her off guard enough that she didn't even keep up with the feign death masquerade.

"Ugh, what kind of torch is that? she asked out, squinting her eyes in reflex.

When the questioning began, her intial idea was to just lie her way through it but none of the stuff she was asked made enough sense to her to piece together some sort of semi-cohesive story.

She sighed.

"Listen, nobody sent me, I don't know any eagles, matter of fact closest one I know is a crane, and I don't know what a glomgold or scrooge is for that matter. Can I go then?" She said with her usual somewhat dismissive, snarky tone while looking towards the source of the voice.

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Zhen even though Po is training you to become the Dragon Warrior how would you feel if a newcomer hero appears 😐?

"What? You're thinking I'd feel threatened? Po picked me, despite Shifu being clearly against it. Hell, he could have picked any of the Five, or literally anyone else but he picked me anyway..." she thought about it for a moment. "I mean its like he said right? If you know you know"

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Zhen could feel the rope wrapping around her ankles, suffice to say, whoever she was fighting with was in the element, and wasn't bothered by the complete darkness in the hallway whatsoever.

Despire keeping up a fight it was difficult to make out where her opponent was. She used to be able to easily outmanouver most guards in the mansions of Juniper City whenever she had to go for a break-in but this wasn't Juniper City... this might not even be China in the first place.

The rope tightened and even after her training she couldn't defend well against that rope. Her foot was yanked out underneath her and she tripped and fell over, thinking to herself in a split second, she had one last option.

Hitting the floor she feigned unconciousness.. it had worked against the dragon warrior.. it might work now too

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"Ha-ha!"

It was a cry of triumph as much as a laugh, as Webby found her trap successful; the foxy intruder reeled in and crashing to the ground. Score another one for the Guardian of McDuck Manor...

Not that she really thought of herself in such grand terms. But it was fun to imagine sometimes, at least.

Within moments, she was all over the interloper... only to find that it didn't look like she'd be answering any questions anytime soon. Behind her night-vision goggles, the girl squinted. She supposed it didn't really stretch credibility if the fox had either fainted from the stress or been knocked out when she fell over... but none of the other people she'd ever tied up this way had done so. Something wasn't quite adding up...

But that was okay. Just made it easier to drag a non-protesting body off to the interrogation chamber--

By which she meant her bedroom, which was just down the hall.

That would be in just a moment, however: Beakley hadn't taught her granddaughter to be sloppy when it came to taking prisoners. Webby swiftly gathered up the rest of the rope, using it to bind the intruder more securely. Assuming no further resistance, she would proceed to drag her captive a couple of doors down the hallway.

In an ideal world, she wouldn't wake up until she was securely strung upside-down from the ceiling... but they'd just see how that went, Webby supposed. In any case, the child was confident that she had things well in hand.

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Zhen kept her ruse up as she heard the steps of her foe come closer, she was about to make her move when she felt her ankle getting grabbed and tied to the other, before she could even react her wrists followed suit

Dang it! she thought, unable to move.. whoever this was she was up against was GOOD. She opened her eyes a little to try and see who it was, by the chance that it wasnt as dark anymore. She just felt herself be dragged down the hall, but from what she could tell... her assailant was certainly of a shorter stature.

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Duck? That would certainly fit with the one who took the staff away. More of a reason to asume she was in the right place to get it back.

That voice tho... young, but kind of vicious... reminded her of the bunny triplets back at the den. A thought that made her shudder for a moment.

A crucial moment of hesitation as she felt a rope tighten around her ancle. She quickly made one more effort to prevent being caught, spinning her body around, using her free foot to catch and counter-pull the rope but even then.. she wasn't sure how long she could keep this up after traveling what felt like a whole world following the old duck.

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Gotcha--!

Confident grin tugged at one corner of her beak. The spinning, as far as Webby was concerned, was a mistake on the intruder's part: as the fox turned one way, the duckling dashed in the opposite direction, keeping low to the ground and flowing with every jerk of the rope so that it wouldn't pull her over again.

With them both circling in opposite directions, she figured, it would be only a matter of time before the intruder's ankles were fully entangled: and when that happened, all it would take was one good pull on the rope to send the vulpine crashing to the ground.

It took only moments for her to decide that this was coming along well enough; Webby backflipped away from the would-be burglar and, bracing herself, gave the rope the strongest yank she possibly could.

Had she judged rightly, the intruder would be tripped and down in one - in which case Webby would be all over her in moments - but there was of course always the possibility that she had gone for the trip too soon, or that the other was nimbler on her feet than Webby was giving her credit for. In either case--

Well, they'd see in just moments.

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Zhen could feel the rope wrapping around her ankles, suffice to say, whoever she was fighting with was in the element, and wasn't bothered by the complete darkness in the hallway whatsoever.

