The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Community - The Birth and Death of a Legend

From: cap_a Date: May 20th, 2009 05:06 am (UTC) December, 1940 (Link)

Steve Rogers has undergone a number of tests. He’s had intense training. He’s taken a number of unusual vitamins. He’s not sure what all this is about. But it’s for the good of the country. He’ll do what needs to be done. They say they’ll somehow make him into the ultimate soldier. But he has no idea how.

At last, the day comes for Operation: Rebirth to reach its climax. Rogers is brought into the lab. Nearby, several men from the government watch behind a window.

Professor Erskine, the man in the lab coat beside the General back when Steve tried to enlist, is waiting. He straps Steve to a table and stabs a needle into his arm, then lowers a projector of some sort over Steve’s body.

The young man feels a terrible sensation tearing through his body. He feels as if every muscle in his body is on fire, but he doesn’t let out any sort of cry. The feeling passes quickly, to replaced by a stretching sensation.

Steve blinks, barely noticing the gasps of the government men.

Until one of those men pulls a gun and shoots. Erskine collapses to the ground, even as the gunman shouts about serving the Reich. Steve moves automatically, without even thinking. Tearing the restraints away from the table, he leaps for the window, pulling the gunman away from one of the hostages he has already taken. He throws the man further into the lab… and the man flies through the air as though he weighed as much as a potato. He slams into the machine that had just been projecting rays onto Steve’s body, sending electricity arcing out of it. As the gunman, stunned, attempts to get to his feet, he pulls on a stray cable from the machine to steady himself. There’s a burst of electricity, and the smell of ozone.

The gunman doesn’t get up again.

By the time Steve makes it to the professor, the other doctors leaning over him have declared him dead. Lieutenant Glass moves to Steve to try to guide him out of the way, to let others handle the scene.

And that’s when Steve looks up at a mirror… and freezes.

He stares for a long moment at the stranger staring back at him.

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