[ AI ] Why did it have to be Jersey?

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Kamala had barely gotten used to the whole 'superhero' thing before the so-called Crisis had happened and left her to try and police up Jersey City without any of the helpful, occasional visits from the big names across the river. IT had been weird. And hard. But it had mostly been the Inventor and his stupid robots and some street stuff. Muggers and people snatching handbags from innocent old ladies. Then, of course, things had to go and get really weird.

Jersey City had been picked as (naturally) the best spot for a new place they called STAR Labs. Kamala wasn't sure what exactly they did in there. What did did know is that it was a real pain in her butt. When before there had been few, if any super-villains making life annoying in Jersey now it seemed like they were popping up every week to try and break into the place and it seemed like things were left to her when it came to dealing with them. Things were already hard enough being a junior in high school and trying to avoid letting her parents in on the whole 'secret identity' thing, so having even more super-villain nonsense to deal with really wasn't what she needed right now.

And yet here she was, swinging giant fists at some annoying jerk calling himself Hydro-Man who was pretty much turning into a puddle every time Kamala took a swing.

"Could you maybe just, I dunno, stop doing that so I can clobber you?" She interjected between swings of giant fists. "I kind of have a history test to be studying for right now, so if we could just wrap this up soon-ish, that'd be great."

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"Stabby mutant guy, yeah. That's... probably the funniest way I've heard someone refer to Wolverine, actually." She laughed, bright and cheery. Stabby mutant guy. She was going to have to remember that one for the future. As for arbitrary methods of distinction, well that was just how things were where she was from and Jaime was gonna have to get used to it! She kicked her feet again, grinned.

"I'd have to meet this guy to tell you for sure. Plus, I don't really know Wolverine super well. All we did was team up to fight some giant alligators in the sewer system." Yeah, just fighting genetical enhanced, mind-controlled alligators. No big deal, right?

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Mind controlled genetically enhanced alligators were pretty much all in a day's work for a superhero. "What is with supervillains and mind-controlled animals? One time I fought attack penguins that exploded on impact and they could fly -" He paused and held a hand to his ear. "Hang on." He turned to the side slightly as he listened to the call. "¿Bueno? What's up, Dr. Pym?" He listened. "What do you mean we have practice? Practice was supposed to be at six." A pause. "I thought the meeting was supposed to be at eight, why'd it get moved?" He glanced over at Kamala. "I'm kinda in the middle of -" He rolled his eyes skyward. "Batman's always late. He does it on purpose just so he can mysteriously appear in the middle of the meeting. He probably actually gets there early just to hide up in a dark corner like a jumping spider." A sigh. "Okay, okay, I'll be there in a few minutes." Bummer, he was kind of enjoying talking to new girl. "Sorry, I gotta go," he said, turning back to Kamala. He jerked his thumb in the direction of Old New York. "Superhero training stuff and a Council meeting. I'm the liaison Council member for the teen team." He dithered for a moment. "Sooo maybe I'll see you around? I mean. I'm a big fan of the occasional superhero team up." And he kind of wanted to maybe hang out sometime.