[ After yesterday's evening of speechcraft, planning, and discussion -- the team decided that Mitch would handle the opening statement, and flanked by his two partners, Hundred looks relaxed at the podium. Dark suit, neutral tie, everything about him screams politician -- but the relaxed air almost feels comfortable. Like going home. He doesn't clear his throat, or drink water, he just goes right for it, when they're given the go-ahead to start. ]

Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman. First off, I want to thank each and every one of you for giving us this opportunity to speak with you -- as well as the other groups of imports that you’ll hear from today. We’re, as a whole, a diverse community, as I’m sure you’ve already gathered. Us three alone are a great picture of not just the diversity of our community, but what we’ve been able to offer to the world at large as well. For those of you that don’t know me, I’m Mitchell Hundred -- ambassador to the City of DeChima and part time Civil-Engineer and Architect -- but in my past I’ve also served as the Mayor of both our previous home, the City, the Mayor of New York City in my own world, and I was later the US Ambassador to the UN. My friend Jeff Winger, here, is the host of Winger Man: Lawyer at Large, as well as a Lawyer with his own practice -- a job he’s held in his own world as well. Our other friend is Raina, a brilliant scientist who works in imPort Cellular research, and worked in science and recruiting peoples with superpowers in her world as well.

I wish I could list more of us, bring more here. In our population, we have CEOs, scientists, politicians, students, children -- there’s imports of every race, gender, and creed. We have imports who were raised in worlds where the laws and rules are different, and some pretty close to this one. We can only each offer our own perspectives, and to that end, I can really only talk about my own -- but I will. What I’m asking from you today is for support. I've been where you're sitting now, and I know it’s difficult, to make a choice like that, given the perspective of who we are -- what some of us are -- and I understand that. But we also need to look at what the United Nations is -- and yes, we understand that stepping into the middle of every conflict isn’t how you operate, and I agree that the UN perhaps shouldn’t.

But that doesn’t mean that there are not situations where you can offer guidance and leadership, and maybe even support. We have the United States at our backs, but the rest of the world hasn’t seen us -- that’s why we’re here in front of most of you today. We’re here, because we want to work with you -- the majority of us desperately want to give what we can to the world. We have businesses, scientists, imports everywhere who are trying to make things better, bringing their talents to the world, to make everyone have a better place here. We’re not asking for much in return -- but a human rights violation like this should be addressed. It needs to be addressed. What if someone else tries this in the future with the citizens of another country? Ten, fifteen years down the line, who’s to say that we haven’t spread out -- had families, by then? What if this happens again? What if this moment is the justification that says that the UN won’t do anything? Because people have been kidnapped en-masse, and nothing was done? A war started an escalated, or even if nothing happens from this now, something will later. Every action in the global sphere has a consequence eventually. We’re not asking for troops, we’re asking for support. We don’t need you to start a war for us. We want you to help us, like you did in my world -- in Cyprus, or during the Indo-Pakistani War. Neither of these started a war, but they ended one. Maybe not the larger war itself, but if we can prevent another war from starting, isn’t that important?

Right now the United States is likely looking all over for the missing imports -- people were taken from their beds by a force we can’t find or understand yet. We’re looking for our missing people, but we can’t do it without help, or even just support. We want to help this world, hell, I want to offer everything that I can to make this world a better place. But can’t we be offered safety and security in its stead? Inaction is just as bad as acting too far, I don’t want us to become a failure on the UN’s ledger, but instead a success. We need your help to do this. We ask that you don’t turn a blind eye to acts of aggression -- Article 39 of the UN charter says that the Security council will determine if there’s a threat to the peace -- and how to deal with it. If kidnapping people from their homes, over fifty of them, isn’t a threat to peace, then I’m not sure what is. I’ve seen my own share of human rights violations -- I saw terrorist attacks on American soil -- and stopped one in my own world -- but we aren’t capable of handling this alone. We want to follow the laws and the rules that this world holds for us, but how can we do that when we’re hunted like possessions to be taken, kidnapped and captured without any word to our friends or families? Some of us have families here, others of us are leaders, like myself and the other ambassadors. Will it stop with just this round of kidnapees? What’s happening to our fellow imports? I worry about import threats as much as any native here -- but we don’t know if the people who’ve been taken will come back the same. What if they aren’t? We can only ask what ifs until our friends and companions are returned to us. We can’t predict what’s happening because we don’t know, other than the fact that they do not want to be there. They’ve been allowed to communicate that they aren’t happy where they’re at, and that should say enough, that they should be returned safely. If they aren’t… who’s to say that the next batch of people kidnapped could be from somewhere else -- another population? We may be the first targeted, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be the last, but we could be, with your intervention.

[ He paused, then, a shift, while he considered, before he spoke. ]

We know an import who recently predicted trouble for us -- that our powers would be taken, and they approached me regarding what’s happened to our imports. They told me that we could see people die -- imports would be killed. And no matter whether you die and do or don’t come back -- experiencing that before your time is harrowing, and asking people to go through that, after being held captive? I can’t imagine making that choice right now. [ He leaned forward, slightly, hands open, a slight gesture of plea. ] That’s why we’re asking for your help. Please don’t make us do this alone.

At the end of the day, we want to change the world for the better -- and we know you want to do so too -- and we can do that together, if we stand as a united front, we can be stronger together, and I think that’s what we and you could do together, if you support us now in our time of need. But I know all of you have concerns, and we'd be happy to address them with you all.

[ And then, it was time to wait. ]