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Captain-America.US
What If Captain
America woke up in 2099?
by "Cap Writer" a Captain America Fan
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Cap is transported by a sleek, space-age fighter jet to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Sky Destroyer. He is greeted by an older, bald African American man with a pepper-gray goatee. “Remember me?,” the man asks. Cap can hardly believe his eyes, for it is Nick Fury that has greeted him. Fury reminds Cap that he is constantly cheating father time with aid of the infinity serum. Cap is stunned and in a state of disbelief after absorbing whopper after whopper of his new reality. Fury and Cap review the state of affairs in the world for a few hours and Fury tells him that he will have a private residence at a high-tech facility on the New York Harbor known as the Triskellion.
The Sky Destroyer takes Cap to his new home and Fury leaves Cap in the hands of Agent Valentine, a tall, foxy red-headed woman who takes over Cap’s assimilation, training and intelligence briefings. Fury instructs Valentine to bring Cap back after a few crash course weeks of S.H.I.E.L.D. orientation. Valentine tells Cap that world is publicly at peace, but that a horrible threat exists in every corner of the Earth. Cap asks to know what that threat is, but he is not cleared for such intelligence until Fury grants the clearance. After three weeks of learning the ways of the modern world and modern military, Cap and Valentine rendezvous with Fury at a secret underground facility known as Groom Lake, Nevada.
It is at the underground facility that Fury and Valentine pull up the curtain on the latest threat to all human-kind: naked, gray-skinned aliens with big black eyes and long, spindly arms.
III. The Gray Agenda
Cap stares in disbelief at dozens of the short Extraterrestrial Biological Beings (EBEs) held upright and captive in giant glass tubes, connected by cables in some form of liquid. They tell Cap this race of EBEs is conspiring to take over the earth through an aggressive hybrid reproductive campaign where they abduct humans and experiment with their genitals and organs. The particular batch of EBEs that Cap stares at is kept subdued and heavily sedated for study and analysis.
Cap admits he always thought the stories of abductions were bogus. Valentine and Fury reveal that there was actually communication and relations with the EBEs throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, but that things have recently become hostile due to the uncovering of what the United Nations calls “The Gray Agenda.” Cap mutters about how much easier it seemed to deal with fighting other people; he asks if the EBEs have a military or weapons. Valentine tells him the EBEs haven’t had to use anything because of their superior technology and alien intelligence.
Fury asks Cap if he’s up for the fight of his life. Cap agrees to help and jokes that his calendar is pretty open these days. Over the next several weeks, Cap and Valentine study all that is known about the EBEs through top-secret Groom Lake documents and by observing psycho-therapy sessions of abductees. Meanwhile, Fury formulates a reconnaissance plan for Cap within the large framework of the coordinated United Nations plan to stop The Gray Agenda.
Cap and Valentine take a return trip to the Triskellion, all the while developing an unspoken romance that brews beneath the surface of intense eye-contact and hidden desires – desires forbidden by the S.H.I.E.L.D. code of conduct.
Fury asks Cap if he would be willing to co-lead a strike team of elite S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to a known abduction point in the ruins of an ancient Indian civilization in Mexico. Cap assumes it is Valentine that would co-lead the team, but Fury informs him that for publicity purposes, it will be a native Canadian Agent names James Howlett.
Cap asks about the need for a native Canadian if the U.S. has merged; he also asks about the need for publicity for an American war hero who has no identity. Fury explains that that part of the merger deal allows for Canadians to have representation in as many joint efforts as possible to show that the “Canucks are bringing something to the table besides a tank and some good hockey.” In terms of publicity, Fury says that unlike the old days, no journalist will have the guts to go against a military that does what it needs to do to save the hides of everyone on Earth. Plus, Fury adds, this war will need a pretty face to rally around and make into a symbol. Cap asks why not Howlett, or Valentine, who is more attractive than anyone he’s ever known. Fury responds that Valentine isn’t leading and that he forgets how ugly Howlett is.
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