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[thestarspangledman]

[There is the sound of buttons being a bit haphazardly mashed, and some slight shuffling. Eventually, there is a quiet 'oh', and the video flickers to life and reveals a handsome young man, dressed in a tight-fitting t-shirt and sweat pants.]

Sorry, folks, I'm still trying to figure out how things work around here. [He gives a little sheepish smile and ducks his head, before glancing back to the camera.] Uh. Hello, I'm Captain Steve Rogers. Some of you might know me as Captain America. I'm from Brooklyn, New York, and I was told that you could use my help up here.

There's not -- a lot for me to do at home right now, so here I am. [A little pause.] Though if anyone could catch me up on -- current events, back home, it'd be appreciated.

Comments

[thestarspangledman]

Missed about 70 years being frozen in the Arctic, is all.

[captain_jtkirk]

... seriously? How did that happen?

[thestarspangledman]

I flew a plane into the ocean to stop the United States from being obliterated by bombs.

[captain_jtkirk]

Well that's good of you.

Why didn't it kill you?

[thestarspangledman]

Just doing my job.

[A slight pause.] I was -- I am, uh, a super-soldier. They tell me the serum I was injected with to ...improve me helped me survive.

[captain_jtkirk]

[This is definitely in the top ten of weird things Kirk has heard about. Congrats.]

I didn't know they had that kind of tech in the 1940s. Where'd it come from?

[thestarspangledman]

Two of the smartest men I've ever known. Howard Stark and Abraham Erskine were in charge of the experiment.

[He rubs the back of his neck for a moment or two, looking down. He's just been told Howard's been dead for twenty years, when for Steve he'd just been talking to him about five hours ago. This news is -- hard to take in, to say the least.]

They were, uh, great guys.

[captain_jtkirk]

[You poor bb, Steve. And his son is a troll :c]

I'd say so.

This place is going to be weirder than what you've been through, I'm sorry to say.

[thestarspangledman]

[He is. Stupid Tony. :C]

Oh, I dunno. Does this place have weapons that are supposedly powered by space rocks?

[captain_jtkirk]

[Be bros with Kirk instead :c]

No, just the kind of people that would build those weapons.

[thestarspangledman]

[Kirk will you punch things with him? :3]

Because HYDRA wasn't enough, clearly.

[captain_jtkirk]

[You bet, pal c:]

I don't even know what HYDRA is but it sounds menacing.

[thestarspangledman]

[Yeeeeah sparring partner!]

They were Nazis. Crazier than normal Nazis.

[captain_jtkirk]

[To be fair, Kirk fights like a bar monkey :c]

Those existed?

[thestarspangledman]

[A little confused blink.]

Nazis, or crazier Nazis? They both did.

[captain_jtkirk]

How much crazier?

[thestarspangledman]

They wanted to turn the human race into gods and destroy half the world to do it.

[captain_jtkirk]

Huh.

Thanks for adverting that, I suppose.

[thestarspangledman]

It wasn't just me who did it.

[captain_jtkirk]

Obviously, but you gave up a lot. [70 years man :c]

[thestarspangledman]

[That just gets a tired look from him.]

Not really. Not as much as some people.

[captain_jtkirk]

No, but not something insignificant either.

[thestarspangledman]

Yeah, well. [A pause, while he rubs the back of his neck.]

That's enough about the past for now.

[captain_jtkirk]

I can tell you abut the future?

[thestarspangledman]

Sure. Are there little green men and rockets?