* DISCLAIMER *
          This is a non-profit work of fan-fiction involving
         characters created and owned by Marvel Comics Group.

                            * WRITTEN BY *
                     Samy <samerc@mash.yok.utu.fi> Merchi

                           * ARCHIVED AT *
           http://mash.yok.utu.fi/~samerc/fanfic/index.html

                          * MATURE CONTENT *
                         This story includes:
                          Explicit violence!

                             * STARRING *
                          Nate "X-MAN" Grey
                                  in

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                       * A NIGHT AT JEOPARDY *
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                                 ***

"--  so  anyway,  there I was, surrounded by three dozen Amazon chicks
who had less clothes on than Tigra on laundry day, and I SWEAR, one of
them  had  THIS big --" He spread his arms out, knocking away his mug.
"Whoops",  he  said  as he watched it arc thru the air, and then crash
onto the head of a bar-patron.

Nate Grey slowly turned his head around as beer dripped down his face.
"This is not my idea of fun", he glared at the man who had interrupted
his evening.

"Whoa,  check out that hair, Sally!" the man shouted.  "NEXT, ON SALLY
JESSY  RAPHAEL -- chicks who can't touch other people because of their
mutant powers, and the babies who love them!  Platonically, of course!
Though  Ah  reckon  there's a good deal of inbreeding goin' down there
South, eh, wink wink, nudge nudge --!"

POW!

SOCK!

WHAM!

CRASH!

Nate walked out of the bar over the man's groaning body.

                                 ***

BRRRINNNGG!

"What's goin' on?  The perimeter alarms're goin' off!  Can ye scan f'r
intruders??"

"Just a moment, Sean." Emma raised a hand to her temple.  "Oh no --"

                                 ***

Nate  was  whistling  a happy tune as he was strolling down the street
towards the bar where the incident had happened last night.

The  man  leaped  off  a rooftop, swinging downwards using a cut power
line.   "KREEGAH!   TARZAN  BUNDOLO!"  he  shouted as he threw a green
bundle at Nate Grey.

"What  --  OOMPH!" Nate wheezed as it crashed onto him and knocked him
down.

BLAM!  BLAM!

"ARRGH!"  Nate  cried  out as his kneecaps exploded moments before the
man let go of the power line and dropped into a crouch beside Nate.

"Riddle  me  this, riddle me that, Skunk Anansie, this guy is one merc
you   do   not   want   to   humiliate  in  front  of  a  chicks,  and
please-remember-to-phrase-your-answer-in-the-form-of-a-question     --
oops, time's up!"

BLAM!

"Deadpool?"

"Correctamundo!  What is it, kid?"

The  boy  stood up and wiped off some of the blood and brains that had
splattered  onto him.  "Got a quarter for Leech to call White Queen to
pick Leech up?"