Well here it is: my Misfit version of Ascension. Sigh. Don't suppose I could take the easy way out and say everything happened as it did at the end of the 4th season except with Misfits huh?
Pietro: Yeah right! Like that's gonna happen! You can't get out of being lazy this time!
I know, I know! Well this may be from the end of the 4th season but by no means is this the end of the fic! So here's what happens…
Before the Ascension
"How did Wanda get out of this?" Lance grumbled as the Misfits and their companion walked down a dark corridor. (Trinity was at home with the babies as well.)
"Hey you know she had a therapy session today," Pietro said. "So she couldn't come with us to New Mexico."
"Why do you need my help?" Remy asked.
"Because you're a master thief," Althea said. "And Xavier wanted somebody in on this so…"
"Do you really think that Apocalypse built an actual base in New Mexico thousands of years ago?" Arcade asked.
"Well these writings on the walls do look a lot like the ones I saw in Egypt and Tibet," Remy said. "It's just our luck that one of the Joe's archeology friends found this place first."
"Man that Apocalypse guy sure got around a lot didn't he?" Fred looked around.
"Okay now which way do we go?" Todd asked as they got to a three-way tunnel.
"Hmm," Remy stroked his chin. "Best be careful, lest there be…"
"Hey cool!" Fred noticed something on the wall. "This beetle looks like a button!" He pushed it. "It is a button!"
"TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPSSSS!" Remy screamed as the floor opened up under them. Soon all the Misfits found themselves in a darkened chamber.
"Wow it's a good thing that tunnel was wide enough for me to fit through," Fred whistled.
"Yeah…Wonderful…" Remy gasped underneath Fred. "GET OFF ME YOU LARDBUCKET!"
"Oops! Sorry!" Fred got up.
"And I thought Toad was a natural disaster," Pietro grumbled.
"Great where are we?" Lance asked.
"It appears to be some sort of chamber," Xi looked around.
"Wow!" Todd whistled. "Look at all this cool stuff!"
"Wish we could," Althea remarked as she looked at the near pitch black darkness. "Not everybody's as good as seeing in the dark as you two are!"
"Here," Xi pulled a lever in the wall. Torches that lined the sides of flared to life. "This seems to be the ancient equivalent of a light switch."
"Look at this place," Todd whistled at all the stone apparatus. "It looks like somebody crossed Dr. Frankenstein with the Flintstones."
"Wow there's a lot of stuff on the walls here," Arcade took out a scanning device. "Good thing I got this translator Forge made up and running! I can decode this thing in no time!"
"Hey I wonder what this thing does?" Fred pushed another lever. "Uh oh…" His hand started to turn to stone.
"FREDDY!" Todd screamed as soon the stone encased Fred's body.
"That idiot!" Remy spat.
"NO!" Lance gasped.
"Freddy! Freddy! Can ya hear me Freddy?" Todd hopped over to the stone Fred sobbing. "Oh Freddy! Freddy! Why? Why? Why?"
"Hey guys did you know they had some kind of secret passage back there?" Fred walked around the corner.
"Not now Freddy! Fred's been turned to…" Todd did a double take. "FREDDY! YOU'RE ALIVE!" He leapt on top of him. "YOU'RE ALIVE!"
"Uh yeah," Fred said. "Duh."
"We thought you were a gargoyle!" Lance said.
"Todd can I borrow your staff?" Althea asked, taking it. Then she hit Fred with it. "DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN YOU MORON!"
"So if Freddy's over here…" Todd scratched his head and looked at the statue. "Then what's that over there?"
"Residue," Arcade told them. "According to my translator this device doesn't turn people into stone. It's an early model of a working transportation machine."
"You mean like the Mass Device?" Remy asked.
"Yeah only it had two major kinks in it," Arcade said. "One, it could only transport people and objects short differences and two it left behind a solid residue of a person's form."
"In other words it left a stone copy behind," Xi said. "And if that's true…"
"Then Mystique's not really dead!" Lance concluded.
