001. video; Public Service Announcement

[cargojet]

Guessing everyone's feeling a little closer to compos mentis now. Great, that's gonna make this a whole lot easier.

My name is Nathan Petrelli. I'm Senator for New York, elected representative of the people, and recently made Head of Homeland Security by the President himself. It's my job to do what's in the best interests of the people, and in this case I figure that's gonna be easier said than done.

I don't want any of you to worry. Once I get up to speed on the details of what's going on here, I intend to get to the bottom of how we got here, why we were brought here, and how to go about getting back. And I mean how and why, not the bullshit they've been feeding you about jumping and wormholes and the ship needing a crew. There's a malicious intent here I'm gonna address, and then I'm getting everyone back where we belong.

I realise we're not all Americans here, and maybe you think I have no jurisdiction, but I earned the right to intervene the moment I woke up with a tube shoved down my throat, just like everyone else. I want to speak to people who know the most about this place, or be directed toward them. Captain Kirk: you're on my list for starters, but I'd rather speak to the real Captain, rather than some washed up wannabe.

Oh, and before I wrap this up, there's one other thing. A few of you will have spoken to my brother, Peter; he got here during the 'jump' previous to this one, and as I understand it he's been pretty liberal with his imagination ever since. Some time ago my brother convinced himself that he could fly. He stood on top of a twelve story building one day, called me up and told me he was going to show me he could do it. He jumped, and he fell - fortunately only as far as the fire escape - and a couple days later woke up in the hospital with minor injuries. It wasn't long after my father's death, right in the middle of my run for Congress, and I guess he was desperate for attention.

What I'm trying to say is that he's had brushes with depression before - it runs in the family - and he's not exactly stable right now. All of this doesn't make it any easier. If everyone could please be delicate with him, take what he says with a grain of salt, and inform me if it sounds like he's planning to do something that might hurt himself or others. I appreciate it.

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[starked]

Let's see, USA, late 2000s, still trapped in Afghanistan and Iraq? And by trapped I mean that in the nicest way possible. See, the only tiny difference between your world and my world is that someone has managed to put the world at peace. Through a bit of talking. And this is with people with powers running about. The only reason your world hasn't gotten with the program is people like you kind of realizing that your ego is actually shit. You have nothing to back it up.

[ the implication that tony does have something to back it up is left unsaid. ]

You waved around the title and acted like that was supposed to make us all fall at your feet. Fun fact: not how it works around here. At all. Because a) you just came here this jump and couldn't take like a minute to read and realize that saying this was really dumb and b) there's people who are better than you who have been here and are working on getting out. And guess whose help we don't really need.

text; 'our worlds are more different than you can ready'? Self? Really?

[cargojet]

I introduced myself, just the same way everyone else does. Only difference is I had to justify putting 'Senator' on the beginning of my name, just like other people would justify putting 'Doctor' on the beginning of theirs.

And how you judge better don't really concern me. You think being smarter, being around here longer, or having a more glitzy superpower makes people more special than each other? It doesn't. Whole world works because there's all kinds of people, staggered, organised, pulling their weight and not complaining about it. Plane can't take off without orders, just like it can't stay in the air unless some guy's refueled it, and he's following orders too. Just like it can't land safely unless there's a team of people in a tower bringing you in.

You got a beef with some guy in the middle, you don't let it get in the way of doing what's gotta be done, and that's exactly what I'm saying here: if you're gonna try make me look like I'm some two-bit-loser for no more reason than your own dislike, try not to shoot yourself in the foot in the process, pal. Cause right now you're just cutting off your nose in spite of your face, and it ain't gonna be pretty.