(Hey everyone, funny story I meant to put part two on, but things got on the way so I'll get both the second and third parts together at once.
This will be the last chapter of this short but spectacular novel. I hope everyone liked reading it and will continue to after I finished.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that belongs to either Captain America or Dragon Age they are the property of their respective owners
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Captain America was silent as they approached Schmidt's office just as the leader of Hydra noticed them. Schmidt spoke, "Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but I must say, you do it better than anyone."
Looking over to the demon, Schmidt asked, "Where is the puppy."
"NoT hErE, mY lOrD." Rage reported. He honestly couldn't sense a trace of the thing.
Schmidt found that odd. He thought for sure that where ever the captain went, Cole would follow, like a puppy following a boy. He decided to focus on the one who had infuriated him more than any man alive.
Seeing how his servant hadn't moved, Schmidt ordered, "Go and guard reorganize our troops outside."
Rage wanted to protest, wanting to feed more on his master's rage towards Captain America, but was forced to obey and left the room.
Returning his attention to the American, Schmidt continued speaking, "But there are limits, to what even you can do, Captain."
"Or did Eriskine tell you otherwise?" Schmidt asked, smirking at his own joke, having been the one who ordered the assassination of the life of the scientist who made Steve Rogers the man he was today.
That, however turned out to be the wrong move on the part of the Red Skull's as Steve jabbed, "He told me you were insane."
"Ah." The Skull said, figuring that both he and the late doctor would believe that. He looked down and said, "He resented my genius and tried to deny me what's rightfully mine."
"But he gave you everything." Schmidt remarked gesturing to the captain in a callous way, but inside he was fuming with thoughts of murdering the captain.
"So, what made you so special?" Schmidt asked, wanting to know how Eriskine would choose someone like this American to take the serum. His smirk faltered at seeing the captain's own smile.
As he smiled, Captain America stated, "Nothing."
The answer confused Schmidt, and made him wonder what he meant by that. The Captain continued, "I'm just a kid from Brooklynn."
Hearing that made Schmidt lose his temper and he slugged the captain hard in the face. He then back handed the super-soldier, and finally shoved his fist into the captain's solar plexus. The pain made the captain fall to his knees. The captain took deep breathes, and, looking up at the Red Skull, Captain America remarked, "I can do this all day."
"Oh of course you can, of course. But, unfortunately, I'm on a tight schedule." The Red Skull said, pulling out his personal Hydra pistol and aimed it at the captain, ready to finally be rid of the man with the shield, ready to watch him vaporize into atoms. Before the Red Skull could pull the trigger, there came sounds of something embedding into the rock that served as Hydra's main base. All eyes turned to see what appeared to be three figures zip lining across one mountain to the window.
Looking back at the Hydra leader, Steve breathed, coldly, "So am I."
He used the tyrant's distraction to pull one of the Hydra Agents to be as his shield. Schmidt fired, vaporizing the agent instead of his enemy. Just after the blast, the windows were forced open by Falsworth, Gabe, and Dugan crashing in, they began firing at the Hydra agents in the room. Falsworth shot at the Hydra agents with his sub-machine gun, a Sten MKII SMG. Gabe, brandish his own machine gun, a Browning M1919A4. Dugan joined in with his pump-action shotgun, a Winchester 1897. As they fired, they made sure not to hit their leader: Captain America tossed the other Hydra agent that was holding him down into the air, sending him into a wall.
In all the fighting, Schmidt had used this chance to escape, leaving his men to fight and die so he could complete his plans.
Falsworth hung his rifle behind him and he used his side arm, firing while he went. Grabbed Steve's shield, shouting, "Rogers! You might need this."
"Thanks!" Steve called back as he caught it, put the shield on and hurried after the Red Skull. He trusted that they will be able to survive and take care of any other Hydra agents in their way.
Alarms went off throughout the complex. Every available Hydra soldier with their energy weapons marched to engage the intruders.
A door exploded and out came Jim Morita, Jacque Dernier, a squad of soldiers, and Cole who ran, to get close enough for his daggers to be of use. The Allied soldiers fired their guns while supplying support to their gunless ally.
