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This page tells of the current history of Bentina Beakley from the rebooted Ducktales.
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Bentina Beakley is a British duck who spent much of her life as an agent, and later director, of S.H.U.S.H., before becoming housekeeper for Scrooge McDuck. In this role she also served as guardian to Webby Vanderquack, whom she claimed as her granddaughter.
Earlier Life[]
Secret Agent[]
Beakley was an operative for S.H.U.S.H. during the 1960s, if not beforehand, and quickly distinguished herself as a highly effective agent. At one point she captured Black Heron and brought her to S.H.U.S.H. Headquarters to be placed in custody. Unbeknownst to Beakley, this would be the beginning of a long antagonism between the two of them and mark the birth of threat Beakley would spend decades fighting against. For Heron, shortly after being incarcerated, was released by Bradford Buzzard, and the two joined forces to form the international crime syndicate known as F.O.W.L.[1]
Sometime later, F.O.W.L. had become a considerable threat, and Black Heron had become a nemesis whom Beakley regarded with wary respect. During a briefing with S.H.U.S.H. director Ludwig von Drake, Beakley-call sign Agent 22-revealed that she had studied Heron's case file and determined that she was after the last page of the Great Book. Ludwig, somewhat annoyed by 22 already knowing most of what he had intended to brief her on, then gave her one surprise. The page would be one of the items available at an exclusive high society auction, and the only way for 22 to attend in hopes of obtaining the page before Heron was to partner up with Scrooge McDuck, a prospect that greatly annoyed her.
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S.H.U.S.H. Director[]
At some point following Ludwig von Drake's abduction by F.O.W.L.[3], 22 became director of S.H.U.S.H. She continued her campaign against F.O.W.L., eventually discovering that there was a double agent in the ranks of S.H.U.S.H. funneling information to the enemy operation. Having learned of the location of the long lost Papyrus of Binding, 22 contacted her old partner Scrooge McDuck to ask him to track down the artifact. Though Scrooge had retired from adventuring to build up McDuck Enterprises, the prospect of finding the papyrus and stopping F.O.W.L. was enough to persuade him to take on the mission. Unfortunately, in order to keep the papyrus safe from F.O.W.L., Scrooge was forced to use its magic to hide it from anyone but his rightful successor.[1]
Determined to make use of the papyrus' power to bring an end to all adventure, Bradford and Heron initiated Project 87 and created a young Duck girl, whom they named April, from Scrooge's DNA. This made April Scrooge's biological daughter, and thus capable of recovering the papyrus. However, 22 managed to close in on F.O.W.L.'s then-headquarters and was attempting to find and capture the still mysterious leader of the organization. Upon stumbling across the infant April, however, 22 abandoned her pursuit of F.O.W.L.'s leader and escaped from the exploding facility
Knowing that F.O.W.L. would want the child back, 22 brought April-whom she renamed Webbigail Vanderquack-to the safest place she could think of: McDuck Manor. She thus left behind her life as a secret agent-for the most part-and settled in as Mrs. Beakley, Scrooge's housekeeper. Raising Webby as her granddaughter, supposedly by a now-deceased daughter and her husband, Beakley kept her sheltered within the walls of McDuck Manor. She also began training her young ward in all the skills she felt she would need to survive in a dangerous world, particularly if F.O.W.L. ever came looking for her.[3]