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[notmyfuture]

This is Steve Rogers.

There is a building marked as Avengers Compound on the map. For those of you who know what that is, you're welcome to use the living quarters on a temporary or permanent basis.

Anyone else who needs a place to stay or access to training facilities built to handle enhanced strength, please contact me or Natasha Romanoff.

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@vdova

[waytodie]

This means me, yes?
I get to terrorize you every day now?

Oooh wait!
Can I host my defense lessons there?? There should be sssooo much space for it!

[notmyfuture]

Yes. Is that what we're calling you trying to sneak up on me?

Sure, pick a place and go for it.

[waytodie]

What else would you call it?

You are the best. Maybe my favorite after moy sestra.

[But surely, he could understand that no one could outrank Natasha to her.]

[notmyfuture]

Oh yeah?

It keeps my day interesting. Not exactly terrified.

[It's amusing at best, and a minor inconvenience at worst. He should know better than to bait a Widow by now, but hey.]

[waytodie]

I speak only truths.

HA! That sounds like a challenge to me.

[notmyfuture]

Could be a competition instead.

[waytodie]

Competitions are fun.

[Ohhh, Steve. Do you even know what you just opened yourself up to?]

polite threadjack! @widow

[blackhourglass]

What would you think about a larger, nicer place to live?

We will be having our lessons here. This is where I've been training people for several years now. I can't wait to show you around. It's a little unkept, but I think you'll still like it.

[waytodie]

I think I need to pick a new room. 😝

You can show me everything, and then we can set up schedules or something. Sort out all the fussy details.

[blackhourglass]

You can have a whole new apartment to yourself if you want, or you can stay with me. I don't mind either way, but I still want you close.

Sounds perfect!

[waytodie]

I'm okay still sharing.

I expect a grand tour.

[blackhourglass]

Good, I like waking up to you in the morning. Your grumpy little face keeps me smiling.

The grandest of them all.

[waytodie]

Mornings are the worst, I don't know why you like them so much.

Holding you to that.

[blackhourglass]

Let's just say I can appreciate the start of each new day a little more now. I've got you, and that makes it even better.

[waytodie]

You are so sappy.

[She doesn’t hate it, but she has that annoying little sister image to protect!]

text: widow

[blackhourglass]

Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday Steven Grant Rogers. Happy Birthday to yooou~ you old man. ♥

I hope you know that you're one of my very best friends and I'd be lost without you. It's pretty great this place showed up just in time for your day. Now if only I could figure out how to put some fireworks out over the water. ;)

[notmyfuture]

Thanks Nat. Right back at you.

It's a pretty big coincidence but I'll take it. And maybe a couple of sparklers.

@hayan; text

[thorncrown]

[Hayan immediately perks up.]

I'd love to try out your facilities then. Practicing on my own is fine but it's a little difficult in the gyms.

[notmyfuture]

Guess it must be hard to cater for everyone showing up here.

You're welcome to drop by, just let me know if the gate isn't open.

[thorncrown]

I can imagine. I got the impression that neither Aurora or Echo were completely sure on what any of us needed in the beginning.

[Or even still considering all the mix-ups and whatnot.]

Thanks! I'm Hayan Park, just in case you have a list or something like that.

[notmyfuture]

Good to meet you.

It's definitely an interesting learning curve. Has anywhere you know showed up here?

[thorncrown]

There is, I didn't realize it was there until recently though. Across the bridge from the apartments there's the Bangsan Market. That's from my world.

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[redvisor]

What sort of training facilities?

[notmyfuture]

General fitness, gymnastics, target practice, a couple of places to spar. Are you looking for something specific?

[redvisor]

I’m good. More curious on the setup you have.

[notmyfuture]

You're welcome to drop by.

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[daughterofliberty]

All work and no play, even on your birthday, Rogers? That can't stand. Maybe the bots can whip up a version of Ebbets Field... you think they know how to play baseball?

Maybe it's better if they don't. Either way, hotdogs and beer on me.

Happy birthday, Steve.

