Jade had always had a thing for motorcycles. In fact that's what the money in her chest was for. She was licensed to drive a motorcycle and she was going to buy one. She made a deal with a man to buy his from him because he was to old to ride it now and he did not want to see it go to waste. However she still needed five hundred more dollars to get it.
So, she woke up slightly earlier then planned and found the nearest ATM machine. Prue had been lying when she said there wasn't much money in the account. There was just over one hundred thousand dollars in the account. She took out seven hundred dollars then went to the old man's house.
Mr. Cranston was surprised Jade showed up so early in the morning to get the bike, but he was always up at this time and didn't mind. Jade paid him and, somewhat happily, drove the bike back to the house. Tori came outside hearing the motor, fully dressed and hair wet.
"Jade? What the hell are you doing with a motorcycle?" She questioned.
Jade grinned as she got off the bike, "I was going to buy this from someone when I got the money and I was really close to getting it. I figured we needed some way to get wherever we're going so I took the rest of the money from my mom's account and bought it earlier then I planned. I also took out a bit extra in case we need it."
Tori smiled, "Nice thinking, Jade. Where are we going to put our stuff though?"
"You can wear my backpack, that's really all we have. You only have that one set of clothes. I'm glad you wash it every couple of days."
"Well all right. Ready to leave now?"
"Yep."
"Great. I'll go get your pack. Everything's in it right?" Jade nodded and Tori hurried inside. She came back out with the pack on her back. Jade swung her leg back over the motorcycle and started it up. Tori sat behind her and wrapped her arms around Jade's waist, a little closer to her than a friend would be. Jade didn't seem to mind though and sped off.
After hours on the motorcycle the girls finally stopped in Malibu. They got a cheap hotel, or the cheapest one they could find with a pool that is. They didn't plan on staying that long, but Tori insisted on enjoying the beach and for some reason Jade just couldn't say no to her.
The Latina all but dragged her friend to the closest swimwear store to buy themselves bathing suits and such things. When they had what they needed the girls were off to the beach.
The beach was awfully crowded and Jade didn't like it much, having never been one for crowds. With her black sunglasses and black bikini she laid on a beach chair under and umbrella and relaxed. As much as she loved the motorcycle, she wasn't quiet used to it yet.
Tori was standing next to her in her own aqua two piece, her arms crossed and a frown on her face. "Jade, come on. Let's go for a swim."
"Why do you need me to go swimming with you? You scared or something?" Jade looked up at her.
"No. I just...I want to spend time with you."
"And the two weeks together aren't enough?"
Tori sighed, "That's different. All we could do was sit around hiding."
Jade glanced at the water, then back to Tori, biting her cheek. "Look, honestly Tori, I don't do oceans. Pools, yes, but I don't go in the ocean."
"Why not?"
"The last time I went into the ocean I had an...encounter with a dolphin." Jade confessed.
Tori raised an eyebrow, now curious, "Encounter?"
"I...you know what um...how your parents had to do to have you right?"
"I-wait. The dolphin tried to have sex with you?"
"Don't say it like that!" Jade protested.
Though she tried to hold back Tori burst into laughter. Jade frowned and crossed her arms, glaring at the girl. Tori knelt down next to her and put her hand on her arm, "Jade, I'm sorry but that's just...how does that even happen?"
"I don't know! It just came out of nowhere. Rachel and I were just swimming and messing around-"
"Wait, wait. Whose Rachel?" Tori asked, a hint of jealousy in her voice.
"My cousin." Jade deadpanned.
Tori blushed from embarrassment. "Oh."
"Tori, I'm sorry, I'll swim with you all you want at the hotel pool, but I can't get in the ocean."
Tori sighed, "Okay. I'll stop pushing. Sorry...and I didn't mean to laugh at you."
"Yeah you did. If you told me that story I would've laughed too. Doesn't mean I'm not upset with you for it though."
The Latina shook her head and headed to the water.
Tori had a slight pout on her lips as she walked into the water. How was she ever going woo Jade if she couldn't get her to do anything with her. Tori had known for a long time that she was into girls, but none had got her attention as much as Jade did. She could see herself falling for the raven haired girl and staying with her for a long time. She just had to get the girl's attention.
The ocean water was nice and cold. Deciding to go ahead and get it over with Tori dipped her head under the water. She came back up and saw another person in front of her. It was a guy with shoulder length black hair. "Whoa!"
"Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." He apologized.
"It's fine. Just didn't expect someone to pop out of nowhere." Tori chuckled awkwardly.
"I just saw you looked a little down. You're in Malibu, more specifically the beach in Malibu."
"I know. It's really nice here."
"Then why the frown?"
"My friend wouldn't join me."
"Well, I'll tell you what. I'll keep you company."
"Thanks. I'm Tori."
