Time To Kick Cobra Butt!

A few days and several training sessions after the incident the kids found themselves with a rare moment of relaxation. That was because nearly all the adults needed to have an aspirin break. At least they claimed it was aspirin. Todd and Fred were playing cards. Lance was relaxing in a hammock with baby Claudius on his stomach. Althea was fixing up a jeep and the Triplets were tormenting the twins.

"Althea call them off!" Pietro whined as Quinn and Brittany hung onto him.

"He's mine!" Quinn shouted, tugging Pietro's arm in one direction.

"No mine!" Brittany shouted, tugging his other arm in the other direction.

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

"What is this? What do I look like a wishbone?" Pietro snapped.

Meanwhile Wanda was wrestling with Daria. "BRAIN!" Wanda hissed.

"BRAT!" Daria hissed back.

"Brain!"

"Brat!"

"Brain!"

"Will you knock it off?" Althea sighed. "You're gonna hurt her you know!"

"I'm trying not to!" Wanda snapped. "Why I have no idea."

"Actually I was talking to Daria," Althea said.

"OW!" Wanda yelled when Daria bit her on the arm.

"Told you," Althea sighed.

"She bit me!" Wanda snapped.

"Not that hard!" Daria stuck out her tongue. "I didn't even break the skin!"

"Well bite her back!" Althea got up from the jeep. "She's only doing it because she's jealous of you!"

"Am not!" Daria squirmed, trying to escape the headlock Wanda put her in.

"You are too," Quinn said. "She doesn't like it when Dad pays attention to Wanda. She wants to be Daddy's favorite! She always did."

"That's a lie!" Daria screamed as Althea grabbed her legs.

"Here," Althea held her at one end. "I'll help you dunk her in the water trough over there."

"NO! NO! NO!" Daria screamed.

"Well that's what you get for biting people," Wanda said laughing an evil laugh.

"I'M TELLING!" Daria struggled.

"Go ahead," Althea said. "Dad will dunk you in himself!"

"Daria's always been very possessive," Quinn said.

"But we're not that way," Brittany hugged a struggling Pietro. "HE'S MINE!"

"NO HE'S MINE!"

"Will one of you get off your butts and help me here?" Pietro whined.

"Actually Quickie we're kind of busy here," Todd looked at his cards.

"Yeah this is a game of intense concentration," Fred told him. "Got any threes?"

"Go fish," Todd said.

"A dunking we will go!" Both Wanda and Althea sang out as they carried Daria off by her feet and hands. "A dunking we will go! Hi ho the merry oh a dunking we will go!"

"Your sisters are all crazy aren't they?" Lance gently tickled Claudius. "Huh? They're all nuts!"

"You actually like the drool machine?" Pietro asked as he struggled to free himself from the girl's clutches.

"He is not a drool machine!" Todd defended.

"Yes he is!" The triplets all said.

"He ain't so bad," Lance played with him.

"He smells!" Pietro snapped.

"So does Toad but we got used to him," Lance replied.

"HEY!" Todd snapped. "I don't smell that bad anymore!"

"Not since you started bathing," Quinn said.

"Gee I wonder why?" Brittany snickered.

"OOOOH!" Everyone made cooing noises.

"Hey at least we have a relationship which is more than the rest of you can say!" Althea snapped.

"What about me and Kitty?" Lance said hotly.

"Oh no," Fred groaned. "Not this again!"

"Please God I can't take anymore!" Todd groaned.

"Lance something tells me that…" Pietro started to say something when he saw something in the distance. "Are we expecting company?"

"Not that I know of," Althea said, dropping her sister.

There was a sound of gunfire coming from inside the house. "GET INSIDE!" Low Light shouted from where he was stationed as lookout. "COBRA TROOPS! FIFTY OF 'EM!"

"Oh man!" Fred gasped as the blue clad troopers emerged. "Where did they come from?"

"What the heck?" Althea dove for cover as a laser beam blasted from one of the trooper's eyes. "Quicksilver! Get the baby inside!"

"Gotcha!" Pietro grabbed Claudius and ran in. He ran back out a minute later. Suddenly he was lifted into air. "What's going on? Get me down!"

"They're mutants!" Wanda shouted shooting out her hexbolts. Immediately Pietro dropped to the ground.

"Time to Rock and Roll!" Lance sent out a tremor at some of them, scattering the troops.

Three of the troopers shot out spikes from their bodies and aimed it at him. Todd managed to knock him out of the way. "That was close yo!"

"Spikes?" Lance looked at them. "These guys have the same powers as the X-Men!"

"Wonderful!" Fred grumbled as he fought some of them off. They seemed to have super strength.

The Joes and the Renegades ran out, blasting their lasers at them. "Quicksilver!" Roadblock shouted as he shot. "Make a whirlwind! Now!"

"YEEEEHAAAAA!" Pietro made a whirlwind and captured several troopers in it. To his surprise they splattered all over the place. "WHAT THE…?"

"Ewww," Fred groaned. "I got people guts all over me!"

"Since when are people guts gray?" Todd looked around.

"Hey these aren't people at all!" Lance exclaimed, looking at the mess.

"Yuck!" Pietro wiped the mess of his uniform. "What were those things?"

"Synthoids," Althea told him. "Artificial people."

"In this case artificial mutants," Roadblock said. "Well now we know what Cobra did with the X-Men's DNA!"

"Yeah well here comes more of them!" Todd yelled as they dodged more lasers and spikes.

"Then we…" Sarge started to say when he was surprised by two troopers appearing out of nowhere in a puff of smoke. He was ready to fight when all of the sudden they exploded instantly. "They're unstable! They can't handle their powers!"

"And they ain't real people so…" Fred punched one hard. It turned into a ball of gray goop.

Lance shot out some tremors that made more explode. Wanda's hexbolts caused some to turn their powers on each other. Todd, Fred and Althea used their fighting techniques to destroy some. The Triplets powered up and used their psychic attacks on them. Pietro made another whirlwind. The Joes used their weapons to blow them up. Soon they were all destroyed.

"What a mess!" Wanda grumbled.

"We beat 'em!" Fred crowed. "How come we can never beat the real X-Geeks like that?"

"Well for starters we never used laser cannons on them before," Lance quipped.

"And the X-Geeks don't explode instantly if you hit them," Todd said. "I wish they did…"

"And the fact that most synthoids can't think for themselves," Althea said. "Someone usually has to direct their attacks or program their behavior."

"Cobra's found us," Shipwreck glared as he looked around. "How I have no idea!"

"All right," Sarge ordered. "Renegades I want you three to take up the perimeter. From now on we are going to post a watch. Somehow our base has been compromised."

"Yeah," Shipwreck growled. "Three guesses what they're after."

The kids looked at each other. They knew they were no longer completely safe. "Do you want us to do anything Sarge?" Lance asked.

"Just keep your eyes open," Sarge growled. "Those snakes are around here somewhere."

Far in the distance a lone figure watched the battle through his binoculars. "Cobra Commander is not going to be happy about this," Dr. Mindbender grumbled.