Richard Keatson wasn't someone you would consider soldier material, he was short and very weak. Even still he wanted to help his country, not been able to take part in the army, because he was too frail for combat, he volunteered for secret military experiment.

The experiment was led by Abraham Erskine, a German scientist that defected from HYDRA and joined the Allies. He had invented a super-soldier serum that would make a man into a one-man army.

The serum worked, but then Abraham Erskine was assassinated by a HYDRA agent and the secret to the super-soldier serum was lost. Being the only super-soldier they had, he was given the rank of captain and was in charge to lead a squad to take down HYDRA.

His men called him the Captain and soon everyone else did, he became the world's first superhero. He led his team, the Howling Commandos. They had major victories, destroying every single HYDRA base they came across and pretty soon there was only one left.

It was located in Norway and according to intelligence, HYDRA's leader the Red Skull had an endgame to annihilate the Allies and even the Nazis. The HYDRA base was an old castle, but it was re-fortified by HYDRA agent all armed with weapons that could disintegrate a single man with a single shot.

The Captain and his Howling Commandos were on a boat heading straight to the shoreline that would lead them to the HYDRA Castle.

There was his second-in-command Magnus Haddock, he was nearly as tough as Captain himself and would fight to the last. Then there was Dum Dum Dugan an American soldier and was third in command. Next came Gabe Jones an African-American from New York that love weapons. Jim Morita a Japanese-American soldier, who liked to make jokes on the battlefield. Jacques Dernier a Frenchman that knew explosives very well. James Montgomery Falsworth a British soldier and a gentleman. Also among them was Gloria Carter, aka Gothi, she was a CIA agent for the British Army and an adviser for the Strategic Scientific Reserve, the organisation responsible for the super-soldier serum.

"All right boys, and girl, when that flack goes down go down shooting," said Magnus.

"Let's just try and stay alive," said Captain.

Captain was the only one that wasn't wearing a military uniform, at least not the one issue to him. His uniform was blue, white and red with a utility belt containing tactical devices and equipment for battle. He also had a mask that also served as a helmet. The one thing that made him recognisable was the shield that was made from Adamantium and Vibranium, a metal that can absorb energy like a sponge.

"Were against HYDRA not a bunch of Girl Scouts," Magnus reminded.

"And that's why we need to reach that castle," said Gothi. "Because if we don't, HYDRA will wipe every woman and child off the face of the planet."

"So no pressure," said Jim.

"Then I say we should knock hard," said Dum Dum Dugan.

"How about we wait until the flack to go down," James suggested.

"Well, you probably won't have to wait long," said Magnus.

He was right, their boat was approaching the shoreline and already they could see the defences. Large cannons stuck out of the cliff wall, they probably would have already shot them if it wasn't for the fog around them.

"Let's be thankful for the fog," said Gabe. "Those cans have enough unph to take down a battleship."

"Thanks, that makes me feel better," said Jim.

Soon their boat reached the shoreline and lowered its flack. At once the Howling Commandos charged and almost at once HYDRA agents began to fire them.

The HYDRA agents didn't stand a chance, no matter what they did they couldn't stop the Howling Commandos from advancing and it was impossible to stop the Captain, he was charging at them with his shield held high and the Howling Commandos followed behind him as his shield protected them.


Up in his castle, the Red Skull was looking down at the battle. It was hard to tell what age he was, because his face had no skin and resembled that of a red skull.

One of his best Lieutenant Drago Bludvist then approached him.

"Lieutenant, report," said Red Skull.

"Sir, the Allies have found the fortress and the Captain is with them," said Drago.

"Send your best regiment out to confront him," said Red Skull. "He will defeat them of course. But it will give us time to prepare our forces for victory. Oh, and release the specimen, I'd like to see how the Captain fares against it."


Meanwhile, the Howling Commandos had just reached the summit and were now, quite literally, storming the castle. Each one of the Howling Commandos took down an entire squad of HYDRA goons, but the Captain was the one who took down the most.

None of their weapons could penetrate his shield and he threw it with such accuracy that it always came back to him.

"They should make that thing standard issue," said Magnus.