"We're in! Assault team, GO!" Jim shouted into his mic, signaling the forces outside to attack, firing on the Hydra agents. Cole provided cover as he used his daggers to block the shots from the Hydra's energy weapons. Cole then disappeared, only to appear behind one Hydra soldier whom he stabbed through with his daggers. Cole pulled away in time to evade a shot, using one of the martial arts moves he learned, kicked the soldier hard into a wall before slashing at another. The Spirit was determined to keep his promise to the SSR, by helping them end this war with Hydra.
Colonel Philips put the phone in his ear into the nearby soldier's pack as he ordered, "Move out!"
Signaling the assault on the Hydra headquarters to commence. All the soldiers with him, SSR or regular army, came out of their hiding places and charged, ready to end this.
Rage turned abruptly when the sounds of the SSR's weapons went off. Facing them, the demon ordered, "HoLd ThE lInE! SlAuGhTeR tHeM!"
The Hydra soldiers began running for cover and, obeying the demon, fired their weapons at the SSR soldiers. Rage roared as he unleashed a power blast of his demon fire at the soldiers, causing those who were not able to get out of the way to turn into charred skeletons. The bullets might have impacted the demon's body but because of the lack of the energy needed to make him feel any pain, he laughed. The bullets melted into small puddles of molten metal before oozing out of his lava and fire like body and fell to the ground. But when one of the enemy soldiers picked up the Hydra weapons and used it on him, the demon roared in pain before retreating. To him it was as powerful as a mage's Arcane Bolt, but not strong enough to end him. As he slid past the soldiers that served his new master's order, he needed try and summon more of his kin to this world.
Jacque met up with Dugan and Falsworth. The redheaded man with the bowler hat pulled out the Hydra rifle that he brought or picked up along the way and began firing it at the Hydra agents as some means of payback and continued to sweep the place clean of any Hydra personal.
Cole went with Gabe and Jim to sabotage any of the Hydra's base weapons and search for the Demon, Rage. Cole could feel every soldier killed by the Hydra's weapons, feel their sudden disappearance. He even felt the dying feelings and thoughts of the Hydra soldiers, even as he cut them down or provided help to his friends. Knowing that he must focus in order to help, he does so and charged, became invisible, punching one agent and stabbing the other Hydra agent in the gut.
Schmidt couldn't believe how much anger and failures he had faced because of one man. The door nearby exploded, forcing the Red Skull to pick up a fallen soldier's cannon and start firing at the incoming American Soldiers. When Schmidt saw a break he ran to the hanger, knowing that if he was able to take off in the Valkyrie he could still win.
Several Hydra soldiers fell from the gunshots of the opposing forces the last remaining Hydra agent, in his small squad, shouted, "Cut off one head, two more sha-" before collapsing from being shot at as well.
Colonel Philips, Peggy Carter, and a squad looked at their handy work as the colonel used the pump to force the empty shell away and remarked, "Let's look for two more!"
Just before they could proceed, fire erupted, causing the man shot by Colonel Philips to rise again, an aura of fire around him as he said in a growl of a voice, "BURN!"
He held out his hand and a fireball shot out, hitting the closest soldier, causing an explosion that forced all and any survivors to fall backwards. Peggy and Philips stared up in horror as the demon possessed man approached, even as their squad open fired. The Demon laughed as if he didn't care about the human he was wearing, "DoN't yOu HuMaNs GeT iT!? YoUr WeApOnS aRe WiThOuT aNy SpIrIt, ThAt'S wHy YoU cAn'T sToP mE!"
"Then try mine!" A voice called, catching the attention of the demon as he was squeezed the life out of one of the soldiers, who looked as though he was being burned by the Hydra agent's touch. Cole appeared, and he used his daggers to slash off the arm of the possessed agent, causing the demon to roar in pain.
The American soldier fell and scurried away to the rest of his squad. The colonel continued to watch in disbelieve.
The flesh of the Hydra agent finally burnt to ashes, revealing the lava and fiery body of the demon of Rage that Colonel Philips had disregarded as a hallucination and make belief. The Demon however scoffed, "UsElLeSs MeAtBaG!"
"This ends now, demon." Cole said standing protectively in front of Philips and his men.
"No, ThInG, iT eNdS wItH yOu DeAd AnD tHiS wOrLd BuRnInG fOr My LoRd!" Rage shouted as the two charged.
