Agent Sakuara

Steve skids into an alley and stops, panting, freaked. Steve looks down the alley only to find it's a dead end.

"At ease, soldier." Steve wh.i.p.s to see Nick Fury standing alone at the alley entrance.

"Who are you?" Steve cautiously asked.

"Colonel Fury, Director of SHIELD. You would have known us as the Special Scientific Reserve." Nick Fury answered honestly.

Steve's eyes narrow. The first reassuring thing he's heard. "Where am I?"

"Round about 34th and 5th." Nick Fury nonchalantly answered.

Steve looks confused. Fury nods over his shoulder at the Empire State Building rising above them. Steve gapes. Fury waves a couple of MP's to block off the alley. They stand at attention.

"Sorry about that little show back there. See, there's no precedent for what you've been through. We couldn't tell how delicate your mental state might be. We thought it best to break it to you slowly." Nick Fury explained.

"Break what?" Steve asked anxiously.

"You've been asleep, Captain. For almost seventy years." Nick Fury answered honestly.

Steve looks around, stunned. "Seventy...the World of the Future."

"Well, thanks to you, there is one." Nick Fury nonchalantly said.

Steve eyes Fury. "What about the war? Did we win?"

"Hell, yes. Unconditional surrender, baby. And taking down Hydra was a big part of that." Nick Fury replied.

Steve reels. "How am I...not dead?"

"To be perfectly honest, we're not sure yet. My docs say it's some kind of suspended animation. Dr. Erskine's formula, the extreme cold...I can't break it down for you on a cellular level, but you haven't aged a day since that plane went down." Nick Fury summarized.

Steve looks around, overwhelmed. Above him, a highway sign reads "FDR DRIVE, NEXT LEFT."

"You don't mind my asking, what gave us away back there?" Nick Fury genuinely asked.

"What? Oh. Bob Chipman was traded for Eddie Stanky during the '44 season. He's with the Cubs now." Steve looked troubled. "Or...was."

"I know it's a lot to swallow. But the world's not as different as it looks. There's still work to be done..." Nick Fury pointed at him. "Soldier's work."

Steve meets Fury's eyes. Fury signals to one of the MP's. He brings forward a case. Fury opens it, revealing Steve's battered shield. "The world could still use a man like you, Cap." Steve touches the shield, remembering. "Take your time. God knows if anybody's earned it, you have. All the same..." Fury offers his hand. Steve takes it. "There's a place for you on the team."

Steve rubs his head, so many things coming back.

"You sure you're all right?" Nick Fury asked.

"Yeah. It's just..." When he remembered, Steve became stunned and quietly said "I have to find my family."

SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO

After Yumhee and Dr. Erskine were kidnapped, Yumhee went through a lot of tests and check-ups for the Hydra scientists to build a substantial amount of information about Project Rebirth.

After a week of not being able to see and talk to each other, and not knowing when they would see each other again, Yumhee grab this opportunity to persuade Dr. Erskine not to disclose how he was able to make the serum.

"Father...I know you're greatly burdened by my situation. But you don't have to be. Our main priority right now is to make sure that they won't be able to produce super soldiers." Yumhee held Dr. Erskine's hands conversing through Morse code. "I'm a soldier. I'm prepared for these kinds of situations...besides...I don't want my child to live and grow in this kind of environment enduring God knows what." Silent tears started to fall on both their faces.

"I know...I know my child." Dr. Erskine wiped the tears off her face. "I understand what you're feeling right now...but you also have to understand that my priority right now is your well-being, so is your unborn child's."

After a few days, Yumhee was escorted in a room and was strapped in a cold metal table. She can hear machines operating all around her with inaudible conversations of Dr. Zola's subordinates she imagined while they attached many things in her body. She was beyond terrified of what they were planning to do to her especially since she's currently pregnant.

She heard a door open then a set of footsteps followed. "She's ready Dr. Zola." one of the assistants reported.

"Then start with the experiment." Dr. Zola ordered coldly.

YUMHEE'S HOLDING CELL. JULY 1944.

After months of experimentations, they finally stopped when Yumhee reached her last trimester. If there's anything she's grateful from that extremely painful experience, it's that she was able to regain all her senses again. But that's not all she was able to attain from those horrendous experiments.

But right now, that's least of her problems. Her water just broke hours ago and is now ready to deliver her baby. Dr. Erskine is standing beside her and holding her left hand tightly.

"You can do this Yumhee." Dr. Erskine encourages her, trying hard to comfort her daughter and filling the role that was supposed to be for Steve.

After what seemed like almost half a day, Yumhee was able to deliver the baby without complications. Yumhee closed her eyes, totally exhausted while Dr. Erskine walked to the baby. After confirming that the baby is healthy despite what Yumhee suffered for four months, Dr. Erskine walked back to his daughter who's waiting weakly on the bed to see her baby.

"It's a healthy baby boy Yumhee." Dr. Erskine handed the baby to her gently as he sits on the side of the bed. "Have you decided on a name?" He gently asked her daughter.

"I actually wanted for Steve to name him." Yumhee couldn't stopped the tears from falling. After calming herself she whispered "Stephan...from Steven and Abraham."

"It's a wonderful name." Dr. Erskine kissed both Yumhee's and Stephan's foreheads.

