Chapter 2: - Leatherback
In Europe high in a mountain range covered in snow a convoy of heavy vehicles followed the warn out mountain road. The heavy vehicles slowly followed the road that had been recently built for the purpose of getting supplies and soldiers to and from the hidden HYDRA base. The base that was kept secret that not even HYDRAS allies knew that it existed. Massive guns that were hidden in the mountains followed the convoy of military vehicles. HYDRA was not taking any changes with the Howling Commandos taking base after base in the rest of Europe.
In the second vehicle of the convoy a soldier couldn't help but stare. He couldn't help but stare at the massive monster that sat on the other side of the trailer of the vehicle. The young man had been told by his superiors that he should not stare at a messenger of the gods as the Red Skull called him. He was no more than a boy not even 20 years old yet and here he was sitting across from a gorilla. A gorilla that was covered in scales like a crocodile rather than hair like a gorilla that he had seen at a zoo when he was just a little boy. He had stared at the creature that they had picked up at a secret location.
"If you have a problem, human say it!" the creature sneered keeping its eyes closed with its massive broad head resting against the headrest of the seat that he was sitting on.
The boy suddenly looked away from the monster and looked down at his feet. "I am sorry, sir! But I have never seen anything like you before and I just wondering who sent you and what you are?" the he asked still looking away from the monster that had been helping the Red Skull and HYDRA for a few months.
Leatherback snorted at the boy. He was smarter than the usual human pest that crawled over the surface of the Earth. How Nightshade loved this race he didn't know and he didn't want to know? "That is classified, Boy! It is only for me and the Red Skull to know about! But don't worry your planet will soon make contact with more superior beings!" Leatherback replied still watching the boy very closely.
"You work for a God don't you?" the boy asked looking back up at Leatherback before looking back at the floor and his already worn out boots.
Leatherback was silent as he watched the boy. He was smart! Maybe too smart for his plans! Watching the boy more closely Leatherback began to form a plan. A plan that would see the boy coming into contact with a real god after all that was what all humans wanted. "You could say that!" was all he said before closing his small eyes and fell asleep again. He was not saying anything else to the boy that had just become a major gear in his plans to bring back his master.