Camp Leigh. I've been building up this chapter for a while now and This currently stands as my favourite chapter. I hope you enjoy it. :)
Chapter Six: The Coldest of Winters
"The signal leads us to here..." Black Widow said as the group exited the Jeep. It seemed like the signal from the Flash Drive sent the group to New Jersey. They didn't know why. "The File came from these co-ordinates." Black Widow announced as Cap turned to her and added "So did I..." The group entered the abandoned camp.
"What is this place?" Kristoff asked Flatts as Flatts began to fan-boy "Camp Leigh!"
"Where?" Elsa asked Flatts again before he turned to both Kirstoff and Elsa and answered "Camp Leigh. This is where Steve became Captain America in 1942"
"This is a dead end. Zero heat signature, zero waves, not even radio. Whoever wrote the file must have used a router to throw people off." Black Widow was quick to tell the group before Steve noticed the building in front of the group.
"What is it?" Flatts asked and Cap began to explain his suspensions
"Army regulations forbid storing ammunition within five hundred yards from the barracks. This building is in the wrong place." Cap got his iconic shield and used it break the lock of the mysterious building.
"Elsa, Flatts and I will stay out here to make sure no-one will follow us..." Kristoff said to Black Widow as her and Cap entered the building.
10 minutes later, Kristoff and Flatts got bored and began to play on their smart-phones. Elsa was actually staying her ground until she noticed a shadowy figure on the building's roof. She began to use her ice powers to create a staircase. She got onto the roof but the figure wasn't there. From behind her, the shadowy figure grabbed Elsa. She froze the figure's right arm but it didn't stop the figure using his mechanical right arm to wipe off the ice.
"What are you?" Elsa whispered as she continued to freeze the figure's right arm. It didn't do any effect after a while. Elsa began to create spiky ice walls to divide her and the shadowy figure. It stumped the figure as it nearly pushed the figure off the roof. "Listen to me..." Elsa said gracefully but the figure didn't listen. The figure was masked with some blacked out goggles (to protect his identity) which matched it's hair colour. "LISTEN TO ME!" Elsa shouted. She had enough of fighting. She stopped pushing the ice wall using her magic powers. The shadowy figure broke the wall by punching it using his mechanical arm. He walked up towards Elsa then she grabbed the figure's face with her right hand. "Where is she?" Elsa demanded. The figure looked at her blankly and grabbed her right arm with his mechanical arm before slapping Elsa in the face using his right arm. Elsa fell to the floor like a sack of potatoes. The figure jumped off the top of the roof as Elsa got up. "No one hurts the Queen..." Elsa whispered to herself before she followed the figure.
Meanwhile in the bunker; Captain America and Black Widow entered a room with old looking computers.
"This can't be the data-point, this technology is ancient." Black Widow ponited out before she noticed a small flash drive port. She placed the flash drive that she got from Cap a day or two ago. It activated the ancient computer in the room. "Initiate System?" The screen showed as Black Widow began to type using the keyboard. "Y-E-S" She spelt out then she smiled at the old computer began to crank up. "Shall we play a game?" She quoted but it seemed like Cap didn't get the reference then she explained "It's from a movie that..."
"Yeah. I saw it." Cap spoke before the computer screen formed some features of a familiar face...
Back with the shadowy figure, he was running for his life. He never encountered a target like that before. A super-powered one. He turned his head around to see Elsa following him. She leaped at him and took him down to the floor.
"Who are you?" Elsa asked. He didn't answer. She placed her right hand on his face. He began to shiver. "Tell me! Who are in charge of you?!" Elsa asked in an angrier tone. One emotion that she never used as a Queen of Arendelle. The figure threw her off him and got up. "Oh no you don't." Elsa spoke to herself before she used her ice magic to create a spiky ice dome to keep the shadowy figure and herself inside. "You got nowhere to hide. Where is Anna!?" Elsa asked with so much anger that it was terrifying to watch.
