American comics: Starting as the Jinchūriki of the One-Tailed Beast

Chapter 143 I will not attack unless attacked (4000 words)

Upon hearing Roy's answer, Rogers realized that he had been thinking in a habitual way.

Roy's strength was several levels higher than his.

He needs to escape S.H.I.E.L.D. by jumping into the elevator.

Roy could completely destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. at any time.

Natasha turned to look at Roy and plugged the USB drive into the laptop in front of her.

As soon as the USB drive was opened, the tracking and location program inside immediately uploaded the location to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

Washington, D.C.

The office of the Security Council President on the top floor of the Tri-Wing Building.

The landline on the desk immediately rang.

Pierce, standing by the floor-to-ceiling window gazing in the direction of the White House, leisurely walked to his desk, picked up the landline receiver, and said, "What is it?"

"Sir, Nick Fury's USB drive has been opened. The location was the Avengers Building in New York."

Agent Sitwell replied immediately without any hesitation.

Avengers Tower?

Rogers has already gone to New York?

Pierce frowned slightly.

New York is not far from Washington, D.C., only about 300 kilometers away.

But now only half an hour has passed since Rogers escaped from S.H.I.E.L.D.

No sooner had Rogers escaped from S.H.I.E.L.D. than he used his authority as the head of the Security Council to issue an order to mobilize all resources to capture Rogers.

Logically speaking, Rogers should still be in Washington, D.C.

However, Nick Fury's USB drive was opened in New York, specifically inside the Avengers Tower.

Pierce quickly came up with a guess and said, "Notify the technical department. I need to know what calls Roy has received since last night."

"Also, I need to know the current locations of Stark, Romanoff, and Barton."

"Contact the New York branch and have them immediately send a special forces team to Avengers Tower to confirm whether Roy is also there."

"If he's there, don't get into a fight with him. Use Rogers' alleged involvement in the murder of Nick Fury as a pretext to ask him to help arrest Rogers."

"Finally, notify the hangar crew to be ready to launch the Sky Carrier at any time."

Agent Sitwell quickly replied, "Yes, sir!"

After hanging up the phone, Pierce sat down in the chair behind his desk, his brow furrowed and his mind racing.

After thinking for a moment, he got up, went to the coat rack, picked up the suit jacket hanging there, put it on, and left the office.

If possible, he would spare no effort to bring Roy into Hydra.

As long as Roy is willing to join Hydra, he wouldn't mind even if it meant giving up half of the Earth.

But he knew that no matter what conditions he offered, Roy would not join Hydra.

After Roy forced S.H.I.E.L.D. and the military to sign a "ceasefire agreement" and pay huge compensation, he had Hydra analysts conduct an extremely detailed psychological analysis of Roy.

The report shows that Roy acts on his own whims and is extremely averse to being controlled.

Furthermore, judging from his daily behavior, his moral standards are higher than those of many Americans.

Although he also killed people, and many people at that, he never killed innocent people indiscriminately.

I will not attack unless attacked!

If anyone sins against me, I will sin!

From a certain perspective, Roy's moral values ​​are simple and in line with universal values.

If there's anything bad about it, it's that in the eyes of any country's government and official institutions, it is a highly threatening and unstable factor that cannot be controlled or eliminated.

Although he wouldn't inexplicably use his power to commit evil deeds, as long as he's alive, he's a "time bomb" for the government and official institutions, someone who doesn't know when he might suddenly explode.

Avengers Building.

After fiddling with the laptop for a bit, Natasha said, "Nick Fury's suspicion about that ship is correct; someone is trying to hide something."

"This USB drive is protected by artificial intelligence; it keeps rewriting itself, thereby undoing the commands I entered."

"Can you rewrite it?" Rogers asked.

Natasha sighed and replied, "The person who developed this thing is only slightly smarter than me."

"I'll try running a tracking program that S.H.I.E.L.D. developed to track hostile malware."

Even if we can't read the contents of the USB drive, we can at least know where it came from.

