Wakanda (January 2018)

[Hollywood Heidi]

Wakanda


A small nation in North East Africa. For centuries they have remained in isolation and are now considered the most technologically advanced nation on Earth. Birnin Zana is the capital and largest city.

[Hollywood Heidi]

The muffled sound of a ringtone from an old phone starts up in the common area of the guest quarters within the palace.

It rings once, twice, a third time, a fourth time...

[The Jester Of Tortuga]

Scott sat in the guest quarters looking at a well worn photo of Cassie, the common area he was in was spacious and clean much like every other room he had seen in Wakanda. Scott let out a sly sigh the distance and constant back and forth he had been doing were much harder on him then he could have imagined but at least he did get to see Cassie every now and then. Scott was drawn out of his reverie upon hearing the muffled sounds of a phone ringing. Shooting up right Scott scanned the room with his eyes trying to see where the sound was coming from, it wasn't until the second ring that he realized listening would serve him better. On the third ring he rushed towards the general direction of the phone moving everything and anything he could finding the old style phone in the back of a draw a cord going in keeping it charged. Scott picked up the phone seeing that the caller ID read Tony,

"Ah guys I think Iron Man is calling..." Scott looked around to see if anyone else had magically entered the room which they hadn't.

The phone rang again as Scott hit accept with a grimace lifting the phone to his ear.

"Westword Sperm Bank, you jack it, we'll back it, you beat it, we'll treat it, you squeeze it, we'll freeze it!"

[Hollywood Heidi]

(via phone)


The line is quiet for a few seconds. "Scott?!" came Hope's incredulous tone.

[The Jester Of Tortuga]

"Scott?!"

That wasn't Tony. Sure Scot and Tany hadn't had the most interactions with each other but there was a time when he was all over the news, even in Prison you knew who exactly Iron Man was. No this voice was much more pleasant... much more scary, less blow hard, much more attractive. He had a weird burgundy man fly through him, shrunk down into an entirely different realm, grew really large without having any orange slices on hand in the off chance he didn't tear himself apart and yet none of that scared him like a Hope scorned.

"Oh... my... Tony what an effeminate voice you have..."

[Hollywood Heidi]

(via phone)

"And you sound exactly like this guy I once knew who took off with my tech." Her tone was calm and dry, though a twinge of disappointment and hurt might have been picked up on if someone was taking the care to listen close enough.

Like the flip of a switch, her tone turned serious with a take-charge attitude. "Look, now's not the time for quippy banter. We have a serious, fate-of-the-world problem on our hands." "Tony's in government custody along with Thor and a few others. They're going to try to convince them of the oncoming threat but we all know how reasoning with the government can go. Time is not on our side. I need you to tell Steve Rogers that we need him and his team back at the Avengers Facility. Everyone he can get to help."  There was a short pause to stress the importance of her next words. "As fast as possible but discreetly. We can't afford anyone else getting taken into custody. If Steve has any questions, tell him to call this phone."

And just as succinctly, the call ended.

[wesleybucks]

Steve finished the punching bag with one final strike, tearing it from it's metal chains and watching it collapse to the ground. He had lost count of the number of these he had wrecked. The cost of being a super soldier. Steve picked up a small towel and wiped his brow. As he strode over to the corner of the room and bent down to pick up another bag, the door was thrown open.

"CAPTAIN AMERICA!"

Steve jumped up to see Scott sprinting across the room with his fist clenched tight and held out before him.

"YOUR PHONE...YOU WERE BEING PHONING...I MEAN HOPE...HOPE PHONING."

Scott almost ran slap bang into Steve who had to hold up his hands to stop him. Steve could now see his phone was trapped in Scott's sweaty grip.

"Scott, use your words. Who phoned? What were you hoping for?"

"NO! Hope is a person. She was phoning you."

"Ok ok. Take a breath and tell me what happened."

Scott inhaled deeply as he handed Steve the phone.

"The phone rang and I didn't want to pick it up but nobody was there and I knew that you'd want to know who called so I picked it up and I thought it was Ironman to I pretended to be the sperm bank but it turned out it wasn't Tony Stark but instead was Hope who sounded kinda pissed to be honest so when I asked what was going on she said it was a whole fate-of-the-world type thing where Tony, Thor and who knows who else have been locked up and she said she needed Steve Rogers to get yourself over to the Avengers facility with everyone you thought could help to rescue Tony and the others from the government."

Scott's face was bright red when he finished and finally took another breath. Fortunately, Steve had heard what he needed. Tony, Thor and others had been captured. This meant this wasn't the Sokovia Accords. This was something else. Fury had known something like this was happening. This was why he'd sent Steve, Scott, Nat and Sam to the Treehouse to find the locator that could track the Raft prison. Steve had been waiting for the call to action, itching to get back into the fray. That was his problem. He was a soldier forever fighting for peace that depended on war to truly feel alive.

"Scott, alert the team. We need to get back to the Avengers facility as soon as possible. Tell Nat we'll need all the Treehouse equipment."

"Copy that Captain America."

Scott sprinted out the room again. Despite everything, Steve couldn't help but have a moment of a brief smile at Scott. Thankfully Sam had recovered from the events of the Treehouse and would be fine to fly. Steve flipped open the phone and pressed on one of the few numbers he had saved in it. After a moment of ringing, the phone was answered.

"It's Steve. We've got the call...yes she was called Hope. We're getting ready to head to upstate New York...yes we have the locator...understood, we'll meet you there."

***Captain America, Black Widow, Ant-Man and Falcon prepare to travel to the Avengers Facility***