"I'm Beck." He gave her a smile.
Tori slipped back under the water, until just her head was visible. "So, are you on vacation?"
"No, I guess you could say I live here. You?"
"Uh. It's a bit complicated."
"I see." Beck nodded, then threw water in Tori's face.
She gasped and wiped her eyes. "Oh, you're going to get it now!"
Jade was enjoying herself in her chair, until she heard Tori laugh. She looked over to see Tori and a guy throwing water at each other. She frowned slightly and averted her eyes. Her eyes caught site of a blonde girl talking with a dark haired Asian girl and smirked. Two can play this game Vega.
She walked over to the cute blonde and gave her a smile. "Hey there."
The girl gave her an awkward smile, "Hi."
"You know that the beach is meant for bikinis and such like this right?" Jade gestured to her own swimsuit. "Not shirts and jeans, despite how good you look in them."
The blonde blushed, "I know, but we aren't staying long. We're just looking for something. You do look good in that though." Jade smirked as she say the girls eyes travel up and down her body.
The blonde's friend rolled her eyes, "Karolina, this is not the time for you to be flirting."
"I- what? Nico, I'm not flirting!"
"Erm, are you two dating or something?" Jade questioned hesitantly.
"What? No." Nico quickly denied. Jade caught the hurt look in Karolina's eyes at the quick denial.
"Then what's the problem?"
"We are here on business. Not fun."
"All work and no play will make you a dull girl ya know." Jade said. "Besides what business can you have on the beach?"
Between getting splashed by Beck and dunking him under the water, Tori caught a glimpse of Jade's empty beach chair. When Beck came back up she caught his wrists, "Hold on. Jade's gone."
"Maybe she went back to the hotel." Beck offered.
Tori quickly scanned the crowd and saw Jade standing awfully close to two girls. "Or she's flirting with some chick. I'll be back."
The girl quickly made it to the sand and marched straight towards Jade, slightly aware Beck was following her.
"Besides what business can you have on the beach?" Jade was saying.
"It doesn't matter." Nico said.
"Excuse me, girls," Tori said sweetly, standing next to Jade, "There you are Jade."
"Oh, hi Vega. You finished flirting with the actor wanna be?" Jade questioned.
Beck awkwardly rubbed his neck, "I'm not an actor wanna be and my name is Beck."
Before Jade could tell him to go to hell there was a loud crash from a nearby building followed by a loud alarm.
"The hell was that?" Jade questioned.
"Nico, we have to go check it out." Karolina said.
"Karolina, we're looking for a runaway not a chance to be heroes." Nico said.
"We can't just do nothing!"
Nico sighed, "Fine. Let's go." Karolina grinned and the two ran towards the alarms.
"What're you doing?! You're gonna get hurt!" Jade shouted at them.
"Come on, Jade. Let's help them." Tori said, running after them, with Beck quickly behind her.
"Tori! Aw dammit!" Jade cursed as she chased after her.
"Haha. This time we're getting off scot free boys." The supervillian known as Wrecker announced as he held up a duffle bag filled with money in his left hand, his magic crowbar in his right hand.
To his right was Thunderball, who had two duffle bags in his hands, his magic wrecking ball wrapped around his right hand. "And this time we don't have Piledriver's kid to share the money with!"
Piledriver shook his head, "Well his enchanted shovel broke thanks to that mutant kid. I don't even know which juvie he's in."
He didn't go on further when Bulldozer shoved another duffle bag in his hand. "Quit whining about that annoying brat of yours and let's get going before some do gooder shows up!"
The Wrecking Crew proudly marched out of the vault of the bank and straight out the doors. Where they found two girls waiting for them.
"Oh, great, it's the witch and E.T."
"You guys again?" Nico stared at them. "You're robbing a bank in broad daylight. Did you think you'd get away?"
"There's no heroes in Malibu right now. Perfect time to steal."
Wrecker glanced around, "They don't have the mutie or that dinosaur girl with them this time. We can handle them."
"Hey! Don't you know that mutie is a harsh word?" Everyone turned to see Tori running up to them. "Watch your mouth or this mutant will break your face."
"You're a mutant?" Karolina questioned.
Nico looked at Tori closely, "Hey, wait a second. You're the runaway we're looking for."
"Deal with that later Nico."
Beck and Jade caught up with them.
"Guys, if you don't have powers you better back off." Karolina warned.
"Oh, I'm probably the strongest one here." Jade grinned, closing her fists and with a snikt her claws were free.
"Holy crap." Nico commented.
Thunderball dropped his duffle bag and started swirling it around like a lasso. "What're you? Some kind of Wolverine wanna be?"
"Yeah. Something like that. And unless you want your asses kicked I suggest you put that money back."
"Get 'em boys." Wrecker commanded.
