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Good luck with that, boss.

You are speaking my language. Which, just for the record is english. In case you or anyone was wondering.

Ditto. Wish Super Villains knew the concept of Lazy Sundays. Doctor Doom can go chill in a hot tub or something.

Sometimes I just want to lay down, right in the middle of the street and just forget the world is blowing up, for just a second, ya know?

Thanks for not making me feel old. I see guys like you out there and I gotta wonder if I'm sleepy 'cause ol' Hawkeye's gettin' up there.

I'm not, by the way.

I don't want to think too hard about that, O'Grady. Doom. Helmet, chain, and nothin' else.

Old? Well. Not as old as Steve...

But yeah no. Naps are more important than starch.

No one's as old as Steve. Well, okay, that's not true, but Thor and those guys don't really count.

I like both? Keeps the blood flowing and the body goin'.

Oh. They count, but it seems unfair to compare a guy to a god, right?

Story of my life. You try fighting next to him.

Yeah.... I'll take a big old Pass on that one.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't pass it up, but a pass might be the smarter choice.

Your guys make a lot more sense together. At least this crew?

Can you, like, do it not in the middle of the street? Cause that's a PR nightmare right there.

You know what I mean. If I didn't do it right there, it'd never happen.

Well in a fight and having the options of Thor and No Thor, I'll be the guy to take Thor.

Yeah the New Warriors are kind of... They're a good group of kids, you know?

Yeah. I know what you mean. Can we just find an island somewhere and ignore all this crap?

He has his drawbacks, but, yeah. Me too.

Those guys seem like a good step after the Academy. More combat-ready, less PE-ready.

Islands aren't all what they're cracked up to be. I just want my bed. No frills. No phone. Just me, my pillow, and a locked door.

Anyone is a fight is usually better than no one.

...Hummingbird's young. Really young. And Nova's still a kid... But he's doing pretty good. At least as good as Me when I started this stuff.

Nova. Right. New kid. I mean, kid-kid.

He's good?

Yeah. Not-Rich. He's got a ways to go before he's Rich. By the way, if you need to rile him up at some point? Richard Rider... make it into a dick joke. Works. Every. Time.

Yeah. Nova's got guts. I worry about him though. All of them. Hazmat and Nettle could usually figure out just how fucked they were in a fight they can't win... these kids not so much. It's still an adventure to them. They haven't gotten hurt yet.

Ouch. That's tough. I was really grateful that those kids knew that bad stuff happens. I feel like I'm destroying the world when new guys don't know that things go very bad.

Nova and Hummingbird... I don't want them to see things go bad.

In our line of work... [Clint shakes his head, trying not to voice the horrible truth lingering on his lips.]

I know you'll do your best to keep them safe.

I almost got them killed.