DEC 1991
"This is Director Stark, get me Agent Fury now, its urgent!" a man said as he was driving down a dimly lit road in the woods on his way to a romantic with his wife.
"What's out there Howard?" the man's wife asked as the director looked back nervously, looking for any sign of the threat he was sure was coming after him
"Sir" the operator on the phone inquired "If you are who you say you are then we'll need your personal clearance code to make sure it's you"
"Oh so the love of: Alpha, November, Tango, Hotel, Oscar, November, Yankee 6-1-6-0-1-5-0-8 Indian Mike!" Howard spoke as he looked before him seeing but blackness giving him some small comfort that he had shaken his tail
"On moment sir" the operator said making Howard smile before he saw a light coming through the woods
"Howard?" his wife asked concerned.
"It's nothing dear" Howard bluffed before the car's engine and light stopped working. Panicking a bit Howard tried to slam on the brakes to his car, but it didn't work. He looked over to where he's wife was in the darkness, swiftly taking her hand he closed his eyes as the car hit a tree, destroying the engine bay. "Maria" he moaned as he felt his wife's life slip away. Closing his eyes he was about to cry out in anguish when he heard the car's boot open. Anger now replacing the sorrow Howard Stark removed his seatbelt and stumbled out of his wreck car, grabbing a nickel plated revolver. "Put them down" he snarled as he pulled back the revolver's hammer, unsuccessfully aiming due to the trauma and anger making his arm shake wildly. The mask figure looked at him before grabbing the two briefcases inside, one of them holding a secret formula, the other an experiment power source. Firing Howard stumbled into the car "I SAID PUT THEM DOWN!" he shouted, spittle flying out his mouth. The mask assailant looked at Howard Stark and placed the cases down. He then stalked over with a large branch in his hands as he towered over Howard, who now got a better look at the assailant "It can't be, you're" he started
"Hail HYDRA!" were the last ever words Howard Stark founder and Director of SHIELD heard in his lifetime.
Meanwhile on the Russian Front a man clad in red and white was sneaking around watching a group of masked soldiers standing around a table with who appeared to be an American spy, who had armed guards with him, but what was odder was the Eagle symbol on their arms. The man in red knew that symbol from somewhere in his recent past, but for now he needed to keep hidden, so as not to be detected and fail his mission to try and figure out what was going on. Frowning he tried to get closer until a gun was pointed at his head, looking behind him the man saw that this soldier had the same patch as the other soldiers that were around the table.
"Red Guardian, I never thought you would be caught so easily" the soldier said making Red Guardian growl. "Move" the soldier said shoving him over to the table, the American Spy turned to him and smiled
"Alexei Shostakov, it is an honour to meet you" he said cheerfully smiling while holding out his hand
"Lukin" Alexei hissed "So you crawled out of the hole left by Red Skull and Zola"
"Oh Alexei, don't think of it like that" Lukin said smiling "But you're right, it's time we tried to enforce a more peaceful lifestyle" he said as the soldier aimed at his head "Whoa, whoa, whoa, don't kill him" Lukin said "Take him to Gulag 61, tell those there that he's a danger to Mother Russia" Lukin said
"The only danger to Mother Russia is you" Alexei said being dragged away
"Sorry about that where were we?" Lukin said.
JANUARY 2014
It was a quiet day as Sam Wilson was jogging around Washington DC in the early morning, enjoying the calm of the still morning air as the sun was starting to raise its fiery gaze up as he's feet hit the pavement as he looked out at the memorial lake while he controlled his breathing, a small cloud coming out as the warm air hit the cool morning air. To Sam this time of day was perfect, the quite meant he could
"On you left" a voice said as what Sam thought was a guy passed him, looking confused his continued this run, this time he took a path past the Jefferson Monument whcih stuck out with all fo it splendour, perfect of one of his nation's founding "On your left" the runner from before said
"Uh huh on my left" he said as he continue on his normal route, clearly suspecting who the man was, soon he was running towards the Washington monument when he heard a quicker set of feet. "Don't say it, don't you dare" Sam said
"On your Left" the runner said
"OH COME ON!" Same shouted speeding up to try and catch up with the mysterious runner, only to stop halfway down the length of the pool, causing him to walk over until he reached a tree to collapse under and regain his breath and to get rid of the stitches in his stomach.
