Inter-LOAFERS: Dance-Dance-Feva!
By Xenomorph666
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Universe: Misfit-Verse
Alliance, Allegiance, Agony
The situation was tense aboard the Joes transport and it was not better in the Planeteer's Geo-copter. The Misfits and Joes were worried about the possibility of Magneto's army being at the location that their source had revealed. The Planeteers were busy worrying about the possible return of Captain Pollution. Other than their worries, the trip to the landing zone was incredibly uneventful.
When the groups landed the Joes immediately committed to radio silence and gave the Planeteers safety gear and first aid kits. Then the Joes and Misfits made their way through a small maze of small canyons and crevices until they found themselves in a wide open area with a single large pitched tent. They all knew what the single tent with now people meant.
"TRAP!" Roadblock shouted as the canyon behind them collapsed.
"Indeed, Joe, indeed." Magneto descended.
"I knew it!" Scarlet Witch hissed, "You lying, manipulating, piece of crap!"
"Wanda is that really any way to speak to your father?" Magneto narrowed his eyes in anger. "Besides I only half-lied, St. John's loyalty is in question, but I think you know what that means."
"WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HIM?" Ma-ti shouted in anger.
"What would you care human?" Magneto casually gave the Planeteer his usual evil glare.
"I know you're a liar and manipulator, I know what you did to get him to come to you!" Ma-ti's voice was ragged with anger.
"You make it sound unique." Magneto chuckled. "I simply removed that which was in my way, of course it worked out nicely that those humans were there to do the same to him."
"What's he saying?" Wheeler asked in confusion.
"I had St. John's family killed." Magneto said casually, "He just assumed the humans that were there to kill him, had killed his family."
"You're a monster." Linka gasped.
"Tell us something we don't know." Avalanche spat.
"You just keep getting more and more depraved, you know that right?" Arcade snapped.
"You should be quiet human; after all you may find yourself fully occupied in the next few minutes." Magneto sneered as he spoke into a small communicator. "Mastermind, have Plunder summon their minion."
A few seconds later five dark beams of light pierced the sky and met at a singular point above Magneto. From that point a strange and twisted skeleton grew, then came the muscle and finally the jaundiced yellow skin littered with welts and rashes. Captain Pollution had returned.
"Hey! I'm BAAAACK!" Captain Pollution smiled.
"Dear god that's sick." Wavedancer blanched.
"Oh, hey a blue haired hottie." Captain Pollution gave a perverted grin.
"Yeah, keep dreaming Captain Jaundice." Wavedancer rolled her eyes.
"Only one choice now." Wheeler nodded to Kwame.
"Yes." Kwame agreed. "Let our Powers combine! EARTH!" Kwame focused his ring on the ground.
"FIRE!" Wheeler joined in.
"WIND!" Linka shouted.
"WATER!" Came Gi's cry.
"HEART!" Ma-ti focused his ring and the ground shook.
A powerful, yet kind voice boomed from the earth as a crystalline form rose from the crust. "By your powers combined, I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!"
"Go, Planet!" The Planeteers shouted, even a few Misfits and Joes joined in.
"Well, well, I was hoping this wouldn't happen until later Pollution." Planet eyed his evil twin.
"Oh, really, well now I'm not stuck in that stupid floating hell, so get ready for the pain!" Pollution launched a ball of green fire at the heroic Captain.
"Don't think so." Avalanche said as a spire block jutted from the ground and blacked the powerful radioactive blast.
"What the; Where'd you come from you little twerp!" Captain Pollution shrieked.
"Well let's see when a mommy and a daddy fall in love…" Toad grinned as Pollution threw a small fit.
"I meant; where did he get those powers!" Pollution shrieked.
"Oh, well in that case." Quicksilver smiled. "When a mommy and a daddy fall in love…"
"GAH!" Pollution screamed.
"Wow, you guys work fast." Planet chuckled, and then focused on the tent. "Ma-ti, you're friend is in there!"
"What?" Wheeler asked in confusion as Ma-ti simply ran towards the tent.
"Hey, wait up Ma-ti!" Wheeler ran after his younger friend.
"Excellent." Magneto grinned as several mutants came out of the tent. "Sabertooth, Mastermind, Spiral; destroy them!"
"Whoa!" Wheeler backpedaled as he grabbed Ma-ti by the collar, just in time to pull him away from one of Sabertooth's attacks. "Need some help here?"
"Not a problem!" Captain Planet slammed down into the ground and knocked the evil mutants back several feet where they collapsed the tent.
"Cap, get John!" Ma-ti yelled.
"Okay then!" Captain Planet ran over and tossed the tent off what he thought was John. He was immediately doused in a pillar of flame when he did so.
"HA! TAKE THAT!" Pyro shouted as he continued to flame the hero.
"You know that doesn't hurt me, right?" Captain Planet asked as he absorbed the flames into his body.
"Whoa." Pyro blinked. "How'd you do that?"
"ST. JOHN!" Ma-ti shouted.
"Eh?" Pyro turned to see Ma-ti running towards him. "What's that little pipsqueak human up to?"