Jade moved to charge but was met with a wrecking ball. She was slammed into a nearby light post, snapping it in two.
"Jade!" Tori cried. "Oh, you're asking for it!" Within a second she was in the air and closing in on Thunderball, fire erupting from her palms.
Karolina pulled off her bracelet and her body was glowing with bright, colorful lights. She flew up in the air and then dive bombed directly towards Piledriver.
"Dammit, I don't have Chase's knife. I can't get the Staff of One!" Nico shouted.
"Perfect." Bulldozer grinned as he charged at Nico.
"Not so fast big guy." Beck said, standing in front of Nico." You want her you gotta go through me."
"Easy pretty boy."
"So you'd think." Beck grinned, and with a wave of his hand Bulldozer was surrounded by a group of Beck's.
"The hell is this!"
"Magic. Now which one's the real pretty boy?" The Beck's said at once as they started circling Bulldozer.
"Whoa. That's a good one." Nico commented.
"What was this about needing to bleed?" Nico jumped when she heard Jade's voice in her ear.
"My Staff of One is my power source, but it's in my body. To get it out I need to bleed."
"Easy." Jade withdrew two of her claws on one hand and quickly dragged the remaining straight across Nico's arm.
"When blood is drawn is shed...let the Staff of One emerge!" With the words a staff shot out of Nico's chest.
Jade's eyes widened as she released her claws again, "Freaky." She saw Wrecker about to get involved with Tori and Thunderball's fight and ran to intercept him.
Meanwhile Bulldozer was still swinging at Beck. Every time he hit one, his hand would go straight through him.
Beck laughed, "What's the matter? Can't find the original?"
"All I need is one shot!"
"To bad you won't get it." Nico said, aiming the Staff at him. "I bet you'd make a nice... Statue." With the spell cast Bulldozer immediately froze in place, his body covered in a shade of gray.
All the Beck's, save one, vanished, and the original walked over to Nico. "Is that permanent?"
"No. It'll probably wear off in an hour or so." Nico said.
"Too bad."
"Last time you got lucky, freak! This time you won't get the best of me!" Piledriver shouted.
"Really? Let's test that theory." Karolina concentrated and a burst of energy shot from her hand and Piledriver was to slow to dodge. The energy blast threw him off his feet and straight into the wall of the bank. He fell on the ground, out cold yet again thanks to the alien girl. "Well what do you know? Took you down again."
Tori barely managed to duck under the wrecking ball. She was starting to wonder whether this was a good idea.
"Stay still!" Thunderball snapped, irritated.
"And I'd do that why?" Tori questioned. However an idea appeared in her head and she grinned. "Okay, take your best shot." She floated in one spot, directly in Thunderball's line of fire.
Confident he had her, Thunderball threw the wrecking ball directly at her. Tori waited for the perfect moment before throwing her arms up and letting the ice fly from her hands. Within seconds the ball was frozen solid. Tori grinned and quickly threw the ball to the ground, shattering it into pieces. With his weapon gone Thunderball was caught off guard. Tori used her ice powers to create a sledgehammer made of ice and flew straight at the villain. When she was close enough she swung the hammer with all her might, cracking it against Thunderball's skull. He fell to the ground and Tori grinned. "I did it!"
Wrecker moved in to take out Tori while she was distracted by Thunderball, however a raven haired girl blocked his path. "One more step and I slice your hands off."
"You're a bad Wolverine you know. His claws aren't bone. I bet you can't even pierce skin with those." Wrecker mocked.
"Let's fine out." Jade growled, jumping towards him and slashing wildly.
Wrecker blocked her with his crowbar, forcing it forwards to throw her off balance. Taking advantage he brought his crowbar forward and there was a loud crack as it made contact with Jade's jaw. She stumbled back as her jaw hung loose.
Wrecker laughed, "Haha! See what you get for trying to stop me? You get a broke jaw."
Jade growled, retracted her claws and delivered a right hook right to Wrecker's jaw. He staggered slightly, but recovered quickly and retaliated with another swing from his crowbar. This time Jade ducked under it and attacked with her left hand, with her claws still extended on the hand. Her claws caught him on the chest but didn't draw blood. Wrecker brought his crowbar down, intending to connect with Jade's skull. Jade, however, saw it coming and caught the crowbar with her right hand. She twisted his arm, then jumped over it wrenching his arm more and forcing him to let go off the crowbar. As soon as her feet were on the ground Jade spun on her heels and brought Wrecker's own crowbar across his face. Jade smirked as she heard a snapping sound. Retracting her claws she touched her jaw and the smirk grew. "Superhuman strength and a healing factor. Break my bones all you want I'll keep coming back for more." The crowbar made contact with Wrecker's temple and he fell to the ground. She threw the weapon at his unconscious body and walked over to the others.
