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Runaways/Throwaways#1: Back in Fact

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*In some secret base, a machine's alarm is buzzing, we don't see the character's faces*

Ke: This is it, we've found her!  The York's failsafe really did work and my theory about the pet was correct!

Marikit: At last our plans for revenge can progress.

Norkib All our preparation and surveillance and training will come into fruitation.  

Tim: All the suffering we've faced will be paid in their blood.

Automarda: And then we will be proven both physically and emotionally strong enough to enact upon our ultimate goal.

Rebecca: Lets hear the story about how they began one more time.

Marikit: Yes, it is only fitting that we review the blood soaked biography of those evil heirs.  The children of the Pride!

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Marikit: Once upon a time, there were 12 little monsters who made a deal with three devils.  

Tim: Hmmph, uppity overachievers, those three.

Marikit: The 12 monsters did the devil's bidding well, spinning fathomless webs of violence and deception across the west coast and beyond.   But they must've not been busy enough, for they conceived 6 children--each perfect angels in their eyes, who would claim their eventual reward.  But the 6 "angels" grew into hell spawn, discontent with waiting they rebelled with ingrown abilities and stolen weapons.  In the final showdown between parent and child, the hell spawn called down the wrath of the three devils.  Incidentally, the hell spawn escaped punishment after sacrificing  their parents and weakest companion.  

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Later, after many a turf war to establish their rule, the hell spawn abducted a Mexican cyborg, killed his parents when they didn't pay ransom, and enslaved him via reprogramming.  

Automarda: The foul scunners!

Marikit: Soon after, their alien member went off to seduce a Skrull warrior prince in some bid for power.  

Norkib: Conniving harlot!

Marikit: But her race's home world with its differing culture must've disgusted her, for she instigated its destruction.  Next, the hell spawn squabbled against some delusional computer nerds who stole some of their parent's tools.  They used this pittance as an excuse to sacrifice their ugly duckling member, while keeping her useful pet.  But then their empire fell into decay and infighting, so they distracted themselves by entering two wars  in two different times in New York.  Somewhere in the chaos they abducted a young flower girl immigrant-- her time displaced culture shock must've appealed to their sadism.  And so, after once more sacrificing an unattractive member--this time the skrull--the hell spawn have reclaimed their territory.  

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But now their story is to be ended by us.  The board and pieces have been set.  Our sending the UAV drone to kill the pet has produced the desired effects, we now have the perfect bait for our trap.  The death of the Pride's runaway prodigy is at hand.
*shadowy figures standing up*

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*Chase sleeping on a bed*
Chase: mmm…nnh…don't go…no…Gert! *sits up, is surrounded by friends at hospital*

Karolina: You're alive!  You had us worried for a long time.

Nico: Yeah, thanks jerk.  You really made me feel awful and doubt ever becoming a leader.  From now on, you're on a leash.

Hunter: I knew no car could've totaled any kin of mine.

Victor: He is the Iron Stein!  He lives, he walks, he conquers!

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Chase: Huh? What am I doing in a- oh, wait, I remember getting hit by that car…how long have I been out?

Hunter: Just over a week, nephew.

Molly: So did the accident break your vocabulary? All that time you said nothing but Gert's name over and over again.

Chase: Holy BLEEP, that's right!  I saw Gert alive and beautiful as ever just before getting run over.  We gotta go back and find her!

Hunter: Oh dear, your friends talked about this--delusions induced from the trauma of your dinosaur getting killed.  The doctors said we should get your mind off that.  How about today's game?  
*turns on TV, a news report is on*

Reporter: This just in, a hostage crisis has unfolded on main street, perpetrated by six yet to be identified super humans.  Their exact demands have yet to be stated, but their victims are this purple haired girl, and against all probability a dinosaur.  Experts speculate whether-

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Hunter: Aw damn it…

Nico: Chase, I know what you're thinking but we can't go rushing blindly into there.  We don't even know if that's really Gert, it could be a trick, it could-Chase?  Where did he go?

Karolina: He just rushed out grabbing his fistions, footstions…but no pants.

Victor: (blank eyed trance) Delete image from memory?

Nico: Everyone into the leapfrog NOW!

*meanwhile, Chase flying off to where the throwaways are, the throwaways in the foreground watching Chase from a distance *
Rebecca: The lover boy comes first, charging in to save his damsel.  How painfully predictable.

Marikit: Ready yourselves friends, the first blood of our ultimate enemies is about to be-

*Chase lands nearby, his hospital slip pushes up, revealing his frontal nudity to the throaways*

All the throwaways: AAAAAAAAAAH! *covering their eyes*

Gert: Um, aren't you supposed to save that for after the rescue?

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*The Leapfrog flies in*
Chase: Hey, about time you guys backed me up.

