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: Spliced-verse (Misfit-Verse, Evil Dead, Mask, TMNT, Planeteers, Beast Wars)
Operation: Family
Gecko stood silently while his three "guards" made sure he stayed put. He would pace the quiet room every so often and glare at the girls who were keeping him from his goal. He knew his thoughts were being read loud and clear by Betsy, or Psylocke as Professor Xavier had given her the code name.
He glanced out the window as the cooperative forces of mutant, Maximal and mutate plowed through the doors of the warehouse. He knew he could make it to the doors if he could just get free of the girls, but he couldn't figure out how with out hurting them. He grumbled some more and kicked the wall. A broken piece of wood fell from the ceiling and he looked up, the hole in the ceiling lead directly out side.
"Don't." Psylocke warned.
"You really want to stop me." Gecko grinned. "Go ahead." He leapt at the hole with all his force and barely made it out just as two hands grabbed for his legs and tail.
"Get him!" He heard Dragonfly shout from inside, "He might get hurt in there."
"So long girls!" Gecko shouted as he jumped off the roof and bolted into the building, right past the perimeter guards.
As soon as Gecko was inside he realized how big the place really was, as well as how empty it was. He almost felt cheated, and then he noticed several papers blow in around in a circle in the center of the building. As he got closer to the center he realized that he was standing on a large elevator, the only problem was that he didn't know how to activate it.
"Great…" He grumbled as he heard the footsteps and shouts of the soldiers following him in. "Like he'd just let me in…" The ground shifted away with a sudden jerk and the elevator started to descend. "Or maybe he will."
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Down in what Rattrap had jokingly called the Labyrinth, the unified group of allies was struggling to make sense of the twisting corridors and winding stairs. Every time they thought they had found the right direction they would always find themselves right back at the beginning.
"Man, what I wouldn't give for Optimus to be here wit' us." Rattrap chuckled.
"Why?" Toad asked.
"Are you kiddin' with all those gizmos he's got I'm sure he has some sort of radar in'im somewhere." Rattrap laughed, and then he suddenly turned back. "You hear somethin'?"
"No." Scarlet Witch said, "Why?"
"I thought I heard that elevator come back down." Rattrap said suspiciously. "You guys go ahead, I'll see what we got."
"It's Gecko." Jean frowned.
"I thought this place was shielded?" Black Arachnia asked as she clung to the ceiling.
"From the outside yes, but inside the halls there is no shielding." Jean said. "It's like he wants you to know he's hear, but no one else will."
"That kid sure has his heart set on revenge." Spirit said quietly. "We should wait for him."
"He's not coming this way." Jean said. "It's like he's got a scent or something."
"He's going off blind rage." Leonardo frowned. "Gut instinct."
"Bad combination." Raphael frowned too; he got several odd looks as a response. "What, even I can be level-headed sometimes."
"The fastest of us should retrieve the boy, at least that way we will know he's safe." Dinobot said.
"Chaoppaface has a point." Rattrap agreed. "If we can't keep him outta here then we should at least keep him close."
"Well then looks like we gotta job to do." Quicksilver said, he had no expression on his face. "Jean, think you can guide me?"
"Yeah." She looked at Rattrap. "Think you can follow him?"
"You kiddin?" Rattrap transformed into his dragster form. "Watch me." He gloated as Dinobot immediately hopped on his back. "Uh, Choppaface?"
"The boy may need to be restrained." Dinobot growled. "Or need protection. Just don't take this as a compliment Vermin."
"Yeah, well don't ruin the paint job, I just got myself detailed." Rattrap snapped.
"Just go." Dinobot hissed as Rattrap followed Quicksilver at full speed.
"Those two get along like oil and water meeting a flame." Wavedancer sighed.
"Flames?" Pyro popped up, he had been sitting on the ground playing with his lighter.
"How does he get those?" Cyclops asked.
"I have my theories." Wavedancer glared at Trinity.
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"Keep going straight." Quicksilver heard Jean in his head. "He should be around the entrance, he feels lost now."
Why isn't he keeping his thoughts quite?" Quicksilver asked Jean.
