Another Night, Another Buttload of Trouble

"THIS…IS…NUTS!" Shane shouted as he fired several energy bullets at anyone who was shooting at him.

The scene was one of absolute chaos. Bullets were firing everywhere, many of them bouncing harmlessly off of Fred's body. Chase had some strange gauntlets on his hands that shot out fire at the gang members. Wanda and Nico were using their powers to hex people and objects so many guns exploded. Spyder shocked several people with her powers and Trinity flew around zapping people with their psychic lightning. Old Lace was chasing more gang members around with Molly on her back. Angelica was using her fire powers to try and stop the fighting as well. Anyone who tried to attack Lina got a good dose of her silken spray right in the face. Todd slimed several gang members and everyone else was either kicking, punching or in Gert's case whacking everyone with a shovel.

"Who are these guys?" Karolina yelled indicating the Misfits.

"The Misfits are army mutants! Good guys!" Molly shouted.

"So don't shoot 'em!" Chase shouted.

"Fine with me!" Gert whacked a gang member who tried to tackle her.

"Misfits don't fire at the Runaways!" Althea ordered.

"Shooter what do we do?" T-Bone yelled.

"SHOOT EVERYBODY!" Shane shouted as he fired off rounds at rival gang members, Runaways and Misfits alike.

"Good idea!" A rival gang member shot at him. Shane dodged it as well as some slime from Todd. "Yuk! What the heck kind of attack is that?"

Meanwhile Nico decided to try a spell. "Dazzle!" She ordered. Clearly it was intended to blind the combatants.

Unfortunately Wanda was trying to hex Shane who dodged and managed to hit Nico's magic at the same time. Suddenly a huge glowing ball appeared amid the street right in the center of the melee.

"Uh oh…" Wanda blinked.

"Uh oh…" Nico gulped.

"Uh oh?" Shane shouted. "What does that mean?"

"As Roadblock would say…" Todd gulped. "When magics collide, EVERYBODY RUN AND HIDE!"

"Not again!" Lance dove out of the way.

"Oh freaking…." Shane noticed the ball was glowing very brightly. He started to run away with several other gang members.

"HIT THE DIRT!" Nico shouted. "INTO THE LEAPFROG!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

As the dust cleared the first thing Todd saw was the Leapfrog taking off into the sky. "Smart move…" He grumbled. "Wish I thought of it…"

"So did they," Lance sat up and pointed to dozens of gang members from both gangs lying around.

"I can't believe I'm still alive…" T-Bone moaned. "I can't believe I'm still alive!"

"Take me to jail…" One of the gang members lying on the ground moaned. "Please take me to jail."

"Okay Jesus," T-Bone groaned. "I get the message. I'm gonna go become a minister!"

"Is that all of them?" Pietro groaned.

"Ain't that enough?" Angelica asked.

"I don't see that mutant with the gun like powers," Fred said. "And there's a bunch more gang members running away over there."

"Let 'em go," Althea looked at all the dazed gang members. "We've got plenty to hand over to the cops."

"Amazing grace…" T-Bone sang in a dazed voice. "How sweet the sound…"

"Where did the Runaways go?" Wanda asked.

"Got in their big hoppy thing and split," Todd rubbed his head.

"Okay," Althea looked around. "Where's my sisters?"

"Aren't they here?" Angelica asked as she looked.

"Don't see 'em," Lance said. "Where's Spyder?"

"She's not here either," Wanda said. "You don't think…?"

"I have a very bad feeling about this…" Althea groaned.

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"Okay that was just plain nuts," Gert sighed as the Leapfrog landed back at the Hostel, the Runaways secret headquarters. It was hidden right under the LaBrea Tarpits. "What did that girl hit your magic with Nico?"

"I don't know but whatever it was it was powerful," She sighed. "I think we've done enough for the night."

"Enough damage yeah," Karolina yawned. Just then Old Lace recovered from her daze and started to sniff around. She moved to the back of the vehicle were there were some blankets piled up. "What's got into your dinosaur?"

"Old Lace…What do you smell girl?" Gert asked.

"HI THERE!" Trinity popped out of the back, throwing off the blankets.

"Hey!" Spyder popped up too.

"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Gert screamed.

"Great! Just great…" Karolina was stunned. "Stowaways!"

"Oh man we are so busted…" Chase winced.

"Maybe this isn't as bad as it looks?" Molly asked.

"Oh sure," Karolina rolled her eyes. "Just because our secret headquarters got broken into by four kids…"

"I bet this never happens to Batman," Chase muttered.

"Batman isn't real you idiot!" Gert snapped. "We have a big problem here!"

"We're Trinity!" The Triplets chirped.

"I'm Daria!"

"I'm Quinn!"

"I'm Brittany!" She grinned at Chase and then gave him a hug. "And you are cute!"

"Back off shorty!" Gert snapped. "He's spoken for!"

"Really?" Spyder looked at them.

"They're always snogging," Molly snickered. She looked at Spyder. "Wow you're all gray."

"It's my mutation. I'm Spyder," She said. "I can also stick to walls as well as shoot out electric webbing. We're mutants."

"We kind of figured that," Nico sighed. "What are you doing in our ride?"

"You said hide inside the Leapfrog," Daria pointed out.

