𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐈𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 • 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬

Uncovering The Past

Steve had turned on the lights. We looked at how the lights turned on, they showed desks and a logo.

"This is SHIELD." I told Steve.

"Maybe where it started." We started to walk more and more. I looked around the room for anything. Steve walked to a door and I followed him when he opened the door. We walked into a new room.

"And there's my grandfather." I said looking at the framed picture hanging on the wall with some other people.

"Howard."

"Who's the girl?" I asked him, he turned away, without saying anything to me. I looked closer, it was aunt Peggy. I looked at the pictures once more and walked behind Steve. We stopped at a bookshelf.

"If you're already working in a secret office," he opened the bookshelf, revealing an elevator. "Why do you need to hide the elevator?" I don't know, do I look like I worked here before? No. I got my phone to see what the code is for the elevator. 8539 was the code to get through the elevator. So, I typed in the code for the elevator bell ring. The doors open and Steve and I went in. We went to the bottom to see what was there. The elevator doors open and revealed nothing because it was really dark. We started to look around for the light. We started to walk forward in the elevator doors close behind us. When we started to walk forward, I saw this object that had lights in it probably look like an old computer. And all a sudden, the lights turned on by themselves. So when they turn on the lights, is revealed an old computer. We walked up to the computer,

"This can't be the data point. This technology is ancient." I told Steve. I looked at the computer and saw a drive plug-in. I was very confused at first, why would there be a drive plug, is this computer was made a long time ago. I grabbed the flash drive and plugged it in. The machine lights light up when I plugged it in. A voice came from the computer and we turned around.

"Initiate system?" I walked up to the keyboard.

"Y-E-S spells yes." I said out loud. The computer starts to power up. "Shall we play a game?" I smirked at turned to Steve. "It's from a movie that was really..."

"I know, I saw it." He cut me off. Well, then, be that way. The computer started to beep.

"Rogers, Grant Steven, born 1918. Stark, Andrea Crystalline, born 1996." What the hell is happening? How did he know my real name?

"It's some kind of recording, right?" I said.

"I am not a recording, Fräulein." Did he sass back me?! "I may not the man I was when the Capitan took me, prisoner, in 1945. But I am."

"You know this thing?" I asked Steve.

"Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for Red Skull. He's been dead for years." Steve walked around the back.

"The first correction, I am Swiss. Second, look behind you, I have never been more alive. In 1972, I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body. My mind, however, was worth saving, on 200,000 feet of databanks. You are standing in my brain."

"How did you get here?" Steve asked him.

"Invited."

"It was Operation Paperclips after World War II, SHIELD recruited German scientists with strategic value." I said.

"They thought I could help their cause, I also helped my own."

"HYDRA died with the Red Skull." I looked at Steve.

"Cut off one head, two more shall take its place."

"Prove it."

"Accessing archive, HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize was that if you try to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, SHIELD was founded, and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside SHIELD. For 70 years, HYDRA had been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war, and when history did not cooperate, history was changed."

"That's impossible. SHIELD would have stopped you." I told Zola.

"Accidents will happen." I saw this article of my grandfather Howard and my grandmother Maria, about their car accident. They showed how that my grandparents that were an accident. All my life, I thought it was a mistake. Then, they showed Nick. " HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice it's the freedom to gain it's security. Once a 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." Steve had punched the company screen. "As I was saying.."

"Whats on this drive?" Steve asked.

"Project Insight requires insight. So, I wrote an algorithm."

"What kind of algorithm? What does it do?" I questioned him.

"The answer to your question is fascinating, unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it." The doors closed snd Steve threw his shield to stop it, it didn't work. My phone started to ring. I reached for my pocket.

"Steve, we got a bogey. Short-range ballistic. 30 seconds tops,"

"Who fired it?" I sighed.

"SHIELD."

"I am afraid I Have been stalling, Captain. Admit it." I reach for the flash drive and ran to Steve. "It's better this way. Steve opened an airway so we can get in. I jumped and the bomb exploded. When I jumped I passed out because of the loud explosion.