"Most likely because he is on instinct, at least that's what it feels like. Right up ahead." Jean explained. "Left!"
Quicksilver hit a hard left and heard Rattrap squeal and slam into a wall behind him. He turned to go and help.
"Don't worry kiddo, we'll catch up." Rattrap grumbled as Dinobot pulled him out of a large dent in the wall.
"Keeping going straight…" Jean told Quicksilver. "Look for claw marks and follow those!"
"Claw marks?" Quicksilver stopped dead in his tracks and looked around, he couldn't see any sign of claw marks.
"Look out kiddo!" Rattrap said as he wrapped around the corner; a giant mutant was charging after him. "Hop on!"
As Quicksilver jumped onto Rattrap's back he heard the sounds of fighting. He looked above to see several grates in the ceiling and one of them had claw marks.
"Get me into the air vents!" Quicksilver said. "He's in the air vents."
"No can do Quicks." Rattrap said, "We gotta get back to Dinobot and that crazy tar goon!"
A crash sounded behind them and Quicksilver turned back once more to see Gecko clinging to the large mutant's body.
"Get offa me you crazy lizard!" The large mutant shouted.
"Sure thing just let me do this!" Gecko, for the third time delivered a bone shattering kick to the power house mutant, though only that mutant and Gecko knew it.
"Why you little…" The mutant stopped as a form crept up behind him.
"Dinobot, you ok?" Rattrap asked his friend who was currently holding a razor sharp katana precariously close to the mutant's neck.
"I am fine…" Dinobot growled. "Perhaps this one should run back to his master though, like his little friend."
"Screw this!" Blockbuster yelped as he turn and ran. However, he then turned and smiled at the group and hit a button concealed within the wall and then ran away laughing.
"That can't be good." Rattrap said in a small voice. A violent crash from behind him turned the attentions of his friends. "Let me guess, giant spiked rollin' ball of doom?"
"I don't want to know how you knew that." Dinobot said flatly as he grabbed Gecko and flipped the young mutate over his back. "RUN!"
"We're all gonna die!" Rattrap shrieked as he changed into his vehicle mode, Dinobot then jumped onto the small vehicle and Rattrap proceeded to accelerate down the halls at high speed.
"Follow me!" Quicksilver shouted.
"JEAN!" Quicksilver thought loudly. "Giant spiked ball of death coming your way!"
"Great, how are we supposed to stop it?" She asked in an annoyed tone.
"The Tin-Man or Lance, or somebody!" Quicksilver shot back angrily.
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"What's that sound?" Cyclops asked as a distant rumbling came closer.
"Trust me…" Jean said as she grew frightfully pale. "Run."
"Run?" Depth Charge snorted, "Like I'm gonna do that."
"Run!" Quicksilver shouted as he bolted past and grabbed his sister's arm.
"SPIKED BALL OF DEATH COMIN' THIS WAY!" Rattrap shouted as he followed not shortly after."
"Spiked ball of death?" Depth Charge asked as he saw the giant metal ball roll across the corner. "Run for it!"
As the teams took off down the hall several of the larger and more athletically inclined made sure to grab the ones that were lagging. Then as they rounded a rather tight corner they met a dead end.
"We're all gonna die…" Rattrap cried out loud.
"Quiet Vermin; if I'm to die again I won't have you ruining it!" Dinobot snapped.
"Come on Perfection, my sister's in life threatening danger of being squashed!" Quicksilver said as he shouted at Scarlet Witch's amulet.
"Hey Depth Charge, how much do you think it would take to stop that thing?" Blob asked.
"Besides room we don't have?" Depth Charge gave him a weird look, as if to say "don't try it kiddo." Then he looked at the corner, where the ball still hadn't come into view. "A lot of weight and a miracle."
"Tin-Man, come on!" Blob smiled as he ran forward, "We can stop it!"
"It's worth a try." Colossus agreed.
"Wait…" Cyclops looked at the wall. "Shadowcat see what's behind there."
"Right." Shadowcat disappeared through the wall as Blob and Colossus ran to stop the ball.
"Here it comes!" Colossus shouted from around the corner.
