Twitch gains altitude and spots the rest of the party at the base of the hill and quickly flies down to join them, just in time for the Duck, whose name it turns out is Drake Beakington, to give his indignant response.

"How dare you! Going trouserless is a noble tradition of my people! I will not hear it besmirched by someone who clearly has no respect for religion or the Great Prophecy! I am going to tell my Reverand about this this instant, he will know what to do with you ragamuffins!"

With this he flats off down the road towards a large building that looks suspiciously like a scale facsimile of one of the Professors old bases in some of the detailing.