Molly Hayes Residence
6:40 A.M.
"I MEAN IT! LEAVE MY MOM ALONE!" Molly exclaimed.
"Molly, please! Calm down!" Trini said with alacrity. "Look, Hun, we'll explain everything. Just please-."
"Everything okay up here, Nico?" Gert asked as she entered the room with the Dinosaur in tow.
Molly screamed and pointed. "A DINOSAUR!"
Gert noticed Molly and gasped. "A MUTANT!"
Trini sighed and covered her eyes. So much for trying to calm Molly down. Gert calmed down though, "Jeez,
"Shit, yeah, I thought the same thing, Gert." Nico nodded, then shook her head, "Wait, what are you doing up here? You're supposed to be guarding-."
"It's fine." Gert assured. "Chase and Karolina already moved into position and are keeping a "parental guidance" over-."
"Are you guys alright?" A voice called from the door.
"Alex?" Trini asked. "Are you okay?"
He rubbed the back of his head and sighed. "Yeah, but I'm gonna have a bruise the size of a-."
"What are you guys doing in my house?" Molly asked.
"Whoa," Alex muttered.
"Calm down, Molly." Trini said in a soothing voice. "We're not going to hurt you."
"But Gert has a Dinosaur!" Molly cried.
"Yeah, but she's a friendly Dino...like Barney!" Gert smiled awkwardly.
"I HATE Barney." Molly growled.
Trini's mouth dropped. "How?"
"Because it's for babies! And it's stupid!"
""Uh...okay. Anyway, I know you're confused right now," Gert continued. "But there's noting bad about it. Basically, you're what we call a mutant, which means-"
"I know that, stupid!" Molly snapped. "What I want to know is why Nico hit my mom in the face!"
"She hadtoo, Molly. You're parents-well, our parents-are bad people!" Trini explained.
"I hate sugar coating things, because adults used to do it to me all the time. But...Our parents are Villains. Like the ones you see on T.V." Gert added. "During that little costume party that we didn't let you see, they had killed an innocent woman."
Molly's face contorted into pure rage. "You're lying!"
"It's true, little dude. I saw them do it." Chase said from the doorway, Karolina in tow.
"Chase? Karolina?" Alex asked.
"What are you doing up here?" Trini inquired. "You're supposed to be watching-."
Before Trini could finish, the entire wall behind Molly's bed exploded; debris and rubble flying into the room. Trini quickly threw her hands up to jump towards Molly; but instead, she threw up a white force field; blocking the rubble from hitting Molly. Once the rubble cleared; the force field went down.
"Whoa," Alex commented.
"I know right?" Trini agreed as she looked at her hands.
"I should say I would have killed you when I had the chance," Mrs. Dean voice stated as floated in the room. "But a chance is something you spoiled brats never had." Mrs. Dean floated in mid-air; an all black suit with intricate designs on it and her skin glowing the same colorful being that Karolina was.
"Go away Mom." Karolina growled as she sat up.
"Yeah, take one more step and-."
"Oh, shut up, you pudgy little troll woman." Mrs. Dean ordered as she lifted her hand. A colorful binding appeared and circled around Gert; squeezing her tightly.
"Now, none of you move." Mrs. Dean ordered. "Do anything, and I'll pop Gertrude like one of your own black heads."
"That's gross." Trini's face twisted with disgust.
"Indeed, which is why I'd rather not kill anyone. But this overweight nerdling was the one child the pride considered expendable." Mrs. Dean finished.
"Stop it, Mrs. Dean! You're hurting her!" Molly cried as she shot up from the bed and jumped towards Mrs. Dean. She shoved her hands forward and pushed Mrs. Dean away from the gaping whole. "Just be nice!" Molly shouted. Mrs. Dean crashed into the pool.
"What the Hulk!" Chase exclaimed. "Did you see how strong she was!"
"Wow..." Gert blinked. "Thanks, Mol."
"Man..." Molly plopped against her bed. "That made me...sleepy."
"Time to move." Alex ordered.
Trini stopped; the conversation blocking out of her head. Heartbeats...two more of them. Her "mother" and "father". She walked towards the doorway, feeling them enter the house. Then...the heartbeats stopped. Trini panicked. She then turned back to look at the group. Nico had asked her a question, but Trini couldn't hear it; she was still hearing out for the heartbeats. She walked outside the door and turned. Just as she did, a hand raced towards her head. Trini ducked; only getting her shoulder sliced (slightly) open. She stumbled gripping her shoulder. The hand crashed in the wall behind Trini.
