And now it's time for another fun crossover! Like this fic doesn't have enough guest stars!
Fantastic!
Bill was waiting for the Misfits as they left the building. "About time you got done," He grunted. "What's so funny?"
"Well right after we left Shore guess who we ran into?" Todd smirked. "Here's a clue, for once it wasn't Kelly."
"Who then?" Bill asked. "I could use a laugh."
"That jerk Senator Corlino," Wanda smirked. "He was screaming at Hawk and Roadblock saying how he was gonna have his stripes and everything when all of the sudden General Whithalf walks in."
"Oh man…" Bill grinned. "I think I know where you're going with this."
"Well to make a long story short," Angelica told him. "Whithalf was glad what Shore did and told the Senator to go jump in the lake."
"Oh yeah," Bill grinned.
"Then he decided to illustrate his point further by taking out a fire extinguisher and spraying him," Angelica continued. "And that's when they got into a fistfight."
"Oh god…" Bill laughed. "Whithalf won right?"
"Not really, nobody won," Pietro said. "Arcade went with Hawk and the other adults. They're trying to smooth things over with the cops and keep Whithalf and Shipwreck out of jail."
"Shipwreck?" Bill asked. "What did he do?"
"The Senator has a very attractive secretary," Althea told him. "You do the math."
"Adds up to trouble," Bill shook his head. "Why did Arcade go?"
"We sent him to make sure he got plenty of pictures," Wanda grinned.
"You'd be surprised how much blackmail material like that helps us whenever we get in trouble," Todd informed him.
Bill snorted. "Well kiddies as much fun as it's been kicking butt and saving lives, I have to go now."
"Bill, you could always stay with us," Althea said. "Hey nothing would tick your old man off more than that."
"Who's his dad?" Todd asked.
"Cobra Commander," Bill grunted. "Long story which I don't want to go into now. And as appealing as that sounds…sorry kid, I just gotta be on my own."
"COBRA COMMANDER?" Todd's jaw dropped. "Xavier has a kid, Destro has a kid, Mystique and Magneto have a ton of kids…What is this? Is it some kind of requirement that every nutcase has some offspring that nobody knows about or something?"
"I think it's in the by laws," Bill quipped. "See ya around kiddo." He took off.
"Bye…" Xi waved.
"So Cobra Commander has a kid who hates his guts huh?" Pietro asked. "Man I'm liking this guy more already."
"I wish he did stay," Wanda said. "We have so much in common."
"Well so what do you want to do now?" Todd asked, noticing Althea was a little down. "Hey why don't we check out Washington DC before we head back. I mean how many chances do we get to sightsee?"
"Well Spirit is looking after my sisters, the babiesand Spyder," Althea said. "And I know the others are gonna be tied up with my Dad and Whithalf for a while. Why not?"
"Where do you want to head off to?" Wanda asked.
"How about the Smithsonian?" Fred asked. "I've always wanted to go there."
"Really Fred?" Angelica asked. "I never knew that."
"None of us ever knew that," Pietro remarked.
"Hey I like history and culture stuff," Fred told them. "And the best part of all is that they actually have Archie Bunker's chair in there! Come on!" He practically ran down the street.
"Ah that explains it," Althea shook her head as they walked behind him.
"I should have known," Wanda sighed.
"Well…" Lina shrugged. "It's a start anyway."
Soon they were in the museum. "Good thing I still had Pop's credit card," Althea remarked. She looked up. "TOAD! GET OUT OF THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS!"
Todd was making plane noises. "Just let me shoot down the Red Baron and I'll be right there!"
"Oh brother…" Wanda grunted. She walked over to Lina and Angelica who were looking at an art exhibit. "Well that's an interesting painting. How many noses does that woman need? Or is that a guy?"
"I figured we should take in the sights soon before somebody throws us out," Angelica said.
"I wish I'd brought an image inducer," Lina noticed the stares some patrons were giving her. "I feel like I'm the one on display."
"Hey remember Misfit Rule #1," Wanda told her. "It doesn't matter what other people think."
"I thought Misfit Rule #1 was annoy the X-Men as much as possible?" Lina asked.
"That's more like our goal in life," Wanda explained. "Not really a rule per say but…"
"Don't worry Lina," Angelica said. "You're not exactly alone here."
"Hey look at me!" Pietro ran by with a familiar leather jacket. "I'm the Fonz!"
"And with my brother around you're not exactly going to be the center of attention," Wanda groaned. "Come on let's go see what he did with the guards…"
Meanwhile Todd had come down and he and Althea were walking alone in another part of the museum. "Okay Al spill it," Todd said. "What's got ya down?"
Althea sighed. "Billy was a lot older than me but growing up on the Pit, he was kind of like a big brother you know? But Cobra Commander went way too far and kept brainwashing him or trying to brainwash him every chance he got. Billy broke the hold he had on him, but…"
"He snapped didn't he?"
