We sat and talked for a while, telling Wade and Ivan, or "Doctor Mechaniacal" and "Fornax" as they were known in villain circles about our world and how it worked. They both nodded when we brought up the rules about getting personal. Ivan chimed in "That's a smart way to run things, a super with nothing to lose and a grudge is a dangerous thing. Wade and I tend to work with similar constraints, though it isn't usually a courtesy people where we're from return." Aforementioned science boy was currently leaning in to talk to Penny with hushed excited whispers. Ray might have been jealous if it wasn't so obvious the boy was in love…with The Machine.

I decided to take the lead while my friend gushed about her baby "Well guys, I think I speak for all of us when I say we definitely want to help. That door doesn't appear to work more than once and rebuilding it is impossible. Wade can study it if you like and maybe figure out how it works but until then you guys can crash at the base, just a warning though, we have a club for kids with powers that meets here, and they don't know we're villains. Our other identities are a bit famous and we try to keep things under wraps. We're even looking for another base, since so many abandoned ones are sitting around LA."

Ivan nodded "Ok, well we don't exist here so I'm not worried about our other identities becoming known. If you guys have a source for abandoned bases maybe you could find us one too? We could pull a job for cash to pay you if you need it. We need a place to sleep and a lair is as good a place as any. Or hey, how about Wade and I rig up some defenses for you on your new lair. Between the two of use we can make some really tough protections."

Penny and Wade looked up, and Wade looked intrigued "Well, we would need resources, but I could definitely set something up. I could set up a spatial lock to jam teleportation and build in a camo system so that if anyone tried to scan for the base it would just look like empty ground. Ivan you could reinforce the materials and set up some interdictions to stop anyone who isn't invited from entering. I'm sure you have a few other wards that might be useful."

Pennys eyes went wide with excitement "That sounds amazing, I would love to have some defenses on the new base, I'll definitely check with our contacts in china tow- Wait! Why don't you guys come to china town with us! You're villains yourselves and we can introduce you around! Plus ivan can find someone to fight with if he wants, theres always brawls going on during the big party!"

Ray perked up for the first time with interest, having established that he was a villain too Ray had warmed up to Ivan a bit while they told us their story and we'd shared ours. No longer disliking our new guests to any real degree his natural super-geekery was coming to the forefront. I had to admit to a bit of excitement myself. If Ivan was stronger than Ray and could do magic to boot his powers must be amazing. I couldn't wait to see what kind of things he was capable of!

The excitement finally spread to the last member of our group as a fight was mentioned Ivans blue eyes lighting up with glee. "That sounds awesome! You guys are doing us a solid so I wont try to go too hard. Don't want to break one of your friends, but a good scrap is always welcome! When do you guys want to go?" It was funny to see the normally casual and acerbic Ivan bouncing up and down like a kid on Christmas and I couldn't help but grin at his enthusiasm. These guys were our kind of villains.

Penny smiled too and cut him off before he got too worked up "We actually cant go till Saturday. Chinatown doesn't become villain central until the weekend. We'll head over tomorrow night. In the meantime if Wade wants to start building a rep as a mad scientist he's going to need some parts. We still have a bunch of spare junk from my dads Junk bin, there might be some usable gear in there, but I don't have many tools on hand." She gave Wade an apologetic smile.

The green eyes boy just grinned, I always carry tools on me, don't worry about it, Ivan can help me with heating and shaping and things like that. Between what I have and him, as long as your dad has any decent electronics I can probably make something decent. I wont be able to do a metasuit or anything. But I can probably rig up some kind of laser cannon out of a DVD player or something. I've worked with less than a pile of scrap electronics."

Ivan shuddered at that "Remember the toaster possessing nano plague? I still have nightmares about those heating elemts trying to brand my face. I cant even be burned and that shit makes me shiver. I told you controlling a self replicating swarm of nano repair bots with an old gameboy color was a stupid idea. Make sure you have the parts for anything you're trying to make. Just because you can rig something up doesn't mean it wont try to kill us all."

Wade shot his friend an annoyed look "That was more than a year ago, I'm much wiser now! For one thing I know not to make anything self replicating. That became crystal clear after the blender attack." He turned to Penny "Now I would love to see this junk bin, and if you like you guys can watch us work. I'm quick with my hands and Ivan is a magical genius, watching us work is sure to be entertaining."

