Inter-LOAFERS: Dance-Dance-Feva!

By Xenomorph666

Disclaimer: I own only Perfection and Wraith.

DigitalMan and K2 are © My close friend.

Everything else is copyrighted to their correct owner.

Universe: Misfit-Verse

A Partial Cure

"Calm down." Lifeline said as he tried to grab the super fast lizard man that was once a young teenager. "We just want to help you." Still, Gecko evaded Lifeline and Bree with little effort as he clung almost magically to the ceiling.

"It's no use." Bree sighed, "He's terrified of us."

"Yes, it must be the setting." Lifeline concluded. "Let's try and lead him to the garden."

"Let me try." Lina said as she came in. Gecko immediately hissed.

"I didn't think Gecko's hissed." Bree said.

"Mostly they don't but I'm going to take a guess whoever did this added a little more than just gecko DNA to the mutagen." Lifeline said. "Okay Lina, here are some of Todd's favorite snacks, he seems to like these."

Lina took the bag of chocolate covered insects and waved them in the air, but Gecko didn't budge. Then Lina noticed his gaze settling on the syringe on Lifeline's tray.

"He doesn't like the needle." Lina whispered. Lifeline immediately covered the tray with a metal top and backed away. Gecko then slowly began to crawl closer to Lina, but still turned back every few seconds to make sure the needle stayed under the tray. When he was out of the infirmary however, he seemingly forgot about the needle and followed Lina at a full pace to the garden where he happily munched on the bag of chocolate covered insects.

"Hey Lina, how's it going." Lady Jaye said as she passed the garden. "Is that Xi?"

"No, Pietro's friend was kidnapped and experimented on by the Foot Clan." Lina explained. "We're trying to get a DNA sample, to see how we can help, but he's terrified of needles."

"Awww, poor kid." Lady Jaye sighed as she walked up and gave the young mutant a pat on the head. "So how you feelin' kid?"

Gecko just cocked his head and then returned to eating.

"Donatello thinks that whatever caused the acceleration in his mutation has also blocked off his human mental capacity." Lina explained.

"So you need that DNA sample even more." Jaye sighed. "Let me guess, the longer you wait the less chance he has?"

"Yeah." Lina sighed.

"Well kid you might not like me after this but its for your own good." Jay sighed as she pulled a syringe out of her pocket and quickly jabbed it into Gecko's shoulder and injected him with a sedative.

"LADY JAYE!" Lina shrieked.

"Relax Lina, if we want to save him we don't have much choice." Lady Jaye sighed.

"I know, but did you have to jab him so hard?" Lina asked.

"Yes, his scales are that tough." Lady Jaye said as she began to haul Gecko back to the infirmary.

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"This just sucks…" Avalanche groaned as he and the Misfits finished their search of the warehouse that the turtles had found. "All we found was a lousy note signed by the Shredder."

"And what's worse these computer drives are filled countless gigabytes of computer virii." Arcade groaned as he finished his search. "It's like they're taunting us."

"Maybe Toad and Mask found something along the perimeter." Quicksilver said as he paced. "They couldn't have just disappeared."

"Quicksilver stop pacing, you're wearing a hole in the floor with your racing." Roadblock said.

"I can't help it, Gecko's a friend." Quicksilver sighed, "It's weird but I fell like I've known him my entire life."

"Maybe he was someone else you knew before the Chaos Sparks." Fire-Star suggested.

"No, I don't how to explain it. When I met him it was like I knew he was a friend." Quicksilver thought it over, "Kinda like how I felt about the Joes when I realized they really cared about us, or how Ma-ti has the air of calm about him. I just knew he was a friend."

"He has a pure heart." Scarlet Witch paled as she thought of the Heartless.

"Yeah, I just sensed it on him." Quicksilver said.

"Maybe Perfection's charm has an effect on you." Avalanche said. "I mean you are Wanda's brother, and Perfection does care about you too, so maybe he gave you little gift when you're in proximity of the thing."

"Maybe…" Quicksilver said, "I didn't feel it at all when we found him on the highway." Quicksilver sat down and shook his head. "ARGH! I just can't figure it out."

"Hey guys, nothing out there." Toad and Mask came wandering back in. Mask in his strange yellow zoot-suit and Toad in his usual battle attire.

"Yeah, the most we found out there was about a half-ton of raw sewage and really upset farmer." Mask giggled.

"What did you do?" Wavedancer groaned.

"Now why is it whenever massive property damage occurs I'm always the first to be blamed?" Mask said defensively.

