"How much more?"
"When Erskine's grandson died after some of the serum was stolen before it was injected into me... One got destroyed the other went MIA... After Melly died Fury told me Melly has traces of the same Serum in her body but the amounts of it is unknown. He couldn't figure out the dosage you were originally given and that the female body is more complex well... Therefor I can still get drunk, I guess."
"So you and I aren't exactly equal in everything?"
"No, it was just training and constant hard work, thanks to Melly and SHIELD back in the day before I was given it."
"There's nothing wrong with Hard work Shannon. That's something to be proud of."
"Yeah, you're right Steve."
"And don't think of you and I being Not Equal. Where I lack you excel at and vice versa."
"And you still won't spar with me."
"It was the way I was brought up Shannon can you blame me?"
"No, I like old fashioned men, finding one is getting rarer by the day."
"How many dates had you gone for?"
"None of them went well."
"Why is that?"
"They were more about the outside of me and my fame Steve... They don't appreciate me like the Gang and Shield does, that's all."
"I'm sorry to hear that."
A few hours of silence later they arrived at the ruins of the Camp where Steve trained to become a Super Soldier. Shannon used her imagination to see what it looked like back in Steve's day as it looked so clear. She imagined Steve when he was skinny trying to catch up to the rest of the soldiers, looking at her as if she was her Aunt Peggy's place. She smiled as she returned to reality.
"I wish I was Peggy's shoes..." She said softly to herself.
"What?"
"Ah talk about Deja vu eh?" Shannon quickly replied, trying to hide the embarrassment look on her face.
She can keep secrets for her friends but she could never tell a lie, as Melly can never tell a good joke without laughing her buns off. Shannon wished she could lie like Natasha could, but she wasn't that good doing undercover work. No matter how hard she tried she could never hide that good from some people... Steve was one of them they became friends before the Battle of New York. And now she was having mixed feelings for him, and that was starting to scare her.
Thankfully he wasn't looking at her, as she quietly sighed... "I can relate, but the camp where I trained still exists..."
They both noticed one building together, she looked puzzled but Steve knows otherwise, "Eh Steve?"
"I don't believe in coincidences. You see that building over there? Army regulations forbid storing munitions within 500 yards of the barracks."
"So it's Camouflage?" She says almost quoting Melly's favorite movie (being Lara Croft Tomb Raider).
"The building is in the wrong place... If it's what you say it is."
"Let's find out shall we?"
They got to the door as Shannon was about to pick the lock as Steve just breaks the lock to the door with his Shield. "So much for for going in quietly." She says putting her lock picking kit back in her jacket pocket.
"We don't have time for that." He replies.
"Okay if you say so." She replies as they went down a set of stairs into a long hallway... Steve flicks a switch turning on the lights as they see what this place is once they saw the old coat of arms of Shield painted on the wall before them both. "Oh my god, so this is where SHIELD first started."
As they looked around they saw pictures of the founders, in what looked to be either a filing room or a library. The photographed portraits of Peggy, Howard and Col. Phillips hanging covered in dust. Shannon takes her handkerchief and dust off the photos. "Of all the things they cleaned out of here why did they leave their portraits?"
Steve doesn't answer nearby he hears something and then she felt a draft coming from direction he's going to. "There's a wind... If you're already working in a secret office..."
Studying the floor she sees evidence in the dusty floor that the bookcase could be moved and Steve moves it with no problem as they both saw a elevator with a number pad, "Why do you need to hide the elevator?"
Using the spy apps on her smartphone Natasha recommended her, she punches in the code as the elevator opens. Shannon already has a bad feeling as they enter into it.
"You didn't have to come this far Shannon."
"Steve, I'm not stopping until we know it's over all right?"
"All right let's find out what's going on."
The elevator finally stops as she pretty much figured they are very far underground, they exit into a very dark room. "No point in stopping now... What if this is a trap?" Shannon says.
"What if it's not?"
Shannon sighed, "That drive lead us here, whoever designed it might have left that there to misdirect us there's only hacker I know that could have done that."
"Shannon somehow I don't think that's the case."
They walk into the room further as lights start turning on just as They're eyes were adjusting to the dark... She then see lots of old servers from the era her parent's day... Early or late 1970's, she guessed knowing it's not from the 1980's since she remembers the first computer they had was nothing like the tech here.
"Recognise this?"
"This technology is about 30-40 years old... There's probably about a few thousands databanks here." She guessed, "Isn't that a bit too much?"
"Are you familiar with this stuff?"
She sighed, "I grew up with is, but I'm afraid I only know a little bit. I only played Computer games on floppy disks and did my homework on them, what you saw me do earlier is what SHIELD taught me." As she then spied a new multiple usb port system on the desk as her eyes followed the wires to see it was hooked up to the main computer system in front of you hooked up to old Monitors that looks slightly different to what she'd seen in the past. "The monitor's look different, custom made but still true to the period to match the rest of the tech... I've heard of ways to make old tech modified for use in the future... I guess this confirms it."
Then the screen lights up as it says the following sentence, "Initiate System?..."
