"Friends watching from home, this channel has yet to receive any official or reliable information. We are doing everything we can to verify the situation with America's Department of Supernatural Power Order Regulation and Crime Suppression."
"Yes, everything you are seeing on your screens is real, and it only came to an end a little over an hour ago. This is not footage from a movie. Cairo, Egypt, has now been completely reduced to ruins."
In the council chamber at the Manhattan headquarters of Order Whip in New York, Erik Lehnsherr, the Rogers couple, Bucky, Raven, and the others all turned to look at the current scenes of Cairo displayed on the enormous screen, filmed from afar or high in the air by television stations from America and around the world.
"—A cluster of palace-like structures resembling ancient pyramids now stands where the city center once was. CNN reporters are risking their lives to capture this unbelievable scene from a helicopter."
"Reports indicate that Egypt's military and armed forces have just launched their first wave of attacks, and have now been completely wiped out. Government agencies have been utterly paralyzed, and the Egyptian presidential palace—"
"Erik, I still insist that we wait for our teacher to return before going to Cairo together. You've seen that man's power. He doesn't merely control metal like you do, he also—"
"Steve, my name isn't 'Iron King.'"
Erik Lehnsherr wore light armor. He had already cleaned up the rough, unkempt face he had worn when he first emerged from seclusion. A dark-red full-face helmet rested quietly on the octagonal conference table before him as he crisply cut Steve off and continued, "You all heard the message Emma sent back. Dad's condition is still unknown, and she'll remain in the Mirror Dimension to stay by