(everyone looking at Future Nico)
Klara: Nico! You must have found a way to escape those guys and you figured out some time travel spell of your own.
Molly: No wait...you're the Nico from this time period, aren't you?
Future Nico: Ha, sharp as ever, Molly. Yes, I'm the grown up Nico Amy Minoru of this time. And I suppose you'll be searching for the Gertrude Yorks of my era who made off with your Chase Stein.
Gert: Yes, can you help us?
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Future Nico: Sure, I'd be glad to help you youngsters out. But you must be tired from your long trip. Why don't you all take a rest at my place?
Molly: Thank you, its a sweet thought, but we'll have to pass.
Klara: We really must be looking for Chase.
Future Nico: Come on, we could just talk for a bit...Don't you want to hear about what you do when you grow up?
Victor, Molly, Klara: (excited) Yes!
Gert: (annoyed) Tch.
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(the kids are now at Future Nico's home, Old Lace is outside eating something from a dog dish)
Victor: So you've become the Sorcerer Supreme and they let you move the Sanctum Sanctorum to California? Our little Nico has grown by leaps and bounds!
Klara: Hm, yes, whatever all that stuff means.
Future Nico: Indeed, these past ten years I've practiced hard and studied intensley. Then the other candidates for Sorcerer Supreme fell victim to strange accidents. And here I am.
Molly: So what did the rest of us grow up to be?
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Future Nico: You, Molly, become a mercenary and started a little business called Odd Jobs Mol. And you only accept jobs from good people, so you barely make ends meet, but you enjoy what you do.
Klara, you become a public school teacher because you like to nurture children and watch them grow. You also do volunteer work at the county fairgrounds.
Gert, you become the head of a university research team studying time travel. And you've helped distribute new technology to help every day people around L.A.
Karolina became a veterinarian at the Los Angeles zoo, and also volunteers at the local soup kitchen. She's feeling so fufilled helping both people and animas. Me and Karolina broke up and went our separate ways, but I'm happy that she's happy.
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Molly: Aww, I was hoping you and Karolina would get married one day.
Victor: So what happens to me in the future?
Gert: Yes, tell his story next.
(Future Nico pauses)
Future Nico: Gert decided that the potential threat of Victorious was too great. So she partially dismantled Victor, heavily restrained his remaining parts and made them a part of the energy grid that powers this city.
Victor: What!?
Klara: Nico, if this is your idea of a joke, its in terribly bad taste!
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Future Nico: Yes, you fragile little snowflakes, you'd wish it a jest but its as real as real gets. (starts up a scrying spell that shows the parts of Future Victor attached to a generator) Look upon your destiny Victor Mancha. Look at your anguished writhing, it is for the best of this world. You know deep in your abominable half flesh half metal heart that you deserve this fate, Victor. For the things you will do, for the things you've already done.
Victor: (charging up an electric attack) You insidious witch!
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Victor: I will not be dehumanized like that! I've done everything I can to stay on the straight and narrow. I've...I...
(Victor breaks down and sobs pathetically)
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Gert: Victor! (Gert and Klara kneel by him)
Molly: I don't know what made you so warped and twisted Nico, but I think you need an attitude adjustment and I-
Future Nico: You're more cute when you're sleeping.
(future Nico blows some dust into Molly's face, making her fall asleep)
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(some animate samurai armors show up)
Gert: Old Lace! Get your tail over here!...Aw darn it, you drugged the food Old Lace was eating didn't you?
(view of outside the house, Old Lace is asleep)
Future Nico: (grabs Gert by the shirt) Take Victor and Klara downstairs. I have some fun little plans for Gertie over here. (samurai armors take Victor and Klara away)
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Gert: Nico, what's become of you? Why are you acting so...
Future Nico: Evil? I have discarded such childish naive notions of dualism. In past years I was hurt. I was broken. Friends and acquaintances abandoned me. Lovers threw me away. I came to realize that the one and only thing I could rely on was my magic. And so I built my entire being, my whole essence, into the study and strengthening of my magic...(future Nico begins to change)
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(splash page revealing Future Nico to be a Lich)
Future Nico: ...And it was such an astounding make over, sweetie. Sheddning all those excess pounds, it really makes you feel alive.
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(Gert looks on at Future Nico shocked, scared)
(fade to black)
(cut to present day with Nico bound inside the abandoned gas station with the Throwaways)
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Rebecca: Hey don't look so glum, Nico. Any minute now our Ke and your friends are gonna come back and we'll go our separate ways. No need to kill each other right away. We can be civil.
