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Entry tags:	comics, marvel, robots, runaways, tangents, the stark

Tuesday Tangents: Runaways
Wow. So its been over a month since I did one of these. Basically because I had no decent ideas. But rereading The Thief of Time I came to the conclusion this Marvel Tangent 'verse needed some time travel themed stuff.

Dr. Alison Blaire is/was/will be a 23rd Century theoretical physicist. Her wife Dr. Betsy Braddock is/was/will be cyberneticist and mechanical engineer. Together the two built the Tachyon Slipdrive, capable of propelling a small craft backwards and forwards in time. Unfortunately for them someone else would/was/is already using a variant time travel technology, robot religious fanatics called The Stark. These zealots attacked the pair in the name of their mysterious Lord K, forcing the two to flee in their experimental craft. The two managed to find that The Stark were active throughout the time stream, exploiting their temporal advantage to further their lord's plan...

Alison and Betsy decided it was up to them to work against the menace of The Stark. Naming their craft The Runaway the pair began their campaign against the deadly robots. While thwarting The Stark's plans they also managed to recruit others to their cause. The blind 14th century "warlock" psychometric reader James Rhodes. The early 20th century Mystery Man Harold "Wasp" Hogan. And the 22nd century military cyborg Bethany Cabe, one of the UNGDF (United Nations Global Defense Forces) Crimson Dynamo Commandos...