Catra & Scorpia Vs. The New Mutants

Catra & Scorpia Vs. The New Mutants is a sub-episode of the IG-88's Adventures Series that takes place during the 5 year time gap between IG-88 And The Avengers: Infinity War and IG-88 And The Avengers: Endgame. It is set to be released on Deviantart in the future.

## Plot

Danielle "Dani" Moonstar, a young Cheyenne Native American, escapes the destruction of her reservation during an attack. Dani's father William hides her before an unseen entity kills him, leaving her the only survivor. After being knocked unconscious, Dani awakens in a hospital run by Dr. Cecilia Reyes. Reyes comforts Dani, telling her she is a mutant, and advises her to remain in the hospital until she learns what her abilities are and controls them. Unbeknowest to her, Reyes is secretly Catra in disguise, as she and Scorpia are testing new subjects to be assassins for The Horde Of Darkness.

Meanwhile, Dani is introduced to four other young teenagers; Samuel "Sam Guthrie, Illyana Rasputin, Roberto "Bobby" da Costa, and Rahne Sinclair. Reyes has brought each of them to the hospital after they have all suffered a tragedy; Sam brought down a whole mine on his father and coworkers, Roberto burned his girlfriend to death, Rahne escaped her religiously strict village after being branded as a witch, and Illyana was haunted by her past in Horde Of Darkness captivity, which manifests itself as otherworldly beings called the "Smile Men". All of them are manifesting mutant abilities; Roberto can manipulate solar energy, Sam can fly at jet speed, Illyana has inter-dimensional sorcery powers, and Rahne's lycanthropy allows her to turn into a wolf. Reyes, aka Catra, keeps her patients from leaving the facility by surrounding it with unbreakable force fields created by Entrapta.

Collectively, the five of them believe that they are being trained to join the X-Men, hence the strict supervision, as well as Reyes reminding them that they are considered dangerous and should not leave until they have mastered their abilities. Dani immediately befriends Rahne, eventually forming a romantic relationship, while Illyana continues to antagonize Dani. When Dani fights back, she discovers that Illyana's only friend is a hand puppet of a purple dragon who she calls Lockheed.

Soon, the group all begin to have horrifying visions of their past tragedies as well as visions from  a event that happened years ago. This results in Rahne getting branded in the neck. Illyana deduces that the visions are the result of Dani's powers manifesting; she has the ability to create illusions based on a person's psyche. Reyes, aka Catra, informs the news to Cinder Fall, who instructs her to collect Dani's DNA and have her euthanized.

As Reyes takes Dani away, Rahne suspects that something is wrong while Illyana and Sam sneak into the control room to find out about The Snap and the after-effects, as well as the true motives of the facility. Illyana and Sam are soon caught by Scorpia, but they escape before she can attack. Scorpia then sends the Smile Men to deal with the two while Roberto tries to break through the barrier, which has shrunken down, but he too is attacked by The TGWTG Squad, who have arrived to help with Catra.

Dani uses her powers to learn of Reyes's true intentions before Rahne arrives in half-wolf form and mauls Reyes, forcing her to flee and let the villains know of the bad news.

The five regroup and realize that, in order to escape, they have to deprive the force fields that Entrapta created. They find her and Reyes traps them, revealing menacingly that she is the cat of the night, before transforming into Catra, which horrifies the heroes. She then summons the Demon Bear and orders it to attack the heroes.

While the other mutants, overcoming their insecurities in the process, are fighting Catra, Scorpia, Entrapta, and The TGWTG Squad, Illyana summons her powers to jump between "limbo" and recruits a real life version of Lockheed to take on Demon Bear. Rahne tries to reach through to an unconscious Dani until she is forced to fight Catra and the Demon Bear alone. Dani is visited by her father's spirit, who encourages her to face her fear. Dani awakens and confronts Demon Bear, calming it into submission before ordering it to kill the other villains. The Demon Bear, having a change of heart, chases after the fleeing TGWTG Squad, while Catra, Scorpia, and Entrapta escape in their own ship after being told to abort the mission by Cinder Fall.

As day breaks, the group, now calling themselves the New Mutants, learn that the force field is down (due to one scene where Sam throws Scorpia into the force field control booth, causing it to malfunction and shut itself off permanently) and head out together to face what's left in the aftermath of the Snap.

## Trivia

* In a scene similar to The Incredibles when Mr. Incredible finds out the truth, pictures of some of the heroes that Sam and Illyana see on the computer screen are:
	+ Launch (Dead)
	+ Zoe Orimoto (Dead)
	+ Gibson (Dead)
	+ Jarek Yeager (Dead)
	+ He-Man (2002) (Dead)
	+ Max Tennyson (Dead)
	+ Jock McKenzie (Dead)
	+ Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios (Dead)
	+ Bubbles (Dead)
	+ Tails (Dead)
	+ Rianne Burgess (Dead)
	+ Griff Halloran (Dead)
	+ Ned Leeds (Dead)
	+ Scootaloo (Dead)
	+ Hot Spot (Dead)
	+ Ino Yamanaka (Dead)
	+ Carlos Vallerte (Dead)
	+ IG-82 (Dead)
	+ Gajeel Redfox (Dead)
	+ Amy Rose (Dead)
	+ Shuri (Dead)
	+ Wakaba Mine (Dead)
	+ Charles Xavier (Alive) (Typed in by Sam)
	+ Tony Stark (Alive) (Typed in by Sam)
	+ Logan / Wolverine (Dead) (Typed in by Sam)