KKD: *walks in, browsing through a bunch of cards with Marvel characters on them* Man, this game is so cool.
TB: I see card games are your thing. I'm sorry but I'm more of a Djinn player. Anyway, here we are again. Another chapter of my OC Marvel story, Animal. Before we get started, earlier you told me that you saw Guardians of the Galaxy. Tell me, as well as everyone reading this, ur thoughts on it.
KKD: Okay. First off, this card game is sorta of a cross between a board game and a card game called Marvel Legendary; it's awesome and I got all the expansions to this date. Second, Guardians of the Galaxy… well, I was skeptical about it at first, but I eventually saw it over the holiday with my parents, and I gotta say… it! Is! AWESOME!
TB: I know right?! I think that with its action, characters and humor, it might be, dare I say it, better than The Avengers. Who's your favorite character?
KKD: That's a tricky one, I must admit… I will say, I like Drax just because they got former WWE pro wrestler Batista to play him.
TB: Mine, hands down, is Rocket. One, because he's voiced by Bradley Cooper, the guy from The Hangover. Two, let's be honest… HE'S A TALKING RACCOON! 8D
KKD: Did you get that part from Doug Walker's Bum Review of the movie?
TB: Yes I did, HI-OOOOHHHH! Anyway, this chapter will have our hero, Jessie taking on different missions with different members of the X-Men.
KKD: This will be very cool.
TB: Alrighty then, your turn for the disclaimers buddy.
KKD: Okay. Let's see here… *searches file cabinet before pulling out the black sheet* Aha! *sets of the disclaimers*
DISCLAIMERS: No one from Team Toku Riders owns anything in this fanfiction except for the original concepts within. The rest are owned by Marvel Comics, Disney (since they own Marvel), Marvel Studios, Fox (since they make the X-Men movies), Stan Lee, and their respective owners.
"Congratulations on becoming a member of our team, Ms. Devon," Xavier congratulated Jessie, who was now sporting her new X-Men costume, which didn't have gloves or boots.
"Thanks, Chuck," Jessie responded, "Now what am I going to be doing?"
"Well, Ms. Devon, you will be assigned various different missions by your superiors on the team. Each member will tell you the mission and will aid you on these missions; you will also most likely encounter members of the Brotherhood of Mutants. Until you have had more experience, I would advise you avoid the stronger members of the Brotherhood and leave them to your superiors," Xavier explained, "The strongest members of the Brotherhood are also the most dangerous, so if you do have to face them, be careful."
"Sure thing, Chuck." Jessie saluted, walking out before Xavier stopped her for a second.
"One more thing, you will be joined on your first mission by Storm and Psylocke. You're more than familiar with the former, so she might help you with finding Elizabeth."
After the meeting, Jessie left the office to find Storm,walking through the hallways before finding her talking with an Asian woman with oddly purple hair, and a blue spandex suit.
"Hey, Storm and… strange purple-haired Asian woman," Jessie waved, not knowing the name of the woman next to Storm.
"Hello Ms. Devon. Oh, pardon my forgetfulness. This is Elizabeth Braddock, also known as Psylocke," Storm introduced.
"Please, call me Betsy when we aren't on missions," the purple-haired Asian, Psylocke, replied in a surprisingly British accent, "So, you're the new recruit the Professor has acquired?"
"Yup, and he just sent me to you two because you had a mission we had to do," Jessie nodded.
"Of course. Well, your first mission is to do some recon on what's going on with some humans being held hostage by a member of the Brotherhood. We'll be with you on standby when you're ready." Storm explained.
"We'll be headed to Brooklyn, over by the bridge. That's what a tip from a fellow mutant said we will be," Psylocke added, "So… you ready for this, Animal?"
"Uh… sure. Whatever you say, Psylocke," Jessie nodded, as they went off.
Later, the trio arrived at the Brooklyn Bridge, looking down at a hostage situation where a bunch of humans were held captive by a white-haired woman with black eyes, a total of six arms, and was wearing a light blue outfit with silver armor, and a large silver helmet on her head.
"Who's the funky spider chick?" Jessie whispered.
"That's Spiral, a mutant who used to work with some alien known as Mojo, but now she's affiliated herself with the Brotherhood." Psylocke explained.
