Inter-LOAFERS: Dance-Dance-Feva!
By Xenomorph666
Disclaimer: I own only Perfection and Wraith.
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Everything else is copyrighted to their correct owner.
Universe: Spliced-verse (Misfit-Verse, Evil Dead, Mask, TMNT, Planeteers, Beast Wars)
Choices of self
Several punches echoed throughout the Misfit training room. Gecko was visiting and Pietro was helping him train. The only problem was that Gecko was not training as a ninja, but a general fighter and he seemed far to into his instincts.
"Whoa!" Pietro yelped as he dodged Gecko's claws. "Those things are sharp."
"I know…" Gecko smiled, "I sharpen them every morning."
"Jeez, you're really bent on making Shredder pay, aren't you?" Pietro asked.
"No, I don't give damn about the Shredder." Gecko growled as he leapt out of the ring. "I want him."
"Who?" Pietro asked.
"The guy who did this to me; the guy who really has my parents." Gecko was still angry at the thoughts. "I just wanna rip him apart!"
"Whoa…" Pietro said cautiously. "Be careful there man, you don't want to be like Daniels."
"Right." Gecko sighed.
"Hey, let's go get some coffee." Pietro cracked a huge smile.
"Nah." Gecko tossed a towel over his shoulder. "I think I'm gonna keep practicing."
"Okay, just don't over do it." Pietro gave a fake smile.
"No prob." Gecko nodded as he walked over to a punching bag and began to practice his jabs.
After a half hour of practicing he heard the clanking of metallic feet. He turned to see the large Maximal named Depth Charge watching him with interest. Then he went back to punching.
"You're slow with you're left." Depth Charge said. "Try coming at the bag from a lower angle."
Gecko pretended to ignore him, but slowly adapted to the advice.
"Told ya." Depth Charge smirked.
"You want something?" Gecko asked.
"Heard you're after that jerk with all the spikes on his clothes." Depth Charge said. "Something about your family."
"I'm not after him." Gecko corrected the large robot. "I'm after his lackey, some creepy scientist. He did this to me and my parents. Only…"
"You got away and they didn't." Depth Charge said. "I know the feeling."
"I know you and that Rampage guy." Gecko smiled. "You'd be surprised how many cartoon shows Mikey has on DVD."
"Probably." Depth Charge agreed. "But I'm not much of a betting bot. Me I prefer to take action over pointless gawking and staring."
"Ain't that the truth?" Gecko turned back to his practice.
"You know, if you keep leaving yourself unguarded even a novice is gonna take you down." Depth Charge said.
"And I suppose you wanna spar?" Gecko gave Depth Charge a dirty look.
"I'll spar." Pietro offered as he walked in.
"You?" Gecko laughed. "You flinch when you think you've stubbed your toe."
"I do not." Pietro defended himself. "I just react accordingly to the pain."
Depth Charge and Gecko both gave the speedster a questioning look.
"I can spar." Pietro said.
"All right, get your gloves on." Gecko smiled.
"You'll see what I was talking about." Depth Charge said. "Especially if you don't guard."
A few minutes later Depth Charge's prediction had come true. Gecko was lying in the corner of the boxing ring with a dazed look on his face. Pietro was of course imagining a fake audience cheering for his greatness.
"You all right kiddo?" Depth Charge asked.
"Yeah…" Gecko snapped as he pulled himself together. "Still not good enough though!"
"Well of course you're not." Depth Charge chuckled. "You're still learning, and you won't get better unless you practice."
"You know he has a point there Gecko." Leonardo entered with Althea and Scott.
"Just leave me alone." Gecko snapped as he leapt out of the ring and stomped off.
"He's been getting worse." Leonardo sighed.
"Worse?" Pietro asked in confusion.
"He keeps putting on this happy face façade when he's really burning to get his family back." Leonardo explained. "I caught a small excerpt from his journal a few days ago; he thinks we aren't doing anything to help find his parents."
"Why would he think that?" Pietro asked, "I mean we've done everything we can, we don't have any evidence or even a clue to go by."
"Well, there is one thing we haven't tried…" Scott said. "The Professor didn't want to try it when you guys first met him, but he might go for it now."
"What, his Vulcan Mind-meld thing?" Pietro asked. "Would that work?"
"I don't know, but I think he'd be willing to give it a shot…" Scott said. "I'll get everything set up if you can get him there."
"That might be tough; Master Splinter is expecting him to leave sometime soon." Leonardo sighed.
"Then have him do it tomorrow." Althea suggested.
"We can't; one of Jean's professors from the college is coming over." Scott sighed. "Although at this point we don't have much of a choice."
"All right then, we'll get him there." Leonardo said. "I hope."
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"I can't believe you're doing this!" Jean hissed at Scott the next day. "Professor Sterisin is going to be here with in the next hour and you asked Professor Xavier to scan Gecko's mind?"
