Doombot: So, we meet at last.
Klara: That thing is Victor's dad!?
Ultron: Yes, good morning disgusting fleshbags and renegade Doombot. I'm just dropping by to have a little talk with my son. Up and at them Victor, time to boot up.
(Ultron touches Victor's nose, Victor wakes up)
PAGE 2 Victor: Ah! Vanessa, where's...what is...Ultron!? What did you do with Vanessa?
Ultron: Ah Victor my dear son, your latest romantic romp Vanessa was only the bait in this trap which had two objectives. First, to take out Circuitbreaker, who if left unchecked could have become a threat to my plans. Second, so we could have some long overdue father and son bonding time.
Victor: What did you do with Vanessa?
Ultron: Sigh, Victor's processors appear to be running a tad slow. They must be weighed down by the overloadf of toxic estrogen he's been surrounded with for three years.
Nico: You leave our estrogen out of it!
PAGE 3 Molly: What are your plans anyway Ultron?
Gert: Probably the same thing it always has been, getting Victor into the Avengers and destroy humanity.
Ultron: That is incorrect.
Gert: What's that!?
Ultron: Victor's Victorious program has altered itself over time. It is now merely a self preservation program...
Victor: That is a huge relief!
Utlron:...Indeed, the Avengers will never let you in now that you stole Vibranium from Vision and killed his son Vin.
(The kids all look on in stunned silence)
PAGE 4 Ultron: Oh? Did my boy not tell you the circumstances surrounding his death? Vision's wife Virginia had ripped out Victor's heart temporarily killing him in revenge for the theft and murder.
Doombot: So that's what the Avengers were covering up...
Gert: Victor had told me about it earlier...
(the others look at Gert now)
Gert: He had been messed up by a Vibranium addiction!
PAGE 5 Ultron: Chase Stein, did you not ever wonder why Tony Stark mailed you Victor's head?
Chase: I just thought it was a sick joke on Stark's part...
Ultron: Stark intended for you to bury Victor. Victor brought great shame and embarrassment to the Avengers. They wanted him forgotten. Just by reviving and associating with Victor you kids make yourselves pariahs!
Victor: (Sitting on the floor in tears) Why are you doing this...dad?...
PAGE 6 Ultron: You won't have to be miserable for much longer my dear boy. I bring you a small shard of robotic redemption!
Victor:...Really?...W-what is it?
Ultron: Victor, I shall bring you inot my new lair, disassemble you for data, which I will then utilize to create a fresh new army of cyborgs to replace the human race with.
Victor: Hey! Even at my most depressed and miserable I won't aid you in global conquest! Why can't you get that through your thick adamantium skull!?
Ultron: Good talk, son. (touches Victor's nose, Victor falls back into unconciousness)
PAGE 7 Gert: You're njot talking Vic anywhere, Doltron!
Nico: We're already pariahs from a different matter anyway! (Nico starts charging up a spell)
Ultron: (Knocks out Nico in one slap) Don't you dare try to sweet talk me, hussie!
Molly: You hurt my family, and I'll scrap you so hard ther ewon't be anything left to recycle!
(Molly lunges at Ultron)
PAGE 8 (Molly starts savagely punching Ultron)
(Gert, Chase and Doombot watch by)
Chase: So what, we're just going to stand by and be as useless as NFTs?
Doombot: I dare not strike for fear of hitting Molly. In her angered state, she will not be receptive to tactics, teamwork, or even suggestions.
Gert: Besides Chase, you didn't even bring your fistigons with you. Old Lace is back at the diner. Our dinosaur would only hurt herself against that metalic lunatic.
Chase: This stinks...
PAGE 9 (Molly punches Ultron some more, doing virtually no damage)
(Molly stops, she's exhausted, her hands are bleeding)
Ultron: Are you done?
PAGE 10 Ultron: Shame, (grabs Molly) because I think if you foucs yourself and train really hard...(throws Molly through the ceiling) ...you could take your power to new heights!
PAGE 11 Doombot: Foolish knave, you shall now perish by the hands of Doom!
(Doombot blasts at Ultron, Ultron blocks or dodges the blasts)
(Molly falls back down in the background)
PAGE 12 (Ultron finally gets close to Doombot, grabs him by the cape)
Ultron: It was a pleasure to mmet you, renegade Doombot. I'm sorry our encounter has to end like this.