"She has enhanced speed, strength, and reflexes along with one of her arms being fully cybernetic; she can also teleport, become invisible, stun others to the point of causing concussions or paralysis, and even remove superhuman abilities. She also has the ability to use magic through some form of dancing," Storm explained.
"Whoa. I don't want my powers removed after I just joined the group," Jessie gulped.
"Don't worry, Animal. We've got your back," Psylocke assured, before turning her attention back to the situation at hand, "Now what seems to be going on here? What do you think she's doing?"
"She's just pacing around right now, as if she's expecting someone to show up. Perhaps she's waiting for someone to deliver a ransom or to come and hurt the humans she's captured," Storm figured.
"So we strike her down when she doesn't notice, right?" Jessie suggested.
"Perhaps that would be wise. But I wouldn't recommend you get too close to her. She might stun you the moment you try to attack," Storm advised.
"Then how about we set up a little distraction," Psylocke suggested, "You could distract her while Animal and I go free the hostages."
"I like that one," Jessie responded with a smirk, "And then after we free them, we can help you with Spiral."
Storm nodded as Psylocke and Animal jumped off the by the water while Storm conjured the weather to bring about the storm clouds, thunder and rain, bringing the attention of Spiral.
"Listen to me well, Spiral. Your heinous crimes against humanity and mutantkind must end!" Storm declared, her voice being projected, thus sounding more majestic with the storms behind her stirring up.
"You really think a little weather change is gonna stop me?" Spiral responded, starting a small dance before firing a blast of magic at Storm, thus initiating the battle with them trading blasts at each other.
While that was going on Animal and Psylocke snuck behind Spiral, moving towards the captives, who were all chained together.
"You're the X-Men, right?" one of the hostages said, before he noticed Animal, "Hey, you're that girl who stopped the Samurai guy before. I saw you in the papers."
"Glad that you're impressed," Animal responded while turning her finger into a sharp point to slice the chains while Psylocke used an energy blade from her hand to slice open the chains and ropes, "Now, everyone get out of here before Spiral sees you!"
The humans nodded, getting set to run away before a magic blast was headed towards Psylocke and Animal and being blocked by the former summoning an energy shield.
"So your powers are mental energy attacks, right?" Jessie asked.
"It's a bit more complicated than that, but that is one of my powers," Psylocke confirmed, before Spiral began moving towards them.
"You shall not escape my power!" Spiral exclaimed before she ran in and attacked them with some martial arts before pulling out a few katanas and getting into a sort of blade fight with Psylocke.
Psylocke was able to block the katanas with her energy blade, dodging most of the attacks, before Spiral managed to knock her back with a magic pulse. Storm managed to leap in, blasting Spiral with a gust of wind, before Animal turned into a rhino form charging at her and knocked Spiral into a nearby wall. Spiral then got back up before she did another dance, allowing her to blast another spell at Storm which caused her to fall back.
"Looks like it's just you and me, you animal freak," Spiral responded before rushed to attack Animal before they locked punches.
They simply traded blows, Animal having a distinct disadvantage. Her arms then turned into humanoid octopus arms with suction cups on the outside and she grew two extra arms on her left and right side to even it out with Spiral. Thus, they were able to even things out, still exchanging blows with each other until Spiral knocked her back with a stun pulse, knocking Animal back into the leg of the bridge and back to normal.
"You're pathetic! Now… you will be exterminated here." Spiral scoffed when she was about to prepare the final blow, until she was hit in the back by some sort of bone sword, revealing it to be from a woman with short red hair, brown eyes, a mostly green outfit, and having bone armor all over her body.
"Who are you?" Animal asked.
"Name's Marrow. You new to the X-Men?" the girl in question asked.
"Yeah I am," Animal answered as she got up before noticing her bone armor, "Doesn't that hurt?"
"Nah… well, it did when it first started, but I got used to it after a while," Marrow shrugged off.
With that, Storm and Psylocke got back up and were able to fire their signature blasts at Spiral. With the mutant distracted, Spiral was knocked backwards, before getting back up and attempted another dance to attack the girls again, but they all got up close to her to attack before she got the chance. Then, Storm prepared a lightning bolt, Psylocke her energy blade, Marrow one of her bone blades, and Animal her reptile like claw, before they all struck her at the same time, knocking her out in the process.