Peggy wanted to get up and provide support, but feeling the aged hand of her C. O., she listened as he said, "Best leave it to the boy. If that damn demon's right, Cole's the only one that can take it on."
Peggy looked back to see Cole and the Rage demon fighting intensely, Cole kept reappearing before the humans, using his daggers to keep them safe by absorbing the impact of the fire attacks. So, with a focused determination, she nodded and said, "Good luck, Cole."
Cole smiled under his hat, straightened his lips and charged at the Demon of Rage. The demon roared as he held out both hands and let loose a power blast of fire, shooting out from the space in between its fingers. Cole rolled out of the way and then used his power to get behind the demon. It felt its enemy behind it and turned. Cole ran away from the flames before he flipped over the demon and delivered shallow cuts at the bulk of the Rage demon.
The demon hollered in pain and momentarily stopped its attack. Just as Cole ran up to stab his daggers into the demon's vital area, the demon grabbed the spirit by the neck and raised him up, off the ground. The burning sensation from being held by the demon caused Cole to gasp in pain while trying to get the demon to let go. The Demon's eyes narrowed as it let out a humorless chuckle.
It raised its head and began to gather energy at it for it to unleash some sort of fire type spell. However, the demon was unable to cast it since Cole began swinging his body before his legs hit their target, a spot under the massy bulk of the demon's body. The sudden attack caused Rage to drop Cole who retrieved, charged up and rammed his dagger up the head of the Rage demon before bringing the other one down on the demon's head. Cole waited, listening to the demon of Rage's death cry before pulling his daggers out. Rage roared louder than ever before dropping; its body began to sink back into the pool of lava on the floor just as its kind did when someone killed them.
Panting heavily, Cole regathered his composure and hurried to help the SSR deal with the remaining Hydra soldiers.
Schmidt stopped running as he felt a pain in his head. He then called, "Rage? Rage!"
Unable to see the demon respond to his commands, Schmidt deduced that either Captain America or Cole was able to kill it.
Hearing footsteps behind him, he fired his pistol at none other than Captain America, who blocked the attack with his shield. Schmidt growled and fired again, still running.
Steve blocked the next shot and ran after the man who had killed two people that Steve cared for; he was not going to let Schmidt get away with what he has done. Stopping, Steve got his shield ready to fly and threw it. The shield bounced off the wall and just as it was about to reach its wielder's target, doors began closing but were halted by the captain's shield.
Hearing the gong sound, Steve realized that his shield had not reached its target and hurried to catch up. A Hydra soldier in the cannon armor came out and shot his flamethrowers at him. Thinking quickly, Steve hid on the indent that was a door to another section of the lab. The flames died down, allowing Steve to see the soldier aiming again before the Hydra soldier fired off another volley. Just when it looked like Captain America was about to be cooked by the Hydra agent, machine gun fire went off, causing the pack on the Hydra soldier's back to explode. Steve, hearing the explosion, glanced over to see the dead Hydra agent's burning body falling forward.
He then jogged up, wondering who did this when he saw Peggy Carter, in a brown SSR jacket running up with a battalion of SSR soldiers. They were securing the area as Captain America said, "You're late."
There was a silent uneasiness between them before Carter asked, "Weren't you about to…"
"Right." Steve said, remembering his mission. He hurried after Schmidt, grabbing his shield on the way before the doors closed behind him.
After finally reaching the Valkyrie, Schmidt climbed up the ladder to board the aircraft.
At one of the doorways leading to the hanger was Cole, leading a group of SSR soldier as he saw the Red Skull and the pilots. When they got close enough, Cole turned to the soldiers and ordered, "Don't let them onboard!"
"You heard the lieutenant, Open fire!" The soldier said as he and his two buddies opened fire, shooting at the pilots who were just climbing up the ladder.
Cole gritted his teeth in frustration seeing the Red Skull escaping. He turned and said, "Stay here. Don't let any of them after me."
"Gotcha!" The soldier nodded and they stayed where they were. Cole ran to the aircraft as fast as he could. As he ran, he provided as much support to the soldiers who were willing to risk their lives to keep their homes and families safe from people who wished to kill or enforce their rule on them. Cole slid on his knees to deliver a gash to a Hydra's soldier's leg, causing him to fall before cutting across another's stomach, and punching a third as he went by him. His delay to help the soldiers made him to arrive in the same destination as Steve as both, Super soldier and spirit boy raced to reach the Valkyrie before it could take off. But it went along too fast for either of them.
