And now, some pointless silly fluff…
Getting to Know the Misfits
"All right now," Lifeline told the Misfits. "Settle down now kids. Wanda put down that knife! Pietro stop making faces! Todd don't eat that!"
"Wow look at all the cool stuff!" Daria was playing around with some medical equipment.
"Yeah if you're into Dr. Frankenstein stuff," Todd looked around the medical lab nervously.
"Calm down Todd," Althea said. "It's just a simple scanning. Think of it like a check-up."
"Yeah compared to what Magneto did to us it's a walk in the park," Lance huffed. "I have to do this all the time due to my condition. It doesn't hurt at all."
"It's only a harmless body scan," Doc Samson showed them the large machine that looked like an enormous tanning booth. "I'll show you." He went into the machine and Betty turned it on. The top and bottom panels lit up and on the computer screen his body information showed up. Everything from his vital signs to his bone structure was on the machine.
"Cool!" Todd hopped up and down. "Hey Al you gotta try this!"
"You'd think of any excuse to see her without her shirt on," Pietro snickered.
"You know very well it doesn't work like that!" Althea went to hit him.
"Nyahh!" Pietro stuck his tongue out and missed. "Too slow!"
"Get him Wanda!" Althea shouted.
"With pleasure," Wanda powered up.
"Uh oh…" Pietro blanked. He tried to run but Wanda stopped him cold. "Not good! Not good!"
"Not for you!" Todd tackled him.
"Dogpile!" Brittany cheered.
"KIDS WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT HORSING AROUND IN THE LAB?" Roadblock shouted. "Wanda stop using your lipstick to write on your brother! Pietro stop pulling Lance's hair! Xi I don't even know what you're doing! Stop it! NOBODY'S GONNA GET SCANNED IF YOU DON'T BEHAVE RIGHT NOW!"
The kids stopped. "We'll be good," They quickly.
"Energetic aren't they?" Doc Samson grinned.
"What's the point of all this?" Major Talbot grumbled.
"The point is to study further into different kinds of mutations and understand the effects they have," Doc Samson told him. "This could help us in the long run at cracking the code to the Hulk's own genetic puzzle."
"Sounds like a big waste of time to me," Major Talbot grumbled. "They're not even gonna cut 'em open!"
"Major!" General Ross admonished. "Not all mutants are monsters like the Hulk. And these are on our side!"
"Yeah but for how long?" Major Talbot asked.
"Okay Blob you're up," Lifeline motioned.
"This isn't gonna hurt is it?" Fred whined as he got on the machine.
"No of course not," Betty smiled. "All its gonna do is take a scan of you. Like an x-ray."
"You hear that Blob?" Pietro remarked. "It's gonna mutate you!"
"It is not gonna mutate you!" Doc Samson snapped.
"How is that thing holding him up?" Pietro continued. "With his weight I thought it would collapse easy."
"It's made out of adamantium and designed to hold up to several tons," Doc Samson told him.
"Yeah but can it withstand the Blob?" Pietro asked.
"You wanna go through the wall Pietro?" Fred snapped.
"Blob calm down," Althea said. "You should know by now not to listen to a word Quicksilver says. Since most of what he says is completely stupid."
"That's true," Fred said.
"HEY!" Pietro stomped his foot.
"Okay let's start her up," Doc Samson started the machine. "This is very interesting. Notice the Blob has similar characteristics to the Hulk," Doc Samson pointed out.
"You mean if they're both big and cause damage yeah they're similar all right," Major Talbot grumbled.
"No they both have an invulnerable epidermis," General Ross looked at the data. "Very interesting."
"Eppy what?" Fred asked.
"He means you have tough skin Blob," Lance told him.
"Oh I knew that," Fred nodded.
Soon all the Misfits were scanned. "There's a lot of very interesting data here," Betty looked over the information. "This could help us a lot in understanding the Hulk's physiology more."
"Goody!" Brittany tugged on Doc Samson's arm. "Now will you play with us?"
"Honey the Doc has more important stuff to work on right now," Shipwreck walked in with the babies. "Come on kids time to go home."
"Awww," The Triplets said.
"We wanted to play with our new friends," Quinn said.
"I'll play with you," Betty said.
"Really?" Daria's eyes widened.
"Shouldn't you be working?" Major Talbot grunted.
"Calm down Talbot she needs a break," Doc Samson waved. "I can handle this by myself for a while."
"We can show you our house!" Brittany said. "These are our baby brothers. The one with the flippers is Claudius or Little C. And that's Barney or Beaky. We adopted him."
"Oh they look so sweet," Betty cooed. "May I?"
