Chapter 4

Leatherback followed the two HYDRA soldiers deeper into the mountain base that the Red Skull called home. He had arrived over an hour ago but the passage from the entrance to where the Red Skull wanted to meet with him. The young soldier who he had meet in the human transport vehicle was behind him, and had not said a word since then they arrived at the base. For the past hour Leatherback had been thinking how this boy could help in Seth's plans on returning. The Chaos Bringer could be brought back two ways. The first way was that Leatherback found a vessel for him to take control of. And the second way was to find the Book of the Dead, but that was not possible. The golden book had been hidden away by the High Priest Imhotep after he had failed to bring back his lover. His lover who worked for Seth back when he was alive.

Fallowing the small humans into a large room that was filled with technology and machines that the humans shouldn't have at that point in time, Leatherback came face to face with the Red Skull. The human how had burned stared at the gorilla from another world. "At long last we meet, Leatherback!" the Skull said in his thick accented voice.

Leatherback stopped where the guards wanted him to stop. He needed to gain HYDRAs trust so that he could work it to his advantage. "I hoped to have meet you when you first became the Red Skull but the war I am fighting in at the moment needed my complete attention!" he replied remembering the recent fight he had with Edward. "Ordinary humans have no idea that there has been a war raging at night. My forces who want the humans to be in their rightful place at our feet. The other force fighting is Nightshade's who defend mankind!" Leatherback explained as he watched the Red Skull take his seat.

"Tell me Leatherback, how can you help HYDRA?" Skull asked leaning back in his throne. He studied Leatherback closely. His guards were keeping close to the alien who had helped him from a far.

Leatherback smiled. "I have a plan! A plan that will see all your enemies and mine tremble. Even the Daleks will fear what I have in plan!" he said watching the Red Skull as the human smiled.

"And what is this plan?"

"To bring back a God! A God who was robbed of his place by both Horus and Anubis! He will be able to put humans in their place with the higher races bowing to him like a king. And for a reward he will give you power that you haven't even dreamed off!" Leatherback explained as the Skull raised his back while sitting down on his throne.

The Red Skull looked over at his scientist who was hiding in the shadows. He then looked back round at Leatherback. "Tell me, Leatherback! What is it that you need?" he asked looking down at Leatherback.

Here it was. This was the time that he told the Skull what Seth had told him to tell the human. The human who thought he was a god after he went through the experiment that burnt everything to become a super soldier like Captain America. "The God in question can return to our realm of existence by two means! The first way is with the use of a vessel!" he replied looking at the young boy who had been the armoured vehicle with him.

The Skull followed his line of sight. "And what is the second way for the God to return?" he asked returning his attention back to Leatherback.

"A Book called the Book of the Dead!" Leatherback replied seeing that he was getting more of the Skull's attention.

Rising from his throne the Red Skull walked towards the towering monster from another. By human standards he was pretty tall, but there was nothing he could to see eye to eye with Leatherback. His blue eyes looked into the small black beady eyes of Leatherback. "I have heard of the Book of the Dead, Leatherback! I have heard that it is the first documentation of religion along with the passing into the Underworld!" he replied as his stare got more tense. He needed to remind this beast of his place. He was not a god but he worked for one, and that was all that mattered to him. To him Leatherback was a good way of getting into the good books of the god that Leatherback works for.

"Your knowledge is wrong!" Leatherback said not noticing the flash of anger crossing over the Skulls features. "The Book of the Dead is not a book of religion it is a book of spells along with other incantations that humans used to perform for many reasons. But the main reason was that it was used to summon the creatures that you called gods to perform magic tricks for you lot!" he finished.

The Red Skull took a step back and away from the creature. His stare only got more intense. How dare this thing come to his mountain fortress and talk to him like that. He was thinking of ways to deal with Leatherback that would remind him of his place when the creature in question spoke once again.

"I know where to find the Book of the Dead, but you must trust me like you did when I told you of where the Tesseract was hidden all those years!" he said keeping cool. He couldn't get angry with the human. He was needed in the plan. The Red Skull was an important piece in the plan both at the moment and in the future. The Red Skull was beginning to get bored and he needed a quick way of getting his support back quickly. "The Book of the Dead will be found in a British Museum in the 1920s and you have to make sure that it finds its way there!" Leatherback told the Red Skull firmly as he told Seth's plan. The plan that had been helping fuel the Night Wars.

The Red Skull looked at Leatherback as if he was a mad man, and he was beginning to think that he was. "How?" was all he asked. It was all he could say as he tried to process what he had heard.

Leatherback snorted. Humans were dull and dumb, but yet Nightshade and the Doctor had some fondness towards them. He had told the human how he was getting there but he had chosen to ignore it. Grating his teeth, Leatherback calmed himself down. "The Tesseract! It will open a door for you to the 1920s when an archaeological dig was taking place. You will have to find the book before anyone else and bring back Seth's mistress. She will know the spell to use to bring Seth back properly but before that he will need vessels which I will deal with!" Leatherback explained as his glare softened, something that he had seen the Doctor do when he and the Time Lord had crossed paths with the later trying to persuade him to stop trying to destroy the world. "And when you use the Tesseract to take you the 1920s it will make your enemies believe that you are dead which will help with the plan even more!"

"What do I have to do?" Skull asked walking back to his throne. He was already thinking of what he could do in the 1920s. He could start HYDRA years before it was originally formed. He could take over the world before Captain America was even out of school.

"Continue with what you are doing, Red Skull! Now if I may take the young lad with me I think he can help with the plan!" Leatherback said looking at the young boy who had joined HYDRA thinking that it was just like anything else that was going about in Germany. He didn't notice Skull nodding his burnt head for Leatherback to take him away. He still didn't know what he was going to do, but deep down there was fear and dreed of what was going to happen. Now he was wishing if he had just joined the regular army rather than the science army.