"He's trying to help you." Captain Planet smiled as he flew up. "I'd listen to him if I were you."
"St. John." Ma-ti huffed as he stopped in front of the mutant. "Do you remember me from the dream?"
"Eh?" Pyro squinted. "Oiy! It's you, you bleedin' heart human, I oughta roast you…"
"I'm not your enemy." Ma-ti said.
"Pyro, don't stand there, kill him and prove your loyalty." Magneto glared, "Or are you as weak as Mastermind said you were."
Pyro looked at Magneto, then to Ma-ti and shrugged. "Sorry mate, orders are orders." He raised his flamethrowers high.
The others saw this and tried to respond.
"We gotta stop him!" Quicksilver went to run, but was held fast a strange purple slime. "Hey, what the heck?" He looked over to see everyone's feet entangled.
"Ha, bet you though I was freaking out, huh!" Captain Pollution shouted in Quicksilver's face.
"Maybe, but you forgot something." Quicksilver smiled.
"Oh yeah, what?" Pollution grinned.
"Him." Quicksilver pointed behind the dark Captain.
"Oh crud, I did." Pollution lowered his head in defeat right before he was plowed through the ground by Captain Planet.
Ma-ti simply stood in front of St. John and looked at him with all the honesty in his heart. St. John returned the look with a wavering hand, and sweating brow.
"Pyro!" Magneto bellowed.
"He ain't even got a weapon." Pyro shouted. "He don't even fight!"
"That's not the point Pyro, he's a human. He is the enemy." Magneto was right next to him now. "KILL HIM."
Ma-ti looked at Magneto, "Why should he even side with the man who killed his family, let alone kill for him?"
"What?" Pyro asked.
"Ignore him; he's trying to confuse you. It's what he does." Magneto hissed.
"He does not need to listen to me, just his own heart." Ma-ti closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Pyro." Magneto growled. "Do it."
At this point Pyro's mind was so muddled in confusion he couldn't even hear Magneto and as he looked back and forth between the powerful mutant and the weak human something clicked inside his mind. He saw strength in the younger human he could not identify, a pure innocence that he once knew so long ago, long before he met Magneto.
"I ain't gonna kill him." Pyro said defiantly.
"What?" Magneto reeled back as if he had been hit in the chest with missile. He had expected Pyro to become unstable at the end of this mission, but he had not expected out and out rebellion.
"Did he just…" Quicksilver could hardly believe his ears.
"I don't believe it." Avalanche blinked.
"I said, I ain't gonna kill him." Pyro breathed deeply.
"Little runt!" Sabertooth took a swipe at Ma-ti, but Pyro jumped between the two and was knocked to the ground. "Serves ya right."
"And, I ain't gonna let you kill him either." Pyro staggered back to his feet, a giant claw mark raked across his chest.
"Pyro, kill him or from this moment on you will never be welcome to the Brotherhood." Magneto glared at the young mutant.
"Then I guess I ain't welcome now am I?" Pyro shouted at his former leader.
"Sabertooth, issue a retreat." Magneto glowered at his former lackey. "We've come to an unexpected impasse." Magneto turned to leave and then cast a deadly glare over his shoulder towards Pyro. "What could possibly make you think this human's life was worth saving?"
"Friendship." Ma-ti spoke up. "It's something that can only be given, and never taken or forced upon. I gave him my friendship."
"You barely even met." Magneto said.
"Friends do not need words or even reasons." Ma-ti said, "A true friend can see what is in your heart and they can see that is worth protecting."
Several spheres crashed to the earth then and Magneto and his mutants boarded them. Not long after the spheres departed Captain Planet returned with a confused look on his face.
"Pollution just vanished, like he returned to their rings." Planet said as he landed near the Planeteers. "How's your friend Ma-ti?"
"Lifeline is helping him with his cuts, but I'm worried." Ma-ti looked over to the young mutant; he was surrounded by green shirts. "I don't think he wants join either of the groups."
"What do you mean?" Planet asked.
"Well he was mumbling about the Misfits being 'army pets' and I get the general feeling he doesn't like the X-men." Ma-ti sighed. "He's got almost no where to go."
"Almost nowhere." Captain Planet agreed, "Sounds like he needs a lot of hope and a lot of help."
"I almost wish we could take him to Hope Island." Wheeler said, "But he still to big of a risk."
By this time Ma-ti was walking back over to St. John. When the young mutant noticed the Planeteer walking over to him he stood up and looked at the ground.
"I don't right know how to say this." Pyro started as he held out his hand. "But me friends call me Pyro, or they would if I had any real friends."
Ma-ti took Pyro's hand and pulled the taller young man towards him and gave him a clapping hug. "You have a friend Pyro."
"Uh." Pyro pushed Ma-ti out and away. "Yeah, right well..."
"Say it already!" Perfection briefly popped in and yelled in the young mutant's ear.
"Thanks." Pyro blinked as he rubbed his ear. "Thanks for helping me in my head and all."
"I didn't help your head." Ma-ti smiled. "I helped your heart."
