Steve had watched as Elizabeth and her mother leave the apartment, he wondered when he would see Elizabeth again. He hoped it was soon, but he knows that wars were not always predictable so it could been some time before he would be able to see her again. However he still needed to pack and get ready for his trip to go to the training camp in a few days. So he had went to his bedroom and packed some of his clothes in his duffle bag, as he packed that he had picked up a picture of Elizabeth of when she was only six. Steve had his arms wrapped around her holding her, she had her arms around his neck, both were smiling. Elizabeth was half looking at the camera and at Steve, while Steve was looking at Elizabeth and kneeling next to them was Bucky of who was looking at Elizabeth as well. Steve had put the picture in his bag as a way of having Bucky and Elizabeth there with him.

Two days later

Steve was standing in line as an agent told them of why there here, one of the soldiers tried to flirt with her of which gave the guy a punch in the face. Colonel Phillips had than showed up and told the soldiers to get back in line before he had gave a speech to them. Steve had notice that Colonel Phillips had looked at him during the speech as well as noticing the pause in the speech when Colonel Phillips was talking. Steve had also notice the man that had allowed him onto the base was there as well, after giving that speech that the training had started. Steve did as best as he could with the training but the others were making it difficult for him to do the training. His small size didn't help much either, when they were doing the running and they had reached the flag that the others tried to climb the flag pole as he catches his breath. When the drill master told them to get back in line after a minute of trying to get up the pole to get to the flag. When the others got back in line that Steve had walked over to where the flag pole was standing.

The drill master had notice Steve was not there, with the rest of the squad that was already in line, that he told Steve to get back in line. Steve didn't listen to the drill master as he walked up to the flag pole that the others were trying to climb up on. Instead of doing what the others did that Steve pulled out the two pins that were holding the pole up, when he had pulled the pins out of the pole that the flag pole had fell down. He could feel everyone watching him as he walked to the flag, took it off the pole and handed it to the drill master. Steve had than handed the flag to the drill master than he had climbed into the jeep, as soon as he in the jeep that the jeep had started down the road towards the camp. So that the rest of the squad was still back there and all of the squad staring at the jeep in disbelieve of what Steve had just done.

One day while the squad, that Steve was part of, was doing jumping Jack's that a grenade was tossed in the middle and someone yelled grenade. Everyone else had went behind something or got out of range, however Steve had ran over to the grenade and laid on top of it. He notice Agent Carter started toward him but he gesture for her to stop before he had spoke. "Stay back." Than someone had yelled it was a dummy grenade, Steve had sat up when he heard that. "Was this a test?" Later that night, Steve was sitting on one of the beds in a private quarter and Dr. Erskine had entered the quarters. They spoke a little bit, and finally Steve had ask the question that he had been wanting to know since he was told that he was the one picked for the super soldier.

"Can I ask a question?"

"Just one?"

"Why me?"

"I suppose that's the only question that matters." Dr. Erskine had displayed the wine bottle before he had went on. "This is from Augsburg, my city. So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own. You know, after the last war, they... My people struggled. They... they felt weak... they felt small. Then Hitler comes along with the marching, and the big show, and the flags, and the, and the... and he... he hears of me, and my work, and he finds me, and he says 'You.' He says 'You will make us strong.' Well, I am not interested. So he sends the head of Hydra, his research division, a brilliant scientist by the name of Johann Schmidt. Now Schmidt is a member of the inner circle and he is ambitious. He and Hitler share a passion for occult power and Teutonic myth. Hitler uses his fantasies to inspire his followers, but for Schmidt, it is not fantasy. For him, it is real. He has become convinced that there is a great power hidden in the earth, left here by the gods, waiting to be seized by a superior man. So when he hears about my formula and what it can do, he cannot resist. Schmidt must become that superior man."

"Did it make him stronger?"

"Yeah, but... there were other... effects. The serum was not ready. But more important, the man. The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows... compassion."

