The Dawn of Evil
"I really appreciate you coming over and helping Mara with the kids," Shipwreck said to Cover Girl as they approached his house. "I mean I got a Greenshirt watching the kids with her today but they can be a handful."
"Well with a wife stuck in a tank and four kids…" Cover Girl said. "Is that smoke?"
"Oh no!" Shipwreck ran inside. "What in the seven seas happened here?" The furniture was scorched and smoking. There were holes in the walls and the female Greenshirt was in a corner rocking back and forth.
"Puppies and kittens…" She whimpered. "Puppies and Kittens."
"DADDY!" Seven year old Althea ran in carrying a burned bunny doll. "The babies hurt Mr. Big Ears! And they made a mess!"
"What?" Shipwreck asked. Suddenly he heard deranged laughter. His eyes widened when he saw a small crib flying through the halls with three two-year-old girls laughing. He was nearly knocked over. By the contraption.
"GO BOOM!" The girls giggled as they held some weird device made out of tinker toys, Lego big blocks and something glowing. Cover Girl ducked as they used it to blow up the door and flew off laughing.
"What the…" Shipwreck was in shock. "How did…?"
"I don't know what they did but the refrigerator is all broken," Althea tugged on his arm and dragged him into the kitchen. "See!"
"This thing looks like it was torn apart!" Shipwreck gasped. He looked at the Greenshirt who was being held by Cover Girl. "What the hell happened?"
"Fire…Big fire…Explosions…" The Greenshirt whimpered. "Find my happy place…Puppies and Kittens."
"I had nothing to do with this!" Althea shouted. "I tried to stop them and they locked me in the closet. And Mommy's in the basement."
"The basement?" Shipwreck gasped.
"It's okay, the babies flooded the entire basement with water so she can breathe," Althea said.
"WHAT?" Shipwreck gasped.
Cover Girl's communicator rang. She answered it. "Yes? What? How did they…? We'll be right there! Shipwreck your kids just got control of a tank!"
"What? How is that possible?" Shipwreck asked.
"They're your kids!" Cover Girl snapped.
Several hours and a few explosions later…
"Psyche Out how is it possible that three two year old little girls managed to wreck half a base?" General Hawk growled. He was in the medical lab with Cover Girl, Shipwreck, Beach Head and Althea. Shipwreck's wife Mara was in a tank with a communication system in it so she could hear and speak. Due to a Cobra experiment, Mara was unable to breathe out of the water. The babies were in a large playpen playing with some toys.
"PUNISH THEM!" Althea pointed to her sisters. "PUNISH THEM!"
"We'll get to that sweetie," Cover Girl said.
"I WANT VENGEANCE!" Althea cried. "They hurt Mr. Big Ears!"
"What did I say about you calling me names?" Beach Head snapped. His arm was in a sling.
"She meant her doll," Cover Girl glared at him.
"Oh…I knew that," Beach Head gulped.
"You're lucky that tank ran out of gas when it did otherwise we wouldn't have a base left!" Hawk said.
"Well I've been observing them and discovered they can do many fascinating things," Psyche Out said. "Did you know they figured out how to take apart large electrical objects all by themselves?"
"We do now!" Mara snapped. "But how? And why?"
"According to these test scores their IQ's are extremely high," Psyche-Out said. "They're easily in the genius level."
"Shipwreck's kids are geniuses?" Cover Girl gasped.
"They must take after their mother," Beach Head grumbled.
"Children who have these genius traits at this young an age are easily bored and very curious," Psyche Out said. "And their mutant physiology makes them more mobile and coordinated than most children their age."
"So what do we do?" Mara asked.
"PUNISH THEM!" Althea screamed.
"No sweetie," Psyche Out said kindly. "They're too young to know what they're doing."
"Wanna bet?" Althea told him.
"What we need to do is to give the children projects that will keep them occupied," Psyche-Out said. "Allow them to grow yet have loving discipline and boundaries."
BOOM!
"HOLY CRAP!" Shipwreck startled as he saw the smoking side of the playpen. The triplets had made a hole in it with some strange device and were trying to crawl away.
"And if that doesn't work we could always put Nyquil in their juice and hope it knocks 'em out cold," Psyche Out gulped.
"Oh you're some help!" Cover Girl snapped as she tried to corral the triplets.
"How in the world could three two year olds make an explosive out of building blocks, apple juice and a Cabbage Patch Doll?" Hawk shouted as he held up the device.
"Hmmm…They may be smarter than I thought," Psyche-Out said.
"Ya think?" Shipwreck snapped.
"Hawk…" Beach Head gulped. "I'm afraid. Very afraid…"
"You're afraid?" Mara shouted. "I have to live with them!"
"You have good reason to be afraid," Hawk told them. "Somebody call Cobra, they're no longer the biggest threat to the world! Shipwreck's kids are!"
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"To this day I have no idea how we managed to get those girls past the age of ten without blowing up the Pit," Shipwreck shook his head. "They blew up a few other places…"
"Well having ninjas and soldiers watching them twenty four seven didn't hurt," Roadblock sighed. "Even though we got hurt several times!"
"They did blow up our back up base when they were three," Cover Girl said. "Don't ask how."
"Maybe it's a good thing I never found the girls with Cerebro," Xavier winced.
"Yeah who knows what the little maniacs would have done with it," Logan moaned.
"Well we all must be doing something right," Cover Girl said. "Despite all the insanity that happens around here the kids are mostly good. We've even turned some members of the Brotherhood around."
"Yeah out of all the kids we've been taking care of only one of them turned out to be a bad apple," Low Light said.
"And you call me an idiot?" Shipwreck smacked Low Light on the head with a newspaper. "She's sitting right there you know?" He pointed to Ororo.
"Hey! It's not like Evan was her fault!" Low Light said. "Sorry Storm."
"That's quite all right," Ororo sighed. "Looking back on it now…There were signs. I just wish I could have…"
"I know how you feel," Xavier sighed. "In my case it's Magneto I failed. You have to understand he wasn't always the man he is now. But he'd seen so much tragedy in his life…"
"That doesn't excuse the things he's done," The Blind Master said.
"Well this has turned into a depressing conversation," Low Light grumbled. "I liked it better when we were talking about the kids."
"You're right," Ororo said. "You have to admit they've come a long way since…"
Suddenly the ground shook. "THAT'S IT ALVERS!" Scott shouted. "YOU'RE DEAD!"
"NOT IF I GET HIM FIRST!" Peter shouted.
"PIETRO YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT!" Wanda screamed.
BOOM!
"TABITHA! WATCH IT!" Ray shouted. "ALL RIGHT THIS MEANS WAR!"
The adults cringed when they heard the sounds of fighting in the next room. "Then again…some things never change," Ororo sighed.
Yes this fic is over, mostly because I have a lot of other fics I want to work on! Hope you enjoyed reading this fic as much as I have writing it!