Just as the two stopped, they heard tires skidding to a halt and turned to see Colonel Philips and Peggy Carter in a customized hot rod with the Hydra symbol on its grill.
"Get in!" Philips ordered. They both got on, Rogers taking the passenger seat while Cole climbed on and placed his legs in the space between Peggy's and Philip's seat.
"What happened to the demon?" Peggy asked, just as Philips floored the pedal to make the car go as fast as possible.
Holding on to his hat with a hand, Cole said, loud enough over the wind, "He's dead."
Philips pushed the vehicle to its limit, attempting to reach the plane before it could take off. The hanger doors began to open, signaling they needed to hurry.
"We must go faster!" Cole cried out, as he held on.
"I know!" Philips shouted back. He looked throughout the dashboard, saw a red button, and pushed it.
The four of them lurched backwards as the car suddenly picked up new speed, now accelerating fast enough to reach the airship… hopefully.
Both Cole and Steve climbed out of the top of the car as the captain ordered, "Keep it steady!"
"Wait!" Peggy suddenly cried, getting the attention of the two standing combatants. She pulled Steve to her, planting a kiss on his lips.
After pulling away, Peggy saw Steve's confused face, that is, before Peggy encouragingly told the captain and lieutenant, "Go get him."
The captain looked to his colonel who cracked, "I'm not kissing ya."
Cole, knowing that wasn't what the captain wanted, climbed up to the front of the car, and pressed his body up to the hood with Steve as the rotors slashed at the hot rod. Cole felt a sudden flare of rage from the bridge of the ship. He guessed that Schmidt was furious that he had damaged his own personal ride.
When they got close enough, the plane began to rise into the air, like a bird taking off. Both Steve and Cole jumped up to reach the wheel leg of the aircraft. Steve reached it, Cole almost didn't. He would have fallen had it not been for Steve who caught his friend's arm and said, "I caught you."
Cole smiled as he was pulled up to the wheel and waited for the wheel to begin to rise up into the body of the craft. Both looked back to see the hot rod halfway off the ground, hanging on the edge, but mostly stable on the runway. The two were glad that their friends were safe as they continued to climb upwards.
Peggy and Philips looked up watching as the intercontinental bomber rising higher into the air, heading towards the sun's light. They were both concerned, but hopeful that the only two hopes that made it onboard could stop the Red Skull and sink that thing before reaching the states.
After the wall closed, sealing the wheel securely inside. Both Rogers and Cole looked inside to see that they were inside a miniature hanger with small bomb like ships along the back wall of the bomber. They climbed onto the catwalk to see that each of the bomb ships had the names of the city states along the eastern seaboard. Steve's eyes lingered on the one that read "New York". Cole didn't need to use his powers to detect that it made Steve more fearful and angrier.
Suddenly a door hatch opened, and the sounds footsteps on the metal grating alerted the two. They saw Hydra pilots that had survived, each hurrying to one of the suicide ships. Just as the last one passed the nose of the New York bomb, Steve kicked the guy in the face, with enough force to make him fall down on the side. This alerted the other three who now saw their leader's enemy, Captain America, standing there. Two drew knives from the compartment near their boots and approached, only to witness the second threat to their leader's plans, Cole, to appear and stab a dagger into one of the men. The one in front of his comrade, didn't hear a thing as he charged, thinking his fellow pilot would come to provide support. Steve grabbed the stabbing arm of the Hydra pilot and put the man into a hold. Cole turned to see the pilot, who ran away, approaching his bomber. Seeing this too, Steve grabbed the Hydra's agent's knife and flung it at the other one. The Hydra agent gagged before falling forward, dead with the knife sticking in his back.
They heard sounds of feet touching the metal grating and saw that the soldier that Steve knocked down getting into the closest ship, which was designed to land on a city called "Chicago". Cole went to attack him, but Steve stopped him, approached the bomber ship's control on the walkway and caused the bomber ship to eject prematurely while the man fell out with a scream.
While Steve was dealing with this, Cole spotted another Hydra pilot attempting to stop the super soldier, so Cole went up and began a fist fight with the pilot. They were locked in a struggling fight when Cole used his opponent's weight against him, and rolling backwards, used his foot to push the man out into the opening.
