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[subject223]

[ The video turns on to a view of a man’s face, and those observant enough to notice nitpicky details might realize that this is a man who’s familiar with and comfortable using strange bits of technology. There’s no fear in his eyes, no outward confusion or panic. He looks calm and in control, and when he speaks, he sounds like it, too. ]

Hello. My name’s Steve Rogers and I just recently arrived from a city called New York. I was debriefed about the situation and I wanted to offer my help to anyone who needs it.

[ He pauses for a moment as he collects his thoughts. These days, it’s not often that he goes somewhere that people aren’t at least slightly familiar with who he is. Providing a brief resume is a somewhat novel experience. ]

I’ve been a soldier for a long time, but I’m also good with my hands. Construction, farming, hunting, good old-fashioned heavy lifting, I can help with that. I can speak a number of languages, too, if anyone needs translations done. I know I’m new, but I want to pull my weight. So if you know anyone who might need a hand with something, let me know.

[ Offering a faint smile, he gives the camera a short nod. ]

Thanks for your time.

Comments

[zerotoawesome]

I gotcha. [He smiles a little. He's honestly a bit relieved because he doesn't know if he could/should be an Avenger without his Jiminy Cricket.] He's a lock, then. You'll like him way more than you like me... Hard as that may be to believe.

[Yeah okay, he's done hyping someone who isn't him now.]

I gotta tell you though, it doesn't sound like the Avengers are as exclusive as I was led to believe... Er, not that I'm complaining, obviously.

[subject223]

[ It's true. Once upon a time, it was a small team. People came and went, new people took the place of those absent, but it was rather like an exclusive club. Times are changing, though. Threats are getting more prevalent and those who make them are getting stronger. There are more battles now. More people are needed to fight them. ]

Maybe it used to be, but times are changing. The team's evolving to meet the needs of the people it serves. And we need mutants. Too long we've been a team apart from the X-Men. I want to change that.

[zerotoawesome]

Don't let Frost hear you say that, she'll hold you to impossible standards and bitch about it nonstop.

[But whoa! Is this for real? Cap is saying that he acknowledges and wants mutants to be a part of the team. That's like America acknowledging mutants or something like that. Which... Is pretty awesome.]

Hey, uh... Can I ask you what the last big world-ending thing you went through was? Mutant-related preferably, but anything works, really.

[Because, yeah, his last party with the Avengers was Emma complaining that they didn't do enough to save them when they were all fighting for their lives to keep Hope from being assassinated by everything, and Utopia was cut off from the rest of the world.]

[subject223]

[ Frost. Emma Frost. Steve’s memory flashes back to fighting her, then watching Scott tear the Phoenix Force out of her. ]

Fighting against Scott Summers and some of the X-Men. He and four others became possessed by the Phoenix. Eventually the battle became just fighting him. There were casualties, but in the end, the Phoenix was destroyed and the effects of M Day were erased. The mutants came back into the world the way they’d been before.

[ And that, as far as Steve is concerned, had been a victory, though its cost had been so very high. ]