Dark Lord Tim: I'm an eternal demon, I have no use for your inane civility.
Norvick: Shut up Tim.
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Nico: So you guys really care about Ke, huh?
Rebecca: Oh sure, Ke likes to look out for us. He makes sure we brush our teeth. Takes care of us when we get sick. Sometimes Ke even reads a bed time story to me, Norvick and Dunia. Sure, we're too old for that, but it still feels nice. He's sort of a dad to us, and that's precious when we've lost our parents.
Nico: And Marikit is sort of the mom of your group.
Rebecca: I suppose you could say that...she's like a bloodthirsty mom. But Marikit does look out for us.
Nico: Are Ke and Marikit in love?
Rebecca: Oh Heavan's sake no! They're both repulsed by each other.
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Norvick: You two having a nice girly girl talk over there?
Rebecca: Jealous, Norvick?
Norvick: Not on your life, 'becca.
Nico: You guys aren't all bad. Theoretically, what would you all do after you killed us and finished your revenge?
Rebecca: Well, I don't know. I guess we'd be living our lives in the shadows and just scraping by. We can't do much else. We aren't a trio of computer nerds manipulated by papa Wilder who can just slip back into normal life. The Pride messed us up so that we can't live normal lives!
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Rebecca: That's the whole reaosn we wanted revenge in the first place! (the alien tendrils come out of Rebecca) The Pride destroyed our families, ruined our lives, spiled our futures.
Nico: I'm not gonna be guilted over things my parents did.
Rebecca: You compounded the whole thing when you put us in stasis for three years!
Nico: Okay, now that one I do need to apologize for...
Marikit: (comes up) Rebecca, calm yourself. There's no use in getting mad about all that right now. Remember, we're still waiting for Ke's return.
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Rebecca: You're right Marikit. Its just...ohhh, I'll go hang out over there.
Dunia: Hey I got the Stratego game set up, you want to play me Rebecca?
Rebecca: Sure, that'll be fun...
Marikit: I think our prisoner has enjoyed too much free speech. (puts duct tape over Nico's mouth) ...hey, what's that rumbling?
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(splash page of Doombot in a badass looking machine smashing through the wall of the gas station)
Doombot: You rotten cowardly jackanapes! That was a sordid little trick you pulled. It required great herculean effort for me to construct this weapon and get back to North America!
(the Throwaways scared)
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(back to the future timeline, Future Nico is mixing up some potions in tubes, Gert is hanging upside down from a rope)
Gert: So what is it you're planning to do with me, besides making all the blood rush to my head?
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Future Nico: Oh sweet and sour plump little Gert. I'm going to use you as leverage against the Gert of this time. Me and the future you have had many little skirmishes and proxy wars. But they were always hidden enough so as to not panic the general public. But now...your arrival has changed the game, with you as my bartering chip. I can bend the future you down to my will!
Gert: So I'm to be stuck in this dumpster fire timeline for the rest of my life huh. Thats worse than when I lived with my 'rents.
Future Nico: I will eventually let you and your friends leave this time, but not before its spiced up with some eldritch horror incursions.
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Molly (offscreen) that does it, I've heard enough!
Future Nico: Eh? (turns around)
Molly: (onscreen) When you threw that sleeping dust at me I just held my breath and pretended to fall asleep. I layed low and listened, hoping maybe there was still a kind Nico in there and we could all talk this out. But I now see that there's no choice but to pound you to pieces!
(Molly lunges at future Nico ready to attack)
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(future Nico blocks Molly with a force field)
Future Nico: I'm going to make you wish you stayed in slumberland, you impudent child.
(Future Nico fires a spell at Molly, slamming her against a wall)
Molly: (getting up) I was able to whoop Karolina's mom back when I was eleven. I ain't scared of any skeleton!
(Molly throws a chest through Future Nico's torso)
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(Future Nico's ribcage is now gone but the rest of her bones are still floating)
Future Nico: You've accomplished nothing except to raise my ire, you overgorwn brat.
(Future Nico fires some spells at Molly, who dodges them)
Future Nico: You can't dodge these for long, Mol. Even in adulthood you have problems with limited stamina.
(Gert squirms to make the rope holding her up move)
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(the rope breaks, Gert's whole body falls on top of Future Nico's skull breaking it)