[IC] Pre-intro

[stupidcupid]

[ you're being watched ]

Comments

[stupidcupid]

Just wondering why you have no back-up. You have no one. You can rave about the light and truth, but the truth is?

You're on your own. Easy pickings.

[trickor]

Do you plan to pick me, Agent Barton?

[stupidcupid]

If I could, I'd rip you apart myself.

But I can't. I'll just find someone else to do it for me.

[trickor]

Please, be my guest. Do keep in mind though: the past month has been one of peace--at least from me. Should you incite battle, war, you bring it upon yourself. I'll not be the one to mourn and grieve, to bear the weight of any casualties or consequences.

[stupidcupid]

How come you're Gandhi now?

[trickor]

Who?

[stupidcupid]

For a guy who wants to take over, learn our culture first.

[trickor]

Conquerors impose their own culture upon the conquered.

[stupidcupid]

And that always works out. Sure.

[trickor]

[flat smile]

[stupidcupid]

Thought so. Preach it all you like, you still lost.

[trickor]

Do you really wish to get into that again? Now?

[stupidcupid]

[ haaaaaaaaaate yoooooooooou ]

I don't know. Do you?

[trickor]

I was offering peace. You are the one pushing for war.

[stupidcupid]

Uh-huh.

What did the Tessaract show you?

[trickor]

A world made free.

[stupidcupid]

Of what? Of who?

I think you're looking for a world free of people like you.

[trickor]

I was told that, here, there are always men like me.

[stupidcupid]

That's right.

[trickor]

Do you plan to exterminate them all?

[stupidcupid]

That's not how it works, otherwise we would have killed you from the start.

[trickor]

I'm terribly curious: why didn't you kill me?

[trickor]

Well, not you, clearly. But your people. Your organization.

[stupidcupid]

It's not my call to make, it was Fury's. You're better off asking him than me.

[trickor]

I shall, upon his arrival.