"That they don't get to screw with people even if they did make them sentient pretty much goes without saying," Nico agreed. Seriously, who'd argue the opposite? Besides the Kraang obviously, but they just as obviously didn't count.

She worried her lower lip between her teeth. That didn't sound like a lot of people to stop an alien invasion. Sure, the Avengers had, but it had taken way more of them with the one Nico had just left...

"Want help?" she asked, mostly as a joke. "We may have only made it through ours because we were lucky, but experience is experience sometimes."