I need to say two quick things; first, part of the AU here is that some of the characters joined the X-men or Misfits early on. Secondly, I'm sorry that I took so long to update. I had a start on this chapter but it mysteriously disappeared. But it's up now.
A New Lead
"All right, Althea said you had a lead for us," said Scott, "So what is it? And it better be good. The last lead we had almost got us killed.
Toad smiled, "We've positive I.D. on one of Extensive Enterprises not so legal operations. A drug supplier in New York City has been selling the type of drugs that only Extensive Enterprises can get their hands on. We're ready to go when you are."
"We're going after criminals?" Asked Tabby.
Kitty grinned, "It'll be just like old times."
"Not quite," said Althea "In order to get the info we need, we're going to be using scare tactics. Here's the plan."
Manuel closed the suitcase that contained what were left of the drugs he was supposed to be selling and scowled. He hadn't made anywhere near his quota today. The crime lieutenant was going to be mad at him.
If you make it back that is. Manuel jumped.
"Who's there?" He asked shakily, "Who said that?"
Something moved in the shadows. Manuel spun around. There was a bamf, and a smell of sulfur and brimstone. Something huge moved in the shadows. Manuel drew a gun and fired three times directly at the source of the movement. There was a clinking sound then silence.
Are you ready to see us face to face?
"Who's talking? Where are you?" Kurt suddenly teleported directly in front of the man.
"Right here," he said, and then grabbed him and teleported. Manuel passed out.
When he woke up he was in an abandoned warehouse, tied to a chair. Lance and Toad stood in front of him. Lance was dressed in black leather. Toad was wearing his normal outfit.
"All right, scum," said Lance, "I'll make this simple so you can understand it. You've been selling drugs supplied to you by Cobra. We want to know where you get them from."
"I can't tell you, he'd kill me."
Lance stepped forward, suddenly menacing, "what makes you so certain I won't?!" The ground shook violently.
Toad stepped between them, "Take it easy Lance," he said soothingly, then turned to Manuel, "look buddy, this will be a lot easier on all of us if you cooperate."
"Look at him!" Said Lance, "He won't talk on his own. But I can persuade him." He swung at him. Toad caught Lance by the wrist.
"I need to talk to you Lance."
They stepped outside the room, and burst out laughing. "Now, that was fun." Said Lance, "I've always wanted to be the bad cop."
"You think he'll break?"
"Hard to say. He didn't seem too nervous though."
"I'll talk to him," Toad walked through the door back into the room where Manuel was tied to the chair. He picked up a glass of water.
"Drink?"
Manuel nodded, and Toad held the glass to his lips. "I'm sorry about my friend, he's crazy. I calmed him down some, but he's still angry. He's had some bad experiences with drugs. Listen, I can't protect you from him if you don't give us something to work with."
"I'm not giving you anything." Said Manuel stubbornly.
"Don't say that. He'll kill you. This one guy, he cut Lance across the face, Lance buried him alive."
"I'm not telling you anything." Manuel 's voice was nervous, he wasn't sure of this at all.
"Look, you tell me where you get the drugs, I'll cut you loose."
"You don't mean that."
"Fine, you don't want to talk, I can't make you. But watch out for Lance."
Toad left. He walked into a room that had been made up with a couch, and several chairs.
"We can get him to talk. But it's going to take a while. How are the other options coming?"
Jean stood up, "His mind's too messed up for me to get much of anything out of him. My guess is he's been sampling his wares a bit too regularly. It will take at least another week for me to get the information we need."
Arcade held up a vial. "In another three days I'll have the truth serum ready."
"Not soon enough. I guess there's only one option left."
Daria, Brittany, and Quinn smiled evilly as they walked out of the room where Manuel was tied up.
"He'll talk." Said Daria, and they teleported.
Lance walked in. Manuel was trembling, and there was a smell of perfume.
"All right, I'll talk, just keep them away from me."
"Good. Where do your drugs come from."
"I don't know, all I know is a guy named Henri will call me, and give me a time and place to pick up the drugs. I'll give him most of the money I made, and he'll give me a fresh load."
"Where do you pick up your next load?"
"Corner of Twelfth and Fifth, at eleven."
"Thanks." Lance focused his powers and the chair sank a few inches into the ground. The earth closed around Manuel's ankles.
