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The Blob turned around and peered into the trees trying to see what had made a noise. At first he couldn't hear anything, but he was a patient guy by nature so he kept listening. Slowly he began to recognize the sound of someone crying and trying to hide it. He didn't have a clue why someone at the X-geek mansion would be outside the gates in the middle of the night crying, but he thought it might be worth finding out. Maybe the X-geeks would at least give him something to eat. He listened carefully until he figured out the noise was coming from behind a bush a few feet away. Slowly he walked over and peered across the top. With a squeak a little kid, probably no more than twelve years old, though it was hard for Freddy to tell in the dark, fell over backwards. Suddenly there were three more of them sprawled on the ground in front of Fred, looking up at him with wide eyes. Freddy thought he recognized the little guy, something like Jimmy, a J-name anyway. He just stared down at the little boys staring back up at him for several minutes, trying to think of what he should do. Finally one of the boys spoke up.
"Are you going to hurt me?" he stuttered. The little kid looked terrified.
"Hmm…" was the only answer Fred could come up with. He wasn't planning on hurting the little fella, but he didn't know what to do with him either.
After a few more minutes of staring at each other, the boy gathered his clones together and said, "M-my names Jamie."
"Well I'm Fred Dukes, but my friends all call me Freddy"
At this point the little boy was starting to look a little relieved, but he was still cautious. "Do y-you have anything to um... eat?"
The mention of food brought the Blob out of his thoughts for a minute. He was getting really hungry by now too, and tired since he thought it must be after midnight and he hadn't had any sleep yet. He was trying to get a hold on his thoughts when the boy spoke again.
"Wh-what are you doing here anyway?"
"I was um… sort of lost so I was sort of trying to find town so I could maybe get something to eat. I'm pretty hungry and you look like you could use a bite to eat yourself."
The little guy was trying to figure out who the huge man might be. He didn't think he was one of those men in black uniforms he had seen, in fact it looked like he was wearing a pair of overalls. He seemed nice enough and right about now he needed someone who wasn't trying to kidnap him. Somehow the big guy looked a little familiar… All the sudden he remembered him from one of the training exercises for the bigger kids in the Danger Room he had watched.
Fred reached down to try and help the little guy stand up and was surprised when the kid let out a gasp and tried to back away. All the sudden this Jamie seemed terrified of him for some reason, even though he was just trying to be nice. Then he remembered the kid was an X-geek, maybe he was just afraid of the big bad Blob from the Brotherhood, but right now he was Freddy Dukes, a lost guy with no one to talk to who was lonely and confused.
"I'm not gonna hurt you." He said, trying to calm the him down.
Right then Jamie was trying to figure out whether he could trust the big man. He hadn't done anything bad so far and he didn't really know why the Brotherhood were their enemies anyway. The only thing he really remembered about the Brotherhood was that Tabby used to live with them and she had always been nice to him. When it came down to going with the big man and maybe getting something to eat and a little sleep or staying alone, lost in the woods and cold it really wasn't much of a choice.
"Well how about we go try to find something to eat eh? I'm pretty hungry, I'll carry you if ya want."
So we now have the two most inept members from each team together. Next chapter we'll learn a little about what's been going on at the x-men mansion :)