A sudden screech of metal indicated the sudden and abrupt meeting of the titantically powerful mutants and the metal ball. Then the ball rolled around the corner and the two mutants were still fighting with the metallic sphere of death. It spun closer and closer and closer until the wall behind the group opened up.
"It's a lab, hurry up!" Shadowcat shouted. No one had to be told twice, and they all filtered into the darkened lab until only Blob and Colossus were left holding the ball back. "Hurry up you two, get in here!"
"We can't let go of this thing it hasn't slowed down!" Blob shouted.
"Da, it is lie there is something inside it!" Colossus shouted as he struggled to maintain his grip.
"That looks like plain steel…" Wolverine said as he got a good look at the ball. "Tuna-can, think you can blast through steel?"
Depth Charge gave the grizzled Wolverine a threatening look but then nodded.
"Blob, Colossus; run toward the door, we got you covered!" Cyclops shouted when he realized the plan Wolverine was forming.
"You better or we're mutant Swiss cheese!" Blob shouted.
"Ready, set let's go!" Colossus said as he and Blob let go of the sphere and ran towards the door. As they passed the door way though a long powerful web pulled them to the side while two missiles flew down the hall, then Shadowcat closed the door. The explosion from the missiles nearly blew the door right back open though and sent everyone to their knees.
"Nice planning Meta-bones." Depth Charge smiled at Wolverine as the mutant got to his feet.
"Wazpinator not like big spiky balls of death…" Waspinator sighed; he was clasped around Cheetor's back like a frightened child.
"Believe me I could tell, you were screaming loud enough Optimus could have heard you up top." Cheetor snorted. "Now get offa me."
"Oh, but Wazpinator like it on Cat-bot's back. It safe." Waspinator sounded hurt.
"Hey, Waspinator, just do it." Rattrap said as he transformed into his robot form once more.
"Wazpinator not talk to Rat-Bot, Rat-Bot still have Wazpinator body part collection." Waspinator turned his head indignantly away from Rattrap while everyone turned an offended glare towards the rat.
"What? I can't just throw them out… You know how many pieces I got?" Rattrap tried to defend himself.
"Listen, it's not that I don't' enjoy your lovely banter, which I don't." Cyclops said. "But we need to find these mutates and fast before Sinister finds us."
"Come on guys." Wavedancer said, "Cyke is right, let's focus."
"Well can come one get the lights then?" Avalanche snapped.
"Hold on you big baby." Shadowcat said as she slammed her fist against something. A few seconds later the lights popped on.
"Well the good news is I think we found the mutates." Rhinox said.
"Huh?" Cyclops asked as he looked at the Maximal in confusion.
"Look up." Rhinox illustrated his point with his finger pointing to the ceiling.
There, honeycombed into the ceiling were almost a hundred different cyro tubes. Each tube held a person at a varying stage of mutation and each person was completely unconscious. Along the side of the walls though were a series of clawed grasping devices that looked as if they could easily grasp a singled chamber and plant it on the ground.
Gecko didn't wait for anyone to say or do anything; he just ran to the wall and began climbing. He knew his parents were there he just had to locate them, but there were other plans in play as he ascended the walls only to be torn from them by a powerful wave of vertigo.
"I got'im." Depth Charge said as he ran and caught the young mutate.
"Bravo." A cold voice called "And well played out X-Men, Misfits and Maximals." Sinister walked into the room with a huge smile on his face. "Welcome to my lab." A small group of heavily armed mutates walked from behind him.
"Mom…" Gecko recognized one of the lead mutates, even though she was covered in feathers and now had a beak. "MOM!"
"Don't bother; she's quite within my control." Sinister laughed.
"You monster!" Jean sent a psychic assault toward him, but was knocked to the ground.
"What was that?" Cheetor asked.
"A psychic reflection technique that I have perfected over the years." Sinister smiled. "I'm sorry Jean, you may have incredible power, but you just don't have the 'X-perience' to combat me." He held his hand high and then lowered it, when nothing happened he looked at the mutates in confusion.
"Looks like your slaves don't want to follow orders." Wolverine smiled.
"No…" Sinister looked around the room carefully. "Someone else is here… Someone who shouldn't exist in this world."
