An Eventful Night of Male Bonding

"Wow that was great!" Arcade whooped as the Misfit boys settled in that evening. "That mission was awesome man!"

"So what do you want to do to celebrate?" Pietro asked.

"Well I have some really cool computer specs I'd like to try," Arcade scratched his head. "Oh and maybe I can write up some new programs too!"

"Wow Arcade you're a real wild man aren't you?" Pietro quipped. He whispered to Fred. "Geeze and I thought Xi was clueless."

"Come on Arcade," Lance took Arcade and directed him outside. "You're gonna love this!"

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"Gentlemen," Lance announced, "Tonight we formally induct Brother Arcade into the Fraternal Order of the Misfits!"

Outside wearing war paint were Fred, Lance, Pietro, Todd and Xi. "Why aren't the females doing this again?" Xi asked.

"Because this is a guy thing Xi," Todd explained.

"But I'm not male either," Xi reminded him. "Technically."

"Close enough," Pietro remarked. "Come forth Brother Arcade!"

Arcade was wearing war paint as well. "Guys if we end up naked beating tom toms I don't wanna play anymore."

"Nah," Fred waved. "We're just going to do some guy stuff!"

"Like what?" Xi asked.

"Like uh…" Fred looked at Lance. "What are we gonna do again?"

"Oh just leave it to me will ya?" Lance groaned. He picked up a torch and lit it with a lighter. "Arcade fire represents life…"

"So we're ripping off Survivor now?" Todd asked. "Somebody vote me off this island!"

"Quiet!" Lance snapped. "I'm trying to officiate an important ceremony here!"

"You do this stuff every time someone new comes in?" Arcade asked.

"Actually you're the first," Lance told him. "We're making it up as we go along."

"Oh that makes me feel much better," Arcade rolled his eyes.

"We are here to celebrate your victory," Lance ignored him. "We are here to honor you into our unit."

"You are kinda setting that shrub on fire," Arcade pointed. Lance's torch was too close to a shrub and sparks ignited it.

"YIKES!" Lance backed up.

"Way to go genius!" Pietro groaned.

"I knew I should have stayed with Althea and Wanda!" Xi groaned.

Meanwhile Althea and Wanda were looking out from the upstairs window. "What are they doing?" Wanda asked.

"Setting the lawn on fire by the looks of it," Althea remarked.

"Yep, it's just like what used to happen in the Brotherhood," Wanda nodded. "Should we help them?"

"YEOW THAT'S HOT!" Pietro yelled. "TOAD MAKE WITH THE SLIME!"

"Nah," Althea waved. "They didn't want us to play with them in the first place. Let 'em clean up their own mess. Wanna make some popcorn?"

"Sure," Wanda nodded as they left for the kitchen. "Why not?"

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"Okay so that didn't exactly go the way we wanted it to," Todd hopped into Arcade's room later. "But I think we bonded well."

"If by bonding you mean nearly spending the night in the infirmary with third degree burns…" Arcade grumbled. "Hey I nearly forgot to check my computer."

"That's a weird looking computer," Todd looked at the black assortment of modems and screens.

"I built it myself. I figure I can use it to look for mutants like Cerebro, only without psychic powers," Arcade fiddled with the controls. "Hey! I got something on a police scanner. It's picking up a call coming from the town of Short Creek, Nevada."

"You can pick up stuff from that far away?" Todd scratched his head.

"With this baby I can pick up nearly any signal I want," Arcade told him. "It's able to link into any computer via the Internet as well as scan for radio signals. I programmed it to scan for any thing concerning mutants but nothing so far until tonight."

The scanner sizzled. "Repeat, mutant is suspected of murder. Extremely dangerous. Wait for backup! Wait for backup!"

"Murder?" Todd asked.

"I'm going to cross reference the data into my computer," Arcade grabbed his laptop. "I've got it. Oh man this does not look good!"

"Holy cow!" Todd's eyes widened. "We gotta tell the others!"

"Guys!" Arcade shouted to the rest of the Misfits. "Listen up! I think I just found a new mutant! And he's in trouble!"