Back in 1945

21

 We had missions like that for months, each one a little different from the last till we were just running in head first into missions. There was plenty of time spent fighting and a lot of it spent in the woods, with a fire in-between us as we told old war stories. We had taken down 6 bases and found out where Armin Zola was going to be. The doctor behind most of Hydra's worst inventions throughout the war. The Colonel and Agent Carter were certain if we got him then we could find the main Hydra base, which if we did could end this whole war.

Our mission this time was a bit different from the last ones. Hydra was keeping him on the move, trains running all over Germany and Europe. Our mission this time was to find a cliff while the train was going through the mountains and zipline down to the top of the train and break in from the top. a team of two taking from the front towards the back and a team from the back towards the front, so both teams would meet in the middle. This wasn't exactly what I would prefer, given that I didn't like heights, but here we were.

"Captain Rogers, you and Sergeant Barnes will be team 1. Sergeant Jones and Private Gabriel Jones will be team 2." The colonel said as we went over final specifics for the mission. "Any questions?"

"No sir." Steve said as he stood at attention.

"Good because I don't want to answer any." The Colonel turned and walked away, leaving Agent Carter and Howard Stark to Finnish our specifics.

"We plan to drop you here." Stark said as he showed us on the map before us. "Then you'll have to climb up the mountain, only a few 2 mile hike in the cold. We have the perfect ledge, with the most clearance here. You'll have a 15 sec window, after that you won't make it."

"That's comforting." I said, as we all looked over the map. "We estimate that the train will be going through there around 1600 hours, you'll here it coming, the second you see if come through the tunnel, you have to start dropping. Once you see it start counting, only 15 seconds before you run out of time."

"Great."

"Your shipping out now." Peggy said sa she stepped forward.

"Understood." Steve said before turning to us. "Let's go." We followed Steve out, moving onto truck, which took us a couple of miles to the air field. We took the plane an hour to the remote part of Switzerland where we took a truck to the base of the mountain. I got nervous before missions regularly, but this time I was terrified. None of the guys seemed to reflect this, just treating it like another mission. Maybe I was just paranoid or was focusing too much on the jump from cliff to full speed train. I was scared though and couldn't seem to shake the feeling at all, just had to count down the minutes till we were climbing up the mountain side. This part wasn't much fun at all, it was freezing cold on a mountain that didn't have a trail and was covered in ice. Bucky had a misstep and almost fell off a sheer edge, Steve had caught him but I couldn't recover from the feeling of my stomach dropping.

We had made the climb in one hour, reaching the top where Bucky shot one side of the zipline to the edge above the train cliffs, while I climbed up and attached it above where we had been positioned. We got all of our equipment ready and stood on the edge, having been about an hour earlier than expected. We sat there talking and hanging out, waiting for the train to eventually come around.

When we heard it coming from about a mile away, it had really set in what we were doing. We heard the horn blow for the second time, now sounding severely closer than before, making us realize what we were really about to do.

"Hey Steve." Bucky said.

"Yeah?"

"You remember the time I made you ride the cyclone at Cooney Island and you threw up?"