"And THAT is how it's done," Animal smirked, with all the others equally satisfied.
"Thank you for the assistance, Marrow," Storm thanked.
"You're welcome. I'm just glad I could help," Marrow replied, before turning her attention to Animal, "You didn't do so bad either, kid."
"I'm not exactly a kid… but thanks," Animal replied.
"Thank you for sending us the tip about Spiral, Marrow," Psylocke smiled, "I don't think we would've known without your little tip-off."
"It was no problem," Marrow shrugged off.
"So she told us where she would be found. Wow…" Animal figured.
"You have done well for your first mission, Ms. Devon." Charles congratulated Jessie, who was currently in his office.
"Thanks a lot, Chuck," Jessie smiled, "I will admit though, Spiral was pretty tough."
"Naturally, she used to be a security guard for Mojo, whom I'm sure you've briefly heard mentioned from Storm and Psylocke. Mojo is an alien who captures various beings across the universe to make them into his 'actors' for his ridiculous movies," Xavier informed.
"He sounds like a dumb hollywood director who's too lazy to do real work," Jessie joked, giggling a bit, "Seriously, I will never take him seriously."
"Yes… well, while I would counter that somewhat humorous remark, we don't have much time to rest. Nightcrawler and Beast have another mission for you. You should go and meet them,"
"Right," Jessie responded before walking out of the office, until…
*BAMF*
"Peek-a-boo!" Nightcrawler replied, shocking Jessie with his sudden appearance.
"Whoa!" she gawked with surprise, "SHEESH! Don't scare me like that, Kurt!"
"Entschuldigung (Sorry), Ms. Devon, but I just came to get you for your next mission," Kurt informed, "I will take you to Dr. McCoy."
"Oh. Okay, I guess," Jessie shrugged, as with another "BAMF!" she and Kurt teleported to Hank's lab where they saw him currently working on some scientific liquid.
"I would suggest that you be careful around me. This is a highly combustible substance," McCoy informed as Kurt and Jessie walked in.
"How can… whatever it is you're doing just blow up?" Jessie inquired.
"This is equivalent to nitroglycerine, one wrong move, one accidental extra drop of any ingredient, one mistake, and it will combust in a millisecond," Beast informed, with Jessie nodding in response.
"Anyway, I heard that you and Kurt have a mission. What are we gonna do?" Jessie inquired.
"Ve vill be investigating an incident in vhich ve believe to have been caused by a mutant known as Toad," Kurt informed.
"Toad? Lemme guess, he's part of the Brotherhood as well?"
"Exactly," Beast replied, having finished with his experiment to explain the mission, "Toad doesn't have much in the way of strength, but he makes up for this with the speed and agility of his namesake… and he even has the mannerisms of the amphibian because… well… he has been known to use his tongue to devour arthropods," Beast informed.
"Huh?" Jessie asked, a bit confused.
"He means sat using his tongue, Toad literally eats bugs like one," Kurt explained, making Jessie cringe a bit in disgust.
"Gross! I can use frog and toad abilities too, but that's just disgusting!"
"Toad has gained the reputation of being the weakest of the Brotherhood, and he is incredibly cowardly, yet extremely loyal to the group. Whatever he was involved in, it's unlikely that he is the one to come up with such an elaborate scheme. He would've had an accomplice who'd come up with it and help him to complete said task." Beast hypothesized.
"Vell, let's go check it out sen," Nightcrawler replied as he touched both Jessie and Beast, teleporting them towards the location of the incident, which was a museum in which the cops were surrounding, and when they got inside, they noticed some of the artifacts went missing.
"More artifacts are missing," one cop noted, "First it was Incan, but we managed to get those back, this time it's Aztec."
"Why would these guys go after these artifacts? They don't have much value outside of looking nice in the museum and having some historical use," another cop added.
"Actually the opposite is true," Beast informed the cops, "Whomever stole these priceless antiques saw them as incredibly profitable and would've wanted to sell them to the highest bidder."
"So that's what that guy I stopped before was planning on doing with those artifacts. Selling them off on the black market to his boss," Jessie added.
"And would you three have any idea as to where the one, or ones who orchestrated this whole thing could be located?" one of the cops inquired.
