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)
Monsters Kill, Parents protect
"Astute observation." Another equally cold voice responded as a young man descended from the cryo-tube area. He wore a blue long sleeve shirt and black jeans, his shoes were simple tennis shoes and his hair was combed back. The only odd thing about his appearance was that he wore an unnecessarily large black scarf around his neck that covered his mouth and flowed around his body and seemed to act of an independent will. "You look different in this universe."
"I suppose we knew each other in yours?" Sinister glared at the newcomer.
"Yes, we were quite friendly, when I wasn't enjoying myself by torturing your experiments. My name is Release if you must know." Release said quietly.
"Oh, this is all kinds of bad." Rhinox said darkly.
"You put that quite well machine." Release said as the edged of his mouth crooked over the top of the scarf. "No doubt those beings told you who I am as well as what I am capable of."
"They didn't tell us." Scarlet Witch said, the rest of the Misfits shifted uncomfortably as did the X-Men. "I get the feeling I'm going to have to hurt my boyfriend."
"We kinda said we'd tell you, but then we decided against it…" Toad winced.
"Why?" Scarlet Witch asked with a very dangerous glare.
"In my world, you were my slave." Release curled another smile over the scarf. "My love slave."
"Oh hell no." Scarlet Witch's eyes glowed with anger as she launched a Hex-Bolt at Release, but the Hex-Bolt simply dissipated.
"I'll have to thank Sentinel for destroying that." Release gave an obvious frown.
"Eh?" Rattrap smirked, "But can he destroy this!" He fired his blaster at the powerful esper only to have the blast return and strike him in the chest.
"Rattrap!" Cheetor and Waspinator ran to their friend's side while Dinobot glared at the new enemy.
"No, but I can control it." Release growled. "I'm not here for you pathetic excuses of existence. I only want Essex."
"I thought we were supposed to be friendly." Sinister continued his glares.
"Do you think you stand a chance against them?" Release gestured to the group. "Please tell me you aren't that deluded here as well. Know your odds Essex; that one alone is a match for you and his connection to my competition makes you a two time looser."
"Competition?" Jean asked as she recovered. Release swooped down to her level.
"You felt its power once already. I won't let you have it, its power is mine; by right of conquest if I have to make it so!" Release sent her back to the ground with the brief mental assault.
"Jean!" Cyclops dove to his knees and stopped her from falling.
Release laughed. "I'd forgotten what a white knight you were."
"I don't know you." Cyclops growled.
Release laughed again. "No, but you know that I knew another version of you. Some things never change it seems."
Just as he finished speaking Release was plowed to the side by way of one of Dinobot's katanas burying itself into Release's side. The Maximal stood ready to battle once the attack ended.
"Dinobot, what's wrong with you?" Cheetor shouted.
"Relax Spots, he's followin' orders." Rattrap sputtered as Waspinator applied several repairs. "Boss-Monkey didn't like the idea of this guy being that powerful and that evil, so he gave Choppaface, Depth Charge and Rhinox orders ta take him out if necessary."
"Yeah, but I don't think that was entirely necessary." Rhinox said flatly.
"On the contray." Release popped back up and ripped the sword from his side. There was no blood from his wound though and it healed almost immediately. "Your little Dino-Warrior is very good judge of character it seems."
"Meaning?" Cyclops asked.
"I didn't plan on letting any of you live." Release laughed. "What do you take me for; a fool? I know your powers and your minds…" He centered on Wavedancer. "All but you, you're family and your little friends."
With out thought or motion Release dropped the blade and sent it sailing straight into Dinobot's leg. The entire room gasped, but the stalwart warrior didn't even flinch.
"You are powerful, yes, but you lack discipline!" Dinobot threw the smaller wakizashi at his enemy and it pierced Release's right arm. This time blood flowed freely.
"Gah!" Release gripped his arm in obvious pain.
"It is difficult to prepare yourself when you cannot read your enemy's mind, isn't it?" Dinobot grinned.
"I'll rip you to pieces machine…" Release's eyes began to glow a deep purple and Dinobot's body was yanked into a wall by an unseen force. "I'll destroy every piece of you!" Dinobot fell to the ground near Rattrap. "But first the competition…"
"Jean…" Cyclops shook his girlfriend. "Come on wake up."
"Out of my way lover boy!" Release plucked Cyclops from Jean and tossed him all within the same motion of his hand. As he neared Jean he began to center a fire ball in his hands.
"Hey, Release!" Avalanche shouted.
"What do you want you Planeteer wannabe?" Release turned his head in anger and saw something that surprised him for the first time; Pyro. He looked immediately to the flaming ball in his hand and muttered to himself, "Oh crap…"
Suddenly the flame in Release's hand grew to an enormous size and exploded. Release was sent sailing into the darkness behind Mister Sinister.
"Destroy them!" Sinister shouted as he turned and ran into the darkness. His mutated minions marched forward and fired off their weapons, barely missing the mutants and Maximals.
"Mom no!" Gecko flung himself at his mutated mother. She froze momentarily and then cracked the butt of her gun over son's head. Gecko fell to the ground with a complete look of shock on his face.
"Don't hurt them!" Cyclops shiuted as he tried to fight his way to the unconscious Jean. "They don't know what they're doing!"
"Tell that to the giant beaver trying to kill me!" Wolverine shouted.
"Beaver?" Gecko shot back to his feet and ran over and slammed into the beaver that was attacking Wolverine. When the mutate turned to him, he again recognized the person underneath. "Dad!" Again the mutate froze, but then struck his son down.
