<div class="floatleft">(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn3/Halfbakedone/avengers-captain-america1.jpg)</div><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>  Name:</strong>   Steven Rogers<br/>  <strong>Title:</strong>    Captain America<br/>  <strong>Affiliation:</strong> Resistance<br/>  <strong>Location:</strong>   New York<br/>  <strong>Tags:</strong>          Everyone in the Area<br/><br/></span></span><hr/><strong>Earlier</strong><br/>Like anything else it started as a normal day.  Steve had been at his apartment, indulging in one of his favorite pastimes, drawing.  Today he was sketching some of his teamates, Wasp, Black Widow, She-Hulk, Hawkeye, he even tried a couple of design ideas for Iron Mans armor.  He was finishing up a portrait sketch of Natasha when all hell broke loose.  One look out his window told him today was not going to be the day off that he had hoped for.  Hitting the concealed panel of the wall, Steve donned his uniform and took up his shield.  Cap leaped through the open window of his apartment, grabbing a lightpole and using its flex to catapult him to the rooftops.  Bounding from roof to roof, his enhanced coordination and agility made him the perfect freerunner as he made his way towards Avengers Tower.<br/><br/>Making his way from roof to roof, and occaisionally on the street level was the best way to get where he was going, any sort of Avengers flying vehicle would only draw attention and using his motorcycle would mean getting snarled in the traffic jams resulting from the devastation raining down around him.  Twice he engaged small groups of strange enemies, defeating them with his shield and their own weapons.  But he had to stop on Eighth Street  when he ran into a group of SHIELD agents pinned down by the same opponents he had faced.  Leaping to the trailer of a semi truck from a nearby rooftop he surveyed the situation, noticing the long blonde hair of non other than Sharon Carter in the mix of agents.  Throwing his indestructible shield, Cap bounced the disc off three attackers before it rebounded off a stanchion and returned to him.  Sharon looked up and smiled at her friend, and lover before returning to firing on the forces of Apocalypse.<br/><br/>Captain America leapt down amidst the SHIELD agents after assessing the situation.<strong>"We need grenades on the left, and I want suppressive fire to the rear.  You three, keep those guys heads down, there are civilians in that building so take your shots carefully.  I'll take the right, Sharon, watch my back."  </strong>The blonde woman only nodded and shifted her position as Cap charged into the enemy forces.  Throwing his shield vertically to smash one enemies head, the shield bounces up and off a ledge, only to return to Cap as he catches another enemy around the neck, and using his momentum to swing around and kick another at the base of the skull.  Catching the shield with his off hand he kicks the knee out from the one he had by the neck before smashing him in the head with his primary, and only weapon.  Cap crouched and sprang, shield first, smashing into a small group, scattering them for Sharon to finish.  Lashing out with a knee lift to an opponents face, then dropping low to sweep anothers legs out from under them before smashing the edge of his shield into their forehead cleared enough room that Cap was able to see the majority of their enemies laid out before them.  Several SHIELD agents were down.  "Sharon, we need to consolidate forces with whoever is left out there, fall back to Avengers Tower and join up with any of the team thats made it there."  The tower was visible from where they are, and it had fallen under attackm Ironman was defending the tower.  "Cap, Look!"   Sharon called out, pointing at the figure approaching the tower.  Cap gritted his teeth, he recognized the figure even from here.<strong> "Apocalypse...This just got alot more dangerous Sharon."</strong>The blonde woman, reloaded her weapon and smiled at Cap, "Hey, we got you, and we got the Avengers, lets go kick some..."  Her quip was cut off by the blast that seemed to annihilate Ironman and part of the tower.  Apocalypse glanced down and smirked at the agents and the super-soldier.  A blast came out of nowhere, Cap barely got his shield around in time to soften the blowm shrapnel tore at his uniform and flesh, the agents ceased to exist in the blink of an eye, Sharon screamed.<br/><br/>Consciousness came back painfully.  Captain America shoved debris from himself, his costume was torn in a dozen places and his shield lay beside him.  As his vision cleared he realized he was on the edge of a crater, no one else seemed to have survived the blast, Sharon!  Frantically, Cap searched for Sharon Carter, finding her broken body impaled on a piece of rebar.  Cap fell to his knees and tore the tattered remnants of his uniform from his torso.  It was war, this was not some supervillain on superhero fight, this was a full scale war.  Putting his helmet/cowl back on he collected Sharons bloodied equipment belt and sidearm.  The night air soothed the lacerations and bruises on his bare torso as he checked the comm device in his cowl, no one responded, but it was still operational.  His gloves were still intact as were his pants and boots.  He had to adjust the weapons and equipment belt to its maximum to wear it comfortably, and he collected his shield.  He wasn't sure what to do just yet, seeing Sharon like that, having all those troops lost at one wave of a hand.  Cap wasn't sure that he was up to this challenge, so many close friends lost.  Bucky, Bill Foster, Bill Naslund, Jeff Mace, Tony, and now Sharon, all lost because he wasnt there, or wasn't able to save them.  Casualties in war were inevitable, but so many had been lost so completely.  Cap wandered off into the ruins, looking for a place to gather his thoughts, decide his next step.<br/><br/><strong>Now</strong><br/>Steve had been holed up in the ruined building since the war started, he wasnt sure who was left, and he had to give himself time to heal.  Thats when he heard it, his comm device crackled to life, then Tony Starks voice sounded through it, the speech was good, better than he expected from the billionaire playboy, and he was right.  As Tony once said, if we can't save the Earth, we can damn sure Avenge it.  He rose from where he had been and looked into a cracked mirror,<strong>"You heard the man, soldier, time to get off your ass and get to work."</strong>Now that he had broken himself from his reverie he heard the blasts and sounds of battle outside.  The scene that greeted him not made him hopeful and made his blood run cold.  Carnage was a cold blooded killer, and the ones he had with him didn't seem much better, one straight out of a zombie flick and the other out of a swimsuit photo shoot.<br/><br/>Captain America watched the battle, analyzed the situation and was about to act when the object of light fell from the sky, leaving a crater.  If it was a weapon, then it had missed, if it was something else, well there would be time for that later.   Cap charged forward,<strong>"Spider-Man!  Web her and pull the civilian to safety!  Gambit!  Give me a spread of cards between her and the mass of insects!  Low power, don't bring the place down!  Colossus!  Don't pull your punches!"</strong>Cap unleashed his shield to bounce off a wall, then a lamp post, and a wreck of a car so that it would come careening through the monstrous creatures before smacking the zombie girl on its way back to him.