"Ohhhh," Hazmat groaned. "Never. Eating. Again." She rested one yellow-gloved hand on her distended belly, the smooth material of her suit hugging the curve. The reflection of the campfire flames flickered in her visor, hiding her heavy-lidded eyes.
"I've got a seed stuck in my teeth," Reptil complained, opening wide and rapidly shifting his face from human to T-rex to triceratops back to human. "Can't get it out, no matter what shape I make them. You think maybe she could magic us up a little toothpaste?"
He nodded in the direction of Nico, still sleeping both behind and out like a log next to her friend, that Chase kid with the robot hands.
"Don't know and don't care," Hazmat said. "We shouldn't get too dependent on them."
"Says the girl who just ate about her weight in their food--"
"And regrets it," Hazmat muttered. "The last three pieces at least. Definitely the last one. Oh, god..."
"I doubt you need toothpaste, anyway," X-23 pointed out. "It's unlikely bacteria can survive inside your mouth for long."
"And also because I'm never eating again."
"What's that? I'm not quite getting what you're saying. Are you hungry?" Reptil grinned and tossed her another fruit.
She batted it away in irritation. "If I eat any more, you're going to have a suit rupture to deal with."
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Somewhere else...
Arcade watched his new toys crawl around the playroom like little ants--so fragile, so much fun to stomp. And yet how much more fun to let them stomp themselves, to manipulate them, to give them just enough rope to hang themselves with...
"If I eat any more, you're going to have a suit rupture to deal with."
Well, now. That was something. He could work with that. There was so much he could do with that girl--angry, headstrong, boiling with grief and rage, all sealed up inside that little container. All he had to do was break it open and let the good times roll! And he knew just how to drive that wedge...
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