SECRET UNDERGROUND HYDRA LABORATORY. JANUARY 1945.

After the series of experimentation on Yumhee, she was escorted in a room connected to another one with only a glass wall separating it. She was left there standing alone. What she didn't know was that the room was especially made for her to test what abilities she has obtained after almost a year of experimentation.

Then Dr. Erskine entered the other room with three Hydra soldiers wheeling in two tables with equipments for God knows what. When Dr. Erskine was strapped in the chair, they both knew what is about to happen.

Yumhee ran to the steel door but it won't budge even with her super strength. She tried to smash the glass wall but nothing happened. She felt helpless and hopeless. Without her noticing, tears started to fall on her face.

"Yumhee! Yumhee! Just stop Yumhee!" Dr. Erskine knew that the Red Skull doesn't need him anymore for a long time now. He was prepared to die but never did it occur in his mind that they would torture him to death in front of her daughter to break her will and to be able to finally see the results of the experiments. If she was able to obtain new abilities.

"Just don't look okay? Now...turn around and cover your ears." tears started falling on Dr. Erskine's face too.

Yumhee turned around sliding down with her back against the glass wall, covering her ears. Then after a few silent minutes, the torture of her father started. More tears started to fall now.

Dr. Erskine screamed again when one of the Hydra soldiers pulled one of his fingernails and putting salt in it. When nothing was happening with Yumhee, they upped the torture process. They also started to taunt the woman on the other side of the glass wall.

"If the Red Skull doesn't see results soon, you wouldn't even be able to recognize your father after this...and don't forget your son." One of the Hydra soldiers maliciously taunted her. When she didn't stir he went to get the acid and poured it slowly in Dr. Erskine's left t.h.i.g.h. As soon as the acid made contact, a guttural scream escaped his lips. The smell of burnt meat started to permeate in the room.

Yumhee turned back around slowly, beyond horrified at the scene before her. "Don't look Yumhee!" Dr. Erskine weakly said. Then another Hydra soldier stepped up with a blunt knife in his right hand. Yumhee started banging the wall again when the said soldier slowly peeled a patch of skin off Dr. Erskine's right arm, blood pooling below him.

She didn't even know she was shouting and screaming at them, she only feels something inside her unlocking like an untapped box of unimaginable power lying dormant for so long. Then she felt power surge inside her, her skin feeling tingles all around.

On the other side of the wall the soldiers were shocked to see the woman's transformation. A shiny hard coat like diamonds started to appear on her skin until her whole body was covered with it.

Dr. Zola's assistants who were watching at the surveillance room adjacent to the torture room were rejoicing and jotting down all their observations while reinforcing the glass wall. Though it was made to withstand even a nuclear bomb, they were still unsure what the woman can do. With almost a year of experimentation and about 50 different serum injected in her, there must be more to witness.

The Hydra soldiers continued to torture Dr. Erskine. Two of them dragged him to a wall and tied his arms. The last one pulled a lever to hang Dr. Erskine a feet from the floor. Then he reached for a whip with small metal thorns in it. He looked at Yumhee then smirked evilly. When he faced Dr. Erskine, he started whipping him. Screams echoed all through out the room. Blood and pieces of skin and meat littered below Dr. Erskine's feet.

Yumhee was consumed with burning anger, the temperature around her begin to fluctuate from cold to hot and vice versa. She placed her hands against the wall and it started to freeze. The Hydra soldiers stopped on their tracks, terrified. When Yumhee retracted her right arm, they run to the door with guns in hands but the assistants in the surveillance room locked the doors and fortified both the rooms. Very thick steel walls started to cover every inch of the rooms.

Yumhee pounded the frozen wall. After the sixth one, the wall crumbled. Two of the soldiers shoot her immediately while the third one run to Dr. Erskine pointing his gun to his head. "Stop right there or I'll kill him right here right now!" The Hydra soldier shouted. But Yumhee vanished in thin air. The soldiers roam their eyes everywhere, shaking from fear. Yumhee materialized behind the man pointing his gun to Dr. Erskine's head and snapped his neck before anyone can blink. The two begin to shoot her again, emptying their guns but it just bounced off when made contact in any part of her body. The bullets not able to penetrate the shiny hard shell.

When the guns clicked empty, the two men were beyond terrified. Just like before, Yumhee vanished and reappeared behind the two men snapping their necks. She vanished again and released Dr. Erskine from the restraints. Sleeping gas was released but it was too late. When Yumhee vanished together with his father, the assistants sound the alarm.

Yumhee appeared inside Stephan's holding cell with her father on her left side, his right arm hanged limply on her shoulder. She scooped his son gently then they vanished. Before they left the secret underground Hydra laboratory, she didn't forget to push the self-destruct button.

When they reappeared, it was outside the nearest hospital. She didn't forget to undo her armor-like skin. After the ordeal, she felt so weak. Her whole body hurt in a cellular level. But she dragged her body together with her father until they reached the entrance of the hospital saying "Help!" weakly. The nurses in the vicinity rushed to her, one female nurse taking the baby from her while two male nurses took Dr. Erskine. When she was sure that they were going to be okay, she coughed up blood and collapsed to the arms of one female and one male nurse. Blood was seen in her nose and ears. She and Dr. Erskine were rushed immediately at separate ICU's while the baby was checked just in case he's also in danger.