"So… any chances of you telling us why you are here?" I asked with a frown as I turned towards a small and hairy animal that smelled like cheap beer and cigars. Poor thing must have been attacked by some campers, ignoring the fact that we were in the middle of a city, otherwise it would never get so close to something so foul smelling.
"Why am I the only one getting questioned here?" The mentioned animal said gruffly as he pulled a cigar from his pocket and bit into it.
"I'm not the only one who came with you two." He then gestured to his side with his head, where Ororo the beautiful goddess of weather was walking with us.
"Because you smell." Laura said with no mercy, glaring at her biological father with a small amount of heat. Guess it must suck for her far more with the heightened sense of smell.
"Lay off my back, I would have showered if you brats didn't just ran out of the mansion; saying that you were going to be destroying some evil corporation." Logan grumbled, looking immensely irritated.
"While I too am not exactly… pleased with Logan's current state of hygiene." The mistress of weather began, ignoring the betrayed look the small Canadian was sending her way. "I must agree with him that the way you two just ran out did not leave either of us with much choice."
"You could have not followed us." I said with a shrug, uncaring of the unimpressed looks they were sending my way.
"As a matter of fact, we couldn't have not do that." Ororo said with a huff.
"She got that right, pretty sure that neither of you brats even have a proper plan. It wouldn't sit well with me if I let two kids die because they didn't think things through."
"I'll have you know that we have thought things through." I said with a roll of my eyes before smirking at them.
"Admittedly Laura's thoughts did not go much further than just stabbing them in very painful places." The hit from Laura definitely was worth saying that.
"I on the other hand thought more important things like; crushing them, smashing them, burning them and turning their brains into vegetables." I revealed some parts of my master plan.
"Also, I am skimping through the surface thoughts of all the people around us." I said nonchalantly. We were in New York, I could declare that I was going to explode in three seconds and people around us would just tell me to move so that they could get to work.
"Weren't you rather mad at Chuck for doing something similar to you?" Logan asked with a raised eyebrow and I deadpanned at him.
"I am going through the surface thoughts, your friend tried to sneak into the very core of my mind. Not to mention I am not trying to convince the people around us that I am a very trustworthy man and that they definitely should study at my school." Was that hypocritical of me, probably. Did I care, nope.
"Not to mention I am trying to collect information on an organization that clones people in order to brainwash them into tools for assassinations, while your 'Chuck' has yet to disclose why he thought trying to invade my thoughts was something he should be doing." I was still a tiny little bit salty on that whole thing.
"And did you find any information about the Facility yet, bub?"
"As of this moment, not at all. But I did find quite a bit of disturbing information on other subjects, mostly on people cheating on their spouses." Why did people even marry if they didn't love their partners?!
"So, your search is useless."
"It's better than nothing." I defended myself. If I did things their way then we would never heard of anything about the Facility until they came to the mansion for Laura, kill some unnamed student and send my adorable murder munchkin into some sort 'I am the reason people get hurt' BS thought line before we ended up defeating them in an epic showdown that would mean the end of the Facility except they would resurface with some new leader in about a year.
"Damian, I understand that you want to help Laura. I really do but you can't just walk around and hope to find an answer." Ororo said with an understanding tone, which was kinda getting me going, before putting her hand on my shoulder.
"Let's just go back to the mansion and properly think a plan. Then we can go after the Facility." She said with Logan nodding from behind her.
It kinda stung to admit but she did kinda have a point. I had been a bit too eager to go guns blazing, especially since it was about something that Laura really wanted to do, and decided to start with a less than complete plan. But I guessed that it was about time I accepted my loss and just go back to...
"Or we can just go into this dark alley!" I said with a smile as I put my arm around Laura's shoulder, making her stiffen as she looked at me with wide eyes, and dragged her towards the dark alley I had just mentioned; making Logan and Ororo follow after us.
"Brat, just what do you think you are..." Logan tried to ask as he entered the alley but was interrupted by my arm stretching at a speed that he likely could not properly perceive and go towards the roof of one of the buildings.
"Jackpot!" Before coming back with my prize in my hand, enlarged to the point it could hold a bull in it. But instead of a bull, I had a man in dark military like clothes holding a high tech rifle like weapon in his hands. So I dropped him and his weapon to the ground and had my fingers sharpen and extend very near him, stabbing themselves into the ground and making it clear what would happen if he tried anything.
And with a feeling of victory, I turned my head towards Logan and Ororo; and pointed at them.
"Never doubt me."
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