At six o' clock the Misfits and X-men left Manuel trapped in the warehouse. At ten o' clock they set up a stakeout on the corner of Twelfth and Fifth. At ten thirty a shadowy figure slipped into the warehouse.
Manuel had succeeded in freeing his left foot from the ground, and was working on his right foot. The figure walked up in front of him. It was a tall, muscular man, with a skull emblem on his chest. The man drew a knife.
There was a scream, then silence.
At eleven Henri entered an alleyway just off the corner that was being staked out.
Toad jogged past. He saw Henri and stopped, as if to rest. He pressed a button on his watch.
Kurt teleported into the shadows of the alleyway. Althea, who had been behind a newspaper on a bench across the street stood up. Lance stopped his jeep, which he had been driving around the block, and he, Kitty, and Peter got out. Two thugs, working as hired muscle for Henri saw what was going on and closed in on their employer. As one of them leaned in to whisper into his ear, Kurt's tail flicked out form the shadows, grabbed the thug's ankle, and pulled him into the shadows. The other drew a gun and fired into the shadows, but Toad's tongue grabbed the gun, and the shot went straight up.
Henri drew a gun of his own and aimed it at Toad. Althea knocked it out of his hands with a flying kick. Kurt teleported Blob behind Henry, and Blob grabbed Henri's arms, and shoved him into Lance's jeep. Lance, Kitty, and Peter got into the jeep, and it roared away. Toad dispatched the thug whose aim he had upset, then he Althea, and Blob used their watches to teleport.
A short while later Toad grinned. "That was almost too easy. I guess the higher up we get, the easier they'll be to crack."
"Looks like." Agreed Scott.
A week later Toad was no longer grinning. "This isn't working. We're tearing through the drug industry like tissue paper, but we're getting nowhere."
"I wouldn't quite say that." Said a figure from the shadows.
Toad, Althea, and Lance whirled towards the source, instantly alert. A man in a red costume, with a double D on the chest was leaning against the wall. His mask had horns on it, making him resemble the usual idea of the devil.
"You've been taking out pawns, but you've taken out just enough to worry the king. Be cautious of his rook. Or would they be a queen?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Althea, "Who's the king? Why the getup?"
"The black knight is following you." Said the man, then dove out the open window.
Toad followed him, shouting out, "what are you, insane?" Toad stuck to the wall part way down, and saw the man swinging on some sort of cable that had attached to a lamppost.
He climbed back up and through the window. "Does anybody have a clue what that was about?"
Lance shrugged, "The guy likes chess."
Wilson Fisk was speaking into a telephone, "yes, you're help was most instrumental in driving the Italians out of Hell's Kitchen. I have another job for you. A group of troublesome mutants is threatening my drug industry. I want you to eliminate them. Yes, yes, one million dollars, but I have to see their bodies."
He hung up the phone and turned to his aide. "If this doesn't go as planned we're going to need a good court representative. Someone who's not seen as associated with this office. And someone with a moral code."
"Wouldn't that make him difficult to bribe?" Asked his aide.
Wilson Fisk smiled. "Exactly. That way they can't accuse us of manipulating the court."
"I see," said his aide. "I have exactly the man you're looking for. Matt Murdock."
"Murdock, hmm, that rings a bell. Well, in any case, put his number aside."
"Yes sir."
The man with the skull on his chest was leaning up against a wall. Henri ran out of the police station, firing his weapon behind him. The man with the skull on his chest drew a gun and fired. Henri collapsed.
The man returned the gun to its holster, turned, and walked away. A police officer with a drawn gun rushed out, saw Henri's body and the man walking away and yelled out...
"Stop or I'll shoot!"
The man turned around, and drew his own gun.
"Nice try buster, this is a police station. You can't take on the entire police force."
"I'm not here to fight you. Even if you don't realize it, you and me, we're on the same side." He fired, hitting the barrel of the officer's gun perfectly. The gun shattered, and the man turned and ran.
"Go after him!" Shouted the officer.
Another officer ran out of the building, took in the scene, including the handle of the first officer's shattered gun, and said, "You go after him yourself, I don't got a death wish."
Well, the plot thickens. The kingpin's involved now, along with two costumed characters, (please tell me you know who they are!! They both have their own comics, and movies, and everything.) Plus the Kingpin's sent someone to deal with the X-men and Misfits. Tune in next time for the action packed continuation, I know, I know, its shameless advertising :) of Rise of Cobra.