"I can't believe we just beat the Wrecking Crew!" Tori shouted gleefully.
Hearing police sirens Nico looked around, "Let's celebrate that fact later and get out of here before the cops show up. Karolina you might want to put your sun block on."
"Oh. Right." Karolina put her bracelet back on and the lightshow was gone.
The group quickly ran back to the beach barely managing to avoid the police.
Jade collapsed in her beach chair and rubbed her jaw, "Son of a bitch that hurt."
"You okay?" Karolina asked, concerned.
The Goth nodded, "Fine, my healing factor fixed it up. I'm just lucky it set properly. How did you do that glowy bit thing?"
"I'm...I'm an alien."
"Nice. At least your not meant to be someone else." Jade mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing. So, actor boy, how'd you do that magic trick?"
"Uh...well I'm...the son of Loki." Beck said.
"Loki, as in Thor's brother?" Tori questioned.
"Yes. I can't do all the stuff he can, but I've got a bit of magic tricks I can do. What about you? How do you have three powers?"
"I can copy any mutants power, but I can't control so the powers I get are completely random."
"You're a runaway." Nico said, the Staff of One disappearing inside her chest.
"How'd you know that?" Tori asked.
"Don't you watch the news? You're all over it. You're parents are worried sick."
Tori scoffed and crossed her arms. "I don't care. My parent's are jackasses."
"Oh, I'm sure they aren't that bad." Karolina said. "Our parents were a lot worse."
"They want to make me take that mutant cure." Tori said. "I don't need that! I'm proud of who I am."
"Good for you. So, wait. They're trying to force you to take a cure so you ran away?" Nico looked at her.
"My parents are mutant haters. They'd do anything to get rid of mutants. Even me. My dad's trying to get Sentinels brought back."
"Oh, God." Jade groaned.
"Why don't you come stay with us?" Karolina suggested. "We're runaways too. Our parents are evil."
Beck quirked his head slightly, "Hold up. I know you. You're the kids of The Pride."
"The Pride?" Tori looked at him as if he'd grown a second head.
"They were a group that basically ran L.A. until they died. Everyone thinks their kids killed them."
"Yes, we are The Pride's children, but we didn't kill them." Nico argued. "That's just something the media assumes."
Karolina looked from Tori to Jade. "You can both come with us. I mean we have enough girls as it is, but you'd be safe." She glanced hesitantly at Beck, "I suppose you can come too, but I don't know if you're a runaway."
"That's sweet of you to offer, Karolina, but I think I'll have to decline." Tori said. "I'm unsure what my plan actually is, and no offense but I don't think it's with you guys."
Karolina nodded and looked at Jade, "What about you, Jade?"
Jade smiled softly at the girl, "Sorry Karolina, but I can't leave Tori all by herself."
"I'll stick with her." Beck offered.
"Fat chance I'd leave her alone with you." Jade said venomously. She saw Karolina frown a bit and asked, "Hey do you have a piece of paper?"
Confused, Karolina checked her pockets until she found a receipt from a store and a pen. Jade quickly scribbled on it and handed it back. "If you need our help again you can call me. Or Nico can call. You get what I mean."
"We'll keep it in mind." Nico said. She looked at Karolina, "Well, let's head back to the others. I think Molly will like to hear how we met more mutants."
"Or she could be upset she didn't get to meet them too." Karolina pointed out. "Bye guys." Karolina and Nico walked down the street and were soon out of site.
Tori look over at Beck, "So, exactly how old are you anyway?"
"Nineteen. I'll assume since your runaways your under eighteen."
"Seventeen thank you very much." Jade corrected him.
"What are you planning on doing?" Tori asked.
Beck shrugged, "I have no idea. I'm just trying to help people when I can."
"Defying your father's wishes huh?"
"Something like that."
"Maybe you can come with us." Tori suggested.
"What? No!" Jade snapped, crossing her arms.
Tori frowned, "Jade, come on. He could help us."
"I've got my own car and money." Beck offered.
Jade sighed, "Fine. He'll sleep on the bed I was going to sleep in and I'll just sleep with you."
"I can sleep with her."
"Over my dead body."
Tori shook her head, "I agree with Jade's plan actually. I don't sleep with guys I just met."
"Fair enough." Beck said.
"What do we do now?" Jade asked.
"I just realized you still have your sunglasses on." Tori said suddenly. "I'm surprised they didn't fall off during the fight."
Jade smiled, "What can I say? I know how to pick my glasses."
"Indeed. Lemme see them." Tori took the sunglasses from Jade's head.
"Hey! Give those back!" Jade reached to take them back, but Tori ducked under her reach and ran off. Jade cursed and quickly chased after her leaving Beck to watch and chuckle at the girls.