A.C. O'Connor (Earth-616) VS A.J. Patton (Earth-616)

A.C. "Ace" O'Connor was a reporter who got involved in the mysterious robot serial killer story surrounding Rom, Spaceknight. Unknown to the world at large, Rom was actually a heroic figure eliminating evil aliens called Dire Wraiths who had infiltrated the Earth using their shape-changing powers. To human eyes, Rom was killing random people with a ray gun, reducing them to ash. In fact, Rom's Neutralizer was banishing the Dire Wraiths to Limbo. [1] Ace was tipped off at first by the fact that all the "victims" of the robot killer in Clairton, West Virginia all shared the same birthdate. Ace's investigation brought her to the government program Project: Safeguard where she managed to capture Rom's Neutralizer in action on film. Upon developing her photos, she discovered the camera was able to capture what the human eye could not, showing an alien creature disappearing into Limbo instead of the "murder" of a human being.

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A.J. went to Midtown High School alongside Peter Parker and Flash Thompson. Flash constantly bullied him for being different, to the extent he broke A.J.'s arm and had to wear it in a sling during graduation. At some point after he left the city and came back wanting to talk with Flash just after Flash' mother committed herself to get away from Venom. Flash was hesatent at first, but agreed and they met up in A.J.'s new apartment and he introduced Flash to his husband Dan. Flash was remorseful for the way he treated A.J. but A.J. said he had gotten over it and though there were bad days he was happy now. After a brief conversation, Dan asked for A.J.'s help in the kitchen and checked if everything was ok, since A.J. was lying and still was having nightmares about his torment and his arm had actually never recovered. A.J. however was searching for an apology since he felt pity for Flash in his current state.

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