"You don't always get to pick who you work with when it comes to business and politics. The best thing I can say about Ross is he isn't Hydra. Sweeping all those connected officials out left a power vacuum." Could anyone honestly be surprised he stepped up to what he thought he deserved?
"It wasn't about being the suit it was about for once thinking I wouldn't need it to get through a situation. The one time I think we have shit handled, that I figure Rogers has his head on straight and we can talk through it, get through it-" Face to face with an armed supersoldier with hallow eyes that fired without flinching. Jesus. "It gets worse. So much worse. I'm...either we round up who we have left and collect them quietly- or another task force is assembled to do it. Military. This wasn't above board entirely but a lot of shit was getting flung around and again, people were terrified. Suddenly the Winter Soldier who's already killed once is on the loose, Captain America is missing, and the Avengers are a hot fucking mess. Rogers calls in Barton from retirement and Scott Lang. Romanoff, for reasons I don't fucking agree with, called in T'challa. Who was out for blood because he thought Barnes killed his father. I call in a pitch hitter as a show of force and a reminder that there are more people these Accords would affect other than us. Because it wasn't supposed to become a fight."
But it...when it was Rogers feeling like his back was against the wall? It would always, always become a fight.
"...We catch up with them at an airport in Germany. We get the place evacuated and I try, again, to talk Rogers down. To de-escalate. It doesn't work."
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"It wasn't about being the suit it was about for once thinking I wouldn't need it to get through a situation. The one time I think we have shit handled, that I figure Rogers has his head on straight and we can talk through it, get through it-" Face to face with an armed supersoldier with hallow eyes that fired without flinching. Jesus. "It gets worse. So much worse. I'm...either we round up who we have left and collect them quietly- or another task force is assembled to do it. Military. This wasn't above board entirely but a lot of shit was getting flung around and again, people were terrified. Suddenly the Winter Soldier who's already killed once is on the loose, Captain America is missing, and the Avengers are a hot fucking mess. Rogers calls in Barton from retirement and Scott Lang. Romanoff, for reasons I don't fucking agree with, called in T'challa. Who was out for blood because he thought Barnes killed his father. I call in a pitch hitter as a show of force and a reminder that there are more people these Accords would affect other than us. Because it wasn't supposed to become a fight."
But it...when it was Rogers feeling like his back was against the wall? It would always, always become a fight.
"...We catch up with them at an airport in Germany. We get the place evacuated and I try, again, to talk Rogers down. To de-escalate. It doesn't work."