"Where do you think you're going, Trini?" Mrs. Alfonso asked from down the hall. She retracted her arm back to her body.
"I'm getting the hell out of here." She answered in a growl.
"Oh, is that a back bone I hear? Look who's finally grown one." Mr. Alfonso stated. "Too bad it had to be in a situation like this."
"Come on, now, Trini. Just be wise about this. Leave the Hayes girl here and we can go home." Mrs. Alfonso offered softly.
"For what? So you can beat me some more?" Trini countered.
Inside Molly's room; she could hear Molly; Karolina, and Nico gasp. She didn't mean to say that out loud.
Lisa frowned. "Oh, Trini. You shouldn't talk to your mother that way."
"You're not my mother. You and Rex murdered my real parents." Trini gripped her wound; but surprisingly, it had already healed. There was nothing left of it but dried up blood; and even that was slowly fading away as well. She released her wound.
"Oh, she knows." Mr. Alfonso shrugged. "Cat's out of the bag."
"Trini, we don't have time for this, we'll figure it out later. We have to go." Nico said softly.
"Then do your thing." Trini allowed.
Another hand shot out towards Trini. Nico quickly jumped in front and pulled her staff in front of her as well. "FREEZE." She ordered.
A blue haze glowed from them as the arm stopped in the middle of the hallway; near Nico's face. She then looked back at Trini; who was slowly taking off her jacket. "Let's go."
Downtown Los Angeles
8:42 A.M.
Trini sat in the back of the seat; her arms wrapped around her knees as she stared at the Angelic symbol carved on her arm. No one else talked to her. Truth be told, she didn't want anyone talking to her anyways. She glared at the markings; hating them. She put her hand on it to cover it. But when she pulled it away; it was gone. She gasped.
"What?" Nico asked.
"M-my scar?"
"The one on your arm?" Karolina asked from the driver's seat.
"Y-yeah...it's Gone."
"What?" Nico, Gert, Molly, and Chase crawled over to her arm to see that it was completely flawless.
"That's some Twilight Zone shit." Chase commented.
"Yeah, how did you do that?" Nico questioned.
"I-I don't know. I just placed my hand over my arm and...It was gone." Trini answered.
"Try Nico's arm!" Chase pulled Nico's arm towards her. There was a small cut near her wrist.
"What! No!" Nico rejected after pulling her arm back.
"No, Nico, let me try." Trini held her hand out. Nico placed her wrist in Trini's hand as she put her hand over Nico's wound. She took a deep breath and concentrated on making it go away. When she took her hand away, Nico's wound was completely healed.
"Whoa..." Chase whispered.
"Yeah, whoa..."
"That's the girl you killed!" Alex suddenly shouted.
"What?" Trini leaned forward.
"Nice try, dad. But we'll prove you framed us." Alex said once more. "Son of what, dad? What exactly am I a son of?" Alex then turned off the phone and shoved it back in his pocket.
"Well, that didn't sound good." Nico commented.
"We're dead. Our parents...they control everything. We're fugitives form the entire world." Alex added.
"Then there's only one thing we have to do." Chase smirked.
"And what's that?" Gert cocked a brow.
"Fall of the face of the fucking world."
Bronson Canyon
Griffith Park
10:27 A.M.
"You're fucking nuts, Chase." Trini said as she looked at the large cave that they stood in front of the group.
"I agree. The amazing spot you've been bragging about is a cave?" Alex cocked a brow.
"Holy Stupid Ideas, Batman." Gert joked.
"Isn't this where they did shoot the Batman T.V. shows?" Nico asked.
"Nope, that's somewhere around Franklin Park." Chase shook his head.
"No wonder!" Karolina snapped as she pointed at the DANGER GAMMA TESTING SITE. LETHAL LEVELS OF RADIATION! sign that was placed in front of the cave. "Look at the sign!"
Chase chuckled softly. "That? I bought that off of eBay and put it up right after I found this place so nobody would come here."
"Oh, well. That makes sense." Trini nodded.
"Come on." Chase urged as he jogged inside. As the group got further into the cave, it got darker. Trini shivered. Fuck, she couldn't see. But she could hear their heart beats. All of them were slightly worried. Except Molly, who seemed pretty excited.
