The Truth Comes Out
In an abandoned junkyard Thornn walked in wearing her image inducer turned on. "Evan?" She whispered looking around. "Evan!"
"Well, well, well…" A familiar voice purred. "Look what the cat dragged in."
"Feral!" Thornn glared at her sister. "Where's Spyke?"
"Right here," Evan looked at her. "You can turn off your inducer now. Nobody will see us here."
"If you don't mind I'd rather keep it on," Thornn said nervously. "In case you haven't noticed it's open season on mutants and I'd like to be as low profile as possible."
"Oh what? Little sister don't like her looks?" Feral growled. "Suddenly you're too good for us is that it?"
"Hey!" Evan held up his hand. "It's okay. Chill all right Feral."
"How did you get that message to me?" Thornn asked.
"I still have some friends among the Morlocks," Evan grinned. "Remember Piper?"
"Oh that's right," Thornn sighed. "He can control animals just by playing an instrument. What he use a pigeon to deliver it?"
"Yup," Feral grinned. "You know Sis in a way you were right before about Callisto! Way too uptight. So a few humans tried to fry us? They were gonna do that in the first place!"
"I don't think they intended to have half the town be burnt down!" Thornn protested. "And considering what you did to Tommy Spyke I'm amazed she was as controlled as she was about it."
"What do you know about Tommy?" Evan asked.
"You dumped her you jerk!" Thornn snapped. "But you didn't call me out here to gossip about old girlfriends did you?"
"No," Evan sighed. "Listen I've been doing some checking. There's this scientist guy, Dr. Grippin. He worked on the Power 8 formula."
"I know," Thornn said. "The cops are looking for him too."
"I think he knows what really went down that night," Evan said. "I had Feral track him down."
"So what do you want me to do?" Thornn asked.
"Get the X-Men to talk to Grippin before he goes anywhere," Evan told them.
"Oh he ain't going nowhere," Feral snickered. "I made sure of that."
"What did you do?" Thornn asked.
"Well he knew how to make some Power 8 right?" Feral sneered. "Can't have that knowledge running loose. What do you think I did?"
"Tell me you didn't hurt him…"Evan looked at her.
"Okay I didn't," Feral said. "I killed him. That better?"
"WHAT? ARE YOU CRAZY?" Evan shouted. "WHY DID YOU DO A STUPID THING LIKE THAT? WHAT IF HE KNEW SOMETHING?"
"He did, that's why I iced him," Feral said. "Besides he was gonna run to the cops. You told me he had to stay there."
"I didn't tell you to kill him you insane fur ball!" Evan shouted. "I told you to only find out what he had in his files!"
"He had nothing there. I checked. So he's dead! Who cares? One less topsider on our tail anyway," Feral laughed.
"She doesn't care about anything!" Thornn shouted. "Like when you killed our mother!"
"Excuse me?" Feral snarled. "I didn't hear you complaining when I bumped off that creep of a boyfriend of hers!"
"That was different!" Thornn said. "He was trying to rape me! It was an accident! Wasn't it?"
"Yeah kid believe that," Feral snarled. "You always were a naive little fool. Funny isn't it? Out of all of our family I let you live, and why? Because I liked you!"
"What do you mean let me live?" Thornn asked.
"Did you really think Matteo just jumped off the roof that day?" Feral laughed. "Or that mom accidentally threw our baby sister down the stairs?"
"What?" Thornn started to feel sick.
"The baby was easy. Shouldn't have been born anyway," Feral snarled. "She made Daddy leave. And Matt, well he was too bossy. Bossy! Bossy! Bossy!"
"Oh my god…" Evan looked at her. "You're crazy!"
"I've been telling you this for nearly a year and you figure that out now?" Thornn shouted.
"You were the only one that looked up to me," Feral said. "The only one that listened to me. You even made Daddy happy. That's why I spared you. But I guess you're just as bad as the rest…And you know what happens to bad, useless things don't you? They get thrown out!"
"Back off Feral!" Evan shot out his spikes coming between them. "Don't you touch her!"
"Don't touch her? Why? Don't tell me you still have the hots for her?" Feral snarled. "She's one of those stuck up X-Geeks now! She won't even turn off that stupid image inducer! Why don't you show your true colors sister?" Feral lunged towards her.
Evan blocked her attack but somehow Feral managed to grab Thornn's arm. Thornn pulled away but not without shutting off the inducer. It showed her true self, but it also showed that she was wearing some kind of recording device on her. "Thornn?" Evan dropped Feral. "What the…?"
"I'm sorry Evan," Thornn told him. "I'm really sorry…"
"YOU SET US UP!" Feral snarled attacking Thornn. "I'LL TEAR YOUR THROAT OUT!"
She didn't get a chance. A hex bolt knocked her away. "Everybody drop it!" Wanda shouted. She and the other Misfits appeared along with several Joes with weapons drawn.
"Well I should have known…" Evan looked around and looked at Pietro. "I suppose you're loving this!"
"No I'm not. Evan you gotta turn yourself in man," Pietro called out. "Don't make us do this the hard way!"
"Evan we know you were set up!" Spirit shouted. "Give us a chance to prove it!"
"Are you insane?" Feral snarled. "If you want to throw in the towel go ahead! But they're not taking me alive!" She turned and ran.
"Oh no you don't!" Thornn tackled Feral. "You're not getting away this time!"
"Why you little…" Feral struggled to hurt Thornn but was then grabbed by the back of the neck.
"Bad Kitty," Fred chuckled as Feral tried to claw him. "Ow! You know if I wasn't invulnerable that could really hurt!"
"PUT ME DOWN YOU TON OF BLUBBER!" Feral howled.
"Okay," Fred shrugged and threw her against a car, knocking her out cold. He looked at Thornn. "Don't worry. She's okay. I just gave her a cat nap."
Evan however had taken off. "Evan stop!" Pietro zoomed in front of him. "Come on you know this is gonna end badly if you run!"
"Oh come on Pietro!" Evan snarled. "You really think anybody's gonna believe a mutant?"
"You have a point but if you keep running you're gonna end up fighting a lot of guys who aren't gonna care if they get you dead or alive!" Pietro told him.
The other Misfits surrounded him. "Evan think of your aunt," Althea said.
"Yeah how's she gonna feel if you buy it in a shoot out?" Todd shouted.
"I know you're scared but you're gonna have to turn yourself in," Pietro told him. "Did I just really say that?"
"Man things are more screwed up than I thought if you're the one giving me advice like that," Evan sighed. "Okay…But if I get sent to the chair you and I are really gonna have to have it out."
"That's fair," Pietro said. Several police cars could be heard nearby. "Well that's our cue…"
"I'm sorry Spyke," Spirit made a motion for Low Light to bring in some huge handcuffs.
"I know," Evan held out his hands. "You guys are just doing your job. Pretty funny if you think about it. Well Pietro looks like you got me in jail again."
"Yeah but this time I'm really sorry about it…" Pietro looked sad as Evan was handcuffed.
"I know," Evan shrugged. "Just the way things are I guess." The police cars rolled up with a huge transport van. "Here's my ride."
"We'll find out who really did this," Althea said. "I promise."
"Evan Daniels," Abrams walked up to them. "You are under arrest for the murder of Guy Spears. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law…"
Just then the X-Van pulled up. "EVAN!" Ororo flew out of it. "EVAN!"
"Stay back ma'am," A police officer blocked her way.
"But that's my nephew!" Ororo protested.
"Ororo…" Shipwreck walked up to her. "It'll be okay. Let them do their job."
"Oh god no…" Ororo sobbed as Evan looked at her as he was led away into the van. "No…"