"Hypothetical question…" Tony asked Batman as he was drinking a can of beer.

"What?" The Dark Knight asked.

"Say a person had your kid hostage. What would you do?"

"I'd tell them not to kill them."

"I'm pretty sure that would depend on how much money you'd give them."

"Well, it's my kid. I'd probably just ground them - Wait, did you think that I would be talking to the idiots who took them hostage in the first place?" Batman tried to clarify.

"Uh, yeah. We're talking about Dick, right?"

"Dick would have already broken out, gotten a sandwich and coke, and just come back to see them making the demand. Jason would have been in the middle of a drop kick on the guy making the call." Batman pointed out, "And with Tim, he'd have already offered to help the other guys to get a better job and quit."

"What about your other kid? - What was his name? - Daniel?"

"Damien, actually. And I don't really have any hope for him. He'd have already stabbed the guy making the ransom and would be waiting for me to show up to clean up his mess." Batman deadpanned.

"Makes enough sense." Wolverine weighed in, "I'd probably have to do the same thing with Laura."

"What about Daken?"

"What about who?" Wolverine asked.

Both Tony and Batman looked at each other for a moment before Tony weighed in with another one of his comments.

"Your son."

"I have one of those?"

"I can't tell if you're being serious, given your crap memory… Or if you actually hate him that much."

"Oh wait… that kid I had with Itsu?"

Both Tony and Batman looked at Wolverine with weird looks on their faces.

"You can hardly remember your own name, and the actual kid, but you can remember the name of one of your deceased wives?"

"Well, when you put it like that, you make me seem like a deadbeat dad."

"You had relations with Mystique. Rogue is technically among one of your many, many kids-"

"And I thought I got around…" Tony mumbled.

"Where is she right now?"

Wolverine paused for a moment, "Uh… I think she's in her room. Brooding about her inability to control her powers…?"

"Is that a statement, or a question?"

"A… statement?"

"Is that a statement, or a fact?" Batman asked.

"JARVIS, do a quick scan. Is Rogue in the hotel?"

"That would be a negative, sir. Rogue is, in fact, on patrol with Captain Marvel."

"Yeesh, Rogue and Carol? - That's going to get along like cats and dogs."

"Your mother beat my husband to death."

"Every. Time." Rogue muttered, "Every time we get donuts while on patrol, you use that to get the last jelly-filled."

"Bite me."

"I would, but then I'd get you stuck in mah head again." Rogue smirked as she grabbed the sprinkled.

"I still don't know why Peach thinks we could work well together." Carol muttered.

"Ah got seniority over 'er. You'd think I'd get to pull that over her every once in a while to not have to do this, but I guess not."

"I still don't get why we have to do this patrol crap anyways." Carol said through her full mouth, "We outnumber those assholes more than ten-to-one. The only real edge they have are those Fulgore units and Cyber-kartans. After that, they don't really have much."

"Eh, maybe when they get Freeza or Darkseid, they'll get an edge. But that ain't goin' ta be for a long while!" Rogue said, laying back, "Ah say that we enjoy it while we can."

"I guess. Hey, you want the last bite?" Carol offered.

"Nah. Ah'm good."

X: Yeah, I can't think of anything else to add here.

Wade: So you're making a short chapter because you can't think of anything else to add to this?

Pinkie: I think that it's a good idea to not force yourself to write until a certain word count or page number. You restrict creative ability by doing that.

Wade: But then you get lazy with the writing, and don't write as well when you don't have a set goal for yourself.

Pinkie: But if you do have that set goal for yourself in this situation, you wind up stagnating because you didn't meet that goal. Better to get close after trying, than to not even move from the starting line.

Alexis: Chirp chirp tweet? - Tweet tweet chirp.