Misfitverse: The Korvac Saga
Disclaimer: "That boy ain't right." - Hank Hill, King of the Hill
Author's Note: Hey, readers! L1701E here! Sorry about the lack of updates! I had writer's block, and also...I recently obtained copies of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen and I can't put them down.
Chapter 19: Girls' Day Out, Part 3!
The Xavier Institute, the 21st Century
Sam Guthrie sighed as he looked out the window of his room. The young mutant sighed and shook his head.
"Something troubles you, my friend." Teleute smiled as she appeared, leaning on the wall next to the window. Sam looked over at the Goth woman.
"Oh, hey, Teleute." Sam greeted. "Yeah, something troubles me."
"Care to talk about it?" Teleute sat down on Sam's bed.
"Well..." Sam started to explain. For some reason, he wasn't quite sure, he felt really comfortable around this woman. Like he could talk to her about his troubles. It was like she was an old friend. "We just got a visit from Kilowog of the Green Lantern Corps." (1)
"Kilowog." Teleute nodded. "I've heard of him. His world's afterlife is a strange one."
"Uhm...okay..." Sam blinked. "Anyway, we learned that they found one of the two objects needed to stop Unicron."
"Let me guess, there's a complication." Teleute guessed.
"Yeah." Sam nodded. "Evidently, the doohickey, whatever it is, got split up into seven parts."
"Evidently, fate enjoys toying with the X-Men." The Goth woman chuckled.
"Oh yeah, it does." Sam sighed. "It gets weirder from there. The seven pieces are in these things are part of some emotional spectrum or something."
"Ah, an extension of the Green Lantern Corps' energy rings." Teleute nodded. "They draw their energy from willpower. The center of the spectrum. Just like a rainbow, there are seven colors, for each major emotion. Green, the center of the rainbow, is appropriate for willpower. Willpower is the center, the thing that keeps emotions in check. The 'hot colors', red, orange, and yellow. They stand for respectively, rage, avarice, and fear."
"Avarice?" Sam blinked.
"Greed." Teleute clarified. "The cool colors, blue, indigo, and violet, respectively represent hope, compassion, and love."
"Makes sense." Sam nodded. "They oppose each other. Rage and Love. Greed and Compassion. Hope and Fear." Something then occurred to the blond Kentuckian. "Wait...how do you..." (2)
"I know many things." Teleute smiled. "I told you that, my young friend." Sam sighed. His new friend was a strange one. She seemed to be privy to a lot of things. "How goes things with the team?"
"Not good." The young mutant sighed. "Tabitha still hates Tigra's guts. Amira seemed really infuriated when Iron Man announced his support of the Registration Act."
"Maybe Tabitha has had a bad experience with cats as a child. And as for your cold-hearted friend, she probably is an Iron Man fangirl." Teleute quipped. "Sam, I told you. You should make an effort to befriend Greer. You're the leader of the New Mutants. You have to use your authority to get this team to re-gel together. More members will come, and you can bet that at least one of them may not just simply take the other New Mutants' hostility towards them." The Goth woman put a hand on Sam's shoulder in comfort. "I know that you are struggling at this point, but I also know one thing: you will endure. This team will endure. Tigra needs you, needs your leadership. The team needs your leadership. The grief and anger is making them fall apart. They need you to show them how to put themselves back together again." Sam frowned.
"What if I fail? What if the team ends up collapsing?"
"Then you'll fail knowing that you did everything you could to stop it, instead of just standing by and letting it happen. Believe me, Sam, it's better to fail knowing you fought." Teleute answered. Sam Guthrie will need my guidance. I can see the future, and he is going to play a large role in it. He is going to become a legend, and he will need help becoming the legend he is destined to be.
Haven, the 31st Century
"Ember McClain." Queen Rancor noted as the undead mutant woman walked up to him. "Haven't seen you in a while." The feral woman was sitting on her throne. Standing next to her was Oracle, her pink hair concealed by her white hood. Standing before her was the woman in question, her eyes glowing a soft red. "What's bothering you?"
"Queen Rancor..." The former X-Woman once known as Dead Girl answered. "I know about the Lost Mutants. I know they have returned."
"You were on the same team they were once, right?" Oracle remembered.
"My body was, not my spirit." Ember clarified with a nod. "They weren't re-merged then. Some of the Lost Mutants were former members of my old team, the New Mutants. Others were former members of the Hellions." Rancor frowned.
"From what I understand, the New Mutants and the Hellions were enemies." The Queen of Haven frowned. She then shook her head. "This makes no sense. If those two teams were enemies, then why are members of both teams part of the Lost Mutants? Surely, their differences would make it hard for them to fight this cosmic evil they are supposed to face."
