X-men: Evolution: "Just another Halloween Parade!", an original fan fiction based on the Misfits Universe (Thanks for Red Witch for letting me use her universe, if you haven't checked her stuff…well, you wouldn't be reading this if you hadn't already!)
Legal Notice: I don't own X-men Evolution (if I did, it would be on the air right now), or GI-Joe, or any trademarked characters that will eventually appear on this fan fiction, and I don't own the Misfit's Universe series of fan fiction work either. Once again, thanks to Red Witch for allowing me to use her wonderful universe…now, let's enjoy ourselves here, shall we? Also, this chapter has several spoilers for "Spiderman 2", but since there's a rather small chance anyone reading this hasn't seen the movie already (and if you haven't, shame on you!), we'll just give that small warning.
Chapter Three: "Live from New York…"
While Bayville began to become hell on earth ( although according to several people, including Mystique, Magneto, Senator Kelly and several school teachers and most of the population of the city, Bayville already was "hell on earth" for obvious mutant related issues), two very distinct people in New York city were dealing with the hell on earth that is their everyday.
We'll start with New York's resident superhero/public menace arachnid sensation…who in this moment is asking himself a rather important question…
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"What do normal people do on weekends?"-Peter Parker asked himself, as he dodge a swipe that would had cut off his head clean if it weren't for his spider-sense.
"Do they go to the park with the kids? Yup. Do they go see a movie with the love of their lives? Surely. Do they just stay home and drink beer and eat pizza until there's nothing to watch? A fine choice. Do they found themselves fighting yet another person they looked up to? Only this time instead of a stupid green suit and jet glider loaded with weaponry, or hard hitting tentacles that can crush your skull like a ripe watermelon, or who can forget the marvelous "getting yourself bonded to an alien simbiote and getting rid of it, just for the thing to merge with a former coworker, effectively creating the biggest nightmare I've faced, until said simbiote spawns a second one that fuses with the world's sickest serial killer, and have both things compete for having my brains for dessert, until im lucky enough to defeat both by sheer luck and hope they lock them somewhere deep, really deep and throw away the key"…only in the life of Peter Parker! At least this time they went for the original and novel idea of testing some genetic cocktail on themselves and mutate into an extremely pissed off lizard like thing…thanks, Dr Connors!"-Peter Parker though grimly just as a tail swipe from the green scaled Lizard hit him square on the chest, not only ripping out his Spiderman suit quite severely, but surely breaking something else.
"No problem, it's not like that rib had completely healed yet!"-Peter moaned as he leapt and stuck to a wall, only to proceed with the old yet timelessly effective "web in the eyes of the freak trying to kill you today" trick trying to gain some time.
"Arghhh…just a few weeks ago Mary Jane and I finally got together, we're living in a great apartment, I'm this close to be nominated for Pulitzer for my Spiderman photos, Harry has left the country and seems to have kept my secret identity to himself…then the Peter Parker factor kicks in and my science teacher turns into a lizard man with an appetite for Spiderman…bottom line, karma hates Peter Parker!"-Peter though as he jumped down, and gave the Lizard a double handed slam that send him through a wall…
"Well, I guess someone else has to be having a day as worse as mine… hypothetically speaking, of course"-Peter thought, as the Lizard jumped towards him with a loud hiss.
Actually, Peter Parker was right about the "someone else" part…if he only knew on how many different levels he was right about that one.
You see, New York not only houses the "Amazing Spiderman" (or the "wall crawling menace/freak/enter something bad about Spiderman here", to Daily Bugle readers), but also earth's sorcerer supreme, Dr Stephen Strange (or Dr Strange to fellow heroes, friends, and anyone/anything that threatens earth in a mystical or magical way)…who was having a day as worse as Spiderman's, only this day had lasted a few months now…as we are about to find out.
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Dr Strange's residence…
Dr Strange was not amused…which is something to say, as someone who daily thwarts demons and multidimensional threats to our reality isn't very keen on humor.
The fact that his apprentice, Benny barump…bara….forget it, just call him Benny as everyone else does, was an amateur yet aspiring comedian who had the same ability for humor and entertaining as he had with magic…yet for some twisted joke of fate, the young man had a natural affinity for magical energies.
"People don't choose magic, magic chooses them"-Dr Strange's mentor, the Ancient One, had told Strange once…after having to deal with Benny and the consequences of the boy's mere existence for months, Dr Strange was starting to believe the saying had some twisted irony to it.
"Uhmm…I just felt a terrible disturbance on the magical and astral planes…but I wont be able to pinpoint its location for sure without the "Sphere of Shogototh"…which, surprise, surprise, is not on its pedestal"-Dr Strange said out loud.
Right on cue, the door to his private chamber opened, revealing a beaming Benny, who carried said sphere on a handbag, and had a big backpack on his back.
"Uh…I guess you were looking for this thingie, Doc?"-Benny said, as he handed Dr Strange the sphere…his beaming smile slowly fading.