[notmyfuture]

That sounds pretty good, actually. Thanks Sharon.

[A little unnerving how she just knows these things about him, but kind of comforting too. A Steve Rogers is a Steve Rogers.]

Did they have this place in your world? Or the Tower?

[daughterofliberty]

[ Some things just don't change, no matter what universe they're in. ]

Sure, both. But the compound was in California, headquartering the West Coast Avengers.

[ Bobbi and Clint lived there together. She'll have to check in on Bobbi and see how she's feeling about the arrival of this newest building. ]

It's an academy now. I know the tower, too, but when I spent time with the Avengers, it was mostly at the mansion.

[notmyfuture]

[ Strange to think of the team getting big enough to have sub-divisions. An academy might not have been a bad idea either.]

Never had a mansion, and I don't think the helicarrier counted.

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[agoddessonce]

A little slice of home, Captain Rogers? It looks like it has more features than Stark's old mansion did.

If the Xavier Institute gets any more residents, we should arrange for some competitive baseball matches.

[notmyfuture]

So it would seem. He did like his upgrades.

Could get pretty chaotic with everyone's abilities, but it might also be more fun that way. I'm game.

[agoddessonce]

We have rules on the use of powers.

But some things should be embraced, I think. When you are born with certain abilities, you should be able to use them in ways other than combative. Sometimes that includes a friendly game of baseball.

[notmyfuture]

I agree, and hope you don't hold it against people who signed up for them.

[agoddessonce]

Do I seem like I would hold it against these people? When we are just speaking of baseball with or baseball without powers?

@SquirrelPower

[eatsnutsandkicksbutts]

Oh, hey! That's really cool of you to offer, Cap! I might come by the training facilities sometime, if that's cool. Get some punches in

:')

[notmyfuture]

Sure. I don't think we've met yet. How do you know the Avengers?

[Squirrel Power. Surely just a username, right?]

[eatsnutsandkicksbutts]

[ Surely! ]

Oh, shoot! My bad, this must be a multiverse thing. Lemme start over.

I'm Squirrel Girl, nice to meet you! I worked with the New Avengers for a bit? Not sure if they're a thing where you're from.

[notmyfuture]

[...well, if you can have a Spider-Man, you can have a Squirrel Girl.]

Nice to meet you too. They weren't officially called that, but there was a second iteration of the team.

There's a couple of other Avengers around here. You know any of them?

[eatsnutsandkicksbutts]

[ Exactly, it's not weird at all! ]

I've met a few! Before I started officially doing the superhero team stuff, I was a nanny for one of 'em, so I hung around the mansion a lot.

[notmyfuture]

[ There’s that mansion again. And having a nanny there implied someone’s kid actually lived alongside the team, instead of safely squirreled hidden away on a farm or remote cabin. How strange. ]

Hopefully it didn’t get attacked often.

The compound here looks like it was from just before it got blown up.

[eatsnutsandkicksbutts]

[ See, if they were having this conversation in person, Steve would be able to see Doreen's shifty expression and hear the ehhhhhh noise that she makes in response to this, which means... yeah, sorry, that mansion got blown up all the time. ]

I mean, it was PRETTY secure, but they must've had some wicked homeowners insurance, let's just say that.

[notmyfuture]

Hazards of being the Avengers, I guess.

If you don't mind me asking, how did the flip from nanny to superhero happen?

[eatsnutsandkicksbutts]

Oh, no big, I was a superhero first! I'd just left my team and moved to NY. Some of the Avengers - idk how in-depth you want me to go here wrt who they were, given the whole Alternate Universe situation - were looking for a nanny for their baby, I applied, and I got the job! I was like... 17-18 I think??

@everybodysoracle

[furiousfists]

As a curious civilian, I must ask. What exactly is this compound meant to be avenging?

[notmyfuture]

[You know, nobody's really asked that before.]

It was the name of the team. We had some issues with a guy who wiped out half of life in the universe.

[furiousfists]

Oh, right.

Well, that does certainly sound worthy of vengeance.