The egg cracked even further with the reveal of more skin, popping out before it collapsed, breaking into pieces, revealing a nude, goopy, squealing baby boy, and Doc picked him, cleaning him up gently and quickly as his son shivered, with a pair of antennae appearing.
"So, you are the one with the antennae, my dear boy...", Doc murmured, taking in his son's tan skin which came from his grandfather's side, seeing some strands of fine strawberry-blonde hair, having Doc's nose and Lacey's smile.
His son soon quieted down, gurgling softly as he then opened his eyes, revealing dark amber gold eyes, a few shades darker than Doc's own amber gold eyes which is bright. Lacey blinked, "Wow, he's going to be a heartbreaker...He's perfect, right, Richard?".
Doc smiled softly, "Yes, he's perfect...Ethan Jefferson Lebre.", and Lacey smiled warmly, "Ethan...That suits him perfectly.".
Ethan babbled happily, proud of his full name before giving out a hungry whine, and Doc chuckled, "Looks like you got some competiton for milk, Kathy.", gently passing Ethan over, with Lacey adjusting the two of them, with Doc removing the other strap, and Ethan then latched onto the other breast, gulping down his mother's milk.
"Hey, slow down, you two, leave me at least some that I can give your other brother.", Lacey chuckled as the two babies continued to feed, greedy and obviously hungry.
"They're clearly starving since being in those eggs.", Doc chuckled as he grinned warmly, "Certainly enough for them to grow and all, but they clearly wanted something extra in there.".
Lacey giggled, "True. They had the cords in the womb, and I suppose they had some extra nutrients from the cords themselves into the eggs when it was birthing time, giving them to grow a bit extra more through this whole month...And now, this is the best wedding gift ever. Kathy, Ethan...", smiling motherly and tenderly at the two babies as they eventually got hiccups from gulping down so quickly.
Doc laughed softly, "What did your mother say? Have you learned your lesson now?". Kathy and Ethan looked sheepish, having slowed down before burping. They then yawned, cooing and gurgling as they shivered. Doc removed his jacket, and received the two, bundling them right up as they fell asleep against his chest.
Lacey smiled lovingly, "My husband's a great father...First time I am able to say that out loud.", before hearing more cracks, looking over to the last egg that's shaking furiously.
"Looks like our last son didn't want to be left out.", Doc smiled as Lacey shook her head. "No, he could already tell that his siblings were going to take all the milk if he didn't hurry.", she joked as the two of them watched the last egg.
After a few tumultuous shakes, the egg cracked in one shot, into pieces, revealing a crying, goopy, shivering baby boy, and Lacey picked him right up, and even before she could clean him up, he latched instantly into a nipple, gulping.
She laughed, "You couldn't even wait a minute, darling.", cleaning him up as best as she could with the breast in the way, seeing that he got pale tan skin, Doc's nose and smile, and his little bundle of hair is shockingly honey brown. His eyes are dark blue like Lacey.
"He's a smart one...", Doc reminded. "Like I said, probably knew that his siblings were hungry and probably greedy.", with a chuckle. "That's true... but no need to worry about that, I have plenty for you, little one.", Lacey replied.
Her son gave a little hum of appreciation, still focused on drinking his mother's milk. Doc then said, "My parents didn't have that hair color. Did your parents?".
Lacey snorted, "Nope. I think it's a grandparent somewhere in the family. This inquires a bit of thought for his name. And I doubt that the other names we talked about, they don't fit him...".
"No, I don't think so...", Doc shook his head. "It's strange, I guess we never truly prepared in terms of names not fitting.".
"I guess we just assumed that the names would look right with them...", Lacey said. Doc nodded, "Indeed. Let's see...how about William for his first name?".
Lacey mused thoughtfully as she looked upon her son, still suckling, "William James Lebre. We can call you Willy for short. What do you think of that, darling?".
The baby boy just babbled as he tried to reach out to his mother and gave a smile. "I think he likes it.", Doc said as he kissed Lacey's cheek. "Well, don't keep holding him all day, at least let his siblings see him.".
Lacey chuckled softly as she scooted closer to Doc, with Willy cooing amongst his feeding, calling out to Kathy and Ethan who peered at him sleepily and headed back to sleep.
Willy seemed to shrug as he hogged Lacey for a few more minutes before letting go with a burp and a yawn, and Lacey kissed Willy on the forehead as he fell asleep, and with well-known smiles, the couple got up carefully and slowly, and headed on to the triplets' nursery where the triplets didn't even stir once when the couple dressed them into warm clothes and laid them in their cribs side by side.
Doc chuckled softly, "Well, looks like we got deep sleepers in here.", and Lacey looked at him, "Good. And we got video monitors, but if everybody's right, we got about three hours before their feeding and all...Speaking of which, I worked so hard to get back to shape for my wedding dress, and you know what I want, don't you?".
