interLOAFERS: Same Difference

By THE Xenomorph (aka Xenomorph666)

Disclaimer: I own only Perfection and Wraith.

DigitalMan and K2 are © My close friend.

Everything else is copyrighted to their correct owner.

Universe: Spliced-Verse (Misfit-Verse, Evil Dead, The Mask, TMNT, Captain Planet, Beast Wars, Jurassic Park)

Meet the Clan

"Who?" Ash asked as he walked along side Logan.

"Xanatos, the tech guy, the main team and the staff are invited to dinner to meet those Gargoyle thingies..." Logan grumbled.

"Ok, who is Xanatos and what hole in the ground did he spring up from?" Ash asked as he hefted his unusualy full duffel bag.

"Geez, what have you been doing since you got here? Xanatos is the only guy in the world who can give Tony Stark a run for his weapons manufacturing money." Logan snorted, "Of course he does tend to commit more crimes than Stark..."

"And we're going to visit him why?" Ash shook his head, he figured he must have missed a Time article on the guy or something.

"I dunno, but Chuck seems to think it's ok." Logan smiled, "That and the Misfits are joining us."

"Oh god..." Ash set his bag down.

"What?" Logan asked.

"I'm leaving this here..." Ash said as he pulled the Necronomicon out.

"Trinity is not coming." Logan said.

"And back in it goes..." Ash sighed as he stuffed the book in the bag. "You know if I were a blond chick in California I'd be almost ok with having this damn thing near me."

"Stop watching that show..." Logan groaned.

"What, she's got a great rack." Ash smiled.

"Yeah, but knowing our world, she's probably coming here to help us." Logan smirked back.

"Hmm..." Ash smiled devilishly. "I could get used to that idea."

A few minutes later the X-Men were in the Velocity headed towards New York City. Rina was of course fidgeting in her newest outfit that Jubilee had helped pick out, it was a yellow and black dress with no spectacular design and she still couldn't bear wearing it.

"You're gonna ruin it." Ash said with a smile as Penny snoozed on his lap, she had stowed away and no one really wanted to turn back, especially since Ash always seemed to calm her down.

"I hate dresses." Rina sneered.

"Well then why did you get it?" Ash asked.

"Jubilee said I looked cute in it." Rina said as if that explained the universe.

"Ugh..." Ash groaned. "For a girl who is supposed to be the clone of one of the most stubborn individualists I've ever met, you sure lets those girls boss you around."

"But they know more about this... stuff... than I do." Rina rationalized.

"Stuff, like what you like to wear, or what looks good to the majority of the world?" Ash asked.

Rina just blinked.

"There's a spare of your clothes in my bag kiddo." Logan said as he popped in from the cabin. Rina was slightly surprised but grabbed the bag and quickly made her way to one of the small restrooms on the jet. "Thanks Ash, wasn't sure how I was gonna tell her."

"No problem, eh." Ash smiled. "What can I say all these kids are growing on me."

"Some more than others." Logan smiled at the sleeping Penny.

"Yeah, she's just the cutest little pink ball of destruction, ain't she?" Ash smiled.

"Heh, we only got fifteen more minutes, might wanna wake her up soon." Logan went back into the cockpit. "And get that lunk head Forge up too. I have to read him the riot act about messing with Xanatos' technology."

Another twenty minutes, and one very dissatisfied Forge later, the Velocity landed in the courtyard of a castle on top of a sky scrapper. As the large group disembarked a flash of light told them that the Misfits had just arrived and soon they overran the X-Men entirely with their insane idea of fun. Which this time included Toad hopping over everyone while Wanda threatened to strangle him for blabbing about Perfection's latest escapade.

"Oh lovely..." Ash sighed as Penny smiled and then ran off and hid back in the Velocity. "Well at least one of us is smart enough not to walk into doom's open mouth."

Seconds later a large metallic door opened and a blond man in a black and gray suit stood there and then he finally motioned for the group to enter. However the entirety of the group was a little surprised, not because of this man's solid stone hand mind, but because he managed to suck the fun right out of the air. It was like he was a vortex of boring and even the Misfits had to calm down at the sight of him.

"Creepy central..." Pietro whispered to Todd.

"Tell me about it, yo." Todd said as they followed the man who identified himself as Owen. "It's like he's the exact opposite of Perfection."

"You know, I always though that'd be a good thing." Lance said. "But it's just creepy."

"I don't know, he seems nice enough." Scott said with a smile.

"You would." Lance snorted.

"Hey Alvers, you realize we're on the top of a sky scrapper, right?" Scott smiled evilly.

