The Captain's Kid

Episode 2: The Star-Spangled Man (Part 2)

Word Count: ≈3.5k
Warnings: a little cursing, racial bias
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   Three knocks could've been a delivery. A whistle indicated a rebellious group. The door opened with a small creak. The person behind the door unlocked the lock which held chains together so no one could get in. The girl who knocked on the door, Karli, stepped back while the person opened it all of the way. She and her group walked into the building without a word, while the person looked around and closed the door, locking it immediately.

   "You must be famished."
   "Very hungry," one replied, everyone unanimously agreeing.
   "Okay. My wife and I cooked. It's an old family recipe made with the finest chicken livers. Please serve yourselves. Anything you want. Anything. You ask me." The group walked over to a table that held containers of the dinner the couple had cooked. "There is some coffee here and some crackers. Uh, anything we can do for the cause. Please follow me." He started walking and talking.
   "You're becoming a bit of a legend. I hear more and more people talk about the freedom fighters who are pushing back." He turned to Karli. "They call you Robin Hood. Every day, more people love you. You'll find refuge wherever you go." He opened a door which led to a small room, letting everyone in.
   "My wife and I made this just for you. Everything is completely clean. She made it nice and cozy." The group was starting to settle in, saying their thank you's to the man, when Karli's phone went off.

  You took what was mine.
   I'm going to find you and kill you.

   One guy walked over to the computers to see the news on them. "Shit," he said. "They're already looking for us. I'm wiping out aliases off any public traffic sites now."
   "Karli, we can't stay here for long," said Lennox, another one of the soldiers. "Six years ago, would you have imagined people supporting a cause like this?"
   "We're not playing no more," she responded. "We can't let the same assholes who were put back in power after the Blip win. The GRC cares more about the people who came back than the ones who never left. We got a glimpse of how things could be. I need to know that you're all committed, because after tomorrow, there's no going back."
   "Yeah," said Matias, after a few seconds. "One world."
   "One people," replied everyone else.
   "One world."
   "One people."
   "One world!"
   "One people!"

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   Back on the plane, Sam was laying across the seats, Alyxandria was leaned back in a chair with her head thrown back, and James was sitting on a small cargo box (the same box Alyx and Torres was using earlier) and was just staring off into space in deep thought.
   Sam looked at James and noticed his face. "You all right?" he asked softly. After a moment, he responded quietly.
   "Let's take the shield. Let's take the shield and do this ourselves."
   "We can't just run up on the man, beat him up and take it," Sam replied, sitting up. "You remember what happened the last time we stole it?"
   "Maybe."
   "You stole the shield?" Alyx asked.
   "Yeah. Seems like James forgot, though. Let me help you out: Sharon was branded enemy of the state, and Steve and I were on the run for two years."
   "Oh, shit," she muttered.
   "I don't know about you," Sam continued, "but I don't wanna live the rest of my life la vida loca. We just had our asses handed to us by Super Soldiers, and we got nothing."
   "Not entirely true," Bucky responded. He hopped off of the box and walked over to sit a few seats away from Sam. "There is someone that you should meet."

   In a few hours, they landed in Baltimore, Maryland. The trio was walking down the street— in the middle of the street— to get to this person's house. There were two kids sitting on the sidewalk and they were excited when they saw Sam
   "Hey, it's Black Falcon!" The kid exclaimed.
   "It's just Falcon, kid," he replied.
   "No, no. My daddy told me it's Black Falcon." Sam stopped walking to converse with this kid but James continued walking.
   "Is it because I'm Black and I'm the Falcon?"
   "Well, technically, I mean, yes."
   "So are you, like, Black kid?" The kid threw a look and his friend started laughing.
   Sam chuckled. "I got him, right," he said to the kid laughing. The other kid blew him off saying, "Whatever, man." Sam couldn't stop laughing.
   He caught up with James and Alyxandria who were on the steps of the patio. James knocked on the metal door, and it made a loud rattling noise. A teenage boy opened the door and inspected the three.
   "We're here to see Isiah," James said.
   "Nobody named Isiah live here," the kid replied. James sighed.
   "Look, we just want to talk to him."
   "You must not hear what I just said. You ain't getting in this house. Y'all can leave now."
   "Tell him the guy from the bar in Goyang is here. He's gonna know what that means."
   The kid took a minute before responding back. "Alright, wait here."