"I was talking to our group," Nico felt a headache coming on. "What is your group doing here?"

"We're part of the Misfits," Brittany explained. "We're army mutants. Well most of us."

"Arcade is human," Quinn explained. "He was the one with the glasses and the electric taser who bit that one guy on the shoulder."

"So you kids are locked up and work for the army?" Chase asked. "That's harsh."

"It's not that bad. My old man dumped me and I ran around on the streets for months before these guys took me in," Spyder said. "They're okay."

"We were born on an army base," Brittany explained. "Along with our older sister and baby brother."

"What your old man is some evil scientist or something?" Gert asked.

"Nah our Daddy's not evil," Quinn shook her head.

"He's just a moron who drinks a lot," Daria said. "But I gotta admit he's a fun drunk."

"He's not that bad a drunk," Brittany defended. "He just started hitting the sauce real bad after Mommy ran off with that rich guy who lives in Atlantis."

"You mean Atlanta," Karolina corrected.

"No, she means Atlantis," Daria corrected her.

"Your mom ran off with someone who lives a casino in the Bahamas?" Chase asked.

"No Silly-Billy," Quinn said. "He lives in the real underwater city of Atlantis. I think he's some kind of duke there."

"Mom got tired of living in a tank," Daria said. "Well, that and all the times we kind of set the house on fire."

"Living in a tank?" Nico blinked.

"A water tank," Daria explained.

"She was a former Cobra soldier who volunteered for an experiment and ended up not being able to breathe out of the water," Brittany took up.

"Daddy met her on an island and kept going back there for midnight swims," Quinn nodded.

"Soon they had to get married when our big sister was about to be born," Brittany continued.

"She likes kissing in the water too," Daria smirked. "Our big sister I mean. She's always trying to see her boyfriend naked in the shower."

" This is a nice place. Do you have any extra plutonium?" Brittany asked innocently.

"I'm starting to see why their dad drinks and their mom took off…" Chase whispered to Gert.

"Still it's pretty harsh to lock kids up and force them to work for the Army," Karolina said. "These guys sound pretty cruel."

"They are not," Quinn said. "They take care of us and in return we blow up a bunch of stuff and don't burn their base to the ground."

"We even have a spaceship," Spyder nodded.

"Cool!" Molly squealed. "Let me show you around the place!"

"MOLLY!" Karolina yelled as the girls ran off. "NO! NO! COME BACK HERE! NO EXPOSING OUR SECRETS TO STRANGERS!"

"Worst superhero team ever…" Gert groaned. Old Lace moaned in sympathy.

"We really should get a lock for this thing," Nico sighed.

BAM!

"Oops!" Brittany remarked as something caught on fire. "Hope that wasn't expensive!"

"Maybe some kids do belong locked up on an army base?" Chase groaned.

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While all this was going on, Jubilee was talking to Logan on the phone. "They all went out a couple hours ago," She told him. "Trying to see if they can find any mutants."

"And you stayed home?" Logan asked.

"Kitty insisted on driving."

"Ah," Logan nodded even though Jubilee couldn't see him. "Smart move."

"Besides I wanted to finish up on my summer reading," Jubilee looked at her book, The Mousetrap. "Don't tell Beast I said this, but I gotta admit I'm getting kind of hooked on Agatha Christie. I'm glad he made us read this."

"Don't worry, I won't encourage him."

"So how are things back home?" Jubilee asked.

"Well Wings is trying to get his company back by talking to the Board of Directors and the stockholders," Logan told her. "Personally I think it's a lost cause but it's his money."

"Maybe my Aunt Hope can help?" Jubilee asked. "She's working late tonight but I can ask her if she knows any good lawyers when she gets back. Anything new with the Misfits?"

"No, they haven't shown up the past couple of nights," Logan told her. "Not that there's not enough chaos going around here. Berzerker and Sunspot are going at it again and Multiple's on his directing dream again."

"Naturally he's egging the two on to get more footage," Jubilee concluded.

"Got it in one. Oh and Beast went out with that reporter lady of his the other night to an opera," Logan continued. "That's another lost cause we gotta deal with!"

"Yeah well anything's better than the whole Lance/Kitty/Peter thing," Jubilee sighed. "She's been whining about it the whole trip!"

"Do I really want to know what she's thinking of now?"

"Not really."

"Good," Logan sighed. "Oh great. I gotta go. Skullfire and Dead Girl just ran by with a lot of toilet paper and I think I hear Rogue and Betsy threatening to kill someone. Say hi to Rina for me will ya?"

"Will do," Jubilee grinned. "Have fun!" She snickered as she put down the phone. "Some things never change."

Just then the doorbell rang. "Now who could that be?" She got up to answer it.

To her shock it was Shane standing there. His clothes were torn and he looked very haggard. "Hey. I was in the neighborhood and I thought I'd drop in."

"You! What are you doing here?" Jubilee asked. "How did you find me?"

"I followed you the other day," Shane admitted. "Wanted to know where you live."

"What? So you could challenge me?" Jubilee folded her arms.

"Do I look ready for a throw down with you?" Shane threw up his arms. "Believe me, I'm done fighting for the night!"

"What happened to you?" Jubilee looked at him.

"Don't ask…" Shane groaned. "Please girl just don't ask."