"Oh boy," Nico pushed her hair back over her shoulder. "Okay, so, for context, Cloak and Dagger are a couple of NYC super heroes we ran into the first time we ran away. Our parents grabbed them before they left town to get us help, and mind-whammied them to forget what we'd told them.
"After we ran away the second time, someone who looked like Cloak and had the same powers beat the crud out of Dagger on camera and put her in a coma. The other super heroes kicked Cloak around enough to rattle his memories of us loose, so he teleported out to L.A. to get our help. Chase and I went looking for drug dealers that might be able to get someone something like Cloak's powers."
She pulled her hair back over her shoulder again, twisting it in her hands. Edit, edit, edit, gloss over some of the more horrible bits and the part where she couldn't keep her stupid lips to herself.
"We found a guy with a portal in his coat. Turns out the guy with the drugs did his dealing between dimensions and was a fanboy of our 'rents. Chase managed to convince him that they weren't actually dead, and that we were doing their work for them; so we got a name and enough information to trace the guy back to the same hospital Dagger ended up in." She grimaced and stuck her tongue out. "Super-creepy. Fun fact, that's the trip where I used 'hellfire'. Not on the creep, sadly, just to get Spider-Man to back off."
And then Pusher Man got murdered by the Kingpin, who took pictures of the whole thing. Seriously, she was getting emotionally invested in never going back to NYC again.
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"After we ran away the second time, someone who looked like Cloak and had the same powers beat the crud out of Dagger on camera and put her in a coma. The other super heroes kicked Cloak around enough to rattle his memories of us loose, so he teleported out to L.A. to get our help. Chase and I went looking for drug dealers that might be able to get someone something like Cloak's powers."
She pulled her hair back over her shoulder again, twisting it in her hands. Edit, edit, edit, gloss over some of the more horrible bits and the part where she couldn't keep her stupid lips to herself.
"We found a guy with a portal in his coat. Turns out the guy with the drugs did his dealing between dimensions and was a fanboy of our 'rents. Chase managed to convince him that they weren't actually dead, and that we were doing their work for them; so we got a name and enough information to trace the guy back to the same hospital Dagger ended up in." She grimaced and stuck her tongue out. "Super-creepy. Fun fact, that's the trip where I used 'hellfire'. Not on the creep, sadly, just to get Spider-Man to back off."
And then Pusher Man got murdered by the Kingpin, who took pictures of the whole thing. Seriously, she was getting emotionally invested in never going back to NYC again.