"Not exactly, but we might have some idea as to how to look for them." Beast answered.
Later, the trio began searching the Park Avenue Tunnel for any sort of lead to go on.
"So why are we going through the Park Avenue Tunnel?" Jessie asked, a bit confused.
"If Toad and his possible accomplice stole the artifacts, they would most likely flee down here to lose the police in the cover of darkness," Beast answered, "Rather clever for someone with limited intellect."
"Right… anyways ve should be getting closer to our targets," Nightcrawler informed Animal, before they heard some distinct talking, which caused them to hide behind a nearby car.
When they looked, they saw some ugly looking guy wearing goggles, crouching down, while next to him was a blonde guy in a yellow and red outfit that is clearly fire-themed.
"No doubt that Toad would have an accomplice," Beast muttered.
"It's Pyro," Nightcrawler added.
"Lemme guess, fire powers and he's a Brotherhood member along with that disgusting Toad thing." Animal figured.
"Pretty much, ya," Nightcrawler confirmed.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Why don't we just get in, demand them to return the artifacts, and kick their butts?" Jessie whispered.
"It's much more wise to have a plan of attack before rushing in blindly. 'Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.'" Beast replied and quoted Sun Tzu, making Jessie look confused.
"Being se smart one he is, Beast often quotes books sat he reads," Nightcrawler explained, with Jessie nodding in understanding.
"So what's the plan?" Animal asked.
"Perhaps the wisest course of action would be to lead them outside the tunnel so we can fight them and Toad doesn't have the advantage of attacking us from all angles, though Pyro's powers could cause some collateral damage," Beast noted.
"Sen one of us could lead Toad out of se tunnel vile ve fight Pyro," Nightcrawler added.
"I think I'll take care of that," Animal offered, before leaping out from behind the car and began jumping up and down while waving her arms, "HEY! HOTHEAD! WARTFACE! OVER HERE!"
"What'd you just call me?!" Toad snapped, before jumping towards Animal and tackling her, but she leapt out of the way, dodging it completely and started luring Toad further away.
"That just leaves you at a disadvantage, Pyro," Beast responded, revealing himself along with Nightcrawler.
"Try and come after me, ya bloody wankers!" Pyro responded in an Australian accent.
With that, Beast and Nightcrawler leaped forward at Pyro before he used his powers to shoot fire at them, but Nightcrawler teleported away while Beast swiftly dodged the fire. Nightcrawler ended up teleporting behind Pyro and kicking him in the back before Beast flip kicked him. Pyro attempted to counter, but Nightcrawler teleported up to him again and hit him with his tail, knocking him into a nearby can.
Meanwhile, Animal managed to lure Toad out of the tunnel before he used his tongue to wrap it around her and began swinging her around.
"Eeewww! That's gross!" Jessie responded, turning her right hand into a reptilian claw to slash at it, causing Toad to yell in pain and let go.
"Tha hur!" Toad responded, his voice sounding like he had some sort of lisp due to his injured tongue.
"Good! Now I'm gonna give you a real beating," Animal smirked as she turned into a humanoid alligator before charging at Toad, making him scream in shock, hopping around to avoid her and clinging to a wall above the tunnel, "Hey, don't think you're safe yet!"
Jessie managed to climb up the wall, turning into a humanoid gecko to get closer to Toad. Then, they both stood up on the wall and started trading punches and kicks, being careful not to fall off the wall. However, little did they know, there was some shady figure hiding in the distance watching the fight.
"I have a visual on Subject #3580320," the figure whispered in his ear piece.
-Stay away from her for now. We can't let her know we're onto her. Keep your visual on her though,- a soothing and calm voice said to the figure -I would like to see how much our little subject has grown.-
"Yes, sir," the shady figure nodded as he continued to watch Animal and Toad duke it out.
They kept fighting on the wall before Animal did a sweep kick when Toad wasn't paying attention, causing him to fall straight to the ground, and fall flat on his face. She then jumped off the wall and landed on the ground while changing back into her human form.
"Okay. Okay! I give up! Just don't hurt me anymore!" Toad whimpered, trying to keep himself alive, but Animal just knocked him out with one punch… with her human hand.
"Pfft, whimp," Animal scoffed as Beast and Nightcrawler came out with Pyro over Beast's shoulder and the artifacts in the hands of Nightcrawler, "I see you've already taken care of your half on the mission."