"Perhaps that's the point." Oracle suggested. "They teams were massacred by the same person at the same time: one Trevor Fitzroy." Rancor scowled at the name. "The man who perpetrated the Massacre at Xavier's."
"I know who he is." Rancor scowled. "What mutant on Haven doesn't?"
"Well, maybe this enemy won't expect members from two opposing teams to be the ones who face him." Oracle suggested again.
"That worries me." Rancor sighed. "The two teams fought for different things. It'll be hard for them to work together. Hell, the X-Men still regarded the original Misfits as enemies." Ember frowned.
"There was a rivalry, sure, but even when they were the old Brotherhood of Mutants, they weren't as bad as the Hellions." Ember explained.
"I think they'll understand." Oracle blinked. "The Lost Mutants are not stupid. I think they will realize the value of working together. Personally, I think maybe the Hellions were brought back alongside the Hellions for another reason:"
"What?" Rancor blinked.
"Maybe they felt they should've had a shot at redemption." Oracle smiled. "Maybe the positive influences of your old teammates will help them, Ember." The undead mutant burst out laughing.
"Oh, that'll be rich! The New Mutants were the good guys, but they could also be just as crazy as the legendary Misfits."
The New York Mega-Mall
"YEOW!" The female Lost Mutants and the Gammazon yelled as they dodged the red energy beam fired by Argos, the Red Lantern.
"Great job, Moonstar!" Jennifer snapped. "We're gonna end up dead AGAIN!"
"I didn't see you offer any ideas!" Amara grumbled. "And it's worse for me! I can't use my powers around you because you had to be afraid of fire!" The blonde ex-Hellion scowled.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Jennifer cracked. "Maybe next time, I'll ask Fitzroy to see if he can use something besides a flamethrower to kill me. Would that make you happy, princess?!"
"I would be thrilled!" Amara snapped. Marie and Danielle looked at each other.
"You know, I think they're starting to get along." The Cheyenne mutant quipped.
"Oui. They do have quite a bit in common." The redhead agreed with a nod.
"Yeah, they're both hotheaded boneheads." Dani sighed.
"Arguing time is over, kids. It's fighting time now." Jhen grinned as she hefted up a large piece of rubble. "Hey Reddy! Here's wall in your eye!" She pitched the piece of wall at Argos.
"Rr? AGH!" He roared at the wall smashed into his construct armor. "You're pissing me off! YOU PEOPLE KEEP PISSING ME OFF!"
"It's the ring that does that, Argos." Cary Wren sighed as she created a green ring construct of some chains that wrapped themselves around the raging Red Lantern. "Not us."
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Argos roared. With a flex of his chest and arms, he broke the construct.
"Nng!" Cary winced, feeling the psychic backlash. "That's it!" She created her own armor from green energy. "YAHHHHHH!" The dark-haired woman charged and started trading punches with the infuriated Red Lantern.
"Oh, dear..." Marie frowned. "I wish I had my cards."
"Maybe I can make his ring short out." Jennifer thought out loud, creating a black energy sphere.
"Worth a try." Danielle nodded as she picked up the arrows she found. The Cheyenne mutant sighed as she looked at them right. "What I wouldn't give to be Hawkeye right now..." Jhen grinned.
"You know, I think there's a certain item in the Mansion you could use..." The green-skinned clone offered.
"Oh, I wish I had my cards..." Marie sighed.
"Can't you use your powers without them?" Amara wondered. Marie shook her head.
"Non." She answered. "My powers are dependent on images. I can bring images to life. I need my cards. I am good with a sword, and I do have some skill in the martial arts, but that stuff is no help against a Red Lantern." Rond Vidar smiled. (3)
"No problem, Red." He grinned, making constructs of a green sword and shield. He then gave the constructs to the redhead.
"Thank you." She smiled.
"What about me?" Amara frowned. "I can't use my powers around her..." She scowled at Jennifer. "And I have been taught how to use the sword. It was part of my education in Roma Nova." Both Jhen and Rond expressed surprise at Amara's mention of the remnant of Ancient Rome.
Nova Roma?! Jhen mentally gasped in shock. I thought that place was an ancient legend, like Apokolips.
Well, whaddaya know? That place may have actually existed once. Rond Vidar mentally chuckled. You know, if time travel wasn't so heavily regulated and controversial, I may actually go back to the 21st Century and see if that place actually existed in the Southern American Confederation, according to the historical records.
"Hey Lantern boy!" Jennifer yelled at Argos. "Eat my spheres!" She cocked her arm back, ready to pitch the sphere at Argos.
