A new story about Darius Creed is here and I hope you all will just love it… or at least like it if you think that love is a strong word. Be sure to read on and review when you finish as I love your feedback. Also don't be surprised when you see Wolverine, Wolf Pup and Nightcrawler stop in on this every so often.
Darius Creed was sitting in Bruce Banner's laboratory at S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ when he noticed a new group of people walk through the door. It was Nick Fury, Steve Rodgers and Maria Hill. They had in tow a set of young people about Darius' age in S.H.I.E.L.D. uniforms.
"Excuse me ?" Agent Hill spoke to the scientist making him look up and see that he had been joined, "We need to speak to Agent Creed for a moment." She told him receiving a nod. Darius sighed and stood up from the stool he had been inhabiting for the past hour.
"Creed we've decided to give you a new assignment based on how you've performed under Agents' Romanov and Rodgers' leadership!" Fury told him turning his head in the direction of Steve.
"This is your new team… the six of you will be working under me as a special task force…" Rodgers began to explain, "Based on how often we have to ask for the help of the X-Men we decided that having our own team of mutants may be helpful!" He added motioning to the five young people standing near him. There were three girls and two guys, only one of which could be identified as a mutant based on looks though. When Darius saw the non-stealth girl he felt himself sigh heavily.
"Great…" He sarcastically spoke not realizing he had voiced his thoughts aloud.
"Is there a problem Agent Creed?" Fury asked him making him snap his eyes open and face the group.
"No sir not at all…" He stated looking over at the girl he had recognized. She was fairly tall had pinkish red hair and a green skin tone. The smirk on her face could be described simply as maniacal. There was a long tense beat before one of the other girls broke the silence.
"So do you two know each other?" She asked looking from Darius to the smirking female.
"Yeah but it's not relevant at the moment…" He told them walking over to speak to the other two males. He remember one to be his neighbor Korey. They had met when Korey and His cousin Ruby were moving things to his new apartment.
"If it's going to be a problem then we need to know about it!" Agent Hill stated snidely.
"Whatever feelings my ex-boyfriend has about me are relevant to work… isn't that right Darius?" The girl commented with an evil looking grin. Agent's Hill and Rodgers looked at one another realizing that this could only end badly.
Darius had been formally introduced to the other three members of his team by his neighbor Korey. The other guy's name was Colton and he was able to manipulate any form of liquid matter, similar to Darius' sister's girlfriend. He was very flamboyant in personality and had spent the majority of the time they were all getting acquainted flirting with both Darius and Korey.
The first of the two girls was a blonde who had bright pink tips going have way down her head. She was apparently a teleporter, despite the fact that she generally didn't look like one that Darius had ever seen. She was also inhumanly intelligent from what Rodgers had told him. Her name was Paige and she was very bubbly but seemed to have an unholy psychopathic air around her.
The other girls name was Lorna and she had the gift of polarity. She was very quiet and didn't say much in the entire time that they were standing around talking. She was pale, had green eyes and supposedly had naturally mint green hair.
The Green skinned girls name was Envy and she was indeed Darius' Ex. She spent the whole time giving him back handed compliments and flat out ignoring him whenever he tried to speak to her. She had always had a major temper and a very bad attitude, it was originally what drew him to her but after a while he realized that she was just a stone cold bitch.
When they were thirteen years old Darius and Envy were almost arrest for shoplifting but Envy barely managed to get them both out of it thanks to her mutation. About six months after the incident with the police Envy discovered the fact that Darius happened to be bisexual and dumped him. Since then he hadn't cared much for her and wasn't sure how well he would be able to work with her.
"So how's it hangin' Korey?" Darius asked his neighbor who was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.
"Good you know… trying to get used to the new place, it's a lot smaller than my last apartment but I can't complain…" Korey replied seeing Colton and Envy give them both a funny look, "We live in the same building." He told them receiving a snorted chuckle from Envy and a nod from the other three members of their team.
"What's so funny?" Colton asked the laughing girl who gave them all a dangerous looking smirk.
"I guess just assumed that they were blowing each other!" She told him getting a glare from Darius.
"No we aren't…" He started, "Not that you aren't an attractive person Korey but I've got a boyfriend and besides I think we both know I'm too fine for you any way!" He added making Envy scowl and the others laugh.
"So… are you a homosexual?" Lorna asked finally breaking her silence. Before Darius could speak Envy began to answer for him.
"Yeah he decided to be one about two years ago... yeah two years sound right to you Dari?" Envy replied looking over at Darius, eyes glinting when she realized she was actually making him a little angry, "Sorry if you were interested in him Lorna but I guess I was just too much woman for him to handle!" She added smirking when she saw his fists ball up.
"Look Envy you know that none of that is true, I'm not gay I just happened to like men AND women…" Darius raised his voice at her, "I guess I never expected you to be a bigot… I just thought you were the world's biggest bitch!" He continued making everyone in the room save for Envy's eyes go wide.
