Misfitverse: Korvac Saga
Author's Note: Hey, folks! L1701E here! I just want to say, to figure out how the characters of this story got here, read the fics "Misfit Mania", by NebulaBelt, and the fic "Misfitverse: Korvac Saga Prologue" by me. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: All Characters belong to Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and others.
Note: The Hellion members will be referred to by their real names. There's a reason for this.
Chapter 1: Mission Revealed!
The Astral Plane
"Something very bad?" Danielle Moonstar, the New Mutant known as Mirage, blinked. "What do you mean?"
"And how in the hell can we stop it?" Jennifer Stavros, the Hellion codenamed Roulette, wondered.
"Yeah, I mean...we're dead." Fabian Marechal-Julbin, Bevatron, reminded.
"Yeah, I mean..." Doug Ramsey, Cypher, waved his hand. "We're ghosts. We can't really do much of anything."
"I'm a ghost too, kid." Ronnie reminded. "I've been a ghost a lot longer than you. It's not so bad. I've kicked some butt as a ghost. Let me remind you of this one time I helped stop a rogue telepath from killing the Avengers." He then smiled at the kid. "Besides, I envy you kids. You guys get to be restored to life."
"We get to live again?!" Jennifer's jaw dropped.
"Alright!" Tim Fitzgerald, Skullfire, grinned in anticipation. "Let me guess, we get to be like The Crow, right? Get revenge on our killer?"
"...Not exactly." Ronnie shook his head.
"What?!" Tim's jaw dropped.
"Personally, I would not mind getting a piece of Monet St. Croix." Amara Aquilla, Magma, growled.
"M?" Jennifer blinked. "I don't blame you. I hated her."
"She made fun of me because of my powers." Doug sighed.
"And she called me stupid all the time." Buford Wilson, Beef, grunted.
"What'd she do to tick you off?" Jennifer asked Amara.
"She fled. Just before I died." Amara told her. "You didn't see it. Jetstream and you died before she ran."
"Figures." Jennifer scowled. "Bitch. Wouldn't surprise me if she's glad that Marie here and me are gone. Now she thinks that she can have Wildstar all to herself!" Amara rolled her eyes in disbelief over the blonde's statement.
"The girls fought constantly over him." Buford snickered. "It was funny. They constantly sent him letters."
"Yeah, they constantly fought over which one they thought Ace wanted to date. He flirted with all of 'em." Fabian remembered.
"Wish I could've seen it." Roberto da Costa, Sunspot, grinned. "Too bad we won't get to."
"We won't get to do much of anything anymore." Ray Crisp, Berzerker, grumbled.
"Not true. You see, you get to live again." Ronnie explained.
"Why us?" Jesse Aaronson, Bedlam, inquired.
"Because the higher-ups..." Ronnie pointed upwards. "Figured that maybe heroes from the past could help the heroes of the future stop a major threat."
"But if you wanted heroes, why not get the Avengers?" Doug blinked. "Or the Fantastic Four."
"Or even Sonic Blue?" Haroun al-Rashid, Jetstream, added.
"Because whoever is doing this may expect them." Ronnie explained. "Even a thousand years into the future, those names became legends. Whoever is causing this is not going to expect an assault by members of two super-teams that in the history of super-heroes, became..." The legendary glam rocker winced as he tried to find the words. "...footnotes."
"Footnotes?!" Roberto's jaw dropped. "Footnotes?! We became mere trivia questions?!"
"Better than nothing, Sunspot." Marie-Ange Colbert, Tarot, told the Brazilian mutant. "At least we are mentioned at all."
"I like her." Ronnie grinned, pointing at Marie-Ange. "You know Red, in another reality, your counterpart was brought back to life, too...although your counterpart's resurrection was never really explained." (1)
"Hold on!" Dani waved her hands. "I want to know what exactly is it that we're here to help stop?"
"Ah, about time someone asked that." Ronnie grinned. He traced a red line in the air. "Imagine that this line is time."
"I can't believe we don't get a chance to get our claws on that Fitzroy clown." Tim grumbled.
"At least we get to live again." Haroun countered. "But I have a question, Mr. Rocker."
"Call me Ronnie." Ronnie nodded. "Go ahead."
"My life force was drained from me. Same with Magma, Sunspot, and Skullfire. How are we here? We should not exist."
"You just answered your own question, kid." Ronnie told the Moroccan. "Fitzroy drained your life force. His powers couldn't harm your spirits, your souls. There are things than can harm or even destroy souls, but Fitzroy wasn't one of them."
"Wasn't?" Tim repeated.
"Emma Frost and Xavier killed him." Ronnie answered. The kids seemed almost glad to hear that.
"At least he got what he deserved." Amara sniffed.
"I quite agree with that." Haroun added. Tim was enraged.
"WHAT?!" The redhaired mutant roared. He got into Ronnie's face. "You're telling me that we don't even get to get our claws on Fitzroy when we return?"
"Sorry, kid." Ronnie shook his head sadly.
"How do you think Ronnie feels, man?!" Fabian stood up for the rocker. "He died in an accident."
"Actually, kids...like you, I was murdered in cold blood." Ronnie corrected. "I was killed by Selene in England. She caused my car to careen off the road, and it looked like a car accident. Long story." Amara's face paled.