A New Lead
"All right, Althea said you had a lead for us," said Scott, "So what is it? And it better be good. The last lead we had almost got us killed.
Toad smiled, "We've positive I.D. on one of Extensive Enterprises not so legal operations. A drug supplier in New York City has been selling the type of drugs that only Extensive Enterprises can get their hands on. We're ready to go when you are."
"We're going after criminals?" Asked Tabby.
Kitty grinned, "It'll be just like old times."
"Not quite," said Althea "In order to get the info we need, we're going to be using scare tactics. Here's the plan."
Manuel closed the suitcase that contained what were left of the drugs he was supposed to be selling and scowled. He hadn't made anywhere near his quota today. The crime lieutenant was going to be mad at him.
If you make it back that is. Manuel jumped.
"Who's there?" He asked shakily, "Who said that?"
Something moved in the shadows. Manuel spun around. There was a bamf, and a smell of sulfur and brimstone. Something huge moved in the shadows. Manuel drew a gun and fired three times directly at the source of the movement. There was a clinking sound then silence.
Are you ready to see us face to face?
"Who's talking? Where are you?" Kurt suddenly teleported directly in front of the man.
"Right here," he said, and then grabbed him and teleported. Manuel passed out.
When he woke up he was in an abandoned warehouse, tied to a chair. Lance and Toad stood in front of him. Lance was dressed in black leather. Toad was wearing his normal outfit.
"All right, scum," said Lance, "I'll make this simple so you can understand it. You've been selling drugs supplied to you by Cobra. We want to know where you get them from."
"I can't tell you, he'd kill me."
Lance stepped forward, suddenly menacing, "what makes you so certain I won't?!" The ground shook violently.
Toad stepped between them, "Take it easy Lance," he said soothingly, then turned to Manuel, "look buddy, this will be a lot easier on all of us if you cooperate."
"Look at him!" Said Lance, "He won't talk on his own. But I can persuade him." He swung at him. Toad caught Lance by the wrist.
"I need to talk to you Lance."
They stepped outside the room, and burst out laughing. "Now, that was fun." Said Lance, "I've always wanted to be the bad cop."
"You think he'll break?"
"Hard to say. He didn't seem too nervous though."
"I'll talk to him," Toad walked through the door back into the room where Manuel was tied to the chair. He picked up a glass of water.
"Drink?"
Manuel nodded, and Toad held the glass to his lips. "I'm sorry about my friend, he's crazy. I calmed him down some, but he's still angry. He's had some bad experiences with drugs. Listen, I can't protect you from him if you don't give us something to work with."
"I'm not giving you anything." Said Manuel stubbornly.
"Don't say that. He'll kill you. This one guy, he cut Lance across the face, Lance buried him alive."
"I'm not telling you anything." Manuel 's voice was nervous, he wasn't sure of this at all.
"Look, you tell me where you get the drugs, I'll cut you loose."
"You don't mean that."
"Fine, you don't want to talk, I can't make you. But watch out for Lance."
Toad left. He walked into a room that had been made up with a couch, and several chairs.
"We can get him to talk. But it's going to take a while. How are the other options coming?"
Jean stood up, "His mind's too messed up for me to get much of anything out of him. My guess is he's been sampling his wares a bit too regularly. It will take at least another week for me to get the information we need."
Arcade held up a vial. "In another three days I'll have the truth serum ready."
"Not soon enough. I guess there's only one option left."
Daria, Brittany, and Quinn smiled evilly as they walked out of the room where Manuel was tied up.
"He'll talk." Said Daria, and they teleported.
Lance walked in. Manuel was trembling, and there was a smell of perfume.
"All right, I'll talk, just keep them away from me."
"Good. Where do your drugs come from."
"I don't know, all I know is a guy named Henri will call me, and give me a time and place to pick up the drugs. I'll give him most of the money I made, and he'll give me a fresh load."
"Where do you pick up your next load?"
"Corner of Twelfth and Fifth, at eleven."
"Thanks." Lance focused his powers and the chair sank a few inches into the ground. The earth closed around Manuel's ankles.
At six o' clock the Misfits and X-men left Manuel trapped in the warehouse. At ten o' clock they set up a stakeout on the corner of Twelfth and Fifth. At ten thirty a shadowy figure slipped into the warehouse.