As they watched the second one falling out, the Hydra agent that Steve disarmed got onto the ship that was assigned to New York and proceeded to launch himself.
A new pilot, aware of their stowaways went and tackled the captain before he could break the cockpit of the pilot's ship. Pressing the button, the ship dropped with the three men on it. Cole watched, worried. Unsure if Steve was still alive, Cole had to complete the mission. He stayed and fought the other approaching Hydra agents.
In the main controls of the ship, The Red Skull had thought that he was free to complete his plans to attack the US when he saw one of his bombers flying across the window. Guessing only the captain or the spirit was actually behind the controls, he flipped a switch to identify the vessel from ally to enemy, allowing the gunners to come online to fire at the rogue ship. He was confident that the cannons would deal with the captured ship.
Meanwhile, in the launcher part of the bomber plane, Cole had been fighting the remaining soldiers to keep them from getting into their bomber ships. A few minutes after Cole had dealt with the remaining pilot, just as he saw the New York one approaching from behind the space, between the two turbine engines. The impact of the crash was enough to alert everyone that Captain America was back on board
Steve climbed out of the ship and was greeted by Cole who held a dagger in one hand and the captain's shield with the other.
Smiling the two briefly embraced each other in a brotherly hug as Steve patted the younger man's back.
Holding the shield up for his friend to accept, Cole asked, "Are you ready to end this?"
Steve looked at the shield before taking it, nodding.
The two friends made their way to the ship's bridge and saw its door. They nodded and got ready. The captain opened the door a crack, looking inside before entering, signaling for Cole to come in. They looked around the bridge but there was no sign of the Red Skull; Cole was puzzled by this. Since this bridge was emitting the emotions and thoughts that the Red Skull usually held inside he could not tell where the real man was from the lingering emotions.
They approached, one on either side of the command chair, wanting to surprise the Red Skull. As they walked past the very thing that Cole felt talking to him, it felt like a muffled scream and it seemed that whatever Schmidt and Hydra were doing with it, it seemed was hurt by the process.
Steve noticed that Cole was being distracted and motioned for Cole to focus on the matter at hand for now. Cole nodded as they approached the chair. Suddenly Cole felt an intent to kill the captain coming from behind them as Cole appeared before the Steve and used his daggers to block the shot. The impact from the cannon like rifle forced Cole to crash onto Steve and the bolt shot out the window.
"You both don't give up, do you?" The Red Skull asked, smirking at the thought of finally getting rid of both thorns in his side.
"Nope!" Captain America shouted as he charged, blocking the shots that Schmidt took with the rifle, the bolts tearing through the ship's haul. Cole got up just as Cap used his shield to get it out of the Red Skull's hands; the ensuing fight making Steve drop his shield. During the fight, Cole ran quickly up at the combatants and leapt up to try and run Schmidt through. Schmidt, seeing this pushed the captain away and kicked Cole to one of the support beams to the plane, keeping the ceiling from collapsing on them.
Cole slid down, the wind knocked out of him as he hit the floor. Steve charged continuing their even fight. Cap tackled the skull down, retrieved his shield and turned around to swat at the skull with his shield. But the skull caught Cap's arm jabbed him in the gut. The Red Skull then grabbed the shield from the star spangled hero and smacked him with it, forcing him to the ground. Steve was then pulled up and pressed against the power source container just as the skull leaned in to sneer. That was an error on his part as the super-soldier head butted him, then picked up the tyrannical leader of Hydra and tossed him into his chair which forced the controls to plummet forwards.
The change in direction caused Cole to reawaken. Digging his daggers into the floor of the plane, Cole climbed up to the side of a beam and walked along it, sheathing his daggers as he did.
Due to the g-force of their increasing descent, the Red Skull and Captain America hit one of ceilings and began jabbing at each other's guts. Having had enough, and wanting to get the plane back on course, Schmidt kicked Rogers across the room where the g-force held him still. Climbing down to the controls, Schmidt activated the Auto-pilot which allowed the plane to resume its flight plan to its destination.
Once gravity was back to normal the Red Skull pulled his pistol and looked around for his targets. Looking around, Schmidt tried to reason with the two, "You could of have the power of the Gods!"
