floating around like an oversized tinkerbell

So, they'd made it back to the lair, late at night. The way they were bringing Victor along was somewhere between a hostage situation and... Well, something less unpleasant. It was mostly Karolina that was trying to make it into the latter. She kept reminding Victor that they really were trying to look out for him as well as themselves. He just didn't seem all that convinced. Maybe because they didn't let him call anyone. And Nico cast a spell on him as soon as they were at the Hostel, to dampen his powers.

But those were just precautions!

( You just don't get days that don't feel long as hell in the 616, do you? )

And that had been the middle of the night. It was the afternoon now. Down in the Hostel. Karolina had slept for a good ten hours, exhausted, but she was awake now. Finally. And another thing that finally happened? Her cell phone actually worked for multiversal calls. That was good, because she really needed to talk to both Jim and Liara. For a few reasons, not limited to telling them she needed to stay here a while.

[ooc: NFB, but open for calls/texts. Taken with tweaks from vol.2, issues four to six, bringing the True Believers arc to a close! Warning for NPC death. Yes, again.]

It had been what passed for normal in LA for the past few days. Minor skirmishes, for the most part. Although they had finally caught up with the Wrecking Crew this evening. Tried talking some sense into the kid with them. Hadn't succeeded.

Well, maybe you couldn't save them all. Even though Karolina felt a little bit bad about it, they'd left him unconcious with the rest of the Crew and hightailed it out of there before the police showed up. Back to their lair underneath the La Brea museum. Once they got there and were disembarking the Leapfrog, the conversation had turned to LA's current situation, not for the first time this week. And specifically, the power vacuum that had been created with their parents' deaths. Nico argued for how there had at least been order to things when the Pride had been around, even though they'd been horrible people. Chase, ever the mature one, retorted, right as they were walking past Gert's parents' old time machine, "Hey, if you want your mommy and daddy back so bad, why don't you hop in the Yorkes' old time machine and rescue 'em from the past?"

( Time travel and sadness, oh my. )

[ooc: NFB, NFI, OOC-okay. Warning for NPC death. Taken with tweakage from Runaways vol. 2, issue 1.]

It took over an hour to get from the observatory to where they were going, but what was a rescue mission without having to travel a bit? (Okay, Molly complained half the way over, but that was to be expected.) And once they got to the general area Chase had led them to (mostly warehouses, it seemed), it was mostly just a question of wandering around until Gert's dino sense led them somewhere.

So naturally they were all following her. Eventually, her frown lightened some. "Guys, I think I'm getting something," she said, and started towards one building in particular.

( Star Trek meets Stark Tech. I can't believe it took me until now to come up with that lame joke. )

[ooc: NFB, NFI, OOC-okay. Again taken from Runaways volume one, issue eighteen, and preplayed with the wonderful seeks_the_stars!]