The next day, after saying goodbye to Audrey and the others, Alex, Steve, and Bucky boarded a warship bound for London. Carter and Howard accompanied them.
After a long voyage, the warship finally sailed into London Harbor. Feeling the dampness in the air, Alex could not help complaining, "I hate London's weather. It feels like I'm soaking in water."
Colonel Phillips walked past Alex and said expressionlessly, "Don't worry. You won't be staying in London for long!"
"Why does he always look at us like that?" Bucky asked in confusion as he watched Phillips gradually disembark.
"Who cares?" Alex had no intention of paying Phillips any attention. Turning to Carter, he said, "Agent Carter, I need to find someone. Help me handle Phillips for now. I'll be back soon!"
Without waiting for Carter to nod, Alex impatiently ran off the ship and quickly vanished into the crowds on the dock.
Following the address Eisenhart had left behind, Alex searched and asked for directions. Half an hour later, he finally found his destination on a narrow street: a low, gray-white apartment building.
"204." Alex glanced down at the note in his hand, pushed open the apartment's nearly rotting wooden door, climbed to the second floor, and saw "204" at the end of the corridor.
He knocked on the door. Soon, a middle-aged woman opened it, her eyes bleary as she asked in confusion, "Who are you looking for?"
Looking at the woman before him, Alex found it strange. "Is this the Eisenhart residence?"
After returning to London, everyone had been scattered across the United Kingdom by the British government. By the time Alex wanted to find Eisenhart and his son, he had already lost track of them. Howard had helped him obtain the address on the note from the British military.
"You've got the wrong place!" The middle-aged woman grew angry and moved to shut the door.
Alex reacted quickly and stuck his foot in the doorway. "Sorry, but my friend told me he lived here."
"To hell with Eisenhart! That devil moved out long ago!" The woman viciously stomped on Alex's foot, making him yank it back in pain.
But the moment Alex pulled his foot away, the woman slammed the door shut with lightning speed. No matter how Alex knocked, she refused to open it.
"Devil? Did Marx do something?" Filled with confusion and helplessness, Alex could only leave, worrying inwardly, I hope nothing happened to them.
After returning to the camp, Alex was somewhat dejected. He had originally planned to find Marx and copy his abilities, which would make everything easier in the future. Unfortunately, Marx was nowhere to be found now. It seemed he could only rely on his own body from now on.
When Steve and Bucky saw Alex return, they immediately crowded around him, their faces full of excitement. "Mr. Stark is going to prepare uniforms for us. This is what I designed," Steve said. "What do you think?"
Alex cast aside his gloom, took the paper from Steve, glanced at it, and said with a smile, "Not bad. I think it looks great. Let's go with Steve's design!"
The uniform Steve designed was much the same as in the movie: the same winged helmet, the Stars and Stripes outfit. With the iconic shield added, Captain America would truly emerge.
"American Brothers, your first mission is here!" Carter walked over as they spoke, a faint smile on her delicate face.
"A mission as soon as we get here? Phillips isn't deliberately making things difficult for us, is he?" Alex had not expected a mission to come knocking on their first day in London.
Carter shot Alex a sideways glance and demanded fiercely, "Don't you want to take the mission?"
"Of course I do. I'd be thrilled to have a mission!" Alex pushed Steve one step forward and whispered, "Captain, it's your turn."
As expected, sparks flew between Steve and Carter. However, Steve was truly terrible at talking to women, so Alex often had to create opportunities for them to talk in order to give Steve some practice.
Steve was slightly embarrassed, but he quickly recovered. Looking at Carter seriously, he asked, "Carter, what's the mission?"
"Schmidt sent out a unit. Two hundred soldiers went to engage them, but fewer than fifty returned. The rest were either killed or captured." Carter turned to Alex and Bucky, her voice grave. "They're all from the 107th Infantry Regiment. Some of them were once your comrades."
"The mission is to rescue them, right?" Alex's expression turned serious. "All right, Schmidt. The 107th Infantry Regiment. We have no reason not to go."
"I have to tell you, these men were originally going to be abandoned. No one was willing to rescue them." Carter lowered her gaze to the stack of documents in her arms and said quietly, "They're thirty miles behind enemy lines. To save them, you have to pass through the most heavily guarded area in Europe. This mission is extremely dangerous."
Alex frowned at her words. After pondering for a moment, he asked, "The equipment Howard is preparing for us probably isn't ready yet, is it?"
"That's right." Carter nodded.
Alex shrugged, then turned to Steve and Bucky with a smile and declared, "Then let's rescue them with our bare hands!"
Under cover of night, Alex and the others set off. Howard flew the three of them toward Austria, where Hydra had a base. The 107th Infantry Regiment was being held there.
Inside the plane, Alex and the other two wore hastily procured uniforms. Leaning against the cabin, they listened as Carter explained the operation. "Hydra's base is in Klausburg, between two mountain ranges. It looks like a factory. We'll drop you at the entrance."
"Get as close to the target as possible!" Howard turned his head and offered a reminder.
"You should head back as soon as possible. Hydra's air force is no joke." Alex remembered that their plane had been attacked by the air force in the movie. To be safe, he still advised them to leave early.
As he spoke, Alex walked to the cabin door first and looked down. It was pitch black. "Go back. We're setting off!" With that, Alex jumped directly out of the hatch. Steve and Bucky exchanged a glance, then followed without hesitation.
"Are they all insane?" Carter turned to Howard with an incredulous expression as she watched the three vanish completely into the night.
Howard chuckled and said unconcernedly, "Relax. Alex isn't an ordinary person. They'll be fine."
"Alex, what's the plan?" As they flew through the air, the gale from their rapid descent kept rushing into Steve's mouth, making it impossible for him to speak properly. He had to pause after every word.
"Let's get down first!" Alex used Teleportation, grabbed Steve and Bucky, and in an instant landed on the ground.
"Alex, how did you do that?" Alex had not widely publicized his Teleportation. Only a small number of Allied personnel knew about it, while ordinary people knew even less.
Since they would be fighting together from now on, Alex decided not to hide it from his brothers anymore. "I'm a mutant with special abilities. This is my ability." Teleportation was a supernatural power Alex could not explain, so he could only attribute it to Mutant Abilities.
"A mutant?" Clearly, very few people knew that mutants existed at this time. Steve and Bucky were even more confused.
Alex patted both of them on the shoulders and said with a smile, "No matter what I am, we'll always be brothers. Just remember that."
"Right, we're brothers. American Brothers!"
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