[I/OOC] Incidental Bits

[Labster]

You know that thing where you're working on one story and then a fragment from another story like way, way later wants to be written right now?

Webbigail Vanderquack found herself alone in a room lined with crystals, glowing blue.  All around the room were depictions of the feathered serpent, but unlike the art outside, they weren't representational.  They were almost like photographs, etched into the walls.

In the center of the room lie a stone altar, carved in the style of the Mayan Ducks, and littered with the desiccated remains of sacrifices of grain and spice.  Behind it, like a tall crystal pedestal bearing a pink tube with a large round aquamarine mounted on top.  Around this was a perfectly circular force field.  While dirt and rubble covered the floor, inside the field the metal floor was shiny and spotless.

No one had been inside this chamber for hundreds of years.  But inside the force field, the pedestal hadn't been touched for far longer.

As she approached the altar, she heard a something like a mechanical whir.  Suddenly, a tall creature appeared in front of her, long and tall, with teeth in its mouth.  She jumped back immediately.  But then she realized that the creature wasn't quite there after all; it was a little translucent, a holographic projection.

Her flat orange feet stepped forward again.  The figure in the hologram looked something like a dinosaur, but she had never heard of dinosaurs having feathers like herself.  And what feathers they were!  The feathers were red, and gold, and a deep blue.  And atop her head, a tiara of the finest silver.

"Hello?" Webby ventured.

The hologram animated at once, and in a low grumble, it began to speak.

"Greetings, fellow child of this planet.  I am Queen Zratha.  I wish I could be here to meet you, across the long boundary of time and space, but please know that even now, I pray for you, the hope of tomorrow.

"If you're hearing this message, then I failed.  I tried by best for everyone's sake.  And I hope that you can do the same, child of destiny.  Take the transformation pen, and fight with all your heart for love and justice."

The force field surrounding the crystal pedestal deactivated.  Webby slowly approached at first.  Webby couldn't quite reach it -- obviously the whole room was designed for taller people-dinosaur things.  She climbed atop the stone altar left by the prehistoric ducks, and on tiptoes, gingerly plucked the pink wand from its slot on the pedestal.

In the next minute, the arcane knowledge of what she was, and what she could become, flooded into her mind.  A few seconds more, and she knew what she had to do.  She knew how to save everyone.

Webbigail called out the mystical activation phrase, "Anatia Power, Make Up!"

Two notes: That's supposed to be the epilogue of a story where Brent and Entchen get to make first contact in Duckburg (hijinks ensue), in that planet's 1960s era.  The rule of contagion applies after they leave.  Second, that's original Webby, not the new version which I haven't yet seen.  From what I read, new Webby would not fit into the Barksian world at all (which isn't a complaint), but also she doesn't sound like she'd fit the mold of sailor guardian either.  (Not that Barks is perfect either, don't even get me started on Daisy Duck!)