Despire keeping up a fight it was difficult to make out where her opponent was. She used to be able to easily outmanouver most guards in the mansions of Juniper City whenever she had to go for a break-in but this wasn't Juniper City... this might not even be China in the first place.

The rope tightened and even after her training she couldn't defend well against that rope. Her foot was yanked out underneath her and she tripped and fell over, thinking to herself in a split second, she had one last option.

Hitting the floor she feigned unconciousness.. it had worked against the dragon warrior.. it might work now too

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Zhen, still trying to peer through the darkness but still couldn't make out her foe among the shadows of the different objects she couldn't well make out.

She'd feel something brushing her leg, alongside a little thud... she could tell what this was however... a rope? Not very thick but still...

However before she could react she felt it tighten like a snare around her ankle, almost pulling her off her paws.

She didn't have a knife to cut it through, and it was certainly to thick to cut instantly anyway unless carrying a proper blade, she would need time to undo the knot.

Out of options, she had only one choice, one gamble.. using her free leg she kicked up a part of the rope in order to yank it back herself... she definitely didn't have the raw strength of Po or Tigress but it was this or getting caught in this place with likely no way of rescue.

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"Whoa-!"

The little girl didn't mean to yell, but it had just slipped her beak. This one was a fighty one, no doubts there; Webby had managed to snare all three of the duck triplets this way without the slightest resistance, but clearly that wasn't going to be the case here. She was too experienced to let the jerk on the rope yank it out of her hands, but it was enough to pull her off her feet.

Tucking herself into a ball as she hit the ground, Webby let herself somersault-roll past he intruder, still clutching her end of the rope. Coming up in a crouch, she tossed a loop of rope back under the fox's paws, fully intending to trip her with a snare, still trying to get her off her feet.

"I don't know who you are, but no-one gets into McDuck Manor on my watch!"

She put as much of a threatening growl as she could manage - which was a surprising amount, despite her non-imposing stature - into her voice.

Still clutching the rope, she cracked the knuckles of her fist against her free palm.

"I can take you down the easy way, or the hard way. I'm down for the hard way..."

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Duck? That would certainly fit with the one who took the staff away. More of a reason to asume she was in the right place to get it back.

That voice tho... young, but kind of vicious... reminded her of the bunny triplets back at the den. A thought that made her shudder for a moment.

A crucial moment of hesitation as she felt a rope tighten around her ancle. She quickly made one more effort to prevent being caught, spinning her body around, using her free foot to catch and counter-pull the rope but even then.. she wasn't sure how long she could keep this up after traveling what felt like a whole world following the old duck.

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Whoa, the intruder was fast--

But Webby was confident that she was faster.

Ducking deeper into the shadows, unhindered by the darkness herself due to her goggles, the girl scrutinised the intruder. Not large... looked like she might be a fox person? That would be an uncommon sight in Duckburg, though not unheard of; still, was likely not to be a local.

The Beagle Boys, hiring out of town help, maybe?

She'd find out soon enough.

Expertly swinging her rope like a lasso, Webby flung it with every intention of snaring the vulpine intruder. Assuming success even before she could see for sure, the girl leapt from her hiding place, whirling the rope around and around her target until she would be ideally bound tight.

Was she successful? In just a moment, Webby supposed, she would know; though it was hard to imagine any intruder being a match for the self-proclaimed guardian of McDuck Manor, and she was already eagerly anticipating stringing up her captive in her room and beginning some good old-fashioned interrogation.

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Zhen, still trying to peer through the darkness but still couldn't make out her foe among the shadows of the different objects she couldn't well make out.

She'd feel something brushing her leg, alongside a little thud... she could tell what this was however... a rope? Not very thick but still...

However before she could react she felt it tighten like a snare around her ankle, almost pulling her off her paws.

She didn't have a knife to cut it through, and it was certainly to thick to cut instantly anyway unless carrying a proper blade, she would need time to undo the knot.

Out of options, she had only one choice, one gamble.. using her free leg she kicked up a part of the rope in order to yank it back herself... she definitely didn't have the raw strength of Po or Tigress but it was this or getting caught in this place with likely no way of rescue.

[memedetonator]

☠ ― 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟. (𝑉𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝐶.)

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[notfakingbutmethod]

@outoftheirdifferences

"Great job, Zhen.. Taking Po's staff, messing with it and somehow ending up in this weird place... Now this has gotta be the place the old duck went"

The corsac fox's day had already been a rollercoaster... losing Po's staff on the other side of a portal she had accidently created was one thing... having to track the duck that found it before she could get it back and sneaking into what looked like a giant metal bird was something entirely different. This world was really strange..yet, kind of comparable Juniper City or the valley of peace for that matter... esspecially the palace she had tracked the old duck to, located on a hill, reminded her of the jade palace in a way.

