Hazardous Shield
"What is life? Life is simple and complex. It's chaotic yet full of order. Life is adaptable, moldable and full of potential. Genes, the building blocks of living things, made of DNA…double helixes of information. Life information. Everything that makes each individual unique. But they are weak. Humanity has arrived to a wall, halted its natural evolution. And the off-shot race Homo Superior? Extinct after unfortunate events, no more examples of our potential future. Still my job in bringing godhood to humanity is not over…for I have found the key to our evolution…a new solution! The blood of gods! And I shall rule over humanity as its savior!"
SHIELD London HQ
"So…a terrorist act?" SHIELD agent Dum Dum Dugan asked as he looked at the monitor screen, agents and researchers ran through the control room. Messages across throughout Europe rang all over the room, from Madrid to Moscow, terrorist attacks in each major city. SHIELD had been called to quickly investigate. "In each major city of Eurasia."
"Organized too, dozens of bombs in densely packed areas full of civilians." Sharon Carter, agent of SHIELD, said looking at the reports. "Must've been HYDRA."
"Not their usual MO…" Dugan said lighting a cigar and smoking it. "The Paris branch has already stated that the attack wasn't directed at the government itself."
"Why attack the major populace?" Sharon asked.
"Because they're terrorists, that's what they do. Any connections to other known terrorist organizations?" Dugan said.
"Not that we know of, we have already sent everything back to the Helicarrier…the boss says that this is something else." Carter took out her phone, "It's the BSAA."
"What do they want?"
"They have already determined the nature of the attacks."
"Oh really? Tell me."
"They were bio-terrorists attacks. Look." Sharon showed the experienced agent the pictures sent by the BSAA head of operations, "These were sent to them by their field agents in Berlin."
"My god…" Dugan said, "Get me in line with our own field agents."
"They're already waiting for the call…also; the BSAA is sending two of their top agents to aid ours."
"Pfft, like we need their help." Dugan said leaving the control room. Meanwhile in the ready room, there were three individuals waiting for Dugan. Agents of SHIELD all of them, or were at a time, still they answered the call.
Captain Steven Rogers, the super-soldier, team leader and overall boy scout. He was the lab rat for the Super-Soldier Program in the 1940s to combat the Nazi war machine and the first recorded use of bio-chemistry for war. A living monument to human ingenuity. Codename: Captain America.
James Buchanan Barnes, the master assassin. Once formerly Roger's apprentice during World War II, he has had a rough life. Being used by the Soviets and later by HYDRA as a deadly assassin that would kill his targets during winter time has made an impact in his personality. Now back to his senses, he seeks to find redemption with the good guys again and to aid his former mentor in any way he can. He also has a kick-ass bionic arm. Codename: Winter Soldier.
Natasha Romanoff, the Russian redhead master spy. Like Barnes, she worked for the Soviet Union as its number one spy agent. She defected once she believed that the American cause was more…righteous or so she says. Nevertheless, Romanoff has gained the Director's favor and now is one of the elite. Codename: Black Widow.
Dugan stepped inside the room; the trio stood up from their seats and saluted. "At ease." Dugan said, "Good to have you three here."
"We came as soon as we could, Dugan." Barnes said, "You said something about attacks all over Europe?"
"That I did." Dugan then showed them a projection of the happenings across the continent. "Every major population center, hit with bio-weapons. Our friends at the BSAA sent us this…"
"Mother of God…" Rogers said upon seeing the thing.
"It used to be human. Apparently whatever was placed in those bombs contained some kind of virus that turns your average bloke into killing machines." Dugan said.
"Looks more like a zombie to me." Barnes said, "You telling me terrorists are attacking us with a zombie plague?"
"Looks clear enough, James." Natasha responded, "How many dead?"
"In total? If we don't stop this by next couple of days we could be seeing Armageddon in the streets of each European city." Dugan said, "Here's your mission, I need you three to investigate this place."
"The outskirts of Kiev? Why Ukraine?" Barnes asked.
"From the time records since the beginning of the attacks, Kiev was the first city to be hit." Dugan informed them, "It started there."
"Any place in particular?" Rogers asked.
"There are old Soviet research facilities there, probably weapon research facilities. Most likely the place our terrorists found ancient viruses stored there since the end of the Cold War." Dugan said, "You got your mission, get to dancing."
The team turned to leave, "Oh yeah before I forget, the BSAA said that they were sending their top agents to aid us. Heck, they're probably already here."
"Noted." Rogers said leading his team outside.
Once arriving to the runway, they were met by two people, one a man and the other a woman. The man was as tall as Rogers and as muscular as Barnes, he sported all of the aspects of a soldier. His name was patched on his Kevlar armor, C. Redfield.
The woman caught Barnes's eyes; she had a navy blue baseball cap on and sported a blue long-sleeved shirt over a black undershirt and khaki pants. She had a small tag with her name on it, J. Valentine.
"You our BSAA contacts?" Rogers asked Redfield.
"When they told us that we were to be paired with SHIELD agents I didn't expect to be working with Captain America himself." Redfield said shaking Roger's hand. "I'm Chris Redfield."
"And I'm his partner, Jill Valentine." The woman said. "Nice metal arm." She commented on Barnes's bionic arm.
"Thanks." Barnes said.
"We can continue our introductions on our way to the objective." Natasha said, the joint-operations team entered their airplane and flew towards Kiev. Rogers sat in front of Chris giving him a notepad detailing their briefing and objectives.
"Place seems sketchy, decommissioned after the fall of the USSR." Rogers said, "What does the BSAA know of this?"
"Aside from aiding military units in each affected country, Jill and I have encountered this type of virus before, twice." Chris said, "One time was during the Raccoon City Incident some years ago, city nuked after the government deemed it lost with all hands. Same virus from the looks of the infected."
"I remember. My team and I were told to hold off any type of entry for the fear that super-humans could be infected as well." Rogers explaining why his other 'team' wasn't able to intervene. What can we expect once we get to Kiev?"
"Chaos. Utter chaos." Redfield said. "Is the US sending super-human support?"
"Not that I know of, Director Fury knows when to send them and how to use them. I doubt we'll be seeing the wall-crawler making any appearances around here any time soon." Rogers said prepping his equipment.
Barnes and Natasha were both looking at their weapons, pistols, shotguns and sub-machine guns. All loaded and cleaned, "I get the feeling that there's more to this than just some terrorists making their big show." Barnes stated, "A simultaneous attack? That usually never happens."
"It stinks of HYDRA intervention." Natasha added, "But Zemo hasn't been sighted in years."
"That's what I'm afraid of." Barnes replied, "We are technically bling here Natasha, we are going to an old Russian base that has been abandoned for years."
"Fury knows what he's doing, Buck. He wouldn't be sending us to somewhere if he didn't have the feeling that the place was involved." Natasha said.
"Don't call me that. I trust Fury, still…" Barnes had some doubts.
"Something off?" Jill said joining them.
"Didn't your superiors tell you something about this place?" Barnes asked her.
"Nothing more than yours have." Jill answered, Barnes sighed. "But we know what the terrorists are using."
"What is it?"
"Its a virus, a strain of virus created to infect any type of living thing it touches. It's called the t-Virus, turns people into walking corpses and mutates them further." Jill informed them, "We've been following several parties involved with it for some time now and we think that they are involved in this."
"Any idea what we might find in that place?" Barnes asked putting on his pistols and looking at Jill.
"Lots of dead people." Jill replied.
