"Flag smashers are using this place to plan operations. I can't allow that," said cap.
Power man entered. "Captain Rogers?" "Yeah." "I'd heard about your changes; but now I see they are true." "I'm still doing jobs for shield and the avengers." Luke came closer. Stokes started to move. Luke pointed at him; with firm intent. "You stay put cottonmouth." Stokes hated being called that but Luke had the upper hand with him here regarding that. Stokes complied.
Luke stopped right before cap. "You should have called me cap. We should have worked together on this. I do jobs for fury too sometimes." "I couldn't take the chance you'd say no." "And why is that?" "You know why." "Say it anyway." "Because you're black and the race situation in America isn't good right now." Stokes scoffed. "It's worse than that..." Luke glared at stokes. "Shut up." Luke focused back on cap. "Race is gonna come between us now?" "Your people started this shit Luke. And you know it. A white kid was killed not too long ago in his front yard by a hood rat and the goddamn news said nothing about it. That was a big wake up call for me."
"And what do you think happens here all the time huh cap? My people get knocked off everyday by goddamn pigs—" "shut up with that crap already. I'm not listening to it anymore. You and the evil media are all part of the problem. If you hate America leave. Wakanda exists and it's a paradise. Get the hell out if you don't like it. My howling commandos and I didn't risk everything so you could destroy this nation."
"You're not Captain America anymore." "You're right. But this still affects freedom; and that is my problem. And your people won't leave when you could; which means you have other nefarious reasons for staying. I'm gonna expose them all; and bring you all down."
Stokes "racist!" Cap threw his shield with strength to hit stokes in the throat and kill him instantly. Cap caught the returned shield while Luke just stood there stunned. "What the hell have you done?" "What needed to be done. Get out of here Luke; before we fight this out."
Luke nodded. "Oh that's a given." Luke rushed cap but cap was already moving aside as Harlem's hero barreled past him. Luke spun but cap unleashed a flurry of punches kicks and shield strikes to Cage's chest and head. The blows stunned him. Although his skin was unbreakable he could still take blunt force hits and those could add up. Especially internally.
Cap knew this and used it for the fight. Cap did a jumping spin kick that sent Cage crashing into the bar and shattered it.
"Go back to Africa while you still can." Cage rose. He charged at cap again. Cap sidestepped him. Cage spun sooner this time though knowing that cap would dodge such an attack. He brought his fist around. Cap saw it though and Luke's fist hammered into cap's shield.
Luke kneed cap in the groin and threw him into a shelf full of booze bottles. Cage held on to the shield. He came for cap then kicked and hit him with his shield. Cap went fetal to a point and took the blows. They were heavy hits. Cap was superhuman like Cage too but in different ways. And Cage was the stronger of the two.
Cap focused on his next move set while ignoring the pain power man gave him. He then did a backflip kick in between blows and delivered it to Cage's chin to send him flying away. Cage dropped the shield in the process.
Cap went for him. As Cage landed cap rolled and came out beside the downed Harlemite. Cap punched and kicked cage's face to stun him further.
That was a way cap could beat him. Blunt force impacts. They'd accrue and cause enough internal damage to make his body shut down. He had a healing factor but not at super high levels. Enough for cap to do the job here.
Cap stunned him good enough. He rolled and retrieved his shield. He then rolled back at Cage and repeatedly bashed his shield into Cage's head. It would take a concentrated series of blows but it would add up eventually.
It did. Cage tried to fight back but cap's sustained blows with the shield; hard and fast; took the fight out of Cage and the fight with him. Cage gave one last final rise with a defiant cry to go with it but cap smashed him in the head real good that time and knocked him out.
Cap could keep bashing away to kill him but didn't. No real reason why. It wasn't mercy.
In moments it didn't matter as stokes' men sensed something was up and returned to find their baddie had won. They opened fire but nomad was ready and went at them. With shield and acrobatics his tac sense kept him ahead of the bullets as they came in. Some bounced off the shield and he dodged the others.
Cap was then at the stokes hitters and bashed away. He kept the moves tight. One to two hits a hitter to nail them. Soon enough they were down and dead. Only Cage was alive. He'd be out for a while.
Cap checked his gauntlet scanner. Responders would soon arrive. He made a quick search of the place to find anything on the flag smashers that could help. He found what was likely stokes' office and rummaged through it. Nothing.
Sirens closed. Cap left out the back. He circled around to his bike and took off. There might be intel updates he wasn't aware of. Shield was always putting new things together. For now it was best to regroup and go from there. He headed to an old warehouse he'd used before as cap for ops. He would plan things further from there.
As for the decaying republic filled with haters cap would die before ever uniting with them ever again. That too was nomad. Honest divisions over false unities any day. This isn't over by a long shot.