My Little Runaways
"Nothing like a little bank robbery to chase the blues away," Zartan grinned as he hefted the moneybag on his shoulder.
"Told you it would be an easy job," Zanya snorted. The Dreadnoks had just robbed a bank in downtown LA. They exited the building loaded in cash and no relative hurry. Especially since the police hadn't shown up.
"This is great!" Monkeywrench laughed. "And there's not a cop in sight! Wonder why we didn't do this sooner?"
"Simple stupid," Zandar snorted. "Because this entire city was run by group of power mad maniacs called the Pride. Anyone that pulled a job without their permission got blasted into next century."
"Didn't Cobra pull off a few heists here?" Ripper scratched his head.
"Yeah but they had to get permission first," Zarana told them. "Now shut up and…Where's Road Pig with our ride?"
They looked around. "I told him to wait here for us!" Zartan grumbled. "If he's gone off on another donut run…"
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!"
The Dreadnoks turned and saw four teenage girls off to the side. "Put down the money," Nico Minoru told them. "We want to talk to the girl here."
"Yeah or we'll do a lot of real bad stuff to you guys if you don't!" Molly Hayes told them.
"We really gotta work on your vocabulary, Molly," Gertrude 'Gert' Yorkes groaned.
"Yeah like you're an expert at this," Karolina Dean snorted.
"Cor, look gang it's the Powerpuff Girls," Ripper snorted.
"Nah it's the Girl Scouts," Torch said. "I'll take a dozen cookies."
"Look the money's gotta go back," Nico said. "We have to take these guys out, but it's not too late for you."
"What are you talking about?" Zanya asked.
"She certainly don't mean me," Zarana snorted.
"Look," Nico said. "I don't know your story or how you ended up with these creeps but you don't have to do this. You can get away from this life. We can help you."
"What the hell is this?" Zanya snorted. "An after school special? Who the hell are you twits?"
"We're the Runaways," Molly told her. "We're superheroes!"
"Well I wouldn't go that far," Gert sighed.
"Runaways?" Zartan asked. "You're those brats who destroyed the Pride aren't you?"
"Technically…Yeah," Nico coughed.
"Wait a minute…" Buzzer pointed his thumb at them. "You telling us that the big bad Pride, this supposedly all powerful evil criminal organization…Was taken down by that?"
"A Goth, a Mall Princess, a little Baby and a fat cow caused all that trouble?" Zanya snorted. "That's rich!"
"I guess they don't make criminal syndicates like they used to," Monkeywrench shrugged.
"Who are you calling a baby?" Molly made a fist. "You're not that much older than I am!"
"You don't have to do this," Nico was trying to reason with Zanya. "You don't have to be like them. You're better than scum like this!"
"I'm starting to get insulted here," Torch sniffed.
"Scum? You traitors have the nerve to call my family scum? Look who's talking," Zanya snarled. "A bunch of spoiled princesses who turned against their own parents that gave them everything! Yeah like you really have a chance of getting me to turn against the Dreadnoks!"
"Dreadnoks…" Gert frowned. "I've heard of you."
"I thought that was something you wear on your head?" Molly asked.
"That's dreadlocks, Molly," Karolina rolled her eyes. "These are bad guys!"
"Yeah and we're gonna stomp all over your face!" Zanya put down her haul and rolled up her sleeves. "Dreadnoks…" The Dreadnoks readied their weapons.
"Oh forget it," Karolina took off her medic alert wristband. Suddenly her entire body was covered in a rainbow like aura. "Time to go to work!"
"Geeze they're muties!" Ripper prepared his laser.
"Actually I'm an extraterrestrial, technically…" Karolina flew into the air. "But I still find that word offensive!"
"Considering my daughter and I are mutants ourselves…" Zartan began before Karolina hit him hard with a rainbow blast. "OOF!"
"Daughter? You mean…?" Nico looked at Zanya.