Nico: Yeah, and your backside is the first thing we're covering.  Seriously, get pants on now. *throws a pair of pants to him*

Marikit: Yes!  Sheath your one eyed snake before we blast it off.

Chase: Wusses, I only grabbed what was important…

Molly: Hey guys, I think that really is Gert.  Same build, same hair.  Same gloomy and frustrated disposition over humanity's countless short-comings while still retaining a hidden caring nature.

Gert: Heh, we always thought those hats of yours kept the smarts in.

Nico: That is Gert!  But how did she come back and why-

Ke: Ah, for the "how" you can thank the York's paranoid over protectiveness of their daughter.  

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Ke: After commissioning Old Lace's creation, Dale and Stacy Yorks had set up a failsafe.  If Gertrude or her reptile died, their consciousness  would be transferred into clone bodies at a hidden safe house.  But there was one thing that the Yorks did not anticipate: their daughter falling in love.  When Gertrude died, part of her consciousness remained with Old Lace, watching over Chase and her friends.

Chase: So that's why I heard her voice whispering to me.  

Ke: Right, but the part that did reach the clone body left this Gertrude as an amnesiac.  She had all her lovable personality and learned knowledge, but no memories of her friends or parents.  We could've taken her hostage then, but you might not have believed she was the real deal, so we eventually decided to test a theory of mine.  We hacked and aimed that UAV drone to kill Old Lace.  When her clone body awakened Old Lace.  When her clone body awakened Old Lace's homing instinct led her to Gertrude and transferred her memories back…

Rebecca: …Shortly after Chase was hit by that car.  A fine stroke of luck and good timing.

Karolina: Right, so judging by Gert being tied up and the amount of cars you've thrown, I'm going to guess that you're another group of dumbass super villains who want to take over the town and make examples out of us.  

Tim: Avarice?  Boooooring.  

Marikit: Hmmph, of course you'd think that, but we're not the villains, we're the victims fighting back.  We're the throwaways of society hardened by loss and persecution.  But we've found each other and united for survival.  A fellowship that transcends age, race time and biology.  And now we stand against the brood of those who ruined us.

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Nico: Splendid, they aren't megalomaniacs, just regular maniacs.  

Molly: So these guys knew our parents?

Chase: Of course they did, its not like we ever escape their shadows.

Ke: I suppose you could say it all started with me, Ke Hamilton.  Childhood friend and career partner of Dale and Stacy Yorks.  That is, until they betrayed and dumped me in the middle of the Devonian period.  But I eventually came to this time through a series of improvised cryogenic self-freezings.    I was following the Yorks trail of imprints on the fourth dimension to find where they resided.  Unfortunately, they and the rest of the Pride had established their impervious criminal empire by the time I arrived.  Pursuing revenge on my lonesome would've been suicide…

Marikit: …And so that's when his path intersected with that of Marikit Sundico, witch of the Philippines.  When I was in my early teens, Robert and Tina Minoru approached me offering apprenticeship in the dark arts.  I accepted when they setup a spell  that protected my village from Typhoon storms.  When my apprenticeship was complete they'd teach me to renew the spell on my own.  

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Marikit: A few months into the training however, the Minorus forwarded their wedding plans, and I was to be babysat by the California Society of Witchcraft when they went on their honeymoon.  But then the impossible happened and they devoted themselves entirely to the newly created Pride, abandoning me.  So when I returned to my village  half-educate, and tried to renew the spell, disaster struck.  I mispronounced a line of chanting and the spell exploded destroying my whole village and family.  The scars were not all emotional obviously *indicates scarred side of face*.  After years of healing and anger-driven magic practice I came back to California and met Ke.  Together we sought out any cracks in the Pride's defenses.  Ke specialized with surveillance equipment and I investigated their occult background.  And then after a year or so we learned about poor Dunia.

Tim: Poor Dunia?  What about me Dark Lord Tim?  I'm the real victim here, with those Minorus binding me to this girl's shadow.  And here I was just minding my own business, slaughtering any innocents that came my way. *Dunia standing despondent and withdrawn while Tim talks*

Karolina: Are you even listening to yourself?

Tim: No silly, you do the listening when I talk.

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Tim: Anyway, ms. Ghazali got the good end of this deal, I can't even hurt her about it, see? *Tim's hand passes harmlessly through Dunia* yet I have to share the pain she feels while she doesn't feel mine.  Oh sure I ki9lled her Sufi magician parents who irritated the Minorus, but does that really justify the anti-demon bigotry you're undoubtedly going to spew?  

Nico: Its not bigotry, you're just openly, unapologetically evil.

Tim: And evil spelled backwards is live.

Nico: …what …does that have to do with anything?

