"Hey," Steve says gently, and it's hard to tell which of them he's talking to. "Slow down a sec."
He looks tired, but he's dredging up a pained little smile. "You're gonna hate me by the end of this," he tells the younger Steve. "One way or another. We were lucky, during the war. You know damned well we were lucky. We ran a lot of missions that were dangerous, and...we got hit real hard on one of them. But we never had to send anyone on a suicide mission. We never had to ask anyone to do what we couldn't do ourselves. We never had to compromise."
He shakes his head. "This is different, and I'm sorry. But listen. Thanos' M.O. is to go from planet to planet with his armies and kill half the population, without prejudice and without mercy. He doesn't need the Infinity Stones to do it--they're just a matter of making the end result quicker and easier on him. Making sure he can get to every planet. And this world is not ready to face him. If he comes here, we may or may not lose, but either way the death toll will be incalculable."
"We don't trade lives. I'm not suggesting we trade lives, and neither is Tony. What we're saying is we are already in a war that the rest of the planet knows nothing about. We have limited resources and limited backup, we are ridiculously outgunned, and our strategy has to be to buy time. Whatever we can do to save civilian lives, we'll do. But this isn't a fight we can stop before it starts."
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Date: 2018-07-23 08:43 pm (UTC)He looks tired, but he's dredging up a pained little smile. "You're gonna hate me by the end of this," he tells the younger Steve. "One way or another. We were lucky, during the war. You know damned well we were lucky. We ran a lot of missions that were dangerous, and...we got hit real hard on one of them. But we never had to send anyone on a suicide mission. We never had to ask anyone to do what we couldn't do ourselves. We never had to compromise."
He shakes his head. "This is different, and I'm sorry. But listen. Thanos' M.O. is to go from planet to planet with his armies and kill half the population, without prejudice and without mercy. He doesn't need the Infinity Stones to do it--they're just a matter of making the end result quicker and easier on him. Making sure he can get to every planet. And this world is not ready to face him. If he comes here, we may or may not lose, but either way the death toll will be incalculable."
"We don't trade lives. I'm not suggesting we trade lives, and neither is Tony. What we're saying is we are already in a war that the rest of the planet knows nothing about. We have limited resources and limited backup, we are ridiculously outgunned, and our strategy has to be to buy time. Whatever we can do to save civilian lives, we'll do. But this isn't a fight we can stop before it starts."