[ The communications device is switched on, the picture on the screen shaking for a moment as he turns it over, checks it's on, and pulls it back to capture enough of him sitting at the edge of a bed in the basic passenger quarter. There is a pile of folded up red, white, and blue, the Captain America uniform especially made for him and his needs sitting beside him, the shield lying beside it, which he pats occasionally as if to ensure that they are still there, holding onto what it is that makes him who he is, the belongings for the world he knows.
His expression is as bemused as his voice sounds when he finally speaks. ]
This is Captain Steve Rogers of the - [ There's a pause, a false start, because he's actually part of the SSR, but as it's top-secret he swallows it back. ] - US military, pulled away from the middle of duty, and I need to find a way to be transported back there immediately. [ The confusion is replaced by something more confident, stern, and with an air of authority. ] Lives depend upon my return. I have a war to help win and I intend to do everything possible to make sure that happens.
[ The video feed shakes, the audio muffled as his hands shift around the device, the microphone picking up the interruption, and he looks around the room, so small and basic, and with another bed besides the one he assumes to be his. And then he looks down to the clothes he's been instructed to wear, the number on his arm, which he holds up and makes a point to show. It reminds him of some of the horrors that he saw in the concentration camps, the branded numbers upon their victims, turned into numbers. ] And I don't appreciate being referred to as a number, I have a name and I intend to keep it. Even the soldiers out fighting for their country are recognised by name alongside their ID number.
His expression is as bemused as his voice sounds when he finally speaks. ]
This is Captain Steve Rogers of the - [ There's a pause, a false start, because he's actually part of the SSR, but as it's top-secret he swallows it back. ] - US military, pulled away from the middle of duty, and I need to find a way to be transported back there immediately. [ The confusion is replaced by something more confident, stern, and with an air of authority. ] Lives depend upon my return. I have a war to help win and I intend to do everything possible to make sure that happens.
[ The video feed shakes, the audio muffled as his hands shift around the device, the microphone picking up the interruption, and he looks around the room, so small and basic, and with another bed besides the one he assumes to be his. And then he looks down to the clothes he's been instructed to wear, the number on his arm, which he holds up and makes a point to show. It reminds him of some of the horrors that he saw in the concentration camps, the branded numbers upon their victims, turned into numbers. ] And I don't appreciate being referred to as a number, I have a name and I intend to keep it. Even the soldiers out fighting for their country are recognised by name alongside their ID number.
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