"Sorry, Magnus, it's one-of-a-kind," said Captain.

"Let's talk later ladies, we've got a castle to storm," said Gothi.

"Yes ma'am," said the two soldiers.

Suddenly the drawbridge was lowered and they all gasped. What they saw was nowhere near human. To best describe it, it looked like a troll or an ogre holding a club in its hand. The only thing that looked out of place was the collar around its neck and was no doubt used to control the thing.

"What the hell is that thing?" Gabe asked.

The troll then charged at them

"I don't know, one of Zola experiments maybe," Captain suggested as he raised his shield. "Whatever it is, it's angry."

The beast then swatted away Jim. "Really, I didn't notice," said Jim.

"I do care what it is, just bring it down," said Magnus as he began to shoot the thing.

The troll's skin was quite thick, because the bullets just seem to bounce off it. Captain then threw his shield at it and it hit it straight in the face. However, that only made it angrier.

"Any suggestions on how to take that thing down?" Dum Dum Dugan asked as he dodged one of the troll's swings.

"At the moment try and stay alive," said Magnus as he kept firing at the thing.

Captain then charged at it slammed his shield into its chest. The force of the impact did push it back a bit, but it quickly recovered and knocked Captain aside. The creature then advanced towards him and raised its fist, but then it felt a stone hit its head.

It turned and saw Gothi had been the one that threw it. "Over here ugly," she said and fired her pistol at it.

The troll then advanced upon a, as her bullets bouncing off its skin, but then light shot down from the sky right in between the troll and Gothi. They all gasped, because standing there, wearing mediaeval armour and a holding double bladed sword, was a beautiful black haired woman.

"A troll on Midgard, how unusual," she said curiously.

Clearly the troll was just as confused as they were, but soon got over it surprise and attacked her. The woman jumped into the air and swung her sword and slice the beast's head off. The troll's body then fell off the bridge and into the abyss below.

"Hardly a challenge," said the woman.

"Who are you lady?" Magnus asked pointing his pistol at her.

"Watch your tongue mortal, or you might find it sliced off," said the woman.

"Let's take it easy," said Captain. He then looked at the woman. "Would you mind telling us who you are miss and what that thing was?"

"I am Lady Sif, Queen of Asgard, and that creature you just fought was a troll," said Sif. "I was indeed surprised to find one in your realm mortal."

"Asgard? As in the home of the Norse gods, Asgard?" said Magnus.

"If there are other Asgards, I know not of them," said Sif.

"Then mind explaining why you are here, your Majesty," said Gothi.

"I am after something that this Red Skull has," said Sif. "He does not know what he is messing with. It is a device that no mortal should have, he may end up threatening more worlds than one."

"Then it seems as if we have a common enemy," said Captain.

"I do not require your help," said Sif. "Though, I will not pass it down. You fight for a noble cause, Richard Keatson, and I would be a fool for not accepting your help."

"You know my name," said Captain raising an eyebrow.

"Even the gods of Asgard know you," said Sif.

"Great, they'll be starting a Captain fan club next," said Jim.

"Enough jibber jabber," said Dum Dum Dugan. "Every second counts."

"Aye, to the battle," said Sif.


They soon entered the castle and discovered that there was a passageway straight down. The passageway led to an underground bunker right beneath the castle. Inside they saw a massive aircraft, the biggest aircraft that Captain had ever seen and hundreds of HYDRA agents all armed to the teeth with the new weapons Red Skull had created.

Magnus whistled. "Enough firepower to wipe the continent off the face of the world," he said.

"I believe that's the idea," said Captain.

"What could be powering that thing?" James asked looking at the plane.

"The Tesseract," said Sif.

"The what?" said Jacques puzzled.

"The Tesseract, an item of great power that once belonged to the previous king of Asgard, Odin," Sif explained. "That's what I am after."

"Personally, I thing an item that could destroy the world is better kept as far away from it as possible," said Magnus.

"It looks like they are getting ready to launch," said James as several HYDRA agents boarded the plane.

"Then it's time we make our move," said Captain.

On that note, they all charge straight towards the HYDRA agents and Red Skull saw them at once.

