Make New Friends
"Okay there are rumors of a Cobra drug lab in that warehouse," Roadblock instructed the Misfits before they attacked. "Let's take 'em down one two three. One…"
Suddenly a Cobra ran out screaming. "MOMMMY!"
"What the?" Roadblock blinked. "I don't suppose any of you did anything?"
"No this is a new one," Althea remarked as more Cobras fled. "Avalanche, Xi and Scarlet Witch come with me to check it out. The rest of you round up the prisoners!"
"Oh god! Not more of them!" A Cobra screamed as he saw the mutants.
"More?" Low Light asked. Then he saw a flash of light and heard more screaming.
"Let's take a look!" Althea and her team went inside.
"Forget about wrecking the lab. I think somebody beat us to it," Lance said. The warehouse was a mess. There were several Cobra soldiers all over the floor. Debris was everywhere as well as destroyed equipment.
"Wow and I thought we did some damage," Wanda whistled. "Whoever did this was good."
"There is someone still here," Xi growled as he glared at the shadows.
"Okay let's take it easy people," Althea waved. "We don't know what we're dealing with."
"No problem," Lance growled. "I'll flush 'em out." He started a tremor.
Suddenly the shadows seemed to grow. They changed into tentacles and grabbed Lance's legs. "Hey leggo!" Lance shouted as he was dragged into the darkness.
"Hey wait Cloak!" A girl's voice shouted. "Don't hurt them! I think they're the good guys!" A blonde 16-year-old girl wearing a skintight white uniform stepped out. The front of the outfit was cut down to her navel.
"Yeah we're the good guys," Althea said. "You mind releasing him?"
"I apologize," A voice from the shadows spoke. The shadows released Lance and withdrew into the form of a teenage boy almost covered completely by a black and blue cloak that billowed around him. Only his chocolate brown face was visible showing his intense pure yellow eyes. "You are not Cobras?"
"No but it's nice to meet people who hate 'em as much as we do," Althea remarked. "You do this? Nice work. I'm Wavedancer, leader of the Misfits."
"We've heard of you," the girl said. "I'm Dagger and this is Cloak. We're kind of like you. Sort of."
"So are you mutants like us?" Wanda asked.
"We weren't before," Cloak said sadly.
"Experimentation?" Lance asked. "I understand that. I was born a mutant but…"
"No more needs to be said then," Cloak said. He turned to Dagger. "We should go."
"Wait," Althea said. "Like I said before anybody who hates Cobra has got to be worth being friends with. Is there a place we can talk?"
"Well…Why not?" Dagger began. She noticed Cloak's frown. "Oh come on Cloak don't be such a gloomer!"
"I'm a living shadow," Cloak said. "It goes with the territory."