Seeing Natasha frantically typing on the keyboard and inputting commands, Roy said, "If you can't handle it, let Jarvis do it."

Hearing his words, Natasha's face flashed with surprise. She turned to look at him and asked, "You can order Jarvis around?"

"Yes." Roy nodded.

"Jarvis is Stark's personal AI assistant, how could he give you the authority to command Jarvis?" Natasha continued to ask.

"You underestimate my relationship with him," Roy replied.

Ultimate control over Jarvis still rests solely with Tony.

But like Pepper, he can give Jarvis orders within his authority that do not contradict Tony's orders.

Natasha promptly ended the conversation.

Before long, the tracking program locked onto a location.

Rogers and Peggy both looked surprised when they saw the address displayed on the screen.

The address on the screen was none other than the military camp where Rogers trained when he joined the Strategic Scientific Corps.

"Do you know where this is?" Natasha asked, puzzled, seeing Rogers and Peggy's expressions.

"I understand." Rogers nodded.

As he answered Natasha, he unconsciously recalled the scenes from his training days and turned to look at Peggy.

Peggy didn't expect that the tracking program would eventually lock onto the Strategic Scientific Corps' old barracks.

But unlike Rogers, who was lost in thought, she didn't feel anything special.

Unlike Peggy in this universe, she never liked Rogers, so of course she didn't have any special feelings for him.

Roy retrieved the Cosmic Cube from the system space and opened a portal to the military camp.

After exiting the portal, the long-abandoned military camp came into view of Roy and his companions.

"The documents came from here," Natasha said, glancing around the military camp.

"Me too, this is my training camp," Rogers replied.

"Has it changed a lot?" Natasha asked.

"A little bit," Rogers said with a sigh.

He never imagined he would return here one day.

He never expected to return here with Peggy from a parallel universe.

"No signal, no thermal image, not even radio waves. The programmer must have used a proxy server to hide the real location," Natasha said slowly after taking out a device the size of a mobile phone to check.

Rogers glanced around, pointed to a building next to him, and said, "Military regulations stipulate that military supplies are prohibited from being stored within 500 yards of barracks. This building is in the wrong place."

Upon arriving at the heavy metal gate, Rogers suddenly realized that he had left the vibranium shield in Washington, D.C.

Normally, he certainly wouldn't forget the vibranium shield.

But after seeing Peggy at the hospital, his mind became a bit confused.

Although he didn't show it, he was far less calm than usual.

"I hid the shield in the hospital parking lot. Can you open a portal so I can go back and get it?" Rogers turned to look at Roy.

"Okay." Roy did not refuse and used the Tesseract to create a portal to the hospital parking lot.

Once the portal was formed, Rogers walked in without saying a word.

Just a dozen seconds later, he returned with the vibranium shield.

Just as he was about to use his vibranium shield to break the lock and open the metal door, Roy stopped him and gave Peggy a look.

Peggy immediately understood his meaning, raised her right hand, and threw a punch at the metal door from a distance.

As she threw a punch, the five rings on her right hand shone with a blue light and flew towards the metal gate like cannonballs.

boom!

A tremendous sound immediately reverberated throughout the entire military camp, and the sturdy metal gate collapsed in response!

this----

Upon seeing this, Rogers and Natasha showed a hint of surprise.

They knew that Peggy was brought back by Roy from a parallel universe, but they didn't expect that Peggy would have such an ability.

Although they didn't know what the ring on Peggy's hand was, they could tell one thing: it was definitely an extraordinary item.

After punching open the metal door, the ring flew back into Peggy's hand.

"What kind of weapon is this?" Natasha didn't waste any time thinking and quickly asked Peggy.

"Ten rings! A gift from Roy!" Peggy replied.

Rogers wanted to ask something, but in the end he didn't ask anything and went in first.

After entering through the collapsed metal door, Natasha immediately found the light switch.

As the lights came on, the entire hall came into view before them.

The hall is very large and contains dozens of desks.

However, what truly caught their attention was the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo on the lobby wall.

To be precise, it was the very first logo of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Seeing the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo on the wall, Natasha turned to Peggy and asked, "Is this where S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded?"

