Uncanny Team-Up

Chapter 1: That's Good Skrull- Part 1

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- 'Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead.'- James Bond (Thunderball)

Avengers Mansion-

It was just after breakfast at the home of the World's Mightiest Heroes and Doreen Green, also known as the young heroine Squirrel Girl, was sitting on the couch watching the news. She was joined by Robbie Baldwin, also known as the New Warrior Speedball, and her loyal squirrel friend Tippy-Toe. The trio were watching intently as a news reporter talked about the latest in a string of super-powered thefts. Super-powered thieves had broken in to a jewellery store the night before.

'It was reported that the criminals appeared out of nowhere.' The reporter recounted. 'They then used their powers of elasticity, super-strength, and fire control, like those of the Fantastic Four to rob the jewellery store behind me. It was believed that the thieves made away with several thousand dollars worth of diamonds. Police have so far been unable to trace the thieves.'

Doreen looked over at her two companions.

'These robberies sound pretty familiar…' The bushy-tailed heroine tapped her chin in thought. 'But I can't quite think where.'

'Well, it sounds to me that the thieves managed to get themselves the powers of the Fantastic Four.' Robbie surmised. 'Invisibility, fire control, super-strength, and stretching. It's all there.'

'But how could the criminals have done that?' Doreen frowned in thought. 'How could they have gotten the powers of the Fantastic Four? Cosmic radiation isn't something you can just buy from the store around the corner.'

'Chrk chrk.' Tippy-Toe suggested.

'Of course!' Doreen snapped her fingers in realisation. 'There's one person that has all the powers of the Fantastic Four! The Super-Skrull!'

'How could the Super-Skrull be behind those robberies?' Robbie enquired. 'He's just one alien, not a gang of super-powered criminals. And besides, why would he be robbing jewellery stores? That's kind of below him. Don't you think he'd rather be spending his time fighting the Fantastic Four, or something?'

'We'll get all the answers once we find those thieves.' Doreen responded as she jumped to her feet.

'Don't you think we'd better tell the others?' Robbie suggested. 'I mean, these guys have got the same powers as the Super-Skrull. It's dangerous enough when it's just him, but a whole gang of Super-Skrulls? That's just asking for trouble.'

'There's no time for that, Robbie.' Doreen told her friend. 'We have to stop those criminals before somebody gets hurt!'

Downtown Manhattan, a little while later-

A motorbike pulled up into a parking garage in Downtown Manhattan. The rider hopped off of the vehicle and removed their helmet to reveal a redheaded woman. It was Rahne Sinclair, the lycanthropic shape shifting mutant known as Wolfsbane. She was in Manhattan to do some shopping. She needed to get some new parts for her bike.

The red-haired Scot tidied up her hair and headed off in the direction of the store that she needed. That was when alarm bells started to ring from somewhere nearby.

RINGA-RINGA-RINGA-RINGA!!

'Well, so much for my shopping trip.' Rahne sighed as he put her helmet back on her head and hopped back on to her bike. 'I guess the spare parts'll have to wait…'

Nearby-

Just down the street, the super-powered criminals were up to no good again. They had hit another jewellery store and were about to make a getaway.

'Aww, yeah! This is too easy!' One of the criminals crowed in victory as he blew up a nearby parked car with a burst of flames from his arms. 'These new powers are bitchin', man!'

'The Fantastic Four ain't got nothing on us!' Another criminal, this one was covered in orange rocks like the Thing, grinned as he picked up a hotdog cart and tossed it into the air.

'We better get outta here soon.' A third criminal advised his fellows. 'The sooner we wait around here, the sooner the cops will find us!'

'I say we wait and fight 'em!' A fourth criminal laughed as he bounced around like Mr Fantastic. 'We can take anybody on! Even the real Fantastic Four!'

'Oh, then perhaps we'd be able to help you.' Squirrel Girl suggested as she landed on top of an upturned car. Speedball landed nearby, having use dhis kinetic powers to bounce along behind his teammate.

'Dammit!' The lead thief grimaced. 'I told you all to get your asses in gear! Now we gotta deal with supers!'

'Aww, I'm always so glad to be of service.' Squirrel Girl smiled sweetly. 'But I'm afraid you'll have to put those jewels back where they belong.'

'Oh, yeah? How are you gonna make us?' The thief covered in fire snorted arrogantly. 'There's four of us, and only two of you!'

'Chk-chk-chk!' Tippy-Toe chittered angrily. The grey squirrel really hated it when people forgot about her.

