“I'm sure it will be fine. But I will protect you if something goes wrong.” Azura promised, trying to reassure her companion.
"Shit." Duke's face is perfectly even, and at first Jenny thinks he's fazed at the calibre of enemy he has. Then he starts laughing. "Damn, Infinity's gonna be heartbroken when he hears. Boy didn't think you'd give him up - he actually thought you were into him. But he's a bit on the light side for you, ain't he?" Chuckles fill the room. Like a sack of bricks, the realisation hits Jenny. Her suspicions about Infinity were right all along. The man she idolized - who she wanted to be like, is with Duke.
"Then what if I said I was planning on going up against villains?" He raises an eyebrow.
Tatiana turns the kiss into one of passion, gripping him tightly, but she lets him leave, nonetheless. "I think I should be saying that to you, no?" She chuckles.
Goode pulls back, face red with a shocked expression that suggests she's perhaps surprised at her own boldness. She jumps as Azura gropes her ass, before letting out a surprised moan of pleasure. "I-I, ahem, yes." She nods, trying to regain her composure.
Despite her anticipation at her new direction in life, there was a strange feeling of despair that lingered in her gut at the realization. Like a final nail in the coffin, she knew now there truly was no turning back. For a moment her shoulders slumped and she pondered before her chin rose and she smiled at Duke.
"Heh, you got me." He chuckles. "I ain't doing this out of the good of my heart. It's a job. Apparently some very bad people have gotten hold of some powerful alien artifact, and they've hired some top tier talent to keep anyone from taking it." He names a few infamous villains Vanessa recognises, though she's never fought any of them, since most are foreign. "Government wants 'em taken care of quietly, and they know I'm the guy to do it. Me and the team I pick. You'd be fighting the baddest of the bad. Maybe it's a little out of your league, though."
"More than a little." He chuckles. "It's a simple job. Remember how I said some assholes are fixing up cut Panacea and getting people hurt? We found one of their labs. Go there and bust the place up - it's the kind of work you'd have done even before you met me." He hands over an address.
Hammer laughs outright at that. "Girl, do I seem like the kind of guy who makes elaborate plans to backstab people? I see a problem, I smash it."
Jenny accepts the offered sheet and takes note of the address. She couldn't keep a pleased smile off of her face. Duke was right, this was exactly the kind of thing she would have taken care of before everything in her life was flipped sideways. In fact before her encounter with his men in the alleyway she was planning on starting an investigation into the corrupted Panacea. The fact that the address was just being delivered to her was serendipitous.
Head throbbing, Jenny finds herself hovering above an old warehouse, looking down through a shattered skylight into what can charitably be called a 'lab'. Sadly, her foes aren't what she'd perhaps hoped for on the way - they're skinny, skeezy looking and, well... Not her 'type.' A half dozen of them labor underneath her, turning piles of perfectly good Panacea into poison.
"True - but a hero would be making arrests, something my employers don't want." He shrugs, not seeming to care much about their motivations. "A few folks so far." Vanessa recognises the names of several villains, as well as some heroes for hire and even a proper hero - albeit one who's not been in the limelight for a while.
While Jenny scouted the area, her mind stretched out to probe the surface thoughts of the lab 'technicians' but soon she was distracted by the Panacea. She felt a pull to the substance, a yearning... and perhaps before she was ready she propelled herself through the shattered skylight to take care of the situation.
The men, twitchy and terrified, immediately grab for their guns.
"I can have a...commanding...aura." He grins. "Deal. Sealed with a kiss?"