"Oh..." Lance's face almost turned green. "That's not nice..."

"Hehehe, one for Summers." Scott said as he walked ahead of the group while Pietro and Todd gave him death glare while trying to help Lance get over how high up he was.

"That wasn't to nice Scott." Ash grumbled as he came by. "The Misfits may have spread their share of insanity and destruction, but playing off others fears never works out good; trust me I know."

"Great make me feel guilty..." Scott grumbled as he stopped in place and turned back.

"You are a major class guilt tripper." Jean said as she came along side Ash.

"Meh, I do what I can." Ash smiled. "Besides, he keeps complaining about me parking the van to close to his precious car."

"Ugh..." Jean groaned, "Everyone knows about the car Ash, trust me you aren't alone."

The group then made their way into a large dining hall and even Charles Xavier himself was audibly impressed and visually stunned. The dining hall was huge and most definitely not apart of the castle, but a part of the building which seemed to have been integrated into the castle and vice versa.

"Please, everyone have a seat." A heavily tanned man with a beard and mustache stood at the end of the exceptionally long table. To his right was a red headed woman with an odd fox-head marking over her right eye. She was also holding a small baby and most of the girls flocked towards that end of the table.

"Nice place." Ash said. "Got any place I can stow this?"

Xanatos looked at the bag in stunned silence. "Thats a bit much, don't you think?"

"Everyone's gear in case of an emergency, a few bottles of my favorite brew, Alice, my boomstick and the damn book." Ash said. "If anything I came light today."

"Owen, could you show Mr..." Xanatos looked at Ash for his name.

"Williams, Ashley J. Williams, call me Ash." Ash offered his own gauntlet hand for a shake, before remembering that Owen's hand was stone. "Heh, sorry, you'd think I'd be more sensitive to stuff like that."

"Right this way Mr. Williams." Owen gave a low bow and led Ash away from the table.

"Call me Ash." Ash said as he was led away. "So... uh..." He nodded towards Owen's hand. "You share your horror story, I share mine?"

"I tested a magical potion for Mr. Xanatos. It promised everlasting youth..." Owen said in what seemed to be a flat constant tone. "And yourself?"

"I had to lop it off at the wrist because an evil demonic force conjured by an ancient Summarian demon book possessed it." Ash said proudly, as if he had won a contest.

"How very... interesting." Owen's face did not move an inch and his voice did not change pitch at any time.

"Boy you're one hard nut to crack, you know that?" Ash said as Owen opened a door.

"Mr. Xanatos would have it no other way. You place your bag in the guest room for now Mr. Williams." Owen opened the door.

Ash set the bag just on the inside and let Owen close the door again. "Call me Ash."

When Ash and Owen returned to the dinner table Ash was not in the least bit surprised to find the Misfits and X-Men arguing loudly and with small servings of food. He was however surprised to see Xanatos and his wife smiling instead of sitting in shocked silence, so he took a seat near Xavier.

"Notice how they don't even care about the kids making a mess." Ash said.

"I did indeed Ash." Xavier smiled, "They seem to be enjoying the moment for what it is."

"Insanity?" Ash asked.

"Kids being kids." Xanatos smiled. "Who knows maybe one day my Alex might be one of the Misfits or even an X-Man."

"Your son is a mutant?" Xi asked. "I did not detect any X-Genes, but several unique genetic advancements."

"Xi?" Todd asked.

"They are natural." Xi said.

"Oh.." Todd sighed. "Ok."

"No Alex is not a mutant." Xanatos said, "But it is nearly sundown and you must see this next event to truly be amazed..." Xanatos stood and led the group back to the roof where Lance refused to leave the door way.

"What are we doing here?" Pyro chattered as a chilly wind blew by.

"Waiting for them to wake up." A young woman who almost looked like a modern version of Disney's Pochahontas stood off to the side. "I'm Detective Elisa Maza."

"I've read up on you." Althea said. "You're supposed to be like some super cop that works with the Gargoyles, right?"

"Nope." Elisa chuckled. "Just your average Detective."

"Cool." Todd said with a smile. "Hey, sun's going down."

Sure enough the sun was just sinking over the horizon and as the last fleck of it's orange light flared out the stone statues that encircled the teams began to crack and from within the crack a light bloomed and grew more and more intense until at last the stone shells shattered and the gargoyles roared to life; at least most of them did.

"Whoa that was cool!" Pietro exclaimed. "Can they do it again?"

"Tomorrow evening, yes." The large purple gargoyle said with a smile. "I am Goliath and I am pleased to finally meet you all."

"Sooooo coool..." Bobby grinned madly.