"Like an Italian breadstick at the Olive Garden," Althea sighed. "So he's been doing this lone wolf kill all Cobras thing. This is the first time I've seen him in five years. First he left, then my mom and… well you get the picture."
"I'm sorry Al," Todd put his arm around her.
"Hey I survived," Althea shrugged as she hugged him back. "I'm a big girl ninja."
"Yeah and you got us now," Todd said. "You're never alone." He kissed her.
"Whoo hoo! Go Toad!" Fred whistled as he and Lance walked up to them.
"Yeah that's the problem," Althea groaned as she pulled away. "Don't you have some art you can be setting on fire or something?"
"Hey give us some credit," Lance scoffed. "We're not just gonna blow up and trash a place because we're bored."
"Since when?" Todd asked.
"You know what I mean," Lance glared at him. "Wanda's corralled Pietro and we're heading out before the guards wake up. Don't ask. For once we're going to leave without too much damage going on."
That was when something huge broke through the walls. Two huge combatants tumbled past them crashing into every single piece of art in the room. "Well so much for that pipe dream," Lance sighed.
"Can't we go one place without some kind of disaster happening?" Althea groaned. "What the heck is going on around here?"
"Oh it's just your average maniac going on a rampage," A guy on fire told them as he flew by.
"Yeah that explains a lot," Althea said.
"I know that guy!" Fred pointed as he saw who was fighting. "The Rhino? Isn't he one of Spider Man's bad guys?"
"What's he doing here?" Lance asked.
"Maybe he's looking to move?" Todd scratched his head. "But who's the orange rock he's fighting?"
"Dunno," Fred said. "The flying fire guy's new too."
"Should we be getting involved in this?" Lance asked.
"I don't know," Todd said. "I mean I don't wanna horn in on their action if you know what I mean?"
"Yeah but if we don't they're gonna trash the place and we'll get blamed," Althea said.
"All right you have a point," Lance sent out a shock wave that separated the two combatants.
"Hey!" The orange guy shouted. "What'd ya do that for?"
"You're wrecking the place that's why!" Althea snapped.
"Okay I don't know what's going on here but can we talk?" Pietro ran up and somehow managed to get a couch under the Rhino.
"AGGGHH!" The Rhino screamed and started to smash everything.
"Guess not!" Pietro gulped as he ran off.
"Oh yeah you're a real help!" The fire guy snapped. "You kids get out of here!" He fired at them.
"Hey! You cool off!" Todd shot out some slime at the fire guy, which burned up immediately. "Uh Al…"
"Sprinkler system," Althea ordered.
"I'm on it," Lance ran off only to be stopped by a huge rubber hand. "What the…"
"Gotcha!" A large stretchy man shouted. Suddenly a burst of flame hit his hand. "Ow!"
"Let him go!" Angelica flew up with the other girls behind. She saw the flame guy coming up to her. "Another fire mutant?"
"I'm not a freaky mutant!" The fire guy snapped.
"Oh yeah, a guy who's completely covered head to toe in fire is so normal," Pietro quipped as he ran around creating a tornado, creating a vacuum around him. The stretchy man let go of Lance when Angelica blasted him again and went to his companion's aid.
Lance fell back on something invisible. "I think I just landed on Xi," Lance said. "Thanks for breaking my fall buddy."
"Uhhhh…" The invisible figure moaned.
Meanwhile Fred was mixing it up with the two combatants. "Okay I know he's a bad guy but are you bad too or are you just fighting?" Fred asked the orange rock guy as he punched Rhino.
"Fighting the bad guy!" The Orange Rock guy shouted.
"Oh well in that case move over!" Fred hit the Rhino in the jaw at the same time as the Orange Rock guy. Rhino fell back flat on the ground.
"Nice punch," The Orange Rock guy nodded.
"You too," Fred nodded. "Wait you're good guys right?"
"Yeah?"
"Then why are our teammates fighting?" Fred pointed to the melee going on between the Misfits and the other two people.
"Because we have idiots on both sides?" The Orange Rock guy shrugged.
"Yeah I'll buy that," Fred nodded.
"Will somebody please tell me what the heck is going on here?" Lance shouted
"Hey Xi since you're invisible maybe you can do some reconnaissance," Althea said as she grabbed the body Lance sat on. "Figure out what's going on here. Xi? Xi come on!" She shook the invisible figure.
"I'm not this Xi person okay?" A blond woman revealed herself.
"Aggh!" Lance backed off. "Another mutant that make herself invisible?"
"I'm not a mutant," She groaned. "Although I could certainly use some mutant healing abilities right about now."