"That's right," Zanya took a swing at her. "I'm one hundred percent loyal to my father!" She missed the first punch but managed to kick Nico. "That's a concept you turds would never understand."
"Here's something you'll never understand…" Nico narrowed her eyes. "When blood is shed…Let the staff of ONE emerge!"
A long staff with a gold orb and ring on top emerged from her chest. "Oh bloody hell…" Zanya's jaw dropped. "You're a freaking magic user ain't ya?"
"You bet," Nico held her staff. "STOP!"
"Can't…Move…" Zanya felt herself stiffen.
"That'll keep you in place for about an hour," Nico told her.
"Witches…" Zarana growled. "I hate witches!"
"You mean those besides you?" Zandar snickered.
"Just shut up and fight!" Zarana snapped as she dodged a blast from Karolina.
"I got this one here!" Ripper held up the bayonet portion of his rifle and attacked Molly.
Only to have his weapon shatter on impact. "That really wasn't very nice," Molly's eyes glowed a bright pink. Then she gave him an uppercut that caused Ripper to literally fly into a wall.
"Burn baby burn!" Torch lit up his flame-thrower.
"Let's get fatty over here," Monkeywrench grinned at Gert.
"I'm warning you," Gert told him. "You don't want to mess with me. Or else."
"Oh what?" Torch snickered. "Bore us to death? Blind us with your bad fashion!"
"Not exactly," Gert grinned.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAARRRRRRRRR!"
Torch and Monkeywrench turned around to see a very large dinosaur with very sharp fangs. "Okay…" Torch gulped. "I'm impressed."
"And I need a new pair of underwear…" Monkeywrench gulped. "If I was wearing underwear…"
"Sic 'em," Gert grinned. And it did.
"AAHHH! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" Monkeywrench screamed.
"NO! MOMMY! HELP!" Torch screamed.
"Fat indeed," Gert snorted. "You guys should jog every now and then. Oh stop sobbing! You're not losing that much blood!"
"Run away! Run away!" Buzzer screamed as Molly swung a huge lamp post at him. She used it as a bat to thwack him into a wall.
"Somebody give me a hand here?" Zanya yelled as Karolina was blasting her and Zartan with her rainbow aura.
"Can't…Move…" Zandar's legs had been fused to the ground by a different spell.
"I am getting out of here!" Zartan made a break for it.
And ran straight into something hard and green that fell from the sky. "Oof!" He fell to the ground and was knocked out cold.
"Aw Man!" Chase stuck his head out the window. "I missed all the action! You promised you'd wait for me!"
"We would have but these guys were in a hurry," Gert told him. Sirens could be heard in the background. "And speaking of hurrying…Better get out of here before we get tossed in to Juvie or worse, back into foster care."
"But what about the girl?" Nico asked. "We can't just leave her to the cops!"
"She wasn't going to listen to us," Gert told her. "Looked like she'd made up her mind a long time ago where her loyalties are."
"Yeah the last thing we need is another Alex…" Karolina remarked. Then she caught the look on Nico's face. "Oh sorry Nico…I didn't…"
"No it's okay," Nico sighed. "You're right. He was a jerk. I mean he was in on the secrets from the Pride from the beginning and used me."
"He used all of us," Gert reminded her. "We'd better high tail it outta here before the cops arrive."
"Hey Nico you have your staff out," Chase noticed as the Runaways boarded the vehicle. "But don't you need to bleed or something to use it? I mean you're not hurt or anything?"
"No I'm fine," Nico told him.
"Well then how…?" Chase began. A look from Nico cut him off. "Oh…That time of the month huh?"
Nico glared at him and stormed inside. Karolina also gave him a look. "Idiot," She snapped.
"What did I say?" Chase asked.
"What didn't you say?" Molly told him. "Well at least we stopped the bank robbery."
"And all we had to do was destroy an entire street in the process," Karolina quipped as she looked at the damage.
"But we still are superheroes," Molly wasn't to be deterred. "Maybe we should get costumes?"
