(This one's been nagging at me forever and I can't work on other stories. I figured I'd get it down ASAP)

-1990-

If you were to visit the home of Miss Mary Hunt, you might hear the sounds of six toddlers playing upstairs. Upon further investigation, you would find five cribs placed in a nursery and four children playing on the floor. Miss Hunt would inform you that, yes, all of the children you heard before live in this house and are all present.
You see, Miss Hunt is the guardian of five rather unique children, collectively known as The Children of the League. How she came by them is an unusual story in itself.

In 1904, an extraordinary submarine explored the globe, captained by an enigmatic fellow by the name of Nemo. There were four passengers on board and they, too, could be thought of as extraordinary.

First was Agent Tom Sawyer, from America. He was young and daring, and after helping the other passengers in an incident five years before, had decided to stay with them. Next is Rodney Skinner, who stole the process of invisibility in order to boost his thieving career, and became the second invisible man. He was much more courageous than he let on. Then there's Dr. Henry Jekyll, a man of science, who discovered a way to split a person into two halves, one good and one bad. His alternate personality, Edward Hyde, though evil, has proven his brute strength to be useful in more than one instance. Last, but not least, is Willamina Harker, a chemist. Quite some years before, a vampire by the name of Dracula had turned her into one of the undead.

These five, along with the late Allan Quatermain and the treacherous Dorian Gray, made up The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. During their episode in 1899, Gray and Quatermain had been killed, and the remaining members of the League had decided to explore the world anew.

It was on this voyage that a rather curious thing happened. The ship, the Nautilus, was refreshing her air supply on the surface and the League was enjoying the chance to be out on the platform, when a machine materialized out of thin air. A tired-looking man was seated on this apparition.

He called himself the Time Traveller and said that he was here to give them a message from the future. Whereupon, he gave them a box, said that he would return sometime and disappeared.

Inside the box was a note in Sawyer's own handwriting saying that the children of the League were given to Mary Hunt in the year 1988, a test tube labeled "DNA – Timothy Eloi – Time Traveller", and instructions for creating a cloning machine.

After much, and often heated, discussion, they came to the conclusion that they must create clones of themselves and the Time Traveller, for which the Time Traveller would return and bring to the future.

The cloning process was successful, for the most part. It turned out that Mina's vampiric DNA could not be replicated, so she would sire a new vampire and send him to watch over the children, since he could live through the century unchanged. Also, a slight error was made with Skinner's clone, and it was found to be female.

The Time Traveller returned as soon as the project was finished, though how he got the date so precisely, the League didn't ask. His machine had been modified to hold five infants safely. And so, the Time Traveler took the children, through time, to Miss Hunt's care, where they grew to be teenagers as normally as such unusual children could. And that is where this story truly begins.