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Moment of Awesome - Doug Ramsey/Cypher In the process of rescuing X-Force teammate David North, Doug interrogates one of the scientists involved. "I was just following orders, is that what you're saying?" Doug asked, then spat disgustedly to one side of the scientist. "Do you even read your history? It was a pitiful excuse seventy years ago, and it is even more pitiful now." He pressed his own gun to the man's throat opposite Wade's and leaned in close. "You injected our friend, and you may very well have killed him, and you expect us to mourn for your colleagues? Do you even know what it was you injected him with?" "The serum," the scientist half-wailed, swallowing convulsively again. Obviously the reminder that he had not one but two guns pressed to his throat did nothing good for his self confidence. "A v-variant. Like Captain America. To see what it did. They said... they said he was expendable." The last word trailed off into a whisper, the man's voice completely failing him as he realized just who he'd said that to and how badly they might react. "Expendable." Doug's voice was nearly a growl, and his fingers flexed around the grip of his pistol. "This is what you are going to do. You are going to tell that young man-" he jerked his head toward Artie. "-everything you know about the variations in the serum. In very detailed and precise English. And if you do that, I will consider not telling the other man with the gun to your throat that you consider our friend expendable, and as a result, just how expendable I find you." He eased backward slightly, then a belated thought came to him. "And once you are done with that, you will tell us who the mysterious 'they' are."