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New Gotham City: Today
It was a pleasant afternoon, the sun was out and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Sitting in one of the most prestigious restaurants in the big city was one Bruce Wilson, the current director of SHIELD the apprentice of Nicholas Fury. He was a tall man, his hair was dark but greying at the temples, he also wore an eye patch over his left eye. Around the patch there are some noticeable scarring.
Across form him sat another man, obviously shorter an weight a lot less. He sat with his shoulders hunched over. He kept looking around the room fidgeting with his hands, his forks etc... everything about him screamed nervous.
"Sorry about the view David, you would think that those geniuses who plan my schedule could have gotten us some decent seats."
"It quite alright, your message advised that you wanted to see me regarding a research project Mr Wilson"
"Thats right David, an it is regarding the superman program that you an your an people have been working on for the past 5 years. What would say if I told you that the president just signed off on a 150 million dollar cash injection into your plans for creating a new Super Soldier?" came Bruce as he cut into his medium rare steak
"I would say that you were lying sir" came Davids response as he took a drink of water
"What are you talking about? The first Super Soldier was a great success. Won the war, saved the world not mention found all of that alien tech which help jump start NASA. Hell thanks to him we won the space race"
"All true but he also died with the secret of the superman formula in his veins and in the past 5 years we have not gotten anywhere close to duplicating the results. An why would anyone in their right mind want to invest in the smp knowing that it is a money drain"
"I am going to level on this with you David. We live in crazy times. Crime is becoming Super-Crime. Terrorism is becoming Super-Terrorism. I have had files dropped on my desk about people whos abilities I could not even begin to comprehend. Some of these superpowered individuals just want to help were they can. Others aren't so friendly. Take New Gotham city for a moment, even here there are rumours of some vigilante called Dark Claw but since no one can find him he is put down as an urban legend. But one thing that isn't an urban legend are people like this Hyena and Banisher"
"My god, I see but what does this have to...."
"It has everything to do with it Banner, you see if we can have 5 people like Super Soldier then America doesn't need to fear anything."
"But as I said Bruce, we haven't even came close and from what I can gather from the notes the main ingredient of the superman formula was alien DNA. If thats true then there is no way to replicate the results"
"No way huh? What about blood from Super Soldier? The Vita-ray treatment caused the alien DNA to rewrite his own so that his bone marrow would constantly replenish the formula. My experts tell me that this could give us the sample we need to create the formula"
"Yes that would do it, however as I have said Super Soldier died an last time I check we never recovered the body"
"I have got that covered. You see Banner technology has come a long way since 1945. An we have estimated that for some reason that soldiers body feel into the freezing waters over the north Atlantic after stopping a nuclear missile from reaching Washington. An we have a search party already prepped for launch to find his frozen remains"
"Are you serious?"
"Serious enough to be moving you an your people out of that damp little squat outside of Pittsburgh to a new state of the art facility 10 miles from Bludhatton island. I figure we need some one out there with the colours of the flag now more than ever. So what do you say doctor, do you feel like making the world a better place?"
With that Bruce and David shock hands in agreement that Dr Banner would join shield in their efforts to create a new Super Soldier.
North Atlantic hours later
Submerged deep under the icy cold waters of the North Atlantic sea with glaciers positioned all round roamed the most advance submersible vehicle to day. Designed to withstand extreme pressures and cold this vehicle is 100 times more advanced than any submarine that they would have had in 1945.
At the helm were two pilots, each had launched a probe which was programmed to scan for any mass which would resemble a human body. Behind them stood General Bruce Wilson who was monitoring their results and wanted to be present when they discovered the soldiers remains.
"Still nothing general" came of the pilots to keep him updated on the situation
"Professor Ross?" the general asked deferring to the chief scientist on the expedition a Professor Betty Ross. Daughter to a brilliant military general, a brilliant scientist in her own right an beautiful young woman.
"Hold on, I am calibrating the sensors now." she paused as she typed in the commands to the search program which she had designed. "There we go, sensor have a new motion search parameter"
"A new one?" the General asked sceptically as he raised the eyebrow over his scarred eye is disblief
"General, the North Atlantic is complex system of currents which is influenced daily by tide, percipitation and the whims of God. Multiply that by sixty plus years an the estimated weight of a drifting body and..." before she could finish her sentence the sensor on the sub began to sound off that they had detected something which matched the search parameters.