'Make that three against four.' Speedball translated. 'But seriousl. Put the jewels back, man, and we'll only hurt you a little bit.'

'Go to hell!' The thief with stretchy powers retorted as he lashed out at the brightly-coloured bouncing hero.

'So much for gentle persuasion.' Speedball sighed as he bounced out of the way of the thief's stretchy fists.

'Screeee!' Tippy-Toe squealed as she leapt at the thief with the powers of invisibility. Being invisible was little use against an angry squirrel.

'Ahh! Get it off!' The thief howled as he tried to swat Tippy-Toe away. 'Get it off! I'm gonna get rabies!'

'Heh. You ladies are so full of crap.' The rock-covered thief laughed. 'You can't even take care of two lame heroes and a squirrel!'

VRRRRRR!!

The thief turned around as he heard the sound of an approaching motorbike engine. The person riding the bike leapt off of the bike, and took to the air in an astounding leap of agility, discarding her helmet on the way.

'What the…?' The thief blinked in surprise as the motorcyclist turned into a russet-furred werewolf right before his eyes.

'Is this a private party, or can anybody join in?' Wolfsbane asked as she landed in front of the rocky-skinned thief.

'The more, the merrier.' Squirrel Girl nodded as she leapt away from the thief with the powers of the Human Torch. 'I don't suppose you've got a spare fire extinguisher on you, have you?'

The bushy-tailed heroine soon got her wish as Wolfsbane's bike collided with a fire hydrant, sending a torrent of water gushing high up into the air.

'No! My powers!' The thief howled as the water extinguished his flames.

'Thank you.' Squirrel Girl smiled gratefully as she punched the now-powerless thief in the face, putting him down for the count.

'Any idea what's going on here?' Wolfsbane enquired as she leapt up onto the Thing-wannabe's back and began hacking away with her claws.

'Thieves with the powers of the Fantastic Four.' Speedball answered as he bounced off a wall to kick the wannabe Mr Fantastic in the head. 'We think the Super-Skrull's involved somewhere.'

'No offence or anything, but shouldn't the other Avengers be dealing with this.' Wolfsbane asked as she dug away at her foe's rocky hide. 'Surely they're more used to stuff like this?'

'We seem to be doing pretty well for ourselves, don't you think?' Squirrel Girl chuckled as Tippy-Toe hopped onto her shoulder having vanquished the now-visible Invisible Woman impersonator.

'Fair enough.' Wolfsbane shrugged as she leapt down to the ground in front of the false Thing. 'Now, why don't you tell us how you got those powers of yours?'

'I ain't telling' you nuthin', mutie!' The thief spat at the Scotswoman.

'Now, there's no need to be mean.' Squirrel Girl tutted. 'if you're going to carry on like that, I'll have to ask Tippy-Toe to teach you a lesson.

'Hissss!' The little grey squirrel snapped at the rocky thief, making him step back in fear.

'Okay, okay, I'll tell ya!' The thief gulped nervously. 'Some guy's dealin' drugs in Hell's Kitchen. Some guy called... the Eagle? The Kestrel…? I dunno, it was some kind of bird, though.'

'The Owl!' Squirrel Girl realised. 'This isn't a new form of MGH, is it?'

'That junk made from muties?' The thief asked. 'Nah. This stuff's new. Rumour has it that it's made outta aliens, or some crap.'

'That's where the Super-Skrull comes in!' Speedball realised. 'Somehow the Owl must be making drugs out of Skrull DNA.'

'You're gonna let me go now, ain't ya?' The thief asked. 'I told ya all ya wanted to know.'

'Robbie, if you would?' Squirrel Girl asked her teammate.

POW!

The brightly-coloured New Warrior knocked the rocky-skinned thief out with a kinetically-powered punch.

'So, Hell's Kitchen, huh?' Wolfsbane asked as she eyed her smashed up motorbike lying beside the fire hydrant still spewing out water. 'It's a pity that I trashed my bike, I could've given you a lift.'

'I think we'd better go see the real Fantastic Four first.' Squirrel Girl suggested as she took a vial of something out of the unconscious thief's pocket. 'We need to see if this stuff really came from the Super-Skrull!'

TBC…

Next: That's Good Skrull- Part 2

The three heroes (and one squirrel) head to the Baxter Building to see if Mr Fantastic can make any sense out of the Skrull drugs. From there they head on to Hell's Kitchen and… Daredevil!