X-Men Evolution characters and GI Joe characters? Don't own 'em! Althea's mine, Trinity is mine, Little C is mine, and Spyder's kinda mine. Lina's mine too but pretty much everyone else isn't. This fic takes place near the end of 'I Hate New People'. It's a bit dark in some places so don't say you haven't been warned.
A Tale of Two Angels
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Misfits
It all happened so fast. Angelica paced back and forth shaking outside the door. "Angelica it's not your fault," Wanda said softly.
"I knew she was upset," Angelica sobbed. "I should have watched her!"
"She's going to be okay," Wanda said. "If it wasn't for you she'd probably…"
"She'd probably be all right if I'd only paid attention!" Angelica shouted. "God how did things get to be such a mess?"
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Fifteen hours earlier…
It was all Lina could do to keep from shaking. She hadn't seen her parents since she escaped by climbing out the basement. And they certainly hadn't seen her. She was wearing a hat to hide her antennae, glasses to hide her bright green eyes and a coat to hide her wings. The one thing she couldn't hide was her long hair, once dark brown was now so blonde it was nearly white.
"It will be fine," Ororo comforted her. Jubilee was there as well.
"I wish it was true," Lina shook. She startled when the door opened and she saw her parents enter the room. "M-mother? Father?" Then she noticed the family lawyer was there as well.
They stiffened when they saw her. "What happened to your hair?" Her mother accused. "What did you do to it."
"Nothing I…" Lina started to say.
"LIAR!" Her father shouted.
"Mr. and Mrs. Chakram," Ororo interjected. "I am from the Xavier Institute. Lina's hair is a result of her mutation."
"So she is a mutant," Mrs. Chakram huffed. She glared at her daughter. "What else are you hiding? Show me!"
Instinctively Lina obeyed. Her parents gasped when they saw her antennae and wings but her eyes really drove them over the edge. "My god what the hell are you?" Her mother gasped.
"Something that will no longer be our responsibility. Just hurry up with the papers so we can get on with this," Mr. Chakram said to his lawyer.
"Papers?" Lina blinked.
"We're making this legal so you can't have any reason to bother us any longer," Her father snapped at her.
"Quite simply they absolve my clients of any responsibility towards…" The lawyer coughed.
"You're disowning me? No! Mother…Father please…" Angelica reached out to touch her mother.
"TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF ME!" Her mother delivered a vicious backhand that sent Lina to the floor. "YOU'RE A DISCRACE!"
"LOOK WHO'S TALKING!" Jubilee balled her hands into fists.
"What's going on?" Angelica ran in. "LINA!"
Ororo glared at her parents and their lawyer. "Mr. and Mrs. Chakram!" She snapped. "How dare you hit your daughter like that!"
"That thing is no longer our daughter," Mr. Chakram said sternly.
"She is not a thing!" Angelica shouted rushing to Lina's side. "She's a person!"
"Look at her!" Mrs. Chakram shouted. "How can that be a person? No daughter of mine would wear a top like that!"
"She can't help it!" Angelica shouted back. "Her wings kind of make it impossible to put on a regular top!"
"I still say we should get our son to help put her away," Mrs. Chakram told her husband. "A creature like that belongs locked up!"
"He doesn't deal with this type of legal action," Mr. Chakram remarked. "Our lawyer is good enough for this."
"As I was saying this document will dissolve any parental responsibility you have towards her," The lawyer said calmly as he showed it to him.
"But what will happen to me?" Lina sobbed.
"That's not our problem," Mrs. Chakram told her coldly.
"Here!" Lina's father signed the paper. "Whoever wants her can have her!"
Without thinking Cover Girl immediately grabbed the papers and signed them. "I'll take her!" She shouted. "And I'll be a hell of a lot better parent than the two of you!"
"Just keep her away from us!" Mrs. Chakram glared at her. "I don't want her contaminating our other children!"
"You know there's a possibility that one of your other kids could be a mutant," Cover Girl growled.
"No there isn't!" Mr. Chakram shouted. He looked at Lina. "If you ever come near us again I'll have you arrested and locked up! Do you hear me!"
"Father please…" Lina sobbed as they walked out of the room.
"Forget it Lina," Angelica held her. "You're better off without 'em! JERKS!"
"What just happened to me?" Lina whimpered. "This isn't happening to me…"
The next several minutes were a blur. People were talking and Angelica held her. Then she felt like she was going to pass out. "What's going to happen to me?" Lina asked. "Am I going to the Institute?"
"No honey," Cover Girl said. "You're coming with Angelica and me."