The building was bigger than most palaces she had seen back home... that kinda wealth would probably buy a lot of guards... or fill the pockets of any thief getting a good score... No, the staff was more important..

"Just gotta find a way..." She snuck around the perimiter in the cover of night.. The place had a lot of windows but almost all of them had wooden beams blocking entrance in a pattern and the few she found were large enough had some invisible barrier keeping her out... She was still looking when she saw one that had the wooden beams sticking out.. like an open door. "...In"

She quickly and quietly scaled the wall and entered the building, looking around the hallway.

[outoftheirdifferences]

She could feel it in her tailfeathers; someone was here who shouldn't be.

To ask how the duckling was able to tell that... well, Webby wouldn't exactly have an answer. It came down, in part maybe, to having spent her whole life in the mansion; when you'd lived ten years of your life in one place without going barely anywhere else, you got to know it inside and out and anything off in that place became glaringly obvious. It was also in part, perhaps, due to how much she'd observed Scrooge, albeit from a distance until recently, who also seemed to have that sixth sense for when something was wrong. She'd learned from the best, after all.

Or it could just be that she was observant. And the cool breeze that tickled the back of her neck as she exited her bedroom told her that a window was open somewhere nearby where it normally wouldn't be. And while that wouldn't normally be a cause for alarm on its own, she was almost sure - though it may have been her imagination - she could hear a floorboard creak.

The girl darted back into her bedroom. Emerged with night vision goggles over her eyes, a length of rope hung from one shoulder, dart gun in one hand and trusty grappling hook in the other.

No intruder would make it far while Webby Vanderquack was on the alert!

She tiptoed silently down the hallway, knowing by heart exactly where to step to avoid the creaky floorboards, following that slight draft. Sure enough, a silhouetted figure up ahead... one who very clearly wasn't one of the boys, Donald, or anyone else who was supposed to be here.

An intruder!

She's prepared for this day her whole life!

Rope was slipped off her shoulder. Grappling gun transferred to hold between her teeth for a moment to free up her hands. First, a diversion...

She aimed carefully with the dart gun, fired... not at the intruder, but down the hall past her. The idea being that she wouldn't see the dart at all, would just hear the tiny 'thock' as it landed to her left, and would look in that direction...

Webby already had the rope in hand. As soon as the intruder looked the other way, she would throw it like a lasso expert to tie up the fox before she could so much as take another step. Just like she had to the triplets when she'd first met them!

[notfakingbutmethod]

Zhen noticed the thock as the dart hit down the hall but more importantly, the dart grazed her fur ever so slightly and she had already spent more than enough time dodging arrows, and master mantis in sparing for that matter to realize something had zoomed by her.. she had been spotted this fast? Either it was this strange place or she was loosing her touch.

She quicky flung around peering down the dark corridor behind her, trying to see her assailant.

Given the darkness of the hall, with just some faint moonlight coming through the windows she couldnt make out much, even though she usually had better eyesight in the darkness. Had noone in this place ever heard of lanterns? Or even just torches?

Regardless.. if there was somebody, that somebody could see her.. Zhen wasn't used to being in the disadvantages when breaking into a place so she went on high alert

[notfakingbutmethod]

Zhen how is your training with Po?

"Fantastic of course! I'm totally nailing this Dragon Warrior business and..."

She stops, looks down a little and sighs.

"Oh who am I kidding? It's been like.. a month since I moved into the palace and started training.. "

"I mean.. I guess it's going well enough.. Definitely feels better than when the Chameleon trained me before. Aside from most training sessions either starting or ending with dumplings, it actually feels like Po wants me to learn for my sake instead of just becoming a means to an end."

[notfakingbutmethod]

@outoftheirdifferences

"Great job, Zhen.. Taking Po's staff, messing with it and somehow ending up in this weird place... Now this has gotta be the place the old duck went"

The corsac fox's day had already been a rollercoaster... losing Po's staff on the other side of a portal she had accidently created was one thing... having to track the duck that found it before she could get it back and sneaking into what looked like a giant metal bird was something entirely different. This world was really strange..yet, kind of comparable Juniper City or the valley of peace for that matter... esspecially the palace she had tracked the old duck to, located on a hill, reminded her of the jade palace in a way.

The building was bigger than most palaces she had seen back home... that kinda wealth would probably buy a lot of guards... or fill the pockets of any thief getting a good score... No, the staff was more important..

"Just gotta find a way..." She snuck around the perimiter in the cover of night.. The place had a lot of windows but almost all of them had wooden beams blocking entrance in a pattern and the few she found were large enough had some invisible barrier keeping her out... She was still looking when she saw one that had the wooden beams sticking out.. like an open door. "...In"

She quickly and quietly scaled the wall and entered the building, looking around the hallway.

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