"That's your kid…" Gecko heard Wolverine shout but then the world clouded with his reptilian tears all he could see was what he was facing; the unconscious Jean.
"I just want my mom and dad back…" Gecko cried aloud in his head before he fell completely unconscious.
Seconds later Jean woke up, or at least everyone thought she did, and in an amazing show of her own power reduced the mutate battalion to mass of crying animals. Then as quickly as that had passed they stopped crying and looked around confused and horrified at what they were seeing reflected on the many metallic surfaces of the lab. Then Jean fell unconscious once more.
"I'm a monster!" shouted one.
"Oh, god I'm a freak!" Another one screamed.
"But I'm not a mutie… I got tests… I got tests…" Still more cried.
"Where's my son!" The beaver cried out as Wolverine helped him to his feet. "Jan, Micheal!"
"Your son's okay." Depth Charge walked over and picked Gecko up, then handed him to his father. "He may look different, but he's still your son…"
"What happened to him?" Gecko's father asked.
"The same thing that happened to you." Rhinox came over and put his hand on the man's shoulder. "You were experiments of a mad man for a while."
"Lou!" The bird woman that was Gecko's mother ran over and saw her husband and son. "Oh what have we become?"
"I don't know." Lou admitted.
"You're mutates." Leonardo came over, "You were changed by a powerful mutagen, like me and my brothers."
"You're human?" Gecko's mother asked.
"No, we're turtles affected by the ooze." Donatello admitted, "But we think and feel just like you guys."
"And…" Depth Charge spoke up. "The guys of us that look like we're in animal armor; we're from Cybertron. We're robots."
"Oh dear…" Gecko's mother looked at Depth Charge in surprise.
"My, what a horrible failure…" Sinister returned from the darkness, a scorched and bleeding Release accompanied him. "Release, please activate the self destruct."
"Oh no…" Rhinox groaned.
Several doors slammed around the room and the lights began to flash red. Then what was thought to be Sinister and Release flashed and faded to reveal itself a hologram.
"Oh, don't worry you can escape, all you need to do is have the numbered experiments hold the doors open, but they'll close once their hands are off the pads and then the countdown starts at twenty seconds. Otherwise the entire station will blow up in five minutes." Sinister laughed as the hologram faded into darkness.
"Numbered…" Lou saw his wife's shoulder and gasped.
"You have one too." Rhinox said in shock.
"Quick open the other pods!" Cyclops shouted as Rattrap forced himself to a control terminal and opened all the pods at once. The entirety of the mutated experiments fell on the floor and looked confused.
"Please listen to me." Lou shouted as he held his son close. "The only way any one is going to make it out of here is if the six of us with numbers on our shoulder's hold the doors open for the others, we most likely won't be able to make it out and we will most likely die, but this is my son and even though I yelled at him a lot and hit him too. I'm not gonna let him die down here, like this. So please if you have a number, help us."
"Ugh... Dad?" Gecko woke up, but was too weak to move.
"You take care of my son, ok?" Lou handed his son to Depth Charge as the remaining four mutates came to the front. Some were stoic about their actions, others openly tearful and at least one was welcoming of it.
"Dad? Dad!" Gecko struggled as Depth Charge held him tight. "Let go you tuna-can! Mom, dad, what's going on?"
"You know I never told you how proud I was of you." Lou smiled at his son tearfully. "I love you son. You go win some of those skating tournament okay?"
"Dad?" Gecko stopped struggling as the six made their ways to six individual pads and put their hands on the pads. "Dad…" When the door lifted the scrapped remains of the spiked ball were planted all over the wall and ceiling.
"Everyone move!" Cyclops shouted as he picked up Jean into his arms. "Go, go, go!"
Rattrap scooped up several children while Dinobot forced himself to carry his own load of almost catatonic victims. Depth Charge grabbed several more people as he ran and a few jumped onto his fins. Cheetor even had one or two people in his arms. Waspinator carried a few injured people while Rhinox let some ride on his beast form. The mutants all helped support those that needed it and together the large group pushed past the doors and wreckage where they quickly made their way to the elevator.
At the elevator Depth Charge put most of his passengers down, but still held Gecko close. His sensors told him the boy was in shock, but he could feel Gecko's heart beating through his solid metal hands.
"Mom… Dad…" Gecko whimpered as the elevator rose.
"It's all right kiddo; we'll get that sicko… We'll get'im." Depth Charge's growl was strangely laced with comfort.
When the elevator rose the entire group burst onto the street and shouted for the others on top to move back as far as possible. When they reached what they thought was a safe distance Cyclops and Wavedancer quickly explained the situation and Hawk was about to send in a rescue team when he saw a faint green figure hover above the site. He grabbed a pair of binoculars and confirmed, much to his horror that Wraith was hovering above with a pain ridden face.
"Don't let him watch." Hawk said, but it was too late, the entire complex blew up. It shattered the streets and sent a gigantic series of waves to the opposite shore of the river.
For those few moments in time the world reverberated with sadness.
There were no cries of pain.
There were no tears.
There were only the shocked and horrified expressions of the survivors and their rescuers.
There was a sickening silence from Gecko.
"Let it out kid." Depth Charge said as he knelt by the young man.
Then there was sound.
Then there were the cries of a son who had found and once more lost his parents.
There were curses of vengeance.
There was sympathy in all forms.
From Gecko there were only tears.
