twelve ☆ video time!

[doyoufondue]

[ And now for another episode of: 'What the hell are you doing, Steve?'
In this week's episode: Rescue Missions!

You're treated to an interesting view of a hall of cells containing war prisoners. There's a guy patrolling it. It's silent until Steve -- sneaks up behind the guy and knocks him out before stealing his keys. Steve is wearing his Captain America costume with a jacket and pants over it, that shield strapped to his back, and equipment that doesn't belong to him. (Wasn't one of his dancers wearing that helmet?)

The guys in the cell look reasonably confused: ] Who are you supposed to be?

Um... Captain America.

I beg your pardon? [ Steve starts letting them all out and they talk amongst themselves ]

Is there anybody else? I'm looking for a Sergent James Barnes. [ Someone answers that he might be in a spot nobody ever comes back from. Steve takes a little breath, nods, and starts giving them directions to get out. ]

-Get out fast and give 'em hell. I'll meet you guys in the clearing with anybody else I find.
[ The guys are still giving him a baffled look because who the hell is this guy seriously ] Wait- you know what you're doing?

Yeah. I've knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times. [ And with that Steve runs off camera while the guys exchange looks. ]

...Was he wearing a duck pin?

Comments

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Ideally, yes. I'd hate to do any less and let the director down.

[doyoufondue]

Did you have to explain the community to your director?

[notmyfirstrodeo]

I did. And after a mini psychological evaluation, he believes me about its existence.

[doyoufondue]

That's good then. It'd probably make things mighty difficult if he didn't. He'll have to cut you some slack during a virus.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Someone would have to explain the concept of cutting slack to him before that happened. It's not in his vocabulary.

[doyoufondue]

He a serious fella? I suppose he'd have to be to keep track of his men.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Yeah, you could probably say that. But it's true. Director Fury runs a tight ship. He's excellent at his job.

[doyoufondue]

Sounds like the right guy to be in charge then.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

I tend to think so. I'll admit to being a bit biased, however.

[doyoufondue]

Nothing wrong with being biased towards the big cheese if he's doing a good job.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

No, there's not. SHIELD does a lot of good work.

[doyoufondue]

What was the last big thing you guys did?

[notmyfirstrodeo]

We had a hand in straightening out the most recent Ironman/Tony Stark situation.

Currently I'm overseeing the containment of an artifact that seemingly fell straight from the sky.

[doyoufondue]

...Stark? Is he Howard's? What he do?

Thor's thing?

[notmyfirstrodeo]

That's right. You know Howard Stark. Tony is his son. He runs the family business now. The man's a genius. Manufactures... technology that's of interest to us. It's caused some problems. It's solved some others.

Ah... yes. That would be the thing. Looks to be a hammer.

[doyoufondue]

Genius manufacturing interesting and problematic technology. That sounds about right for a kid Howard might have.

Oh so if you have that ...Are you the one that took Darcy's little-- [ what was it? ] -music player?

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Apples and trees, I expect, to some degree. Then again, Tony Stark is a thing in and of himself.

Ms. Lewis's iPod was part of the materials and research that SHIELD confiscated. ...it's been returned to her, however, with our apologies. [And a few extra Justin Bieber tracks just for laughs.]

[doyoufondue]

He's a trouble maker?

Oh, well. That's good then. You seemed to nice for stealing.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Well. I honestly believe that Tony Stark's heart is in the right place -- because it's held there with an electromagnet powered by miniaturized arc reactor technology. Big shiny thing in his chest. Hard to miss.

However, he has a tendency to act like a preschooler who refuses to even try to color in the lines. Except instead of crayons, he uses large, destructive, often explosive technology.

[A little wince.] I appreciate the vote of confidence. I'm afraid I'm not on Dr. Foster's good side. She's a brilliant scientist and her research will be returned to her, but at the time we assumed we were heading for an imminent, dangerous crisis. Not all scientists are on the up and up, so to speak. Brains don't always coincide with integrity and morality. We had to act quickly to prevent that eventuality.

[doyoufondue]

[ big shiny heart. what the heck is an "arc reactor"?? ] Is he a robot?

I'm sorry you have to put up with that then.

[ slight frown ] Did you explain that to her? I'm sure she'd understand.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

No. But with the suit, that's a pretty common misconception.

[A shake of his head.] It wasn't so bad. And Stark pulled it out, somehow. Did some good.

Not as well as I should have, unfortunately. I plan to though.

[doyoufondue]

So he has a robot suit.

At least he pulled through.

I'm sure once you do the entire thing would get sorted out in a jiffy.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

...yeah, that's about right.

Think so? Here's to hoping you're right.

[doyoufondue]

How about that. I didn't think people would be getting those.

I'm sure I am. I haven't spoken to her myself [ because we're the same mun ] but her and Darcy seem like agreeable dames-- ladies-- scientists?