"To the Delgados..."
Disclaimer: Same as before...
Red Witch - EPCOT, a great theme park. One of my all time favorites...
"Now remember all I said," Roadblock said to all the Misfits and adults that were clustered in the living room, "For we don't want our guests to lose their heads..."
"No fires..." Fred replied.
"No hitting on the reporter..." Pietro remarked, "Or any other good looking female she may bring along. Shouldn't Shipwreck promise that too..."
"HEY!" Shipwreck remarked.
"No experimenting on people..." The Triplets said.
"No drinking...Awk." Polly replied.
"No making out." Althea said.
"And no crazy stories...Shipwreck I'm talking to you." Roadblock replied.
"What? As if I'M somehow responsible for the insanity that goes on around here..." Shipwreck replied.
"Well most of it..." Cover Girl replied, smiling.
"Now, Cover Girl let's be fair, actually nearly all of it." Low Light said.
"I think some people are responsible for more than their share of insanity here." Shipwreck remarked, "For example, Blind Master and Spirit and their little knife throwing demos...That ring any bells..."
"Well at least those are safer than the other things you've done." Blind Master replied, calmly.
"Such as?" Shipwreck replied.
"The fire you started in English class last week readily springs to mind." Blind Master replied.
"That was ONE incident." Shipwreck protested.
"Then there weas the flamethrower disaster...Awk!" Polly squaked.
"Oh shut up feather brain! That was Trinity and you know it." Shipwreck replied.
"Awk, somebody should've been paying attention..." Polly replied.
"And I suppose you're Mister Squeaky Clean..." Shipwreck replied, sarcastically.
"Awk, cleaner than you swabbie, awk..." Polly replied.
"That does it bird! I'm taking your feathers and making them into a duster and selling your plucked carcass to Emeril Lagasse." Shipwreck shouted, and began chasing Polly around the house.
"Shipwreck! Polly! STAND TO!" Cover Girl shouted. Both Shipwreck and Polly froze in their tracks, with Shipwreck standing at attention and Polly perched on his shoulder, "No more antics from you two tonight, got it...?"
"Awk, yes ma'am...Awk." Polly replied.
"Yeah, no more antics..." Shipwreck said.
"I mean it mister..." Cover Girl said, grabbing him by the ear and dragging him back to the living room.
Camille walked up to the front door of the Misfit house and rang the doorbell. A bearded fellow with a parrot pearched on his shoulder opened the door. Cradled in his arms was a tiny little mutant, a toddler from the looks of him, with flippers instead of hands or feet.
"Welcome to Casa Delgado..." Shipwreck said.
"You must be Shipwreck." Camille said, "I've read you're the father of a few of these Misfits."
"A few of them. You've already met Althea, my oldest daughter, also called Wavedancer." Shipwreck replied, letting Camille and her cameraman into the house.
Camille had to admit the nautical motif and the general cheerful air of the place certainly made the Misfits seem less threatening and more human. The French public was going to love this. Claudius shyly clung to Shipwreck's neck when he saw the camera.
"This shy little one is my youngest, Claudius." Shipwreck said, "Say hi to the nice reporter kiddo."
Claudius blinked his bright blue eyes and looked at the bright light and the camera uneasily. He turned back towards Shipwreck, "Dadda?" he said.
"He's a little camera shy." Shipwreck explained.
Creed walked by, carrying Barney. "This is my adopted son," Shipwreck said, motioning Demerest to come over, "Barney. Or Baby Beaky as my middle children have called him."
"My three middle girls, Daria, Brittany, and Quinn." Shipwreck continued, introducing three identical girls with long black hair and blue eyes. The first, Daria had a ponytail on the right side of her head, Brittany had pigtails, and Quinn had a ponytail on the left side of her head.
Avalanche, Xi, and Blob were sitting on the couch with Low Light watching a tape of Hector Rameriez shimmying up the flag pole for all he was worth. The trio was laughing as Low Light said, "Who would have thought Polly could be this bright?"
"Polly dreamed this up?" Lance asked, "Cool."
"What's really cool is how Shipwreck's being unusually well mannered." Fred said.
"Well, leave it to the Blind Master and some device Trinity invented." Lance replied.
"What device?" Fred said.
"Uhm, remember that movie, Saving Silverman..." Lance began.
"You mean Blind Master borrowed electrodes and a battery, connected them to Shipwreck's nipples, and..." Xi replied before Lance and Fred clamped hands over his mouth.
"We're on camera now, Xi..." Lance whisperred as Camille and the cameraman, together with Shipwreck and Creed walked into the living room.
Camille recognized the dark haired teenager as Avalanche. The blonde haired man with red goggles, the round figured boy, and the lizard-like mutant however were unknown.
"The fellow with goggles is Low Light." Demerest began, his mind searching for "He's our resident sniper. The large fellow is called Blob, and the other one is Xi."
