Animorphs + Runaways Headcanons
@questbedhead Sorry that first reply got off-topic, but you asked what would happen if the Animorphs met Marvel's Runaways. A few thoughts:
Tobias and Gert would get on like a house on fire. She'd admire his being so committed to being outside adult control that he turned himself into a bird. He'd admire her willingness to do All The Reading to back up her opinions with facts and philosophers. It's not even that they'd talk for hours, more that they'd agree with everything the other person said and not need to say much more.
Rachel and Jake, on the other hand, would not get on well with the others. The Runaways have been gifted these awesome powers — a magic staff, alien sun-rays, super-gauntlets — and they use them to... fix the leaky pipe in the ceiling. And upgrade their friend's robot body. And impress alien girls. And beat Wolverine at arm-wrestling. Like, sure, aliens are invading, because aliens are always invading. But that's not Karolina's or Nico's problem, and it's definitely not Chase's. Rachel would be pissed that they're letting all this power go to waste, and Jake would be Not Angry Just Disappointed that they're not even trying to right all the world's wrongs.
I could see Marco and Karolina having a lot in common. Hopefully in a scenario where they meet, they can rely on each other while learning how to be queer while also learning how to be mega-famous. Bonus if they go on lots of friend-dates to pump up each other's reputations (and each other's alleged straightness).
Molly and Rachel, in a shopping mall, with the Hayes' credit card: imagine the possibilities. Molly loves being taken care of, and Rachel loves shopping for her friends. Quite possibly they shut the mall down by staying there so long and trying on so many outfits that eventually security kicks them out. At which point they haul their 40-odd shopping bags to the field out back, set the clothes aside, and spend a few hours finding out if Molly can win a wrestling match against a grizzly bear.
Honestly, Ax would probably be right there with Jake and Rachel about disliking the group as a whole. Nico's indifference to Alex, who tried to kill several of them, would be appalling to him and cause him to question the whole team's mission. These two claim they're looking out for Gert and Molly, but they let a known traitor on the team! And a vampire! And a man-eating housecat! And a friggin' Doombot! And... whatever Xavin's inheritance situation is, they don't seem to know that themself. Ax tends to have trust issues, and tends to default to andalite ideas about one's ancestors being all-important. Not only would he not approve of Nico, but he'd say something to hurt her feelings within 10 minutes of meeting her. And then quite possibly attempt to steal the Staff of One to see if "Kill all yeerks" is still one of its valid commands.
Cassie would have really complicated feelings about Old Lace. On the one hand, implanting brain chips into an animal and forcing her to live waaaaaaay outside her ecological niche is the height of cruelty. On the other hand, Gert and Chase didn't do that; the Yorkeses did, and they're just trying to deal with the animal-cruelty situation they've got. Also, Cassie is practical enough to recognize that animals are dangerous, and that having a prehistoric critter that eats people alive if they upset Gert is, in fact, a bad fucking idea. People will get hurt. People have gotten hurt, and that includes Old Lace. Controversial, but: I'm pretty sure Cassie would advocate for euthanizing Old Lace, for the good of everyone involved. At which point Gert and Chase would quite possibly attempt to euthanize Cassie.
