Whoo! I am on a huge roll this week. I just got Young Avengers/ Runaways crossover for Civil War and Secret Invasion as we as Dead Wrong in the Runaway series! I'm so ready to do this!
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Trini cocked a brow.
"Whose cell is that?" Karolina asked.
"Uh, oh! That's mine." Victor dug in his pocket and pulled out his cell phone. "Can I just answer this real fast?"
"Who do we look like, the man?" Gert questioned as she glared at Victor. "You're not entitled to one phone call, Hot Shot." She snatched his phone away.
"But it's my mom! I have to at least tell her I'm okay!" Victor insisted. "She's worried sick that her only son was kidnapped!"
"I think you should let him call her." Trini suggested.
The group turned and glared at her.
"What! I think he should just be able to get one phone call! I mean, it is his mother!" She stated frantically.
"No," Molly answered. "He's a super villain." She then looked at Victor. "And your Ringtone's stupid."
"You don't know what you're talking about, Little Girl!"Victor snapped.
Jake leaned towards Karolina. "A little touchy on the Ring tone, huh?"
"That's Rick Jones!"Victor continued.
"Super Freak?" Karolina inquired.
"That's Rick James."Victor scoffed. "Geez, haven't any of you read Sidekick?" He pulled out a magazine from his jacket. "Rick Jones has only lived, like, the dream existence! He joined the Avengers when he was our age! He got to hang out with Iron Man and Thor! We was Captain America's partner!"
"We met Captain America before. He put us in Foster Care after they blew up trying to destroy the world. He has bad breath." Molly commented.
"If you have such a man-crush on the Spandex community, why do you want to kill them all when you grow up?" Gert questioned.
"Why do you people keep saying that?" Victor seemed extremely offended. "I'm not a bad person. I'm not a criminal. I've never even had detention! I mean, everyone in my class thinks I'm a narc. I-."
"Tray Tables stowed up and seatbacks up, Ladies!" Chase shouted. "We're about thirty seconds from the Tar Pits! So we're gonna have to blind fold out Prisoner here!"
"You mean Le Brea Museum?" Victor asked as he got near the front seat.
"Oh, my god." Jake grabbed his head.
"Yikes." Victor stared up at the pictures placed in front of him on the wall. "Pretty far from the Four Freedoms Plaza isn't it, Karolina?"
"Yeah, whoever said Villains bad taste in designing never took an interior decorating class." Karolina answered. "You should have seen how much green and purple was down here before I went all Queer Eye on it."
"What does this look like? An open house? Get Victor to the brig already!" Chase demanded.
"Uh, Honey. The Hostel doesn't have a Brig." Gert answered."Something tells me out parents opted for the death penalty with their enemies."
"But what are we gonna do if he tries to electrify us again?" Molly asked quietly.
Nico turned to Trini. "You got something in that can turn off powers?"
Trini shrugged. "Honestly I have no idea."
"Well, I guess there's only one option here." Nico began to stalk towards Victor.
"No! Please don't kill me!" Victor brought his hand up. "Not before I-."
"INSULATION." Nico thrusted her Staff forward; causing a plethora of purple guck to protrude and tackle Victor to the ground.
"Did it work?" Molly asked as she leaned over Victor.
"Or is he still super charged?" Jake shoved his hands in his coat pockets.
"Mfff Mph Mfff!"Victor shouted underneath the guck.
"Go ahead and zap me with everything you got, or I'll pop your brain like a balloon." Trini ordered as she placed a her fingers on her temples.
Victor pushed his hand out and waved it. "I'm..I'm trying. Nothing's happening."
"Cool beans!" Trini cheered as she reached over to help him up.
"Yeah, the incantation should wear off when we find out the truth about your family." Nico stated.
"I told you. My mom's an architect's assistant by day, a student by night, and a waitress by laterthat night." Victor explained. "My dad was a U.S. Marine who died in the Panama Invasion when I was just a baby."
"You have evidence to back that up?" Nico questioned.
"You have evidence to prove I'm wrong?" Victor tested.
"How about Gert coming back from the future all Terminator-style? She told us your Pop was the greatest Evil." Chase added.
"And I reserve the word evilfor very few things outside of fat free ice cream and non-Mac computers." Gert commented.
"Look, Victor's telling the truth one hundred percent, his heart beat hasn't skipped a beat and I've been reading his mind since I first saw him. He's not lying about anything." Trini claimed.
"You've been reading my mind?" Victor grabbed his head and blushed.
Trini blushed and nodded. "Yeah…"
"Look, Nico," Jake started. "Why don't you just use one of your spells to see where he actually came from?"
"I can't. I already did that with Gert. And you know how much the Staff Of One hates to repeat itself." Nico explained."So if we're gonna uncover the truth, we're gonna have to something we thought we'd never do again…"
"What?" Molly questioned.
Nico narrowed her eyes. "Homework."
Chase laughed as The Kingpin popped up on the hologram. "Thatblob is the Kingpin of Crime? He looks more like the Kingpin of Crisco!"
"Nice one." Jake fist bumped Chase. Molly giggled and covered her mouth.
