Because you asked for it! SECRET INVASION!

"This is unacceptable!" Xavin cried. "This is beyond poor strategy! Against common sense!"

"Dude, it's us." Chase smirked. "Common sense doesn't even enter into it."

"And there's the Empire State Building! And there's where the Fantastic Four live! And we beat a guy on a rooftop over there! Come on! Time squares only a few blocks away!" Molly cried.

"Xavin, we're hiding in plain sight. And only for a few hours. I mean, Klara has to say goodbye to her old city. This is all she knows in the future." Trini cocked her head back.

"Present." Victor corrected.

"Whatever." Trini waved her hand.

"We'll be back in L.A. and off the radar in no time." Nico assured.

"Trini…the clothes you and the others are wearing…isn't it..?" Klara picked up the red cloth around her shoulders.

"Awesome?" Molly smiled.

"Sinful." Klara insisted. "Shouldn't you and Nico cover your shoulders?"

"In this time, it's okay to show skin." Trini knelt down to Klara. "But only if you want it. No one's gonna judge or hurt you for showing it off."

"But what about wearing shoes?" Klara pointed down at Trini's bright sky blue socks without her shoes.

"It's a free country. I don't have to wear shoes if I don't want to." Trini winked.

"'Hiding in plain sight' has another meaning in Skrull language…'begging to be caught'!" Xavin shouted as she put her hands to her head. "We shouldn't even be running! We should not have to hide!"

"Here we go." Victor rolled his eyes.

"Ugh." Nico groaned.

"This is where we should be!" Xavin pointed back. "Is city not the home to Earth's Superhero! And yet we're fugitives! We're treated like criminals when we should be rulers of the world!"

Everyone glanced back at Xavin with confusion on their faces.

Xavin ducked her head. "Um, okay. I admit that sounded bad. Not rulers per se, more like leaders. Like the Avengers and the Fantastic Four rule your planet…I mean lead it."

"Nice save." Trini nodded.

"Sweetie, maybe you should stop while you're ahead." Karolina placed a hand on her fiancées' shoulder.

"Or maybe just stop talking in general." Victor suggested.

"Molly…" Klara turned to Molly.

"Klara, Chase said you have to stop looking up because you look like a 'Hick Tourist'." Molly whispered.

Trini stopped. Heartbeats. Thousands of them.

Klara frowned and looked up to the sky as shadows flowed over the city.

"I am sorry. I do not believe I will ever be accustom to the wonders of your world." Klara gasped.

"Oh sure you will be! You wouldn't believe what I've gotten used to! Vampires and Giants-."

"Molly, look up." Trini tapped her head.

Over them, were space ships; hundreds of them, flying over New York City. The bottoms of each space ship opened, allowing thousands of Skrull aliens cascading down towards them.

"It's raining Xavin's!" Molly squealed.

"That's not necessarily a good thing." Trini then turned to Xavin. As did the rest of the group.

"Um, Sweetie?" Karolina turned to Xavin.

The Skrulls began to terrorize the area; shouting a language that Trini couldn't translate. Times like these, she wished she had all her powers again.

"Xavin, snap out of it!" Nico ordered. "What is this! What's going-."

Xavin abruptly turned around with a raised fist. She pumped it forward; creating a force field that slammed into the Runaways. She knocked them unconscious.

While flying through the city, Trini groaned awake.

"Shhh." She heard. When she turned her head, she saw Victor in a force field. Well, they all were all in Xavin's force field, taking them god knows where. He pointed at Nico, who was pulling her Staff of One from her chest.

"Pop." Nico stated. And the force fields did just that.

"Victor, Trini, hit him with everything you've got!" Nico ordered.

"The others?" Trini turned back around.

"If we don't take him down now, it won't matter!" Nico shook her head.

Xavin groaned as she tried to stand up. But Trini ran forward and punched Xavin against the taxi behind her. The doors popped open; allowing Victor to use his power to manipulate the car doors to wrap around her.

"After all the crap I took from you!" Victor snapped.

"Nico! You must listen!" Xavin pleaded.

"Victor, now!" Nico ordered.

Xavin screamed as Victor electrocuted her with his powers. "No…hnnn…please listen!" Xavin groaned. "I was taking you to the Leapfrog! I was trying to keep you safe!"

"What makes me believe you less…you attacking us, or your extended family playing 'Space Invaders' in time square!" Nico growled. "Victor...squeeze."

"Wait, she's telling the truth." Trini waved her hand.

"Yes, please…try to trust me!" Xavin pleaded.

"This team isn't big on trust, M Butterfly! All you are is another Skrull!" Victor shouted.

"He's telling the truth!" Trini shouted.

"Yes! I'm not like them!" Xavin shouted. "The Skrull Empire has attempted to invade Earth before! So did my own parents! But this…this is different! I know of these Skrulls…They're religious extremists! They believe in a prophecy that-."

"That Earth belongs to them…" Trini finished. "They think that their god granted them Earth."

"Yes! And they'll destroy anyone who stands between them! Human or Skrull! Forget everything I've said about standing up and fighting! Forget me calling you cowards! You have to get away! You have to run!"

"These things won't hesitate to kill us." Trini bit her lip.

"Nico, I'm telling you…remember your battle cry." Xavin begged.

"'Try Not to Die'." Nico turned back to Victor. "Trini, Victor, grab everyone. We're getting out of here."

"What!" Victor cried.

"Karolina's gonna hate me for this." Nico sighed.

"At least she'll be alive."

In the Leapfrog

"God, we're screwed." Trini leaned back in her seat and sighed.

"I can't believe we're doing this, Nico." Victor groaned.

"We don't have a choice. We have to protect everyone." Trini glanced back at Nico, who was begging an unconscious Karolina to not hate her.

"Systems Online. Warning! Multiple Spacecraft Detected; Skrull War-."

"I know! Vamanos!" Victor snapped.

Just as they took off, Victor growled. "This is wrong and you guys know it."

"Look, we know we shouldn't have left him. But we have to look after the girls." Nico argued.

"I could have helped." Victor mumbled.

"You're such a baby." Trini rolled her eyes.

Heartbeats…

Two of them.

"Skrulls!" Trini pointed out of the window, right when two Skrulls flew into the view.

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