(a small town in rural California is terrorized by a zombie cowboy)
Man: (scared) P-please Marshal Gravestarr, you died almost 150 years ago. Can't you leave this dusty old town alone?
Gravestarr: No! I swore this two bit cluster of houses and shops would receive my eternal protection...and that protection comes with a price...(holds out his hand with a sinister leer)
(a shadow falls over Gravestarr)
Gravestarr: Hm?
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(splash page of Molly stomping on Gravestarr)
Molly: Banana Slamma!
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Gravestarr: (face down on the ground) Ooh, my back...so big girlie (Gravestarr gets up) ...you wanna play with an old pro like me.
Molly: I want you to stop bullying innocent people.
Gravestarr: I can do what I want because I got some deep magic in my hands. You'll be mess'n your short shorts in no time at all!
(Gravestarr starts powering up for a spell)
Victor: (offscreen) Hey, Black Magic...
Gravestarr: Hm?
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Victor: ...Meet White Science!
(Victor wraps up Gravestarr up in a metal fence)
(Molly digd up a hole in the ground with her hands, Victor drops Gravestarr in and they bury him)
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(townspeople start to gather around Molly and Victor)
Townsperson 1: What just happened?
Townsperson 2: Who are they, are they superheroes?
Townsperson 3: Impossible, superheroes never come our way. Besides they aren't wearing tights.
Townperson 4: I'm just thankful Gravestarr is gone.
Molly: No need to thank us citizens, your safety and well being is all the reward we need! Up up and away! (Molly grabs Victor and leaps away)
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(Molly and Victor walking back to the others in another part of town)
Victor: Becoming quite the ham, huh?
Molly: That was fun, do you think that sort of thing happens often in small towns? We should visit small towns more often.
Nico: Molly, couldn't you just lay low for 10 minutes? We were only stopping here to pick up supplies I don't need you drawing attention to us, or did you already forget about the murder and kidnapping charges we're running away from?
Molly: (playfully picks up Nico) Ha ha, okay, mom.
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Klara: (carrying a tray of vegetable plants into their van) I thought I'd get us a tray of vegetables to grow along the way. You'll thank me later.
Gert: Having our own little farm of fast grown food free of chemical fertilizers sounds like a paradise.
Klara: Well, I'd rather they grow on their own natural rates.
Gert: Oh? And why is that?
Klara: When I make plants grow up quickly I'm using up with their life force. So when I do something like having huge vines burst out of the pavement those vines wither and die in a matter of hours. As such, I only use my rapid plant growing powers to save people or in some kind of emergency. Life is a gift that too many take for granted. The ability to grow, mature, adapt, endure and blossom.
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(the kids pack up, drive off, later in the evening they stop by a small mountain.)
(The kids start going up the mountain trail)
Victor: The locals said this was a great spot for star gazing.
Nico: That would be nice. Living in such a big city we never got a good view of the night sky.
(as the kids near the top, shadowy figures watch from a distance)
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Shadowy figure 1: Your tracking spell worked, we've found them
Shadowy figure 2: They;ve left that God thing in the van, its just six of them now. Even odds.
Shadowy figure 3: And there's no other people on the mountain tonight. We won't have to fear witnesses or needless collateral damage.
Shadowy figure 4: Yes, the Pride's brats will finally pay for what they did to us.
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(the kids stargazing, Klara leaning on Victor, Old Lace huddled around Gert, Molly and Nico sitting next to each other, Doombot standing arms crossed)
Klara: Its such a lovely view.
Gert: Sure is nice to just sit and enjoy each other's company. No ugly drama. No deadly things chasing us.
Molly: Hm? (Molly sits up, alert, hears something)
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(An explosive missile hits nearby, the kids dodge it)
(the smoke clears revealing the Throwaways)
Automarda: Ach, I'm a wee bit rusty wi' dis.
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Klara: Who are these collection of mongoloids?
Victor: Beats me, I've never seen them.
Gert: We faced them in battle before meeting you, Victor. We called them the Throwaways.
Nico: Our parents messed up their lives, and the Throwaways wanted to take out their rage on us.