"Indeed…now, as its pretty much destined to happen no matter what, I will proceed to ask what you took the "Sphere of Shogototh" for, and why the sphere itself looks rather…bright and shiny, considered its several millennia old"-Dr Strange asked in a tone that implied this was normal routine in the house.
"Well…see, it was an emergency, I lost mine and I had a tournament tonight, so I though…I could take that bowling ball for a while…it shines because I gave it a whirl on the machines back there, Doc"-Benny replied.
"I see…Benny, let me tell you about this…"bowling ball": It was forged by the very first mystic masters of this realm, it has passed from sorcerer to sorcerer for millennia, and it's "all seeing power" comes from the inside of the sphere itself, which houses and imprisons not only a thousand demons and ghastly apparitions of fearsome power, but a shard, and therefore, a fraction of the essence, of Mephisto himself, which you will remember I taught you is the personification of eternal evil and the nemesis of light and good since eternity began…after this brief historical lesson, with an added hidden course in common sense, I pray you will tell me at least one good logical excuse for…TAKING OUT SUCH A DELICATE AND DANGEROUS ARTIFACT AND USE AS A BOWLING BALL!"-Dr Strange yelled.
"Uh…I won first prize?"-Benny said as he pulled a big trophy from his backpack.
"You won first prize alright! But your punishment must wait…first I have to see what has happened and where"-Dr Strange said as he said a few incantations and the sphere glowed….
"NO! Who could dare unlash such evil and raw magick on the world?...Benny, pack every single amulets, supplies and scrolls, now! We must go to Bayville, immediately!...But first, we must find someone who must aid us in this dire moment, someone blessed by the spider totem"-Dr Strange said.
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"And stay down! Or next time I'm teaming up with that guy from the Animal Channel!"-Spiderman yelled as he smashed the Lizard with a mailbox for the fifth time, and from the looks of it, the final one, as the creature fell with a hissing moan.
"Freeze!"-the all familiar voice of the SWAT team came from behind him…
"Yeah right! Where were you guys back when he was trying to carve me up? I'm a taxpayer, you know?"-Spiderman said as he jumped on a nearby street light, and swung away…the serum Dr Connors has used on himself would wear in any second, and the authorities could take care of everything else…right now, he had a beautiful wife to visit and ask for a good bandaging session.
That's when a floating man in a cape and a weird outfit along with a young Drew Carey look-alike appeared, floating in front of him.
"Please tell me there isn't a fight involved…I'm kinda due for today on that department"-Spiderman said.
"There will be fighting, Spiderman…a fight for the destiny of every living being on the planet, and you, as someone both blessed and cursed by the spider totem as yourself must be there to stand and fight against evil itself…I'm Dr Strange, a sorcerer and protector of this realm, this is Benny, my…apprentice"-Dr Strange said.
Spiderman looked at them for a bit, and then decided to talk…
"Please refrain from any Donald Trump jokes…Benny himself has covered that aspect excessively ever since I promoted him to "apprentice" status"-Dr Strange interrupted him before he could even say something.
"Okay, I guess there's noting I can do to avoid this here, but I kinda not "heroic quest" material right now…you know, ripped and torn costume, few broken ribs, slightly collapsed lung…"-Spiderman said, when Dr Strange snapped his finger, and both Spiderman's suit and body were back as new.
"Okay, I gotta admit that was way cool…so, where we going Doc?"-Spiderman asked.
"Bayville…a mystical catastrophe has been unleashed on that city…and we may be its only hope"-Dr Strange said as he made a motion and a blue portal opened next to him…
"Bayville….Bayville…not THE Bayville!"-Spiderman moaned as the portal swallowed all of them and closed itself….
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Baville, Stokes County Prison facility….a few moments earlier
"We are under siege! Juggernaut's escaped, allowing those…things to overrun us! The power generators were destroyed by those…monsters, and the sonic fields of the new prisoner's cells are useless without them…those things are loose inside the facility and…Oh my god…its one of them!"-The guard spoke on his radio, as a red and black tendril wrapped around him…but the man then disappeared in a bright light.
"No fair! You were gonna be my eleventh kill today!"-The crimson and black humanoid said in a clacking voice.
"You are hopeless…those people don't matter…only the wall crawler does"- a bigger, yet similar black figure with a white spider across its massive chest said.
"The wall crawler will be here, as I promised…along with two extra victims…kill the wall crawler and the apprentice, but bring me Strange…alive and slightly agonizing, if possible"-Baron Mordo spoke.
"Yes, master it will be…our pleasure! Carnage will gladly slaughter countless innocents for chaos sake!"-The red and black humanoid laughed.
"And I will do as you command…until Spiderman's head is claimed by us, Venom!"-The black and white figure spoke, as both jumped through a wall, and teared a path towards the city.
"Strange…your death will come...but only at the hands of the true master, Dormammu!"-Baron Mordo said as he laughed.
End of Chapter 3
Next: Its an all out war, and the heroes quickly find themselves split apart and on the run from hordes of enemies…Wolverine is forced to team up with Ghost Rider, and another guest star enters the fray!.