45 Awakening
In February of 2012.
In the cold north a team of diggers do what they do best by drilling and digging through the ice as yesterday they were called in about the mysterious thing sticking out of the ice.
Once they were called in they immediately set out to the location before taking control of the situation.
Another call was made to the States for more professionals who handle these types of unknown foundings.
In the darkness below the ice, one can see a hole being made by a laser brightening the inside of the weird shaped iron thing.
Not long two men dropped with ropes before lighting up the place with flashlights while two other men slid down as well.
"Base, we're in." The man on the lead said through a radio.
The inside of the thing looked foreign to them, almost...alien.
"What is this thing?" The second man asked as he followed the first's lead.
A bit farther from them, the other two men that came after them walked a different direction.
The man who walked first tripped on something before he went down on his knees.
"Careful." The man behind said.
The man who tripped looked down to see what he tripped on before picking it up, but it was heavy.
"What is that?" The man behind asked as the man held onto a small rod with effort.
"I don't know, I think it's a broken part of this thing." The man in front said.
He looked at the small rod seeing the design on it realizing it was more than a part of the strange foreign place.
As the man was inspecting the rod more closely, the man with him called him stutteringly.
"S-sir…"
The man who had the rod looked up slowly.
In front of them was something encased with ice, inside the ice it wasn't crystal clear what was in it, but they could definitely see the orange and black clearly.
The man stood up as he looked back and forth from the rod and the ice.
On the other side.
"Lieutenant!!" The second man that came down called for the first one.
"What is this?" The man asked.
In front of him was a star, and around it was themed with red and blue along with white.
"My God!! Base give me a line to th-" Before the Lieutenant could finish, the other two men called out to him in a hurry.
"Sir!!"
"Lieutenant, you have to see this."
••••••
[2 Strikes]
[2 Strikes]
A voice repeated the word and number for an unknown amount of time.
It felt as if it spoke forever but Alfie never noticed until his conscience appeared.
He felt he was there, nowhere particular, but still there, yet it felt as if he wasn't there again.
An image came out of nowhere where the point of view looked outside of a plane from the inside as it slowly but surely headed towards a world of snow.
By the time the image showed itself colliding into the snow, everything disappeared and Alfie woke up.
Inside an old fashioned 1940's room, Alfie awoke and jerked his body forward as he breathed heavily and quickly.
A sudden sting assaulted the back right side of his mind as he held onto his head, closed his eyes and breathed calmly to ease the pain.
Along with the stinging pain was the memories of blood, gunfire, shouts, laughs and moments he had before he went into the ice along with Steve.
Things started to come back to Alfie, but strangely it felt weird and foreign to him.
Alfie felt like his memories from the 1900's were just that, memories.
More strangely the things he brought with him from his past life felt more foreign, as if the two past memories were separate and unreal.
As things flowed into his mind, Alfie took two memories and held it in his mind.
One memory from the far past, while the other was just from a short while ago, at least according to his remembrance.
The short one where both he and Steve went into the ice, then the second one where Steve woke up after 70 years in ice.
Alfie opened his eyes and looked around, and surely the room looked just the same as the one Steve was in on canon.
Alfie looked down on his arm as he folded and unfolded his hands.
He got skinnier, most likely from not eating for maybe 70 years if things didn't change too much.
His possessions were gone, and he is most likely in S.H.I.E.L.D. being watched.
Alfie got out of bed and stood, his body felt sore but nothing to slow him down with.
Alfie did a few jumps before stretching out his body then inspecting himself.
He brought up his right hand, folded his fingers into a fist before a familiar feeling went through his arm until he felt it.
His Chi.
Though there was a bit of effort used to summon it, he needs to find a place where he can calm down, and in his mind there was always a place he liked where it calmed him down and focused more.
Plus there was calming tea.
Alfie looked out at one of the windows and he could see "outside," but before he can move closer to the window, the door opened.
And in came two people.
The first one in was a man with a white coat and brown hair and a woman behind him with blonde hair wearing a shirt, tie and a dress.
"Hello Captain, it looks like you are awake." The man said as he stepped up.
Both looking at Alfie, the women had her eyes secretly looking at Alfie but had the feeling of avoiding his gaze.
"Where am I? Who are you?" Alfie asked.
"Well I will tell you everything you want to know and more, so please sit and we will get started." The man said as he signaled to the chair near Alfie's bed.
"..."
Alfie didn't say anything as he just observed the two as well as looking around, though not turning his body away from the two.
Seeing this, the man felt uneasy so he spoke.
"I'm sure there is a lot in that mind of yours Captain McBride, but I assure you there is an explanation I'm willing to give you." The man said.
He had a feeling that Alfie already knew the room was fake.
Alfie didn't do anything rather than walked back and forth with his eyes on the two.
He knew where he was and who the two most likely are, but he has to play along the lines here.
Alfie suddenly walked towards the two which alarmed them greatly, no normal person would realize but Alfie saw the man had the stance of someone experienced and ready even though he looked vulnerable.
But Alfie just passed him and then stood at the woman who wouldn't even make eye contact with him.
