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Spoilers for season 2 episode 7 "What ever happened to Della Duck!?" of Ducktales 2017

and I were talking about said episode and how bitterly we both were disappointed. We spitballed some alternative ideas and this is what they blossomed into in my head.

So the setup was that a) Scrooge spent the equivalent of the GDP of several countries to find Della, despite b) Della being "only" stranded on the moon where the armada of spaceships would have looked first. I was excited to see the extraordinary explanation how that happened.

The episode's answer: "everyone involved is stupid and incompetent".

Della forgets she has a gold tooth for years. The pilot of the spaceship looking for anything unusual dismisses a huge dust storm on the moon as irrelevant. The Lunarians never figure out the mite eats gold despite gold being ubiquitous in their culture and only stumble upon Della after ten or so years.

Seems like they were really going for Della's original name Dumbella...

So what if the cosmic storm transported the Spear of Selene into an alternate dimension and that's why she couldn't come back? The Lunarians, who have their own spaceships, quickly find her. She convinces them to bring her back to Earth. But lo and behold, everyone she knew is recognizable, but strangely different: the avian population resembles severeal real life species and not only the American Pekin (which in the original universe is especially bizarre in the cases of Launchpad (pelican) and Gyro (chicken, thus technically a rooster, but without a comb) whose species obviously don't have American Pekin variants) and everyone's gender is switched. Also this dimension's Della died young and therefore the rift between Pickpenny McDuck and Donna Duck happened much earlier and their adventures ended much earlier. Della reconnects with the alternate versions of her family and friends and they broker a deal with the Lunarians: with Earth's ressources and the Moon's technology they're gonna build spaceships to find and study the cosmic storms to then develop the technology to safely and deliberately travel between universes. Many space adventures ensue. While hunting for the cosmic storm, Della falls in love with Mr. Beakley's son. They marry and have a child, Webbey so that Della actually CAN be a mother and doesn't only waffle on about the IDEA of being a mother. Finally the joint Earth-Lunarian effort yields results: the storm is found and analysed. Back on the Moon the most brilliant minds of both worlds plan and build a prototype, the Terran Crescent. After years of work (and building an interplanetary alliance of the several alien species they encountered while searching for the cosmic storm) Della is finally able to return to her home dimension. But does she want to? She made a life and a family for herself here. What use would it be to return to her first three kids and her original family who all went on with their lives without her? (That's called mission creep.) But the dimension-hopping ship is there, might as well use it...

Crew of the Terran Crescent (f.l.t.r.)

Donna Duck (mallard (Anas platyrhynchos))

Penumbra (Lunarian)

Pickpenny McDuck (mallard (Anas platyrhynchos))

Launchpad McQuack (brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)) (no name change, because the name denotes a thing)

Mr Beakley (mandarin duck (Aix galericulata))

Della Beakley-Duck (American Pekin breed of Anas platyrhynchos)

Della's husband/Mr Beakley's son (mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)) (haven't found a good name yet)

General Lunaris (Lunarian)

Webbey Beakley-Duck (mandarin duck (Aix galericulata))

Gyro Gearloose (chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)) (no name change, because the name denotes a thing)

Ciénega Crackshell-Cabrera (American Pekin breed of Anas platyrhynchos) ("Fenton" literally means "swamp-town" and went from an English place name to a family name to a first name; ciénegas are a specific kind af wetland)

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Spoilers for season 2 episode 7 "What ever happened to Della Duck!?" of Ducktales 2017

and I were talking about said episode and how bitterly we both were disappointed. We spitballed some alternative ideas and this is what they blossomed into in my head.

So the setup was that a) Scrooge spent the equivalent of the GDP of several countries to find Della, despite b) Della being "only" stranded on the moon where the armada of spaceships would have looked first. I was excited to see the extraordinary explanation how that happened.

The episode's answer: "everyone involved is stupid and incompetent".

Della forgets she has a gold tooth for years. The pilot of the spaceship looking for anything unusual dismisses a huge dust storm on the moon as irrelevant. The Lunarians never figure out the mite eats gold despite gold being ubiquitous in their culture and only stumble upon Della after ten or so years.

Seems like they were really going for Della's original name Dumbella...

So what if the cosmic storm transported the Spear of Selene into an alternate dimension and that's why she couldn't come back? The Lunarians, who have their own spaceships, quickly find her. She convinces them to bring her back to Earth. But lo and behold, everyone she knew is recognizable, but strangely different: the avian population resembles severeal real life species and not only the American Pekin (which in the original universe is especially bizarre in the cases of Launchpad (pelican) and Gyro (chicken, thus technically a rooster, but without a comb) whose species obviously don't have American Pekin variants) and everyone's gender is switched. Also this dimension's Della died young and therefore the rift between Pickpenny McDuck and Donna Duck happened much earlier and their adventures ended much earlier. Della reconnects with the alternate versions of her family and friends and they broker a deal with the Lunarians: with Earth's ressources and the Moon's technology they're gonna build spaceships to find and study the cosmic storms to then develop the technology to safely and deliberately travel between universes. Many space adventures ensue. While hunting for the cosmic storm, Della falls in love with Mr. Beakley's son. They marry and have a child, Webbey so that Della actually CAN be a mother and doesn't only waffle on about the IDEA of being a mother. Finally the joint Earth-Lunarian effort yields results: the storm is found and analysed. Back on the Moon the most brilliant minds of both worlds plan and build a prototype, the Terran Crescent. After years of work (and building an interplanetary alliance of the several alien species they encountered while searching for the cosmic storm) Della is finally able to return to her home dimension. But does she want to? She made a life and a family for herself here. What use would it be to return to her first three kids and her original family who all went on with their lives without her? (That's called mission creep.) But the dimension-hopping ship is there, might as well use it...

Crew of the Terran Crescent (f.l.t.r.)

Donna Duck (mallard (Anas platyrhynchos))

Penumbra (Lunarian)

Pickpenny McDuck (mallard (Anas platyrhynchos))

Launchpad McQuack (brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)) (no name change, because the name denotes a thing)

Mr Beakley (mandarin duck (Aix galericulata))

Della Beakley-Duck (American Pekin breed of Anas platyrhynchos)

Della's husband/Mr Beakley's son (mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)) (haven't found a good name yet)

General Lunaris (Lunarian)

Webbey Beakley-Duck (mandarin duck (Aix galericulata))

Gyro Gearloose (chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)) (no name change, because the name denotes a thing)

Ciénega Crackshell-Cabrera (American Pekin breed of Anas platyrhynchos) ("Fenton" literally means "swamp-town" and went from an English place name to a family name to a first name; ciénegas are a specific kind af wetland)