"We've been over this Mol," Chase took over the controls and piloted the Leapfrog away. "Nobody wants costumes!"
"I'm a freaking rainbow! What do I need a costume for?" Karolina told them.
"If you don't all shut up and pass me some aspirin I'm going to blast you all into next week!" Nico shouted.
"If we are heroes, we must be the worst superhero group ever," Gert groaned.
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Two hours later…
"They trashed the Dreadnoks?" Althea's eyebrows raised. "Damn, I think I might like these kids."
"Yeah like they're so tough to beat," Fred scoffed as the Misfits entered the police station with Roadblock. "Who hasn't beaten the Dreadnoks up?"
"You must be that group sent to pick up our special guests?" One officer said. "I'm Officer Stewart."
"Roadblock and these are the Misfits," Roadblock indicated. "So where are they?"
"Uh…Well…" Officer Stewart showed them the cells. The problem was that they had a huge hole in them. "A funny thing happened after we called you…"
"Let me guess," Roadblock sighed. "The Dreadnoks broke out of jail didn't they?"
"Ten minutes after they got thrown in," Officer Stewart told them. "Some huge guy with a pink Mohawk busted in with this massive truck. I think he was drunk or something because he was arguing with himself about going off to get donuts."
"Or something yeah," Roadblock sighed. "Do you know who put them in here in the first place?"
"It the Runaways," Officer Stewart groaned. "Could tell by the damage they left."
"You don't like them much do you?" Althea asked.
"You want my personal opinion?" Officer Stewart said. "These kids may have good intentions but since they're the ones who caused the mess in the first place…"
"By turning in their parents who were controlling the entire state?" Althea asked.
"I'm not saying their parents were saints but crime was bad enough in this town when things were organized," Officer Stewart said. "Half the detectives in this station alone were busted for being crooked. We're seriously undermanned and the every Gregory Gangbanger and Stan Safecracker knows it. It's become a real free for all out there and it's getting worse day after day."
"Hey at least those kids are trying to clean up the mess," Another officer shrugged. "They got at least half our collars for us last week."
"Yeah and they're at it again!" Another officer ran in. "Runaways have been sighted near the warehouse district. A silent alarm went off a minute before they were spotted."
"Boy and I thought we had busy nights," Fred remarked.
"Let's roll," Althea told her team.
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"You said this was going to be easy man!" Slab shouted as the gang ran.
"It would have been if you did like I told you and not tripped the stupid alarm!" Shane growled at him. "But noooo! You had to check that back room out…"
"I thought there was some real cash back there," Slab grumbled as they rounded the corner. They dodged a few bullets. "Geeze! Payne's crew really needs to work on their aim!"
"Yeah but not on us!" Shane snapped. "WHOA!" He skidded to a halt when something huge and green looking like a giant frog landed in front of them. "What the hell is this? Kermit's Pimp Ride?"
"Okay! Fun's over!" Karolina flew out.
"Time to Rock and Roll Old Lace!" Gert laughed as she rode her dinosaur out of the Leapfrog. The other Runaways got out.
"Down Dino," Shane shot off some energy bullets at Old Lace.
"Yipes!" Gert yelled as Old Lace dodged them.
"He's a mutant too!" Molly shouted.
"Boss we got trouble!" T-Bone shouted as the gang they were running from caught up to them.
"Back off Freakshow!" One of them shouted. "These guys are ours!"
"Forget it and shoot 'em all!" Another shouted.
"You wanna throwdown Payne?" Shane snarled. "You got…What the hell?"
"All right!" Althea shouted as she and the Misfits made their appearance. "Everyone put your weapons down and stop fighting!"
"Or you can just fight us!" Fred flexed his muscles. "We're the Misfits!"
"Aren't those the army mutants?" Gert shouted.
"Mutants from the army?" Slab shouted. "You gotta be &! &-ing me!"
"This night is getting better and better…" Shane grumbled.
Next: A big ol' gang fight and a lotta fun!