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This is the place where Emily and Rose will essentially throw characters at each other that they've been meaning to throw at each other for a while, or take their characters and put them in a different setting or any number of shenanigans.

Basically, this is just a reason for them to tag spam each other.

Rose, comment here with who you want to tag them back in the subject line, and I will give them to you. You can give me a scenario if you want, or a prompt for a scenario, or you can just let me make it up. I'm not picky.

READY SET GO.

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asufhouera I WILL GET THIS ALL WRITTEN OUT it is also super long

[whatialways_do]

[1943 – Steve Rogers goes down in the water outside Iceland. The Tesseract is recovered by Howard Stark, but there is no sign of Captain Rogers.

SHIELD elected to contract out to try and replace what they’d lost. Most of the contracts were with reliable and reputable, but not all of them were ethical as they could have liked. This included a small firm in Wyoming working on a genetic engineering project called Manticore.

2000 – Manticore brought its first batch of X5 series transgenics to term. They were arguably their biggest success with this project, despite small malfunctions such as seizures, and other genetic anomalies.

2009 – The Alpha unit of the X5 series escapes from Manticore’s Wyoming facility. They are never fully recovered.

At the same time, a terrorist group sets off an electromagnetic pulse that wipes out America’s financial information and launches the country into an economic depression unlike anything that America has seen in the past seventy years. This event, which will eventually become colloquially known as the Pulse, brings a new age of corruption to the US, where a lot of government programs are eliminated, reallocated and reorganized, including SHIELD.

Manticore takes advantage of the situation, and acquires both SHEILD’s funding and any other projects they were working on. The Tesseract, however, has been reclaimed into private hands, and nowhere to be found.

(Read: Tony Stark probably has it. Which is good, because Manticore having the Tesseract would be REALLY, REALLY BAD.)

2012 – Manticore finds the body of Captain Steve Rogers, and is pleasantly surprised to find he’s still alive, just hibernating. They recover his body and anything left of the ship, and bring him back to their lab in Wyoming. Since they want to get to the bottom of what makes him tick, but don’t want to deal with unimportant ethical things like consent, they keep him on ice for a while.

(Plus, they want to test how much strain his body can actually take and they don’t want to have to worry about him destroying the lab. As far as they’re concerned, it’s a win-win.)

2020 – A group of rogue X5s from the Alpha unit attack the Wyoming lab, destroying their DNA lab. In the process, X5 452 also known as Max Guevara, was captured after suffering a gunshot wound to the heart. She was pronounced KIA upon arrival to the med lab, but was saved when her fellow unit member, X5 599 supplied a heart for her with via gunshot wound to the head. X5 599’s body was taken to the cybernetics lab for further study. After recovering from her transplant, X5 452 was reindoctrinated and sent to join the rest of her unit.

This was probably the biggest mistake Manticore ever made.

After escaping again from Manticore’s Wyoming facility, X5 452 revealed the existence of Manticore through a journalism hack by a news feed known only as “Eyes Only.” As a result, Manticore was forced to cauterize their Wyoming facility, including all the transgenics housed at the facility. X5 452 returned to free her fellow transgenics, and in the process she discovered Captain Rogers, housed in one of Manticore’s labs, completely unconscious.

All of this is how Logan Cale, aka Eyes Only, wound up with a super soldier who had been missing for seventy years in his guest room, and a worried transgenic pacing in the living room. It hadn’t taken much for Logan to hack in and find Steve’s records. The idea that Manticore had kept an actual human like this is even more uncomfortable than some of the things Manticore had done to her, never mind the fact that she wasn’t even sure he was going to wake up.

What she did know, however, is that if he did, it wasn’t going to be easy, so having someone who was not a guy in a wheelchair around might not be such a bad thing.]

[valuedstrength]

[The super solider is blissfully aware of how the world changed during his slumber. In the passing years all he's seen is endless darkness. It was peaceful in a way; certainly a better alternative to reality. It would have broken his heart to see the world he fought so hard to better had gone the other way when Steve presumed he would be old and grey. Of course the chances of that happening for him were unlikely. Thanks to Erksine, it seems he would always have the means to become Captain America and fight to save the world whenever the need arose. The time to recognize that truth is coming quickly as he starts to come out of his hibernation.

It is the pacing that starts to bring Steve's consciousness to the surface. The repetitive noise has no place in the black, dreamless world he's been trapped in all this time. Unconsciously, Steve wants find the source of it. It is a slow process commanding his limbs into action while coming out of his sleep, but not as long as it should be. Again, Erksine had seen to that.

Bright blue eyes flutter open and stare straight ahead at the ceiling. He doesn't know where he is or should be. That thought alone makes him sit straight up out of minor panic. It all floods back then; the death of Schmidt, his call to Peggy and the crash. He promised her a date. Strangely enough out of all of it, the date is what seems important. He had to find out where this is so he could reach Peggy.

Carefully, he starts to move out of the bed. Sneaking out of the room seemed like the best course of action while he has no idea where he is. It's not like he left friendly territory.]

[whatialways_do]

[Max picks up on the movement in the guest room, and stills. So far he doesn't seem to be moving quickly. She isn't sure if that's a good or bad sign, but she'll figure it out soon enough.

She glances over to Logan with a nod.]

He's awake.

[with that, the man in the wheelchair will disappear into his office, leaving Max and Steve to talk, science project to science project.]

Try not to break too much of the furniture.

[valuedstrength]

[That won't be the case for long. Steve is picking up the pace as he heads for the door. He stops there, pressing himself against the wall, and listens. Yeah there's no way he'll be running out if everyone is speaking German on the other side of the door.]

[whatialways_do]

[Nope. No German. Just your regular, every day English.

