>>5317202“I’ll take it from here.” Julia tells you, which you take as your cue to leave. You’re pretty sure she and Ralph got the whole thing covered.
You later find out that your escapade to the Miller-Ford Building got a lot of attention. The news had spun it as a three-way battle between you, Maranzano’s men, and the newly-crowned X-Force.
Of course, nothing positive was said about you or your efforts and you'd never expect anything less. But, <span class="mu-i">come on!</span> You saved a freaking school bus worth of mutants!
<span class="mu-i">NooooOOOoooo,</span> they just have to be in prison cells for anyone to be happy.
Consequently, the star of the show had ended up being Zeus–the guy with the shockwave powers, you recall. It’d make sense they chose that guy to be the face for the morning news, as opposed to any of the other members who barely took the spotlight.
Well, you certainly don't care <span class="mu-i">who</span> takes the spotlight so long as you win-- they can laud the X-Force all they want, but, at the end of the day, they were still on the losing end of the game!
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