"Indeed, we managed to get the artifacts from them before they could sell them off," Beast smirked before he laid Pyro down where Toad was laying.
"Congratulations, mein lieberkind," Nightcrawler congratulated.
"Thanks for the help guys," Jessie responded.
"So… Subject #3580320 was fighting for the X-Men now, was she?" the figure from over the phone said as we see him sitting in front of a monitor in an office shrouded in shadow so we couldn't see his face, "I see… well then… continue to survey her battles. Her powers may prove useful in my plan."
Back at Xavier's school, which Jessie learned was also called the X-Mansion, she was walking through the hallways before entering Charles' office.
"Congratulations on completing your second mission, Ms. Devon. You have far exceeded my expectations," Charles complimented Jessie, who had a bit of a concerned look on her face, "Is something the matter?"
"Oh no, it's nothing. I was just..." Jessie started before sighing, "...I was justing thinking about my folks is all."
"You really do miss them, do you not?"
"Yea… I don't know if I should visit them after what seems like years, or just stay away from them to free them from the shock of… well… this." Jessie responded, addressing to herself.
"I see…" Xavier responded, understanding her situation, "I'm not going to pressure you into this matter. You may visit them when you think you're ready to. If you're nervous when do decide to visit them… I will come with you. Understand?"
"...I guess… thanks, Chuck," Jessie smiled, before getting back on topic, "Anyway, what's my next mission?"
"Ah yes, for your third mission you will be partnered up with Kitty Pryde, Colossus and Iceman. Go ahead and find them. They will brief you," Charles replied as Jessie nodded before leaving.
Jessie eventually found Kitty, Peter and Bobby chatting outside, before going up to them.
"Hey guys!" she greeted.
"Hey, Jessie congratulations on the missions," Kitty congratulated.
"You're doing well for a rookie," Iceman added, "Anyway, Professor Xavier must've told you about a mission we had for you."
"Yup, what do we got?" Jessie inquired.
"Well, our mission today is to stop a mutant known as the Blob; he is big fat chubby mutant who has super strength, and is impervious to most physical attacks; he was even able to stop many projectiles, and even Wolverine's claws." Peter explained.
"So what does affect him?" Jessie asked.
"We've learned he can be incapacitated by getting him to drink… but a LOT of alcohol is required. We also know that the Blob isn't the brightest member of the Brotherhood; he can easily be beaten by mutants with mental powers, and he can still get concussions and be knocked out," Kitty informed.
"So… we either get him drunk or knock him out," Jessie figured, as she put her left hand and right hand up while saying that and then moved both of them up and down like she was literally weighing her options, "Yeah I go with knocking his lights out."
"Leave that to me," Peter added, cracking his knuckles.
They got into a warehouse to find a man who had red hair, brown eyes, wore a blue shirt with red short, brown boots and wristbands, but was INCREDIBLY obese, messing around with a big punching bag.
"Wow, they don't call him the Blob for nothing." Animal noted, "He literally looks like a blob of fat, what's he been doing that was brought to our attention?"
"Just needless destruction throughout the city," Iceman replied, "He along with another brute called the Juggernaut tend to just do that for fun."
"Geez, talk about ugly. So how do you propose we approach him, Peter?" Kitty asked.
"I suggest we go straight for attack," Peter informed, "However, you must all be careful. Blob can still counter many of our attacks. Best bet is to distract him until one of us can deliver the critical blow."
"I actually wanna move away from the 'distracting' plan because I've done that in my other missions before. Maybe this time I could simply sneak around so I'm above him, and when he least expects it I can knock him out cold."
"I don't think it'll be that easy," Kitty replied.
"Why?" Jessie asked.
"HEY! Who's dat?!" they heard the Blob shout, causing them to look and see him having found the group, "X-Men?! I'll smash you into paste!"
"On second thought, we fight him and improvise. BREAK!" Animal shouted, taking a leap into the air as Bobby and Peter activated their powers and rushed in.
The Blob first tried to attack Kitty but she phased right through his belly, leaving him confused. This gave Iceman the opportunity to freeze the Blob from the neck down, but he easily broke out of the ice no problem. Colossus attempted to bash him in the head with his fists, but his belly protected him from most of his punches. Animal then jumped up and tried to punch him with her gorilla arm, but Blob easily knocked her away which caused her to land in a nearby boxing ring.
