SPLASH
Taking a deep gasp James had immediately gotten a big hit of water to the face waking him up immediately
The red haired boy had taken several deep breaths and pants a short attempt to catch his breath as the look of his red wet hair covered his eyes
"Rise and shine little brother, had a good sleep"
James didn't respond. He only tugged on his hands cuffs that kept him confined from the back of his metal chair
A hand had forcefully grabbed his face and hastily James was met face to face with Ian
The older super soldier just examined James's face. Sorta sad to see not that much damage was done from their last 12 hours of brotherly bonding
Both James and Ian glared at one another. Both inspecting each others details before soon enough Ian let go of James's face and let his red hair pool over his face again to cover those big blue eyes of his
Taking a few more gasps for air James tugged on his cuffs some more before finally mustering out some words
"I…..thought…you were-"
"What dead ?" Ian laughed as he turned around towards James with a smirk
"Yeah, a little bit of a running theme in our family huh. Escaping death. Your mom did it. My mom did it. Dad did it"
"Don't…..say…his name" James groaned making Ian pause
"you….don't deserve it"
Immediately Ian swung at James causing blood to splatter on the ground below
"I DO DESERVE IT ! I DESERVE IT MORE THAN YOU !"
Grabbing James by his hair Ian forced James to look at him. Both the two boys stared at one another Blue eyes to blue eyes except all James could focus on was the giant scar across his eyes
With grit teeth Ian growled towards James in a cold demeanor as he wanted to do nothing more than beat the living shit out of him
"Everything you have, everything you are. I deserve it. EVERYTHING !"
"The Avengers, Captain America, The Fame the glory. All of it should be mine it would've been mine"
Suddenly his emotions had changed as he went from serious and growing to soft and understanding
"But you came along, James Rogers. The Perfect Child. And where did that leave me ? abandoned alone in an off sight orphanage in London"
Letting go of James again the redhead fell back into his seat as Ian had picked up a pair of brass knuckles from the metal tray before turning over to James and squatting to get to his level
"You know they ran test on you, in hydra, said you were gonna surpass everyone. Patriot, John Walker, Red Guardian, Uncle Bucky, Your mom, even Dad himself. said you were gonna be the next generation of super soldiers"
Ian just half laughed as he thought over everything he said before he stood up
"Funny" he began as he fixed the brass knuckles on his fingers
"They said the same thing about me"
WHAM
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As he continued to glide within the air Sam could only observe and think how fast everything had gone wrong
In a matter of a day he had lost the only friends he'd ever known with not a single trace of where they could've gone
He should've know things were gonna be bad when Pym first went quiet and then Francis and soon Torunn and Azari were off track leaving soon enough James who had gone completely awol
Swopping in the air Sam dived down in his flight detour and landed at an old steel mill. It was the Anarchist Hide out and it more or likely was the place James said he was gonna be
Walking towards the back of the steel Mill Sam had noticed the door was already opened and by the looks of the handle being broken and the door damn near bent it seemed like a person was launched through it fully
Staying light on his toes Sam sprouted his hands out ready to be used just in case someone felt a little jumpy on him. But even more so just in case there was more than just 1 person left here and he had to spring out a rescue mission
Slowly Sam entered into the Mill, careful on what might approach him at every corner. But it was somewhat hard to stay focused when the more he entered the more he got worried on what really happened in here
Leading to the main wing of the Mill there was without a doubt a fight. That was ever the more obvious from the crashed down pipes broken glass along with dent walls and small trails of blood
It couldn't be James's right ? I mean he was James Rogers. Without a doubt Sam agreed James could handle himself in a fight
But still the undying thought of Sam thinkin the Anarchist had ganged up on him and beat him to near death didn't leave his mind as quickly Sam shook the thoughts away before moving forward into the Steel Mill
Following the blood trail closer and closer Sam got to his answer
He really didn't know what to expect. Know what the outcome would be. Know what was gonna be there when he got there
But without a doubt he didn't expect to find all the Anarchist laid out among the mill when he opened the door
With a wide eyed expression Sam immediately hauled into the main entrance of the steel mill to find every Anarchist member laid in a semi pool of their own blood and deep wounds
Sam physically shuttered as he looked at it all
This wasn't a fight
It was a damn massacre. The Anarchist didn't even stand a chance
Squatting down near blue wolf Sam observed the physically worst member with his visor as he went x-ray. Now he was no doctor or anything but by the amount of broken bones and fraction placements he had Sam could easily tell he was fighting on the verge and inch of his life
Pressing his visor once more Sam decided he needed to make a call
"Hello, I'm making an anonymous call. Come to the Steel Mill near the mountain top of wolf peak. You'll find a group of inmates that need medical attention and a one way ticket to the raft"
Pressing his visor Sam left x-ray mode not even being able to withstand the look of his broken bones anymore
"Who could've done this" Sam began
He avoided all thoughts of this being James. It couldn't be him. Sure James is one hell of a fighter but going this far ? beating every Anarchist member within an inch of their lives ?
