The+Runaways

__** The Runaways **__

__**History **__

The Runaways were originally a group of six kids whose parents routinely met every year for a charity event. One year, the kids spy on their parents and learn they are "the Pride", a criminal group of mob bosses, time-travelers, dark wizards, mad scientists, alien invaders and telepathic mutants. They learn this when Alex, Chase, Gert, Karolina, Molly and Nico witness their parents sacrifice a girl in an occult ceremony. The group then runs away together. The children then learn of their heritage and abilities, and steal resources from their parents, including futuristic gauntlets for Chase, a dinosaur for Gert, and a mystical staff for Nico. Karolina learns she’s an alien and Molly’s mutant gene activates. Using these resources, they manage to remove their parents from their criminal hold of Los Angeles, but they lose Alex in the final battle, due to Alex's true loyalty to his parents. With the Pride defeated, the Runaways now vow to prevent other villains from filling in the void left by their parents. They eventually meet cyborg Victor Mancha and shape-shifting alien Xavin, and invite them to join the team. Right before the Runaways defeat a new incarnation of the Pride and Alex's resurrected father, Gertrude is fatally wounded.

During the Civil War, the Young Avengers travel to Los Angeles to help the Runaways fight off the government. The two teams encounter Noh-Varr, who works for S.H.I.E.L.D. and attempts to capture the teenagers. Later, when the Runaways are accidentally time-displaced in 1907, they encounter the deceased Runaway Gertrude Yorke's parents. After defeating the Yorkes and a deadly gang war, plant-manipulator Klara Prast joins the Runaways when they return back to the present. Upon returning from 1907, the Runaways find themselves in New York, where the Skrull Armada has invaded. Xavin pretends to be loyal to the Skrulls to protect her friends so the Runaways can retreat from the battle.


 * Welcome to Paradise / Hotel California **

After their New York adventures, the team returns to LA in the Leapfrog, and locate an old base of the Pride, that had yet to be confiscated or discovered by the authorities. A house by the beach, that they find to be infested with the robot guards the Pride left behind. After cleaning up the mess, they set up, and explore. Chase, being the oldest, gets a job at a radio station, while four Majesdanian survivors track down Karolina Dean through her powers. After attacking their home, the three soldiers are scattered across the globe, leaving one civilian, who wasn't considered a threat by the Staff of One. After interrogating him, they discover that the Majesdanian home-world had been destroyed by the Skrull, and that Karolina was to blame. After a second conflict with the Majesdanians, Karolina offered to go with them, but not before Xavin knocked her out, and took her place instead, disguised as Karolina.

Later, Chase's boss, Val is seen with a man named Mother, creating a spell imbued in a music track, to change the people of Los Angeles who have had plastic surgery into zombies. The Runaways intervene. When Nico goes to interrogate Mother, he claims to have worked with her parents, but quickly snatches the Staff of One from her. The staff then comes to lie as a dragon and eats him. Nico tells Karolina never to touch the Staff of One, saying that things have changed. Molly decides to play the musical track backwards, which undoes the transformation for everyone listening.

Some time afterwards, the Runaways team responds to a telepathic call to Molly from Charles Xavier, to join his school. After taking a tour of the school, Molly and Wolverine are kidnapped by a group who had previously come into conflict with the Pride years ago, looking for revenge on Molly. Before they could do anything, Wolverine cuts himself loose, and almost kills everyone, but Molly stops him. Molly refuses to attend the school and instead returns to the Runaways. Xavin returns to the Runways after this.

When the New X-Men are brought to the future to face Victorious, they learn that Molly is a member of the X-Men in the future.


 * My Generation / Children’s Crusade **

Cassandra Nova, in Jubilee’s body, is on the run from the Asgardian God of Vengeance, Vidarr. After Vidarr injures her, the eXalts pick up Nova’s trail. Nova becomes allies with the Runaways, bonding with them over being a former Los Angeles runaway.The eXalts find Nova and the Runaways and there is a great battle. Nova jumps into another body, leaving Jubilee unconscious. Nova is later sent to Limbo. The Runaways escape.


 * Valley of Lost Souls / Empire of the Damned **

During a mock prom that the older Runaways were having, the house was attacked by an aircraft that had locked into a signal that Victor had pirated. There is an explosion that seemingly killed Old Lace while she tried to save Klara. Hunter Stein, the owner of the house where the Runaways had been squatting, had come to investigate and found military personnel at the scene to recover the aircraft. Klara went out of control due to the grief of losing Old Lace and engulfed the house in plants. She killed a soilder that attempted to enter, but allowed Hunter to pass. Hunter offered them a back-door out of there to avoid the soilders outside. They obtained a new Leapfrog, but before leaving, Chase locked Hunter in an inter-dimensional box. They found their home burned down. Hunter was eventually freed. He managed to contact the Runaways for another deal. They eventually agreed to meet with him, while Chase wandered the city. Hunter offered a deal to give the Runaways a home. The group rejected the offer. Meanwhile, Chase bumped into someone who he believed to be Gert. When he pursued, Chase was hit by a van and lay dying in the road…


 * Bloodlines / Live Forever **

When Daken discovered that a member of the Pride was apparently the source of the Heat drug, he went searching for, and found, the Runaways. Chase had recovered from his accident but never found the girl who looked like Gert. Daken learns that a man named Marcus Roston, who Chase knows as "Uncle Eli," and who was a former member of the Pride (but was kicked out), is involved with the drug. The Runaways assist in taking Marcus down. Daken lets them do whatever they want to him.

__**Characters **__


 * The original six (plus Old Lace) are: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Nico Minoru//, the daughter of dark wizards, is a witch capable of manipulating magic. She uses the Staff of One that can cast any spell – once. She is now the group's leader. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Karolina Dean//, the daughter of alien invaders, is a solar-powered alien. She is a lesbian and is in a relationship with Xavin. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Molly Hayes//, the daughter of telepathic mutants, is a mutant whose powers include super-strength and invulnerability. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Chase Stein//, the son of mad scientists, steals his father's flame generating/manipulating gauntlets called "the Fistigons". He is the oldest member of the group. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Alex Wilder//, the son of mafia bosses, was a child prodigy at strategic thinking and planning. He originally lead the group. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Gertrude Yorkes//, the daughter of time-traveling criminals, used to have an empathic and telepathic link with Old Lace. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Old Lace//, a genetically engineered dinosaur from the 87th century, had a telepathic and empathic bond with Gert which has since been transferred to Chase.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later members include: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Victor Mancha//, the creation of the Avengers' foe Ultron and an immigrant named Marianella Mancha, is a cyborg who can manipulate electricity and metal. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Xavin//, the child of Skrull warlords, can shape-shift and also manifest the powers of the Fantastic Four. He is a Super Skrull in training and can therefore manipulate only one element at a time. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Klara Prast//, a Swiss immigrant to America from 1907 and child bride of an abusive older man, can control the growth of plants.