"ALL RIGHT EVERYBODY SHUT UP AND STOP FIGHTING RIGHT NOW!" Wanda shouted. Everyone did so. "That's better."
"I don't think everyone heard you Wanda," Pietro pointed.
Suddenly a short, ugly bald man came into view. He seemed to be struggling with something, or someone on the other side of the room. "Let go of me! Aggh!" He fell to the floor unconscious.
"Sue?" The fire guy powered down and revealed his normal self. "Did you get him?"
"Not quite," Xi appeared.
"AGGGH!" The fire guy backed away in fright.
"A guy who sets himself on fire is scared of a little lizard boy who can make himself invisible?" Pietro remarked.
"Speedy Gonzales here has a point," The giant orange rock man chuckled.
"Johnny I'm over here," Sue walked over.
"Hey Hothead here ain't exactly the most observant guy in the world," Orange Rock guy snickered.
"Okay who is this nut and what happened here?" Angelica asked.
"He's called the Puppet Master," Sue said. "He has the magical ability to control anyone he makes a clay model of."
"Boy, and I thought we had some weird enemies," Todd shook his head.
"Okay now that the fight's over who are you guys?" Althea asked.
"Reed Richards," He shook her hand. "This is my fiancée Sue Storm."
"Otherwise known as Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman," Sue told them. "The hothead is my brother Johnny, AKA the Human Torch."
"And this hunk of rock here is the ever lovin' Thing!" Thing pointed to himself. "Ben Grimm to my friends."
"Together we're the Fantastic Four," Reed explained.
"The what?" Pietro blinked.
"I've heard of 'em," Althea said. "Their bodies were mutated due to cosmic radiation, no X-gene."
"So these guys are heroes?" Lance asked.
"Yup," Althea nodded.
"You couldn't have mentioned this at the beginning of the fight?" Wanda groaned.
"Hey wait I know who all of you are," Johnny said. "You're the Misfits."
"Yup," Althea nodded. "I'm Wavedancer, this is Toad, Blob, Avalanche, Scarlet Witch, Firestar, Dragonfly, Quicksilver and Xi."
"Nice to meet you," Fred shook Ben's hand.
"Likewise," Ben nodded."Heard about that nutjob Stryker. We was down here in DC at the time following the trail of this galloot!"
"So what happened?" Angelica asked. "What is all this about?"
"Long story short Puppet Master used his powers on the Rhino to try and steal some classified documents," Sue told them.
"Boy is he gonna be miffed when he wakes up," Fred pointed to the Rhino.
"Well he escaped from jail anyway," Reed told them. "Sorry about the mix up."
"No problem," Althea waved. "One thing though, when the people ask who did the damage, make sure you tell them it wasn't us!"
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"Can you believe this?" Pietro grumbled as he read the newspaper the following day. The headline read: FANTASTIC FOUR SAVES THE DAY. "Barely a word about us!"
"Hey at least we didn't get blamed for anything," Lina said.
"You gotta admit that's a first for us," Arcade said.
"Although the Fantastic Four's exploits have been mostly undocumented," Pietro read. "Already the public is proclaiming this group of cosmic powered human heroes."
"Yeah the public loves them," Lance grunted folding his arms. "Just what we need, more competition for the spotlight!"
"When are you ever going to learn to see the bright side of things?" Todd asked.
"When good things actually happen," Lance folded his arms.
The phone rang. "I'll get it," Angelica went off to answer it in the next room.
"Think about it," Todd said. "Okay technically they're not mutants but if people accept them, sooner or later maybe they'll start thinking that mutants might not be so bad if they have the same kind of powers."
"Yeah and maybe monkeys will sprout wings and fly around throwing dollars from the sky," Lance grunted.
"Well it can't hurt to have them as contacts at least," Althea said. "You never know who'll you will need to have as an ally in the hero biz."
"Yeah and they seemed kind of nice," Wanda said. "I mean once we stopped fighting each other."
"I dunno there's something about that Torch guy that burns me up," Pietro growled. "And not in a good way."
"There is a good way to be burned up?" Xi asked.
"Normally I would expect someone like Pyro to say that line," Lance said.
"He's just got this superior know it all attitude that bugs me!" Pietro huffed. "I hate people who think they're superior. It just makes it harder for those of us that are."
"Well the Thing wasn't so bad," Fred said. "Real down to earth kind of guy. Got his e-mail."
"Like Toad said," Althea said. "This is a good thing. If you think about it we've had a pretty good couple of days. We protected and enlightened a congressman who turned out to be a mutant, kicked some bad guy butt, made some new superhero friends and got some good press. Things are good right now so don't…" She noticed Angelica walking in with tears in her eyes. "Angelica? What's wrong?"
"You look awful," Pietro said. "What happened?"
"It's Thunderbird," Angelica told them. "He's dead…"