Alfie moved his face close to her and then sniffed a few times.
"You smell wonderful, I know about women smelling good but...you smell addicting." Alfie said.
It had to be a perfume or something, in the 1900's it wasn't uncommon for women to have a little smell from perfume here and there, but the smell he had in front of him definitely separates her from what he has seen...or smelled.
"Who are you?" Alfie stepped closer, which alarmed the woman even more as she pressed a small device on her hand behind.
The man saw this and his eyes widened.
"No wait!!"
Just as the man screamed, the door slammed open as two agents came from there, and from one of the windows another agent popped up aiming his weapons at Alfie.
"Stand down!!" The agent in lead yelled as they all pointed their weapons at Alfie.
A smile slowly crept up his face as the man before saw this panicked.
"No!! You idiots, you don't know what you're doing!!"
And just as he finished Alfie blurred from their vision rushing forward against the agent in charge.
In Alfie's view, his world slowed down.
He rushed at the agent in charge who had his rifle pointed forward and grabbed the rifle before doing a low kick to the agent's legs taking his weapon then quickly moving to his next target behind the agents in charge.
Arriving at his next target, Alfie simply knocked him out with the back of the rifle then swiftly grabbed the knocked out agent's baton and quickly threw it at the window after turning around as it bee lined straight to the agents forehead also knocking him out.
The leading agent was on the ground grunting trying to get up, but Alfie grabbed his hair and kneed him, also knocking him out.
As Alfie looked elsewhere, the woman before appeared beside him and already had a gun beside his head and pulled the trigger.
But nothing happened, she felt something behind the trigger and looked down at it, and there it was, one of Alfie's fingers blocking her trigger even though he wasn't even facing her.
She looked back at Alfie just to realize he was not staring at her with a smile.
"Huh, this is new, I haven't seen these kinds of weapons before." Alfie said as he effortlessly took the woman's gun from her and started inspecting it.
'Stun gun?'
"That is enough Captain, we are not your enemies here, we are only trying to help you." The man said, trying to ease up the tension.
"You say that, yet you called in men with guns who tried to shoot me." Alfie said as he started to go through the agent's gears.
A baton, a kind of pistol he has never seen and a combat knife all taken and equipped by him.
Seeing this, the man knew what was going on.
"Captain Alfred, please I suggest you don't leave this place, or else you won't be able to keep up with the world, you will constantly be lost if you don't know wh-"
"Have a good day!" Alfie said before he ran off.
"No!! Wai- Damn it!! Call it in!!" The man said before running after Alfie.
The woman took out a radio before speaking for all to hear in the building.
"Code 13!! All agents Code 13!! Code 13!!"
Some distance away Alfie ran around to look for an exit or any windows to the outside, but he hasn't seen anything yet.
Now that he thought about it why did they have Steve hold up in a building with a way out, and in the middle of New York of all places?
"Captain!!"
Alfie looked back to see the man with the white coat following him, a few agents coming from different directions as well.
Alfie sped up easily passing or dodging agents as he caused chaos like they were playing football and he had the ball.
Soon enough Alfie was able to see a window to the outside, it was nighttime which was why it was harder for him to find a window outside.
He came close to the windows and saw that he was about 7 floors high, the thought of going down the stairs came up but he threw that aside as the agents were coming.
Plus, he could heal.
Alfie backed up a few steps before running to the window and jumping, during his jump he threw the baton he had with him breaking the window as he fell straight down to the street.
Alfie made a small growl working up a big amount of Chi on his legs and up.
*BANG*
He landed on top of a taxi breaking and messing up the hood and engine before he rolled onto the road.
"Ow." Alfie grunted as he got up, when he got up he was shocked, not only because he hasn't seen this world in a long time being stuck in the 1940's.
But that wasn't what surprised him, it was a bit too...techy.
'This is 2012 right?!' Alfie asked himself.
Up on the air above the normal buildings were flying...things every few blocks from each other.
On the sidewalks were displays that had not only ads but news on it, which also had transportation schedules.
And on every street there was a metal steel pillar as tall as 6 ft. and about 19-20 inches wide.
The phones in the citizens hands are much more advanced than mere Iphones or any next gen androids.
He saw a few cars unfamiliar to him, yet he had the desire to want one, these cars had their own designs and had something almost everyone would look for, it has taste.
These were just a few Alfie saw before a few black cars came his way.
Alfie then lowered himself a little bit before his body blasted it's way to an open area and ran a few long meters before turning into an alley.
Minutes passed as Alfie made turns here and there, he looked up thinking that with these droids in the air it would be easy to track him so Alfie made his way towards one place where it's hidden from man, technology, and supernaturals.
Alfie made a stop as he felt something wrong...he was being watched, and closely at that.
He looked around finding nothing, he then used his enhanced senses before jerking his head up.
*WHOOSH*
*BOOM*
But just as he looked up, a shadow blurred falling onto a car a few meters away from Alfie and broke most of it.
Glass broke spreading on the ground, the sound of metal crying from being bent and knocked.
Alfie looked up on top of the car and his eyes widened from a few mixed emotions.
"What the fuck…"
'Batman…'