Before his friend or anyone else could cut in Penny leapt up and bolted for the storage closet we kept her dads old junk in, hurling the door open and gesturing inside for Wade to take a look "We would love to see you invent something! I'm always up for seeing other mad scientists work and I know Ray and Claire would love to see Ivans powers!"

Wade was at the door only second after she was and through it to dig through the parts seconds after that. Ivan walked sedately after him, still in a good mood at the prospect of a fight. Wade shot Penny a wide eyed stare as he sifted through parts "This is a junk bin!? Some of this gear is nearly functional! Who would throw this away? With this kind of volume and technology level I might actually be ABLE to build a metasuit. Probably the best model I've made so far! Oh and Ivans powers aren't as versatile as they sound, genius or not he's still learning magic, hes super strong and damn near invincible but other than that he only has a dozen or so spells."

Ivan didn't look offended and actually smiled encouragingly at his friend "he's not wrong and seriously Wade you have enough for a new suit? I'm guessing from your excitement some of this stuff is new even to you. I look forward to fighting whatever you build. Who knows maybe this one can take more than a single punch at one percent of my strength."

I expected Wade to look upset at the obvious taunt but instead he grinned excitedly at his friend and together they dove into the room. Ray and penny and walked back over to the chairs as Ivan picked up all the equipment that Wade pointed out and carried it into the middle of the main room of the lab, setting it down in an empty patch of room in the massive space. I couldn't help but be impressed by Ivans constant movement and strength, he was lifting things even Ray would struggle with in on hand and didn't appear to be tiring out anytime soon. Wade sat on the floor with a rolled up piece of fabric stretched out in front of him, every inch covered with pockets containing tools.

With barely and speaking between them Wade started to disassemble some of the smaller machines, cutting parts off with a small, white hot laser and melting parts together with a blow torch. He would occasionally gesture to Ivan and the other boy would grab a piece of metal and bend it into shape or pull it straight. Wade had a tape measure out and took quick measurements tossing the note pad to Ivan having sketched a few instructions as he worked. All in all their teamwork was brilliant. Ivan raised a hand to start weaving magic over the quickly forming suit but Wade gave a slashing gesture.

Clearly Wade wanted to make his own reputation with community to start with. After maybe two hours of shorthand and gestures and constant skilled motion Wade wiped his brow and stood up with an exhalation. Ivan gave the new suit a once over, an approving nod showing he agreed it was done. I looked over at Penny and Ray and they looked as flabbergasted as I was. Wade working looked a lot like Penny in a fugue state. Granted he didn't do as many crazy things that shouldn't be possible but his rate and surety of movement were at the same level as Pennys power.

Penny just stared for a minute and then started clapping. "That. Was. Amazing. I've never seen anyone do any work like that, I didn't recognize half of what you did, I mean my power understood the mechanics but I think our universe might not have discovered some of the machines you just put together. You are absolutely brilliant. Theres no way a suit like that isn't going to get you accepted as a mad scientist. Granted it looks like it's tier two but being able to reliably manufacture tier two and presumably recreate them is amazing.

Wade shook his head "It's not my best. I thought I was going to manage to outdo my most streamlined suit but I had to half ass the power source. Ivan is a decent substitute but my machining tools back home are much more precise. It limited my options, not to mention I had to route way too much of the power to the thrusters to make it flight capable. Once we have our own base and I can set up my lab, based on some of the things I've seen just in this pile and in your lab, I'm going to be able to make a suit that can take a punch from Ivan at three percent strength. This one wont even manage half a percent."

Ivan looked annoyed but nodded "I hate to say it but yeah, still if that's a proper estimate I'm incredibly excited. Three percent is the highest I can go right now without becoming unstable. You'd be able to fight me at my max! Anyway it's a solid effort and it'll more than establish your science chops. Leave the rest of our reputation to me. You worry about being the brain, I'll be the brawn." He turned to us with a grin. "So I can tell Wade is wiped from that and I've been holding life support spells for months, where can I conjure us some beds to sleep in? The faster I get to bed the faster I can wake up and it'll be our day to shine."

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