"Because you're a Misfit." Blob answered.

"Point taken." Mask conceded.

"And who said anything about massive property damage?" Wavedancer inquired.

"Oh my, look at the time, my soaps are on, must be going…" Mask tried to get away.

"ARGH!" Wavedancer screamed. "What did you two do?"

"We defended our selves from zombie mutant cows is what!" Toad said, "And a really weird space alien."

"What?" Wavedancer asked in shock.

"GOT YA!" Mask shouted as he snapped a kodak of a completely slack jawed Wavedancer. "Camera; twenty two dollars, Film; five dollars, the look on Wavedancer's face; Priceless."

"Ugh…" Wavedancer groaned. "Toodles, just be gad you're to cute or you'd be dead." She turned to Mask. "You on the other hand had better expect a visit from my sisters soon…"

"Hey, why don't we just head back, I mean we don't even have any reason to be here anymore." Avalanche sighed.

"GOT SOMETHING!" Arcade shouted, and everyone came running. "It's a small chemical formula, looks like someone left it on purpose."

"Why would you say that?" Blob asked.

"Oh just a guess and the fact that there's an attached letter explaining how the mad scientist over estimated a chemical compound." Arcade said.

"Wow, so he's helping us?" Avalanche asked, "Whoever 'he' is?"

"Actually I think he's rectifying a mistake in his formula, and just wants to make sure all his experiments are pretty much on the same playing field." Arcade said. "And before you ask Fred, read the printout."

"What printout?" Blob asked.

"The one I'm printing now." Arcade smiled as the printer on the desk hummed to life, a second later a piece of paper was taken and the file was printed. "Now I need to use the little hacker's room." Arcade said as he pushed past the door, and Freddy lifted the paper. Then the room exploded.

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"Are you guys all right?" Lina asked as she ran into the infirmary, the Misfits and Joes had just arrived after the explosion.

"Yeah, thankfully Fred took most of the blast and Wanda's charm deflected the fire." Pietro sighed. "But he also landed on my leg and it's broken… again."

"Yeah, well at least you don't have an imaginary coyote begging to play go fish with you!" Lance shouted, he had been taken of his medicine while in the infirmary so Lifeline could heal him properly.

"If anyone's been shattered by this it's Arcade." Mask said as he pulled on the cord that held Pietro's leg, causing the speedster to yelp in pain.

"Yeah…" Pietro glared at Mask as he reverted to Stanley. "After three hours of digging through so much pointless crap his only finding was destroyed."

"Yeah but the Triad of insanity is now on the move to decode whatever was screwed up in the mutagen they used on Gecko." Althea sighed as she and Todd sat on the edge of a bed that was directly across from the sleeping lizard man. "So it's only a matter of time."

Xi had been watching the new lizard man intently since they had found him and for the first time he walked over and touched him. "Hmmm, he seems to have the collective genetic sequences of all known gecko's enhanced with an artificial X-gene."

"What?" Todd's head popped up as did everyone else's.

"Yes, it's odd." Xi said.

"Artificial X-Gene?" Althea pondered. "Whoever this guy is he doesn't play around."

"Think maybe we might need the X-Geeks?" Lance winced at the thought.

"At this point I'd say, yes." Althea sighed.

"Great…" Pietro rolled his eyes.

After a few minutes of skulking in not being able to solve the problem of the mystery mad scientist on their own they thought nothing would make them feel better. Then Trinity came in and their hopes were dashed even further until they presented a syringe to Lifeline.

"It's an Anti-artificial-X-Gene." Brittany explained.

"No it isn't!" Daria said, "It's just a genetic cocktail to return most of his mutated DNA back to normal."

"Most?" Althea asked.

"Well, we can't change his body back without killing him, but we can put his brain back to normal." Quinn explained. "But it'll take a few days… We think."

"Wonderful." Pietro grumbled.

"It's a start." Stanley said. "And if he can't ever be human again, who knows maybe the Misfits will get another lizard-man." At this Xi looked a little uncomfortable. "Not that he could ever replace our precious Xi." Stanley said to assuage Xi's fears. "Although he might just replace Pietro…"

"HEY!" Pietro tossed a pillow at Stanley only to have his leg fly up again.

While this was going on, Lance and Todd were busy watching over Gecko as Lifeline cautiously administered the genetic cocktail. They both knew how he was going to feel when he was in control again and they knew he'd need support. Being a mad scientist's experiment was never fun.