"I don't have the whole story. He does, but going near him is dangerous.
They'll be keeping an eye on him."
His eyes returned to the picture. "He's Captain America. Before the serum
that made him look like..." He waved a hand towards the flier. "Like that.
But he wasn't the first one to receive the serum. Before it was ready, a
Nazi scientist called Johann Schmidt insisted on taking it. He became..." A
frown flitted over his features at the echo of a memory. "Disfigured. He
was the man who founded Hydra. Arnim Zola worked for him."
And he needed another moment to wrestle his anger under control. The waiter
took a look at him, then decided he'd come back for their order later.
"I was in the Army. The regiment I was in was captured, most of it, by
Hydra. Zola... experimented on me. So when this happened," he pointed out
the page in the file listing his fall from the train, "I didn't die. I
was... It hurt much. I lost an arm." This part was from memory,
rather than pieced together later. After DC.
"I was made more durable. Stronger. Faster. Like Captain America, sort of."
Only not exactly. "I was made their weapon. Suspended animation between
missions. No failures."
no subject
He shook his head quickly.
"I don't have the whole story. He does, but going near him is dangerous. They'll be keeping an eye on him."
His eyes returned to the picture. "He's Captain America. Before the serum that made him look like..." He waved a hand towards the flier. "Like that. But he wasn't the first one to receive the serum. Before it was ready, a Nazi scientist called Johann Schmidt insisted on taking it. He became..." A frown flitted over his features at the echo of a memory. "Disfigured. He was the man who founded Hydra. Arnim Zola worked for him."
And he needed another moment to wrestle his anger under control. The waiter took a look at him, then decided he'd come back for their order later.
"I was in the Army. The regiment I was in was captured, most of it, by Hydra. Zola... experimented on me. So when this happened," he pointed out the page in the file listing his fall from the train, "I didn't die. I was... It hurt much. I lost an arm." This part was from memory, rather than pieced together later. After DC.
"I was made more durable. Stronger. Faster. Like Captain America, sort of." Only not exactly. "I was made their weapon. Suspended animation between missions. No failures."