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[The video feed cuts on to reveal a very confused-looking young man just barely out of his teens wearing a rather ornate set of heavily-decorated Aztec clothes, including a heavily feathered headdress.]

Okay, whatever's going on...I'm pretty sure I never signed up to replace...

[Ronnie looks at the paper again and frowns because as far as he can tell someone just decided to spill Scrabble tiles everywhere and use that to make up a name. Mxyzptlk wasn't even that bad in comparison...]

Hui...hr...hooo...heetz?...heetzilla?...uh...that.

[He jabs at the name on the paper by way of explanation. "Huitzilopochtli" is a mouthful, and it is clear he will likely fail forever at pronouncing it.]

And if there's anyone else out there, don't worry--I'm pretty sure the Justice League's going to be along to rescue us real soon. Weirdo mass kidnappings like this are bound to get their attention.

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Nah, not really. They're good people.

[Because he believes in his friends, very much so.]

Yeah, I'd guess we'd all prefer our own worlds.

Thank goodness for that, then. Imagine if your saviors were naught but tyrants and monsters!

Nah, those are the sorts of guys the League goes and takes care of.

[Talking about yourself like this is weird.]

Still, it must be hard for someone that has that kind of power. How easily can they define their own humanity? Because normal humans can't be held to that same standard, after all.

At least, those are the things I've read in some stories analyzing the concepts of heroes. Those were always interesting.

[Ronnie frowns, possibly looking a little personally insulted.]

Hey, they're just people. Yeah, they can do a lot of crazy stuff, but...they're just people at the end of the day. Normal people.

[Seimei doesn't seem to particularly catch on to that, but he does chuckle as if amused.]

They see themselves as normal, you mean?

Well...yeah. Sure, they can do some pretty crazy stuff, but you're still just a guy at the end of the day even if you can throw around blasts of atomic energy.

I see. It sounds like you understand them very well, then...

Yeah, I guess you could say I do.

From personal experience?

Yeah, a lot of my best friends are in the League.

[And he met them all while he was in it, too. Works.]

Oh, really? So close to such powerful people. Risky. Or thrilling?

Ah, thrilling, for the most part. There's a lot of really cool stuff that goes on.

I mean, you haven't lived until you've seen the Earth from space. It's amazing...and it kind of reminds you of what needs to be protected, y'know?

So you've gone into space? That's interesting.

Well...yeah. The League's base is in space. It used to be a satellite, but now it's a stationery base on the moon.

So you work for the League?

Yeah, I guess you could say that.

And I'm guessing you can't tell me what your job is.

'Fraid not. Classified information and all that.

[And also protecting one's secret identity as a superhero. That is important too.]

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