"Need some help?" a voice said as the runner from before walked over making Sam laugh
"I need some brand new lungs, dude you just ran 13 miles in 30 minutes" Sam said
"I know, looks like I got a late start" the runner smiled
"You should be ashamed for your shelf, you should go and take another lap" Sam jokingly said before looking back at the runner "I'm going to assume that you took that lap" he said
"What you are you with?" the runner asked
"58th Paratrooper rescue, but now I work down at the VA" Sam said holding up his hand "Sam Wilson"
"Steve Rogers" the runner said holding up his hand to help Sam up
"I kind of figured that out, coming back must have been a real experience after being frozen like that
"It's not so bad. I'll see you around Sam" Steve said about to work off
"It's the mattress, you get into bed and you feel like you're sinking like laying on a marshmallow" Sam suddenly said making Steve look back. "While I was over there the floor was my bed, rocks were pillows, and if you were lucky enough the odd mountain goat acted as a blanket. It was like a caveman, but then I came home and its completely different" Sam said
"It's like laying on a marshmallow, I feel like you sink to the floor and not get back up, so how long?" Steve replied
"Two tours, well you must be missing the good old days" Sam said
"Some things. But other things like the better ways of cooking food, no boiled meat and vegetables for every meal. Polio's gone which is good and the internet's real handy to helping me catch up" Steve said
"Look up the soundtrack to the 1972 movie Trouble man by Marvin Gaye, it's a whole decade rolled up into one album" Sam suggested
"Thanks for that, I'll put it on the list" Steve said pulling out a notebook and writing down 'Troubleman' before his phone buzzed "Duty calls, thanks for the run Sam" Steve said as he shook Sam's hand "If that's what you want to call running"
"OH it's like that huh, well anytime you want to come down and have a visit at the VA's office and want to make me look awesome to the girl at the front desk you come and let me know" Sam laughed
"I'll keep that in mind" Steve said as a black Chevy Corvette rolled up with Natasha Romanov at the wheel
"Morning fellas, any of you know with the Smithsonian is, I'm here to pick up one of their exhibition pieces" She said in a half joking manner
"Funny" Steve said getting into the car "Can't run everywhere" he said
"No you cannot" Sam laughed as the car drove off at high speed
"About time you got here" Fury said as Steve and Natasha walked into the room Fury was standing in
"What's going on?" Steve asked
"911 got a call about several bodies in an apartment complex here, SHIELD was called in due to these" Fury said pointing at the victims making Steve concerned since most of the corpses had red skulls tattooed on their faces and a bullet hole in between the eyes
"Who are they?" Steve asked concerned
"Something very bad, they call themselves Blood Skulls, they've devoted themselves to try and do what you stopped Red Skull from trying to do" Natasha said "BUt looks like someone stopped them" she said before looking around.
"Sir, we found something else" an agent said
"What is it?" Fury asked
"Sure there's traces of that kind of energy" the agent said
"Show me" Fury said concerned as the agent showed him the scan "no"
"What is it?" Steve asked
"After we found the Tesseract, Stark started to try and find a way to use the energy it gave off, which is how we were able to make the Phase 2 prototypes that were destroyed after Loki made his entrance to Earth. There was one thing that Howard did well and that was contain it, so using the prototype of the element the current Stark was able to complete. So he created a cube to contain the energy which had a signature like that of cosmic radiation, which is why it was dubbed the Cosmic Cube" Fury said
"How powerful is this thing?" Steve asked
"powerful enough if this thing was used in a bomb, it would be the equivalent to a 100 Gigaton of TNT" Natasha said
"That's not good" Steve said
"But on the upside there wouldn't be any fallout" Natasha said
"Sir!" the agent from before said as he handed a compressed round out of the wall "I've run a quick ballistics scan on it and I can confirm there is a 84% cahnce that this round was made in Soviet Russia" The agent said
"Alright, get these corpses back to the Triskilleon for an autopsy" Fury said
"Yes sir" the agent said saluting before Fury's communicator went off.
"You two, suit up, Captain America and the Black Widow are needed" Fury said
"Where?" Steve asked
"The Lemurian Star, and Captain prepare STRIKE, you'll need it for this mission" Fury said
"Yes sir" Steve said
G'day Guys Grizz here, so I figured I would take one of the best movies of the MCU Captain America: Winter Soldier and decided to do my own take on it by mixing the things from both the original comic storyline and movie storyline with a dash of my own thing, don't know why I picked Winter Solider when there are a whole range of movies I could do like IM3, Thor Ragnarok and Civil War, those I may do later and a couple of more, but anyway I hope you enjoy this new ride
So until next time I'll catch you on the flipside