Inter-LOAFERS!

By Xenomorph666

Disclaimer: I own only Perfection and Wraith.

DigitalMan and K2 are © My close friend.

Everything else is copyrighted to their correct owner.

Universe: Misfit-Verse

Here we stand

A few minutes after Astral's departure several rifts opened up over the of the Pit. Out of each one came a being with the sense of pure power about them. Then DM, K2, Wraith, Astral and Karma all returned. To their surprise Perfection was smiling.

"All right, now that everyone's here. Let's show that excuse for a Scion how we take care of business!" Perfection said, although there wasn't much conviction.

"Good morning, Perfection." An old man said as he walked into the garage that the Scions were standing in.

"Moe!" Perfection said with a large smile as he gave the old man a great big hug.

"Look at the little mouse, all worried so he has to call his friends." Ragnis gloated as he walked in. Wraith gave him a look of daggers.

"Arrogant ass." Wraith grumbled as he walked over to another side of the garage. Away from Ragnis.

"Yes he is." The mysteriously calm voice of another Scion said. It was Raptor, Scion of Justice. "But he has reason to be."

"Oh come on Maven!" Another voice called, Alteran, Scion of Light was trying to get his twin into the garage.

"HOW DARE THAT LUNATIC CALL ME A WOMAN!" Maven screamed as he was drug in by his brother. "The very thought…"

"Well you are wearing a dress…" Perfection said.

"They're ROBES." Then Maven noticed that Perfection had warped the Scion of Darkness' clothes into a dress. "Oh, bite me you prick." Maven grumbled as he said a chant and warped the clothes back.

"Ok, that was a good one." Astral admitted as he let a chuckle loose.

"Why thank you." Perfection beamed a smile. "Now, to Hawk." Perfection said as he marched away and straight into a wall. "Who…Put that there?" he asked as he was slowly peeled away by Wraith and DM.

"The architects, probably. You dolt." Ragnis sneered. Mosious delivered a quick whap to the back of Ragnis' head with his staff.

"Behave, Ragnis." The eldest Scion said. "We are guests here, as well as defenders."

"Right…" Ragnis said as he rubbed the growing lump on his head. "And what exactly am I and the wonder twins supposed to do while you guys kick old grime's ass?"

"Perhaps something in tune with being the Scion of life. Like protecting it, instead of taking it." Wraith sneered at his Scionic opposite who just silently mocked him like a child. "Childish fool." Wraith said with a huff as Perfection led them to the Pit's meeting room where the Misfits and the JOEs were thinking up strategies on how to deal with Perfection should he refuse to leave.

"I don't like the looks of this." Hawk said as he saw Perfection and the other Scions.

"General Hawk?" Mosious said with a sigh. "Rarely do we Scions use are powers to forcefully do anything, but believe me when I say this: if Perfection and the other combat capable Scions flee and refuse to face Therten, your world will be utterly destroyed. Do not let pride, fear arrogance or even the slightest personality flaw make you think other wise. Therten will destroy this world given any opportunity."

"Guys, I know you like to be in on the plans," DM said, "But the fewer who know what we're going to do, the better. K?" He said with a slight edge to his voice.

The Misfits all turned a collective and concerned look at the JOEs. Hawk simply nodded and the Misfits left with a look of wary confusion in their eyes. Perfection could tell that they hadn't yet gotten their trust back. Then Pietro came up to him.

"You make her happy." He said with a downcast look. "No one's ever made her happy."

When the Misfits were gone, Hawk's face immediately went red. "What is THIS?" He hissed "You're going to fight this Scion HERE? In OUR WORLD?"

"Oh I suppose you'd prefer the dismantling of your sub-atomic structure then?" Alteran chortled. "Listen, we aren't trying to commander your world, we're trying to prevent it from being destroyed."

"All right then." Hawk said, still not fully trusting the Scions. "If you are here to help us, why are you ALL here? DM said Perfection was enough to stop him."

"Hehehe…" Maven chuckled. "Therten is sealed in a sun, courtesy of Mosious here." Maven pointed to his mentor of sorts. "To destroy worlds he reaches out to minds filled with evil and seizes them for his own. Normally the people are at most; high leveled mages or high ranking military or bureaucrats. However this time he has seized the mind of a powerful being able to harness power near to a god's. That fact alone makes him stronger than any single one of us here."

A look of horror and fear crossed on Hawk's face for a second. "What about a being made of energy that's been able to destroy gods?"

"You rang?" DM said. "Well except for the made of energy thing I've done the god killing thing."

"Same here." Astral said with a shrug.

"Wait, you have a world guardian?" Wraith said with a little shock. "Oh man, this changes everything…"

"A what?" Hawk, Duke, Roadblock and the other JOEs all asked at the same time.

"A being of immense power." Wraith began. "They're meant to keep nasty elements like invading gods and a certain trionic Scion away from worlds. Mosious made them eons ago."

"Indeed." Mosious said as he took a seat. "Or rather I planted the seeds for their creation, I cannot directly create life, but I can influence it's growth. I have met a few in my life, so tell me where is this guardian, I would like to meet him."

"Well…" Roadblock began.

"It's kinda like this…" Duke said as he began to explain the existence of Tetsukaeru, the world's guardian that was currently "sleeping" inside both the bodies of Althea and Todd.

"Heh." Perfection said with a chuckle. "Always thought the little tadpole had something off about him."

"This coming from a guy who once used a jar of ear wax as peanut butter." Wraith said, followed immediately by. "Don't ask."

"Wasn't going to." Hawk said giving Perfection his usual look of disturbed confusion. "So what does this mean?"

"It means." Mosious began. "That this battle is little more than an attempt to draw out the world guardian."

"Ok, why?" Duke asked.

"With out the world guardian here we loose a significant amount of power, because all of our essence's our essentially tied to Mosious and thus the guardian. If the guardian is extinguished we pretty much just become powerful mages, and other such things. While Therten retains control over all his powers and Apocalypse's." Maven said with a whole lot of disgust.

"Why would he retain his powers?" Lady Jaye asked.

"Because he's not physically here." DM said with a dour look on his face. "He would have to be physically in the same universe to have his strength reduced."

"And he can beat you with out any interference…" Hawk put everything together. "He wants to destroy all of you."

"Yup." Astral said, "That sounds like Therten to me."

"And he's using our world to do it." Duke said. "So in a way, we're the threat to you."

"Oh don't worry if you were a threat to anyone here they would have rained down sulfur and flame upon your world." Ragnis said, Mosious smacked him not to soon after.

"Behave Ragnis!" He shouted. "We must prepare, in a few days this world may very well cease to exist if we do not plan right."

"Yeah, well good luck with that." Perfection said as he got up and went for the door.

"What? You're not going to come up with a brilliant plan to save us last minute?" Scarlet joked.

"Um, I got lost in a bathroom stall once, you really want me to come up with a plan?" Perfection enlightened the JOEs then he left for Wanda.

The JOEs, though were stuck in a moment of confusion. One that Roadblock managed to break.

"How…" He began to ask.

"Don't ask." All the Scions said as one.

"And the fate of our world lies partially in his hands." Scarlet said with a look of concern.