Chapter 3

"War!" a video sounded. "With the forces of darkness pressing in from the East on the West. America heeds the call to fight for freedom and liberty. And at the front of the fight, shoulder to shoulder with our battling boys and girls, is Captain America and Lady Liberty, products of old-fashioned values and exciting new science! Captain America and Lady Liberty are the names every Nazi fears. Uncle Adolf's secret new weapons, no match for our man and woman. When tough times turn tougher, when hope's on the ropes, here's the man and woman to knock the Axis on their backses. Their out there, fighting for the land that we love, and they won't stop..."

The video was interrupted by a loud click which turned off the screen. Steve and Anna, now looking at a blank, sat together at a table in a old-fashioned apartment, which was old doubt was completely refurbished by S.H.I.E.L.D. to have them at home as much as possible, obviously it didn't do it's job. Steve and Anna started to go through files of their old teammates, each of them were branded 'Deceased', the Howling Commando and the Avenging Belles only had one survivor, themselves. It was then that Anna came across a file of Peggy Carter, still alive but very old. Anna showed Steve the file and saw the address and phone number. '57-J Merryweather Winchester, UK. 020-7946. Each of them were tempted to call her but decided against it. Steve put file aside, but it then revealed another former friend, Howard Stark, and underneath it, an updated file of Howard's son, Tony 'Antony' Stark. Steve and Anna were conflicted and decided to take on some fresh air.

When they arrived outside, they held hands. Steve was wearing an brown old-school jacket, Anna had a more updated but still old school jacket with strawberry classic braids hanging in front of her shoulders. They had no destination and roamed the future city of New York. They people with new clothes, phones that were the size of a hand, and cars that were sleek and flawless. Anna then looked to Steve as he was looking at the tall buildings then he smiled and spoke.

"So this is what you felt woke up here."

"Yeah." she agreed. "The feeling of waking up in a place that's different to what you're used to and the fear of thinking 'how can you fit in this world?'"

"At least, I have you with me." Steve said.

"At least, we're together." Anna said as she came in for a kiss, Steve responded in doing the same thing.

Although, they were together, it was a while since they ate something and they were feeling the effects of that. They sat a cafe that was place in front of a tall building named 'Stark Tower', Steve and Anna ordered coffee and drunked it softly due to it being hot. But as they drunk their coffee, they started to slip into their own little worlds, or at least what was left of it. Anna started to think about Arendelle, she'd hope that it was rebuild and contained life, but after what she saw during the war, nothing was certain, she even hoped that the rock trolls were all right, they were the only things she had left in this world. Steve, however, thought about Bucky, he still blamed himself for not being there for in time. But their train of thought was shattered when their waitress arrived and refilled their coffee.

"Waiting on the big guy?" the waitress questioned.

"I'm sorry?" Anna didn't get.

"You know, Iron Man." the waitress corrected. "A lot of people eat here just to see fly by."

"Right." Steve said with a false smile. "Maybe another time."

"Table's yours as long as you two like." the waitress stated. "Nobody's waiting on it. Plus, we got free wi-fi."

"Wi-fi?" the super-soldiers said quietly in union as they looked at each other.

"Radio?" Steve finally said to the waitress.

The waitress turned back and smiled at him, Steve blushed and Anna grew a smile on her face. Their attention was then taken to a old man of had shades on him, looking like Stan Lee, as he spoke.

"Ask of her number, you moron."

Anna smile grew even more, showing teeth, as Steve's blush became redder. They wanted to explore more of this new world they now lived in and heard the fastest way to do that was taking the subway. Their experience was not great, the air was quiet, the smell was terrible, and the floor looked like it hasn't been washed in ages. The people themselves didn't have anything to say each other, they were either on the phones, asleep, or minding their business.

After the subway ride, the two went to a local gym. They applied for membership and luckily Steve had enough money for both of them. Steve and Anna took off their jackets and over shirt and put them in their locker, leaving them now in their t-shirts. Steve and Anna walked over to the punching bag and Steve began to release his stress, while Anna started to use her punch and kick combos. An hour passed and they were the only ones left, Anna left for the restroom while Steve continued on, even in the restroom, Anna heard his grunting getting louder and louder. When she came out, she found the Steve had gone through 3 punching bags, she walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder, hoping that that would calm him down a bit. Steve slowly turned to her and rested his forehead upon hers and wrapped his arms around her as well, Anna complied and wrapped hers around his chest.

"I take it, you can't sleep." Fury said from the doorway snapping out them of their moment.

"We've slept for 70 years, sir." Steve responded. "I think we've had our fill."

"Then you two should be out, celebrating, seeing the world." Fury said back.

"When we went under, the world was at war." Anna started. "When we wake up, they say that we won."

"But they didn't say what we lost." Steve finished.

"We've made some mistakes along the way." Fury admitted. "Some, very recently."

"Are you here with a mission, sir?" Anna questioned.

"I am." answered.

"Trying to get us back in the world?" Anna asked.

"Trying to save it." he said back as he handed them a file showing the Tesseract that Red Skull and Madam Hydra had to power their weapons.

"Wait, isn't that..." Anna stopped.

"Hydra's secret weapon." Steve finished.

"Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you two." Fury said. "He thought what we think. The Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world sorely needs."

"Who took it from you?" Steve questioned.

"They called themselves Loki and Enchantress." Fury answered. "They're not from around here. There's a lot we'll have to bring you up to speed on if you're in. The world has gotten stranger than you already know."

"At this point, I doubt anything would be able to surprise us, or at least her." Steve shot resulting a smile from Anna.

"Ten bucks say you're wrong." Fury shot back. "There's a debriefing packet waiting for you back at your apartment. Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?"

"You should have left it in the ocean." the super-soldiers said in union as they put away the remaining punching bags.

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