Halloween Havoc!

To Aaron: Hey Aaron! Yep, the X-Men and Southside Misfits are teaming up against Virus and his army of cyber-zombies. I could imagine Exo becoming Soundwave. Soundwave's deployable tape warriors could be used for a variety of functions, like recon, recording, and even a little extra firepower. Not to mention that Soundwave himself is no slouch with his style of fighting (Psychological). Well, Fyre is the flirtatious, fun-loving, fire-setting, yet harmless kind of crazy. Virus is a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks Althea talks to him in his head and that Toad is an evil, sadistic, twisted deom who has been out to kill him all his life. Compared to Virus, Lisa is really quite harmless. Well, unless she's in a room alone with John. I can imagine that happening. Let's just say people will be seeing clothes fly out the window. Enjoy the new chapter! And I don't think you should tell Lisa what happened to John in the comics. It'd break her little heart.

To SickmindedSucker: Hey Sks! Well, Exo turned into Soundwave because he needed help quick. And in the original Transformers, Soundwave could deploy warriors that turned into cassettes. I think if they did an updated figure of him now, he'd be a CD player or an MP3 player, and the cassettes would become CDs or memory cards. Actually, Exo would be in control in a vehicle mode. Jamie is 13 years old now. Trinity is around 11. Have fun with Fyre. I hope you like the new chapter!

To Raliena: Hey Rae! Obvoiusly, there's a loony on the scene. Actually, there's a bunch of loonies. Can Exo turn into a Thunderbird machine? No, he cannot. He can only turn into mechanical things that are humanoid in shape or have a humanoid form. He can turn into Transformers because their normal forms are human-like than can shift into alternate forms, vehicular or animal. He can turn into Gundams for the same reason, even though some can transform. He cannot transform into Thunderbirds because they are vehicles. When he turns into a robotic form, he gains all the abilities of that robot, like ability to turn invisible as G1 Mirage. He also assumes some of the personality traits of the robot or its pilot, like he becomes more arrogant as G1 Starscream or more of a smart-mouth as Beast Wars Rattrap. He cannot change size when he transforms. He stays his normal height. Unfortunately, that usually causes him to look rather comical at times, considering that most of the robots he turns into are supposed to be many stories tall! Hope that helps, Rae. And I hope you like the new chapter!

To Red Witch: Hey there, Red! I read the new chapters of "This Soap Opera Called Life" and I loved it! Oh man, poor Todd. His pheromones are kicking in. Althea in heat, huh? That we have got to see, RW. Maybe you should do a Road Runner-type one-shot with Toad trying to avoid a heat-crazed Althea. That'd be so funny! I hope you like the new chapter!

Disclaimer: "For sure, yes indeedy." - Chris Kattan as Mr. Feather, Undercover Brother

Chapter 10: The Battle Continues!

The Xavier Institute

"Cyclops! Superstar!" Johnny B exclaimed as he looked at his tricorder. "Mr. Happy over there is controlling the nanites! If we shut Virus down, we shut down the nanites!"

"Then let's stop taking and shut that little $$ down!" Trouble snapped.

"Yeah!" Ray agreed, fist sparking with electricity. The two mutants charged.

"Berzerker! Trouble! No!" Jason exclaimed. Virus smirked.

"Always the dumbest ones." Virus arrogantly laughed. His Battle Pack sprouted a pair of laser cannons. The cannons fired and hit Trouble and Berzerker, sending them flying into a wall. Ray groaned as he got to his feet. Trouble snarled.

"That tickled, mother$#$#$#." Trouble snarled. "I'll #$#$#$ break that $##$'s $#$$# neck!"

"Eric, easy!" Jenni's eye glowed red. "Calm, Eric…You are in your happy place…happy place…" Jenni was hypnotizing Eric into keeping calm. Eric calmed down and he had a smile.

"On beach…Traci Bingham…Massage..." Eric was in his 'happy place'. He started drooling for a second, then snapped back to reality with a snap of Jenni's fingers. "Huh? Oh, man…what a great dream…"

"That…was bloody weird." Virus blinked. "That don't matter. I am the Virus, and I am invincible!"

"You can't beat all of us!" Storm said. Virus laughed.

"I don't have to. That's their job." Virus cackled as the cyber-zombie army busted their way through the front gates and marched/staggered towards the X-Men and Southside Misfits. "And you can't fight them because they're innocent people." Virus cracked an evil smile. "Checkmate. Virus wins."

"I don't think so, Queen of psychos." Forge smirked. "We have a pretty good idea how to stop the zombies. Cut off the head." The X-Men and Southside Misfits all concentrated their attacks on Virus.

"YEOWWW!!!" Virus screamed as he dodged fireballs, optic blasts, hex-bolts, ice blasts, psi-blasts, thunderbolts, and various other projectiles. "DESTROY THEM, YOU BLOODY FOOLS!!!" The zombies' arms formed plasma cannons and fired upon the mutants. Virus eyed the Duncan zombie just standing there and drooling. "What're you doing?" He landed in front of Duncan. "Destroy them! Why are you standing there, you stupid bloody lugnut!?! Destroy them all! Hey!" Duncan grabbed Virus and started dancing with him. "Hey! You bloody fool! What're you doing?! I'm your creator! You're bloody supposed to bloody follow my bloody lead! I'm supposed to bloody lead!" Virus screamed as Duncan continued to dance with him. "Let me bloody go! Oi! I said let me bloody go!" Virus snarled.

Elsewhere in town

"WAAAAAAAAH!!!!!" Senator Kelly screamed as he ran away from a group of laser-firing zombies. "What did I ever do to deserve this!?!?" Kelly screamed. A laser hit his butt. "YEEEEEEEEOWWWWCH!!!!" He smiled when he saw his house. "My house! I'm free! SANCTUARY!!! SANCTUARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kelly screamed when he ran inside. A zombie's stray missile hit the house, and it blew up with a great big KABOOM!!!! The zombies staggered away, moaning electronically. Soon after they left, Kelly staggered out of his house. His clothes were tattered, his toupee was fried, and he was blackened with soot. Kelly coughed. "I got blowed up. Blowed up real good. Take me to the hospital." He fainted. "Wheeee…I fell down and went boom." A satellite fell on him.

Well, well, well! Looks like our heroes' fight is continuing! What insanity will happen next? Will Virus' torture continue? Will Kelly get blown up again? Find out in the next chapter! Suggestions needed badly!