get into battle. Upon battling Cloak and Dagger and informing them of the real truth, the two superheroes promise to contact the Avengers to help the runaways take down the Pride; a mole in the Runaways, however, tips off the Pride. Catching up with the vigilantes, the Pride telepathically removes all memory of the meeting from Cloak and Daggers' heads, so they do not remember the Runaways. This story arc was noted to feature Cloak and Dagger's first comic book appearance in years. The Good Die Young Originally published in: Runaways #13-17 (March 2004 - July 2004) Creators: writer Brian K. Vaughan, artist Adrian Alphona Guest appearances: Captain America The origin of the Pride is revealed, along with another revelation: the Hayes and the Deans plan on murdering the rest of the Pride in order to inherit a valuable gift by the Pride's benefactors, an ancient race of mythical giants called the Gibborim. The Runaways engage the Pride in battle and succeed in disrupting a spiritual ceremony, but in the end, Alex dies after outing himself as a traitor. When the Gibborim go on a rampage, the Runaways manage to leave alive, though the Pride themselves end up in the final explosion. Just when the Runaways escape, Captain America arrives to apprehend them. Eighteen Originally published in: Runaways #18 (August 2004) Creators: writer Brian K. Vaughan, artist Adrian Alphona Guest appearances: Captain America, brief one-shot of the Vision With their parents dead, Social Services separates the Runaways. Three exhaustive months after the destruction of the Pride, Karolina organizes a reunion, and the team heads off to an Avengers storage complex to retrieve Old Lace. The teenagers decide, rather than return to their new lives, to stay together and uphold a strong distrust towards adults. Although it was announced that Runaways would end with this issue, it was hinted that the series would come back again. True Believers Originally published in: Runaways #1-6 (February 2005 - July 2005) Creators: writer Brian K. Vaughan, artist Adrian Alphona Guest appearances: Wrecking Crew, Excelsior (Turbo, Darkhawk, Chamber, Lightspeed, Ricochet, Phil Urich, Rick Jones), Ultron, Armor, Doctor Doom After a five-month hiatus, the Runaways fight the villains of Los Angeles attempting to fill the Pride's void. A future version of Gert travels back in time to warn the group that a boy named Victor Mancha will grow up to become "Victorious", the greatest villain of