(the kids gathered around Alex, Klara and her dads observing at a distance)
Nico: Alex!?
Gert: How did you even fit your stupid pompadour into that helmet?
Victor: What are you even doing here with that costume?
Alex: I've helped out Matt and Ashley with their financial troubles. In return, I've made myself the new Doc Justice. But I can't clean up L.A. all on my own. I require the J-Team by my side.
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Gert: Well, lookee here, Alex just made himself the great replacement for Douche Justice and wants us as his meat shields.
Alex: Come on, I'm acting in good faith here. Did I not just take down Sean Madigan, the latest head of the Pride criminal organization?
Nico: Yeah, you're just buttering us up so we can be the willing pawns in your latest feints within feints, spider's web 5-D chess game. The first cut is the deepest Alex. You were my first love, then my first traitor.
Alex: Technically your parents betrayed you first...the Topher...
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Victor: I haven't forgotten that time you tried to sacrifice me to Bo and Rim, douchefro.
Alex: That was that and this is this. Look, I've invested a lot into this comeback. I even hacked Josh and Paul's home so Klara could find that secret room which is what brought all of you here.
Klara: What was that!?
Josh: I have no clue what is going on with these freaks. But one thing that's crystal clear is that our career here is deader than Dungeon Siege.
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Paul: Maybe I could get a job at that Wendy's two blocks away.
Josh: But we'd definitely have to downsize. Live in a smaller apartment. Klara, I hope you realize you'll have to say goodbye to your backyard garden and glass figurine collection.
Klara: I can accept living in a smaller home as long as I have both of you care for me.
Josh: Aw, you sweet little thing (gently touches Klara's face, she smiles)
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Nico: We are not rejoining any J-Team, not with you and especially not with you in thta orange abomination! (points at Alex)
Gert: Can't you just move on you zombie creep?
Alex: Molly, take off my glove and touch my hand.
(Molly, curious, takes off a glove and touches Alex's hand)
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Molly: Hey, you don't have that cold zombie touch anymore. You feel warm, alive! (Molly is happy for him)
Alex: (warmly smiling) Yes, and I can breathe and eat again too! Its because this is my redemption and destiny. I can feel it! The Pride is the rotten fruit that the tree of our parents bore. It is our responsibility to clean that mess up.
Gert: Alex, we've rode on that track before. Even if we eliminated the Pride organization forever there would be a power vacuum that other villainous elements would step in and fill. Look at the world we live in, hundreds of superheroes fight stuff but no significant lasting changes are made.
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Alex: So is it better to just be a gang of aimless drifters clumsily trying to live normal civilian lives in spite of the complications of your gifts? Obviously I've made major missteps in the past but I want to fix that. Let's be like a crimefighting family. You could use your old codenames, like Nico's Sister Grimm or Gert's Arsenic. You won't even have to wear costumes. And Gert, I will make sure you and Old Lace will take part in the action so you don't feel left out.
Molly: Come on guys, maybe we should try him out.
Nico: Look Alex, I'm glad you're more alive now but the chasm between us just can't be bridged.
Gert: How about no.
Victor: Double no!
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Sean Madigan: (coming back up in hover chair) I don't care what melodrama you twats keep blabbering on about. But I'm getting rid of this base and its useless personnel! (presses some buttons on his hover chair)
Mechanized voice: Self destruct imminent.
Gert: Aw, not even a convenient countdown?!
(rumbling, chunks of ceiling are coming down)
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Sean Madigan: I have other Pride cells to utilize anyway (escapes into a chute)
Nico: This place will blow any second, to the elevator!
Knox: Welp, back to Jersey City (Knox and the other minions flee in a different direction)
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Alex (still pinned to the wall by metal pieces) Molly, help me, please!
(Molly undoes the metal pieces) (Alex runs away)
Molly: Ooh, I'm still having trouble with my stamina... (falls down, sleeps)
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(Victor picks up the sleeping Molly)
(Falling debris lands on Josh, only his head and one arm are free)
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Josh: I can' get out of this, save yourselves.
Paul: No way I'm leaving you behind Josh.
Klara: Guys, come over here and help him out!
(Old Lace grabs Klara by her shirt)
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(Old Lace drags Klara away)
Klara: Get off me you stupid dinosaur!
Paul: You're our little flower, Klara.
Josh: Grow up big and strong.
Klara: Dads!
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(All the kids reach the elevator, explosions start but the elevator doors close just in time)
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Nico: Did all of us get in?
Victor: I got Molly, she's sleeping.
Gert: Alex probably found some way to weasel out of this.
Gib: I am fine, but what of the one you call Klara?
Klara (distressed) hee...hee...
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Gert: There was no time to save her Dads.
Victor: Klara dear, speak to us are you-
(Klara bursts out laughing manically while tears flow down her face)
Nico: Oh no, we broke her mind.
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Klara: ...ha ha...Don't you see? Now I finally fit in with you guys...ha ha ha...Now I have bad parents that died...ha...
(the others stand in the elevator, sad, Molly is still sleeping)
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(a while later, the kids are back at the hostel, Victor is carrying a sleeping Molly, Klara is asleep being carried on Old Lace's back while Gert holds her in place)
Doombot: (comes up to greet them) So tell me, was the mission a success?
Victor: It was... a mixed bag at best.
Gert: So what are we going to do about Klara? It would seem cruel to just dump her back into the foster care system again...
Victor: She can stay with us.
Nico: Guys, look... (Nico points at something)
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(splash page of Alex in regular clothes sitting in a chair in the hostel)
Alex: Hello again friends. Way back when we first ran away, I discovered secret passageways in this place that even Chase didn't know about. And guess what, I still remember them.
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Gert: Jesus Alex, we have a freshly traumatized girl here. Can't you just give us a few days before pestering us with your J-Team proposal.
Alex: No, I'm not here about the J-Team. This is more of a personal visit. I want to give Gib a little gift. (walks towards Gib)
Gib: Oh? What is this gift? The last gift I got was socks.
(Alex throws some dust into Gib's face)
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(Gib falls down with a big boom)
Nico: What did you just do!?
(Molly and Klara waking up from the noise in the background)
Alex: Gib is only knocked out. I made copies of the Gibborim books Chase had collected. Turns out a young godling, on his own, is weak to a particular concoction.
Gert: And then what's your next step?
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Alex: First, there's another old friend who would like to meet you.
(rumbling)
(the Leapfrog bursts into the room)
Leapfrog: You disloyal dastards! Selling me off like cattle!
Gert: The leapfrog!?
Nico: Alex was the anonymous buyer?
Molly: Uh oh, its mad at us.
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(Molly, Victor and Doombot fight to subdue the Leapfrog)
Victor: Frog, don't make us hurt you!
Alex: Oh wait, I guess I meant to say that there's two old acquaintances that joined up with me.
(someone comes in)
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(splash page)
Dr. Hays: Hello Molly, my dear granddaughter. Hello monsters that stole her from me.