"Chase! This is awesome!" Molly cried.
"Hold on, Kid. We're not even to the best part." Chase stated. "Crawl through here."
"Are you serious?" Trini growled.
"Oh, come on. You have any better ideas?" Chase retorted.
Trini didn't reply. She really didn't have a place to go.
"I didn't think so."
As they got into the dark whole, they realized that it was pitch black. The group began to bump into each other and hit each other by accident, and tripped over god knows what. Trini was getting annoyed because no one knew where they were going.
"Karolina, could you please take off your bracelet?" Trini finally asked.
"Oh, that's right. Sorry."
She ripped off her bracelet, letting the color fill the entire room. And when the light shown throughout it, Trini whished she was back in the dark once more. The place was a mess and Trini was pretty sure she saw a couple cockroaches skitter across the room. Rubble was everywhere and the place looked like if you touched something the whole place would come down. Chase had then stated it was called the Hostle and that it was destroyed by an earthquake. Now it lies underground and nobody ever mentioned it again.
The Dino sniffed around and seemed slightly unsure as the rest of us.
"Easy, Old Lace." Gert petted her head softly.
"Old Lace?" Karolina asked.
"Yeah, that's her new one to go along with my new one." Gert smiled. "From now on, I'd like to be called Arsenic."
"Old Lace and Arsenic? What kind of name is that?" Chase asked.
Trini blinked. Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 film directed by Frank Capra based on Joseph Kesselring's play of the same name. The script adaptation was by twins Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941, but it was not released until 1944, after the original stage version had finished its run on Broadway."
"How did you know that?" Alex blinked.
"I honestly have no idea. It just popped in my head." Trini shook her head.
"What? So now you know everything?" Gert asked.
"I don't know." Trini shrugged.
"That's a great idea, Ger-Um, Arsenic. From now on, call me Lucy In The Sky."
"Well, my AIM handles Sister Grimm. So you can call me that." Nico shrugged.
"And my name is…Neo." Chase declared.
"You're so lame." Trini crossed her arms.
"What?" Chase asked. "At least I'm not named after an ancient song!"
"I say his name should be Talkback." Arsenic smirked.
Molly giggled.
"Yeah, laugh it up, Bruiser." Talkback spat.
Molly dropped her head. "But I wanted to be Princess Powerful."
"I say Trini should be called Miracle." Lucy In The Sky smiled.
"What? Miracle? Why?" Trini blinked.
"Because you're an Angel on this earth. That's a Miracle."
"That made no sense." Arenic shook her head. "But Trini can heal wounds."
"Which is a Miracle if she can heal big wounds and save peoples' lives!" Lucy squealed.
Trini sighed. "Fine, Miracle it is."
"And what about yours, Alex?" Sister Grimm asked.
"Wilder." Alex stated; not making eye contact. "My name is Alex Wilder."
"But that's your name already!" Bruiser argued.
"I know. I don't want to change it." Alex shook his head.
"But our parents-"
"May have ruined our names, but that doesn't mean we should toss them like a lunch bag." Alex interrupted. "I want to redeem it."
"How the hell do you plan on doing that?" Miracle cocked a brow.
"We have these powers and resources at our fingertips," Alex replied. "Let's use them to bring our parents to justice."
"Dude, that could take years." Talkback stated.
Alex rolled his eyes. "Fine. Till then, we can atone for what they've done. Heal those they hurt, rebuild what they destroy, cleanse what they corrupt. We'll protect the world they're trying to destroy."
"Yeah, we'll do that while we're on America's Most Wanted." Miracle nodded.
"Seriously, I bet John Walsh is searching for us as we speak." Talkback agreed.
"Well, we aren't going to sit here and do nothing till we die." Alex said firmly. "We'll...wear disguises or something like that."
"So you want to fight back against our parents...by playing superhero?" Said Arsenic. "Isn't that kinda...childish?"
"And what you're doing isn't 'Arsenic'?" Alex made Arsenic's name sound like a derogatory term. "Besides, what's the other option?"
"Grow up?" Bruiser piped up.
"Yes...and become our parents." Alex's eyes grew hard. "I don't know about you, but if that means becoming the people who raised us..."
He looked up and the rest of the group followed.
"...I hope I die before I get old." Alex finished.