[ 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."