Au of mine where Zak was abducted by Argost and his crew during an attack on the Saturday's HQ in search of the kur stone only a few years after it was stolen back from Weird World. That was a mouth full, but I had to get it out.
My idea was that the Saturday's HQ, Miranda's lab, and Dr Chiveyo's observatory were all attacked the way they were in The Kur Stone pt 1, only Argost didn't take forever tracking the pieces down, all locations were destroyed and burned down, with everyone surviving. But Doc and Drew place Zak in a safe room so they can defend their home, with Zak being instructed not to leave. Well, after the fight he does and finds the HQ burned down. He is then found and taken by Van Rook, as there actually might have been a part of him that still held feelings for Drew, and not wanting to kill her son.
Argost, on the other hand, convinces him his family is dead and raises him, quite harshly, to be one of his goons.
Doc and Drew find the safe room empty during their attempt to salvage their home and believe that Zak must have perished in the attack. It did burn down after all.
So, many years later....
They discover that not only did their son survive, but he was taken and raised by the very monster who killed all of the secret scientists many years earlier. And that he considered Argost his father.
I know, I know, I need to stop watching Arcane. But even though his design is Arcane inspired, he's not psycho. He knows who his parents are and when he finds out Argost lied to him, he turns on him. I also like that the secret scientists have their own individual majors, and I like to see Zak being interested not only in biology, but chemistry as well, not just what his parents are into.
Also, I want him and Ulraj to still be best friends in this AU, too, and they have matching shark bazookas. Ulraj's is blue. So Zak's would be a tiger shark and Ulraj's would be a great white shark.