"Ow…" she groaned, struggling to get up, "That hurt."
Animal got up and looked around, trying to figure out how to get the Blob down before she saw one of the corners in the boxing ring. This gave her an idea as she went to execute it while Iceman tried to freeze the Blob again, but he just punched him away. He then knocked Kitty into Colossus, who caught her with little problem.
"Are you alright, Kitty?" Colossus asked Shadowcat.
"Yea… I'm fine," she responded.
"None of you bozos can stop me!" Blob shouted, unbeknownst to him that Animal was right behind him on top of the boxing ring corner.
Suddenly, she took a leap off the corner before turning her feet into those of an elephant, and gave him a diving dropkick to the head, which made him dazed and stumble a bit.
"Come on, Pete. Let's give him one more hit to the head for good measure!" Animal requested, turning her right arm into a humanoid rhino arm.
Colossus just nodded as the two punched the Blob in the head before he could recover, which knocked him down.
"Alright, not bad Jessie!" Kitty complimented as she gave Animal a high five.
"Thanks," she responded as she cracked her shoulder, "But I gotta admit… getting punched into that ring was really painful… thank God I'm durable."
"She has proven to be quite the fighter," the shadowy figure from before said as he surveyed Animal's fight with the Blob, "Perhaps a few more of her missions, and then I will plan to make my move."
TB: DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUN!
KKD: Whoa nelly! Things are starting to get pretty serious here.
TB: Dat foreshadowing, man. Also we get some bit of character development with Animal debating about whether to see her family or not.
KKD: It's only natural that a mutant taken from their family who has no idea of their powers would be concerned. I mean, unlike other mutants who freaked out and had their powers activate as teens and their parent reacted in different ways, Animal didn't have her powers fully activate until Weapon X came along and took her without her parents knowing.
TB: To top it off, her parents witnessed Jessie being taken when she was just a child. Not only does she worry how her parents will react to her now that she has powers (which she has great control over by the way), she's worried that they might not even recognize her. And if that wasn't what I written in there for all those reading, I'm sorry.
KKD: Regardless, though, it was very fun to get to see her in action and going against the Brotherhood of Mutants.
TB: And these were just the lesser known, more weaker ones. Next chapter, she'll be facing stronger members with even more stronger X-Men. Before we sign off, favorite parts.
KKD: Well, some of these were kinda well-known, I mean Toad and the Blob are pretty well-known. But yea, definitely, she'll encounter the stronger members of the Brotherhood later. Who knows? Maybe she'll fight Sabretooth, Mystique, Juggernaut, or even Magneto. ...Well, okay, maybe not Magneto, but you get my point.
TB: You never know. Anyway, my favorite part was… well, what wasn't my favorite part? It's the whole chapter! ^^
KKD: I see what you mean. I mean, it is your character, and the majority of it consisted of fights that showed off not only her powers, but her resourcefulness, too.
TB: What do you mean by her resourcefulness?
KKD: How she was able to improvise in fights and easily take down her opponents.
TB: Oh right. I'm gonna be a little blunt with something, I don't think I'm all that creative. But with your help, I think I'm getting a little better at how to write my own OC.
KKD: Yea. Sometimes it helps getting outside help so you can get a better idea in how to develop your characters. But trust me, in the long run, if they turn out good enough, sometimes the characters will start writing themselves.
TB: Alright, thanks for that. What was your favorite part?
KKD: That's a very tricky part, isn't it? I guess my favorite part was her actually fighting Toad. Sure, we painted him out to be a real coward with some anger management issues, but we also made him capable of fighting on his own while also showing off how badass Animal could be.
TB: True, but wasn't Toad always a coward in the comics? He's like the Starscream of X-Men, minus the clever speaker part.
KKD: Yea. I mean, he managed to lead an incarnation of the Brotherhood from what I've read… but like THAT lasted very long.
TB: What did I tell ya? He's like Starscream. Anyway, this has been the Lone Rider, TokuBrony…
KKD: And the Crossover King, KKD Silver, signing off. Jaa ne!
TB: SEIYAA!