"I sure do, my dear, and I have been waiting the entire day to ravish you at last. Oh, don't get me wrong, having you so horny was so irresistible...", Doc held Lacey with a smoldering smile as he picked her up, walking out of the nursery, closing the door, crossing the hallway to their bedroom once more.
Lacey nodded, "Yeah, yeah, you're right...I just have to convince myself that we do have video monitors and Libra Haven is extremely secure. It's just weird in a way...is that wrong?".
Doc smiled softly, "No, it's not wrong to worry at times, but it's wrong to be stressful all the time. We need to have a healthy lifestyle as much as possible...".
"That actually made me feel better, Richard.", Lacey gave him a grateful smile before smiling widely, "I need to get the stress out of my system, and I know where to start.", before kissing him passionately, wrapping her arms around him, and Doc groaned as he stumbled for the doorknob to the bedroom, kissing her back, and managing to get in, and kicked the door back up to locking mode.
And so, the newlyweds had a passionate wedding night with feedings at midnight, and so the Lebre family became a fixture in Libra Haven, with occasional visits by the other residents to gush about the triplets and introduce themselves.
A few months later, down the road, Jean is heavily pregnant, about 8 months along, and she is invited to have one of her last days out in public before she would be stuck inside for the rest of the remainder of her pregnancy, and so, she, Logan headed out with the Barnes family; Bucky, Tara, and Reva.
Little did they know, with little information on the news last night, someone is out for revenge after breaking out of prison during a riot, and that is the infamous Derek Dietl.
The scum had been wasting away at the state penitentiary; constantly despising the fact that he got caught; especially with Tara. He was sure that his bases had been covered; but Susan overhearing him drunkenly brag to his groomsmen on the night before everything happened... She probably wouldn't have suspected anything other than the story he had told her if not for Susan. Then there was Lacey... his blood boiled at the thought.
Many, many men hated him in the prison for the main fact of raping women, especially famous ones like Tara. Oh, sure, several men fantasized about giant size-shifting women to their likes, inspired by the sisters, but they had a whole huge span of respect for the sisters since they were some of the heroes who saved Earth.
Still, there were other men who were like him, and Dietl, the bastard is always looking for gossip on the black market, and after hearing tidbits and such about Tara, Susan, and Lacey, he was disgusted by their choice of men, and of course, their eventual families.
But he was stuck in there. Or at least he was until the riot happened. It wasn't nothing new, several happened every once in a while, but nothing to this level and Derek used it as his best chance to escape in a fairly unorthodox method.
With a reference to somebody in the black market, Derek laid low for a while, trading a couple of things for a gun, and he waited for a sign, someplace where he could exact his revenge as he heard that Libra Haven is extremely secured, literally scaring off paparazzi at a good distance, and he wondered about going in the dark, but after hearing about Gallaxhar, and with Libra Haven full of mutants, size-shifting giants, monsters, and even very agile humans, he would eventually be caught under five minutes easily, and he ain't that suicidal.
He honestly had to wait for quite some time; something that certainly wasn't like him but with nothing but revenge on his mind and the time in prison, he completely had changed. Though not for the better in any way.
After 24 hours, he got information that Tara is out in public with her pathetic family, along with a couple of mutants, and he realized that this is his moment to exact his revenge. Stealing a car, he went to the park where the group is socializing, having fun, relaxing outside on a picnic table, and he watched them closely, realizing that the child is clearly not his son, but a daughter, and she looks like the man next to Tara, having some of her features as well.
He was a bit infuriated that Tara either aborted his son, or gave him away to the system, and now she has replaced him with the spawn of the werewolf man, Bucky Barnes. Well, no matter, he will erase all of Tara's life, starting with the spawn.
Of course, he still had to wait for a perfect chance... to rush now might cause him to be stopped and he certainly wasn't planning on going back to prison. No, he wanted to make her suffer and destroy her but also not be caught. She would know it was him, but it wouldn't be until the very end when he held her own life in his hands.
He watched carefully of the frolicking family, and saw that they were deep in a conversation, with the child running around, giggling and shifting into a wolf pup, soon wandering off to help get a ball from some other kids who kicked it too far from their spot.
Derek saw that this is his chance, and carefully, quietly slipped away from the car, watching that nobody is looking around, too distracted by their own children or spouses, and headed to the spot of the park where the child is in, casually walking before he was covered by the trees, now walking up to the child who is struggling to get the ball out of some bramble bushes.
Reva saw the ball going into the bushes, kicked by one of the big kids, and figured that if she gets it, maybe she can play if she asks them, and she focused on getting the ball, not noticing the shadow until too late, and hands grab her around her face and body.
