If you haven't read the previous installation, Cost of the SHIELD, then you probably won't get a whole lot of this. Go back and read that, then come back! ;)

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Chapter 1

Arrival

Waking up with a headache was always a great of a new day. Even graggy and in pain, Anna's internal monologue was sarcastic. No matter how much her mind downgraded the severity of the situation at hand, however, Anna was ready to do whatever she needed. She had work to do. That was why she didn't remain on the floor with her headache.

Agent Anna Carr had traitors to take out.

After Anna shoved Jern Slange into the containment unit Agent Tucker Collend had created for the 0-8-4 that their team had retrieved, half of their team turned out to be Hydra sleeper agents stationed inside SHIELD. In order to prevent them from taking it before killing the true SHIELD agents, Anna tried to destroy it so they couldn't get their hands on it. That was the cause of Jupiter's crashing.

Jupiter, their large quinjet, was no longer in the air. Metal ground against concrete and metal, and eventually, Jupiter came to a stop. The entirety of the crew was disoriented from the crash.

Anna clutched her head and opened her eyes. Even the dim red emergency lights in Jupiter made her head hurt. As her eyes started to focus in the new light, Anna could just make out Ryan O'Hagan, their traitorous leader, and his second in command Ricky Dadney looking around quickly before leaving through the loading dock. Anna pushed herself up with a loud groan, blood dripping down her side from the graze. She stumbled out after them, but she was too late.

By the time she was out of Jupiter, the Hydra traitors were gone.

And what she saw around her truly surprised her.

Having spent so much time around Phil growing up, and his obsession with old classic things, Anna picked up a couple useless bits of information on things like cars. So when Anna stepped out into the empty alley, she and her eyes landed on a 1933 Chrysler Royal parked out of sight of the street to prevent anybody from trying to jack it. Anna took it in, but the information was shoved to the back of her mind because her priority was finding the Hydra traitors.

There was no sight of them whatsoever, and Anna knew she was in no condition to run around what looked like New York City with her injuries. Begrudged, Anna turned around and made her way back into the abandoned factory to help Marcus and Tucker.

Tucker was starting to get up, shock clearly written all over his face. Marcus, on the other hand, was trapped under all of the content that fell out of one of the cabinets, still unconscious.

"I-I…" Tuck muttered, glancing around. "What…?"

"Weird shit happened and O'Hagan and Dadney got away," she answered him. She knelt down and started to pull packs off of Marcus. "You okay, Tuck? Any injuries you need help with?"

"I uh…" Tuck slowly looked himself over, and by the time he was done, Anna had unburied Marcus and was checking to make sure he didn't have any neck or back injuries. "I'm good, I think."

"Good, 'cause I'm going to need you help with waking Marcus up," Anna said. She waved Tuck over and together they pulled him up into a sitting position. Marcus grabbed some smelling salts from a bag that had fallen on Marcus, and held it in front of his nose.

Marcus was awake, his eyes shooting open before they knew it. "Holy hell," he groaned. "What happened? What were you talking about before? Oh God you're bleeding!"

Anna looked down at her side and brushed it off. "I'm fine, it's just a graze," she said.

"Sit down. I'll clean it and patch you up," Marcus instructed. Anna sat down on one of the seats and unzipped her suit, leaving her in just her sports bra, with the suit still around her waist and on her bottom.

After getting the first aid kit, Marcus kneeled next to her and started to clean the wound. "We need answers," he said.

"You deserve that," Anna said. "Agent Hill knew something was going on, so that's why Agent James was placed on the team."

"William was spying on us?" Marcus asked.

"Yes, because there's been some questionable activities surrounding your team. You can't deny that."

"And he got to close to Hydra and so they took him out," Marcus figured.

"Yeah, he told Hill he was close to something and before he could tell her he disappeared."

"So you replaced him."

"I replaced him," Anna said. "That's why I was kind of hesitant to really be friendly with you guys. I was scoping you out individually first, then moving in to get to know."

"Did you think we were bad? I mean, me?" Marcus asked.

"To be honest? I don't know. I knew O'Hagan was very off, but that was about it. I mean, Dadney was always by his side, so he could've been. You hung out with him. See where I'm going?"

"Aw, come on, you know me. I'm too lovable to be bad," he tried to joke.

Anna rolled her eyes and chuckled. Anna glanced up from Marcus' work and her eyes landed on tucker. He was just standing there, staring at Neil MacFarlane body sprawled out on the floor with a pool of blood around his head. "Tuck, you okay?"

"I just….how could they do this?" Tuck asked. "Betray us…"

"It's what they were trained to do," Anna answered. Marcus finished patching her side up, and Anna pulled her suit back up. "You can't take it personally. I mean, they're Hydra. They're the definition of the 'bad guys.' Don't feel bad about being tricked by them."

"Okay, so what do we do now?" Tuck asked, finally moving away from Neil's body.

"Well, we need to come up with a plan. I think we're in New York, but we can't be sure until we explore. We need to check supplies, see if anything is missing. We'll get what we need. Uh, let's see...I'll get us some clothes. We have to track down O'Hagan and Dadney."

"That's a whole lot of shit," Marcus muttered.

"Okay, just take a minute and breathe. Why don't you two start looking to see what we need and whatnot, and I'll go get us some clothes. How's that sound?" Anna suggested. It allowed them to do something and help deal with the shock of the situation of being betrayed.

"Yeah, yeah, good idea," Tucker said, nodding along distractedly.

Anna got up and left once again, her eyes landing on the car. She payed a bit more attention to it this time, but really, she just thought it was an odd place to keep such a classic car. Anna moved on though. She needed to find clothes for the three of them to blend in. That wouldn't happen with the clothing they had currently in their possession: consisting of all SHIELD issued tactical infiltration gear and stealth gears.

Finally, Anna came across several rows of clothes lines hanging across a nearby alley, crossing over from building to building. It required some stealth climbing on fire escapes, but Anna managed to get a couple dresses, and a couple sets of clothes for each of the guys. Once on the ground, she looked through them, and it truly left her puzzled.

They were old. Like, really Tony were there he'd call them prehistoric. Or, at least, Steve old.

Steve styled old clothes. The 1933 Chrysler Royal. Oh fuck, Anna thought. No, this isn't possible. It's just...it defies all logic and physics and all that science shit I don't understand. But all the signs lead to this conclusion. Anna just didn't know how it was possible.

Anna slid down against the brick wall, this shocking her more than the traitors being members of Hydra. Time travel was just...too much? But what else was she supposed to think. This wasn't some reconstruction built around Captain America to break the news to him gently (which Anna totally knew was bogus and wouldn't work).

The only possible cause for this was the mechanical reaction from when Anna broke the containment unit that held the 0-8-4, and the 0-8-4 itself. They had no idea what the thing could do, so the unknown properties from that, plus the inclusion of the technological factors added into play, who knew? Maybe this was actually completely and utterly plausible.

Yeah, right, Anna internally groaned. You've probably just died and this is what the afterlife looks like. Or you've finally just lost your mind. Great going, Anna. You've gone nuts.

Either way, Anna had to tell the guys.

Oh, this'll go well.

So it's begun! Anna is now back in 1943 (thought that's not completely specified here. I'll just go ahead and give you that now). Next chapter the team ventures out into the world to try and come up with a plan. We'll just have to see what happens. I hope everybody likes the change of scenery. Let me know what you think!

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