"Director. Director Fury, do you copy?" Coulson asked over the radio.
"The Tesseract is with a hostile force. I have men down, Hill?" Dad replied.
"A lot of men still under. Don't know how many survivors." Hill answered as we got out of the jeep.
"I want every living soul not work and rescue looking for that briefcase." Dad ordered.
"Roger that." Hill replied.
"Coulson, get back to base. This is a Level 7. As of right now, we are at war." Dad said.
"What do we do?" Coulson asked.
"We call them in. Hill, is my daughter okay?"
I took the radio from Agent Hill, "I'm fine. What do you want me to do?"
"I want you back at base. Call Black Widow." Dad said.
"Yes, sir." I replied before handing Hill the radio back.
Hill and I got to base on the Helicarrier. I took out my cell phone and called a man,
"Da?"
"Put your boss on the phone." I ordered.
"Who is this?" Luchkov asked in Russian,
"You're at 114 Solenski Plaza, 3rd floor. We have an F-22 exactly eight miles out. Put the woman on the phone or I will blow up the block before you can make it to the lobby." I said,
"We need you to come in." I told Nat.
"Are you kidding? I'm working." She replied.
"This takes precedence." I said.
"I'm in the middle of an interrogation. This moron is giving me everything." Nat replied, "Look, you can't pull me out of this right now."
"Nat, Barton's been compromised." I said sadly.
"Let me put you on hold."
I stood there and listened as Nat beat up the men who were keeping her captive.
"Where is Barton now?" She asked.
"We don't know." I answered.
"But he's alive?" Nat questioned.
"We think so. I'll brief you on everything when you get back. But first, we need you to talk to the big guy." I told her.
"Kat, you know that Stark trusts me about as far as he can throw me." Nat replied.
"Oh, Coulson's got Stark. You get the big guy." I smiled. "Have fun."
"Bozhe moi." I heard her say before she hung up.
"She's gonna kill me." I mumbled as I put my phone in my pocket.
"C'mon, Kat." Dad said as he walked past me.
"Where are we going?" I asked as I caught up to him.
"We're gonna get Rodgers." He answered.
"Having trouble sleeping?" Dad asked when we found him hit a punching bag across the room.
"I've been asleep for 70 years. I think I've had enough rest." Steve replied.
"Then you should be out, celebrating." Dad said as we walked closer, "Seeing the world."
Steve stopped and walked over to his bag, taking off the bandages that were on his hand,
"When I went under, the world was at war. I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost."
"We've made some mistakes along the way. Some, very recently." Dad said.
"Are you here with a mission, sir?" Steve asked.
"I am." Dad answered.
"Trying to get me back in the world?"
"Trying to save it." I said and handed Steve the file of the Tesseract.
"HYDRA's secret weapon." Steve stated.
"Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you. He thought what we think, the Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world sorely needs." Dad said.
"Who took it from you?" Steve asked.
"He's called Loki." I answered, "He's not from around here. There's a lot we'll have to bring you up to speed on if you're in. The world has gotten even stranger than you already know."
"At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me." Steve replied.
"Ten bucks says you're wrong. There's a debriefing packet waiting for you at your apartment. Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?" Dad asked as Steve picked up his bag and a punching bag, heading towards the door.
"You should have left it in the ocean." Steve said.