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[In costume, ID reads 'Kid Flash.']

Show of hands, show of hands! Who around here knows who Superman is?

...I don't mean like- knows who he is, who he is, I mean knows of the superhero dude. Six foot eight, weighs a freaking ton ♫ I'm kidding, he's not six eight. He's taller.

What about Batman? Wonder Woman? Everybody knows the big three, they're like the holy trinity of punchin' dudes who deserve it. Plus I mean, Wonder Woman, am I right? I'm right. Ultimate justice in a one piece.

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All right all right, what would you do? Just throw anybody with a dirty history in superpowered prison?

That depends on what they're doing, and how much need there is for something to be done. But what I'm saying is that the existence of heroes in overwhelming numbers doesn't really do much of anything to create an environment where these people feel a real threat to their operations, especially with how content the majority of those heroes are with half-measures.

Is this a rehash of that "superheroes make super villains" argument? Am I reading this right?

That sounds like a stupid argument. Superpowers make supervillains.

But superheroes certainly aren't preventing or negating them, in my experience. That's all I'm saying.

Well yeah, not here! Not like we're given a whole lot of elbow room to do anything. We're illegal if we're not registered, and if you're registered then you gotta go on military missions whether or not you agree with 'em! Not a real encouraging setup.

I wouldn't blame it on registration. It's an easy scapegoat, but it remains nothing more than that. If villainy is still occurring, then registration isn't going to protect the villain once the truth outs.

Either way, this same sort of thing was still happening in the City, and we had no sort of registration there. It's an excuse for a problem with either no solution, or a very easy solution.

So what's even the point of registration at all if there's nothing that's changing in the core community? Looks like it's just an excuse to use us like a resource. Which, my overall point stands: it sucks.

Well, there is the matter of legality, but it isn't as though it's a law they're enforcing.

But I don't know that we can even qualify as a resource when they aren't using us. It's been months since they made a call for assignments.

Well. Fine.

But I still don't like the potential.

Everyone always goes on about the "potential" when it hasn't been any kind of factor over the past year. Can't we focus on the actual?

Prepare for the potential, if you must, [ SHE HAS ] but it isn't worth the attention for the most part.

Isn't worth worrying about, you mean. Whatever. I feel like it's gonna come around and bite me, but I guess you're right. Time to move on.

Forward momentum is always the best approach. Keep moving until it's just easier not to stop.

[ that's something speedsters will get, even if she's hardly as fast of one as he is. then again, it's also something the juggernaut will get, and he's something else entirely. ]

Anyway, it takes forever to get anything done around here anyhow. Did you know you gotta give a month notice before you move out or it's considered breaking the lease? Like, who has that kind of time?

Is that in the government housing, or in an actual rented apartment?

If the latter, I'm sorry to tell you since you don't seem to have caught on just yet, but I'm reasonably certain that will hold true for any universe you rent an apartment in.

Are you serious?! Nobody has that kind of time. That's stupid.

You've never had a lease before, have you? Certainly, for an imPort it isn't...a realistic explanation, but that is the way things are done. That's why they collect the deposit at the beginning.

I hate that whole "that's the way things are done" excuse, that's just like-

Okay, there was this behavioral experiment once, with monkeys. They put a bunch of monkeys in a room with a ladder and a banana at the top of the ladder. If a monkey tried to climb the ladder to get to the banana, all the other monkeys would get sprayed with ice cold water. Eventually the monkeys figured out the pattern and would beat the tar out of any monkey who climbs the ladder. They started replacing monkeys, one or two at a time, but stopped spraying water. The monkeys taught the new monkeys to beat the crap out of the new monkeys if they tried to climb the ladder because they didn't wanna get sprayed.

Well eventually they replaced the entire group of monkeys. So like, none of the monkeys had ever been sprayed with water, and what do they do? They still beat the daylights out of the monkey who tries to climb the ladder. Why? 'Cause that's how it's always been done.

...and that's why giving over a month notice for ending your lease is a waste of time. [w hat]

Okay. Stop. You're talking nonsense.

We aren't monkeys, and some of us aren't even biologically related to monkeys. Also, monkeys don't even sign leases.

It's there to protect the leaser, and it isn't even stupid. The lease is a contract, an assurance that you will to reside in the rented location for the agreed upon period of time. If you leave earlier, and without notice, the leaser is left without that source of income, hence damaging the business they rely on, the exchange the two of you have entered into.

With notice, they will be able to prepare for that vacancy, to find a new tenant and ensure the interruption in income is minimized or at least prepared for. Just flaking on them and disappearing ruins this opportunity. It's selfish and inconsiderate, and a poor business practice.

I can understand if you're worried your lease may be broken due to exPort, but throwing the whole practice out because it protects from your potential actions rather than the other way around is irresponsible and short-sighted. Try actually talking to your landlord instead to see what can be worked out to better fit our particular situation.

But if you can't be arsed to know what a lease is for, I'm tempted to think you don't have any business renting to begin with.

What? ExPort? No, I just wanna move out. My apartment's grungy and gross and I had to fix the sink and the fridge and the dryer and the washer and the dishwasher and the toilet and the heater myself. I hate my landlord.

Did you read the lease before you signed it?

[technically the shade signed it but] Well yeah, but I didn't memorize it.

Either way, it was a bed you agreed to make for yourself. You can't blame anyone else when it comes time to lie in it.

God, ugh. Whatever. I can complain about whatever I want because it's a free country.

[ ugh, americans. ]

Doesn't mean it isn't an utter waste of time to do so. Especially to the party who has to hear it.

[GUNS N FIREWORKS]

Oh my god, then hang up! Nobody's holding a gun to your head, jeez.

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