Or English with Max's own street kid twist, but still English. She hears his pace quicken, and she tenses, just a hair.]

Hey, Logan. Got anything to eat? I'm starving.

[once she's done, she eases her way across the floor, moving with as much feline grace as she can muster. It takes a lot of skill to move quietly in combat boots, but somehow she manages to do it.

She meets the opposite side of the wall, waiting by the door to see if soldier boy will come out swinging.]

[valuedstrength]

[Steve is confused by what he catches through the door. HYDRA wasn't employing women last he checked in this universe anyways. Her English didn't sound off even if they did. Did he make it to America somehow? If he did, who has him? There's just too many things that didn't add up. Coming out peacefully and searching for answers might be the best solution since there seems to be no immediate danger so Steve goes for it.

He slowly turns the knob and gently pushes against the door frame enough to peek through. He hopes to get a good look at the room before doing anything else.]

[whatialways_do]

[Max is planted up against the wall when she hears the door open. Logan is in his Fortress of Solitude, and so all Steve will probably see unless he looks directly to his right right out the gate is an empty living room in a fairly high class apartment.]

[valuedstrength]

[That seems too good to be true after the final fight with HYDRA. Steve can't exactly start knocking things over and picking a fight because something seemed fishy. He keeps looking, his gaze moving from left to... the pretty lady wearing combat boots. He... really didn't see that one coming.]

... Ma'am.

[whatialways_do]

[There's an eyebrow raise at that, and she shakes her head. She's going to nip that in the bud right off the bat.]

Max. Not ma'am.

[valuedstrength]

Sorry, Max. [He straightens up. Steve is no less confused, but if she's correcting names chances are this isn't going to end in a fight which is fortunate; he really wouldn't want to fight a girl.] ... Where are we?

[whatialways_do]

You're in Seattle.

[that's the easy part. The harder part is everything after that.]

For the rest of it you might want to sit down.

[valuedstrength]

Seattle? [Steve isn't going to sit down. He's too lost trying to rationalize how he could get in Seattle of all places.] I don't want to sit down. Just get me Agent Margaret Carter. I need to speak with her.

[whatialways_do]

[Margaret Carter. Max remembered the name on the file, and her face softens a bit, because that's the hard part. All the people who would know him are dead.]

That's the thing. I can't. Probably why you're gonna wanna sit.

[valuedstrength]

[It's be easy to rationalize it that a line was down or this woman was just trying to give him a scare into cooperating. He can't when she gives him a look like that. He's seen that before when a good man fell on the battlefield, when the doctor explain that his mother wasn't getting up...

He braces himself against the door. Steve is shaken. For all his pride and bravado, the thought of losing Peggy especially so soon after Bucky makes him want to curl up on the floor and never get back up again. Somehow he's still standing even though it is clear he should take Max's advice from the way the blood has drained from his face.]

... We beat them. She can't be... We beat them.

[whatialways_do]

No, no -- it's not like that.

[Max very rarely reaches out and touches first, unless she's throwing a punch, but this guy looks like he needs it. She places his hands on his shoulders gently, guiding him towards Logan's couch.]

You won. They didn't get her.

[valuedstrength]

[Steve allows it. He needs something solid to steady him.] Then what happened while I was out?

[whatialways_do]

[She sighs softly, before settling on the coffee table across from him. This isn't going to be easy.]

Almost eighty years passed.

[a beat]

The date is September 15, 2020.

[valuedstrength]

[He settles his gaze on Max looking for any tell. That's not something easy to absorb right away even with proof. It'd probably take something like running out in the middle of Time Square.]

Eighty years. You're expecting me to believe I was asleep for eighty years.

[whatialways_do]

[She knows it's going to be hard to believe. She has a hard time believing that he lasted in the Arctic that long, but according to Manticore's records, he did.]

More like you were frozen? This ... organization had you in stasis. They were trying to figure out what makes you tick.

[she pauses for a moment, trying to see what it would take for her to gain some ground.]

So they could make their -- my project better, I guess.

[valuedstrength]

[The frozen part doesn't get a rise out of him oddly enough. It makes sense that would be the consequence of his decision to send the plane and himself into the ice to save countless lives. Someone grabbing him and experimenting afterward is the part that troubles him. Sure it happened to Bucky, but wouldn't Peggy fight tooth and nail to get him back? Surely the SSR would find out what they are up to.

All that pales to final part. He knew they'd try to make more super soldiers, but frankly Steve never expected them to succeed in his lifetime. Erksine was too ahead of the curve; one of a kind. It'd take decades to.... oh. Suddenly everything Max is saying sounds a bit more plausible. He looks surprised as the realization sinks in that this might add up... perhaps a little fearful too.

It's easier when he's positive this woman is lying to get something out of him.]

You're like me?

[whatialways_do]

Not exactly. According to the records, you were born human and ... enhanced, I guess. I was built.

[she never had the chance to be human, even if she had gotten out of Manticore before they had the chance to turn her into a full soldier.]

They didn't get you until 2012 though, so whatever they found with you was applied more to the batches after me. I escaped in '09.

[valuedstrength]

[Steve frowns. His heart is heavy when she says "built" like they were cars or bikes. He almost says that can't be right. People are people no matter how they came into the world. Instead he asks the obvious question.]

Who's they?

[whatialways_do]

A group called Manticore.

[She doesn't know how connected they are or how far they go, but they're ... fairly embedded.]

[valuedstrength]

[He shakes his head.] Never heard of them. Let me guess they come around after my time? [It's certainly convenient.]

[whatialways_do]

[She nods, before shrugging.]

I was born in 2000? But they were developing years before that.

[She'll have to ask Joshua if he knows when he was born sometime.]