"Thanks. I think." Dr. Erskine had gestured to the wine bottle.

"Get it, get it. Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are, not a perfect soldier, but a good man." Dr. Erskine pointed at Steve's heart as he said the last part. Steve smiled when Dr. Erskine had said that, true he was small and got beating up a lot but bullies because he did his best to stand up to them, but he was a good man. He heard it that a lot from Elizabeth as she grew up and he watched her grew into a beautiful and good girl and so close of womanhood. He hoped beyond hope that Elizabeth won't be as small as he is or at least be more of normal size for a woman. The next day he was riding in the car with Agent Carter and he looked out of the windows and spoke.

"I know this neighborhood. I got beat up in that alley. And that parking lot. And behind that diner."

"You don't know when to give up." There was a pause and Agent Carter had spoke once more. "You have no idea how to talk to a woman, do you?"

"I think this is the longest conversation I've had with one. Women aren't exactly lining up to dance with a guy they might step on." Nothing else was said between them for the rest of the car drive. The car had stopped at last and Steve and Agent Carter had got out and went into a store. Of which confused Steve till after Agent Carter had gave a pass code to the woman who works here and they went to the back of the shop of where a door opened up and they went inside. When they were inside that everyone had looked at Agent Carter and himself, Steve had walked down the stairs with Agent Carter just behind him. Steve had climbed into the thing and he was injected with penicillin and than the serum before the thing closed around him. As the power went up that he could feel the pain but he did his best not to scream as it went higher that he was having a harder time till he did scream.

He couldn't take it much when the pain had started to become to hard to resist of screaming, he was glad that Elizabeth wasn't here to watch this. He could hear them starting turn it off when he heard Dr. Erskine turn it off that Steve stopped him and told him to keep it going. He felt the pain and power going higher. Than he heard the machine stop and the pain had went down as well, he started to breathe heavier. Even before the machine had opened that he knows that it had worked for he felt different, he felt taller. The machine had opened and he walked out of the machine and Agent Carter was standing close by. He notice she had blushed slightly when she saw him and handed him a shirt as she spoke.

"Feel any different." He looked around trying to get his bearings since he felt slightly odd with how he changed in the matter of minutes.

"Taller." He pulled the shirt over his head, and he looked down at himself. Somehow he had become taller for he knows that the floor was closer when he had entered the machine and it had closed around him. Than the office above explode and Dr. Erskine was shot, Steve had knelt besides him and Dr. Erskine had pointed at his heart. Steve was close of crying as Dr. Erskine died, Steve had got up and chased after the one who shot Dr. Erskine. Steve had chased him to the dock and the guy had took a boy and throw the boy off the dock. Steve had went to the edge and the boy said he could swim and told Steve to go after the guy. Steve had manage to get to the guy and pinned to the ground after a little bit of fight, Steve had to admit that he was surprise by his strength and speed during the fight.

"Who the hell are you?"

"The first of many. Cut off one head," The guy bite down on a cyanide pill. "Two more shall take its place. Hail Hydra." The guy had than died, Steve looked down at the guy and started wonder if he really should have joined the army.

When he got back that Colonel Phillips and Agent Carter were talking of what should be he next step. The original plan of the super soldier program had to be let go, Steve wanted to be in taking down Hydra but Colonel Phillips had said otherwise. But he was giving something else to do, for the next year he did shows, movies and greeted people. He also given the name, Captain America, he wasn't to sure of what to make of it expect that this was not where he had wanted to be in the last year or where he thought he would be. Steve was standing at the window in one of the hotel rooms in New York City and he was looking towards where Long Island was. He knows that Elizabeth was there and she was safe, but yet, he wanted to talk to her but Elizabeth had never once mentioned a way for him to contact her. He wanted to know if she was all right and he wanted to talk to someone that had a much more normal life than it did. But he has no idea of how much of a normal life that Elizabeth has at the moment, of which was not normal in any way possible.