The Merc and the Ninja
By RahneMan

Disclaimer- I don't own Deadpool or Psylocke, Marvel does!

Author's Note- For those of you that don't know, Deadpool was shot to pieces by Sabretooth when he refused to join the new Weapon-X program and Psylocke was killed when Vargas stabbed her through the heart in X-Treme X- Men.

The time: No time. The place: Nowhere.

All that we can see is an expanse of white nothingness.

From the sky we hear a shout gradually getting louder. The shouts cease as the person that is shouting hits the ground with a thump.

The figure is clad in a red and black bodysuit that is ridden with holes.

'O-kaaay!' The figure says, dusting himself off. 'I'm pretty sure that we're not in Kansas anymore!'

This is our first protagonist, Wade T Wilson, also known as Deadpool!

Wade's attention is caught by another voice shouting s it falls from the sky. This time it's a woman! No ordinary woman either! That much as we can see as she gets up off the floor.

'Bloody 'ell!' She moans.

This is our second protagonist, the former X-Woman known as Elisabeth 'Betsy' Braddock or, Psylocke.

She looks at her companion and curses to herself.

'Oh bugger! Just when I thought my life couldn't get any worse, I get stuck in the afterlife with Deadpool!'

'I always did like a woman that could talk dirty!' Deadpool smirks lecherously.

'Touch me and I'll shove my psi-blade so far up your arse, you'll be spitting psychic energy!'

'Are you coming onto me?' Deadpool asks.

Psylocke throws up her arms in disgust and storms off.

'Wait for me!' Deadpool yells after her. 'I don't like it here! It's quiet and scary!'

'Yeah sure! Fine! Whatever!' Psylocke mutters.

After several hours (or minutes, or days, you can never tell when you're stuck in a realm of nothing!) of walking Deadpool and Psylocke find themselves in front of a huge table. There are three seats around the table and it's also laid out with loads of food.

'Great!' Deadpool grins. 'Food! I'm starved!' He starts to stuff himself with potato chips and pizza. 'Don't you want some?' He asks with a mouthful of pepperoni.

Betsy just shrugs and picks up a slice of pizza. Before she can even take a bite, the two of them are shook by what sounds like a thunderclap.

'Wait a cotton-pickin' second!' Deadpool says. 'How can there be thunder when there's no sky to have clouds in?'

'THAT WOULD BE ME!!' A voice booms behind them. They both spin around at the noise.

'God?' Deadpool squeaks. 'Is that you? If this is about me not going to church, it's just that I've been meaning to but I've been kinda busy with the BEING DEAD AND ALL!!'

'I'M NOT GOD!!' The voice booms. 'MERELY A. MESSENGER!!'

'What do you want?' Betsy asks the disembodied voice.

'I REQUIRE YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN A SACRED QUEST, ELISABETH BRADDOCK AND WADE WILSON!!'

'Oh goody!' Deadpool mutters sarcastically under his breath. 'A quest, that's always fun!'

'BOTH OF YOU MUST TRAVEL TO THE MORTAL REALM AND PROCURE A SACRED ITEM!!'

'What scared item?' Betsy asks. 'We're kind of out on a limb here, being dead and all!'

'I CANNOT TELL YOU THE ITEM'S IDENTITY YET!!' The voice booms. 'TRAVEL FIRST TO THE MORTAL REALM AND A CONTACT WILL CONTACT YOU THERE!!'

'Great!' Betsy mutters. 'What have we got to lose?'

'Only our lives Cute-Buns!' Deadpool leers, giving Betsy a swift slap on the butt,. Causing the purple-haired telepath to glare daggers at him.

'YOU MUST GO!!' The voice booms. 'THE TIME FOR ACTION IS UPON US!!'

And with those words, Deadpool and Psylocke are gone!

A random back alley: Downtown Manhattan-

A stray cat is rummaging through the garbage for food. There is a flask of light in the sky and the cat yowls in fright, leaping out of a dumpster and running off down the alley. Psylocke land perfectly on her feet. Deadpool isn't so lucky, he lands in the dumpster with a metallic clang!

'OW!' He mutters, spitting out a rotten fish head. 'Remind me to sue our travel agent!'

Psylocke just ignores him and sets off down the street.

'How are we suppose to know what this bloody contact looks like?' Betsy mutters.

END- For now!!

Next time: Deadpool and Psylocke meet up with their contact, I'm not going to tell you who it is, it's a surprise! Let's just say that it's another recently dead ex-hero!!

Till then

TTFN

RahneMan

PS- WOOT!

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