Steve, Natasha, Krista, and I made our way into the camp, Krista and I went to look around as Natasha tries to pinpoint the location that we were supposed to go to using her phone. 

Steve: "This camp was where I was trained"

Natasha: "Did it change much?"

Steve: *looks up at the flagpole* "...A little"

As Krista continues to wander around aimlessly, I look back at Steve and see him reminiscing his past life.

Natasha: "Seems like a dead end. No heat signatures, No waves, not even radio. Whoever wrote the file must've used a router to throw people off"

As soon as we were about to call it a day, Steve looked back at a bunker and ponders on it questioningly. Something Natasha noticed quickly. 

Natasha: "What is it?"

Steve: "Army regulations forbid storing munitions within 500 yards from the barracks, this building's in the wrong place"

Walking towards the bunker. Steve, along with the rest of us, made our way to the bunker and noticed that the entrance was padlocked, which Steve swiftly dealt with by the use of his shield as he bashes the lock open. 

Once the door was unlocked, we made our way down the stairs before Natasha went over to a switch and turned the lights on. When the entire room was visible, we saw a much retro version of a S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters.

Natasha: "This is S.H.I.E.L.D"

Krista: "More like a more musty and dusty version of it. Shit looks like it hasn't got cleaned for...ever"

Steve: "This was where it all started" 

Krista went and wiped one of her fingers on the desks and went to write her name on the dust before wiping her hand on my clothes. I swat her hand away as she giggled before we made our way deeper inside, entering another room where we saw three pictures framed on the wall. One is a general, One's a scientist and another was a female agent.

Natasha: "Hmm, There's Stark's father"

Steve: "Howard..."

Y/n: "Looks like Tony's rocking the mustache Mark II, The goatee"

Natasha: "Who's the girl?"

Steve: "..."

Feeling the slight tension in the air, Krista and I distanced ourselves as we checked some of the empty bookshelves. Our search came to a stop when I felt air seeping through one of the bookshelves, I inspect it deeper and saw the cobwebs being pushed by the slight breeze that I'm feeling. 

Y/n: "Hey guys! Check this out"

I gestured Steve and Natasha over to us as I positioned myself to push the shelf as Krista helped me by pulling.

Y/n: *mutter* "Please be a secret door, Please be a secret door, Please be a secret door"

We then began to move the shelf apart from one another, revealing a secret pathway to a secret elevator.

Y/n: "Yey!"

Steve: "If you're already working in a secret office...why do you need to hide the elevator"

Krista: "Who cares, we just found a secret!"

Natasha went ahead first, using her scanner on her phone, she scanned the fingerprints on the Numpad to decipher the passcode before inputting it to the keypad. The light then turned green as the elevator doors opened. 

Y/n: "This doesn't scream danger at all"

Steve: "Come on, let's move"

I look over at Krista who did the same before shrugging at each other and entering the elevator with them. We then took the elevator down to the sub-basement, once we reached the very bottom, the elevator dinged before opening its doors to show a pitch-black room.

Y/n: "Definitely not ominous at all"

Steve and Natasha walked out first before we followed after them, we continue to look around to see if someone might try to get the jump on us. Once we felt that it was safe, we walked deeper into the room, with a dim light slightly aiding us to see in the dark. 

The lights then flicked on when they reached the main console, giving us a better look at the room as we saw dozens of retro servers and databases all spread across the room.

Natasha: "This can't be the data point, this technology is ancient"

Krista: "Not the first word I'd think of but sure"

Nat continued to look around the main console and see a modern USB hub on the console. Taking the flash drive from her pocket, Natasha went over to the hub and inserted the flash drive leading the entire servers to boot up synchronously. 

Soon the main console booted up along with its built-in camera. 

Computer: "INITIATE SYSTEM?"

The computer spoke in a robotic voice, gaining all of our attention. Natasha hesitantly went over to the main console before typing in 'Yes' using the keyboard provided before the computer began booting up again. 

Natasha: "Shall we play a game? *to Steve* It's from a movie about a puppet that's-"

Steve: "I know, I've seen it"

The monitor then boots up again as the entire system unit hums to life. We then saw green lines flowing down in the monitor as it slowly formed a face before the camera looks over at Steve and began talking, autonomously. 

Computer: "Rogers, Steven. Born 1918"

The camera then moves from Steve to Natasha.

Computer: "Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna. Born 1984"

Y/n: "Your real name is 'Natalia Alianovna'?"

The camera then moved once again, this time from Natasha to me.

Computer: "L/n, Y/n. Born 1997"

Natasha: "It's some kind of recording"

Computer: "I am not a RECORDING, Fräulein. I may not be the man I was when the captain took me, prisoner, in 1945, but I am"

Krista: "You know this tin can?"

Steve then walks around the unit and began inspecting it. 

Steve: "Arnim Zola was a german scientist who worked with The Red Skull. He's been dead for years"

Zola: "First correction! I am Swiss. Second, Look around you. I have never been more alive"

The computer, now known as Arnim Zola then increased the intensity of the lights around the room to signal his gesture.

Zola: "In 1972, I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body, my mind, however...That was worth saving, on 200,000 feet of databanks. You are standing in my BRAIN"

Steve: "How did you get here?"

Zola: "Invited"

Natasha: "This is operation paperclip, after World War II S.H.I.E.L.D recruited german scientists with strategic value"

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

Steve: "HYDRA died with the Red Skull"

Zola: "Cut off one head, two more takes their place"

Steve: "Prove it"

Zola: "Accessing Archive..." 

