An alliance?” I said in disbelief. “You want to form an alliance with me and Rubberman? Are you crazy?”
“Funny,” said Three Fingers, “that’s exactly what ZZZ said to me when I told him this was what I wanted to do. Weird coincidence.”
“ZZZ is a maniac, but I can’t blame him for questioning your sanity,” I said. I pointed at Three Fingers. “You’re a criminal in charge of a criminal/supervillain organization. We’re superheroes. Superheroes are f*******n by law from cooperating with criminals except under very unusual circumstances, like during the Storm. If we worked with you guys, we’d become criminals.”
“I know,” said Three Fingers. “And there are a million other reasons why this idea sounds crazy on the face of it. But truthfully, it’s not nearly as crazy as it might first appear.”
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