"Younger, more well-preserved sister?" That phrase would go over like a bag of rocks.

Some days, it just took a simple comment to make Marcelo realize how big of a thing he was trying to do, topple Stephanie's father. 'Command codes for any Sentinels' was one such phrase in a world with X-Men.

Particularly a world where Marcelo was married to a known mutant. He rubbed his eyes with the heels of his palms.

"So, would your father try to insert her as a mole? He has to know I'm behind a lot of what he's losing."