"The objected detect is 150 meters" she paused looking at her datapad making sure that the details were correct "directly inside that glacier"
"No time to lose, prep the recovery drone an get me that body. The sooner we recover the body the sooner we can perform the autopsy and begin to reverse engineer the serum." commanded the General
With in moments the drone had been launched, controlled remotely from the sub by Professor Ross , she monitored the reading which the drone fed back the main the computer on the shuttle. Through the joy stick she manoeuvred the mechanical explorer through the subzero water towards the colossal iceberg.
Entering in a through choice commands the drones dexterous left arm transformed into a precision laser which began to cut at the ice, melting a passage way towards to the frozen corpse of the greatest hero that America had ever known.
Hours Later on board the SHIELD military based known as Trisekelion
The crew from the recovery mission landed on the air platform by helicopter. The body of Super Solider transported in a special cooling unit so as to not defrost on the transport back in case the tissue corrupted.
"Make sure to maintain an incremental 2 degree thaw, I want to reduce any undue tramua to the cadaver." ordered Professor Ross as a team of scientist and technicians transported the body from the helicopter down to the main SHIELD lab.
"Again nice work Professor Ross, I will let you be the one to inform Dr Banner. Please keep informed of your results and give me a time frame as to when you can hopefully begin to reverse engineer the superman formula" came the General as he gave Professor Ross his seal of approval
Banners Lab
Dr Banner had been working long hours lately trying to unravel the secrets of the superman formula, for the past 48 hours he hadn't slept and was currently running on a combination of coffee and fumes.
"Dr Banner? Excuse me sir?" came the voice of one of the new member of his staff which Wilson had appointed to him
"Huh?" came Dr Banner returning from his brief sleep
"You were telling us, that is what are roles are regarding this project" came the same voice of the one who woke him up. David gave him a once over, he was young man, dark hair and a beard one of those 'stylish' ones that travelled around the jaw line but didn't connect with the mustach. He wore a light green shirt but no tie and a dark pair of slacks. His lab coat had the usual pocket protector that no science buff would be seen without.
"Oh yes, well General Wilson thought it would be best to speed things along by beefing up my staff. The Superman formula, the same serum which turned a frail farm boy and an army drop out into an unrivalled champion of peace, justice and the american way. Here is the original file" David took a beaker of some know substance off of a classified SHIELD file an tossed it towards his assistants.
"To be frank, its useless due to the inept record keepers of 1940 and so the secrets of the formula died with Super Soldier at the end of world war 2" with that Banner sat back to his chair an slided himself over towards the wall behind him. A wall that was purely dedicated to Super Soldier. It had several photos and recruitment posters plastered across it, it also had files detailing eye witness accounts over his heroics and the powers which he displayed some of which David could hardly comprehend.
"If its useless then what are we basing our research on Doctor?"
"A 4,000 word hypothesis, also part of the pack which you will be enjoying for the foreseeable future" with that David reached into his filing cabinets bottom drawer withdrawing a large file before kicking the draw back into the cabinet. He then slided over the computer on the opposite end of the desk.
He typed in the commands to bring up the necessary files. "You will note that originally there are to be 5 candidates for the treatment, with 7 alternatives for a total of 12 short listed individuals all of which are the best of the best whether that is in Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Special Forces, Black Ops etc... to be honest I do not where they got these GI Joes but if they want to donate their bodies to science who am I to argue?" knowing that the question was rhetorical the assistants did not respond.
"The what will be doing exactly Doctor?" asked the blond assistant who had seem to finally grew a back bone.
Dr Banner stood up from his chair an escorted the three assistants through to another part of the lab. It was mostly a series of walkways and mechanical tubing along with electrical wire. Towards the centre there was a large chamber with some sort of light emitter on the celling.
"For the time being you will be asistanting both myself and professor Ross in the construction of the rebirth chamber"
"Excuse me? But what is a rebirth Chamber?" asked on of the assistants, at this point Banner did care who asked it
"The rebirth chamber is what is used to stabilise an metabolise the superman formula. It uses a specific type of radiation to bond the chemical compound to the hosts bone marrow so that the serum is constantly replenished. In effect it rewrites the subjects DNA, which is fairly radical stuff considered this is from 1940." Banner then took a large deep breath "Finally SHIELD has attempted to recover the body of Super Soldier which they presume to have been lost somewhere over the North Atlantic in an attempt to recover some sort of sample. However incase they have not been successful or the body has been too degraded to be of any use we shall be continuing on our experiments to create a Super Soldier for the new age of America"
Before their conversation could continue Professor Ross ran through door, noticeably out of breath, taking no notice of the other occupants in the room she ran towards David and placed her hands on his shoulders announcing "We found him" with that statement Dr Banners face lit up in a huge smile.
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