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[The console turns on to the sight of Teddy's anxious face and in the background the viewer can just make out the shape of a giant egg laying in a pile of blankets on the floor.]

I'm calling all turtle egg parents here. I'm a new...,uh parent I guess. Man that is really strange to say. This is my first time taking care of the egg by myself. I guess I was just wondering what are some of the ways you other egg parents take care of your egg. Like, do you ever leave your apartment? Because I have to admit the idea of walking around out there with the egg is kind of intimidating.

So...yeah. Help? Please?

[Teddy scoots in closer.]

I have another question for you guys, and this one probably applies to a wider group of people here. I know that a lot of people here have powers or special abilities that are unique to them. That's probably old news to everyone, right? What I'm interested in knowing is what kind of powers or abilities does everyone have? Think of it as a kind of survey. It might become useful in the future to know that we have twelve magic users and only two telepaths or whatever. [If not it will certainly satisfy Teddy's geeky need to categorize as many new heroes and their abilities as possible in his head. He's definitely missing Wikipedia right about now.]

You don't have to give your name if that makes you uncomfortable. Feel free to reply with an anonymous text if you want. To start things off, I'll go first. My main talent is shape-shifting. But I also have some other handy abilities like super-strength and a healing factor. [The anonymous text idea is really for people who want to keep their established secret identity a secret. Teddy feels more comfortable being open about his identity here where he's surrounded by other people with powers, but he knows there are probably others who don't feel the same.]

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The Avengers wouldn't let you guys look at any of their stuff?

Not really? I mean it's a miracle they even allow us to do what we do. They don't exactly approve...

Oh, I know how that feels too. Wolverine's got us all demoted to students again.

Why did he do that? [Teddy doesn't really have the most glowing regard towards Wolverine.]

Well, Cyclops was pretty much using us as cannon fodder. Disposable little soldiers. [He rolls his eyes.] And while I do agree with Wolverine that the lot of us need time to just be teenagers and shouldn't be forced into life or death situations every other day...he's treating us like little kids. Like we can't handle any fighting or conflict, even hero work. He doesn't even want us defending ourselves anymore...keeps insisting we run into the panic rooms if a moth so much as lands on the front lawn. Not to mention their bad attempts at lying to us when the school gets attacked and trying to make it seem like it's nothing. [Vic isn't Logan's biggest fan either.]

[Vic's story isn't doing much for his opinion of Cyclops either.] That sucks. The Avengers treat us like that sometimes. Not as much as they used to maybe, but still. It's like they don't trust us to make our own choices. I know Cap and the others mean well, but it's frustrating to deal with.

They might mean well but they don't take us into consideration when it comes to their meaning well. Sometimes it feels like we're not even people to them just...I don't know...chess pieces or something.

Or children. [His voice is deadpan.]

Yeah...[Victor trails off, rubbing the back of his neck. He looks away, quiet for a moment and eventually sighs.] Sorry, I'll stop being depressing now.

No, you're not. I get it. It sucks. Maybe one day we won't have to keep proving ourselves to them.

Or they'll realize we're going to keep doing it whether or not they approve.

Well...if they haven't figured that out by know, who knows if they ever will.

They're old, their memories are going. We have to keep reminding them.

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