Post by THe Hostel on Aug 20, 2006 10:32:00 GMT -5
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Nico Minoru, Gertrude Yorkes, Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, and Alex Wilder meet at their families' annual gathering, where they see their parents performing the ritual sacrifice of a girl, and the teenagers run away. Before they go, each learns of their mysterious heritage, taking weapons or discovering powers they didn't know they had.
The Pride frame their children for murder in order to get them back. The runaways retreat to an underground hideout they call "the Hostel", a mansion buried during an earthquake. Cloak and Dagger, informed that the teenagers had kidnapped Molly, confront the runaways. The two superheroes promise to contact the Avengers to help the runaways; a mole among the teenagers, however, informs the Pride, and they erase Cloak and Dagger's memories of the meeting.
The teenagers learn that an ancient race called the Gibborim formed the Pride to help them destroy humanity, and they disrupt the ceremony that will give the Gibborim the power they need. Alex engineers his friends' defeat and reveals himself to be the mole. After Molly frees the sacrificed girl's soul, the Gibborim destroy Alex for his failure and the Pride, and as the Pride's undersea lair collapses, the runaways escape in a vehicle called "The Leapfrog". With their parents dead, Social Services separates the runaways. Three months after the destruction of the Pride, the team reunites and retrieves Gert's dinosaur Old Lace. They stay together and fight the villains that move to Los Angeles in the wake of the Pride's death.
A future version of Gert appears and warns the group that a man named Victor Mancha will one day kill all of Earth's heroes. Before she dies, she tells them to kill Victor before he becomes too powerful. They attack and subdue Victor, a confused teenager whose superpowers activate for the first time in the struggle. Victor's father Ultron kills Victor's mother and forces Victor to attack his new friends. Ultron reveals that he created Victor to join the Avengers and destroy the team from within. With the help of the teenage superhero support group Excelsior, the runaways defeat Ultron, and Victor joins them.
After Nico rejects Karolina's advances when Karolina attempts to kiss her, a Skrull named Xavin appears and tells Karolina that he is Karolina's fiancé, due to a pact between their parents. He asks Karolina to marry him in order to stop the war between their races. Karolina resists, revealing to Xavin and her friends that she is a lesbian; Xavin tells her he's a shape-shifter, and he changes into female form. Convinced, Karolina returns to her home planet with Xavin with the hope of ending the conflict.
The group travels to New York City with Cloak, whose memories are restored. Someone has used Mutant Growth Hormone to attack Dagger and to frame Cloak. When Nico and Chase find the dealer, Chase, dropping the Pride's name and claiming to have killed someone, talks his way out of danger and into the information they need. Nico kisses Chase in thanks for saving her, but Chase rejects her, saying his relationship with Gert is the only thing keeping him "good". Gertrude and Victor run into Spider-Man and discuss the situation with him over sushi, but Nico knocks him out because Spider-Man is an adult and an Avenger. When the Avengers look for Cloak, Wolverine scares Molly, and she punches him through a building. After Chase defeats Dagger's attacker with Nico's staff, they return home.
The runaways encounter the X-Men, who want to take Molly to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning to train. The two teams fight until Emma Frost decides they shouldn't force someone to come with them against their will. Later, in a superhero fight, Molly is knocked unconscious, and she wakes to find that she has been "recruited" by a crime ring that uses children to commit thefts. Molly organizes her fellow captives, defeats the Provost, and returns home.
After Alex's death, his online friends met up and discussed his disappearance. One of them hacked Alex's account and learned that Alex's parents were part of the Pride, whom the group believed to be heroes. The group attempted a spell to bring Alex back, but a younger version of Alex's father Geoff appeared instead. In a fight with Geoff Wilder and the new Pride, the Pride takes control of Victor, Gert finds out that Nico kissed Chase, and Geoff escapes with Molly. The runaways fight the new Pride again, and Wilder reveals that it is actually Nico that he wants. Moments after Geoff appears to shoot Nico, Xavin reveals that he has been impersonating her. Chase enters the burning house to look for Gert, and Geoff captures him, intent on sacrificing him. When Gert tries to save Chase, Geoff throws his knife at her, mortally wounding her.
Gert transfers her control of Old Lace to Chase before she dies. After an argument, Chase leaves the runaways, and his friends bury Gert behind the Hollywood letters. Nico erases Geoff's memory and preserves the timeline by sending him back in time. Geoff appears in his rightful time but realizes his decoder ring is missing. The final panel shows Chase with the decoder ring, a copy of the Abstract, and Old Lace.
The team members deal with the loss of Gert. Nico and Victor deal with their grief by doing something that Nico later regrets (whether they had sex is an ongoing debate.), Molly asks the Leapfrog if Gert is in heaven, and Xavin and Karolina -- stranded on Earth -- discuss the significance of a single death. A former policeman responsible for investigating the Pride attempts to sell a talisman he from one of their lairs to an antiques dealer. The dealer makes a remark that he wishes L.A. was like it used to be, which creates an enormous monster that attacks Los Angeles, particularly Starbucks stores. After Victor picks up 911 calls on his police scanner, the runaways confront the monster. Meanwhile, Chase and Old Lace confront Lotus, and Chase tells her that he is hiring her.
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Now.
Seein Chase depressed Nico tries to revive Gert/Arsenic via the psychic link between Gert and Old Lace. To every ones amaznent she succeeds, once again bringing Gert into the fold.
New threats seem to forming six different groups just like 'The Pride'- worshipers of the Gibborim- however naming themselves after the other seven deadly sins: Greed, Glutteny, Sloth, Lust, Envy, Anger. Will the 'Runaways' be gaining new allies or even more enemies.......