"You encountered Selene?" Amara whispered. Ronnie nodded.
"Roma Nova. 1985." Ronnie answered. "I was on my way to Rio when my plane crashed. I stumbled into Roma Nova by accident. Long story short, I fought Selene and kicked the hell out of her. My beloved guitar, the Ringer, was merged with a magical amulet. It made my instrument into a mighty weapon that wielded a magic that I eventually discovered to be known as the Power of Rock."
"Power of Rock?" Jennifer frowned.
"Sounds like the creation of a wannabe-comic book writer who listens to way too much 70s and 80s rock." Roberto groaned. (2)
"One heck of a magic." Ronnie chuckled. "Anyway, back to the task." He pointed to the red line he traced in the air. "Imagine this line is time. He made a star appear at one end of the line. "Imagine this star represents the point in time you all passed on." He made a second star appear at the other end of the line. "This star represents the point in time you all returned to life. A thousand years are between these two stars."
"A thousand?!" Dani's jaw dropped.
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Ray stopped the presentation. "Are you saying you want us to go to the future?"
"Well, yeah." Ronnie nodded. "That's where the threat is coming from."
"What is this threat?" Dani enquired.
"Well, a thousand years into the future, we've noticed that reality is getting subtly altered." Ronnie explained. "It's being changed. But no one is sure of the source. And many of the major powers of the universe, like the leaders of many of the godly pantheons, and Mephisto, a devil of sorts, don't noice. Heck, even the Spectre and the Watcher don't notice it."
"Who is he talking about?" Buford whispered to Fabian.
"I dunno. We died before we could find out, remember?" Fabian grumbled. Tim growled angrily.
"Great! Wonderful!" He grumbled. "What's the point?"
"The point is these changes in reality, subtle as they are...they're spreading." Ronnie explained. "Think of it like throwing a rock into a lake. You know the ripples that you see?" On the little diagram he created, Ronnie had a blue dot appear over the star that represented the future time. He then had blue circles emanate from the dot. "Eventually, the ripples will eventually reach your time."
"What happens if they do?" Dani wondered.
"Well, it'll be sensed as crazy weather, feelings of dread, psychic maelstroms, that kind of thing." Ronnie explained. "If these ripples continue to spread, then they'll reach all over time. And we believe whoever is doing this is trying to subtly rewrite reality, likely to conquer it."
"Wonderful. And we have to be reborn ten thousand years into the future to stop it." Tim grumbled.
"That's where the ripples are coming from? And it's one thousand, not ten thousand." Ronnie nodded, then corrected. "There's another problem. The superheroes of that time are also vanishing, one-by-one. No one knows why or how, but there's a chance they're connected. Look." Ronnie made a window appear. The window showed an image of a redhaired teenage boy wearing a red-and-yellow costume with an emblem of a sun on it. He was flying through the sky, body sheathed in an aura of flame. Flying behind him was a black kid, dressed in a black starry costume with white on the chest and shoulder, a white cape, and an emblem of a five-pointed yellow star on the chest. Both boys had golden belts with buckles that depicted a logo of an L and a shooting star in a circle. "These are two of the heroes of that era. Sun Boy, with the power to generate intense heat and flames, and Star Boy, with the power to manipulate gravity."
"Manipulate gravity?" Buford blinked.
"It means he can make things light or heavy, Beef." Haroun sighed. The image played them in action.
"Sun Boy and Star Boy to Legion headquarters." Sun Boy was seen talking to a ring that bore the logo on their belt buckles.
"You know, that Sun Guy's kinda cute." Jennifer whispered to Marie-Ange. "I wonder if he likes blondes?"
"You have no shame." Marie-Ange shook her head. Amara looked over at the blonde luck-manipulating Hellion. For that moment, Amara was reminded of Tabby, her best friend...
"Bouncing Boy here. What's your status, Sun Boy?" A male voice answered from the ring.
"We managed to deal with that cell of Punishers." Sun Boy chuckled with a smirk. "They'll be rotting in jail for a good long time." Suddenly, the image showed the two Legionnaires vanishing. There was not even a flash of light or any noise. They just simply...vanished. (3)
"Oh my God!" Ray's jaw dropped.
"Holy-!" Roberto blinked.
"Are they alright?" Marie-Ange asked.
"No one knows." Ronnie shook his head. "And that's essentially what you were brought here. You kids have to travel one thousand years in the future, and aid the heroes of that time. If it's possible, you have to find and retrieve the missing heroes. And you have to find out what is changing reality. However, you have the chance to pass this up, and go on to your afterlives. What's it gonna be?"
Well, well, well! Looks like Ronnie put an offer on the table? What will happen next? Who will accept? Who will refuse? Find out in the next chapter!
(1) – On Earth-616 (the Marvel comic books), Tarot was resurrected in the X-Force title in 1997. As Ronnie explained, her return was never truly explained. What is known was that her life force was somehow connected to King Bedlam's. King Bedlam (Christopher Aaronson) is the insane evil brother of Jesse Aaronson.
(2) – Eh heh heh heh...
(3) – The Punishers are a street gang from the Guardians of the Galaxy comic. They're a group of psychos who modeled themselves after Frank Castle, the original Punisher.