"Jean, if you saw him at the Pit you wouldn't be like this." Scott sighed. "Look I know its bad timing, but so are half the events in our life, besides its just Gecko and Splinter, the turtles are staying behind."
"All right." Jean sighed. "I guess you're right, his parents do have priority over my petty need to impress my professor."
"That's my girl." Scott smiled.
As the two descended down to the lobby, Gecko and Splinter were already waiting. Gecko's clothes were, as usual completely black and punk oriented; however, he also had a duffel bag with him and looked extremely unhappy.
"Like I said Sensei, he can try looking in my head, but my decision is made. When this is over I'm finding the lunatic who has my parents." Gecko said, Scott and Jean had come in at the tail end of a bitter conversation.
"As you wish." Splinter nodded. "You will always be welcome in our home, please remember that."
"Whatever." Gecko said. "He ready?" He turned a single large eye up to Jean.
"You have no idea how creepy that is." Jean paled slightly.
"Yeah, I do." Gecko smiled.
"This way." Jean led him into the office and left him with Splinter and Xavier.
"So, you think this will actually work. We might actually get a name?" Gecko asked.
"We might." Xavier nodded. "But even if we don't…"
"Can it professor." Gecko cut him off. "I made my choice."
"I understand." Xavier sighed. "Now, first try to clear your mind…" Xavier was interrupted by the doorbell.
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"Rattrap?" Jean looked confused. "Silverbolt?"
"Yeah, Optimus sent us to drop off some scan of that old base your Magnetic loony gave to Megs." Rattrap noticed he clothes. "We interruptin' somethin' 'cuz we can come back."
"Oh, no not at all, please come in." Jean invited the two Maximals in.
"Thank you Miss Grey." Silverbolt bowed as he entered and evoked a small giggle.
"The Professor is with Gecko at the minute." Jean said, "If you want you can wait outside the office."
"That will be fine." Silverbolt nodded she led them to chairs outside the office.
"I think we'll stand." Rattrap smiled as he looked at the wooden chairs.
"Ok, well he should only be about a half hour or so." Jean said.
"So what's the occasion?" Rattrap asked.
"Huh?" Jean was slightly confused, and then she remembered her clothes. "Oh, my Professor from college is coming over to meet Professor Xavier."
"Oh jeez…" Rattrap made a rolling motion with his optics. "Brain talk."
"Forgive Rattrap Miss Grey, he has no culture." Silverbolt glared at his comrade.
Jean giggled slightly. "It's all right Silverbolt, he's probably right anyway."
A half-hour latter the door to Xavier's office opened and a disappointed looking Xavier and Gecko came out. Rattrap was of course sleeping in his beast form while Silverbolt was standing patiently.
"Oh, Silverbolt!" Xavier was surprised. "You can give quite a shock when you don't let people know you're there."
"I am sorry Professor Xavier." Silverbolt smiled. "Rattrap and I have some scans of Magneto's old base we thought you might be interested in."
"Lovely…" Gecko sneered.
"Excuse me?" Silverbolt was taken aback.
"Nothing." Gecko snorted as he pushed past Silverbolt and Xavier and made his way to the his duffel bag.
"I'm afraid Gecko has grown impatient with the search for his parents." Xavier sighed. "And my attempts to search the lost parts of his memory were not even partially fruitful."
"I see." Silverbolt was immediately saddened. "And now?"
"He's going to find them on his own." Xavier sighed.
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Gecko grumbled like a mad man as he made his way to the front lobby where Jean was greeting a tall man in a very cliché college Professor outfit. He grabbed his duffel bag without thinking and was about to exit when he heard the man speak.
"Lovely to see meet you Mister Summers."
The voice stopped Gecko in his tracks. The words held him like glue and equally propelled him on his next course of actions.
"Say that again." Gecko hissed.
"Excuse me?" The Professor spun to make eye contact.
"Say that again. Say 'Mister'!" Gecko shouted.
"And who might you be young man?" The Professor asked politely.
"This is Gecko, he's a friend who has recently lost his parents." Jean said nervously as she glared at Gecko.
"What are you doing?" She asked him telepathically. She received a flurry of angry thoughts, they were so fast and powerful she could barely stand straight.
"I see, such a stressful time for you then, young Gecko." The Professor smiled again.
The smile was the key that flooded Gecko's mind with the worst memories he could never have imagined. He roared in anger as he leapt at the man and pinned him to the floor.
"WHERE ARE THEY?" He snapped angrily.
"Gecko, are you insane?" Scott tried to pull the angry mutate off of the professor, but Gecko's lashing tail made it almost impossible.
"Holy smokes!" Rattrap and Silverbolt ran into the room. "Lizard-lips Jr.'s gone ballistic!"
