There are a lot of universes. A lot of them. An amount beyond infinity that one could not even begin to comprehend, all unique in one way or another, no matter how small. Connected and interlaced with each other like a spiders web, and floating within the constant like stars in the galaxy. Yes, each and every one of them was unique. However one of these worlds in particular, was especially unique. One who's web spread far and wide through every single universe in it's reach and beyond, lighting up the constant with it's ethereal beauty and-
"HEATHCLIFF!" A shout rang through the giant room, nearly causing the poor redhead to tumble out of his seat from surprise. He pushed his glasses up his nose, barely having time to turn as a hand suddenly slammed a messy bunch of metal and wires onto his table, his vision invaded by the familiar shock of bright, electric blue hair of his best friend. He sighed, raising a brow as he looked over the mess that his friend called a project.
"So what did you do now?" He asked. Jackson raised his hands
"Ok, ok. Heathcliff. Dude. Look. I didn't really mean for it to get this tangled up. I did that thing you wanted me to do and I put the titanium conductor chips to the left of the alloy dispenser and electron neuro processors, but it didn't look like it was gonna fit so I pushed up some of the wires to make some room somewhere else, but I accidentally broke one of the metal plates and-" Jackson rambled on about the mess, his hands gesturing wildly as he spoke, Heathcliff simply watching him and occasionally humming to show his attentiveness.
It was quite often that Jackson would be working on one thing or another when he wasn't on a mission or taking a break, often coming to him to have him help with something or another when he needed it, or occasionally just coming over so he could talk to someone as he worked. Unsurprising, considering how close the two were. There wasn't too many times they weren't paired together for missions or something of the like. Very much different than most universes, Heathcliff thought.
The two's attention was torn away when across the room, there was a loud whirring sound, and a flash of light. From where the light had come from, two people stepped.
"Duncan! Ruby! Hey!" Jackson greeted immediately, straightening up and waving to the two as the stepped from the metal platform they had appeared on.
"Hey guys! How's it going?" Ruby greeted with a slight smile, walking over to them and pushing some of the hair that had fallen loose from the bun on her head back, the other boy on her heels.
"It's pretty good. Jackson broke another one of his projects." Heathcliff replied, smirking and leaning back as Jackson flushed indignantly.
"I did not! At least not on purpose." He protested, glaring at the redhead. Heathcliff chuckled, shaking his head.
"Anyway, how was your trip to universe 2609?" He asked.
"Pretty good. Got into a bit of a scuffle with the inhabitants of one of the planets there, but otherwise everything went according to plan." Duncan said, cracking his knuckles and stretching his arms over his head, where the slight raise in his shirt as he did so showed off a couple of the small spots of vitiligo on his stomach.
"Indeed. And I see you dyed your hair again, Jackson." Ruby said, looking to the bright blue hair. He grinned proudly, running a hand through it.
"Yep! It was getting pretty dull, and my roots were showing, so I decided to get two birds with one stone and dye it all." He said. The four chuckled, before Duncan stopped and glanced around.
"Hey, by the way, where are Julio and Matilda?" He asked.
"They're on platform h getting snacks. They should be back any second now, actually." Heathcliff said, his eyes tracing up the high walls where various circular pads flew along, taking any people who happened to be on them to their destination. After adding about ten more facilities to the already copious amounts the MISFIT base had, they were installed so people didn't have to keep walking forever to get to their destinations.
So for a minute, the four simply stood around, content to talk more about how Duncan and Ruby's mission went as the waited for the last two to arrive. And soon enough, they did.
"Hey guys! We're back with the goods!" Came a light voice from above them. They looked up, watching as one of the pads floated over to a platform on the side of the room, sinking onto it. Matilda stepped off first, her arms full of food and a grin on her face as Julio followed her, even more items in his own arms.
"Hey you two! About time you got back." Jackson said, turning and crossing his arms with a teasing smile. He was promptly smacked in the face by a package of freeze dried apples and jelly worms as Julio stuck his tongue out at him.
"The vending machine was broken and we had to go to platform f to get it all." He said.
"Yup. But in any case, hey you two! Good to see you back! How was your week in 2609?" Matilda said, dumping the rest of her food on the table over top of the mangled machine parts along with Julio.
"It was good! Only one scuffle this time." Duncan said, picking up a bag of crunchy peanut puffs and opening it.
"That's good. At least it wasn't like the time when you guys nearly made an entire planetary ecosystem go after you." Julio snorted. Everyone cringed slightly despite the grins still on their faces, laughing together for a moment.
"We are still never doing that again." Ruby said, shaking her head and leaning on the table.
"Aw come on. What's not fun about near death by an entire hive mind planet?" Jackson said sarcastically, tossing the bag of jelly worms up a couple times before ripping it open to dig into the candies inside. Ruby rolled her eyes at her teammate, smirking slightly.
"In any case, we'd love to stay and chat and eat snacks, but we need to report back and do the entire stack of mission paperwork we got assigned." She said, pushing away from the table. Duncan nodded, still chewing on his own bag of snacks.
"You know, we're not doing anything, so we could help you with that. We can bring our snacks to the mission table and do the work there. If everyone is willing of course." Heathcliff said, looking around at the others.
"I'm in. It'll give me something to look at other than scraps and wires." Jackson said with a shrug.
"I'll help. I've been bored anyway. Flinch?" Matilda chimed in.
"Sure. I wanna hear more about the trip to 2609 anyway." The boy said. Ruby and Duncan smiled as the group gathered the snacks once more, falling into line with her.
"Let's get to it then." She chuckled, starting forward.
Yes, the group was unique. A bunch of children the universe had never made before. Although that wasn't saying much, considering it could be said for every universe, it was still a nice thought. They are a group of guardians. Protectors of the multiverse and keepers to all of space time. They are watchers. They are unique. They are MISFIT.