"Come on, little girl!" Argos grinned madly, red energy foam flowing from his mouth. "Bring your little energy ball! It can't hurt me! It'll just piss me off! Come on! COME ON! Hit me hit me hit me hit me hit me HIIIIT MEEEEEE!" The black energy sphere smashed into the armor, creating a crack.
"Great work, Blondie!" Rond whooped. "You cracked his armor!"
"What?!" Argos looked down at his armor construct. Sure enough, Jenny's black sphere altered the probability that there would be an imperfection in the construct. A crack was forming in the armor. "No!" He snarled at the smirking luck-manipulator.
"Let's crack open this nutshell!" Cary yelled. The two blasted at Argos's armor with their rings, to expand the crack in it.
"Stay behind me, kids!" Jhen ordered. "Let the Green Lanterns deal with him!"
"Oh yeah!" The blonde smirked, ignoring Jhen's command. "Looks like that fancy lightshow you call a suit of armor ain't quite as well-made as you thought." Argos snarled.
"And you ain't gonna be as alive as you thought, you frakkin' tramp!" Argos snarled, pointing a red-glowing fist at Jennifer.
"Oh, no! Jennifer!" Jhen yelled.
"Eat my rage!" The Red Lantern snarled as his fist erupted with crimson energy, a bolt of it headed straight for the blonde ex-Hellion.
"No!" Marie leapt in front of her teammate, holding up her green shield construct.
WHAM!
"Nng!" Rond winced as he felt the backlash. "Damned Red Lanterns." He rubbed his head. "They get so angry, even the constructs make you miserable!"
"Oof!" The shield was able to protect the two ex-Hellions, but the power of the blast caused them to fly backwards. Marie and Jennifer landed a short distance away.
"Ohhh, that was rough..." Marie moaned.
"Anybody get the number of that semi-truck?" Jennifer mumbled.
"Agh!" Argos roared as Rond and Cary repeatedly blasted at the crack in his armor. "Get off! Leave me alone! You are all pissing me off!"
"Big surprise, pal." Rond grumbled as he formed an energy crowbar and commanded it to pry the crack open.
"RAAAAAAHHHHH!" Argos screamed.
"Maybe my powers can help..." Dani mumbled to herself as she activated her powers. "I wonder what terrifies this Red Lantern guy..."
"Huh?" Argos blinked. "What the..." The Red Lantern started to see fluffy white creatures all over the place. Monsterous small white-furred creatures with large ears and buck teeth. "No...no...NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"What are you doing?" Amara blinked.
"Making him see his worst fear." Dani explained. "And it turns out...he's afraid of rabbits." Marie's
"Rabbits?!" Amara's jaw dropped.
"Get 'em away from me!" Argos screamed, swinging his arms wildly.
"What's wrong with him?" Rond blinked.
"Who cares?" Cary snapped. "Tear that armor open!"
"Bunnies! Bunnies everywhere! No! The teeth! THE TEEEETH! NO NO NO!" Argos screamed.
"I got 'im!" Jhen grabbed a sign and charged the Red Lantern. The clone of the legendary She-Hulk used the sign on the thrashing Red Lantern's cracked armor like a crowbar.
"She's got the right idea!" Cary yelled. She and Rond created crowbars with their rings, and alongside the clone, pried the armor open, exposing Argos's costumed chest and jaw.
"Wow." Dani blinked. "They sure do work well together."
"Yeah." Amara nodded.
"YAH!" With one large green fist, Rond Vidar knocked Argos's lights out.
"Aw yeah! One punch!" Amara whooped, punching the air.
"And that's the end of that chapter." Rond smirked proudly.
"Hey, I helped." Dani reminded. "I used my powers to get him spooked so he'd be too frightened to attack." Jennifer and Marie walked up to the two New Mutants.
"Suddenly, that holodeck flame therapy sounds like a good idea. Ow..." Jennifer moaned.
"Hey, look." Marie announced. "There's a crowd gathering."
Well, well, well! Looks like things are about to get a little more interesting! What insanity will happen next? How will the crowd react to the Lost Mutants? Why does Ember McLain have an interest in them? Find out in the next chapter! Suggestions needed badly!
(1) – In NebulaBelt's "Misfitverse: Civil War CHECKMATE"
(2) – Geoff Johns plus Green Lantern equals freakin' genius. That is all.
(3) – Tarot's fencing skills are a nod to Metal Dragoon's fic "Take the Long Way Home", a personal favorite of mine. Kid Razor and the New Mutants brawled with the Hellions in one chapter. In it, she said that she was trained by the finest swordsmen and women in the world.