"Gecko, what are you doing?" Silverbolt pleaded. "He's a human."
"He's a monster!" Gecko raked his claws across the professor's face.
"Professor Sterisin!" Jean gasped as she forced Gecko off with her telekinesis. "Are you okay?"
"I am fine Jean." Everyone looked at Sterisin; they had all heard a fluctuation in his voice.
"Professor?" Jean asked.
"I am fine…" Sterisin's face warped as did his body. "But please, call me Mr. Sinister." As he finished speaking several swirling portals opened up and out of each one a mutant came.
"Wha…" Jean was dumbfounded, and let her telekinetic grip on Gecko fall.
"Told ya!" Gecko shouted, "That's him! I remember him now, he's the monster!" Gecko leapt at Sinister once more, but the large block like mutant that had appeared slammed a powerful fist into the young mutate's face.
"Remember me?" Blockbuster sneered.
"I remember this!" Gecko flip kicked Blockbuster in the jaw with enough force that Blockbuster went sailing up to the second floor and landed right in front of the new students.
"FIGHT!" Tim shouted as he leapt over the railing and attacked one of Sinister's mutants.
"Well this turned out rather disappointingly." Sinister stalked towards Xavier, but Gecko threw his own skateboard under Sinister's feet and tripped him up, right before he pounced on him for the second time.
"Tell me where they are." Gecko growled as he pulled Sinister closer to his face.
"I'd rather show you." Sinster struck Gecko hard in the chest and sent Gecko flying into the front door where a confused young girl was standing.
"Miss Braddock!" Xavier shouted. "Find cover, quickly!" He shouted as a blob of tar was flung her way.
"Yikes!" Betsy Braddock was pulled out of the way by Gecko's tail.
"You can thank me later." Gecko growled as he once again lunged at Sinister.
"Honestly boy, you'd think…" He was interrupted by several exploding playing cards blowing a hole in his chest. The hole instantly reformed. "AH… Gambit…" Sinister cackled joyfully.
"What the…" Gecko blinked in astonishment.
"He can heal himself, among other thing." Gambit said as he tossed several more cards at Sinister and then dodged behind a nearby wall.
"Will you fools get their DNA already?" Sinister snapped at his team. "The next batch of experiments need mutant DNA! Although I should thank you Jean, you've provided me with a great many new discoveries…"
Jean was still lost in her own confusion and anger.
"Yo, you forget about me already?" Gecko slammed his fist into the back of Sinister's head.
"Little brat!" Sinister grabbed Gecko by the collar and flung him into and through the wall Gambit was hiding behind. Then he turned towards the two Maximals who were busy shielding Xavier and those behind him. "Ah, you two…"
"Oh this don't look good…" Rattrap groaned.
"It doesn't matter Rattrap, we can't harm humans." Silverbolt said as he pushed Blockbuster away from them. "No matter how monstrous they truly are."
Sinister roared in laughter. "My, how truly noble of you, but if it makes you feel any better, I'm not human. Well not anymore at least."
"ENOUGH!" Jean finally snapped out of her stupor and sent waves of energy every possible direction.
"Incredible!" Sinister smiled as he stood in place. "I can't wait to see how they produce with the mutagen!"
"Produce this!" Scott growled as he removed his glasses for a fully powered blast. Sinister of course stood there and took it, but was also ripped apart by the beam.
Sinister screamed in agony as he pulled himself, quite literally, together. This time however, it was a slow and painful process.
"Jeez!" Blockbuster winced.
"Re-re-treat!" Sinister shouted as he fully reformed himself. "That was an unwelcome surprise."
"For you maybe." Scott grinned as he let out another blast, Sinister was caught on the shoulder but still managed to open and escape through another portal.
"NO!" Gecko screamed as he got back up and saw Sinister vanish. "NO!" He then collapsed on the floor in fit of tears and anger.
"I think we got problems." Rattrap sighed heavily.
"You have no idea…" Xavier joined in the sigh. "Tell Optimus I wish to speak with him. Jean contact Hawk; Scott get a hold of the Planeteers and Gaia. Sensei Splinter, if you would accompany me, please. Remy, Tim; please take Gecko to the infirmary."
"First I must see to Gecko and then I will join you." Splinter nodded.
"I guess getting here a day early was a bad idea." Betsy blinked in astonishment.
"You'd be surprised…" Remy gave her a long cold stare. "Best steer clear of Rogue, she gonna have a fit when she see you."
"What?" Betsy asked in confusion.
"Jus' trus' ole' Gambit here." Remy said as he and Tim carried the sobbing Gecko away.
"Miss Braddock, would you accompany Gecko in the infirmary for the time being? I'm afraid a rather dangerous situation has arisen." Xavier said.
"Okay…" Betsy nodded as she picked up her suitcase and grabbed the nearby duffel bag labeled "Gecko"
