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)
Date Interrupted!
"I don't believe this…" Gecko scrambled around his small hammock looking for his money.
"What ya lookin' for?" Raph asked.
"My cash, I need it for tonight!" Gecko said as he jumped onto the rail car below him and started searching there.
"Here!" Raph tossed Gecko a bunched up wad of bills. "I ain't got any use for it."
"Thanks Raph!" Gecko jumped down and ran into the rear rail car. He came back out a few minutes later in what could be best described as a punk date suit with khaki pants torn into shorts and the sleeves of a once beautiful jacket ripped off at the shoulders. "I owe ya!" With that Gecko hopped onto the tele-pad and warped to Xavier's.
"No prob kid." Raph gave Gecko a wave before he went back to his TV show.
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At Xavier's however, things were not looking on the positive side. Betsy had not only convinced Scott and Jean to chaperone, she also convinced Remy and Rogue to go along as well and now the two couples were arguing over where to eat and what movie to see. They were so absorbed in their arguments that they didn't even notice that Gecko and Betsy were simply sitting and watching the TV while they argued.
"What's with them?" Gecko craned an eye backwards to check on the arguments.
"I don't know." Betsy sighed. "Didn't we already make these decisions?"
"Yeah." Gecko chuckled, "Although there's only one restaurant that even lets mutants in, so I have no clue what they're arguing about there."
"And all we wanted to see was that new Chuck Norris film." Betsy groaned. "Which is already starting."
"Why is Scott in a tux?" Gecko asked as he maneuvered his eyes to get a better look. "And Jean looks like she's going to a prom."
"I'm thinking we all have an idea of what casual wear is." Betsy sighed. "Either that or Logan sabotaged us."
"I doubt he did that." Pietro smiled as he zoomed into the room. "Follow me…"
"What the?" Gecko looked confused.
"I don't know and I'm afraid to read his mind." Betsy admitted.
"Smart move." Gecko laughed. "Oh well, we've got nothing better to do."
As the young couple followed the strangely placid speedster they became acutely aware that the Institute was dangerously silent. They didn't even hear the tell tale sounds of the Triplets chasing Jamie or Forge's lab exploding. When they got outside though they found out why; some of the Misfits and X-Men had gone out of their way to provide a small dinner table and a movie screen.
"Would madam like Delta Force one or two?" Todd asked in a waiter's uniform, complete with mustache.
"I'll take number one please." Betsy smiled.
"You guys are lunatics." Gecko laughed, and then he saw Xavier and Warren playing on violins. "I take it back those two are lunatics."
"Wait until you see the cook." Pietro smiled.
"Please not Kitty." Gecko almost fainted. "I don't want to die."
"Hey!" Kitty stood up from behind Xavier and launched her violin at Gecko, "My cooking isn't that bad!"
Gecko barely dodged the violin.
"Oh, missed again Kitty-cat!" Pietro cackled.
"Come on Kitty; let's get you away from the temptation…" Dead Girl said as she got up and pulled Kitty back into the mansion.
"Come on, let's have dinner." Gecko smiled as he pulled out a chair for Betsy.
"Thank you." Betsy smiled.
As soon as Gecko sat down Beast came out with Roadblock, both were covered in food and condiments. Thankfully they were followed by Perfection who was pushing a cart with their dinner and a murderous glare directed at both the chefs. Perfection eventually brought the cart to the table and set the individual plates before the young couple.
"You guys hear a whistling sound?" Gecko asked as he craned his eyes upwards. "Oh jeez… can't we ever get a break?"
Seconds later a young woman in a purple flowing hood and cloak landed right in between the table and Perfection's cart. For a few seconds everyone was quite before the young woman took off her hood, turned to Perfection and gave him a hug.
"Uncle P!" She cried.
"Aw, jeez you just know how to break the space time continuum don't ya kid?" Perfection groaned as he pulled the young girl off of him.
"Where's my pops?" She asked.
"Behind you." Wraith appeared with an angry glare. "Home; now young lady."
"But dad, it's important!" She cried.
"Karri…" Wraith growled.
"Dad!" Karri whined, "Where's mom she'll listen."
"Home, now like your father said." Karma appeared in a very angry state. "You know the rules of time travel!"
"I take it this has happened before?" Xavier looked on in slightly less confusion than he normally experienced.
"Karri has a habit of time traveling." Wraith growled, "And she's not going to be born for what another four years?"
"Three." Karma said, "And all because Ragnis is going to play some practical joke to let us have a kid."
"Which backfires and gives us twins." Wraith growled, and then he noticed the odd looks. "Hello, we exist outside of time!"
"Yeah." Perfection said as he tried to convince Wanda to leave.
"No I want to hear this." She snapped.
"Hi Aunt Wanda! Your son wanted me to say 'Hi" for him!" Karri said which caused Shipwreck to grasp his chest and Wanda's jaw to fall.
"Want to leave now?" Perfection asked.
"Yes, quickly please." Wanda said as her face went liquid paper white.