"Be my guest," Shipwreck handed her Barney who was teething on his whiffle bat. "Shipwreck Delgato here. I'm Althea's dad as well as the Triplet's. I work with the Misfits too for obvious reasons."
"Dad please do me a favor and don't embarrass me by asking her to go out on a date!" Althea rolled her eyes.
"Hey even I'm not stupid enough to hit on a girl whose boyfriend can trash the entire state of Nevada," Shipwreck told her. "Oh sorry…"
"It's okay," Betty held Barney. "You are so cute."
"Are you kidding?" Talbot grunted. "Betty, put that thing down!"
"He's a baby, not a monster!" Betty snapped.
"Yeah what do you think he's gonna do Talbot?" Samson asked. "Spit up on her?"
"I don't trust any of those Misfits! They're all dangerous!" Talbot snapped. "Especially you!" He pointed to Althea.
"What you got a thing against female ninjas?" Althea looked at him.
"Don't play dumb with me!" Talbot growled at her. "I read your file. I know all about you. And what you did."
For a second Althea's eyes grew very cold. "Then you know it's not a smart idea to insult me or my family now do you?"
It got very tense a for a moment. Then Barney decided to break the tension by taking his whiffle bat and bashing it over Talbot's head. "BAT!" He shouted.
"Hey look Barney learned a new word," Daria smiled.
"Why you little…" Major Talbot growled. Barney whacked him on the nose. "OW!"
"He's gonna learn a few more words if he keeps bashing Talbot on the head like that," Agent Gabriel Jones appeared.
"Good boy," Betty grinned. "I've wanted to do that myself for some time."
"Are you still here you SHEILD bum?" General Ross snapped.
"Charmed as ever to see you General," Jones looked at him. "I need to speak to you two with General Hawk for a moment. Excuse us please." They left the lab.
"Come on!" Quinn said impatiently. "Let's show her our house!"
"If you don't mind?" Betty asked.
"Nah!" Shipwreck grinned. "Come on."
"You sure it's okay?" Lifeline asked Doc Samson.
"It'll do her good to be distracted for a little bit," Doc Samson told him. "This thing with Bruce tears at her night and day. She could use a break."
The Misfits went back home with Betty. "Come on let's show her our lab!" Quinn said excitedly.
"No experiments!" Althea shouted.
"We don't experiment on girls!" Daria told her.
"Well maybe the X-Geek girls," Brittany said.
"But other than that…" Quinn started to say.
"Just behave yourselves huh?" Althea sighed. They went upstairs.
"Come on swabbies," Shipwreck now held Barney. "Time for your nap."
"I'll help you," Todd took Claudius and went upstairs with him.
"Al about that thing with Talbot, what was he talking about?" Lance asked.
"It's not important," Althea waved. "Let's just say there was an incident when my powers first emerged and leave it at that."
Lance kept silent. He knew there were things in all of their pasts that no one wanted to talk about. "Okay, so do you think that data on us will do the Doc any good?"
"Probably," Althea shrugged. "The Hulk is kind of like a mutant after all."
"Not much else he could be," Pietro said.
"You'd be surprised," Althea said. Then there was an explosion upstairs. "I knew it! GIRLS!" They ran upstairs. "What did I tell you about…?"
In the middle of the floor were Betty and the Triplets laughing like crazy. Pink popcorn flowed from a machine. "What the heck is this?" Todd hopped in. He tasted one of the popcorn kernels. "Tastes like cotton candy!"
"It's our latest invention!" Brittany chirped. "Try some!"
"I believe I will," Pietro swiped a handful. "Hey this is good!"
"What is…?" Roadblock walked in. "Okay this is a sight I definitely did not plan on seeing."
"Sorry," Betty smiled as she stood up. "The girls were showing me one of their inventions. Got a little carried away."
"They always do," Roadblock grinned. "Roadblock at your service."
"Betty Ross," She shook his hand. "So you're in charge of the Misfits?"
"It's true, I run this zoo," Roadblock pointed to the kids.
By now all the Misfits were eating and throwing popcorn at each other. "Are they always like this?" Betty laughed at their antics.
"Actually tonight they seem pretty calm," Roadblock laughed.
"Hey kids I…" Hawk walked in and saw the popcorn fight going on. "Okay…I see you guys are busy."
"HEY GUYS KNOCK IT OFF!" Fred bellowed. "HAWK'S GOT SOMETHING TO SAY!" Everyone stopped fighting. "Okay General, you can talk now."
"Thank you Blob. All right Misfits," Hawk sighed. "It seems you have a new mission. You are to assist General Ross in capturing the Incredible Hulk. May God help us all."
