Captain America: The Birth of a Legend

Plot Synopsis
Steve Rogers was a kid who grew up alone besides from his best friend and partner in crime Bucky Barnes, but when the war hit and he saw the terrors from a newspaper this righteous and and well mannered man began to ponder what his role would be in this war, after being denied of his chance multiple times (by his friends and tests) he was accepted to be a volunteer under Project Rebirth as he then began to undergo tests. After the tests had been done he would've become Captain America and would go off to fight the Japanese and Nazi's before coming face to face with Baron Heinrich Zemo and Johann Schmidt, along this journey he would meet others such as Peggy Carter and Logan Howlett as he was then put into suspended animation and being found by Nicolas Joseph Fury.

Plot
In the present day Captain America (Steve Rogers) was approached by Nicholas Joseph Fury, Nick had wanted to know if he wanted to join SHIELD as a Field Officer/Agent, and he had politely declined saying his days of fighting was over due to losing his best friend, but when this solemn moment was brought up Nick had said that the lives that Steve saved could never change the man he was before he had come out of ice.

In his early life (flashbacks most likely) Steve was born July 4, 1922, to poor Irish immigrant parents, Sarah and Joseph Rogers. Rogers grew up a frail youth during the Great Depression in New York City, New York, America. Honor, and humility was instilled in him; perhaps due to his Irish Catholic upbringing. Rogers' father died when he was a child and his mother died from pneumonia later, when he was in his late teens.

Steve used to go to a school in the Lower East Side neighborhood where he attended George Washington High School in Brooklyn. Among the people responsible for instilling the patriotic values in him were his civics teacher Edna Crosley, who taught that as an American it was their responsibility to protect the United States which gave more rights than any other country in the world to its citizens.

Seeing the rise of Adolf Hitler and the horrors of World War II via a newsreel of the Nazis ransacking Europe and their atrocities in that Japan had committed in two different countries (China and Korea), Rogers became determined to enlist in the United States Army. While in New York City in 1943, Rogers tried to enlist in the Army but was rejected as 4-F because of his frailty and sickness. While waiting to be called up, Rogers would begin to talk about the horror's that was happening in France hoping it would make others reconsider signing up, Overhearing the boy's earnest plea to fight for his country, General Chester Phillips, of the US Army and Abraham Erskine the lead creator of the Super Soldier Serum, offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a top-secret performance-enhancing experiment called Operation Rebirth.

After weeks of tests, which included rope climbing, mud crawling under a chicken fence/barbed wire, and their ten mile a day run. Rogers was at last administered the Super-Soldier Serum. Given part of the compound intravenously and another part orally, Rogers was then bombarded by vita-rays, a special combination of exotic (in 1941) wavelengths of radiation designed to accelerate and stabilize the serum's effect on his body. Steve Rogers emerged from the vita-ray chamber with a perfect human body. A Nazi spy, who observed the experiment, murdered Dr. Erskine mere minutes after its conclusion. Dr. Erskine died without fully committing the Super-Soldier formula to paper, leaving Rogers the sole beneficiary of his genius.

After successfully becoming Captain America, Rogers was later submitted to an experimental mind-conditioning program that conditioned his mind to accept false information about Walter Rogers' family on the chance he was captured by the enemy and forced to reveal classified information. Afterwards Rogers was left behind once again. He would not be able to serve in World War II as he had wanted, but Brandt, however, approached Rogers and claimed that his actions in stopping Heinz Kruger and saving the young child had been noticed by the public. Brandt then offered Rogers the chance to serve his country on the most important battlefield of the war, which Rogers had gladly accepted, with Brandt then promoting him there on the spot.

Rogers was originally issued a traditionally "kite" shaped shield made of mundane steel, as well as a sidearm. Cap's original helmet served as a mask and was separate from the rest of his costume. This proved a problem as in one early outing it was nearly knocked from his face via the hard wing emblems, almost revealing his identity to an attending newspaper reporter with a camera. With the help of this large show featuring music and dancers, even including a fake Adolf Hitler for Rogers to knock out night after night, Captain America became a star across the country, much to the ever-growing delight of Brandt who insisted on posing for some pictures with Rogers himself. Following each show, Rogers would sign autographs for the children who admired him, and following one show he was greeted by a beautiful woman wanting an autograph from him, which made the still shy Rogers rather awkward.

Now with his performing out of the way (which was part of the deal with Brandt to get promoted) Steve was then shipped over to Washington D.C. where he was presented to the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who presented him with his disc shaped shield which was made of Vibranuim, and then discovering that it had excellent aerodynamic properties made it an effective offensive weapon, Rogers would then abandoned his sidearm.

During the war, "Cap" served as both a symbol of freedom and America's most effective special operative. In addition to working with his young sidekick and friend Bucky. The two were the recognized core of the World War II super-team known as the Invaders which was a name suggested by English premier Winston Churchill in the papers. Rogers sometimes came into contact with a Canadian paratrooper named James Howlett, the man who would come to be legendarily known as Wolverine.

Rogers faced fascist Germans and imperialist Japanese. Among his foes and adventures were battles with Baron Heinrich Zemo and Red Skull (Johann Schmitt). He also prevented the murder of President F.D. Roosevelt by a group called the Defenders, the Battle of the Bulge, D-Day, stopping saboteurs (early March 1941), meeting Wakandans, saving President Roosevelt from a deranged assassin, meeting Nikola Tesla, saving a Manhattan Project scientist from Red Skull with the help of the Howling Commandos, stopping (with Howling Commando support) the Red Skull's plot to deploy a centuries-old automaton designed by a time-traveling Doctor Doom, facing the Red Skull in a hover device, scuffling with fellow Allies the Crusaders (all of the things listed before can be flashbacks), fighting alongside the French Resistance and Peggy Carter (an American who had fallen in love with Captain America), almost accidentally slaying a war orphan, saving Michael Kramer from the Red Skull. In April 1945, Rogers stormed the Red Skull's bunker, with Red Guardian, Patriot, and Spirit of '76, in his last WWII battle with Red Skull.

During the final days of the war, presumably on or before April 18, 1945, Captain America and Bucky were trying to stop a bomb-loaded drone-plane, launched by Baron Zemo, when the plane exploded, apparently killing his partner Bucky and throwing Rogers into icy Arctic waters of the English Channel. The Super-Soldier Formula prevented crystallization of Rogers' bodily fluid, allowing him to enter a state of suspended animation. Although Rogers and Bucky had seemingly perished, this didn't stop the military and SSR from looking for them both but they would only have luck finding Steve.