A few clicks from the databases was heard before another monitor came to life, showing images and Footage from the world war II era.

HYDRA was founded in 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 needs to surrender its freedom willingly.

The monitor then flashed images about the first time S.H.I.E.L.D was created after the war, showing pictures of Howard Stark along with other previous members of S.H.I.E.L.D.

After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew, a beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D. For 70 years, HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war, and when history did not cooperate, history was changed.

Natasha: "That's impossible, S.H.I.E.L.D would've stopped you"

The monitor then showed newspaper articles about the accident that took Howard Stark's life along with the termination contract with Fury.

Accidents will happen. HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will ARISE.

The monitor then 'predicted' several articles about Steve and his disappearance. 

We won, Captain. Your death amount to the same as your life, A ZERO SUM! 

Enraged, Steve went to break the monitor with his shield in hopes of silencing Zola, only for him to show himself in a different monitor.

Zola: "it is strange, however, seeing the offspring of D/n and M/n L/n be a friendly acquaintance of our enemy"

Y/n: "What do you mean?"

The camera then panned and was now focused on me.

Zola: "You don't know? D/n and M/n were the youngest child prodigies HYDRA had at their disposal, they were scientists tasked in figuring out a way to travel through different universes...and they succeeded"

Natasha: "The Multiverse is real? But that's impossible, not even with the knowledge the world-renowned scientists can't crack the Multiverse theory, not even Stark"

Zola: "Oh but it is possible. Just ask the woman next to you"

Natasha and Steve then quickly looked towards Krista with shocked expressions.

Natasha: "You're from another universe?"

Zola: "D/n and M/n's intelligence were beyond their time, they are even better than mine. Not only have they solved the theory of multiple earts, but also made a device that would allow a user to travel between dimensions. How else did you think we thought of transferring me into a machine"

Y/n: *shock* "No...that's not true..."

Zola: "Oh, but it is. It's a shame that they plan to expose everything to the world along with HYDRA's secret plan of world domination, so we have no choice but to silence them"

Zola then displayed a newspaper article about two renowned scientists tragically killed in an accident, the date even correlates to the day George told Y/n when he first talked about his parents. Another slide was displayed right after, showing it to be a contract for termination for the Winter Soldier

Y/n: "YOU'RE LYING!!"

Natasha: *place hand on Y/n's shoulder* "Y/n, calm down"

Y/n: *shrug * "Let go of me!"

Zola: "Your family has done us a great favor, we may not have the discovery now but once we do, it'll only be a matter of time before HYDRA will rule the entire Multiverse with an iron fist"

I fell silent, no words planning on leaving my mouth as I stood in front of the console shocked. Krista went to grab me on my shoulder and moved me aside as it was Steve's turn to move close to the console

Steve: "What's on this drive?"

Zola: "Project insight requires...Insight. So I wrote an algorithm"

Natasha: "What kind of algorithm and What does it do?"

Zola: "The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it"

The doors of the elevator began to close causing me to finally snap out of my daze, Steve tried to stop the door by hurling his shield to the metal doors to jam it, but it only bounced off the surface before flying back to Steve who catches it as Natasha's phone began to beep.

Natasha: *looks at phone* "Steve we got a bogey, short-ranged ballistic. 30 seconds tops"

Steve: "Who fired it?"

Natasha: "S.H.I.E.L.D"

Zola: "I'm afraid I have been stalling, Captain"

Nat then quickly swiped the drive as Krista and I look for a way out.

Zola: "Admit it, it's better this way. We are both of us...out of time"

Y/n: "Over there!"

I pointed towards the floor grating as Steve went over and pulled it off before letting Natasha, Krista, and I drop down as he follows soon after. The ballistic missile then hits the entire training camp, causing the structure that we are under to collapse on us. We huddled close to Steve as he uses his shield to cover us from the rubble, trying hard to keep it up as the weight of the rubble started to become heavier and heavier. 

I decided to lend a hand by taking some of the weight off while still being under it, until the rubble finally stopped falling, leaving us trapped by a huge piece of debris.

Steve: "Okay...*pant*  on 3...we push this out of the way"

Y/n: *pant* "Got it"

Steve: "1...2...3!"

With all our might, Steve and I manage to push the massive piece of debris out of the way before helping Krista and an unconscious Natasha up to the surface. 

Y/n: *to Krista* "You good?"

Krista: "Yeah...You?"

Y/n: "Just peachy..."

Steve: *bride carries Natasha* "We got to get out of here"

Krista: "Yeah, these rubbles aren't exactly what I'd call homey..."

Over in the distance, we saw spotlights coming from several Quinjets as they made their way over to us.

Y/n: "We need to move, NOW!"

Without a second thought, we ran out of the scene before they could even see us. 

(Timeskip)

It was now morning and we were now back in Washington, making our way to the neighborhood before jumping over a fence to someone's backyard. Steve, and the now recovered Natasha, went up the stairs first with Me and Krista following after them before Steve knocked on the glass door.

Footsteps were heard inside signaling that someone was inside, the blinds were then pulled up before the glass door was pulled open, revealing a black man with a goatee.

???: "Hey man"

Steve: "I'm sorry about this, but we need a place to lay low"

???: *looks behind Steve* "And what about those two?"

Natasha: "They're our colleagues caught in the cross-fire. Everyone we know is trying to kill us"

???: "Not 'Everyone'"

Stepping aside, the man allows us to enter before looking around outside for anyone watching and shutting the door, and closing the blinds.

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