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[pursuitofcappiness]

[ Action, 627 Topper ]

[ Uh yeah, so Steve is waking up next to a drone for the first time and falls out of bed because hey, wasn't he in 2012 a second ago? And wasn't he, you know, taller? He's going to do the right thing this time, which is not freak out and tear a hole through the wall, probably because it would kill him to do so.

Instead, he will walk downstairs and snoop around and-- there's a picture of him on the wall, smiling, with his 'wife' and two kids.

He sees a rotary dial on the phone and he picks up to call numbers he remembers from 2012. And then numbers he remembers from 1943. And then zero. And then hangs up and goes to rifle through anything he can find in the shoeboxes of the downstairs closet to tell him where he is and why he's there.

Have fun waking up to your new dad sifting through files all over the kitchen table. ]

[ Action, around town ]

[ He doesn't believe this for a second. But this isn't just any sort of thing; he's small again. Someone's trying to make him forget. So he walks around town, because the one thing he needs right now is to get out of town. ]

Excuse me. Do you know the way to the train station?

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Around town

[redwhiteandhero]

No train station, buddy. They got us stuck in this place somehow; you're not gonna get out that easy.

Re: Around town

[pursuitofcappiness]

Why... don't they want us to leave?

Re: Around town

[redwhiteandhero]

God knows. I could swear the Reds are behind it, but they say it ain't. It's somethin' sinister, anyhow. You just get here?

Re: Around town

[pursuitofcappiness]

Yeah, I just got here. I'm Steve. Steve Rogers.

[redwhiteandhero]

... Steve Rogers?

[pursuitofcappiness]

Yeah. It's nice to meet you, um...

[redwhiteandhero]

I'm America!

[pursuitofcappiness]

...It's nice to meet you, America.

That's a nice name.

[ Holds out hand ]

[redwhiteandhero]

And you're Captain America! I knew it! I knew I'd meet you someday! [Have an extra-firm handshake. He's excited.]

[pursuitofcappiness]

Well. Not like this...

[ But he gets his hand shaken wow that is pretty firm bro don't break him.

But this only affirms that the serum did happen and all that wasn't a dream he woke up from. ]

I'm sorry I couldn't be what you expected, sir.

[redwhiteandhero]

[Oh. He stops and gives Steve a once-over. Yup, he's scrawny alright. Sorry about the handshake there buddy. ]

What happened?

[pursuitofcappiness]

I was hoping you could tell me. I just woke up here.

[redwhiteandhero]

[He stops and thinks for a moment.]

It's the town. They took away my nationhood, they took away your super-soldier... hood.

You get stuff back in the mail. I dunno how it works, but it does.

[pursuitofcappiness]

...I'll get the serum back in the mail?

Why would they give it back to me if they want me trapped here?

[redwhiteandhero]

Well, I dunno. But I'm working on it!

[pursuitofcappiness]

--What are you working on?

[redwhiteandhero]

Solving the mystery and saving the town!

[pursuitofcappiness]

I'll try to help you with that anyway I can, Mr. America.

[redwhiteandhero]

I knew I could count on you, Captain.

[pursuitofcappiness]

[ nods ]

And I'll keep a lookout for any packages.

[ 'Cause he'll need them. ]

[redwhiteandhero]

They usually come after the weird stuff happens.

[pursuitofcappiness]

...Weirder than this?

[redwhiteandhero]

Yeah... like a month ago there was this weird carnival... and before that there was zombies... and there's been other stuff too. You gotta be careful.

[pursuitofcappiness]

Zombies don't seem like they'd fit here well.

[redwhiteandhero]

It looks normal most of the time, but y'can't let that get your guard down.