"What's up with those guys?" Ash asked, "Or are they just for decoration?"

"They..." Goliath's face fell, "Are our fallen brethren. Clones that Sevarius made and then destroyed with a virus he himself made."

"Who?" Logan asked.

"Dr. Anton Sevarius..." A voice called from below them.

"Mal?" Todd asked.

"Not quite..." Another more metallic voice said as Mal's robotic form flew above the castle walls he held a red headed human who looked mysteriously like him. "But we are quite similar, don't you think?"

"Not good..." Scott said.

"For them maybe." A red Gargoyle smiled. "No one attacks a gargoyle's home and gets away with it, same goes with friends."

"I don't think you are appreciating the situation my friend." Peter said. "Mal is one hundred percent insane robot manufactured by insane crazy lady."

"What the Tin Man said." Lance said with an audible gulp.

"Excuse me..." Owen said from the doorway. "But do you intend any harm towards young Alex?"

"What kind of stupid question is that?" Mal roared, Sevarius however was waving his hands like a madman trying to get him to stop talking. "After our last fight I'm set to kill all humans!"

"That was not a bright answer..." Sevarius groaned.

"Thank you." Owen said as he promptly vanished and a silver haired young elf like man appeared in his place.

"Puuuuuuck..." Sevarius groaned. "We should leave now Mal..."

"But I..." Mal said.

"Mal, do you remember what I said about certain forces being stronger than even your new armor?" Sevarius asked.

"Ahhhh..." Mal seemed to mull the thought over. "Very well then, until we meet again..." Mal blasted off while holding Sevarius close.

"That..." Scott began.

"Was anti-climactic." Ash sighed. "And a damn good thing too, all our gear is in the guest room."

"Speaking of which, I think it might be prudent for Mr. Williams to retrieve his bag in case of any other intrusions." Puck had changed back to Owen.

"Owen's right..." Xanatos frowned, "Mr. Williams if you could retrieve your bag?"

"No problem Richy-rich." Ash mock saluted as he followed Owen inside.

"Ugh..." Xanatos groaned.

"Oh believe me I understand, Ash is not an easy person to get used to." Xavier said with a smile.

"Actually, I like him." Xanatos smiled, "But I had been hoping that there would be no need for your gear."

Xavier again gave a smile. "Unfortunately I think any such occurrence of that happening is a long ways off..." Xavier was cut off by Owen and a panicked Ash running out from the doorway and slamming the doors shut.

"Deadites!" Ash shouted as he threw his bag down.

"What?" Logan growled, "Who got the book this time?"

"My hand!" Ash shouted. "And some crazy blue gargoyle chick!"

"Demona!" Goliath growled.

"Great..." Brooklyn sneered. "So glad we didn't lock her up when we had the chance."

Suddenly a glass window shattered above the group and the evil gargoyle known as Demona landed on the castle floor. She then stood up and grinned darkly while a sickly deformed hand perched on her shoulder like an evil parrot.

"You can't stop me now Goliath, with this book..." The sudden revving of a chainsaw distracted Demona as she turned to see a very angry Ash.

"Lady, I don't know who you are, but trust me when I say you're making Alice angry by holding the book. You really shouldn't make Alice angry." Ash growled.

"And you think you can stop me you pathetic..." Demona stumbled as she was hit in the head by a powerful kick. "Ugh..." She stumbled back and nearly dropped the book. "Who kicked me?"

The sudden and familiar sound of "snikt" answered her from behind as X23 bared claws for battle. Demona turned to see her young challenger and smiled evilly before she broke out laughing.

"That's stupid lady, real stupid." Ash commented right before X23 flew at Demona with an almost demonic blood lust of her own. Thats when the doors to the outside gave way and Deadites poured into the castle court yard.

"Circle up around Xanatos!" Althea said as she tapped a new button on her communicator and her clothes shifted to her battle attire.

"How'd you do that?" Bobby asked.

"DM helped us make it." Trinity answered as one as they blasted several Deadites off the edge.

"Oh the police are going to loooove this story..." Avalanche grumbled as he stood behind Blob.

"Trust me, they're used to odd things happening here." Xanatos sighed. "Too bad I can't reduce my fines."

"Are you sure, I might be able to help there..." Xavier said.

"Less talk more kill..." Ash said as he tossed several guns towards Xavier and Xanatos.

"Don't mind if I do." Xanatos grabbed Ash's spare shotgun.

"Groovy..." Ash smiled as he pulled out his own. "Go for the head, like zombies."

"I detest guns..." Xavier tossed the pistol Ash had given him down.