Seeing one of them, Schmidt fired as he continued ranting, "Yet you wear a flag on your chest and think you fight a battle of nations!"
"I have seen the future, Captain, Spirit!" Schmidt shouted as he approached the containment unit for his power source, "There are no flags!"
"Not my future!" Steve shot back. He dived for and grabbed his shield. Missing being shot by the Red Skull's pistol.
"We prefer to fight for people than to achieve something that'd cost people their lives and happiness!" Cole shouted back, causing Schmidt to fire at the beam where Cole was hiding. Cole was able to reappear behind another beam, closer to the captain.
Schmidt aimed and fired again. The shot bounced off of Captain America's shield before the super-soldier swung his arm and tossed it at the mad man, forcing him to be knocked against the containment unit.
Sparks flew as the piece that held the source forced itself upwards. Cole yelled and fell to his knees; the sound of whatever Hydra used to power their weapons was forcing him to the ground, shouting, "It hurts! It's hurting!"
Getting up, the Red Skull asked, pained, "What have you done?"
Cole appeared next to his friend and said, "He stopped you from hurting it. The thing you use to power your weapons of death! Leeching off its energy to bring about death to all instead of using it for its original purpose!"
"Silence!" Schmidt ordered as he approached the container device and reached for the glowing cube of energy.
"No." The Skull breathed as he grabbed the cube, checking to see if it was damaged before smiling. Without thinking of anything else but the cube in the Skull's hand Cole became angry, and acting on instinct. He reached for the cube.
"No!" Cole shouted as he lunged for the cube, in Schmidt's hand. They struggle to grab hold of this mysterious object when energy from the cube began to resonate with them as it pulsed and caused all three to look up at the sea of stars within the airship, the sky over Cole however became different. Schmidt had an exuberant smile on his face while Cole stared in wonder before both felt themselves being pulled into the portals above them.
Schmidt gave a pained cry as his body was sent to the stars. Cole however was relaxed; he knew that it wasn't going to kill him like the Red Skull who had been struggling to break free. Cole knew that the cube had caused this due to their strong feelings.
Looking back at his friend, Steve Rogers A.K.A. Captain America, Cole gave a knowing smile to his friend as the energy engulfed him and took him away from Rogers and his world.
Steve couldn't believe it. Both the Red Skull and his friend, Cole, were gone, just like that. Ignoring the sharp pain in his heart at losing another friend, Steve picked up his shield and watched as the blue glowing cube burned through the metal, causing it fall into the Atlantic Ocean. Rogers went to the control console, and saw the destination of the craft and his current location. He then knew what he had to do and called the SSR that was at the Hydra base.
"Come in. This is Captain Rogers. Does anyone read me?" Steve asked into the mic that connected him to the Hydra base, praying that the SSR had made it clear of the Hydra agents.
Back at Hydra Headquarters in the Alps, Jim, Peggy, and Philips were in the command center, waiting for Rogers or Cole to communicate with them. Since the two had left, the SSR had taken care of most to all of the Hydra Agents that fought to the last man.
"Come in. This is Captain Rogers. Does anyone read me?" The voice of Captain America asked, coming from the radio.
On the communications, Jim was able to reply, "Captain Rogers, what is your…"
He was interrupted by Peggy who came and asked, "Steve, is that you? Are you and Cole all right?"
"Peggy… Schmidt and Cole are dead!" Rogers yelled over the radio. The news had given everyone mixed reactions, obviously the news of Schmidt's death was good, but to lose another of their own was hurting for the commandos.
Gathering the courage she needed, Peggy asked, "What about the plane?"
Since getting in contact with the base, Steve had been trying to get the plane to change its course and take it out of auto-pilot. He heard Peggy ask about the plane and answered, "That's a little tougher to explain."
"Give me your coordinates, I'll find you a safe landing spot." Peggy said, her tone suggested that she wanted him to survive.
Looking at the screen that showed the condition of the plane, Steve replied, "There's not gonna be a safe landing. But I can try and force it down."
Peggy felt like her heart was breaking when she heard this and said, not noticing Philips order his men to leave Peggy alone with the captain, "I'll get Howard on the line. He'll know what to do."
"There's not enough time. This thing's moving too fast and it's heading for New York." Steve said, loudly over the wind. This made Peggy's heart beat faster, as she prayed he wasn't going to do something she defines thought that as stupid.
