Sam was debating asking for a raise, not that he was paid anyway. He was standing in the room behind the interrogation room, watching through a window that looked like a mirror from inside. This Jamie lady rubbed him the wrong way. Ex-Hydra, leader of some group living in a Hydra base, admitting Hydra was wrong, yet still defending them, this lady was too Hydra for him.
Steve and Natasha were questioning Jamie inside the room. Vision, Wanda, Rhodey, and himself were in the back room looking on. Jamie was playing dumb in what Sam could only describe as a smart way. Playing the victim card had worked for people in the past. Steve and Natasha exited the room to regroup with the rest of the team.
"They all have the same story," said Natasha.
"I don't trust her," said Steve.
"Me neither," Natasha agreed. "I'll check the system to see if any of them were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents."
She left.
Rhodey said he'd check the military files for records and left too.
"Wanda, why don't you go read their thoughts, just to be safe." said Steve.
She nodded and walked into the room with Vision. Steve and Sam stood in the back room, arms crossed.
"What are you thinking, Cap?" Sam asked.
"I don't think she gave us the whole story," he replied.
"You know who else didn't give you the whole story?" Tony came bursting into the room a file in hand. He threw the file on the table in front on them. "Fury."
Steve picked up the file and Sam looked over his shoulder.
"What do you have, Stark?" Steve questioned as he scanned the file.
"That Hydra base we just raided, it wasn't the problem," Tony said, "There's another base that's been active since S.H.I.E.L.D. fell."
"Fury told me about that," said Steve. "He said it was a safe house."
"Maybe that was the idea," Tony said. "But the base is acting like a headquarters, they are in touch with external intelligence services, running missions and covering them up, the whole deal."
"Another S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Steve crossed his arms menacingly.
"Or another Hydra?" Sam crossed his arms too.
"Here's the thing, someone's been keeping it off our radar." Tony finished.
"Someone, like who?" Sam asked.
"Like Fury," Tony answered, his arrogant air coming back as he started to pace around the room.
"Why Fury? Couldn't it have been anyone?" Steve asked.
"Well, whoever it is doesn't want to take us out, well, presently, that might change, but they're not shooting at us right now. So that means they don't see us as a threat, we have the same goals."
Tony waved his arms around. "I'm sorry is no one understanding me, I'm pretty sure I'm speaking English unless I switched over to my usual, super smart language none of you understand, that could happen, but plain and simple here it is. Fury started a new S.H.I.E.L.D.. He probably won't call it that to avoid the wrath of mighty Captain America, but it exists and he's been hiding it, and right now I feel like he's going to get the full wrath of Iron Man, who happens to be the strongest Avenger, internet poll Rogers."
Tony let out his breath. "Man I miss Banner, it was good you know, to have a therapist in the building, maybe then you wouldn't have to hear all the hardships of being me."
"Is that what we just heard?" Sam asked incredulously.
"You know, I'm not sure." Steve answered him, then almost instantly turned serious. "A new S.H.I.E.L.D., are you sure, and you're confident about Fury?"
"100 percent," Tony nodded. "Well, 99 percent cause the wifi sucks, actually 98 percent, but it just sounds like Fury, so a firm 99 percent."
"Uhuh," Sam nodded. "So what's the plan Cap?''
"Oh, also, forgot to mention, that dead kid in the orange goop, he's part alien." Tony added absentmindedly.
The door opened and Wanda and Vision stepped back into the back room.
"What'd you get?" Steve asked eagerly.
"She knows more than she told you," Wanda said, twisting her hands.
Steve nodded her on.
"A new kind of superhero, they call them Inhumans. They are part alien, specifically Kree. They have powers, and the man in charge has a plan for them. He thinks the world needs to change." Wanda said.
"Change how?" Steve asked.
"Change so the Avengers are not a part of it." Wanda looked at her feet. "He's going to use the Inhumans, he called them weapons even the Kree didn't use to their full potential."