"Stop them!" Red Skull ordered.

At once the HYDRA agents turned and fired at them and of course the Howling Commandos fired back. Drago pulled out his sword and charge straight at Sif and the two began to clash.

"I was hoping to use this blade against the inverness Captain, not a wench like you," he said as he swung his blade.

"You'll regret saying those words mortal," said Sif blocking the attack.

Captain made his way towards Red Skull, who was already boarding the plane. Several HYDRA agents try to stop them, but they were ineffective. However he was too late, the plane was already taking off.

"Cap!" Magnus voice yelled. Captain turned and saw Magnus and Gothi riding in the Red Skull staff car and pulled up towards him. "Get in."

The moment Captain hopped in, Magnus slammed on the accelerator. It would seem as if Red Skull had modified the car with jets that allow them to keep up with the plane.

"You don't have to do this alone," said Gothi.

"I can't let him get away again… that and he's got enough armaments to take over the world," said Captain.

Gothi looked at him and then did something very surprising, she pulled him into a kiss.

"Go get him," she said.

Captain looked at Magnus, who said, "I'm not kissing ya."

Captain smiled and made his way to the front of the car as Magnus got as close as he could to one of its wheels. Once he was close enough, Captain jumped and grabbed the wheel just as it entered into the plane.

Magnus just managed to stop the car, just before falling off the cliff and both he and Gothi watched on as the plane disappeared from view.


Once he was inside, Captain made his way to the cockpit, where he bet Red Skull was. The plane wasn't as well armed as he suspected, but there was still enough weapons to take over a continent.

On his way to the cockpit, he fought against several HYDRA agents and easily took them down. Once he reached the cockpit, he saw a glowing cube in the centre and he guessed that was the Tesseract Sif mentioned and not standing far from it was Red Skull.

"Beautiful isn't it," said Red Skull. "So small, and yet has enough power to open riffs into other worlds, you saw a creature from another world yourself and of course the Asgardian. No doubt she came for it."

"I'm going to stop you, even if I have to go down with you," said Captain.

"Oh, I don't doubt that," said Red Skull. "It's just a question if you can succeed or not."

"Then let's say we finish it here and now," said Captain.

"My thoughts exactly," said Red Skull.

The two then charge at one another. Captain swung his shield, but Red Skull ducked and punched him in the gut. Captain then dealt him a right uppercut and for that up with a left hook and then flipped him over his shoulder.

Red Skull landed on the controls, damaging them, but they were more preoccupied fighting against one another than worrying about the plane.

Red Skull then slammed into Captain and rammed him into the wall. He then began to dealt him punches in the gut, but Captain managed to slam both his hands into his back and kicked him pushing him back even further.

Captain then rushed to his shield and tossed it straight at Red Skull. The impact caused Red Skull to slam into the Tesseract's container and dislodged it from its container.

"What have you done?" said Red Skull grabbing the Tesseract.

The moment he did, it began to glow. Something weird happened, it looked as if space was appearing into the plane and then Red Skull started to disintegrate. Next second Captain heard terrifying screams and Red Skull vanished without a trace.

The only thing that remained was the Tesseract itself and the moment it fell onto the floor, it burned through it and fell through the plane to who knows where.

Captain then rushed over to the controls and saw that they were badly damaged during the fighting. The autopilot was off-line and the controls were pointing straight down. He looked at the coordinates and saw that he was directly over the Antarctic and he was losing height.

He reached for the com. "This is Captain Keatson do you read me," he said.

"Cap, what is—" said Jim's voice, but he was interrupted by Gothi.

"Richard, is that you, are you all right?" Gothi asked.

"Red Skull is dead," said Captain.

"What about the plane?" Gothi asked.

"And the Tesseract?" said Sif's voice.

"The Tesseract is probably somewhere in the ocean," said Captain. "As for the plane… I'm going down and there's no way to stop it."

"I'll get Wrinkly on the line," said Gothi.

"There's no time," said Captain sadly. "I'm crashing down into the Antarctic."

"Don't say that, we've got time we—we can work it out," said Gothi.

