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At the same time Clark arrived above the SHIELD base, Steve and Natasha reached Alexandria, New Jersey, via the teleportation array. The address displayed on the USB drive Nick Fury had given Steve actually pointed to Camp Caspian in Wheaton—the very place where Steve had trained over seventy years ago when he first enlisted.
The nearest teleportation array to Wheaton was the Avengers branch base in Alexandria, adjacent to Wheaton.
For Wheaton, Steve was both familiar and strange. Familiar, because this was where he had first trained as a soldier; strange, because he hadn't been here in over seventy years.
"Let's go, Captain," Natasha said, already waiting beside a parked off-road vehicle.
"Where did this car come from?" Steve asked as he climbed in.
"Borrowed," Natasha replied.
Hearing this, Steve remembered the pickup he had borrowed in New York but hadn't returned. Now, there was no time to dwell on that as Natasha drove him toward Camp Caspian.
This was a military base unmarked on ordinary maps, built during World War II and mostly abandoned afterward.
Once at the base, Natasha pulled out a locator and found that the coordinates Tony had provided matched the device's location.
"After reading the file, I realized it came from here," she said, producing a set of professional-looking lockpicking tools and prying open the iron lock on the Camp Caspian gate.
"This is where I trained," Steve murmured, surveying the now-empty camp. Memories of his scrawny, disciplined self flashed through his mind.
"Anything changed here?" Natasha asked, activating a scanning device to check for suspicious structures.
"A bit better… at least fewer weeds than before," Steve replied.
"There's an anomaly. This device detects no wireless signals, yet Tony picked up one coming from here," Natasha noted, tapping the scanner as if that would make it work.
Following Natasha's lead, Steve spotted an oddly out-of-place building that resembled a weapons storage facility. He remembered that military regulations prohibited constructing any weapon depots within 500 meters of a barracks. Furthermore, this building hadn't existed when he trained here.
In other words, the warehouse-like structure had been built after he was frozen, deliberately constructed to look like a weapons depot. Seeing it, Steve realized the clue they sought was likely inside.
Without hesitation, he headed straight for the building.
"Steve, did you find something?" Natasha called.
"This building's location is suspicious. Whatever we're looking for should be inside," Steve replied, shattering the rusty lock with the edge of his Vibranium shield.
Inside, they ascended a short staircase about ten meters to the end. Natasha switched on the lights, revealing a standard 1980s office, complete with an eagle emblem on the wall.
"This is SHIELD," Natasha said, recognizing the symbol instantly.
It was an early SHIELD base—the very first one. The emblem even bore her image, marking it as the Strategic Homeland Defense and Logistics Bureau at the time. Steve and Natasha knew immediately they were in the right place—the location Nick Fury had wanted them to find.
"There's an elevator," Steve whispered after discovering a hidden elevator behind a bookshelf.
"Here it is," Natasha muttered, shocked. If all went well, the answers they sought lay on the other side of that elevator.
While Steve and Natasha uncovered SHIELD's secret base beneath Camp Caspian, Clark remained hidden above the Triskelion, refraining from direct action.
Though he could see the Hydra forces aboard the three space carriers beneath SHIELD, Clark considered them inconsequential. He could eliminate them at any time, but his true objective was yet to unfold.
Hydra, often minor bosses in Marvel films, seemed harmless at first—but Clark knew these sneaky little serpent operatives were the most troublesome. They didn't self-destruct, but somehow always managed to undermine themselves.
Clark decided it was time to expose the true Hydra leaders and eliminate them completely. After several hours, he finally gathered the intelligence he needed.
Meanwhile, in Centerville—unaware that Superman was right above them—Garrett, having received Dr. Zola's report from Camp Caspian, prepared to retreat.
"Steve and the others have located Dr. Zola. He recommends we act immediately against Camp Caspian to ensure Steve cannot survive," Garrett ordered.
"Deploy fighters to fully cover the Caspian base and make it… lively. We must ensure this Captain becomes a hero that exists only in history."
Just as Garrett gave the command, an unexpected voice rang out.