"It really was just a stone statue Rogue pushed off the cliff after all!" Pietro said. "I knew it wasn't really alive!"
"I should have known it was too good to be true!" Remy grumbled.
"Yeah and she may not be the only one!" Arcade said. "Take a look at this! Seem familiar?" He pointed at some hieroglyphics.
"Hey doesn't that look like the light that surrounded Magneto before…" Todd started.
"Yup," Arcade said. "It's really a rift in dimensions. You know how Kurt leaves the smell of brimstone behind as an after affect when he teleports through another dimension? This is almost the same thing, only Apocalypse used a different dimension to send someone through."
"So he's still alive too!" Pietro gasped. "We gotta tell the others!"
"So how do we get out of this place?" Xi asked.
"Can't we just use our teleportation watches?" Fred asked.
"That's the first good idea you've had," Remy told him.
Meanwhile back at the Misfit base…
"Shipwreck how many times do I have to tell you that you can't fix a broken staircase with duct tape?" Low Light snapped.
"Come on it'll be fine for a few hours until we get the new support beams in," Shipwreck waved. "As long as there isn't too much weight on 'em at once."
That was when all the Misfits and Remy appeared. Right at the top of the staircase. "This is not good…" Todd gulped as it started to crack. He grabbed Althea just as it broke.
Pietro used his super speed to run down just before the stairs collapsed. The others held onto Freddy for dear life. Except for Remy who was behind him. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" They screamed as they fell into a heap.
"I'm okay…" Arcade said wobbly as he lay on Fred's stomach.
"Good thing your stomach is so durable," Xi was also on the stomach along with Lance.
"So's my skull…" Fred moaned. "What happened?"
"I think we went a tad off course," Pietro remarked. "Where's Gambit?"
"YEOWW!" Remy screamed. "GET OFF ME YOU MORON! OOWWW!" He was lying underneath Fred again. When Fred got up, his leg was at a strange angle.
"Oops," Fred gulped as he looked him over. "I think we hurt him."
"OW!" Remy clutched his leg. "Thanks a lot you morons!"
"I think it's broken," Fred looked at him.
"NO #$%$$^ Sherlock!" Remy snapped.
"You don't need to swear," Fred huffed.
"MY #$#%%$%$ LEG IS BROKEN! WHAT DO YOU ^^&^%%^$ WANT FROM ME? AN ELIZABETHAN SONNET?" Remy screamed.
"Better take him to the infirmary," Roadblock sighed.
"Uh how are we gonna do that?" Fred gulped as he pointed to the destroyed stairs.
"Thanks a lot Shipwreck!" Low Light snapped.
"Don't worry," Brittany grabbed Remy. "We'll take care of him!" Trinity teleported the protesting Remy away.
"We gotta contact the X-Men," Althea said. She went on the monitor. "Hey Wanda…What's going on?" She saw several X-Men behind her openly weeping. "What happened?"
"Storm and the Professor are dead!" Wanda told them. "Apocalypse did the same thing to them that he did to Father!"
"In that case something tells me that they may still be alive!" Pietro said. "And Mystique too!"
"Mystique? How? That's impossible!" Wanda said.
"Uh Wanda…" Kurt spoke on her end of the line. "Actually it looks like it is possible! You'd better take a look at this!"
He transferred the image to their monitor. Standing on top of the Sphinx in Egypt was the Professor, Magneto, Ororo and Mystique. Their eyes were dark and void of any independent thought. Attached all over their bodies were dozens of strange metal wires and probes. "They're alive!" Jean gasped.
"And the Professor is …walking?" Pietro blinked as they rode atop horses made of energy. "What the heck are they fighting?"
They watched the monitor. At each dome and pyramid were several too familiar robots. "Oh no…." Wanda gasped.
"SENTINELS?" Lance gasped. "THOSE GUYS ARE GOING TO FIGHT SENTIELS?"
"This is not good," Todd gulped.
Next: The Battle for the World!