"Oh and Scott and Jean's kids say hi too!" Karri shouted this caused Xavier to grasp his chest.
"Wow…" Gecko blinked.
"Who's he?" Karri asked, "Never mind, you've got bigger problems."
"What now?" Wraith groaned. "Did Apocalypse come back again?"
"No, I just got kidnapped by some weird living shadow and Chyb's sent you guys an Email about it!" Karri shouted. "Those stupid dead shadow guys that used to be Nobodies took me and you never came!"
"Chyb's?" Betsy asked in confusion.
"Yeah, Chybee, he's my boyfriend." Karri said with a smile, this time it was Wraith's turn to grab his chest.
"HA!" Astral appeared randomly and yelled in Wraith's face. "Maybe now you get a clue as to how terrible that little thing is!"
"Your son marries one of the Triplets." Karri smiled, and of course this time Astral grabbed his chest, but he also collapsed.
"Anymore heart attacks to dish out young lady?" Wraith asked as he finished gasping for air.
"Jamie marries one of them too." Karri said.
Somewhere on the other side of the Institute Jamie was sitting down reading a comic book when a chill went down his spine. Kurt, who was with him at the time, looked at him curiously.
"You ever get the feeling some one just declared your life was the worst life ever?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah man, all the time." Kurt smiled as he went back to reading The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. "Don't worry; it's just common everyday paranoia, at least according to this guy."
Back with the others, Xavier was questioning the validity of Karri's existence.
"I thought you said there was no predestination." Xavier said.
"There isn't, but once certain choices are made things are kind of locked into place and hard to sway any other way. Sometimes they're even impossible to change." Wraith explained, "And while we could change the fact that Ragnis will play some juvenile practical joke on us, we kinda like the idea of being parents. Just not yet."
"Ah, I see." Xavier nodded.
"Wait, I have a question; do we ever get Sinister?" Gecko asked.
"Creepy pale dude with the ruby in the forehead?" Karri asked.
"Yeah!" Gecko said. "Him!"
"Scott does him in pretty badly, but we don't know if he's dead and pops said he sold his soul to something powerful so he can't tell us." Karri said.
"Us?" Xavier asked.
"Oh, Uncle P's kids, my brother, my self, Beaky, TigerHawk and Claudius are the new interLOAFERs." Karri smiled. "They call us the NI's though…"
"You may be the kid of an interLOAFER, but you'll never be one." Wraith smiled.
"Stupid four person only rule." Karri squinted angrily.
"Whose the fourth, huh?" K2 commanded one of DM's camerabot's forward.
"Uncle K2!" Karri hugged the camerabot. "You're the fourth of course!"
"Ok then you've told us now its time for you to go back." Karma smiled as she straightened her future daughter's hood. "Oh, you're not even born yet and I'm over mothering you…" Karma took a napkin and wiped Karri's face.
"AHHH!" Karri screeched as she vanished into nothingness.
"So you have been to our future." Xavier gave a half-glare to Wraith.
"No, as a rule we tend to stick outside of time and adjust to the proper place in time when we enter a universe. Once we're there it's pretty pointless to go back and forth in time, it'd just be an endless flow of changes." Karma explained. "Basically when we enter a universe we stick with that time line."
"DM also has a conversion chart and program so we can be outside universe for thousands of years and convert our return time to an appropriate two or three months." Wraith sighed.
"And these people that kidnapped your daughter?" Xavier asked.
"They're the former members of Organization XII, the leading governing body of the Nobodies." Wraith said as he stood up. "They work for Therten now, have been for some time. I just wouldn't have expected them to be here so soon."
"So soon?" Xavier asked.
"They usually come in and destroy any group that tries to replace or mimic their Organization, and then they proceed to tear apart the universe piece by piece." Wraith explained, "But their powers are limited here, they are quite literally shadows of their former selves. They are neither light nor dark and they possess both heat and soul, but no body. I call them the Nameless or Forgotten, but the universe quakes at the name others have given them."
"What's that?" Xavier asked.
"The Lost Ones." Wraith said as he stared at the stars. "Thankfully they don't realize we aren't abandoning this world, we'll restrain them when the Heartless and Nobody are defeated."
"Well then I think we've had enough excitement for one night." Xavier huffed. "I'll be inside if anyone needs me."
After that the Misfits and X-Men filtered back into the mansion. Gecko and Betsy remained behind to finish their dinner. They were both determined to not let their night be a bust and Wraith watched them with interest.
"What?" Gecko asked when he realized Wraith was watching them.
"Both of you remember this; every decision you make big or small will affect the future. Remember that when the Heartless come." Wraith said, a strange solemn tone laced his voice. "Keep it close when the darkness seemingly takes over and remember it when all hope is lost, because hope is the light that burns brightest in darkness."
"Wow, that's beautiful." Gecko said. "Shakespeare?"
"I honestly don't remember." Wraith admitted before he vanished to leave them to their dinner.
