Steve Rogers had discussed the resettlement of the Avengers' families with the Emperor of Latveria. The relevant plans had begun long before the divided Avengers met at Halle Airport, even before disagreements arose within the Avengers. Even Natasha Romanoff, who possessed the most extensive intelligence, knew nothing about it—the GPS coordinates and control tower navigation records of the Quinjet that had landed near Clint Barton's country home during the Ultron incident had been quietly erased. In the sparsely populated, poorly digitized rural South of the United States, even the most advanced modern information technology—meaning Stark Industries' Artificial Intelligence—could not trace their address.
There had been many similar operations, but not everyone could receive the same treatment as Clint Barton.
Steve Rogers had been permitted to view a small portion of the relevant documents, and the few pages of information alone were enough to leave him uneasy. The files he was not allowed to access contained words that would have made his jaw drop. He would never have imagined that Maria Hill, already the commander of the Avengers base at the time, had participated in the operation—Maria Hill's warning to him that night had not been baseless. However, because of her identity as Nick Fury's agent, her position as a Congressional observer, and the lie detector procedures she underwent during her monthly reports to Congress, she had been unable to tell him the entire truth.
Sam Wilson's application submitted that night was rejected without hesitation.
After that, the Intelligence Department and Legal Department ordered him to temporarily cease participating in the related filming activities and restricted the range of his movements. There was no need for electronic ankle monitors; Latverian Royal City was covered by countless surveillance cameras, and its advanced facial recognition system could track specific individuals. At the same