This is my first fan fiction I've written, its about Fred Dukes, one of my favorite characters in Evo.
Disclaimer: X-men Evolution is owned by other companies and individuals. This piece is a fan-fiction meaning I do not own the copyrights to the characters, nor do I make any profit from this work.
Fred Dukes was beginning to think this just might be the worst day of his life. This was very nearly as bad as when Mystique had put him on a diet. Being trapped in that underground base after the whole sentinel fiasco wasn't even as bad as this. At least then he had some friends around and there was someone to rescue him. But now all his friends were gone, he didn't really know where and he was alone. He wished Toad or Pietro or Lance or even Wanda were here to tell him what to do. Fred didn't think of himself as stupid, he just liked to think the situation all the way through before he made any major decisions. And so he did the only thing he could he knew, he started thinking from the beginning.
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"Yo Freddy, were ya goin?" Todd yelled from the living room. Fred was headed out the door for that new all-you-can-eat buffet that had opened a week ago and still had neglected to ban him.
"Um, I was gonna go get somethin to eat or somethin."
"Okee, jus be home by 7:00, yo, Pietro says he got another training session or something…"
There wasn't much in life that Fred enjoyed more than a good all-you-can-eat buffet. It was $6.50 on Tuesdays at the new place, more than half his weekly $10 Pietro gave him, but it was worth it to him. He was just starting to feel a little full when he realized it was after eight. Not like he would be missing a whole lot, probably running through some tires or some stupid teamwork-building scheme Pietro had came up with. Maybe the guys wouldn't be too mad at him for being late.
It was only a couple blocks back home and Fred was feeling good after his dinner. He wasn't paying a whole lot of attention as he day-dreamed about ice cream and cake. It wasn't until he bumped into someone he took a look around. The guy he had knocked over was dressed in a black uniform, something police looking with yellow letters on the front. As Freddy looked up he noticed there were lots of people in black uniforms around the boarding house, or at least where the boarding house was supposed to be. They were everywhere and what's worse is he didn't see his friends at all. One of the guys in black gave a shout and pointed in his direction. Suddenly he had almost a dozen police holding guns running toward him shouting for him to put his hands in the air. He tried frantically to spot his friends, anywhere and the police were almost on top of him when he notice a silver streak of hair that could only belong to one person in the back one of the police vans.
Fred wasn't the fastest thinker in the world, but he knew that going to jail wasn't on his list of fun things to do in life, so he did the only thing that came to mind. He ran. And ran. And ran until he was pretty fairly lost in the woods surrounding Bayville. Why would Pietro be arrested? Were his other friends in jail now too? What was he going to do? Fred couldn't stop thinking about what was going wrong. His home was gone, his family, or at least the closest thing he had ever had to a family, was probably in jail and he was alone, lost and had nothing to eat.
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And now he was sitting in a muddy patch of leaves trying to think of what to do. He was afraid to go back to the boarding house because he might be arrested, but he couldn't stay here or he would surely starve to death soon. So he tried to think of what one of his friends would do. Pietro would probably try to find a mirror and fix his hair or try and find a girl to hit on. Lance would probably be mopping about Kitty or trying to think up some scheme about how he could move back into the X-mansion since they were homeless now. So he tried to think what Toad would do. Well Todd wouldn't starve since he could just eat bugs. But thinking of eating made him think of his stomach, and he suddenly realized he was hungry. Not just sort of hungry, but really starving. And then he noticed it was dark out already. At least there was a half moon in the sky so he could see a little bit. "Well," he thought to himself, "I gotta find something to eat or I'm gonna starve. And since I'm not Toad I guess that means I cant eat bugs, so I gotta try and find town again." He tried to think which direction town might be and when he was fairly sure it was over towards that big cliff thingy he started walking…
"Well it could be worse," he mumbled to himself as he walked along a small road, "I could have skipped the buffet and then I wouldn't have had as much to eat before. And I might be stuck in jail with the others." Then he started wondering what jail food was like. Maybe it was sort of like the food at the cafeteria at school. He was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't realize where he was until he heard people talking. Looking up he noticed a big gate, and a couple of police sitting on their car next to it. Fred didn't think they had noticed him, so he snuck as best he could into the trees along the road to think about what to do. He thought the place seemed a little familiar, but he couldn't really place it at first. Then he started wondering if he should turn himself in, after all he hadn't done anything wrong lately that he remembered. He could at least try asking about his friends and at the worst the police would arrest him and have to feed him. He got up from where he was sitting to go ask the officers what was going on and was walking toward the patrol car when he realized just what was written on the sign: "The Xavier Institue for Gifted Youngsters." And then he heard a noise in the woods behind him.
Ok well this is my first try at fan fiction. This will be a Fred-centered fic since I think Freddy is cute and I've never seen a fic about him. I dunno how long this will be yet. Ive got a plot sort of figured out, but mostly just winging it as I go along. Any reviews or tips would be great.
