Bug, although about the same height and only a few pounds heavier, was his polar opposite. He had medium brown skin, black hair in dozens of braids, very thick glasses with heavy purple frames, a rather hopeful attempt at a beard that refused to look authoritative, and an earring fashioned to look like a hatchet stuck in the lobe. He wore a Wakanda Olympic Bobsled Team T-shirt, jeans that were so ancient it was impossible to tell the brand or original color, and flip-flops. The walls of his office were lined with shelves on which were hundreds of very rare and lovingly preserved superhero action figures, most in their original unopened packaging. The newest additions of which were the Marvel Legends: Silver-Shirt Luke Cage and Crimson Dawn Psylocke. There were also framed photos of Bug with Chadwick Boseman, Stan Lee, Lupita Nyong’o, and Danai Gurira.

Wilson, a very patient man, waited for Bug to decide how to answer.

“It’s authorized by the Big Man,” said Bug.

“Fair enough,” said Wilson. “But what is it?”

Bug grinned. “I’m doing to Kuga’s online presence what the Visigoths did to Rome.”

“I rather assumed that. Please give me some details.”

“You ask Church about this?”

Wilson smiled. “He said to ask you.”

“Ah.”

“Ah, indeed.”

Bug looked at the specialty drink, smiled, picked up a blue Sharpie, and wrote Attempted Bribery on the cup, sipped, and set it down with the words turned toward Wilson.

“Okay,” he said, “so we know Joe is out there doing some damage to the Kuga labs, right?”

“We do.”

“He’s hurting their R&D and taking some very bad people off the checkerboard.”

“Apparently,” agreed Wilson.

“I can’t help with that,” said Bug. “Not directly anyway. So, instead of sitting here doing nothing and going slowly out of my mind, I decided to see what kind of fun I could have with Kuga’s network online.”

“And by fun, you mean…?”

“Maybe it’s better if you don’t know.”

Wilson’s smile looked like thin plastic. “Tell me anyway,” he said.

“You won’t like it,” said Bug.

“Would you like a comprehensive list of all the things I haven’t liked recently?”

“Not really.”

“Just tell me,” said Wilson.

“With details or the highlights?”

“Let’s start with the highlights.”

“Sure. Well, we know that Kuga has some hotshots on the cyber warfare team, cyber espionage team, and cyberterrorism team.”

“You think they’re separate teams?”