In the bunker, the computer turned out to be the remains of Arnim Zola's mind. He began to explain what happened to him to Cap and Black Widow."In 1972, I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body, my mind, however that was worth saving on two hundred thousand feet of data banks. You are standing in my brain."
"How did you get here?" Cap asked before Zola quickly answered "Invited."
Natasha explained to Cap "It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. SHIELD recruited German scientists with strategic values."
"They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own." Zola explained his intentions.
Cap stated what he thought was the truth "HYRDA died with the Red Skull."
Zola chanted the Hydra moto "Cut off one head, two more shall take its place..."
Elsa had the shadowy figure trapped. Nowhere he could run off to. He had to say a word or die in the ice remaining silent. The figure sighed before he took off his mask and goggles. He dropped both of them on the floor. He took a deep breath.
"Project Arendelle..." He spoke with this softness that you wouldn't expect from a mercenary like him.
"Elsa. Not this 'Project Arendelle' your higher ups call me. Lets talk like normal people..." Elsa corrected the man before he looked at Elsa and continued to speak "Elsa then...Your sister, Anna. I mean...Ann-ha. She is in HYDRA's protection. I said too much..." He grabbed his mask and googles, broke a part of the ice dome and vanished into the night.
Elsa was heart broken. Anna was still alive. Somewhere on this planet, Anna is in HYDRA's facilities. Captured. Being used a bait for Elsa. She wasn't going to have any of it. She would destroy each HYDRA base with a snowstorm in a heartbeat to reconnect with her sister. To apologise for everything she did to her.
"HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum." Zola continued to explain to Cap and Natasha on HYDRA's surival before Cap punched the computer screen in anger. It smashed. The computer face of Zola appeared on another screen. "As I was saying..." Zola continued to speak.
Natasha asked "What's on the drive?"
"Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm..." Zola answered her question before Natasha raised another one. "Whar kind of algorithm? What does it do?"
"The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it." Zola taunted as the doors began to close. Steve tried to use his shield to keep it open but it was too late.
"Steve, I got a bogey. Short-rang ballistic. Thirty seconds, tops" Natasha informed Cap who asked "Who fired it?" "SHIELD." Natasha answered as quicky as she could. Zola again taunted "I am afraid I have been stalling, Captain..."
Elsa was in pieces. She was on the floor in a ball crying her eyes out. "ELSA!" Kristoff shouted as he ran towards her. "It looks like you've seen a ghost..." Kristoff stated.
Elsa got up from the floor then said horrified "I think I just have..."
"We don't have time to stand around to look for ghosts. Flatts just picked up a missile signal. There's one targeted here. We got get Cap and Natasha and get out of here!" Kristoff explained as Flatts ran up to the duo and said "No time to get Cap and Natasha! It's here in 30 seconds. We go to move..." He grabbed both Kristoff and Elsa's hands as the trio ran into the forests behind them.
"STEVE!" Elsa shouted as she looked back on Camp Leigh. A Missile hit the army camp and blew it up. "NO!" Elsa shouted again as Kristoff and Flatts dragged Elsa away from the wreckage.
"HYDRA is onto us and we got to keep moving." Flatts explained as the trio got out of sight of the Camp.
Back in the camp, STRIKE agents began to roam the area for both Natasha and Cap. One of them agents was Brock Rumlow. He said into his phone "Call in the Asset..."
Well, I might announce what fan-fiction I'm working on next as this is near done. "What?!" you might say in shock but I've only got two chapters left to write for this. Anyway, with the way I'm writing "Winter Never Stops"; this is actually a first in a fan-fiction trilogy I'm writing. A Frozen/MCU crossover trilogy. So, if this is the first in the series; where does Elsa go after the events of this? One word...Guardians.
Anyway, the next chapter should be up by the end of the week coming (by the 24th of August) and it features Nick Fury! Until then readers, please keep clicking the favourite button, following and reviewing and I'll see you all later. :)