Xaviers!

"I'm curious, why solo and not the teams?"

"I'm on the teams. Technically. But I dunno, this all really kicked off when Onyx taught me how to do all of this stuff and I just kinda... kept doing it?"

"So that makes two of us who wouldn't be doing this if not for her. She never got over the trying to kill her thing though."

"I think she never quite got over a lot of things..." she sighs.

"I'm still grateful. It might not have been her intent, but her capturing me was the best thing to ever happen to me."

"Yeah, I'm glad she was here, I just wish I could've helped her more."

"Why did she leave anyway?"

She shrugs. "She just disappeared one day. Maybe she went back to Madripoor to her mom."

"It's too bad she left, but there's a need for heroes there. And few willing to try."

"Yeah, she's probably needed there more than here..."

"I don't think I'm brave enough to go back there. Maybe some day. But never to stay."

"I didn't see much of it when I was there, but if half the stuff on the internet is true then it's not a great place to be, no."

"Between the crime, the corruption, and the stuff that's crime practically everywhere remotely civilized but isn't there... yeah it's pretty broken."

"No point dropping criminals off at the police station over there, huh. How do you even begin fixing that..."

"I'm not sure you can. Not alone and probably not without violence."

"Yeah... The world's kinda messy, isn't it?"

"More than a little. And even messier in places like Madripoor. But it's the only world we have, so thecleaning has to start somewhere."

"Right. Yeah. One step at a time!"

"That's what I like to think the teams are for."

"The teams and clandestine vigilantism." she nods.

"One doesn't rule out the other," he said cryptically, not knowing if she knew about him saving the American president.

"Oh! You look smug. You did some secret heroing!"

"Well, one night Basil took me to this fancy Tiki bar. This girl starts flirting with me, but something about her was making me paranoid. Just when she almost had me convinced I was wrong, it turns out she's a Lotus assassin and she isn't alone. We start kung-fu fighting right there in the club. We won, but her partner got away. Because it wasn't me they were after.

I follow him outside, where I spot him getting into an armored limo. Bodyguards won't let me close, because the assassins had infiltrated them and told them we were a threat. Back inside I figure out their target was President Oswald. So, I decide to break into the embassy to stop the remaining assassin. I managed to stop him just in time, and dissappear."

"No way! You're messing with me, right?"

"Not in the least. The US government might never admit anything happened, but the first part had plenty of witnesses. On top of that, the X-Men mission to look into Lotus activity in Europe led us to our first encounter with the Skrull. Though we didn't know what we were dealing with at the time."

"Mannnn... And I thought saving Lyon was something to brag about. Aliens and the President? And you never even told a soul!? God, that's so... so... cool." she begrudgingly admits.

"I told the other X-Men. But no, no one else. I didn't think it was worth the risk, since I'm pretty sure I broke a ton of laws in the process."

"Yeah, I'll bet!" she laughs.

"Of course, if I had obeyed the law the former President would be a former person. So no guilt there."

"I mean, sometimes you gotta... you know... do what's right, not what's legal..."

"I agree completely. Especially when the law itself is wrong. Madripoor, for example. As far as their laws are concerned, I'm stolen property."

"Right, yeah, exactly."

"Guess I'm just as vigilante as you," he said. "Well, when the opportunity arises at least."

"Dude, you have me beat for sure!" she laughs.

"Well I am trained to sneak around and punch things," he chuckled.