Review and check out my Hotel Wakanda. In the next chapter the "Percephone" action will start. (Percy/Stephanie. Best ship name after Pepperony)
A week later…
Ah, first day! I'm so excited! Stephanie thought as she entered the auditorium. She'd already filled out her paperwork and gotten her uniform. All that was left to do was to change and head to the training grounds. As she looked for the locker room she stumbled upon Colonel Phillips.
"Colonel, hi."
"Morning… Rogers, If you'll excuse me," he said as he started to walk away but Stephanie stopped him.
"Actually, I was wondering where the locker room was," she explained.
"Right over there," he said pointing at a door.
"But that says men."
"Exactly," he said with a smug grin and walked off.
"But-" she started but he was already gone. Ugh, seriously, she thought as she walked in. Luckily it was empty. She quickly stripped down and put on her uniform. Once she was finished she headed down to the training grounds. When she arrived she got strange looks from her fellow soldiers in training. Don't worry Steph. They're just staring cause you're a girl. Not many girls get to be in your position so you have to work just as hard as the guys and hope they're not too hard on you.
An instructor came and told them what to do. They all stood, to stand in a line, to wait for Colonel Phillips.
"Hey sweetheart," somebody said to Stephanie.
Gosh, please leave me alone. Please. She looked down so she wouldn't have to make eye contact.
"What's a little girl like you doing so far away from home," he asked with a vicious grin.
"Serving for my country, how 'bout you?" She asked, quickly walking to her position.
"Not much, although I know what I'd rather be doing," he said coming close. Some of the other guys around them started to snicker.
"Eh hem," a voice said. It was Dr. Erskine followed by Agent Carter.
"Fun's over ladies, now get in formation," Agent Carter instructed.
"What's up with the accent? I thought I was signing up for the U.S. army." the guy asked.
Agent Carter ignored him. He went by each person checking off their last names. When he got to Stephanie he paused for a brief moment to look her over and then continued. Great, just another person to stare at me, Stephanie thought with an eye roll.
Agent Carter went on to talk about the procedures, rules, and expectations of working in each field. Once he was finished Colonel Phillips arrived and started the group with their exercises. They spent hours going through exercises and obstacle courses, every day learning a new strategy.
A couple days later…
The trainees ran laps around the field as Stephanie struggled to keep up. The group stopped by a flag pole and listened to instructions.
"Whoever can get that flag from the top of this pole gets to ride back to base with Agent Carter," their instructor told them. "But be warned, no one has succeeded in getting that flag in 17 years."
A bunch of the men started worming their way up the pole but each one failed. After about 1 minute their instructor told them to get back to running, but Stephanie wanted to see if she could get the flag.
"Rogers! Fall in!" he yelled at her.
Stephanie looked down at the bottom of the pole and saw screws. Bingo! she thought as she unscrewed the base. Everyone stared in disbelief as the pole fell to the ground and she walked over to unhook the flag.
"Here you go sir," she said handing it to him. She got into the back of Agent Carter's vehicle and gave him small smile before they drove off. Maybe this won't be so hard after all.
2 weeks later…
"Come on, put your back into it!" Agent Carter yelled at the trainees as the they did push ups.
"Colonel Phillips I've narrowed it down to the last trainee for the experiment," Dr. Erskine informed.
"Don't tell me you're actually considering picking Rogers," Colonel Phillips said.
"Well I wasn't really considering it at all, because I believe she's the obvious choice."
"Erskine do you know how hard it was to get the board to let you and your team of scientists even have a chance to run this experiment? Now you're just gonna waste all of my time and your work by choosing her? No thank you. Hodge is the obvious choice. He's strong, smart, and well, a soldier." Colonel Phillips told.
"He's not a soldier he's a bully."
"He was born to lead," he argued. "Watch," he said grabbing a grenade from a box. He threw it on the ground where the soldiers were exercising and yelled, "Grenade!"
All of the trainees stopped what they were doing and ran to take cover.
Grenade? Stephanie thought to herself. She ran over to where it was and threw herself on top of it. "Everybody get back!" she yelled.
Stephanie stayed huddled over the bomb until she realized it wasn't going to go off. People got up from their hiding spots and returned to what they were doing. Colonel Phillips walked angrily away from Dr. Erskine, who tried to hide her smile.
"Was this a test?" Stephanie asked once he was gone.
Dr. Erskine just smiled at her and walked after Colonel Phillips.