Captain America: The First Avenger (Book 4)✅

Chapter 2✅?

March 1942
Night: Tønsberg, Norway
Church: Inside

A messenger runs across town to a church, sounds of bombs being dropped in the distance. He runs inside, locks the door and shouts in Norwegian, "They have come for it!"

The tower keeper walks down the stairs, tells him in Norwegian, "They have before."

The messenger denies in Norwegian, "Not like this." Steps away from the door.

The tower keeper steps towards him, "Let them try. They will never find it." They hear a rumbling sound and the building shakes then it just stops, they step back and something breaks down the whole wall and doorframe, he does step back quick enough and the stones kills the messenger. The tower keeper steps back and covers his face from the dust. The dust clears and reveals a large machine that broke the doors and it moves back. The tower keeper steps to the stones and picks one up, shows the dead messenger.

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Outside

The large machine continues to back up and another fancy car pulls up and shows a HYDRA symbol on the hood. A man steps out of the car and walks towards the broken entrance.

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Inside

HYDRA soldiers try to lift the lid of a tomb off, but it doesn't move. The tower keeper on the floor scared and looks between all of them. Another man, a commander shouts at them, "Open it! Quickly before he ge-" He stops himself when he hears a rock move and quickly turns and sees the man that was just outside walking in.

The man revealed to be Johann Schmidt, leader of HYDRA walks in on the rocks to the tower keeper, "It has taken me a long time to find this place. You should be commended." He orders to one of his soldiers, "Pick him up." The soldier helps the tower keeper to his feet. "I think that you are man of great vision. And in this way we are much alike."

The tower keeper exclaims, "I am nothing like you." Gives him a glare.

Schmidt calmly tells him, "No, of course. But what others see as superstition, you and I know to be a science.." Trails off, gives him a look.

The tower keeper tells him, "What you seek is just a legend."

Schmidt looks at the stone tomb then to the tower keeper, "Then why make such an effort to conceal it." He takes of his hat, hands it to one of his soldiers then opens an old tomb like nothing and picks up the glass cube from the skeletal remains of an old Viking, he looks at it, "The Tesseract was the jewel of Odin's treasure room." He turns to face the tower keeper and deliberately drops and smashes the glass cube, "Not something one buries. But I think it is close, yes?" Stands in front of the tower keeper again.

The tower keeper bravely tells him, "I cannot help you."

Schmidt tells him, "No. But maybe you can help your village. You must have some friends out there. Some... some little grandchildren perhaps. I have no need for them to die." The tower keeper looks at him horrified at how casually he says that, then he turns to see the moving machine outside. Schmidt turns around to see a carving of the tree on one of the tower walls, starts walking to it and explains, "Yggdrasil, the tree of the world. Guardian of wisdom and fate also." He sees something out of place and presses a button on the carving of the tree and a piece of it pops out and he takes it out turns around and glances at the tower keeper then opens up to reveal the real cube, it glowing, he looks at it amazed, "And the Fuhrer digs us for trinkets in the desert. You have never seen this, have you?" Glances at the tower keeper.