Luke Cage

Sure was. I'd forgotten how bad my asthma used to get. [Alright, it's sort of a joke, because honestly, he makes it a point not to forget where he came from. Because that would mean forgetting Bucky, and Peggy, and Howard, and he's not sure he'd ever like to do that.]

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Yeah well, you've come a lot farther than most in a lotta ways.

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I've never felt where I came from impacted where I went.

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So you think you'd have ended up where you are now even if you'd been raised in a completely different way?

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I think there's only so many places a person like me can go.

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I think it's healthy to keep in mind that you can learn something from any experience, whether it's good or bad. I wouldn't have minded being a little kid again, even in a place like this.

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Really? What do you mean a person like you?

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Yeah, I'm with you. I probably would've had more fun here if I hadn't been such a little knucklehead coming up.

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I guess I have. It was still kinda nice, though.

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Now that I've got your attention, I had a question for ya.

I've already talked to Stark, but who else aside from you and him are from the same world?

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I mean no matter where I grew up or who raised me I'm pretty sure I'd have ended up here anyway.

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I bet I would have loved being away from home.

Actually, I probably would have done most of the same stuff I do now when I'm bored.

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So you think you were, more or less, destined to be where you are now?

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That's a little too metaphysical for my tastes. Let's just call it inevitable.

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Oh yeah? What sorta stuff do you do when you're bored now?

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Yeah, no offense but I don't buy into that for a second.

We've all gotta say in who we become. Everything about my life coming up pretty much had "career criminal" written all over it. Hell, I wanted to be one for the longest time.

But then I made the choice not to be that man. We've all gotta choice. And anyone that tells you it's easy to make the right choices is full of shit cause half the time we aren't sure which choice even is the right one.

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Run around in circles and annoy people. [ Running on the track and... well, bothering people. ]

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You just made the choice, hm? For it one moment, against it the next? Forgive me for not buying into that. There was some catalyst to make you change your mind.

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Well, uh -- there's Natasha, and Clint, and Dr. Banner, now, too. Natasha doesn't know me yet, though, neither does Clint.

And I suppose Erik Lensherr and Charles might be, but I'm not certain about that.

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I came to realize that I was hurting my family and the way I was going really didn't have a future. If there was a catalyst, it was me growing up.

My best friend made the opposite choice and chose to stay in that world.

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[Yeah, he gets a good laugh out of that.]

Nice.

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Whoa, backup a sec. Bruce Banner's back?

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What can I say? I age well.

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Sure is, he got here a few weeks ago. Just before we all got turned into kids.

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I hear ya.

It's weird having half a dozen people on board that I know, but who don't know me.

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Oh, you --..yeah, I know what you mean. Barton and Romanov don't know me yet.

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Well, you guy appear to be from a whole other universe, so I may not even exist in yours. Or I could and just be a regular joe.

Either way, it's nice to finally get the chance to talk to you. We're pretty cool back where I'm from.

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