Thanks to Jangonara for pointing out my mistake in the last chapter.

Patriot was supposed to say "We can only help them if they let us."

Cassie laid Trini next to Victor. She could move now since Cassie had gone into the Underground cavern to get her Holy Water out. But it was still painful to move. Victor was healing himself as well, but slowly. He was paralyzed as well. Cassie had gone to talk to the others while Trini stayed and watched over Victor.

"How are you?" His voice sounded like a computer. Nothing like his regular voice.

"In pain. But I think I'll manage." Trini glanced at him.

"Thanks for rescuing me." He glanced at her as well.

"I wasn't gonna let you just fly off Leapfrog. And I didn't see Nico racing to your rescue."

"You don't think Nico and I are a good couple, do you?"

"I didn't say that."

"You didn't have to."

"Of course not." She rolled her eyes.

"We don't really spend much time together out of the bedroom."

"I bet." She nodded. "Didn't she keep your first sex encounter a secret?"

"How did you know about that?"

"Nico isn't as quiet as you think." Trini giggled.

"Oh, my god." Victor seemed horrified.

Trini laughed this time. "Relax, Robot Jones, no one else knows and no one will."

"Thank you." Victor smiled. "I haven't seen you smile too much since…" He trailed off.

"Since Jake died, I know." Trini nodded. "I'm sorry if I've been mourning."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean it that way."

"It's fine." Trini nodded.

"RAARRRRRRRGH!" Trini and Victor pulled their head up to see a person rip Vision's arm off from his chest.

"What the hell-?" Trini quickly pulled up; despite her muscles screaming in protest.

The man slammed down in front of her. She's seen him before but she didn't know where; a green and white outfit, with white hair. She just didn't know who he was.

"Trini…" Victor called.

"He's not gonna get near you." Trini reached into her pocket and pulled out a small pocket knife that Chase had given her for protection. "This might not be efficient."

"NO." The man assured as he suddenly jumped forward. Before she could process it, he rammed his hand through her side. She screamed and collapsed on Victor's legs.

"I-I knew that wouldn't work…" She coughed up blood.

"Who are you?" Victor attempted to push himself up off the ground.

"I'm sorry." The man lifted his leg up to smash it down on Victor's face.

"No!" Victor cried.

"Get back!" Trini stabbed him in the thigh, right when Cassie can from out of nowhere and kicked him from behind. The man was shot into the air.

"Are you guys alright?" The light shone from behind Cassie as she looked down upon them.

"Looks like we've got an Angel watching over us, Victor." Trini coughed.

"Oh, my god, Trini." She reached down to rub her finger across Trini's forehead.

"I-I'm okay, Cass. I-I just need some time t-to heal." Trini answered with a smile.

"Who was that guy?" Cassie bent over to get a closer look at them.

Victor sat up and pulled Trini close to him. "We both need time to pull ourselves together."

"Trini, Victor, are you guys alright!" Chase raced up to the two.

"No." Trini answered.

"Cassie, what happened?" Patriot glared at her.

"We had company…just one guy, I think. We have a little bit of time, though, I must have kicked him five-."

"Cassie, behind you!" Trini shouted over Cassie.

Just as she and Patriot turned around, the man raced by; grabbing both Young Avengers by the throat. He then stopped and tossed them across the small field.

"I'd better get Old Lace." Chase turned around.

"So fast…" Nico commented.

"Let's see how fast he is with enough tranq to bring down an elephant." Hawkeye readied her bow.

Just as the arrow was about to hit him, he dodged out of the way and smacked the arrow to hit a growing Cassie in the neck. She quickly passed out onto Patriot.

"M-Maybe trick arrows are a bad i-idea." Trini informed.

"Maybe you're right." Hawkeye agreed. She shot off again, but this time he caught it while running towards the group at full speed.

Nico turned back to Chase, who was holding a still freezing Old Lace. "Ch-Chase, what's the 'Fiercely Loyal Dinosaur's' situation?"

"She's still too cold from your freezing spell! Where the hell is everybody else!" Chase exclaimed.

The man knocked Hawkeye down with one hit, then went after Nico.

"G-get away from me, you fucker!" Nico pointed her staff at him. "Sunburst!"

"You already use that one, Nico!" Chase warned.

"Hellfire!"

"You already used that one, too!" Trini felt her side almost completely healed up. She attempted to move forward.

"Ch-chase! I need help!" Nico backed away as he reached out to her. "Acid Rain!"

Just as she was about to say another word, but he grabbed her by the throat and lifted her from the ground. "Quiet now."

She gasped for air and dug her nails into his arm.

"Nico!" Victor cried, but still couldn't move his lower body. "He's killing her!"

"Let Go!" Trini's eyes glowed, along with the Angelic symbol on her arm. Suddenly, The man's eyes glowed as well, and he released Nico.

BOOM!

"That sound…" Chase glanced up as a hook raced around and latched onto the man; yanking him from his place on the ground.

Nico coughed and panned up at Trini. "W-what was that?"

"I-I don't know…" Victor looked at her hand. "I know I lost my powers but I guess…I have some powers."

Nico picked up her staff and swung it around. "Wake Up!"

"Mmmm?" Cassie groaned as she pulled herself up.

"Did we win…?" Patriot grabbed his head.

"W-we don't really know." Chase shrugged. "That psychopath was ready to finish us off when Trini went all Jedi on the dude, he let Nico go and then…"

"He got pulled away by some laser rope." Nico jabbed her thumb upward.

"So we were rescued?" Patriot rubbed the back of his head.

"I'm afraid not." The group turned to see the Vision; gripping his right arm, which was now a nub. "Our assailant was named Noh-Varr. An interdimensional Kree Refugee. He was working with a black ops team. He helped them capture Billy and Teddy…" He dragged himself from the tree he was leaning against. "My psycho-kinetic form disperses my progresses power throughout my body…when part of me was lost I was incapacitated while my CPU adjusted. I was unable to stop him."

"What about Xavin?" Chase raced towards the robot.

"He was with them?" Trini pulled Victor's arm around her shoulder.

"And Karolina went to find them…" Nico added.

"Yes…they too were captured. Xavin was mortally wounded. I'm sorry."

"I'm sure you did everything you could." Kate grabbed his nub. "Are you alright?"

"What's with all the long faces?" Speed called as he raced in with Molly on his shoulders. "We miss something?"

Chase jumped forward. "We were attacked while you were gone…Xavin and Karolina were captured! Where were you!"

"T-Tommy was-." Molly started.

"I don't wanna hear it, Molly! You need to grow up, do you hear me!" Chase pointed a finger at her.

"Chase," Trini reached forward and grabbed his forearm, "stop."

"This isn't productive." Patriot waved his hand. "They've got our friends. We need to do something."

"And what's your plan?" Nico lifted up her fist. "Go tell Captain America and the rest of the 'Grown Ups' that we're in trouble?"

"No." Patriot started. "The Vision tracks the signal these creeps were using to where they're keeping our friends. And if we get there and they hurt them…if they touch them…We make them wish they'd never been born. What you do say?"

Nico smirked and tapped her lip. "Chase?"

He sighed. "After Gert and Jake, I didn't want anyone of my other friends to get hurt. I would give anything not to be in this stupid silly 'Civil War'." He looked up at Trini who was staring at the ground. He patted her shoulder. "We tried to run away from it, because we thought it was just between adults. But they never asked us what side we were on…they just attacked. And took our friends. Now we're in it, like it or not. The time to be Runaways is over…it's time to do some Avenging."

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