Christmas Chaos!

To Red Witch: Oh, Virus's plan will backfire somehow. You can bank on it! I love Who's Line, so I had to put that in. For some reason, I can imagine Sean Cassidy, Tony Stark, and Hank McCoy on that show, playing that game.

To Joey1: Nice to meet you, man! Well, I don't think Mimic can mimic personalities yet. In this story, Mimic's an android, but he does have some organic components. Mimic would have to get a personality of his own first before he can go crazy with mimicking other aspects of other people's personalities.

To Kage-robot-of-darkness: Nice to hear from you! Mimic with a combo of Ace, X23, and Logan's personalities? Scary. As I said to Joey1, Mimic is a bio-mechanical android here, without a personality of his own, so he cannot mimic personalities. But maybe when he gets one of his own...

To Wizard1: Yep, an Irish drinking song. I suppose John's future bestseller could use material from the Hellion girls' letters to Ace. (John: I'd sell a million copies in two days! WHOOO!! Stephen King and Anne Rice, eat yer hearts out!) Mariko in the comics was a noblewoman, and Logan had to kill her to save her from a slow death by poison. Poor Wolverine, he loved her so. Mimic's a half-organic, half-mechanical android, so he needs to get a personality first before he can mimic personalities. Heck, I'm debating right now if this android Mimic should be able to talk!

To Dark Jaded Rose: Yeah, I like that show too.

To Sparky Genocide: Hmm, I definitely do wan to put Lila on the team, but I don't know about the others. I have been juggling with the idea of forming a West Coast Misfit team, like the West Coast Avengers in the comics.

Chapter 4: Preview of Power!

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(Bayville)

Dr. Rankin was nearing the Xavier Institute. While driving his scooter, he was watching through binoculars. He saw Mimic at the front gate.

"Aw no." Rankin groaned. "Mimic is there! Oh please don't let him copy anything please don't let him copy any HEY!!!!" He barely avoided colliding with a car that Duncan was driving.

"Hey watch the road you AAAAAAGH!!!" Duncan yelled before he crashed into a cop car. The cops carted him off. "Hey what!"

"I GOT RIGHT OF WAY YA DIPSTICK!!!" Rankin shouted. He also caused Senator Kelly to crash into the cop car.

"Two in one day! Alright! I get that ten bucks!" A cop whooped.

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"Okay, what do we do?" Storm wondered. "It's just standing there." Mimic was standing in place, not moving.

"I'll get rid of it." Kurt took Mimic's hand and teleported. A second later, Mimic reappeared, carrying an unconscious Kurt over his shoulder. His orange "skin" was blue where the orange once was, Mimic's hair matched Kurt's, its hands and feet were tridactyl, and it had a prehensile tail.

"WHAT?!" Logan roared.

"Kurt!" The X-Men said in shock.

"Hello, you pitiful excuses for mutants." Virus appeared, flying in a jetpack he created.

"Hey, you're the Dreadnok who ripped off my powers!" Forge snapped.

"ME? You can't even invent your way out of a paper bag!" Virus snapped.

"Bite me!" Forge yelled, putting up his dukes. "Get down here and let's settle this!"

"Whatever." Virus waved arrogantly. "You girls should've figured out why this bio-droid's called the Mimic."

"Bio-droid?" Logan wondered. Virus sighed.

"Hairy retarded savage." Virus commented. Sean, and the Scotsmen had to hold him back.

"Save it for the Mimic!" Sean said loudly.

"Come down here and call me that again, bub!" Logan roared.

"Anyway, this living robot can mimic the powers of mutants and superhumans."

"Superhumans?" Tigra scratched her head. Razor groaned.

"People who have powers, but aren't mutants, you furball." Razor grumbled. "Like the FF."

"I originally stole the Mimic to kill the pathetic scumbucket, but I decided if I can kill that filthy swamp dweller, I can take out all his little buddies with him."

"Wow, Virus. You must really hate me. You don't even call me by my name anymore." Todd rolled his eyes.

"Mimic..." Virus commanded. Mimic dropped Kurt and looked up at Virus. "Have fun."

"I'm gonna tear you apart!" X23 lunged, claws out.

"Athena, no!" Ace called. Mimic cocked his head to the side, then his eyes flashed. His blue hair in the back grew longer and turned brown like X23, then a pair of claws popped out of his hands with a SNIKT!!

"WHAT?!" X23 roared. Mimic attacked, slashing with his claws, and X23 blocked with her own. She and Mimic threw blows left and right. Blows that were all blocked.

"Careful, X23!" Logan snapped, as he noticed Mimic was holding a knocked- out Kurt with its tail. {Funny, it's got Kurt's powers, so why does he still need him around?}

"STOOOOOOOOOP!!!!" A voice cried from the front gates. Everyone turned around and saw Dr. Rankin pounding on the gates. "LET ME IN!!! MIMIC, STOP!!! MIMIC!!!"

"Forget it, old man!" Virus laughed. "I removed the fail-safe voice command device in the Mimic."

"But I bet you couldn't remove this!" Dr. Rankin pulled out a device from his coat. It looked like an orange-and-red garage door opener with a pair of taser prongs on the front. Pietro zipped up and grabbed the device. "Zap Mimic with this and he'll shut down." Pietro nodded. Quicksilver zipped up to the distracted Mimic and zapped the bio-droid with the device. Mimic dropped Kurt, returned to his normal form, and slumped over, eyes black.

"Ah well." Virus shrugged. "I guess I'll wait to unleash the Mimic's true power!" He threw a coin-sized disk like a shuriken at the Mimic. Once it hit the bio-droid, the Mimic disappeared. Virus threw another disk at Dr. Rankin, making the scientist disappear.

"What did you do with him, Virus?" Cap shouted.

"Teleporter disk." Virus grinned. "Once I put them on a target, the target is teleported to a pre-programmed location. I created them based on some tech I stole from Trinity."

"HEY!!!" An angry Trinity fired a psychic lightning blast, but Virus dodged.

"Well, I gotta go." Virus grinned. "So long, my beloved Althea. I hope you realize how pathetic Toad is when I'm through with him." Virus disappeared.

"If I ever get my hands on that Virus..." Althea screamed. "I'LL KNOCK HIM INTO THE NEXT #$%&@! DECADE!!!! NO ONE CALLS MY TODDLES PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!"

"ALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!" Todd screamed.

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(Virus's Lab)

The Mimic materialized on the metal table. Dr. Rankin was next. As soon as he materialized, Road Pig and Thrasher held him in place. Virus materialized last. He picked up a metal headband from the console as he approached a struggling Rankin.

"My dear Dr. Rankin." Virus laughed. "I wish to thank you for creating the Mimic. It certainly has some great potential, despite its shortcomings...I wish to ask you to let me modify your bio-droid." Rankin spat on Virus.

"Never!" Rankin snapped. "I did not create the Mimic for revenge. I created it as an adaptive worker."

"Too bad. I was hoping you co-operate willingly." Virus grinned maliciously as he put the headband on Rankin. "But now I'll have to force you." He cackled as he stared up at the sky. "Toad, you are going to die by your own powers! I love the irony! WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!" Virus cackled insanely.

Oh no! Poor Dr. Rankin! What'll happen next? How will the Mimic be modified? Will the gang face the imitating bio-droid again? Will more insanity happen? Find out in the next chapter! Suggestions needed badly!