"How did this Xi fellow turn out the way he is?" Camille asked, and then in English said, "I mean you no offense mon ami."
"None taken." Xi said, as Demerest translated the last question for him, "My condition is the result of having been raised in a COBRA lab."
"COBRA, as in the terrorist organization responsible for many attacks throughout the world?" Camille began.
Xi nodded sadly, "I was one of many engineered in a lab, but alas I am the only survivor. We rebelled against COBRA and they saw to it we would pay dearly for our defiance."
Blind Master came downstairs just then and asked Low Light, "Have you seen my remote control?"
"What remote control?" Low Light asked.
"It looks like a garage remote." Blind Master asked.
"What garage remote?" Camille asked.
"Oh, I'm just looking for the garage door opener." Blind Master began, "I'm the one called the Blind Master, I teach the kids self defense..."
"...And how to destroy things." Low Light muttered.
"...In the ninja way." Demerest added conspiratorially.
"How do you do that if you can't see?" Camille asked.
"Sight isn't the only thing a warrior can utilize." Blind Master began, "And..."
He reached into his sleeve and extracted a single rose, "...For the lady."
Camille blushed, and was impressed. The Blind Master had been facing her the entire time and placed the rose in question into the palm of one of her hands.
"How did you...?" Camille began.
"I'm sorry, madmoiselle but a good magician never reveals his secrets." Blind Master replied.
Camille, Shipwreck, and the cameraman had just left to find Toad and Wavedancer when Creed joined Blind Master and Low Light.
"What garage remote?" Creed asked, as he handed Blind Master Barney.
Blind Master took the child and said, "Well, there's a reason that Shipwreck's so well behaved right now?"
"Involving the garage remote?" Creed asked.
"Not exactly. It looks like the garage remote, but you've seen the movie Saving Silverman right?" Blind Master asked.
"Right, the braille or non braille version." Demerest remarked.
"You know, the fact that I chose to give a flower to a pretty lady is no reason for your thinly veiled British insults..." Blind Master remarked.
"What?" Demerest replied, "That wasn't intended to be offensive, mate."
"So what do you think of her?" Blind Master said, "I'm no competition, she just doesn't seem like my type."
"She seems nice." Demerest said.
"Meaning what?" Blind Master said, with a grin.
"Meaning nice." Demerest replied.
"You Brits, you're almost an island nation full of Scott Summers..."
"Say again mate?" Demerest replied.
"Nothing." Blind Master said, smiling.
"Spirit, have you seen the garage remote?" Cover Girl asked, "Shipwreck left the garage door open and the switch assembly to close the door doesn't work."
"Is this it?" Spirit said, "I found it in the Blind Master's room. Why it was there I have no earthly idea."
"Thanks Spirit." Cover Girl said. She hit the button and strangely the garage door didn't go down, "Huh, what's wrong with this thing?"
Out in the back yard Toad, Althea and Arcade were dancing around a radio when Camille, her cameraman, and Shipwreck found them. "You've met these three right?"
"Toad, Wavedancer, and Arcade?" Camille said.
Just then Shipwreck danced as an electrical current coursed through his body.
"Nice move, dad." Althea said, unaware of the electrodes.
Shipwreck proceeded to imitate or attempt to imitate his past move when the current zapped him again.
"WHOA!!!" Shipwreck shouted as he spun around because of the electric shock.
"Blind Master, cut it out! I didn't even do anything!" Shipwreck shouted, as he got zapped again.
"Dad? What's going on?" Althea asked as Shipwreck jerked backwards because of the electricity.
"Oh Jeez!!!!" Shipwreck shouted as his shirt caught fire.
"Oh God! Dad!?" Althea shouted.
Shipwreck ran for the nearest bucket and doused the flames. "Are you OK, monsieur?" Camille asked.
"Yeah, that was a little weird..." Shipwreck said, and then he got zapped again and the sparks flew from his chest into the bushes where he'd buried some dynamite the Triplets made the week prior.
BOOM! The bush shot skyward and Camille said to Shipwreck, "I notice that explosions seem quite common here..."
"Lady, you don't know the half of it...WHOAAA!!!!!" Shipwreck said, as he got zapped again.
"Hmm, this darn thing doesn't seem to be working." Cover Girl said as she walked back into the house.
"Hey Blind Master, what did you do to this thing?" she asked.
"Oh, I see you've found my remote controlled Shipwreck Behavior Controller..." Blind Master replied.
"What?" Cover Girl said, "I thought this was the garage door opener."
"It was, until I modified it." Blind Master replied.
"How?" Cover Girl asked.
"You've seen the movie Saving Silverman, right?" Blind Master asked.
"Oh." Cover Girl replied as it dawned on her, "Blind Master, you're a genius..."
TBC (Up next: More insanity and a Friends of Humanity/COBRA conspiracy...)