MUTANT POWER

   “Um, no. No you won’t. Because next time you need someone to do the job that well, you’ll be hard-fucking pressed who’ll do it like me. That’s one. Two, I’ve got an MGH supplier who might be tryin’ to bite off more than they can chew. I’m sure you know whose city this is. So here’s the thing. The more involved I get, the less involved you have to get. So give me a name of someone I can contact, and I’ll just magically forget I have your number.”

   Not that it’d stop him. It wasn’t even that hard to dig up, and he’s not the expert hacker in the family here. He’s just Generally Good at best.

   “Do you want Cerulean Corps Round 2 on your hands in a place where you need to contest with Superman? Am I hearing that right?”

So the MGH import business is out of the bag. Someone was going to notice one of these days. If Jason's the first to discover the connection, then that's probably the best outcome he could have hoped for. It will at least give them time to prepare for a crackdown.

But what's this about biting off more than they can chew? Distribution was carefully controlled. Keep supplies low, prices high, and public dust-ups to a minimum. If the operation in Metropolis is circulating more supply in the city than they should, then that's a problem in exactly the place he doesn't want one. To put it simply, if you're fighting Superman, you're never going to come out looking like the good guy.

Add that to the long list of iniquities.

   “Oh, don’t worry, baby, you didn’t.”

   He can say whatever he wants because Magneto can’t fly around the Earth at super speed. As far as he knows. “You got any sources in Metropolis I can go bother? I know you’re allergic to the West Coast. Also, by the way, this wouldn’t count as a favor because the one you owe me is the size of a small country.”

He watches Emma walk away, leaving him to deal with this all on his own. That has to count as some kind of betrayal.

Emma hands him a cell phone. “It’s that Todd kid.”

He looks up from a report sent from the London branch of the Brotherhood. They think they’ve found a mutant with omega-level abilities and want to arrange for Erik and Charles to visit. That will inevitably lead to questions around what they do with the mutant if they are an omega. Charles will certainly have his opinions. 

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