Steve Rogers (Earth-120986)

"Stand Up and Fight Soldier, The Battle is not over until WE make sure it's over"

-Steve Rogers

History
Steve Rogers was born in the heart of a modest New Yorker family, who always encouraged Steve to love his country in spite of its setbacks and always step forward to do the right thing and be brave in the eye of adversity. His father died when he was 18, right when he started college, but midway through his career he dropped to join the Army, inspired by the love for his country he always defended in the aftermath of the events of 9/11

Army Work
After joining the Army, he excelled in every test and joined a Special Platoon during the conflicts in Afghanistan, earning the Medal of Valor during a skirmish in Kabul. His years of experience were amassing, wherehis teammates and superiors recognized him as almost "The Perfect Soldier". Four years into his service, his mother passed away from cancer, which pushed further more his motivation to fight the good fight and honor his family. His determination earned him the distinction of joining a new Special Operations Unit named "Tier 1" which especializes in Covert Operations that most units wouldn't dare to engage

Tier 1 and Death
Steve led Tier 1 into very successful operations during the Middle East conflict, including the destruction of nearly twenty insurgents terrorist cells. During a recon mission in Afghani territory, his entire unit was ambushed into an attack with high tech weaponry. Out of the six soldiers who comprised the unit, only Steve managed to stay alive, although seriously wounded, long enough to call for reinforcements. By the time the second unit arrived, Steve was already letting go of his strenght and instantly died. All of the dead bodies of the fallen soldiers were retrieved and sent to the Army camp for proper funerary services, however, three members of the government agency S.H.I.E.L.D. ordered the retrieval of Steve's body to them for a special project that requires his physical presence

Super Soldier Project
S.H.I.E.L.D. selected Steve for a secret project they've waited years to start it called "Super Soldier Project". The intent of this experiment is to see if a highly developed serum can revive a dead soldier in his prime physical shape. If the result is successful, then it would be applied for severely wounded and crippled soldiers so they can return to action in even greater shape and endurance. After the serum was applied in a highly concentrated dose with a high charge of vitarays, there was no response, but after a few minutes, a few heartbeats were heard, and minor movement was seen, even though Rogers was highly sedated to make sure there were no sudden shocks. The project was a success and Rogers was put to rest until his wounds be fully healed.

However, once S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Phil Coulson and U.S. President Nick Fury saw the results, they believed that the formula can be used to turn the tidal wave of present and future military conflicts in their favor, but if that formula falls in the wrong hands, the results would be catastrophic, so the Super Soldier Project was shelved in a classified priority level.

A New Lease on Life
Three days after the project, Steve woke up with his wounds fully healed. but surprised that he's alive once again. Wondering what happened, he bumped into Coulson who explained the situation to him. With a new lease on life, S.H.I.E.L.D. gives Rogers a honorable discharge with a presidential condecoration, but Rogers declines, arguing that he acknowledges that he died during that conflict but if he was revived it has to be for a reason, and whatever that reason is, he can't turn his back on that, so he must keep up the good fight

During that conversation, a terrorist cell invades the S.H.I.E.L.D. base Rogers was stationed. Many agents were killed during the attack but surprisingly, Rogers entered the fray to help and held on his own against many members, disarming them without killing them but fully incapacitating them long enough for backup to arrive. This impressed S.H.I.E.L.D. director Phil Coulson who inmediately confered to President Fury for the need of people to deal with these and even higher threats to the World. Fury tells Coulson that "The time has come" to open the "Avengers Project", taking Steve as the first and leading member.

Assembling the Avengers
With the decision taken by Coulson and Fury, Rogers became the first of a new project. The project was to assemble a team of high-powered people in order to become a team ready to protect Earth from any threat. Coulson commented about the "Avengers Project" with Steve who inmediately accepted on the condition of him supervising the project, making him the official leader. With a new suit, supervised by Rogers himself, he adopts the codename "Captain America", taken due to his deep sense of patriotism and to become a symbol for the citizens,embraces the challenge with honor en embarks to command this new team of heroes.

Steve himself selected all of the heroes who comprise the founding membership: Genius Scientist and Industrialist Iron Laser, Norse God of Thunder Thor, former olympic archer Hawkeye, high school prodigy turned super-hero Spider-Man and Kree Scout Ms. Marvel to become Earth's Mightiest Heroes: The Avengers Heroes (Earth-120986) Avengers (Earth-120986)