Peggy shook her head and replied, "When Roy and I left, S.H.I.E.L.D. hadn't been established yet."

Natasha didn't ask Peggy any more questions and walked toward the office at the back of the hall.

Compared to the lobby, the office space is much smaller.

There was no S.H.I.E.L.D. logo on the office walls, only three black and white photos.

From left to right: Colonel Philip, Howard, and Peggy!

After glancing at the photo, Rogers walked up to an empty bookshelf.

On the surface, this bookcase looks no different from the other bookcases around it.

But Rogers immediately sensed something was wrong.

Rogers glanced at the bookshelf in front of him, then grabbed it and pulled it aside.

The bookcase was pulled open, revealing the elevator hidden behind it.

"It's already a secret office, so why hide the elevator?"

Rogers spoke as he walked inside and came to the elevator.

There were no buttons next to the elevator doors, but a numeric keypad for entering passwords.

Natasha quickly stepped forward and pointed the specially made scanner, which resembled a mobile phone, at the keyboard.

In just a few seconds, the scanner analyzed the traces on the keys and deduced the password.

8539!

Upon entering the elevator, Roy and his three companions arrived at a machine room located some unknown depth underground.

After exiting the elevator, the lights in the server room automatically turned on.

Just as Roy remembered, the computer room was filled with a large number of antique computer devices.

"This can't be the data source; these are all decades old," Natasha said quickly, glancing around the server room.

As soon as she finished speaking, she noticed a USB flash drive port that looked out of place on the control panel in the middle of the computer room.

Without any hesitation, she took out the USB drive and plugged it in.

The next second, as if receiving a start signal, the equipment in the computer room started running one after another.

Peggy, Rogers, and Natasha looked around warily.

Unlike them, Roy waited calmly for Dr. Zola to appear.

In this universe, Dr. Zola not only survived until the end of the war, but was also recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a member of the agency.

Once the surrounding equipment started operating, a synthesized male voice sounded from the control panel, and a line of text appeared on the screen in the center.

"Start the system?"

Natasha went to the dusty keyboard, typed "YES", and pressed Enter.

After the text on the screen disappeared, Natasha turned to Rogers and said with a smile, "Shall we play a game? It's a line from a classic movie."

"I know, I've seen the movie," Rogers replied.

Natasha looked at Peggy, unwilling to give up, intending to ask Peggy if she had seen the movie.

Before she could speak, a blurry face appeared on the screen.

At the same time, the camera on the screen started to rotate, and a sound came from the speaker.

Roy was born in 1990.

"Steve Rogers was born in 1918."

Natasha Romanov was born in 1984.

"Peggy Carter, 1919—no, how come you're still so young? You're not Peggy Carter!"

Natasha frowned and quickly said, "This isn't a recording, is it? A recording couldn't possibly have guessed that Miss Carter would be here too, could it?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the electronically synthesized voice continued to come from the speaker.

"Of course I'm not recording this. I may not be the same person I was when Captain Rogers arrested and imprisoned in 1945, but I am still me."

After he finished speaking, a photo appeared on the screen to his right.

A photo of Dr. Zola!

"Do you know him?" Natasha asked.

"Dr. Zola, the German scientist under Red Skull, died many years ago," Rogers replied quickly.

Dr. Zola, who was no longer a living being of flesh and blood but a living being of data, continued, "Let me correct you, I am not German, I am Swiss."

"Look around you, I'm more energetic than ever before."

"In 1972, I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and science could no longer save my body."

"However, my brain is still worth saving and preserving."

"They stored my consciousness and memories in a database that is 20 feet long, and you are now standing inside my brain."

After learning about Dr. Zola's background, Rogers asked, "How did you get here?"

"I was invited," Dr. Zola replied.

Upon hearing his answer, Natasha and Rogers immediately recalled Roy's earlier mention of the Paperclip Plan.

"During Project Paperclip after World War II, S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited many strategically valuable German scientists, and he should have been one of them," Natasha said, frowning.