C57 Captain America (2)

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As Tom continued to sort through Erskine's memories, he had to play a game of staying in front of him whilst not getting in anyone's way. Everyone was moving around the room checking machines and making sure that everything was working perfectly. One small mistake could ruin everything and cost Steve his life. When everything was ready, Steve climbed onto the pod at the center of the room.

"Comfortable?" Erskine asks as he straps Steve onto the pod.

"It's a little big. You save me any of that schnapps from yesterday?" Starve replies as he lay in the pod that looks three times too big for him.

"Sorry, not as much as I should have. Next time. Mr. Stark, how are your levels?" He apologizes and turns to Howard Stark.

When Tom heard Erskine call for Stark, he wanted to get a look at the father of Tony Stark. Tom owned a good portion of his company, so maybe he should introduce himself sooner or later. Though Howard would be Tom's next victim. He needs to know how the Vita-Rays work so he doesn't end up like the Red Skull.

-Observation Room-

In the observation room away from all of the delicate machinery, stood a bunch of officials that were there to oversee the experiment. The most notable of these people are Col. Chester Phillips, who is the officer in command of Project Rebirth. Senator Brandt, who is the one that would use Captain America to raise funds for the war instead of allowing him to fight in it. Peggy Carter, who is the one that rescued Erskine from the Red Skull in Germany.

These are the biggest names in the Strategic Scientific Reserve or SSR for short. Besides Erskine and Stark, who are the brains of the operation.

Then there was the hidden Hydra agent, Fred Clemson also known as Heinz Kruger. He is Hydras top assassin and is only here for two things. Killing Erskine and stealing any extra super-soldier serum laying around.

Everyone in the room goes around greeting one another with handshakes. A few of the men were ogling Peggy, but only one look from her and they thought twice and turned away.

"Jesus, somebody get that kid a sandwich." Senator Brandt says as he sees Steve climb into the pod.

"Levels at 100%" Stark yells and everyone gets ready for the big moment.

"Good." Erskine says as he turns on a microphone. "Do you hear me? is this thing on?" He says to the officials in the observation room. "Ladies and gentlemen, today we take not another step towards annihilation, but the first step on the path to peace. We begin with a series of micro-injections into the subject's major muscle groups. The serum infusion will cause immediate cellular change. And then to stimulate growth, the subject will be saturated with Vita-Rays."

He says as he pulls a switch and three vials of blue serum inject straight into Steve. The pod closes, encapsulating Steve completely, and stands straight up.

"Steven, can you hear me?" Erskine knocks on the metal capsule.

"It's probably too late to go to the bathroom, right?" Steve's muffled voice was heard and is completely ignored by Erskine.

"Stark, we will proceed." He says and moves away to a safe distance.

At this point, Tom had already stolen all of the information he needed from Erskine's mind. He didn't need to actually take anything from the man's mind. Just browsing the information was enough for him to remember it. Right now all of the information looks like gibberish, so Tom will have to start studying muggle science in order to understand any of it.

Tom could move onto Stark, but it's not like he's going to die anytime soon. There's still some time before the winter soldier comes to do his dirty work. Seeing that Tom didn't need anything else, he found a good place to stand and watched the show.

On Erskine's command, Stark started ramping up the Vita-Rays. With every turn of the wheel, he would call out the percentage of Vita-Rays in the pod.

"10%... 30%... 60%" Stark says as a blinding light shines from the window of the pod.

"AAAARRRGGGHHH!" Steve screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Shut it down!" Peggy was the first to call for the experiment to stop.

Erskine panicked and calls for Stark to shut down the reactor. As Stark is about to shut it all down, Steve yells from the pod.

"Don't! I can do this!"

Listening to what Steve said, Howard starts ramping the Vita-Rays all the way up to 100%. Not a single scream came from the chamber as the light from the window fills the room. After about thirty seconds at 100%, all the machinery started going haywire and short-circuited. Sparks flew off of every machine in the room as they all shut down.

The light in the pod dies down and Erskine rushes to open it up. As the pod opens, everyone is met with the beefcake that is Captain America. On this day, America's *ss was born.

While everyone was celebrating, Tom decided to leave. He didn't want to interrupt and change anything. As much as he found Erskine's death sad, the man had to die. Who knows what would happen if more people with the powers of Captain America came into this world. It's best to let him die and move on.

When Tom left the building, he moved into a side alley and called for his trusty head elf.

"Mimsy!" Tom called.

"Yes, sir?" She appeared and answered his call.

"Have an elf watching over what happens with Steve next. Make sure they don't get in the way though. If for some reason Erskine survives, notify me immediately. Also, a man is about to steal a blue vial from in there. He should be thwarted and the vial he steals destroyed. Make sure it's destroyed for me, alright?" Tom orders and Mimsy nods her head before popping away.

Tom then opens a portal to his hotel room and drops onto his bed. He was about to go into his mind when suddenly he here's someone crunching on potato chips.

"I was very surprised to see you in that Antique shop, Tom." The Ancient One in all of her baldness says as she munches on her potato chips.

"Hehe, teacher... What are you doing here?" Tom asks nervously.

"Oh, nothing. Just came to see the creation of one of earths future hero's. What I didn't think I would find, is my student skulking around in the shadows." She says with a disapproving look.

"I did not skulk, thank you. Also, you were there as well." He says pointing a finger at his teacher.

"Yes, but I wasn't using the mind arts on a poor destined to die scientist, and you were definitely skulking."