Sam shook his head
That wasn't the James Rogers he knew. The James Rogers he knew would never do this even to the bad guys
But if James didn't do it then who did ?
Snapping to the left of him Sam observed more of the scene before soon enough his heart fully dropped when he saw James's shield laying clad on the ground
Running over to the historical monument Sam hesitantly picked up the red white and blue shield and sighed as he held the weapon in his hand
"Oh no"
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"You know this place is coming along pretty well" Rachel beamed as she sat on the staircases of the mansion watching everyone else tight the place
After days of getting the X-Mansion…well working again the place had finally started to look like what it used to
The lights were on and after endless sweeping the floors were finally clean. Rebuilding the destruction was also a pain in a half to deal with but in all said and done Laura almost smiled when she saw the place jogging back memories of students and young mutants running the halls
Rachel caught wind of Laura and how she stopped sweeping and rested herself upon the broom with a smile
The young girl only tilted her head a little as she continued to look at Laura
"Your thinking about it again" Rachel spoke snapping Laura out of her thought process and made her look back
"What ?"
"Your brain, you radiating happy energy. Like your thinking of everything that happened in the past"
With a growl Laura had wasted not a single second to blank her thoughts
"Don't look into my brain. Ever" she threatened
But Rebecca just blew her lips
"Oh you ain't scarin not a fly sweetheart" the explosive mutant stated
"We've been with you long enough to know you're just like your dear old daddy. Tuff on the outside soft on the inside"
Again Laura just growled before putting down the broomstick and making her way to a countertop to pick up a beer
Nate only gasped though dramatically
"Laura ! What did I tell you !" he cried out as he moved a coster over the spot her beer was at with his mind
"COASTERS PEOPLE ! COASTERS ! WERE LIVING IN HISTORY HERE LET'S NO MESS IT UP !"
Rolling her eyes Laura only sipped her beer again
"Hey speaking of which anyone see Stacy ?" Rachel said as she continued to look back and forth
Rebecca just shrugged her shoulders
"Last I saw her she was still unpacking upstairs. took her mother's old room and hadn't left sense I guess"
"Well she's certainly slower than me" Laura stated
"I threw everything in Logan's room and finished done deal"
"Were bunking in our parents old room" Rachel spoke as she gestured towards her and Nate
"Took Mom and Dads" Rebecca raised her hand
"Well I guess all we can hope for is that Stacy leaves in the next few hours" Nate began
"But" he started with a sigh "we should probably plan out what we're gonna eat for dinner. Because when I looked in the fridge I saw an old Sentinel head in there"
Yep weird family
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Placing the last ornament down on the nightstand Stacy flopped onto her bed and sighed happily when she observed all her work
The all white theme of white walls, a white bed with silk sheets. And a white couch matched with other on color themes that have been set and placed
Matching with a white chandelier and bright white frame mirror the places was starting to look more and more homey
Truly it took Stacy all day to redecorate her room. Well technically her Mother's old room but she found it worth the while and time as the sudden feeling of posing and acting as if she was sleeping with her parents made it all the better
Stretching herself out on the silk white sheets Stacy smiled happily as a warm feeling had posed within her body
One she hadn't truly felt since she was a baby
A warm feeling of home
Sadly that feeling was soon forced out when immediately she heard a loud thud hit her window making her slightly jump
In a blank state of confusion Stacy turned to look at her window and immediately went wide eyed when she saw Sam
But most importantly she sprinted to the window when she noticed the red white and blue shield in his hands. The same one she knew James would never leave out of his sight even for a second
"Sam ?!" she exclaimed in pure shock as she opened up the window
Sam took no expense letting himself in as his wings filtered back in his jetpack
Taking his visor off it seemed as if Sam was panting and out of breath as even he was sweating a little
Stacy was truly confused on what he was doing here or why he even had James's shield or better yet whose blood was on the shield ? to many questions and no answers definitely didn't make her any comfortable
Taking a couple more gasp for air in panic Sam had clenched the shield strap harder still not even being able to get a word out even when Stacy continued to press him for something
"Sam ?...Sam ? What the hell ? you just come here unannounced, scare the ever living shit out of me and now you're gasping for air in my newly furnished room by the way. What's your-"
"James got kidnapped" he mustard shutting Stacy up completely
Her eyes grew wide in horror and for a moment Sam looked up at her and thought they flashed silver
It was almost like she got struck in the heart when she heard those words drop
"...what ?"