"Fine then; someone protect baldy!" Ash shouted.

"No problem!" Perfection smiled as he appeared and erected a force field around everything.

"What happened to not interfering?" Wolverine asked.

"Well technically Ash and the Necronomicon are apart of your universe now..." DM said as he too appeared, "But given Demona's penchant for stupid Gargoyle tricks, we decided it'd be best to disarm her."

"And just how do you plan on doing that?" Brooklyn snapped.

"Well Wraith is supposed to fix that." DM pointed to Demona, whose shadow was growing darker by the second.

"Oh no..." Wavedancer gasped.

"Some one take her out, yo!" Toad noticed the darkness as well.

"Don't mind if I do." Ash said as he leveled his shotgun towards Demona and fired, only to be knocked to the side by the young female Gargoyle.

"Angela!" Broadway shouted as he pulled her away from Ash before he could retaliate for a missed shot.

"Father, we can't kill her!" Angela pleaded with Goliath.

"What is she your mother somethin', kid?" Ash shouted.

"Yes." Angela glared at him.

"Oookay then..." Ash looked slightly embarrassed. "New plan... need a new plan..."

"Come here!" Demona's screams interrupted Ash's thought process and he turned to see Quicksilver keeping the book away from here with the other Misfits helping in a twisted game of "keep away". Strangely enough her shadow was fading back to normal as well. "Give it back!"

"Will that do?" Goliath asked with a smile as everyone else tore through the directionless deadites.

"Yeah, that'll work..." Ash blinked.

"Will you give me that!" Demona ran right by Ash and he took the opportunity to slam his metal fist into the demented gargoyle's face, knocking her out in one blow.

"Where is Wraith anyway?" Perfection asked as he walked up to DM as the Misfits quickly tackled Demona and Xanatos provided some heavy shackles.

"How should I know?" DM arched an eyebrow in annoyance.

"What you guys don't keep an eye on him?" Perfection asked.

"Does Wraith go to every universe out there and raise all sorts of hell?" DM glared at his friend.

"No." Perfection said, after mulling the thought over for a few minutes.

"Exactly." DM said.

"So..." Perfection sidled over to Goliath. "Any odd feelings, missing limbs..." he coughed to cover the next question "... detectives pregnant with hybrids?"

"What?" Goliath asked.

"Nothing." Perfection smiled before disappearing behind DM.

"Will you stop that?" DM sighed.

"I can't help it, he scares me." Perfection whined.

"Just because he's big an purple does not mean he's going to start singing like Barney." DM sighed again.

"You don't know that." Perfection said.

"That's it, I'm outta here, maybe I'll go torture Kelly or something..." DM shouted.

"Oh! Kelly fun!" Perfection smiled and vanished just as DM did.

"It looks like this evening was a bit more exciting than I had expected." Xanatos smiled as he handed Ash his shotgun.

"Speaking of exciting sir..." Owen was holding the remnants of a shattered gargoyle statue. "Sevarius and Mal decided to remove some of Thailog's clan."

"No..." Goliath looked as if he had lost a member of his own clan.

"The clones of Hudson and Broadway I'm afraid..." Owen said in his usual flat tone.

"And thusly why I am late..." Wraith appeared, his face was still and angry, his usual look, but within it was a look born of compassion. "Others will fall when they awaken..."

"What?" Goliath roared in anger and his eyes lit up as he grabbed the Scion.

As Goliath held the specter close Wraith's voice echoed in his mind. "Thailog will sacrifice himself for his brother and sister yet to be..." Goliath froze in place. "The others will follow, one will survive..."

"Why do you tell me this?" Goliath asked as he realized the world around him had become completely black.

"To warn you..." Perfection appeared.

"To congratulate you." DM appeared with a smile and a party hat.

"That's pretty much it..." Perfection said. "Just try not to get to attached to mirror-you when he wakes up."

"Yeah, now go have fun with your human-lady." DM smiled.

Suddenly Goliath was aware that he was back in the real world.

"Now that we're done..." Wraith looked down at his neck where Goliath still held him tightly. "Mind letting go?"

"I apologize..." Goliath said and then he turned to Elisa, "We should talk."

"Ah..." Wraith batted his ghostly eyes as a joke and with his normal Irish accent added. "What a lovely couple."

"Irish?" Hudson asked.

"Scottish..." Wraith and Hudson locked eyes and began to shout out obscenities in Gaelic.

"Whiskey?" Wraith offered.

"Ya know how be peaceful..." Hudson smiled, "I guess you're ok."

"You're not bad either..." Wraith said with a smile. "For Scotsman."