......and a murder

Steve's view
I ducked down and bent protectively over Peggy Cater, who was standing next to me as thousands of shards of glass flew through the area. Howard Stark was crouched on the floor next to me, holding his hands protectively over his head. Suddenly a shot rang out and then another. I watched in horror as the doctor collapsed beside me, two bullets in his chest. I rushed to him, but it was too late to save him.
"Stop........him!" the man forced out, then his gaze went blank.
Tears welled up in my eyes. Although I had not known the man long, he had changed my life. I flinched as more shots rang out. I barely saw the man responsible for the explosion storm up the stairs, holding his arm. But more importantly, he was holding the last vial of serum. I jumped up and followed him, running after Peggy Cater, who had long since taken over the pursuit of the perpetrator. I ran through the corridor, trying not to look at the bodies the perpetrator had left behind, and rushed out into the street. There I saw Peggy Cater shooting at a yellow car that was speeding towards her at incredible speed. I didn't think twice, ran towards her and pushed her out of the way. We both fell to the ground with her landing on top of me and the car sped past.
"What the hell I almost had him!" the agent exclaimed angrily.
"Sorry!" I shouted and started to run after the car. I was fast, superhumanly fast, I could run faster than the cars were going. I ran and caught up more and more, shortly I jumped on the roof of a car and jumped from one to the next until I was on the yellow car and clung there. The driver went even faster, but I clung on with all my new-found strength and didn't let him shake me off. Not even when he started shooting at me through the roof of the car. Suddenly the yellow car collided with another and started to roll over. I was able to roll on the ground without any problem, but I didn't have time to rejoice because now the killer started shooting at me. I took the car doors that had fallen off and held them in front of me like a shield. When he saw that he couldn't shake me off, he ran towards a crowd of people and grabbed a child.
I was frozen for a moment. He was not allowed to kill this child. I crept after the two, still hearing the desperate cries of the mother behind me. I turned a corner and immediately threw up my hands, for the killer had his gun pressed against the child's temple. "Don't please!" I tried to placate him.
Apparently he couldn't bring himself to kill a child, because he threw the boy into the dock. Which was only indirectly deadly. I ran to the dock and was about to jump in but the boy's voice rang out, "Don't worry, I can swim. Get him!"
Relieved, I ran after the man who was just getting into a submarine and submerging himself in victory. Without much thought, I plunged headlong into the water. With just a few swims, I arrived at the submarine and smashed the window. I pulled the man to the surface with me and carried him in a high arc back onto the docks. I climbed in after him and kicked him in the face when he tried to attack me with a knife.
The serum flew out of his hand and broke. I grabbed the man by the collar "Who the hell are you?"
"The first of many. Cut off one head and two grow back." He bit something in his mouth and foamed at the mouth "Hail Hydra." were his last words, then he fell dead on the floor. Stunned, I let the man fall to the ground. He had taken his own life rather than be captured.

After they had probably drawn a litre of blood from me, I joined Cornel Phillips who was arguing with the senator. "Then explain to me how a German spy could get into my secret facility in your car!" he just shouted at him.
"Stark, what have you got there?" Cornel pointed to the Nazi submarine that had been fished out of the harbour.

Mr. Stark had stuck his head into the engine block of the vehicle and now pulled it out again "I am, without exaggeration, the best engineer in all of America, but I have no idea how this machine is constructed or how it works. This technology is decades ahead of anything we know."
"Then who is in control of this technology?"
"Hydra Senator. I just got off the phone with the President, the SSR has a new mission to take out Hydra and its leader Johan Schmidt." the Cornel looked at Peggy Cater and Mr. Stark "Pack your bags we are leaving for England today!"
My heart leapt. England, Bucky was there I had to go. "Sir, if you're hunting Schmidt, I want to go too."
The Cornel eyed me disdainfully, "No Rogers, you're an experiment. I wanted an army of your kind and all I got was you. You are not enough. You are going to a laboratory where we will try to reproduce the serum."
His tone was so sharp that I didn't dare contradict. I just stood there disappointed, not noticing the senator move to stand beside me.
"With all due respect to the Cornel, you don't belong in a lab Rogers. You are a symbol that gives people hope. Are you ready to fight on the most important front of the war?"
Without thinking what he really meant by that I agreed enthusiastically.
The Senator held out his hand to me "Congratulations you have just been promoted."

Time jump one week later
If I had guessed what the senator meant, I would never have agreed. But now I couldn't go back, I stood backstage nervously tugging at my costume. My new body was still unfamiliar, it had happened quite often that I had simply run up to doors because I had forgotten that I was now a lot taller. Next to me stood the manager of the Properganda show, going through the notes one last time.
"I'm not sure I can do this." I muttered more to myself.
"You are making an important contribution, because of you people will buy bonds, because of you we are winning the war." the man said.
I took a deep breath, put on my helmet and stepped onto the stage.

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