Disclaimer: see the earlier chapters
Okay in this chapter one of the things I have been hinting at with the misfits is revealed
Chapter 3: I'm related to who?!
A few minutes later Hawk and Lifeline went back to the med lab to talk to Aja and Rapture who had just came back to the med lab. "Is everything okay now?" asked Hawk
"So far, um sorry about freaking out, had a bad experience when I was a kid," Aja said sheepishly.
"It's okay; you're not the first person that did that," replied Lifeline with a reassuring smile.
"Anyway," said Hawk, "I have a proposition for you two we have a few other mutants living here you are welcome to stay here with them."
"Okay," said Rapture, "Sounds interesting."
"I'll stay," said Aja reluctantly. "At least than Jerrica and the others will be safe from any anti mutant mobs."
"Go ahead and go get settled in at the house, Aja I need to talk to you," Lifeline said, "It's private."
"What's going on?" asked Aja as she looked at Hawk and Lifeline after Rapture had left again.
"I'll be honest with you Aja," Hawk said, "Even I didn't know about this, it's about your mother."
"My mother disappeared when I was five Hawk, you know that."
"That's what everyone thought but your mother is alive."
"I don't understand."
"Aja we have reason to believe you are a second generation mutant, which means one of your parents was a mutant, judging by blood tests, it seems it was your mother."
"What do you mean?"
"Aja have you heard of a mutant named Mystique?"
"Why?"
"I'll be frank Aja, Lifeline checked the blood tests three times. Mystique is your mother."
"This is a joke right?"
"No Aja it's not."
"Oh terrific, I nearly get killed, my family probably hates me and I just find out my biological mother is still alive and a mutant terrorist that ditched me when I was five… Can this day get any worse?"
"Um Aja one more thing." said Hawk hesitantly
"What else?"
"You have some siblings."
A moment of silence. "Come again?"
"You have at least four siblings as far as we know."
"Oh joy. At least tell me they aren't insane... are they?"
"Well Rogue - that would be your half sister is a little anti social, but that's it, Kurt is pretty decent just a little immature, your other brother is only a baby, it's the last one that's nuts."
"I know I'm going to regret this but who is it?"
"Graydon Creed."
"Oh terrific him of all people, I'd rather have Pizzazz or Jetta or Roxy as a sibling; at least they have some sort of decency even if they can be obnoxious at times." Aja paused for a moment. "Is there anything else?"
"No that's it."
"Hawk answer me one thing."
"What is it?"
"You knew my father for years, did he know about any of this?"
"Not as far as I know."
"That's good to know."
"Anyway why don't you head over to the place where the others reside, get to know your roommates."
"Okay." Aja replied as Lifeline opened his Joe comm.
"Avalanche can you please report to the med lab?"
"Sure." replied the earthmover, "Just give me a second… WANDA STOP TRYING TO DROWN PIETRO IN THE TOILET OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM TOO!"
A few minutes later Avalanche showed up in the med lab.
"What's up?" asked Avalanche.
"Lance, this is Aja she'll be staying with you guys, Aja this is Lance Alvers we call him Avalanche, he's one of the members of the group he'll show you where you'll be staying."
"Hi," said Avalanche as he smiled at Aja. "Nice hair."
"Thanks," said Aja as she ran a hand through her blue hair. "Believe it or not it's my natural hair color and not dyed."
"Come on follow me," said Avalanche as he escorted her out the door and headed to Misfit Manor. "So what are your powers?"
" I can run really fast, just not sure how fast, what about you and why do they call you Avalanche?"
"I can create earthquakes and landslides," Avalanche replied. "By the way you don't have to call any of the others by our codenames unless we're on missions."
"Okay, so what should I know about the place?" Aja asked as they came near the house a few minutes later.
"Well some of the others are nice just a little odd of course given this place it's not much of a stretch."
"Huh?"
"You'll about to find out." Avalanche groaned as a few explosions rang out complete with maniacal laughter and a flying parrot that looked extremely freaked out.
"Awwk! Polly wants a Prozac or to call the a.s.p.c.a awwk!" yelled the parrot as it flew away
"Come back birdie!" yelled a voice as what looked like three identical girls ran by carrying something, "We just want to see if our new flamethrower works!"
"That would be Trinity; they're nuts," Avalanche said as Beachhead went storming by. "And that would be Beachhead, one of the adults on the base or as we call him the green hooded jackass."
"So what is your family like if you don't mind me asking?" Avalanche asked as they walked upstairs.
"Well my father died when I was eight and my mother disappeared when I was five and I don't want to talk about that, so I was in foster care for about three years, most of my foster parents were jerks, although my last foster family was decent. Emmet didn't care that I was a mutant and Jacqui died before my powers fully emerged." (1)
"Emmet and Jacqui?"
"My last set of foster parents."
"So is this the newbie?" asked Althea also known as Wavedancer the leader of the misfits as she came out of her room.
"Yeah," Said Avalanche, "Althea this is Aja she just got here, Aja this is Althea the leader of this band of lunatics."
"Welcome to this asylum," Althea replied, "You'll probably meet the others later."
"AAAAAAAAAAH!!!" screamed a voice as what looked like a silver blur ran down the hallway being chased by a girl with black hair and firing bolts at the blur.
"Okay some of them you might meet sooner, that would be Pietro we call him Quicksilver since he can run fast the girl chasing him is his sister Wanda we call her Scarlet Witch, she can use hex bolts and make stuff go haywire."
"So what happened with Rapture?" asked Aja.
"Oh the other girl, she is fine, she's getting settled in as we speak. Okay if you are staying, do we need to get your stuff?"
"Well I do have a couple things I want to pick up tomorrow," Aja replied, "Do you mind if I just turn in?"
"Oh sure," said Althea as she hander Aja a couple of clothes. "Here we found you some pajamas for you to wear and some clothes for the next day."
"Thanks," said Aja as the others left the room.
A few minutes later the Misfits went into the living room. "Is it me or was she hiding something?" asked Althea.
"It's not you," replied Shipwreck, Althea's father in a serious voice. "I read her file she has a bad past. Give her time to adjust, she can be very defensive."
"Come on, what is it?" asked Althea.
"I can't tell you Hawk's orders," Shipwreck replied. "So where's the other new member?"
(KABOOM!!)
"Wow, cool!" said a voice that sounded slightly dazed.
"Oh Rapture was with the triplets, they wanted to show her some experiments."
"You sure that's a good idea?"
"Yeah Xi went in there and swiped anything that can be considered a hazard, although I think they forgot something."
(KABOOM!!!)
"Except for the remote for the portable satellite they hacked into and stole from Cobra, they're having fun with target practice, last week they blew up those robots."
"They blew up the transformers?"
"Oh no this is some weird group. Don't know who the heck they are only thing I know was that one guy was a jet and fighting some guy that turned into a crappy bike."
(KABOOM!!!!)
"Wow," said Rapture from another room, "what did we just blow up?"
"Oh looks like a giant sponge," said the triplet known as Daria. "And is that a starfish next to it and part of a pineapple."
"Oh great one adult is nuts and the other is paranoid," muttered Althea. "What are we going to do with them?"
"Help them to adjust," said Shipwreck, "That's all we can do."
End of chapter 3
Next chapter: Aja and Rapture go to get their stuff, how do their friends and family really feel about them being mutants?
(1) For those of you not familiar with the Jem series other than Aja being a foster girl nothing else is known about her past so everything I made up came from my half-insane imagination. Reviews are appreciated, flames will be given to Muzzle to shred.
Till next time