Maikit: Anyway, Ke had learned of the Dean's and Haye's plans to betray the rest of the Pride.  We planned to take advantage when the backstabbing came into fruitation.  But in the meantime we needed more muscle and Tim was more than difficult to tame… *flashback  of Tim standing over Ke on the ground, Tim: Hey M-Kit, Ke tripped and fell on my claws again*

Tim: You didn't tame nuth'n I'm here on my own account.

Automarda: …Aye, s'that's when they found me, Automarda, dumped inna dumpster.  A wee lass like me all alone in the world without 'er auld man's love.

Victor: …you think you're a girl?…and Scottish?

Chase: My parents had way too much time on their hands.  Maybe I should've stayed in the house more, if it kept them from building junk like that.

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Automarda: Aye, mother Janis thought the accent was cute.. Father was annoyed but only succeeded in removing partially.  Father never gave me a kind word but always tested me with wave after wave of security daemon beasties.  He had big expectations, but never undastood my needs
*flashback of Automarda smashing through a wall, Automarda: Daddy!  Hug!, Victor Stein: AAAH!  Its gone berserk!*

Marikit: So as Ke reactivated Automarda we awaited the Pride's incapacitating infighting.  We knew of your little drama escaping from your parents but thought little of it…until of course the Pride's demise and your rise.  Obviously you, the Pride's heirs would be our next logical target.  But attacking you admist all that fresh media attention would've been akin to drawing bulls eyes on our selves to all the powerful superheroes.  So again, we waited and bided our time.  

Rebecca: And so that's when I, Rebecca Silvers was recruited from prison…jailed for murders I didn't do.  Gene Hayes profession as a doctor may have been just a cover, but he was still good at it.  Good enough to surgically insert some spiny slithery alien pet the Deans had, into my body.  And all I came in for And all I came in for were stitches for my soccer game accident.

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Rebecca: Shortly after I came home the creature's coils rushed out of my stitches, killing my single mother and younger sister.  I was blamed entirely for their murders and jailed thanks to some clever maneuvering by the Wilder's law firm.  After a while, Ke thought the creature had symbiotically bonded to me, and I spent weeks practicing to control it.  

Marikit: Then as luck would have it, you kids get swept up in two wars and a vacation in New York, just as we were ready to strike.

Victor: Yeah, some "vacation" that was. *Victor wearing or holding up a shirt that reads "I went to New York and all I got was this lousy heartache*

Norvick: And that's where I, Norvick come into this story.   Was a Skrull half-breed sired by some Majesdanean drifter.  And though my shinier half gave me special powers, it cancelled out my Skrull shape shifting ability, making me an outcast among other Skrulls.  But I struggled on with my menial factory work, until I hear of Majesdanean's destruction.  Virtually an entire race, culture and life style destroye in hours.  A heritage I never got to enjoy.

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Norvick: I couldn't accept this as fate or random chance.  I had to find a culprit to pin my anger and anguish on.  I heard rumors that the ones responsible were hiding on this planet.  So I stowed away on an invasion fleet bound for New York.

Marikit: A spy of ours intercepted Norvick, and he became our final member.  As a last test of your powers and tactics we manipulated that eldritch embarrassment Monk Theppie to create some zombie hordes.  Val Rhymin was just a convenient attention whoring figurehead.  And now here we are, all our years of suffering, preparation  and waiting to be paid in full.

Nico: Huh.  Now why were we all standing around listening to your boring selfish sob stories?

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Nico: Oh that's right, so we could let our little ones slip by and free Gert.

*all the throwaways stunned, they turn around, see Moly, Klara have freed Gert and Old Lace*

Molly: Hi.

*the throwaways try to rush towards them but the rest of the runaways block them off, partially surrounding them*

Tim: Outta my way Sister Dim!  *slashes Nico*

Marikit: Tim, No!

Nico: When blood is shed…let the Staff of One emerge! *staff comes out and bonks Tim in the head*

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Karolina: Nico!

Nico: don't worry, I've had practice timing my dodges so I bleed just enough to release the staff and nothing more.  *grabs staff*  Now, before we start another inane injury exchange, I'll give you one last chance to peacefully crawl back to your holes and wallow in self pity.

Automarda: Yer threats cannae scare us quine.  We've had rammys aginst all sorts o' super scunners.  

Ke: Of course we stuck to the shadows, careful not to draw attention.

Victor: Oh dang, so the sudden drop in super villain smash and grabbers wasn't due to our awesomeness?

Rebecca: Also this is a rite of passage to prove we have what it takes to end the world.

*stunned silence form all the runaways*

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Nico: That's it!  *splash page of all the runaways and throwaways lunging at each other for battle*
A Runaways Fan Fiction with new villains that picks up where the annoying cliff hanger from Home Schooling left us.

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