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[checkthetapes]

[flagged to the AVENGERS || locked against CHARLES XAVIER]

Oh, bravo to those of you who participated in that little skirmish against Magneto last week. And congratulations especially on failing to contact the one person on Sacrosanct that has actual experience fighting the man. Do I have you to thank for that oversight, Agent Carter? You, Barton

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[hawkwards]

If you're looking for an apology, that's a shitty way of asking for it.

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[checkthetapes]

That would imply such a thing would mean anything to me, wouldn't it?

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[hawkwards]

Well, good, because you weren't going to get one no matter how you asked.

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[checkthetapes]

How self-important you must be, telling me something of which I was already aware. If you humans couldn't be bothered to--

[he just cuts himself off there. No, there's no point in giving them any more ammunition than they already have.]

Be better prepared in the future.

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[hawkwards]

No, finish your sentence there, Pete--you're upset that, what? We didn't invite you to the party?

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[checkthetapes]

It wasn't a party. Nothing involving my father could ever be a party. He's an insane, genocidal lunatic and you should have made sure you had every available resource to combat him.

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[hawkwards]

We didn't exactly have time to call in the cavalry. Time was kind of of the essence.

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[checkthetapes]

Yet unless I miss my guess, each and every one of you Avengers was involved.

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[hawkwards]

Are you concerned here, or jealous?

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[checkthetapes]

Jealous?

[he chokes on that word.]

Youwoulddareeventoimplythat?

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[hawkwards]

Well when you react like that, you sort of give me reasons to.

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[checkthetapes]

Rogers, all of you could have been killed!

[GLASSCASEOFEMOTION.SPEEDSTER.GU.]

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[hawkwards]

You know, I have to wonder how well your team functions back home if you're all so emotionally attached.

Yes, it went wrong. But we all made it out. End of story.

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[checkthetapes]

It doesn't.

['function well'. it's a little blunt, okay. The more time he spends here, the more he realizes just how precarious the Ultimates actually are. When they aren't busy publicly executing one of their number, or fighting amongst themselves, or marrying traitors, what is it exactly that holds them together? Pietro has more loyalty for this Steve Rogers than he ever did for the Captain America that lead the Ultimates.]

'Made it out'. You really believe this matter is concluded? Magneto was playing with you. All of you. You didn't make it anywhere. He let you go.

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[hawkwards]

We survived and achieved our objective. In my world, that's a win. Anything else comes afterwards.

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[checkthetapes]

Then you're more of a fool than I realized.