STRIKE Team Alpha
Disclaimer: I don't own Marvel, the Avengers, or Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or Supernatural and the Winchester Brothers' Sam and Dean. This is an AU so stuff after Civil War hasn't happened yet and will not happen. The Avengers now know Coulson is Alive. Does not follow story line past Captain America Civil War, so keep that in mind while reading folks.
Prologue - The Beginning
Day 1 in Dry Dock
Tony Stark never thought he'd be in this position when he was a kid. He came out to the flight deck to think, to clear his head. Hell, he didn't think he'd have done half the things he did after he turned 21. Here he stood on the flight deck of the helicarrier nicknamed the Praetorian looking out over the ocean. Large expanses of water used to bother him, stemming from his time in captivity in Afghanistan back in 2008. Not anymore. 'God that seemed like so long ago now' he thought to himself as the cool wind whipped at his face.
He shoved his hands further into his tactical pants pockets to shield them from the air. They were in dry dock for the next week, doing routine maintenance and resupplying and restocking the carrier. With a 5,000 plus crew, that was airborne 24/7 for 182 days give or take, Tony wondered how the crew didn't go steer crazy. Or how people weren't air sick. 'Guess it's just like getting your 'sea legs' but in the air after a few weeks' he thought. It just became normal, in their not so normal world of Gods and Aliens and Supernatural beings. Yes, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and banshees were real. The Winchester brothers, could attest to that.
If only Howard could see him now. Tony Stark, Billionaire, Genius, Husband, Philanthropist…Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., yeah, he definitely didn't think he'd be here, even though it was 2017. A lot had happened last year, the Clash of the Avengers people were calling it, the Civil War is what Barton had called it. The Winter Soldier becoming Bucky Barnes again and Tony finding out that The Winter Soldier had killed his parents. He'd had a particularly emotional call with his twin brother AJ Stark, about that. It took all of Tonys' older brother skills and placating to calm his brother down. Not to have him hop on a plane and come down and beat up the poor man. Tony realized it wasn't Bucky, but the Winter Soldier programming that had killed his parents, killed his mother and Jarvis. Not James Barnes. That's what he wanted to be called from now on James, he was James now, he wasn't Steves' Bucky anymore.
That had been an adjustment for Steve, but he'd eventually learned to accept it as who his best friend was now. The Sokovia Accords had been amended to something that Steve could agree on therefore sign along with his faction of the Avengers. Now that everyone agreed, Steve and the others were no longer fugitives and could come out of hiding. They were also acquitted of any of the charges brought against them leading up to the Clash of the Avengers at the airport. That had been good news, and Laura was glad to have her husband back and Lila and Cooper were glad to have their father back. So was little Nathaniel Barton as well. Even though he was a baby and wouldn't remember much.
The Avengers now all one team again had found out that Coulson was alive and that he was Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a time. That had gone over really well with everyone. Not at all, it had been five years at that point, that everyone had thought Phil had died on the helicarrier in the attack before the Battle of New York.
Either way Coulsons' reign as Director didn't last long, because the general public still believed he was dead. Oh, yeah which included his younger brother Dan, his wife Shelly, and their twin boys Patrick and Ricky. Dan had punched his older brother in the face when he'd shown up their Florida vacation house in a crisp suit and a robotic hand. Needless to say, they had a long talk about loyalty and lying and it thankful didn't end in Phil getting injured. Now Dan expected regular updates from Phil about how he was doing and what was happening in his life. Phil had agreed he really hadn't liked lying Dan and Shelly and the kids either. They were his own real blood family he had left.
After Coulsons' brief reign, he resigned telling President Ellis that the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. should be someone the people can trust. He volunteered Captain America seeing as he was no longer a fugitive and then James could take up the mantel of Captain America, but that was too much too soon for James. Turned out that the General Glen Talbot had someone else in mind one Jeffrey Mace. Coulson and Mace had butt heads in the beginning, but they'd learned to trust and rely on one another. It seemed like Mace was just a natural people person and loved being in front of a camera. It was perfect.
Until it wasn't, a man by the name of Holden Radcliffe had been built this android Aida in secret from the team, not including Fitz though, and it had turned on them all. Like all wacked out androids created by every mad scientist ever. Which had led into the Framework reality universe which from what Tony had heard was absolutely topsy turvy. Ass backwards. Where Hydra had won against S.H.I.E.L.D. in the S.H.I.E.L.D. - Hydra war back in 2014. Fortunately, everyone was able to get out, everyone except Mace who had sacrificed himself to save some kids and other Agents in the Framework. Now if you died in the fake reality you also died in the real world too. Jeffrey Mace had lived up to his name the Patriot that day.