"Angelica? But…no…" Lina shook. "The army! NOOOOOO!" She screamed and then fainted.
"She's fainted!" Angelica gasped.
Ten minutes later Cover Girl met with Xavier and Logan. "Is the kid gonna be all right?" Logan asked.
"What do you think?" Cover Girl ran her hand through her hair. "That poor kid's a mess! What am I going to do?"
"Be patient with her," Xavier said. "You know as well as I that sudden physical mutations can be extremely devastating to a child. Her whole life is shattered, she doesn't recognize herself and on top of it all…"
"Yeah those folks of hers weren't exactly supportive," Logan sighed.
"Understatement of the century," Cover Girl said.
Two hours earlier….
The jeep pulled up to the Misfit house. "They're here!" Spyder said excitedly. "Hey there's two new girls out there!"
"I thought we were only getting one kid?" Todd asked.
"Who cares? The more lovelies to hang on to me the better!" Pietro smoothed his hair and answered the door. "He-lloooo ladies!"
"Um, hello?" Angelica blinked as they walked inside. "I'm Angelica Jones and this is Lina Chakram. We're…new here."
"We figured," Todd snickered.
"Welcome to Misfit Manor," Althea grinned. "Name's Althea Delgado. Code name Wavedancer."
"Wavedancer?" Lina blinked.
"Nearly all mutants have a code name," Althea explained. "You know to represent their mutant powers. I breathe underwater and I'm a hydrokinetic."
"Hydro-what?" Angelica asked.
"I control water," Althea said. "Like you create and control fire."
"Not exactly," Angelica said. "My body absorbs microwave energy from the environment, stores it and can be converted into heat. I can use it to fly a little and create fire."
"Cool," Wanda nodded. "Have you thought about what you'd like to call yourself?"
"Uh well I kind of like the name Firestar," Angelica said.
"Firestar?" Pietro snickered. "Well it's your call!"
"I like it," Wanda said.
"So you're the one Lance saw naked huh?" Todd grinned.
Both Lance and Angelica turned beet red. Althea elbowed him. "TODD!"
"How did you…?" Angelica glared at Lance. "Oh of course!"
"I didn't say anything!" Lance held up his hands. "Honest!"
"Technically ya did," Todd said. "You told your girlfriend what happened when she got mad at you. I overheard…"
"Of course you would!" Lance snapped. "And then you'd blab it all over the Pit!"
"No I only blabbed it to Al, Fred and Quickie," Todd remarked. "They took care of the rest. I'm learning to delegate."
"You're gonna learn what it's like to have my fist shoved down your throat!" Lance shouted as he started to chase Todd. "Come back here!"
"Sorry kid but around here gossip spreads really fast," Roadblock told Angelica. "How about we get on with our repast?"
"And I believe we have met before lovely lady?" Pietro took Lina's hand and kissed it. Lina startled. "They call me Quicksilver. You can call me anytime."
"Pietro back off. Let's just give her a little space huh?" Cover Girl suggested.
"Sorry Cover Girl, but as the resident player it is my duty to make myself available to all the lovely ladies," Pietro winked.
"Quickie we all know you're still a virgin," Todd rolled his eyes as he hopped back in. "Some player!"
"Just because I act like a gentleman…" Pietro bristled.
"Since when?" Todd looked at him.
"Come on let's go downstairs," Althea said. "Hey where's Lance?"
"Here," Lance walked in wiping his face with a towel. "Thanks a lot for the slime bath Toad!"
"Slime?" Angelica asked.
"Kinda like what Lina spits out," Lance grumbled. "Only more disgusting."
"Yet very effective," Todd grinned.
"You are so disgusting Wart Boy!" Pietro groaned.
"I know you are but what am I?" Todd cackled back. He then shot some gunk onto Pietro's shirt.
"Hey! That's one of my good shirts!" Pietro snapped. He started to chase after Todd. "Come back here and fight like a man you frog!"
"Place your bets everyone," Fred remarked as they started to go downstairs. "You coming Lina?"
"Can…can I have a drink of water please?" Lina asked.
"Sure," Cover Girl pointed to the kitchen door. "There's some soda in the fridge if you…PIETRO! TODD KNOCK IT OFF! I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GOT THOSE LEGOS BUT STOP THROWING THEM!" She went after them.
Alone Lina went into the kitchen. She looked around and went to the fridge. That was when she noticed the knife holder on the counter. She stood there staring at it for what seemed like several minutes.
Almost blindly, Lina pulled out one of the knives.