At that moment two things happened that nobody was expecting. Envy reached out and slapped Darius hard, making his head turn sharply. Then they all turned after hearing a roar from behind the green girl. Envy turned sharply on her heals when she felt herself being lifted by her jacket.
She stared wide eyed, making complete eye contact with the Hulk. He was breathing hard and had his eyes narrowed. Darius looked up at him and smirked, chuckling a little as he shook his head at his big green pal.
"Please put her down!" Darius told the Hulk with a laugh. Hulk gave him a funny look only making Darius laugh harder.
"We can both be mad at her while she's on the floor…" He added getting a nod from the green Avenger who dropped Envy down on her feet, "Would you say you're sorry to her if she apologizes too?" He asked him receiving another nodded response. Envy rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest, Hulk balled up a fist and began to raise it making the girl go wide eyed.
"Fine Fine… I guess I'm sorry!" She told him holding out her arms. Hulk smirked and patted her a little roughly on the top of her head.
"So should we all go stay with the big guy till Banner comes back?" Darius asked Captain who had been standing watching the whole altercation. He nodded watching as the six agents and the green giant exited the room and head for Hulks special cell.
The five of the six teenagers sat and talked, while Lorna took up a spot across from Hulk on the floor and watched him draw with his giant paper and crayons.
"Ok so we should probably tell each other if we go by anything else… calling each other Agent whatever would work but everyone her knows that most of us have preferred names…" Darius stated receiving nods of agreement from his team mates, "I've always gone by Death Cat… it may sound dumb but its cause of what I can do with the nails!" He added raising a hand and making his nails grow out a half an inch and to a clawed point. He looked over at Envy for a moment.
"He already knows this but I go by Voodoo!" She told them taking her hand and laying the tips of her fingers on Darius' neck. After a second she raised her hand to her head in the way many telepaths did and Darius' pupils dilated. He gained a blank look on his face before his right hand raised and swiftly moved striking himself in the face. When she moved her hand away his face went back to normal and he looked over at her rolling her eyes. The others clapped before Colton began to speak.
"As you all know I have the gift of Aquatic Manipulation and I go by Aquarian…" Colton told his team mates, Darius and Paige nodded before the latter spoke.
"I'm a teleporter and before I left school I was the captain of the cheer squad… I used to use my teleporting when I flew so I always associated that with my mutation and because of that I use the name Pom Pom!" She told them all in a sickly sweet voice that almost scared them all, Envy included.
"I go by Chromeleon and its cause I can do this…" Korey explain laying a hand on the glass of the wall, making it shift to look as if it had disappeared. Paige clapped for him and he smirked, winking at her and making her blush. They all looked over at Lorna who looked down shyly for a moment.
"I have the gift of Magnetism… Polaris is my true name…" She told them all looking up to see Darius and Korey giving her encouraging smiles.
After about an hour of awkward socializing Hulk offered one of his 'Crayons' that Tony Stark had made for him to Lorna. She blushed and nodded before standing and lifting the large piece of wax with both hands. She did her best to draw a smiley face but was having difficulty holding up the writing tool. She looked around the room for a moment and noticed the solid metal bench on which Envy and Paige were sitting.
Darius saw her gaze move to the seat and quickly spoke to the other two girls.
"Hey you two should move to the floor…" He suggested seeing them give him a confused look before sliding down off of the seat. He gestured for them to scoot a few inches forward and they slowly complied. Then he looked up to see Lorna blushing and mouthing the word thank you at him.
After the bench had been cleared all the people in the cell and a small group on the other side of the two way glass incasing it watched in awe as Lorna raised her hand. The seat slowly began rise into the air.
"Um would you hold that out please…?" She asked the large green creature who held the wax out in front of himself.
After Hulk did as she asked she slowly moved her hand pulling the bench along with her magnetism. Then when the wax was resting against the bench leg Lorna clenched her fist wrapping the bench around the crayon. Colton clapped quietly and Darius smiled as he watched her guide the writing tool across the giant sheet of paper drawing the shape of a flower with the yellow wax and filling in the center carefully. She slowly trace her hand through the air moving the wax to spell out her name above the flower. Before she moved the crayon back to the Hulk's hand. He smiled and laid down the wax before closing his eyes.
His form began to shrink and skin slowly paling to its normal lightly tan color. Bruce was kneeling before them with a hand on his head. He looked up to see Lorna stand near by smiling softly before she reached out a hand and offered it to the scientist.
"Welcome back !" She told him at a volume just above a whisper. He gave her a sympathetic smile and thanked her before the door to the containment room opened the seven people stepped out to see Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man and even Thor standing before them. Agent Romanov silent mouthed the words 'Thank you' to Lorna making her blush and nod. Agent Rodgers dismissed them all for the day, also thanking Lorna on her way out.
So this was the first chapter of a brand new story, I hope you all liked it! This will be updated next Monday so I look forward to seeing you all back then as well as when Springtime for Sophomores, The Day I became a Mutant, and Things once Remembered are updated! Till then
-Lonelybelovid