Marikit: And now, we "Throwaways" shall handle our own introductions.
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Marikit Sundico: I am Marikit Sundico. I was a magic apprentice to the Minorus, until they abandoned me to join the Pride. And with my education incomplete, I accidentally messed up my right arm and half my face while preparing a complex spell.
Ke Hamilton: Ke Hamilton here, former partner in crime with the Yorks. They left me high and dry in the Neolithic period and when I had finally caught up with them, they had joined the Pride.
Rebecca Silvers: Rebecca SIlvers is my name. I came to the hospital with a broken ankle bone, but while the Hays were operating on me, they slipped this strange alien thing inside me. Without warning its tendrils killed my family and leaving me to roam with these guys.
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Automarda: I be Automarda, creation of the Steins. They put me through all sorts of abusive tests and vever showed me the love they showed to their other creation, Chase.
Norvick: I am called Norvick, the illegitimate spawn of Frank Dean, who liked to fool around and sometimes had a taste for something green and big chinned. As a half breed who couldn't shapeshift, I was an outcast amongst the Skrull Empire. So when I moved to earth I joined these outcasts.
Dunia Ghazali: I-I'm Dunia Ghazali...um...my parents were Sufi mages and enemies to the Minorus. Then one night...they...I...(breaks down crying)
Dark Lord Tim: (pops up) What this sniveling whelp is failing to communicate is that I, the magnificent Dark Lord Tim had been captured by the Minorus, put into a jar, and bound to this waif's shadow. She is my leash. And while I may have killed her parents, I'm the clear victim here!
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Marikit: The six of us wanted revenge on your parents for ruining our lives. But then whem they died, it was clearly you kids who had to pay the price.
Ke: But then in our first battle, that conniving Nip Nico used a "Time Out" spell to put the lot of us in a stasis within an arcane pocket dimension.
Norvick: For 3 years we couldn't move, couldn't speak, didn't age. And yet we shared a one sided psychic rapport with the Pride's kids and sensed everything that they experienced.
Automarda: An' then guess what? Yer bonnie wee spell done wore off two days ago, an' here we be.
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Gert: So if you know all the things we went through in those 3 years, does that mena you've grown a sense of empathy towards us?
Molly: can we all be friends now?
Rebecca: No! We're bitter! (sneds a tendril crashing near Molly's feet) You got to live your lives and occasionally have fun while we were stuck for 3 years!
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Doombot: (firing at the Throwaways) I care not for your trepid tales of woe. I am Doom, and you threaten my companions, thus your wages shall be oblivion!
Marikit: (holding her amulet) DEPORTATION!
(Doombot is teleported away)
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Doombot: Hrmmnh, what happened? Where am I now?
(view of Dr. Doom's castle, Latveria)
Doombot: Confound it!
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Molly: You disappeared Doombot! Bring him back you nasty witch or I'll make the other side of your face ugly! (lunges at Marikit)
(Molly is grabbed by one of Rebecca's tendrils)
Rebecca: Keep away from her you overgrown gorilla girl!
Nico: Molly has the right idea, Marikit is probably the most in a similar fashion as my staff did.
Marikit: And my amulet doesn't have a funny little man living inside of it (smugly)
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Gert: Old Lace, help out the others! I'm going to get the van...(Gert starts to run) ...as quick as my lumbering bad can take me...
Marikit: BLOOD HOUNDS!
(demon dogs made up of blood form and give chase)
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Klara: Bad dogs, bad! (Klara creates a patch of vines that ensnare the Blood Hounds)
(Norvick flies in behind Klara, knocks her out)
Norvick: Stay out of this little girl, we just want the Pride's kids.
Victor: (offscreen) Are all of you skrulls...
(Norvick looking back, concerned)
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Victor: (onscreen) ...Complete and utter nard copters?!
(Victor punches Norvick)
(Nico fires spell at Marikit)
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Marikit: GLASS HOUSE!
(Nico's spell shatters the glass house, but the huge glass shards fall towards Nico, causing her to stumble)
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(Dark Lord Time looms over Nico)
Tim: I can already taste your delectable witch's blood.