Sam's lips felt dry and his hands slowly started to quake. Luckily he wasn't the only one in the room
Handing Stacy the shield Sam started to grip his hair as he began to pace back and forth throughout her room
"I followed his last report and location on his whereabouts. He was tracking the Anarchist and some shit went down with the team. Long story short James went alone and when I got there…." Sam sighed as he started to recall everything he saw
"It was a bloodbath in there. Pure chaos and destruction. Every single member of the Anarchist laid out in wounds and pools of their one blood. Whoever they fought….it….it didn't seem like they even stood a chance"
The silence was loud within the room as they were both thinking the same thing but hoped to god they were wrong. And even more so Sam didn't know if he was crossing boundaries with this or not
"By the damages I could tell and see from there's only one man throughout History who would have dealt that kind of pain-"
"If you so much as mention my Father and James in the same sentence-" Stacy warned
Sam just put his hands up in defeat
"My fault" he apologized backing off fully from his theory to break the tension and wind between the too
The silence was soon brought up again giving Stacy the chance to look down at the shield within her hands
Seeing the reflection that shined revealing her face Stacy gripped the tool hard.
So hard that her finger tips slowly began to frost into diamond form revealing bits of her anger and worry
"Look Stacy. We don't know each other that well. Hell we don't know each other at all" Sam stated. She didn't have to look at Sam. only looked at her reflection through the metal as Sam continued to talk
"But what I know is we both care about James. And I know he's somewhere in the world right now either being tortured, or experimented on or whatever and all I know is he needs our help. We need to rescue him. Not for the sake of the Avengers, or for the sake of us. But for Humanity"
"The world needs Captain America to lead them through the firing line. But more importantly. We Need James Rogers to lead us through hell and back and without him…A world without James is a world I don't want to live in"
Giving his shield one more deep glare Stacy looked up at Sam. looked at his face of determination and fear for where his friend could be
Sam was right
A world without James is one she didn't want to live in either
Extending her arm out Stacy gave Sam the shield back. A gesture he took one of as he soon grabbed the shield back and strapped it too his arm
"Where are the Avengers ?"
"There a no go. Off the grid. Everyone just disappeared after a team fight. It's the main reason James left"
"Of course. Well time for plan B"
Raising his eyebrow Sam looked at Stacy in confusion
"What's plan B"
"Downstairs"
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"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE !"
"Your old man would be proud little red"
"Look Rogers, everyone has moments where they're scared. I'm sure both your parents have felt that moment more times than you have. And that's ok. But what matters most isn't what you're afraid of. It's how you overcome fear. And most importantly who you have to help you. You know who taught me that"
"This is our legacy, our story"
"I don't know. It's not my choice. But I will say that if you let all the knowledge and skill you have go to waste. You'll be letting everything you stand for down. And it's an even worse punishment than death"
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"There's more of us out there"
"I have faith in my brothers and sister, and Francis"
"They live inside of me every day. They live on in my spirit as I continue to fight people like you to defend the things they loved so much"
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"Well there's over a million robots in ultra city who need destroying"
"You may see me as a criminal or villain and frankly I don't care. But what I do know is I'm not gonna let any other child go through what my father went through, and I know you don't want the same thing. I know my Legacy James. It's time to see if you know yours"
"I'm gonna make you guys proud"
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"I can do this all day"
"My Name is James Clinton Rogers Romanova"
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"MY NAMES JAMES ROGERS ! AND I AM CAPTAIN AMERICA !"
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Pulling James's head out of the tub of water James had immediately gasped for air and coughed up water as Ian just let go of his hair
Coughing up the water that was stuck in his lungs James had found himself reminiscing about his life. Whilst his head was stuck being submerged under water. The tight pain of feeling like he was drawing didn't even come close to the feeling of thinking he was gonna leave everyone behind
That's what really stung
Finishing his coughing James's hands continued to stay chained on the ground as now he was shirtless
His jacket hung up on a nearby hang along with his black compression shirt as all he had to show was his suit pants and red hourglass necklace
14 hours
14 hours he's been here. This pitch dark dungeon he seemed to be in with his half brother. He had been hit so many times that his body continued to ach. Different tools of pain had been used from his face down to his torso and he had the new added scars and bruises and bleeding cuts to show for it
And whilst James knew he could take the pain. His mind soon became too cloudy to even understand most things
Leaning against the wall Ian held his arms crossed as he continued to stare at James
Obviously James seemed to have noticed the suit change. Getting rid of the Red Guardian persona for something that seemed more original. An all black black ops lightweight uniform with a black american flag on his arm
The silence and tension between the two was dreadful as no words were spoken
And it pissed Ian off
Continually watching James huff and puff for air. Continuing to fight for his sanity only made him more mad
"You're a super soldier right ? Like Dad, you have his serum in you"
Holding his crossed armed pose Ian nodded his head
"Granted it's nothing compared to the legendary James Rogers" Ian sarcastically exclaimed
"If your really my brother why didn't Tony take you with us"
There it was. The money question Ian was waiting for
Getting from his leaning position on the wall Ian's fist clenched in anger as he stomped over towards James
When he arrived he immediately got into a squat, resting himself on his legs before grabbing the back of James's head again tightly
"Because if anyone knew I excited, you would've never been born" Ian growled before dunking James's head in the water
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