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Nico Minoru, Gertrude Yorkes, Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, and Alex Wilder meet at their families' annual gathering, where they see their parents performing the ritual sacrifice of a girl, and the teenagers run away. Before they go, each learns of their mysterious heritage, taking weapons or discovering powers they didn't know they had.
The Pride frame their children for murder in order to get them back. The runaways retreat to an underground hideout they call "the Hostel", a mansion buried during an earthquake. Cloak and Dagger, informed that the teenagers had kidnapped Molly, confront the runaways. The two superheroes promise to contact the Avengers to help the runaways; a mole among the teenagers, however, informs the Pride, and they erase Cloak and Dagger's memories of the meeting.
The teenagers learn that an ancient race called the Gibborim formed the Pride to help them destroy humanity, and they disrupt the ceremony that will give the Gibborim the power they need. Alex engineers his friends' defeat and reveals himself to be the mole. After Molly frees the sacrificed girl's soul, the Gibborim destroy Alex for his failure and the Pride, and as the Pride's undersea lair collapses, the runaways escape in a vehicle called "The Leapfrog". With their parents dead, Social Services separates the runaways. Three months after the destruction of the Pride, the team reunites and retrieves Gert's dinosaur Old Lace. They stay together and fight the villains that move to Los Angeles in the wake of the Pride's death.
A future version of Gert appears and warns the group that a man named Victor Mancha will one day kill all of Earth's heroes. Before she dies, she tells them to kill Victor before he becomes too powerful. They attack and subdue Victor, a confused teenager whose superpowers activate for the first time in the struggle. Victor's father Ultron kills Victor's mother and forces Victor to attack his new friends. Ultron reveals that he created Victor to join the Avengers and destroy the team from within. With the help of the teenage superhero support group Excelsior, the runaways defeat Ultron, and Victor joins them.
After Nico rejects Karolina's advances when Karolina attempts to kiss her, a Skrull named Xavin appears and tells Karolina that he is Karolina's fiancé, due to a pact between their parents. He asks Karolina to marry him in order to stop the war between their races. Karolina resists, revealing to Xavin and her friends that she is a lesbian; Xavin tells her he's a shape-shifter, and he changes into female form. Convinced, Karolina returns to her home planet with Xavin with the hope of ending the conflict.
The group travels to New York City with Cloak, whose memories are restored. Someone has used Mutant Growth Hormone to attack Dagger and to frame Cloak. When Nico and Chase find the dealer, Chase, dropping the Pride's name and claiming to have killed someone, talks his way out of danger and into the information they need. Nico kisses Chase in thanks for saving her, but Chase rejects her, saying his relationship with Gert is the only thing keeping him "good". Gertrude and Victor run into Spider-Man and discuss the situation with him over sushi, but Nico knocks him out because Spider-Man is an adult and an Avenger. When the Avengers look for Cloak, Wolverine scares Molly, and she punches him through a building. After Chase defeats Dagger's attacker with Nico's staff, they return home.
The runaways encounter the X-Men, who want to take Molly to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning to train. The two teams fight until Emma Frost decides they shouldn't force someone to come with them against their will. Later, in a superhero fight, Molly is knocked unconscious, and she wakes to find that she has been "recruited" by a crime ring that uses children to commit thefts. Molly organizes her fellow captives, defeats the Provost, and returns home.
After Alex's death, his online friends met up and discussed his disappearance. One of them hacked Alex's account and learned that Alex's parents were part of the Pride, whom the group believed to be heroes. The group attempted a spell to bring Alex back, but a younger version of Alex's father Geoff appeared instead. In a fight with Geoff Wilder and the new Pride, the Pride takes control of Victor, Gert finds out that Nico kissed Chase, and Geoff escapes with Molly. The runaways fight the new Pride again, and Wilder reveals that it is actually Nico that he wants. Moments after Geoff appears to shoot Nico, Xavin reveals that he has been impersonating her. Chase enters the burning house to look for Gert, and Geoff captures him, intent on sacrificing him. When Gert tries to save Chase, Geoff throws his knife at her, mortally wounding her.
Gert transfers her control of Old Lace to Chase before she dies. After an argument, Chase leaves the runaways, and his friends bury Gert behind the Hollywood letters. Nico erases Geoff's memory and preserves the timeline by sending him back in time. Geoff appears in his rightful time but realizes his decoder ring is missing. The final panel shows Chase with the decoder ring, a copy of the Abstract, and Old Lace.
The team members deal with the loss of Gert. Nico and Victor deal with their grief by doing something that Nico later regrets (whether they had sex is an ongoing debate.), Molly asks the Leapfrog if Gert is in heaven, and Xavin and Karolina -- stranded on Earth -- discuss the significance of a single death. A former policeman responsible for investigating the Pride attempts to sell a talisman he from one of their lairs to an antiques dealer. The dealer makes a remark that he wishes L.A. was like it used to be, which creates an enormous monster that attacks Los Angeles, particularly Starbucks stores. After Victor picks up 911 calls on his police scanner, the runaways confront the monster. Meanwhile, Chase and Old Lace confront Lotus, and Chase tells her that he is hiring her.
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Now.
Seein Chase depressed Nico tries to revive Gert/Arsenic via the psychic link between Gert and Old Lace. To every ones amaznent she succeeds, once again bringing Gert into the fold.
New threats seem to forming six different groups just like 'The Pride'- worshipers of the Gibborim- however naming themselves after the other seven deadly sins: Greed, Glutteny, Sloth, Lust, Envy, Anger. Will the 'Runaways' be gaining new allies or even more enemies.......
