The next day, all newspapers were covered with the headline of a 'major terrorist attack on new york'. FBI clarified that they went after a rogue terror group whose main purpose was an attack on US soil on Christmas and New Year festivities. The explosions and gunfire exchange was a result of that.
-----Phil POV-----
I had watched the whole operation yesterday from the Factory. After I stole the serum, Steve managed to bring Bucky back to the lake. Both were sent directly to the medical room and both will need half-day to recover properly. Howard and his wife Maria were safe. The one thing that managed to get my attention was the flying car. Jesus, if your car can fly, why the hell are you still driving with wheels?
All in all, we finished our mission perfectly without losing a single person and killing Zola was like getting a pre-Christmas gift.
Getting the serum felt unreal. I was happy, too happy and my brain was in hyperdrive. Laughed like a fool even when muscles were hurting all over my body. I slept too late after a hot bath and a few drinks and now it's almost noon when I woke up.
"Good morning Martha", Phil started talking to Martha just as she wished him.
"Master, you have 12 unanswered calls from Hank Pym and few messages. His most recent one, 'We need to talk. I will come with my daughter today to check your base," Martha just brought him down to earth with this message.
'Yes, Hank must be getting impatient and knowing about Zola and Winter Soldier, he must come and check all information himself' thought Phil rubbing his head. He had forgotten about Hank. He had promised Hank clear information and designs to build a stable and safe Quantum Tunnel. Now, it seems before going to the base he must finish some reports on that otherwise an angry ant-man is the worst enemy.
"We need to sort our priorities now. Let's put some things into proper priority order and assign it to respective people. Please record -
1) Martha coding upgrade and server upgrade - Task for Phil
2) Winter Soldier Siberia base attack - Task for shadow knights operation by Commander and Winter soldier
3) Hacking into databases of all government intelligence agencies - Task for Martha
4) Monitoring that invisible aircraft we found at Long Island - Task for Martha
5) Finding relevant experts for various daily base operations - Task for Martha, Meredith and Linda
6) Experiment on super serum and its applications - Task for Phil
7) Detailed analysis of information taken from Zola and Howard -Task for Phil and Hank
Phil started giving instructions to Martha while he started brushing his teeth and then went for the shower. He was also trying to remember all the details of the Quantum tunnel from MCU.
After getting dressed, he drove his car and went straight to Burger King. He had eaten nothing since last night and he was craving some food now. Well, burgers are a top priority. While eating his breakfast he kept thinking about future events. He is basically interfering with MCU now and also possibly destroying the only advantage he had. Now, stories will change and Tony might never be Iron Man.
"huh," after a lot of sighing and thinking about future events Phil took out his tablet and started compiling things in a folder and named it 'Gift for Hank'. He remembers a lot of details on this one topic as this was basically the main time-travel idea in Avengers Endgame and he like every other nerd out there had done a ton of research. After getting as many as details he could remember and sketching the whole layout of the tunnel machine, he ordered Martha to look for various components and fill other details.
He has to pick Hank up from there and bring him back to the factory. There are gigabytes of information, taken from Zola and stored in the offline server. Someone who knows his way around computers and Hydra and Shield operations needs to personally check it. The office can wait.
Phil had already given clear instructions to Martha to not touch any information they got from Zola. He needs to separate the servers then unlock all data, folder by folder, manually. He wants to make sure that there is zero chance of Zola infecting Martha anyway. That guy was a parasitic bastard who kept Hydra alive inside SHIELD for decades while keeping himself alive inside machines. He can't underestimate such an opponent.
------Alkali Lake Complex-----
Hope came early today. After yesterday mission, the whole team came late and then went into bunkers. Hardly anyone had any time to celebrate or even regroup. She needed to talk to Bucky and find as much as she can about HYDRA.
Hope had a long talk with her father yesterday and he himself was shocked by revelations about winter soldier. When he was part of SHIELD, they had information about a soviet assassin who was known as Winter Soldier. He was never caught or even photographed. He came like a ghost, reaping lives and then disappearing. Her father was going to visit the base soon and meet with Phil as part of their deal. She wants to know whatever these two men were hiding from her.
"Martha how are Bucky and Steve," asked Hope after she entered the operations room.
"They are in medical room M-3. Both are recovering at a very fast rate possibility due to their enhanced physique. ," replied Martha.
"Good. Let them rest for now. Now tell me how come you attacked camp Lehigh and what is this whole Zola thing? Was this part of the mission because I never received any information before?" enquired Hope.
"Oh, master and I found the location of this doctor Zola. He was a very nasty guy. I remember after I was born, he somehow found me and tried to rewrite my programming module. I was very afraid and shut off all my online servers. Afterwards, I was very very careful with this guy and we finally found his server farm yesterday! Then I ordered falcon bombers to destroy him completely. Now I am the world's first and only AI and digital crime-fighting system," replied Martha in a very cheerful tone. Even Hope can tell that Martha was too happy today after destroying Zola.
"Okay, so do we have any information about HYDRA now? Where are the bases or the names of operatives in the US?" asked Hope.
"We have a lot of data but the master said he will personally go through the information. He ordered me not to unpackage any of that stuff," answered Martha.
"Okay, when is Phil coming here?", asked Hope again. She was just feeling too fidgety today.
"Well, he is on his way Ms. Hope but your father Mr. Hank Pym is at the pickup location. Should I dispatch personnel to receive him?", asked Martha and that made Hope feel like when she was in school and her father came to meet her teacher. Clearly, she was grown up now but it is just that feeling. She was also happy after all, her father is visiting the base for the first time and she is the operations head here.
"Well, send a pickup team from him and also notify captain and bucky that they will have their first visitors today soon," told Hope to Martha and started making some minor adjustments to her office before her father can come.
Hank Pym will come to meet Winter Soldier now. Very soon HYDRA will face attacks on all levels in the US.
The future chapters will be more clash of SHIELD or Shadow Knights with HYDRA and then HYDRA retaliation.
Do give me 5 ratings if you like the story so far. Also, do leave suggestions on how the next 20 years should be played out. I don't want too much of a time jump. There is a lot of stuff that happened from 1990 to 2010.