Runaways (Marvel Feature Animations)

The Runaways is the fourth movie in the Marvel Feature Animations line, after Captain America And The Invaders.

Plot
The movie starts with The Invaders in a press release, explaining how they were sent forward in time and didn't really die. It pans out to show a group of children watching it - Alex Wilder, Nico Minoru, Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, and Gertrude Yorkes. Geoffrey Wilder, father of Alex, tells them that their parents will be back in an hour and not to fight. Almost immediately after he leaves, Chase huffs, standing up and announcing that they should do something less boring. Alex shushes him, but Chase begins to search the room anyway, opening the closet and finding a trapdoor leading to a tunnel. When he calls them over, they all follow and climb up to a vantage point with him. There, they see their parents performing a sacrificial ritual with a young girl named Destiny. Before they can carry it out, Molly slams her fist against the glass. This shatters it completely.

The group of children flee outside, the parents giving chase. On the way, Chase questions how Molly smashed a window open, to which she responds that she's a mutant with superstrength powers and her parents make her hide it. They reach a shed where they try and hide, Karolina beginning to question Molly on these powers - including how they never previously found out she had them, to which she replies that they were normally supressed unless she got particularly emotional. Meanwhile, Chase and Gert look around the shed, the latter screaming when a dinosaur dashed out at her. However, it was docile to her, nuzzling her hand as if it were a pet. The scream alerts their parents to their location, and they corner them inside the shed.

Geoffrey shouted that they were never meant to see that, and that it was for their own good. Molly, Gertrude, and the dinosaur step forward to protect their friends, but when Molly's parents step forward, she can't bring herself to hit them. Nico's mother, meanwhile, shouts "cuffs" at the dinosaur to chain it's feet and jaw together. Nico dashes forward with a pair of gloves she found, but her mother attempts to stab her with her staff. However, it is simply absorbed by Nico's body, confusing both parties. Gertrude's father slashes at both Nico and Karolina, cutting Nico's upper arm and slashing Karolina's bangle in a narrow miss. At that moment, the staff re-emerges from Nico's chest and Karolina begins to glow with colour. While they battle their parents, Nico discovering she can create spells with her new staff, they still fail and Chase manages to rescue them by finding a button that summons a giant robot. It knocks down the side of the shed and he prompts the team in, Nico summoning an iron gate to protect them long enough from their parents to escape.

They begin to explore what happened after taking off, one by one. Karolina explains that she believed she had a penicillin allergy, Gertrude discovers that she has a mental link with the dinosaur (now named Old Lace), Nico has no idea how she got the staff, and Alex and Chase express disappointment in their lack of powers. Alex presents a book labelled the 'Abstract', and informs Karolina that she is a 'Majesdian' - not human at all, but an alien. It also states that Nico's staff is named the Staff Of One, and it was created by a godly alien race called the Gibborim. He also tells them of their parent's reasons for sacrifice - they are a cult named the Pride, who are expecting to rule over Earth once the Pride have wiped it of all unworthy life. It turns out that they had decided to give the power to their children instead. They also rule over the city of Los Angeles as long as they make one sacrifice each year.