Dragonfly (Captain America)

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CHAPTER 3
News

Steve Rogers

I allowed my eyes to open to the sunlight that was peaking in through the curtains. My eyes were still adjusting from the darkness of the night.

I had woke up in the middle of the night but I couldn't quite remember where I was. I knew that I must have been in a SHIELD facility somewhere but I don't know why.

The last memory I had was that I was supposed to be on a mission taking out a HYDRA stronghold in Russia and it was a black ops mission and we were also going into a blind situation.

Something must have happened. Someone must have pulled us out of there. Or me at least.

"Captain Rogers, good morning" Simmonds greeted me. I was good with names and I had seen her at the SHIELD Academy before.

"Good morning" I greeted her back. Good manners didn't cost a thing. "Agent Simmonds right?" I asked her.

I pushed myself up and propped myself up in the bed I was lying in. I felt a little disrespectful lying in bed while she wandered around my room.

"Yes it is" she laughed.

"So what went wrong then?" I asked quickly. I kept running everything through my head.

She didn't look like she understands what I meant by that. "The last thing I remember was being briefed for a mission - the mission in Russia - and now I'm under observation at a SHIELD facility. So something must have happened" I deduced. It really wasn't too hard just to pick up on the little facts.

"You'll be briefed soon. Agent May is on route right now" Simmonds explained delicately. Well if that didn't say it all.

My breath caught in my throat. "And Stark? He was with me. Is he okay?" I questioned. Though I wasn't sure that I wanted to know the answer to what happened to my best friend.

Simmonds tried to hide it, but a flicker of sadness swept across her face. I was thankful that she tried to hide it - it wasn't her responsibility to tell me.

"Like I said Agent May will be here soon to brief you" Simmonds weakly responded.

I couldn't breath. Something had happened to Tony? Was it my fault? For not being able to protect my team. Was I the only one pulled out?

"I need to know what happened to Tony" I urged Simmonds. I know I was asking her to do something she was uncomfortable with but it would eat me up inside not knowing.

Simmonds sighed and put down her clipboard that she had been scribbling on - and she sat on the edge of my bed.

"Your team was ambushed in Russia by a HYDRA operative we only know as Stormfront. She managed to neutralise your team and place you in a stasis pod. So far we have only found you - and it is highly believed that the rest of your team were killed when the power plant your mission was at exploded" Simmonds said in a monotone way. She had obviously trained to be void of emotion in this situation. She was trying so hard not to let her voice wander.

I rested myself back down in shock.

There were twenty men on my team - not including me and Tony - and all of them were dead?

I clenched my jaw shut so I wouldn't let out a whimpering cry and I held back my tears as best I could. It was unusual for me to cry but Tony was a good friend.

"But we haven't stopped looking" Simmonds quickly interjected.

"How long was I in stasis for?" I asked quickly. After being in an icicle for almost seventy years being in stasis was a sore topic.

Simmonds opened her mouth to give me a reply. "-Agent Simmonds I think that's enough" Agent Melinda May shouted at Simmonds from the doorway.

Simmonds' face went blank. And then she turned and left the room without another word. May watched her leave with a look of disgust on her face; maybe it was because she was supposed to be the one who was supposed to brief me? Her eyes found her way back to me.

"Well I hear that Simmonds has filled you in on most of what has happened on your last mission but here's what you don't know-" May started to explain. She was known for not exactly being the warmest of agents. "-Captain Rogers, it turns out that you were in that stasis pod for almost five years. Your last mission in Russia has one of List's and Strucker's enhanced human beings and they captured and neutralized the team on the mission" May explained. That was more than I had heard her say in the years I had known her. Which was apparently more than I thought.

I had been locked in a prison for five years. Making it 2021 and one of my best friends was missing presumed possibly dead.

I let out a loud sigh, that was a lot to take in.

"And as soon as you're feeling better and have rehabed then we'll track down the last of the HYDRA operatives and hopefully find Mr Stark in the process if he's still alive" May promised me with a firm nod. That was as close to a warm affirming speech as I could hope for from May.

"Thanks" I smiled at her. Not that I could convey any happiness at the moment.

"If you're feeling up to it we would like to start your rehab straight away" May announced to me.

I was more than ready to go. I had to get back in fighting shape so I could go and track Tony down.

"Who am I rehabbing with? Rominoff? Barton?" I asked quickly. That was the only logical choice.

"No both of them are on a dark ops assignment at the moment. Instead you have one of our other senior agents to rehab you. Rachel Carter" May explained to me.

That name made me go numb. Only her last name. It would have to be a million and one shot that anyone related to Peggy would even be stationed here let alone in SHIELD.

"Carter? As in-?"

"Peggy Carter's granddaughter. That won't be a problem will it?" May shouted back to me as she left the room.

"-urm. No?" I had to question myself on that one.

That name is one that I hadn't heard in a while but always thought about. After Peggy passing away I had let go of all ties to her and the old SHIELD.

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So not much has happened yet. I just wanted to get all of the introductions out of the way with the secondary characters and Steve and Rachel will be meeting next chapter.

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