A heavy moment of silence was heard before Steve proclaimed, "I got to put her in the water."
"Please, don't do this. We have time. We can work it out." Peggy pleaded, keeping herself steady as she tried to convince Steve not to make such a desperate move.
"Right now I'm in the middle of nowhere. If I wait any longer a lot of people are going to die." Steve said from his end.
Steve looked at the map and sees that he is close to Greenland, perfect since no one would be close to a frozen wasteland right now, meaning he can take the plane down before reaching New York.
Looking at the beautiful scene before him, Steve said, his heart hurting from what he knew he had to do, "Peggy, this is my choice."
No reply meant she must have silently understood. Pulling out his compass, Steve placed it on a secured location, where it would be with him as he forced the plane down. Looking at the picture inside, the picture of Peggy Carter there, Steve was filled with enough strength to do what he had to, while still making it his mission to return to her alive… He must.
As he gazed back at the sky, Captain America forced the controls to go down, making the plane lean forward until Steve saw the ocean instead of the sky.
Looking at the image of the one woman he had ever fallen in love with, Steve asked, "Peggy?"
"I'm here." She said, trying to keep her voice steady.
"I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance." Steve told her, trying to keep her mind off of what was about to happen.
A tear escaped her eye as she whimpered, "All right."
She paused to think of a good place to meet up again before stating, "A week, next Saturday, at the Stork Club."
"You got it." Steve agreed, his voice almost shaky now, probably getting closer to the water.
"Eight O-clock on the dot. Don't you dare be late." Peggy said, trying to sound brave. She then asked, "Understand?"
"You know, I still don't know how to dance." Steve said. Peggy couldn't help but smiled a little before saying.
"I'll show you how. Just be there." Peggy assured him, smiling.
"We'll have the band play something slow." Steve told her, the signal becoming more static, as he said, "I'd hate to step on your-"
Suddenly the signal went dead. She looked down before asking, "Steve?"
Nothing but static, but she kept asking, "Steve?"
At the doorway, Colonel Philips looked down, solemn at the loss of two good men, two true heroes who gave their lives to stop Hydra. One friend, and one whom the colonel wished was a friend.
Peggy, unable to hold back the pain any longer began crying loudly. She let the pain flow through her from her heart breaking at the thought that the one man she truly felt love for, was dead.
The Colonel left to finish his business and to inform the remaining Howling commandoes of what became their leader and another of their squad.
After returning to London, the remaining commandoes returned to the table they were at and held a toast to their most recently lost comrades and friends.
"To the Captain, and to Cole." Falsworth lamented, as the others repeated and took a drink, in respect to their recently fallen comrades. They ignored everyone's celebrating around them at the news that WWII had finally come to an end. Falsworth was the only one dressed in full former military attire while the rest of them were in suits, ready to go back into life as civilians. Or so they would think.
In the ocean, Howard Stark and his staff were looking for anything that had to do with the wreckage, as the head scientist of the SSR hoped to find Steve Rogers and bring him home. As he looked through the ice covered landscape of the continent of Greenland, Stark's attention was called away as one of his staff called, "Sir?"
Howard and the captain of the ship turned and went to his assistant who showed him an image from their underwater sub, which was connected to the ship.
The camera showed the cube shaped object that gave off the same energy signature as the ammunition from the Hydra Weapons. He let out a brief laugh, remembering one time where Cole had explained that the energy that was being used by Hydra felt like a heartbeat in the ammo pack and even inside the weapons.
Stark became solemn again; he had heard about Cole's apparent death, but felt as if the young man was more than they thought he was. He then ordered the captain, "Take us to the next grid point."
"But there's no trace of wreckage. And the energy signature stops here." The assistant said, trying to persuade his employer to stop searching.
Stark however wasn't going to stop, as he ordered his assistant, "Just keep looking."
He wasn't going to give up. Not anytime soon. He knew inside that both Rogers and Cole were still alive, somewhere.
(Hey you guys. I was pleading on what to do with the tesseract and Cole when the most interesting idea came to my head. Like it was during the final battle with the Red Skull why not have Cole sent through the portal as well? And because his spiritual energy seemed to have mixed with that of the Tesseract it might have sent him home… Or did it?)
