*John POV*
I was always being chased up to my room. Whenever I tried to ask my father, mother or younger brother why, they would tell me that I needed to get to work cleaning up my room, even though it was only buried four feet in dirty clothes and had three bags of trash that had been there for a long time.
"This isn't fair," I thought. "Why am I getting screwed over?"
*Avery POV*
I felt sorry for John, but I had a job to do. After, he was unknown as to what powers he had or if he could become a furry assassin. I hoped the later was true, then we'd be the only ones in the family that were the "special cases".
"Wait here," my mom told me and after I nodded, she disappeared.
I sat there waiting for awhile. I decided to mess around with my "other" form. I took my scythe in both hands and begun swinging it around. Although this was my first time doing so, I felt like I had practiced every day of my life with my scythes. I continued to swing my scythe around for awhile, well swinging is such a low-level term compared to what I was doing. As I did a downward strike, a black entity, shadowing my movement, did the same and disappeared as the strike finished. I lifted my scythe out of the ground seeing two slices in the ground. The one closest to me was obviously from me but there was a bigger one, parallel with the one that was mine.
My mother came out, not caring about the "gashes" in the floor, and said, "come on in."
I followed her in. The room we entered was lit, but some of the lights were burnt out. John was supposed to replace them, but he kept putting it off to do other chores. There was a large table in the center of the room and chairs around. The table and chair arrangement allowed for thirty people to sit around. All but thirteen chairs were occupied.
The first person had a suit similar to Spider-Man's red and blue with black web lines, except this suit was all black with red web lines. from the way he sat, with his back straight up, he was shorter than everyone else by one foot.
The second person wore a suit that was a red and blue hybrid, where half the suit was red and half the suit was blue. His gloves were a full red color. The face area of his mask was red while the rest of the mask was blue. Some of the red patterns were jagged in design.
The third person wore a black suit, with what looked to be a blood spatter on his chest. Around they eye part of his mask was a red strip. He had a something that looked like a bandana hung down behind his head. He had metal shoulder pads with spikes. The arm parts of his suit were a red color and from an inch down from the elbow to an inch above his wrist, he had metal, spike laced gauntlets with wrist mounted blades.
A fourth person wore a black suit, with pointed ear tips and white slits for eyes. Around her neck she wore a necklace made of tribal beads and markings. Over her left shoulder she wore a patch of white fur with a "belt" around her right shoulder.
A fifth person wore an iron suit in the colors of the American flag, with a big white star in the middle of his chest.
The sixth person wore a black iron suit with a red glow. He had a six barrel 50-Cal. Machine gun mounted on his right shoulder and assault rifles mounted to each arm/wrist.
A seventh person wore a knight's outfit with a black base and a white trim. He wore a helmet as well and a red cape. In his right hand he had a two handed double sided sword with a handle of gold base with a darker trim and a blade of silver basic color.
An eight person wore a modern samurai outfit in the color of silver with a full face guard. On his left hip were two sheaths, each with a black handle sticking out with golden flat heads.
The ninth person wore a bright red outfit with white vertical trips on his chest. He also had a blackish red speedo and a red belt on. His head mask covered his entire head except for his mouth and the eye "pockets" were a golden yellow. On his wrists he has flame markings.
A tenth person looked like the ninth except was a girl and had long flowing black hair. Also the white strips were thicker and another white strip ran vertical around her neck line.
The eleventh person wore a dark blackish red suit with the letter D printed twice, the second one overlapping the first one. His mask covered all but his mouth. On the top were two small "horns".
The twelfth had a dark blackish red suit like the eleventh person, and a full face mask with the part of the suit coming back like the tip of a bat's wing.
The thirteenth person had a green suit with yellow trim which came up to a yellow neck collar. On his chest was tattooed a dragon. He had a yellow face mask with white, black lined eye pieces.
The fourteenth person wore a suit of red and yellow color with a yellow face plate.
The fifteenth person wore a yellow suit with a red bird on the chest. Her gloves were red and she had a red cape on her back. She also had flowing black hair.
The sixteenth person wore a yellow suit with the lapels folded over. She had a red eye piece and her gloves were red and had a fire design carved into the base of them. She also had flowing red hair.
I then looked towards the end of the table. There were who I assumed to be my parents, but they had their costumes on and both were standing.
The female wore a suit, black on the outer half of the costume and red on the inner half. Her gloves were fully red and the face portion of her mask was black. There were two white eye pieces. She had a tall neck collar which was part of her black and red cape. On her back was a black sword sheath.
The male wore a white tiger style suit with a full face mask. Around the edges of the face mask were tiger stripes. He had fake fur on his arms with tiger stripes running from his shoulders down to where a bunch of dried African grass had been made into a bracelet, which ran down to the base of his palms. Two thin ropes crossed in front of his chest. On his left and right sides were dagger holders for two specialty daggers.
"This is our newest member," the tiger figure spoke.
"Who let the Grim Reaper in here?" asked the Black and Red Spider-Man clone.
"Reaper," I thought. "fitting."
"First off, on that little joke, Spider-man," the standing woman said. "You've solved one problem-His codename."
She then looked at me.
"Okay, Reaper," she said. "It's time you met the team."
She pointed to the first person at the table and said that his name was Spider-Man. She went on like that for everyone else: the second person was Eel, the third person was Bloodshed, the fourth person was Black Panther, the fifth person was Iron Patriot, the sixth person War Machine, the seventh person was Black Knight, the eighth person was Silver Samurai, the ninth person was Sunfire, the tenth person was Sunpyre, the eleventh person was Daredevil, the twelfth person was Hybrid, the thirteenth person was Iron Fist, the fourteenth person was Iron Man, the fifteenth person was Firebird, the sixteenth person was Firestar.
"And you are," I asked, redirecting my gaze up to them.
"Nemesis," the woman said.
"Death Tiger," the male said.
I nodded and went to take a seat but Death Tiger asked me to stay on my feet. While Nemesis handled the meeting, Death Tiger and I went to a private room and once the door was shut, he looked up at me.
"If your wondering, yes I am your father and your mother is Nemesis," he said.
"I know about my mother," I pointed out. "She confessed to me."
"That'll make it easier," Death Tiger said. "I'd like you to bring your brother down and have him meet the team."
I nodded. Finally, an order I could fill with no trouble. We returned to the meeting room and from there, I made my way to John's room. However, as I was halfway up the stairs, my keen wolf ears picked up several loud noises and taunts.
"For the suffering of all things dead!" I mentally hissed and charged up the stairs and kicked the door in to see a figure I recognize leap out the window with John. I ran to the window, but they were gone.
"DAMN IT!" I barked, slamming my wolf paw like hand on the window sill.
Deadpool had gotten away with my brother. That's all I wanted to report back to the team. No doubt one or two of them might actually bungle it and he would end up dead, but they had seniority and I didn't.
I made my way back down and once in the room, I gave them a full report. Once I finished, Death Tiger looked at five people.
"Sunfire, Iron Fist, Black Knight, Silver Samurai and Black Panther," he said. "I want you to go out and find John and bring him back alive."
I was hoping that they would bring him back, because if none of his powers activated or if he had no powers, then he was dead.
