Disclaimer at the start of Chapter one.

Previously in The Unexpected Avenger:

Distraught over seeing the shattered remains of her younger sister, Elsa loses complete control of her powers and ends up entombing the entire kingdom in ice and snow and turning it into an ice glacier with everyone entombed within.

Flash forward about 100 years later:

Hydra and the Red Skull managed to extract a chunk of ice that was allegedly suppose to contain some sort of weapon or device that had caused a legendary kingdom to turn into an ice glacier.

"I don't understand why we are chasing a legend," Werner Reinhardt said.

"With someone like the Snow Queen on our side we will be unstoppable!"

"Assuming she is real and would be willing to join our cause," Werner Reinhardt pointed out.

"If she isn't we'll just have to convince her. I suspect that she was the one who turned the kingdom of Arendelle into a glacier. Such power would be useful against our enemies."

"That's assuming that she can be controlled."

Once back in Germany attempts made to melt the ice and awaken the Snow Queen, repeated attempts...

They had started with blowtorches... the flames turned to ice...

"What's taking so long?!" Schmidt yelled as he stormed into the lab to find that the ice containing the Snow Queen was still intact the flames on the blowtorches had turned to ice and the blowtorches themselves had iced over and ice was even starting to form on the men holding the blowtorches, climbing up their arms and starting to encase their bodies.

"We've tried thawing her with blowtorches, but they..." Reinhardt trailed off unsure how to finish that statement.

"Then perhaps you should find something hotter!" Schmidt snapped before leaving.

"Perhaps we should try flamethrowers," one of the other men suggested.

"Perhaps, but if we do we should move her outside first," Reinhardt answered.

Once they moved the ice outside they got out a few flamethrowers and four of HYDRA's men were fitted with with the flamethrowers stood on different sides of the ice and turning on the flamethrowers so that they formed four walls of flames in the area around the ice. They slowly moved the flames closer giving the flames time to melt the ice before moving them closer.

"Be patient men. We don't want to risk burning her. The Red Skull will not be pleased if we harm or anger the Snow Queen. She won't be any good to us dead or if we make her our enemy," Reinhardt warned.

"Yes, sir. But the ice isn't melting," one of the men said.

"Then move the flames a little closer, slowly and be careful not to touch the ice," Reinhardt ordered.

The men did as they were told and still nothing. Reinhardt ordered to move a little closer. Still nothing.

"Step back far enough so that the flames and ice don't touch so that you can move the flames so that they are pointed directly at the ice without touching it. A meter's distance," Reinhardt ordered after several failed attempts.

The men did as they were told. They moved the flames up and down the length of the ice trying to get it to melt, but there was still no change. The ice still refused to melt, though ice had started to form on the ground surrounding it.

"Move closer. A quarter of a meter closer," Reinhardt ordered. The men did as they were ordered, continuing to move the flames up and down along the length of the ice. After several more minutes there was still no change.

"Move another quarter of a meter closer," Reinhardt ordered. The men moved closers and continued to move the flames up and down. There was still no change other than the continued formation of ice on the ground that continued to go unnoticed.

"Move another quarter of a meter closer," Reinhardt ordered when he saw that the ice still refused to melt even slightly. The men did as they were told but there was still no change in the state of the ice. Meanwhile the continuing buildup of ice on the ground remained unnoticed even as it formed underneath the feet of the men and started to form around the soles of their boots and slowly started working its way up the bottom tips.

"Move closer, men," Reinhardt ordered after several minutes with still no noticeable change.

"How much closer?" One of the men asked.

"Until the flames are barely touching the ice," Reinhardt ordered.

The men began to step forward only to have the ice catch their feet and they fell forward, crying out in shock and then horror as the flames touched the ice and caused the flames to turn to ice working it's way from the tips of the flames and working its' way up to engulf the flamethrowers and the men holding them.

Reinhardt stepped back in horror, slipping on the ice that had formed on the ground around him.

Horrified by what had happened to the men, Reinhardt tried to convince Schmidt that it wasn't worth the risk to continue attempts to awaken the Snow Queen.

However, his words fell on deaf ears as the Red Skull was determined to have the Snow Queen as either a weapon, an ally or both.

So Reinhardt and his men continued their attempts.

They tried shooting the ice with Tesseract powered bullets which just bounced off hitting the men who fired them and causing them to disintegrate.

They tried canons, howitzers, hand grenades, dynamite, bombs...

All with no effect on the ice, but always taking out several HYDRA Agents, often when the ice defected the blasts and/or when the still sleeping Snow Queen caused more ice to form on the ground and spread out to engulf as many men as she could.

They tried using C4... that ended in disaster.

They tried shooting the ice with tanks, tried running over the ice with tanks... it always ended badly for the men involved and many men nearby.

They finally tried rolling the ice out into a minefield.

Bad idea...

The chunk of ice remained intact and in what seemed to be an act of retaliation on her part ice quickly began to form on the ground causing it to contract and set off all of the mines and taking out everything in the surrounding area.

After that they decided to put their attempts at waking her on hold and leave her in the container that they had built to contain her for the time being.

Next time, in The Unexpected Avenger: we will learn of Elsa's continued journey that will lead her to become an Avenger.

Next chapter: Change of Custody

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