She tries to scream, but the hands were too tight around her, and she fought back, glad for her daddy's teachings, and Derek grunted, surprised at the strength of the child fighting back, but he still held on, walking back out slowly, watching that everything is clear.
Reva kept fighting, seeing her family in the distance, and she looked up at the scraggly, disgusting, bad-smelling man, and sneered as she shifted her foot into one of her paws, scratching into his leg hard enough to bleed and of course, cause pain.
Derek shouted, losing his hands around Reva, and Reva began to scramble away, screaming, "Mommy, Daddy, help!", before Derek grabbed her again, holding her tightly with his gun at her head, snarling, "Now you're gonna pay for that!".
There was a brief moment in Derek's mind... about what to do next. Either pull the trigger or not pull it and try to run away. It was for a fraction of a second, but it might have felt like minutes or even hours in his brain about what he was processing. His attempt to abduct her failed; she was screaming for her parents. If he bolted now, there might be a chance to get away, maybe even not be spotted and recognized by her parents and try again another day...
But that idea passed as he settled on his decision as he pulled the trigger. A shout came as a man came from the side, pinning and wrestling Derek away from Reva who was rescued by another man.
Unknown to Derek, the men knew Reva, thanks to the pictures Susan sent them for they are Chris and Marco, finally returning back to California, having quit the job in Antarctica, realizing that they are free to be themselves, and is able to marry each other, after they found out that the LGBT+ freedom law was made last year.
The shout came from Bucky as it was only a fraction of a second before Derek was fully pinned to the ground and disarmed but Derek could see that Reva's reflexes were much better than for someone of her age as she had shifted into a wolf at just the right second and had moved her head just fast enough that the bullet missed her by less than an inch.
However, the bullet had gone flying through the air past her and had struck a target... in this case, Bucky, grazing him fairly deep on his left arm.
Marco grunted, "I got him!", as Chris helped Reva along to reunite with Tara, "Oh, my baby!", kissing her all over the face as Reva shifted back to human form.
Bucky hissed furiously as the bullet was made of silver, now jammed into the ground, and Bucky realized that this deep graze would scar. Logan looked at him, "You alright, bub?".
"I'll live, man, but this is going to scar.", Bucky replied, realizing that if Marco hadn't come in time, Reva would have not survived the bullet at all as she was a werewolf as well.
Bucky then chuckled as he looked at his wound, "Guess time caught up to me there then... should've taken a few rounds in Italy for sure with the 34th. Now it's been well over 70 years since World War 2, and I can finally get a Purple Heart.". Joking at this moment was the only thing keeping Bucky from practically seeing red and brutally murdering his daughter's assailant.
Tara walked to Bucky, holding Reva, "That is going to take a few stitches, James. Look at Reva, she's all right.", relieved that her husband and her daughter is safe, with Reva asking, "Daddy okay?".
Bucky exhaled, "Yeah, Daddy is okay.", kissing Reva, nuzzling her hair, "Thank goodness you're safe.", holding her and Tara in a hug, with Jean staying close, relieved that one of her best girlfriends' life isn't ruined by heartbreaking murder, but it was damn close.
Meanwhile, Logan walked up to Marco and Derek, narrowing his eyes with a sneer, "Thanks, bub...", taking his belt off, and tied Derek's hands roughly with the belt as there's no rope or handcuffs.
Marco got off, wiping invisible dust, disgusted that he touched somebody like Derek, with Chris coming up to him, "Are you alright, Marco?", looking for any sign of scratches or scrapes.
"I'm alright...", Marco told Chris. "Wasn't me he was aiming at.", he said as Chris hugged him tight. "Still could've have been hurt.", Chris said.
Marco hugged him back, kissing him on the forehead, "It's okay, my sweet star. I'm right here, Chris.", reassuring him, and Chris exhaled, relieved as he heard Marco's heartbeat.
Meanwhile, Logan dragged Derek upwards, and raised an eyebrow, "You seem familiar...", before hearing a gasp, looking over to Tara who spoke, "That's Derek!".
Logan blinked in surprise, having seen pictures of Derek Dietl, but never expected that he would look so poor now, so pathetic and disgusting. Derek scowled, "I would say that it's good to see you, Tara, but it's not since you ruined my life! And now, look at you! You make me sick with all your pathetic family, including that brat! You replaced my son with her!".
Tara snarled, and passed Reva into Bucky's arms, shifting into a giant wolf, and stomped right up to Derek, with Logan letting go of him, heading to join Jean, watching as Derek widened his eyes, trying to scramble, but with his arms pinned & tied behind him, and with a giant wolf cornering him, he was soon backed up against a tree.