War Against PRIDE

The War Against PRIDE was an attempt by the Runaways to stop their parents from killing children, after they witnessed the sacrifice of Destiny Gonzalez in the basement of the Wilder Mansion.

Recruiting Members
While serving a prison sentence, Geoffrey Wilder and his lawyer, Catherine Hendersen, were approached by Jonah, who offered him a deal in real estate that could only be fulfilled from the outside. Wilder offered his friend, Darius Davis, to share in the reward from this deal in exchange for confessing to Wilder's crimes so that Wilder can be released. Davis accepted, and Jonah later. Jonah later gave the Wilder and Hendersen, who had since married each other, a home in Brentwood.

Jonah spent some time gathering other couples throughout Los Angeles and giving them gifts of wealth. This included Victor Stein, Janet Stein, Leslie Dean, Frank Dean, Tina Minoru, Robert Minoru, Gene Hernandez, Alice Hernandez, Dale Yorkes, and Stacey Yorkes. Together, they founded a charity organization called PRIDE, which eventually proved to be a front for the real purpose of collecting these people: Jonah expected yearly sacrifices in order to remain alive in his human body, as he was actually a member of the alien Gibborim race. The first victim was Brooks Watten, who was in Leslie's church, thus starting the Ultra Project. PRIDE was horrified, yet Leslie informed them that if they didn't continue to sacrifice teenagers for Jonah, the alien would kill their children.

At one point, Frank discovered that Leslie was having an affair with Jonah, so PRIDE decided to use the Synnergy Serum to erase his memory and kick him out of PRIDE.

As PRIDE held their yearly meetings downstairs, their children, Alex Wilder, Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, Nico Minoru, Amy Minoru, Molly Hernandez, and Gert Yorkes, would play together in the main parts of the house, unaware of their parents' criminal activities. This became a tradition that the children treasured, becoming close friends.

Assassination of Gene and Alice Hernandez
While doing research for PRIDE, the Hernandezes studies rocks from Gibborim as well as the construction site that Jonah had PRIDE digging in, discovering that continued digging would result in earthquakes powerful enough to destroy Los Angeles. They filmed their observations on a VHS tape and hit it in a locker at a train station. They left a note for they daughter, Molly, saying "Find Elian," a reference to the time Molly had left her stuffed elephant, named Elian, on the train and her father took her to the next stop to get it. They left the note and key to the locker with Molly's cousin, Graciela Aguirre, to give to Molly in the event of their death. Leslie and found out about their discovery and thought that the Hernandezes could be a problem.

As the Hernandezes continued to study, they once took Molly to the lab with them and tried to ask the Yorkeses to talk to them in person, but soon after, Leslie set off a bomb in the lab, killing the Hernandezes. Molly's exposure to the Gibborim Rock as she played with it protected her.

Assassination of Amy Minoru
As the kids got older, PRIDE continue to make their yearly sacrifice. One day, while Alex and Amy were together in Timely Coffee playing games on their computer, when Amy complained of lagging. Alex offered to help, and discovered that her mother was tracking what she did on her computer. Amy turned this off and decided to get revenge. She hacked her mother's company, Wizard, accidentally setting off an alarm. This forced Amy to confess to Kincaid, a Wizard employee. Jonah worried that Amy had discovered the videos of all of PRIDE's sacrifices, which had been backed up to a Wizard server. Jonah went to the Minoru Mansion in order to kill Amy, and Leslie tried to warn her by sending an anonymous text. Jonah walked in on her while she was packing and killed her, making it appear to be a suicide. Her corpse was discovered the next day by Nico, who attempted to call 911, although Tina had stopped her. Instead, she called a dirty cop who worked for PRIDE, much to Nico's confusion and dismay.

When Alex didn't attend Amy's funeral, the rest of the kids started to fight about many things, eventually ending their friendship.

Discovery
Two years later, Alex attempted to get everyone back together on the night of a PRIDE meeting, but they all refused. However, the plans they did have proved to be bad experiences, so they went to Alex's house anyway after he texted them a picture of the group from before Amy's death. While PRIDE prepared to sacrifice Destiny Gonzalez, the group decided to talk everything out rather than continue to fight, and Chase Stein decided that he would not have that conversation over, so he went to Geoffrey's study in order to look for alcohol. While looking, Alex insisted that Chase use a cupholder, but when he tried to give him one, he accidentally triggered a secret door that leads to the basement where PRIDE performs the Rite of Blood. The kids went into the basement and witnessed Destiny's sacrifice. Molly tried to take a picture of it, but the flash from her cameraphone alerted PRIDE to their presence, so they fled upstairs. Alex turned off the electricity so that their parents would think the flash was due to a power surge, and the kids pretended to be in the middle of a game of Twister so that the Wilders wouldn't suspect anything.

Investigation
The parents agreed that Destiny Gonzalez was the hardest sacrifice yet, since all of their kids are now the same age as their sacrifices. Meanwhile, the kids look to Molly Hernandez's picture for help, yet it's too blurry to clear anything up.

Assassination of Destiny Gonzalez
After all the other parents had left, Victor Stein stayed behind to check his invention, the Dematerialization Box used to perform the sacrifices, but discovered that it had failed and Gonzalez was still alive. He killed Gonzalez and disposed of her body so as not to be discovered. However, Jonah did not get rejuvenated by her death, since it wasn't in the Dematerialization Box.

Beginning the Investigation
The kids met at the beach the next day in order to form a plan, and were split about whether Destiny had really died the previous night, since Karolina Dean had received a text from Gonzalez talking about a trip to Europe. They decided to investigate their parents.

Chase Stein and Gert Yorkes investigated Victor Stein's laboratory, suspecting that the Dematerialization Box was there. They used a pair of x-ray glasses to find it, but Gonzalez was not inside. Meanwhile, Tina and Robert Minoru planned a date night and invited Nico Minoru, but she encouraged them to go alone, giving her the chance to investigate her mother's weapon, the Staff of One. She got it and started looking at a paper snowflake made by her sister, causing it to snow in the room.

Meanwhile, Geoffrey and Catherine Wilder thought that Molly may have witnessed the sacrifice, so Catherine confronted Molly, who told her that Molly was meant to stand guard while the older kids raided the Wilder's liquor closet. Catherine believed the lie and offered to tell Molly about her birth parents.

Karolina Dean tried to call Gonzalez, but did not get an answer. Nico called Alex Wilder for help making the snow stop, but it stopped as soon as Wilder touched the Staff of One. Stein and Yorkes went to investigate the latter's basement, where her parents conduct experiments often, and open the door to a deinonychus, who escapes the house. As WHiH World News reported on Gonzalez's death, PRIDE realized that they needed another sacrifice.