not like the others

“i think it would be quite irresponsible of me if i hadn’t, doctor o’hara,” jeanne-marie responds, the corners of her lips curling up as she takes one of the pens strewn across the table and coils her long black locks into a bun using it, her pointed ears coming into full view in consequence.

“i’ve never had any personal experiences with alchemax itself, but i have my fair share of reasons to despise norman osborn — and many others, who…” she’s a mutant, yes, but that’s not just what those groups focused on: from weapon x to children of the vault to HAMMER to various scientists of varying degrees of credibility and morality, they all had taken a strange interest in her mind, not just cementing the fracture further — but compressing certain fragments to highlight the fragments they considered useful for their purposes.

"More or less, yeah." Although devoid of lab coat for years now, lasting habits see Miguel compromise by tucking his hands into the side pockets of his sweatpants, overall posture kept at a decent lean as his rear rested against the lip of a desk behind him. "I'm not proud of the part I played in perpetuating that nonsense." One more cog in an endlessly groaning machine, that sidelined decency and respect in the pursuit of profit, and more importantly, results.

"But at the same time, I don't know where I would've ended up if I hadn't--" Kowtowed to the crippling pressure and expectation placed upon his unsteady shoulders as head of Alchemax's corporate raider venture, that made monsters out of men. "--gone ahead with what I was hired to do." It takes a minute or two for Miguel to finish, but he manages all the same, gazing all the while at her with eyes that had turned as hard as steel.

"This guy's slippery," Terry muttered into his comms. "Feel like they're usin' some kinda new tech but I ain't gettin' a read on it."

"Don't let him get too far, McGinnis. If you're right, that's something we need to find out now."

"I'm on it, I'm on it."

His boot thrusters sputtered out as he landed, wings retracting as he continued on foot into the dark alley. Terry hurried along the way he had seen the criminal disappear, keeping an eye on the various notifications sliding across his lenses. A.L.F.R.E.D commented he was "recalibrating" as Terry found his trail.

He can't recall the last time that he had to deal with competition, a third-party that, whether motivated by an altruistic calling, or by nefarious compulsions, sought to close in on the same target. In fact, such a problem happened so infrequently during his travels that it barely warranted pondering on as he closed in on the displaced anomaly. A being that, much like himself, had no business dwelling in this particular reality.

In a manoeuvre that spoke of practised ease, he leapt between buildings, narrowing the distance in a cityscape that wasn't far removed from his own home. The second that his feet touched solid, he motioned to launch into a sprint, only to be stricken, by some type of projectile. Head shrouded briefly in smoke following the impact, in a showing of restraint, an effort is made to stifle a muffled grunt of complaint that welled instantly in his throat, the smoke soon dissipating to reveal the full extent of his towering presence.

the king exhales through his nostrils, sending a plume of hot steam in the air. his head tilts, something like consideration on his reptilian face.

"I'll take tolerable." Caution advises that he embrace the assessment reached, devoid of the vanity or self-importance that once would've compelled Miguel to assert he was far more than an arachnid creature. In his movements, too, does he take due care, rearranging the placement of his hands on the cliff's side as he freely dangled from it, expressing no hint of fear about falling.

"Definitely have been called worse." Keeping up this line of conversation, if for a minute or two longer, he clambers up the rock face to find a new position, settling for a moment before deigning to speak again. "Don't get a lot of giant lizards stomping around here, though."

" I will destroy you. "

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