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)

Through the Cracks of Darkness, Pain and Suffering

"Wow, Deadpool is stuck in a Power Rangers universe?" Lance laughed as he and Todd watched over the babies. "Classic."

"Crawzy!" Claudius exclaimed.

"You said it little buddy." Todd smiled.

"Wak!" Barney said as he tried to waddle off and away.

"Sorry Beaky, we can't let you leave the yard." Lance smiled, and then his smile faded as he saw something long and black stretch over the end of the lawn. "Todd, tell me I'm hallucinating."

"You ain't hallucinating." Todd gasped.

"I told you to tell me I am hallucinating…" Lance gulped. "What do we do?"

"PERFECTION!" Todd shouted.

The mass then sprouted five four foot tall forms with angular antennae and bright yellow eyes. On their foreheads a strange symbol perched itself, barely detectable from the regular coloring of the body. The forms then launched themselves at the babies.

"I don't think so!" Todd growled as he snapped out of his fear and spat his acidic goo at the closest one, which reeled back in pain, but just as quickly snapped back. "Yo, this ain't good."

"Oh I don't believe it…" Lance blinked as he watched a dark ripple tear itself from the air.

As the ripple grew the Heartless stopped their advance just long enough for Lance and Todd to grab the babies and get them inside. When the ripple stopped growing the Heartless looked at each other and waited, as if they were assessing a new threat. Then several red beams shot from the ripple and tore two of the Heartless into pieces.

"Whoa, I hope this isn't what I think it is." Todd gulped.

"It isn't." Wraith said as he appeared by their side. "It's a leak, not an invasion. It's why I asked an old friend to help."

As the ripple faded the Heartless looked around in confusion and spotted Wraith, they immediately backed away in an instinctual fear and odd respect. Wraith simply glared.

"What so your friend just shot at them from another world?" Lance snapped.

"Driveway shiny…" Claudius shouted from the window.

Todd and Lance glanced at the drive way and saw what he meant. The driveway looked like it was swarming with millions of silver ants. Those ants then started to form an odd body, with metallic legs designed similarly to that of long leather boots. When the ants reached the torso the body began to take an armored shape and when it reached the arms and hands there were definite armor like structures. Then the ants formed the head, it looked human, except for the almost empty skull which was quickly filled in by more of the ants and formed to glowing red eyes and the metallic mouth plate that replaced the actual mouth of a person. The ants weren't done though, the body shifted several times as the ants pulled and plied their forms to make a red scarf and very sharp sword. Then the body became completely solid.

"Hello Shift." Wraith said calmly. "Thank you for your help."

"My pleasure." The cold metallic response came from the body.

"Jeez." Todd blinked. "That guy rocks."

"Thanks, I like to think that too, but it's nice to hear it every now and then." Shift said as he rubbed the back of his head. A Heartless took advantage of the situation and charged its new enemy, only to be ripped apart by several silver strands that stretched fourth from Shift's body. "Oh yeah, you guys." Shift went back to business.

The other two Heartless were now less enthusiastic about their attacks and eyed their new silver enemy dangerously. When one of them did charge it quickly backed away as Shift's tentacle like extensions tore through the ground.

"They're Neo Shadows Shift, use your sword and get in close." Wraith advised.

"You know for once I'd like to see the guys giving the advice actually follow it themselves." Shift grumbled as another mock charge came in. "All right I'm getting tired of this."

"Hey guys!" Perfection popped in at that exact moment. "Hi Shift!"

"PERFECTION!" Wraith shouted in fear.

"Eh?" Perfection turned to see the Heartless which cocked their heads as if to reassess the situation.

Then the Heartless launched themselves headlong at the Scion. When they landed though, it was on the ground next to Shift, as Perfection had wasted no time in teleporting away, right behind Wraith in fact. When the Heartless looked up they meet their end at the sharp end of Shift's blade.

"Jeez!" Lance shouted. "Did you see that? It's like how they went after the babies!"

"Pure hearts are irresistible to them." Wraith reminded them.

"Are they gone?" Perfection asked as he cowered behind Wraith.

"Yeah, this Shift guy just cut them in two." Todd smiled.

"This Shift guy has trained in every conceivable martial arts known to man." Shift said arrogantly. "Now where's the best sunny peak around?"

"Uh, Mount Everest?" Todd suggested.

"I meant in this vicinity." Shift narrowed his eyes at Todd.

"Not now, first I need to let Hawk know what's happened." Wraith said, "And I'm sure he'd like to hear Lance's and Todd's personal accounts as well as talk to you."

"Crap…" Shift groaned. "I knew I came too early, I should have just blasted them and left it at that."

"Probably." Perfection said as he got up from behind Wraith.

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"So what's a leak exactly?" Hawk asked.

"What it sounds like." Wraith said, "The pressure the Heartless are putting on the dimensional walls of your world is sprouting cracks all over and some are finding their way through to this world, but since it is not the main force of Alteran's invasion we can interfere directly."

"That is what I'm supposed to be doing." Shift sighed.

"What makes this guy sop special anyway?" Duke asked.

"I have about twelve thousand weapon plans in my memory, each of which I can replicate." Shift said. "This includes the Death Star."

"Jesus." Hawk groaned. "He's from a Star Wars universe."

"Nope, StarGate." Shift corrected him. "One of the few universe types that don't start out as a Star Wars world and ironically would make more sense if it did."

"Then how do you have plans for a Death Star?" Hawk asked.

"I have an internal StarGate and complete dimensional dialer built into me." Shift said it as if it was second nature. "I also have a built in Eclipse Cannon."

"A what?" Duke asked.

"From Sonic's world." Hawk sighed. "A less powerful Death Star basically."

"Don't worry about the leaks, we'll handle them." Wraith sighed. "Now if you'll excuse my I have to go and find Karma before she wears a hole in the fabric of the Verge."

"By the way, how fast is time there?" Hawk asked, "I mean how many years ahead of us?"

"Technically we don't have time there, but if I were to take a guess it would be around a couple dozen millennia ahead of your world." Wraith sighed. "Now if you'll excuse me." Wraith vanished.

"So, like can I go now?" Shift asked.

"Just promise to keep a low profile." Hawk said.

"Will do." Shift nodded. "Don't get any ideas about trying to use me as a weapon."

"Won't happen." Duke smiled. "We got weapons better that the Death Star."

"How is that possible?" Shift asked.

"You haven't met the Triplets." Hawk grinned.

"I sense so much pain in my future." Shift groaned.

"Sounds about accurate." Hawk kept smiling.

"Lovely." Shift groaned as he disappeared into a black ripple in space. "I'll be around; if you need me use these." Shift tossed a bag onto Hawk's desk, it was filled with a new series of watches, all of which were aligned to the Mass Device and they also had the time.

"How did he?" Duke looked in confusion. "They must have given him a watch to make these."

"Or he went to another universe with the Mass Device." Hawk surmised. "I don't know why but he doesn't strike me as a new guy on the battlefield. He's a veteran and a damn good one I'll bet."

"You may be right." Duke looked over a watch. "We might not want to trust these, Forge made them."

"I doubt our X-Men's Forge did." Hawk smiled. "So I wouldn't worry about it."

"Hawk?" Duke gave his friend a worried look.

"Wraith tells me he's actually pretty competent in a good number of other universes." Hawk yawned and reclined in his chair. "I'll have the Triplets look them over."

"There are the X-Men's communicators too." Duke said. "With Mass Device technology."

"That is not good." Hawk sat back up. "We'll have to discuss this with Xavier and the Scions."