Trini shoved him once more. "Vic! Wake up!"
He jumped awake. "Huh?"
"Come on, bro. You were making weird noises in your sleep." Trini smirked.
"Weird…what?" He blushed as he glanced up to Trini.
"Moaning…" Nico tied her hair up. "What were you dreaming about?"
"You. I heard him say your name." Trini smirked.
Nico rolled her eyes. Molly stuck her tongue out.
Victor glared at Trini. She turned back and got close to Victor. "You owe me one." She poked his nose then got up.
"Okay," Chase walked in with bags of food in his hands, "I've gotten a closer look around 1907, and you know what our parents were right about? Flossing."
"You're lucky they have your favorite, Trinket." Chase tossed her a bag.
"Bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich without the cheese?" Trini opened the bag.
"Okay, you're second favorite." Chase nodded.
"Cinnamon roll!" Trini cheered. "What a healthy breakfast."
He then tossed Karolina an apple. "You stud."
"We got marching orders, Nico?" Chase cocked a brow. "Because I've been talking with Swell here-."
"As I've heard, you're after a priceless object no bigger than that apple, and in the burg of this magnitude, I figure you got just a few options." Swell smirked. "You go to the Merchant's trust and tell them to open the vaults, which they most certainly will not…or you will go to the Mineola."
"The Mineola?" Trini tilted her head.
"Private subway train, owned by very powerful people who run the Sinners." Swell explained.
"And who are these very powerful people?" Nico narrowed her eyes.
"They prefer to keep their identities a secret." Swell insisted.
"You cn tll us," Molly assured with a stuffed mouth.
"Molly…" Trini wiped her face with her hand.
"WHOOO!" Lillie flew in through the window and tumbled. "That was close! I was dancin' on the charity ladies hymns-they was bleating 'Nearer my God to Thee'-and I'm still forty feet up when they quit! That's a bit nearer my god then I need to be! If your window wasn't open…"
"You really use songs to fly?" Xavin questioned as he helped her up.
"Songs, tunes, someone banging on a can'll work if they do it with rhythm." She smiled. "I hear something feels musical, I gotta spiel about it. Practically don't have a choice."
"Any a' you bunch fly?" She glanced at Victor.
"Back to business." Nico turned away from the red head. "I think we should split up. It's our best chance at finding another…The overdrive device."
"What happened to the old one?" Lillie twisted her red curls.
"Xavin tossed it." Trini jabbed her thumb in Xavin's direction. "I think in the alley way we were in."
"Well, that's muffin-headed, if you don't mind me sayin." Lillie turned back.
"Muffin-headed?" Chase cocked a brow at Trini.
"Lillie…" Swell reached forward.
"If it's a machine at all, Professor Duck can make it work-he built Tristan's wings!" Lillie added.
"Please tell me the guy's a duck." Chase smirked.
"Nah, he's a Chinee, same as Miss Nico here." Swell replied.
"That's not racist at all." Trini nodded.
"I'm Japanese." Nico corrected. "Chase, you and Xavin check out the Mineola, meet these Sinners. Maybe we could make some kind of deal with them if they got the goods."
"A deal?" Chase cocked a brow. "Didn't we just leave that party? With Rockets on our asses?"
"You wanna party like it's 1899, be my guest. I wanna go back." Nico snipped.
"Trini, you and Victor go see this professor to see if he could fix our device." Nico pointed.
"Uhh, I think Lillie should go with Victor." Trini waved her hands. "She knows where he is. Besides, Karolina and I need to…do something."
"More sight-seeing?" Nico cocked a brow.
"Actually, it is something important. Why don't we take Molly?" Karolina smiled.
"Yes! Not picked last!" Molly cheered.
"Okay, Lillie, take Victor." Nico jabbed her thumb at him.
Victor glared at Trini. She winked and mouthed, "You owe me one. And thank me later".
"What about you?" Victor questioned.
"I'm gonna go to the Merchant's trust." Nico leaned forward. "And ask them to open the vaults."
In The Town
"There she is." Trini pointed as she saw the girl, Klara, walking out of her house. Both her eyes were blackened this time.
Karolina stepped forward as she saw her grip her red cape. "Excuse me…" Klara jumped. "Klara? I'm Karolina Dean, this is Trini Alfonso, and Molly Hayes." Molly waved.
"We wanted to talk to you about yesterday…in the factory." Trini smiled.
"I don't want any Unions. The Unions are not good…" Klara then whispered, "If I'm seen talking to you…"
"It's not about the Union." Karolina assured. "It's about your powers."
"You're a Wonder." Trini clasped her hands together.
"We saw the vines you climbed down. The roses, you made them grow, didn't you?" Karolina reached out.
"I know nothing. I have to go." Klara turned on her heel.
"But we're Wonders, too!" Molly extended her hands.
"Karolina has extra-terrestrial light powers, Trini's an Angel, and I have super-strength, like the Hulk! Except I don't go all green and defensive." Molly explained loudly. "I'm called 'Princess Powerful'', Except sometimes the guys call me 'Bruiser' which is hurtful, Trini's 'Miracle' because she can heal anything and 'cause she's an Angel, and Karolina's 'Lucy in The Sky', which is probably a song from this time. But all my friends have cool powers, too!"
"What do you want from me?" Karla asked demurely.
"Nothing," Trini placed a hand on her shoulder.
"We just thought you'd like to know there are other people like you out there." Karolina explained.
"And that you don't have to hide, or let people push you around." Trini added.
"And you should totally join our team!" Molly suggested.
Trini and Karolina turned back to Molly. "Molly, we can't just-." Trini started.
"Why not? She should come back with us and get out of this smelly time!" Molly insisted. "There's never been anyone on the team that's my age."
"I know, Molly, but-." Karolina frowned.
"I mean, do you want to stay with your mean old father?" Molly cocked a brow to Klara.
"Mr. Prast?" Klara perked. "He's not my father…He's my husband."
They had taken Klara to a restaurant. Trini suggested it, and since they had the money, Karolina was perfectly fine with it. Except, when they gave her the food, she shoved most of it into her mouth as if she's never eaten before in her life.
"Mfff. Frrgve me…" She mumbled through her food.
"Oh, we shoulda brought you here sooner!" Molly smiled. "We just forgot you were hungry when you made us both wanna barf!"
"Brrf?" Klara glanced up.
"Well, it's kinda like we said, from where we're from, things are really different." Trini shrugged.
"It's against the law to make someone your age work, let alone get married." Karolina grinned. "You'd be in school right now."
"Yeah, every kid gets to go to school!" Molly exclaimed. "'Cept us…and Dakota Fanning…"
"When did you find out about your powers?" Trini played with her fork.
"If you don't mind us talking about it." Karolina ambled.
"I have always just…I thought that's how plants grew. Because you asked them, too." Klara looked the girls in the eye. "On our farm in Bern, I would speak to the crops and they would listen. And the Roses…the Roses would speak back." She paused and glanced downward with a frown. "My mother thought it was unnatural. She was so relieved to find me a husband that was sailing far away. She said I shamed God, and that I never speak of my cur-my Power." She grabbed her braid. "Mr. Prast is a devout man, but he…drinks. He does not work."
"While you slave away at a factory?" That came out of Trini's mouth harsher than she thought.
"It is not so bad. It is just, when I come home so tired, and then he…" Klara's face twisted. "I do not enjoy it. My marital duties."
Karolina and Trini's face twisted into a mixture of disgust and horror.
"Oh, my god." Molly gasped. "He makes you do Chores!"
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