"Knock it off, Chase." Nico ordered. "Our parents built this hologram Rogues' Gallery to keep tabs on the market share controlled by their international competition."
"And you thought that you could go through this to find out who Victor's real father is." Jake blurted out. "Smooth."
"Wow, this is like the most Surreal episode of Maury Pivoch ever." Karolina commented.
"This is stupid."Victor shouted. "In the unlikely event that I am the son of Charlie Manson or whatever, he still didn't raise me."
"Well, even an adopted kid has to learn if his real family has a history of heart disease…or…alcoholism." Trini stated as she sat back in her seat. "Knowing about your past is the only way we can protect you from the future." She placed her hand on his and stared at him with a look of compassion.
Victor smiled at her reassuringly.
Chase elbowed Jake. "Looks like Pinocchio's trying to steal your babe."
"What?" Jake whispered back. "I don't like her, Chase. We're just really good friends."
Chase rolled his eyes. "Whatever you say."
"Anyway," Nico continued. "My first suspect is this Joker, Electro."The man stood tall with a green and yellow outfit that secreted lighting from his suite. "And as you can see, his abilities have a lot in common with out guest's."
" But is a two-bit like that the greatest Evil of anything?"Gert inquired.
"Maybe not now, but remember that your future self came from Twenty years from the future. Who knows how powerful Electro can get from now and then." Nico pointed out.
"If that's the case then Victor's father might not even be avillain yet. Maybe he's a hero turned flip side." Gert suggested.
"She has a point." Jake agreed.
"Yeah, but right now, let's stick to the Ne'er-do-wells." Nico fussed with the remote. "As soon as I learn how to go to the next section on this stupid thing."
"Give it here," Victor got up, "That's a Black Market universal remote from Wakanda. I read their specs online last year. The OS is tricky."
"Nah, Mancha's got brawn to go with his brain!" Gert accused. "Not to mention whatever X-Factor he used to wallop Karolina half way across a football field and send Trini to the floor eating dirt."
"What if he's the son of Norman Osborn?" Jake pointed as he leaned back in his chair. "You know, that corporate tool that used to dress up in a bad Halloween costume?"
"Why are we only considering the men from this planet?" Karolina asked. "Didn't Gert say the universe? So why not try other planets?"
"Good point, K. Could you pull up file 31, Victor?" Nico asked as she looked at the hologram. "I used to think it was an urban legend, but I saw in our parents file that the greatest threat to earth was this thing..."
A man decked out in full purple appeared on the hologram, he was holding out earth with one of his hands and staring straight forward with a sickening look in his eye.
"Galactus." Nico finished.
"He doesn't look so scary." Molly crossed her arms.
"Oh, no, Hon, he's over thirty feet tall." Trini answered.
"Whoa, that means Vic's mom-."
"Don't even finish that thought, Chase." Victor warned.
"Seriously," Trini agreed as she raised a hand. "Besides, these guys don't even seem all that scary."
"Exactly! The only crime they committed was their fashion choices!" Gert agreed. "What about men who are really evil? Like Hitler!"
"Yeah, draw up the file on the Red Skull." Nico ordered.
"No way! That's where I cross the line!" Victor snapped. "My dad wasn't a Nazi, okay? And even if he was...What's it matter to you anyway? Lots of children who were raised by horrible people have become more productive!"
"Or end up like their parents." Jake ended.
Victor rolled his eyes and clicked the button, having Ultron appear on the hologram. "Haven't you heard of Ultron? He was a killing machine! But he still created the Vision, who was one of the greatest heroes, of like, all time!"
"Victor, you can't compare nuts and bolts to blood and flesh." Karolina pointed out.
"Then...What about Magneto?" Victor questioned as Magneto popped up on the hologram. "He was the father of two Avengers, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch."
"But they were both apart of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants." Trini pointed out.
"Which doesn't really help you out there, Big Guy." Gert got up on stage and ambled towards Victor.
"You guys are worse than those parents who abuse their kids and then try to convince people that they get a light spanking every now and then." Victor stated. "Look, I'm sorry what your parents did to you but it didn't happen to me."
Gert walked up to him and raised a hand. "Just chill, Vict-."
He suddenly got behind her and wrapped an arm around her waist; pointing the remote control at her head. He glared at the teens that got up and stood in their battle stances.
"Gert!' Chase cried.
"Let her go!" Jake ordered. "Or I swear, I'll be having my dinner early."
"Relax people, it's a remote control." Gert rolled her eyes.
"I...I flipped this thing's vibranium battery when you weren't looking. If I press one button while the polarity is reversed...it won't be pretty." Victor threatened.
"He's bluffing." Trini crossed her arms. "He just wants his phone back so he can call his mommy."
"Yup," Victor then dug into Gert's pockets.
"Hey! Get your ape hands off of me, Perv!" Gert cried.
"Don't flatter yourself." He rolled his eyes. Then, his phone started ringing.
"That's not creepy at all." Jake commented.
Victor flipped his phone open and placed it to his ear. "Mom? I'm alright! Send the cops to-." He stopped, another voice was on the line. "What? Mister? I don't know what you're-." Then his face went pale. "Doctor...Doom?"
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