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Seeing red || Sam [Captain America: Brave New World]

The world had barely adjusted to the election of Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross as President of the United States when Captain Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, found himself in the middle of a political storm. As the tension escalated across borders, Sam received a call from the White House to meet with President Ross. It was a meeting that would soon drag him and Y/n, a key intelligence operative, into an international conspiracy that threatened to push the world into chaos.

Sam stood in the Oval Office, feeling the weight of his shield at his back. Ross, who had never been a friend of superheroes, sat behind the desk, his gaze stern and calculating.

"Wilson," Ross began, leaning back in his chair. "We've got a situation. Something big. And I need you to take care of it."

Sam narrowed his eyes. "What kind of situation?"

Ross handed him a file. "An international incident. We've got intel that several foreign powers are preparing for conflict. There's been a coordinated attack on key military installations in three countries. Everyone's pointing fingers, and if this keeps going, we're looking at war."

"War?" Sam echoed. "Who's behind it?"

Ross's lips tightened. "That's what you and Y/n are going to find out."

At the mention of Y/n, Sam's interest piqued. Y/n was one of the best operatives in the field, a brilliant strategist who worked covertly to dismantle global threats. If they were bringing her into the fold, this situation was far more serious than it appeared.

"Y/n will brief you on what we know," Ross continued, clearly uncomfortable with relying on a hero, but desperate enough to set his pride aside. "But I need results, Wilson. The world is already seeing red, and I need you to stop it before it gets worse."

Sam left the White House, the heavy file under his arm. He met Y/n at a safehouse just outside Washington, D.C., where she was pouring over intelligence reports, maps, and intercepted communications.

"You get dragged into this too, huh?" Sam asked as he entered, tossing the file onto the table.

Y/n looked up, her expression calm but intense. "Yeah. Ross doesn't trust many people with this, but I think there's more going on here than he's letting on."

Sam sat down beside her. "Tell me what you've got."

Y/n pointed to the maps. "The attacks are too precise, too coordinated. It's almost like someone wanted these countries to blame each other. We've traced some of the communications, and they're coming from multiple locations—some within our own borders."

"You're saying this might be an inside job?"

"Maybe. Or someone wants it to look like one," Y/n replied, pulling up a detailed list of players involved in global arms dealing and underground intelligence networks. "Whoever's behind this knows how to manipulate governments. They want chaos."

As Sam scanned the documents, a pattern began to emerge. Every lead, every clue pointed toward a shadowy network of operatives working globally, aiming to destabilize the world's largest powers. And the longer they dug, the more it became clear that these players had connections to powerful figures—including some within the U.S. government.

Days turned into weeks as Sam and Y/n chased down every lead, traveling across borders, infiltrating criminal organizations, and unmasking traitors. They discovered that the mastermind behind the attacks was a figure known only as "Red Specter," an elusive operative with influence in military, political, and corporate circles.

Y/n pieced together that Red Specter had been sowing seeds of discord for years, creating false flags and stoking tensions to build toward one catastrophic event: a global war that would allow Specter to rise from the ashes and seize control.

The real shock came when Y/n found evidence suggesting that President Ross himself might be involved—or, at the very least, being used as a pawn in the scheme. Sam struggled to reconcile the idea of the U.S. President being part of such a dangerous plot, but Y/n urged him to keep an open mind.

"He's desperate to prove himself as a strong leader," Y/n said as they watched a press conference on TV. Ross was addressing the nation, promising strength and security. "But desperate people can be manipulated."

Sam and Y/n finally tracked Red Specter to a hidden base in Eastern Europe, where the final phase of the plot was unfolding. There, they uncovered a cache of weapons and devices meant to trigger simultaneous attacks across multiple countries, forcing the world into war.

But the real shock came when they discovered Ross had been unaware of the true extent of the plot. He had been manipulated by his own advisors, who were in league with Red Specter. The conspiracy ran deeper than either Sam or Y/n had imagined.

In a climactic confrontation, Sam and Y/n battled Specter's forces, fighting through waves of mercenaries and soldiers loyal to the cause. At the heart of the base, they found the mastermind themselves—Red Specter, who revealed their twisted vision for the future: a world ruled through fear and domination.

"You're too late, Captain America," Specter sneered. "The world will tear itself apart, and from the ashes, a new order will rise."

"Not if we have anything to say about it," Y/n replied, stepping forward. Together, she and Sam took down Red Specter in a fierce fight, destroying the weapons that would have set the world ablaze.

With the conspiracy exposed and Red Specter defeated, Sam and Y/n returned to Washington to brief President Ross. The world had narrowly avoided a global catastrophe, but tensions still simmered.

"Ross was just a pawn in their game," Sam said, leaning back in his chair. "But he's going to need to change if he wants to be the leader this country needs."

Y/n nodded. "Let's hope he learned something from all this."

As they left the White House, the weight of the world's fragile peace hung in the air. Sam and Y/n knew that the fight wasn't over. The world had seen red, and though they had stopped the worst of it, the road to true peace would be long.

But together, they had made a difference. And as long as they fought side by side, there was hope for a better future.