Captain America: The Movie
Prologue — Chapter 1
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Antarctica...
It’s a vast land of frozen terrain. Nothing should be able to survive here. The wind howls. Snow is kicked up. Ice-flows lazily float along the water. A single mining vessel floats along the waters. On deck, scientists mill about, wearing protective clothing to help against the cold. The captain jots down a few notes on his pad of paper before a crew member calls out to him, “Captain, take a look at this!” The captain and several crew members curiously look over the side of the boat. In the water below, a large structure is clearly visible, indicating some sort of drilling tower. From the looks of it, it seems to be roughly seventy years old. “Might as well go down and take a look,” the Captain tells his men.
An hour or more later, a small deep-sea vessel is launched under water. It dives down with only a single occupant. The vessel descends past the drilling tower, which is iced over. Farther down, the remains of a small structure are visible. Large pillars of frozen stone and metal jut and twist out of the darkness. The lights of the vessel provide the only source of illumination as it sinks deeper, exploring more of this destroyed compound. “You guys getting all of this?,” the vessel’s pilots asks as he controls the camera on the bottom side of the vessel. In the boat on the surface, several crew members and the caption watch the screen intently. “Is that what I think it is?,” one of them asks. “It has to be,” another answers. The vessel is now reaching the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. There are several piles of rubble, but one thing catches the pilot’s eye. He moves in closer. Up ahead, there is a large metal cylinder with a foggy window. It is man-sized and seems to have been built specifically for preservation. Along the side: a Nazi swastika. He moves in closer, shinning his light on the foggy window of the cylinder. There is a lot of ice, but he can barely make out what appears to be a very human face. The light lowers and through the ice, a white star is visible on a metal surface with what appears to be a blue and red circle around it. "My God!," he exclaims.
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