"Gloria, I've got no choice," said Captain he pulled out a locket with Gothi's picture in it and watched as the icy wilderness came into view. "Gloria, were going to need a rain check on that dance."

"All right," said Gothi teary-eyed. "A week next Saturday at the Stork Club."

Captain smiled. "You've got it," he said.

"Eight o'clock on the dot, don't you dare be late," said Gothi. "Understood?"

"I love you," said Captain just as he crashed into the Antarctic.

Back at the HYDRA base all they could hear was static and at once Gothi cried. Sif placed a hand on her shoulder.

"He was a brave man," she said.

Magnus closed his eyes and walked out of the room, he didn't want to see this.


Unknown to them, someone was watching the battle with great interest. This man was Kang the Conqueror the ruler of Earth and many other worlds. He was human, but had a great understanding of the space-time continuum.

He was trying to locate the Captain, though with limited success. He had studied his final battle with the Red Skull thoroughly, but found nothing that gave a good enough lead. Using a chair that he designed, he was able to appear in the location where the plane had crashed in the Antarctic.

The plane had crashed right through the ice and into the freezing waters below. He watched the waters, but nothing came out.

"Manual control," he said and a holographic pad appeared in front of him. He typed a few keys and the world began to speed up.

He saw several rescue boats that he guessed were trying to find the Captain as well, having the same luck as him. The glaciers around rose and the hole where the plane had fallen froze over, still nothing.

However, before he could do anything else an important message came through. "Time disturbance in progress," said the computer.

He took one last look at the frozen water before taking a seat in his chair. "Initiate chronol jump to Damocles base."

He then vanished.

He reappeared at a massive space station that was hovering above Earth in the 41st century.

"Report," said Kang.

"Temporal disturbance has reached critical levels, the fabric of time and space is on the process of rupturing," said his computer.

"Show me," Kang ordered.

The computer then showed him a hologram or futuristic city on Earth and he saw it disappearing completely before his eyes. All that's left was nothing more than a rugged wasteland.

"My entire timeline, all of reality is being wiped out," Kang observed. He then looked at a holographic image of the Captain. "And it's all because of you. My travels into the past, suggests that you are the link, Captain. Some moment in your past heralds the end of the future, something to do with you. But I saw you meet your end, in the 20th century, how could you even be responsible unless—" Suddenly a thought came into his mind. "Damocles scan all remaining records of the 21st century."

"Executing," said the computer.

All the available information on the 21st century appeared in front of Kang. Then he saw what he was looking for.

"Freeze image," said Kang. The computer did as it was told and what he saw explained so much. "Of course… I did not conquer the Earth to see it wiped out from existence. Damocles, prepare the fleet for time jump."

He disappeared once again and appeared on the bridge, where his men were scrambling trying to follow his orders.

"All ships, begin trans temporal jump," Kang ordered.

"Sir, we don't have the coordinates, there's not enough time," said one of his men.

Kang glared at him and grabbed the helm of his uniform, lifting him up in the air. "Never tell me that there isn't enough time," he said and tossed the soldier away. His holographic pad than appeared in the typed in a few keys.

"Time coordinates accepted, jump in progress," said the computer.

Kang then looked at a soldier. "Where is Princess Ravonna?" he demanded.

"She's boarding now my lord," said the soldier.

"My love," said a beautiful sweet voice. Kang looked up and saw a beautiful young woman dressed in royal clothing approaching him. "What is happening? Why are we leaving?"

At that moment a strange light appeared on the Earth and shone right through into his space station. One soldier got caught in it and disappeared from reality. Ravonna ran towards Kang, but the light hit her.

"Ravonna, no!" Kang yelled. Kang grabbed her and pulled her out of the light. "Damocles, now!"

The ship just disappeared as the Earth began changing to a more chaotic world.

Kang ship then appeared in the middle space. Ravonna was cradling in his arms, and was disappearing in and out.

"Update," said Kang.

"The time to disillusion has slowed, but is still in effect," said the computer.

"I'll save you, my love," said Kang looking down at her. "I'll save our entire timeline." He then looked at the Earth of the 21st century outside. "Even if I have to conquer this time to do it."