CH 4 Did it have to be Jersey?
A few weeks past Overall the team seemed to be getting along fairly well.
As the group got settled in everyone had a desired room when staying on the base, a few of the side issues were taken care of or being monitored. Galahad Had opted not to join up with the team, having looked around and thinking her place was not with the group. William tried to argue the utility of her armor but in the end she disagreed so he accepted her refusal and arranged for her transport back.
Bloodrager attempted a few more unsupervised cooking experiments and after a smoke alarm incident resulting in having to replace a few cabinets, the dining table and the Oven in the kitchen he was informed that he was not to cook alone and to always have someone help him. He also kept looking in various Decorative boxes throughout the base claiming one could hold treasure.
As for the others Williams revealed his past to the team and how he came to be with SHIELD.
William was Captain America for a short time after the Original Cap had disappeared in 1945 during the closing days of World War II, Captain America and Bucky try to stop the villainous Baron Zemo from destroying an experimental drone plane. Zemo launches the plane with an armed explosive on it with Rogers and Barnes in hot pursuit. The pair reaches the plane just before takeoff. When Bucky tries to defuse the bomb, it explodes in mid-air. Rogers is hurled into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. Both are presumed dead.
As Captain America William fought to prevent the Red Skull’s attempt to steal the atomic bomb, encountering a young Spy named Nick Fury during this mission. in 1946 During a battle Naslund was left for dead when he his legs and chest were crushed by a robot created by the Red Skull. Williams lacking experience in combat turned to warn Nick Fury of the robot’s and Red Skulls attempt to kidnap or kill then-Congressional candidate John F. Kennedy in Boston. As he turned back the Robot gained the upper hand,
Nick Fury with the help of a mysterious magic wielding woman named Modred the Mystic defeated Red Skull and attempted to save Naslund by putting him in a stasis field of sort and hiding him away into a secret location to avoid the Truth that Captain America would be dead for a 2nd time.
Naslund remained in a coma while his body was healing. Not clear of the end result Nick and Modred the Mystic were the only ones that new of Naslund secret and secret location.
Nick Fury was later killed when the Red Skull had found out about Naslund. Since Nick was a spy this was never made public. Many years had passed and finally Modred the Mystic with the help of The Patriot and a young S.H.I.E.L.D team came back to find Naslund who had remained hidden and remove him from the stasis field so he could return to his life. The stasis field seemed to have been successful to restore Naslund back to normal and he was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D not long after.
Spiderman had put up another few videos, Having stopped the Dragon Street Gang from terrorizing China town. His approval for that intervention had gotten him a lot of respect in Chinatown. Even the Daily Bugle was starting to change its tune on Spiderman.
William With the help of Jocasta, Darkstar and Spiderman had set up the new members up in training as much as they could, in both ranged and practicing hand to hand combat and controlling of abilities. It was going ok for the combat as for the powers that was taking much longer. A few Dummies and some equipment needed replacing a few times.
William’s had established a communication with the Avengers specifically Tony Stark and Steve Rodgers, But he had not had a chance to meet them in person as of yet. Tony offered some simple upgrades for Jocasta in memory capacity and processing speed along with a special Medic package. He’d also gotten a few files a few supers that were rumored to be more active, Tony offered them to Task Force as it seemed they had a mission in Sokovia.
As for trying to reach Dr. Strange, William was informed that he was still unavailable. But they were able to get a little information from Wong about the Eternals. Wong Explained that according to the writings the Celestials visited Earth five million years ago and performed genetic experiments on early proto-humanity, they created two divergent races: the long-lived Eternals, and the genetically unstable and monstrously grotesque Deviants. These experiments also led to the capacity for super-powered mutations in humans. Rumor is that they also performed this experiment on other planets.
There is said to be a portal to Olympus located somewhere on Mount Olympus, but it has been sealed for some time now and undetectable, This didn’t really help anyone understand anymore then that about why CK was here or what the purpose of CK really was. It looked like CK may have been a forgotten project or something obsolete that the Eternals opted to just leave behind.
Jocasta was also able to dig up some information on Charles Strauss, There was a death Certificate that was issued last year. Dr Strauss had died in jail. Jocasta was able to determine the document was a forgery and that Strauss was alive, and was broken out of jail by the Maggia remain in the shadows to continue his Sovereign Six experiments.
Taskmistress had been a specialist in Spy and weapons so she trained a lot less than the others. Instead her role had been switched up a little for 2 reasons, the first was since she had developed a great rapport with Bloodrager she was now to help Doc and Jocasta in getting to understand Bloodrager a little more in his mannerism and his view on things. A lot of it could be broken down to a big game of D&D with some extra complexities.
The 2nd was she was sent to investigate a lead on the Maggia William opted to test the team with a simple mission, Having Spiderman and Darkstar off in the distance so that if there was trouble they could intervene,
Taskmistress, Aurora along with Darwin undercover and as a rat hiding in the purse. There was a casino in New Jersey that had some very heavy security. Rumor was there were other supers there but no one knew who they were, The Shamrock casino was extremely busy, there were a lot of machines and gambling tables, The place smelled of alcohol and smokes, as the trio walked around the various tables Darwin had picked up a scent of Chloroform and Formaldehyde an odd combination in a casino. Upon looking around you spotted a large man with a very flat head and dressed in an old style pin stripped suit sitting on a chair by a door he had a cigar in his mouth and was muttering something, on either side of him were 2 other men in more recent looking suits.
The door they were standing next to opened only slightly and Darwin was able to determine the smell was definitely coming from there, A basement laboratory was discover. Aurora gave a quick once over the lab using her speed and confirmed the similar set up and seemingly some recent experiments that may have been successful, In one of the corners of the room there was a large metallic suit of sorts. The mission had almost been botched as memories came flooding back to Aurora and she came close to freaking out, But she had managed to get back to the table and take a few deep breaths. There were only a few people in the lab at the time. Unfortunately there was no time to investigate further trouble started in the casino a couple of Asian men came in and were about to start some trouble, As the commotion was getting louder and the Asian men drew guns the pin stripped man with the flat head charged at them slamming into them head first and sending them flying through the double glass doors and onto the street. The Flat head man turned to everyone in the casino.
Thanks to these trouble makers, We’re closing up! Everyone out! NOW He growled as he walked toward the back pulling out a Tommy gun to let the people know he wasn’t kidding. The crowd headed for the exits in a slight panic and the doors closed behind them.
William pulled out the team for now. This seemed like the most viable lead and they could pursue it soon enough,
While information was being gathered, The team had gone out and were successful on a few small missions from local minor threat supers that were stopped from causing too much damage. One of them had called himself Paste Pot Pete who had some sort of Sticky paste gun that attempted to make a name for himself he had teamed up with some weird Aussie guy who called himself The Kangaroo a super who had some augmented strength in his legs but had not been much of a threat when the team appeared.
Another Appeared to plan a robbery of a few banks He called himself Big Wheel, he had constructed a large metal single-wheeled vehicle that can climb up buildings, equipping it with guns and waldo-arms he had rammed a few banks and used the arms to break open the vaults to take the money. He didn't get very far...The news had mentioned Task Force a couple times and how a couple of them had stopped some minor gang trouble and local thugs. But no one knew where they came from.
Today was a very warm an sunny day and had started off like most of the others in the past week. Just more training and team building activities....