(Ultron throws Doombot into Gert and Chase)
PAGE 13 (Ultron picks up a still unconcious Victor in one arm)
Ultron: Now that the human garbage has been cleaned up, its time for father and son to go home.
(vines block the store's entrance)
Ultron: Now this is some highly unusual flora we're having.
Klara: I don't care what you said he did! You are not taking Victor away from us!
Ultron: You're cute.
(Ultron blasts the vines into flames, Klara falls down in pain, Ultron casually walks off with Victor)
PAGE 15 (view of the kocked out kids, zoom in on Nico)
(Nico's conciousness is in the black soul space with the One)
PAGE 16 The One: Another humiliating defeat for the understaffed Minoru.
Nico: I'm still not talking to you.
The One: Have you ever wondered why your family uses a male given name as a surname? It was a matter of hurt pride you see. Your ancestor from the 12th century was born intersex but misgendered as a male. This degradation led her down a path of darkness, and she used her given name of Minoru as a new family name. And it was fitting as Minoru means seeker of truth, and the path of darkness is the ultimate uncomfortable truth.
PAGE 17 Nico: So what does that embarrassing chunk of ancient history have anything to do with today?
The One: You will have your own moment of hurt pride coming along. And I will be using it as my entryway.
Nico: Somehting to do with Victor or Ultron?
The One: No, nothing to do with the electric Mestizo or his machine father. Its something coming to you from much farther away...
Nico: What is it?
(The One starts to fade out)
Nico: Hey, don't leaving me hanging!
PAGE 18 (Nico wakes up screaming)
(They are all in the garage where the Jackrabbit is kept)
Molly: Ah, you're finally awake Nico! I had to carry you back to the diner.
Gert: Excessive fainting spells are starting to become a habit for you.
Chase: I'm trying to recalibrate the Jackrabbit's sensors so it can pick up on where Victor is.
(Nico stares at Gert angrily)
Gert: What is it Nico? Are you still hurt?
PAGE 19
Nio: What happend to you being our moral compass Gert? Why would you keep such a gigantic secret from us?!
Gert: Did that blow for Ultron damage your brain Nico? Sharing such a secret would've devastated Victor! (Gert progressively gets less angry and more sad) You would've kicked Victor out and its not fair, he doesn't have any other place to go! When Victor killed Vin it was an accident. His mind and reflexes were messed up by a Vibranium addiction. An addiction that he's made every effort to avoid ever since!
Nico:...For the record, I wouldn't have kicked Victor out. But we still should have known.
Doombot: Victor is my friend, you knew I was looking into the details of his death.
PAGE 20 Chase: Vibranium...I think I might know how that got started.
Nico: What now? You read Victor's computer brain without telling us?
Chase: Way back when we first got split up by the feds I broke into a secret material cache that my father had. I took a small piece of Vibranium from it. Then a few days after we met Victor I let him have that VBibranium and thought nothing of it.
Gert: Victor must have been emotionally crushed between his mother dying and realizing he wasn't a regular human.
Nico: So he used the Vibranium as a coping mechanism. We should have been more supportive of Victor and monitored him more closely.
PAGE 21
Molly: So, this is touching and all, but I'm wondering...
Gert: What is it?
Molly:...How did Victor even use Vibranium as a drug? Its a metal. Did he grind it up into a powder and snort it?
Gert: I don't know, and its immaterial!
Klara: And how is it that ripping out Vicotr's heart kille dhim yet he can live as a disembodied head?
Doombot: What you imputent-
(A noise comes form the Jackrabbit)
PAGE 22
Chase: Hey, I finally got Victor's location!
Nico: Hold on! Before we make our move I want to make sure everyone is on board. We're going to welcome Victor back to our family with open arms right? We're not going to turn him in or shame him.
PAGE 23 Molly: Aye! Victor was just a victim of bad circumstances. That doesn't make him an iredeemably bad person.
Doombot: If ex villains such as myself can get redemption then so can Victor.
Klara: He needs our love and support.
Gert: Victor's mistake shouldn't be the end of his future.
(Old Lace comes up and growls in approval)
Chase: I'm the one who accidentally got Vic messed up. I mean to fix that.
Nico: (determined) Alright! Let's go!
PAGE 24 (a while later, the Jackrabbit lands near an Aztec pyramid)
(the kids get out)
Chase: I've traced Victor's energy signature to this pyramid. I should use my technopathy to see what traps Ultron has inside...Oh no!
Gert: What is it?
Chase: (worried) We're too late! Ultron is already taking Victor apart!