Now there was a large marble slab erected in the late Directors' honor in both the Manhattan field office lobby and the Triskelion quad in Washington, D.C. Those two areas being the most trafficked in both locations. His name was also added to the Wall of Valor along with other Agents like Agent Lincoln Campbell, Agent Nathan Burrows, Agent Antoine Triplett and Agent Victoria Hand. All the facilities and buildings that S.H.I.E.L.D. acquired had been rebuilt those that needed it anyway and all had been resupplied with Stark level security, that meant biometric scans and facial recognition, that was just the basics.
That didn't even account for the heavy-duty security and defenses, that Agents and Troopers didn't know about. But, that was the thing the security measures weren't supposed to be intrusive to everyday life and goings on of S.H.I.E.L.D. For the most part they weren't. It was just nobody wanted a repeat of Hydra is all. For the most part everybody understood that.
Which was a good thing, the only aspect of S.H.I.E.L.D. that was lacking now or in short supply were the STRIKE teams. There were all of three now considering most of the STRIKE unit was previously Hydra. Three teams and that included the infamous STRIKE team Delta. Sergeant Barnes now had his own team, STRIKE team Charlie, and then there was STRIKE team Beta. STRIKE team Beta consisted of the Hawkeyes' merry henchmen. The men that had helped infiltrate the helicarrier five years ago, were now their own fully functional STRIKE team.
Still three teams weren't enough for the whole of SHIELD. Agents got old and were put on inactive rosters or they were killed in action. It was a fact of life as an Agent. SHIELD would always be needed would always be around and therefore would need a new STRIKE team. STRIKE team Alpha, would be that team. That's what Director Stark had decided, if they were going to combat this new threat that scientists were going on about.
A diverse group of individuals, unique and valuable in their own ways. Strong alone, but together, together this team would do tremendous things.
(Read this before submitting) Background Information for STRIKE Team Alpha on the Story you are submitting characters for. At the top of your Submission Form put All SHIELD Agents are field agents, so I know you read this.
ALL SHIELD Agents are Field Agents first and foremost no matter their job or the division in which they work except for the Infantry they're different. Meaning all SHIELD applicants will have gone through basic Field Agent training at either their respective Academy of Operations, Sci-Tech, or Communications. Or for those Agents not in those three academies at a training facility in Houma, Louisiana. The training for Trainees not at the Academies is 13 weeks. And treated very much like any military recruit training program, but with more Intelligence work thrown in here and there.
Keep this in mind when creating your OC's please.
This story takes place in the current year 2017, a month before the Anniversary of Clash of Avengers and the subsequent Battle at the Hydra Siberian facility between Barnes, Rogers and Tony Stark. I'm trying to keep with the timeline of the movies, but it's hard, so I'm changing a few things up. Mainly AOS (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) team gets out of the Framework sooner like late January early February. Mace still dies in the Framework though. Instead of May 9th being the date of his death it's February 9th.
Just so I can give Tony more time to adjust as being the new Director, although he is still thrown into the role rather fast. Plus, add on the fact that Coulson is and has been alive for five years and hasn't told his old team. Fourth months isn't all that much time, but he worked closely with Coulson to get him up to speed on what he'd been doing as far as S.H.I.E.L.D. went. Hill is named the Deputy Director. Coulson is made Field Commander (which just means he's put in charge of a large group of Intelligence Agents, and handling their missions and operations), after it's run though the U.N. and everything.
Sokovia Accords are law not just for the Avengers and super-powered people, but they effect S.H.I.E.L.D. too. As an agency, they can no longer go wherever and whenever they want anymore, and conduct off the books missions. Everything has to go through committees and get approval. The highest-ranking members within the Intelligence Division and the Infantry Division are the only ones that can go straight to the top and over the heads of the various committees to get operations and missions sanctioned, and expedited.
S.H.I.E.L.D. has gone back to the numeric level security system. To me honestly, I could never wrap my head around why they changed it besides to be 'fairer to personnel', it's just so much easier to understand, than Mace's color coded system. So, Level 10 is Director Level 9 is Deputy Director and so on and so forth. Level 1 access for the potential recruit/applicant, having very little to no access to anything classified. Only having contact with their recruiter, and access to pre-training centers to get them in shape, if they're not SHIELD FIT. Kind of like the DEP program or delayed entry program for the military.
At least 3 of the oc's must have military background, Army, Marine Corps, Navy etc. There is a reason for this one stipulation on character submission. There is a method to the madness as they say.
Follow these eight remarkable people on their journey to become S.H.I.E.L.D. Operatives.
General Requirements (Rules read these please before submitting a character):
Must have American citizenship
Must have a High School Diploma or a GED
Must do research, research is key, well researched info makes author happy.
Must follow form please do not deviate
Must have diversity in your characters
Have Fun and be creative the more detailed you are the better chance you have of getting accepted
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