Southside Days
Hello folks! L1701E here! That's right, I'm re-teaming up two mutant teams that I never really had a chance to concentrate on lately: The X-Men and the Southside Misfits! Basically, the two mutant teams spend a day at the beach together! I hope you enjoy the new story!
Disclaimer: All characters belong to me, Aaron, or Marvel Comics. Do I look like I own any of the established characters! Anyway, here's your quote: "It's like someone ran a herd of cows through a juicer." - Carl, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Chapter 1: Not You Guys Again!
A beach in Hawaii
"I have no freakin' idea why we're back here in Hawaii." Scott Summers grumbled to Jean Grey. The two were walking down the beach, and Scott was carrying an umbrella and several blankets. "Every time we come here, it's a disaster. If it's not some super-powered bad guy, it's one of the Misfits, in some incarnation."
"Scott, relax." Jean smiled. "It's going to be fine. We came to Miami to relax and have a great time." She pointed at the New Mutants lounging on the beach. Sam, Roberto, and Ray were building a sand castle, Jamie was helping out by building a city around them, Bobby and Jesse were surfing, and Paige, Tabby and Amara were sunbathing.
"I suppose so." Scott admitted. He let out a small smile. "Okay. Let's park here, Jean." Scott put the blanket down and put up the umbrella.
In town
Kitty Pryde and Danielle Moonstar, the X-Man and New Mutant respectively codenamed Shadowcat and Mirage, walked down the street of the Hawaiian town, looking for some souvenirs. Dani eyed a poster on a wall.
"Oh no…" Dani groaned.
"What's wrong?" Kitty looked at the poster. It was a poster promoting a certain group of Chicago mutant rock musicians/superheroes. Kitty grinned. "Oh my God! Like, the Southside Rockers!"
"Great." Dani grumbled.
"Dani, the Rockers are a bunch of like, totally nice people! Don't you, like, start looking at them through Scott's eye-view."
"No no, Kitty. They are nice, but it's just that…Mike is annoying." Dani sighed. She was referring to Mike Baxter, the Southside Rockers' bass guitar and saxophone player. Half Native American and half Caucasian, Mike was also codenamed WrongWay as a joke on his mutant ability to find anyone and anything and his X-Gene enhanced photographic memory. He was also a flirtatious practical joker, and Dani was often annoyed by his antics, considering that he liked to flirt with her.
"I think you like him." Kitty smirked. "I can tell you like, so want to grab him and give him a great big kiss. Rock stars have that effect on women, you know." Dani's jaw dropped.
"Yeah right!" Dani huffed. "Like I ever want to kiss that goofball. He's an idiot, his jokes are terrible, his pick-up lines are worse, and he thinks he's some big star or something!"
"Well, he is a musician." Kitty grinned. "Oh come on! It's nice that the Southsiders are here. Their music careers are like, soooo taking off!"
Back at the beach
"I'm going to go get some ice cream." Scott said to Jean as he got up.
"Okay, Scottie…" Jean mumbled, turning around to tan her back. Scott walked toward the ice cream cart. His eyes were closed behind his glasses and he was humming some song as he walked toward the cart. Suddenly, he felt himself knocking into something and falling on his butt. The person let out a curse. Scott opened his eyes, and he found himself looking up at the face of a certain bad-tempered African-American dreadlocked super-strong drummer. And he was none too happy. Ice cream was on his black shirt.
"Oh, it's you, punk." Eric "Trouble" Phillips sneered down at Scott.
"Oh no, not you again." Scott moaned. Trouble grabbed Scott by the throat, picked him up, and put Scott's face close to his.
"You really are not on my good side, punk." Trouble growled in Scott's face.
"Oh put him down, Eric." A familiar voice said. Trouble turned his head and saw John Gooden, the electrokinetic speedster and Southside Rocker keyboardist codenamed Johnny B. Goode. With him was Professor Xavier, floating in his yellow hoverchair. Johnny B was the one speaking. "We're all here on vacation, so let's try to get along, huh?"
"Yeah, yeah." Eric grumbled, dropping Scott. Scott fell on his butt and ran away.
"So, you are here in Hawaii for a musical performance." Xavier said to Johnny B.
"Yep!" Johnny B grinned widely. "I managed to get me and my fellow Southsiders a gig all the way here in Hawaii. It wouldn't be right to inconvenience you or GI Joe for transport, so I built some teleportation units to allow us to transport here."
"Trust me, Professor. The kid sometimes doesn't know when to put the soldering iron down, but when he does, he's put out some pretty crazy stuff. I think he may be able to rival your boy Forge in inventing." The Native American Joe codenamed Raven said as she made her appearance. Raven was an ex-Strato-Viper who defected to the Joes and now was the unofficial Joe guardian of the Southside Misfits. "Although, their talents come from different things. Johnny's is a talent, and Forge's is a mutant ability."
"Nice to see you have such faith in my talents, Raven." Johnny B joked. "Anyway, we're here to do a gig WHOA!" He saw Remy LeBeau, the X-Man codenamed Gambit, run by. Chasing him was the X-Man known only as Rogue.
"Swamp Rat, get your Cajun butt back here right now before Ah pound you!" Rogue snapped.
"Sounds like that Cajun just found out we were here." Eric chuckled.
"You have to admit, Professor." Johnny B snickered. "At least we're better to have around than the original Misfit team when it comes to fights." Xavier sighed.
"Yes, I'm going to have to agree with you." The X-Men's founder agreed.
"WHAT!" Jean's voice was heard in the background.
From a secret location
"Yes…" A shadowed figure said as the figure looked at Hawaii through a monitor. "Yes…This is perfect. This will be the perfect place to start my campaign of world domination!"
Well, well, well! Looks like a new team-up also will bring new troubles! What insanity will happen next? Who is the figure? And how is their plot for world domination going to go down? Can our heroes stop it? Find out in the next chapter!