Manuel had succeeded in freeing his left foot from the ground, and was working on his right foot. The figure walked up in front of him. It was a tall, muscular man, with a skull emblem on his chest. The man drew a knife.
There was a scream, then silence.
At eleven Henri entered an alleyway just off the corner that was being staked out.
Toad jogged past. He saw Henri and stopped, as if to rest. He pressed a button on his watch.
Kurt teleported into the shadows of the alleyway. Althea, who had been behind a newspaper on a bench across the street stood up. Lance stopped his jeep, which he had been driving around the block, and he, Kitty, and Peter got out. Two thugs, working as hired muscle for Henri saw what was going on and closed in on their employer. As one of them leaned in to whisper into his ear, Kurt's tail flicked out form the shadows, grabbed the thug's ankle, and pulled him into the shadows. The other drew a gun and fired into the shadows, but Toad's tongue grabbed the gun, and the shot went straight up.
Henri drew a gun of his own and aimed it at Toad. Althea knocked it out of his hands with a flying kick. Kurt teleported Blob behind Henry, and Blob grabbed Henri's arms, and shoved him into Lance's jeep. Lance, Kitty, and Peter got into the jeep, and it roared away. Toad dispatched the thug whose aim he had upset, then he Althea, and Blob used their watches to teleport.
A short while later Toad grinned. "That was almost too easy. I guess the higher up we get, the easier they'll be to crack."
"Looks like." Agreed Scott.
A week later Toad was no longer grinning. "This isn't working. We're tearing through the drug industry like tissue paper, but we're getting nowhere."
"I wouldn't quite say that." Said a figure from the shadows.
Toad, Althea, and Lance whirled towards the source, instantly alert. A man in a red costume, with a double D on the chest was leaning against the wall. His mask had horns on it, making him resemble the usual idea of the devil.
"You've been taking out pawns, but you've taken out just enough to worry the king. Be cautious of his rook. Or would they be a queen?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Althea, "Who's the king? Why the getup?"
"The black knight is following you." Said the man, then dove out the open window.
Toad followed him, shouting out, "what are you, insane?" Toad stuck to the wall part way down, and saw the man swinging on some sort of cable that had attached to a lamppost.
He climbed back up and through the window. "Does anybody have a clue what that was about?"
Lance shrugged, "The guy likes chess."
Wilson Fisk was speaking into a telephone, "yes, you're help was most instrumental in driving the Italians out of Hell's Kitchen. I have another job for you. A group of troublesome mutants is threatening my drug industry. I want you to eliminate them. Yes, yes, one million dollars, but I have to see their bodies."
He hung up the phone and turned to his aide. "If this doesn't go as planned we're going to need a good court representative. Someone who's not seen as associated with this office. And someone with a moral code."
"Wouldn't that make him difficult to bribe?" Asked his aide.
Wilson Fisk smiled. "Exactly. That way they can't accuse us of manipulating the court."
"I see," said his aide. "I have exactly the man you're looking for. Matt Murdock."
"Murdock, hmm, that rings a bell. Well, in any case, put his number aside."
"Yes sir."
The man with the skull on his chest was leaning up against a wall. Henri ran out of the police station, firing his weapon behind him. The man with the skull on his chest drew a gun and fired. Henri collapsed.
The man returned the gun to its holster, turned, and walked away. A police officer with a drawn gun rushed out, saw Henri's body and the man walking away and yelled out...
"Stop or I'll shoot!"
The man turned around, and drew his own gun.
"Nice try buster, this is a police station. You can't take on the entire police force."
"I'm not here to fight you. Even if you don't realize it, you and me, we're on the same side." He fired, hitting the barrel of the officer's gun perfectly. The gun shattered, and the man turned and ran.
"Go after him!" Shouted the officer.
Another officer ran out of the building, took in the scene, including the handle of the first officer's shattered gun, and said, "You go after him yourself, I don't got a death wish."
Well, the plot thickens. The kingpin's involved now, along with two costumed characters, (please tell me you know who they are!! They both have their own comics, and movies, and everything.) Plus the Kingpin's sent someone to deal with the X-men and Misfits. Tune in next time for the action packed continuation, I know, I know, its shameless advertising :) of Rise of Cobra.