AN: This is basically a ripoff of DC: The New Frontier, or rather the ending to the animated version, but I always really liked that ending, and I wanted to try making my own version.
The Daily Bugle, New York Edition, November 23d, 1963. Daily 12 Cents, Sunday Edition 25 Cents
HEADLINE: HEROES!
BUGLE FRONT PAGE: [A photograph showing The Avengers in Dallas shortly after the battle against the Masters of Evil. Captain America can be seen in the foreground shaking hands with Secret Service Agent Clint Hill. Mr. Sunshine has an arm draped around Spider-Man's shoulders, flashing a v-sign at the camera. Behind them, Thor and Iron Man can be seen talking to eachother. Wasp is hugging Giant-Man at the top-right of the photo.]
PHOTO CREDIT: Unknown.
KENNEDY: The pioneers gave up their safety, their comfort, and sometimes their lives, to build our New West. They were determined to make the New World strong and free, an example to the world! Some would say those struggles are all over, that all the horizons have been explored, that all the battles have been won, that there is no longer an American Frontier...
SCREEN: [A tall, well-built man with a receeding hairline, dressed in a business suit, is shown looking out of a panoramic window with the words STANE INTERNATIONAL written on it]
KENNEDY: Yet we stand today, on the edge of a New Frontier...
SCREEN: [President Kennedy is awarding Captain America the Presidential Medal Of Freedom on the lawn of the White House. The Avengers are shown applauding in the background.]
KENNEDY: A Frontier of unknown opportunities and perils... Beyond that Frontier, are uncharted areas of Science and Space...
SCREEN: [The Fantastic Four are shown at the bottom of the screen, engaged in battle with the Super-Skrull. In the background, the looming figure of a Skrull and a Kree armada facing eachother can be seen. Behind them, Uatu The Watcher is shown, solemnly observing the scene. Further behind him, a vague shape resembling a bird made from fire can barely be seen]
KENNEDY: Unsolved problems of peace and war...
SCREEN: [Victor Von Doom is shown lounging on his throne , surrounded by his robotic minions]
KENNEDY: Unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice...
SCREEN: [Another split screen, showing The Hate-Monger and an army of white robes on one side, and a bald man with a monocle on the other, a symbol of a skull with tentacles showing prominently on his uniform, an army of men in green robes behind him, each one of them carrying the same symbol]
KENNEDY: I'm asking each of you, to be pioneers towards that New Frontier! My call is for the young of heart, regardless of age...
SCREEN: [A group of teenagers consisting of a dark-skinned boy wearing glasses, a pale girl with dark hair, a heavyset girl with glasses, a muscular blonde boy, a tall blonde girl, and a short, younger girl with brown hair are shown, accompanied by a dinosaur resembling a Velociraptor]
KENNEDY: To carry through in an age where we'll witness not only new breakthroughs in weapons of destruction...
SCREEN: [Bolivar Trask is shown, standing in front of a massive robot, the original Master Mold, with two Sentinels flanking him]
KENNEDY: But also, a mastery of the sky and the rain...
SCREEN: [Ororo Monroe, AKA Storm, in mid-battle against a Sentinel]
KENNEDY: The ocean and the tides...
SCREEN: [Namor is leading an army of Atlanteans out of the ocean, towards the harbor of New York, where the Fantastic Four awaits, ready to oppose him]
KENNEDY: The far side of space...
SCREEN: [The massive form of Galactus is shown towering over Earth, the small figure of the Silver Surfer drifting past the lower part of the screen]
KENNEDY: And the inside of men's minds...
SCREEN: [Professor Xavier is shown with the modern-day Cerebro on his head, his expression in deep focus. Behind him are the looming figures of Cassandra Nova, Emma Frost, Quentin Quire, and the Shadow King]
KENNEDY: All mankind waits on our decision! A whole world looks to see what we shall do! And we cannot fail that trust! And we cannot fail to try!392