[ Yes, he is. If he wasn't, he'd probably be dead. Then again, he came damn close to it anyway.

There's a horrified look while Midnighter describes a teammate whose blood has been entirely replaced with nanites. Robbie doesn't know how that would work, but he won't ask. It's probably painful. ]

My world had a powers-related disaster, just like this one did years ago. It... was a huge mistake on the part of the team that was involved, but... no excuse for what happened. The government overreacted by making anyone who wanted to be involved in vigilante-style work register with the system. Same as here, where they let you register regardless of past crimes. They created teams to go after the ones who weren't registers - and now here, they're 'asking' us to help them with any unregistered vigilantes.

The team that I was on... the members weren't all exactly... willing. Some of them were controlled by nanites, and here we are with nanites. I don't like it.

And I really don't like that you keep throwing me in with the guy who ran the whole thing. Just freaking quit it; it's not funny.