(Disclaimer: this story was written for a story exchange event where the randomly assigned prompter asked for X-Men fanfiction, and the randomly assigned writer - me - was not overly familiar with X-Men. Certain canon details or characterizations may not be 100% accurate.)
“Do you have any idea how much you two just screwed up?”
The scene: the interior of the X-Mansion, specifically the debriefing room. The time: the afternoon after a mission that kinda went to shit. The speaker: a very pissed-off Dazzler of the X-Men.
The audience: me, Dani Moonstar, and my friend Jubilee… supposedly.
(And one onlooker, but I’ll get to him in a bit.)
“Not only did you let Mister Sinister escape,” she seethes, “your outright negligence nearly resulted in the deaths of several civilians! What do you have to say for yourselves?”