47 Nazi Germany (1/2)

The meeting is conducted in a makeshift barrack, erected adjacent to the apartment.

The surrounding area is devoid of people as well as animals. Everyone have been evacuated thanks to Shield and its associates.

Some reporters and freelancers attempt to ignore the warnings.

They have been dealt with appropriately.

Shield did not kill them since they have a much bigger problem to worry about, but those transgressors will be thinking very hard about their life choices for a long time in a dark jail cell somewhere.

They will be let out eventually.

It is very easy to slap several national security violations on them.

Shield do have some good friends in the FBI and the CIA as well as the military.

The military will be an overkill. Local policemen and Shield Security personnel is enough for now.

This is Hollywood. Having tanks roaming the streets will cause mass panic.

It is also difficult to explain to the United States government why Shield can order the military around with impunity. They will be questioning how much of their government have been compromised?

Even I don't know the answer to that.

This is what happen when I have some very capable people and machine intelligence working for me and the cause.

They did all the hard lifting so I don't have to.

Sitting at the head of a long table filled with people, I clench and open my palm experimentally, feeling the phantom pain.

Whatever hit me has enough firepower to vaporize my arm instantly. Anything less of a high intensity laser beam or a plasma blast shouldn't have done the job.

My durability is at inhuman level after all of these years. My biology should be in perfect sync with the nanomachines in my bloodstream.

Not superhuman yet, but it is getting there eventually.

I am not invincible. Sufficient firepower will take me down.

Weapons of the 31st century are deployed to kill things that are a lot more tougher than me.

Therefore, the question remains – how the fuck did the Nazi gets their greedy hand on such a weapon?

Their gun is on par with a plasma shotgun. Even Hydra didn't have plasma-based weaponry yet.

I will have to release the technical information on that soon.

Hydra weapon research and development division will have answers once they finish dismantling the submachine gun.

It is the same gun that was used to destroy my arm before my brain even realize what had happened.

”How is our new friend?”

I question. I wasn't talking about the homeless person. I was talking about the Nazi soldier.

A little bit of time reversal and Hydra will have a person to torture over and over again.

”His pain tolerance is impressive, but our interrogation methods does get the job done, Mr. Maxwell.”

I narrow my eyes at the interrogator along with several Hydra Generals. The gesture means get to the damn point already. We are wasting valuable time.

”Ahem. We cross check the information with our homeless buddy. The world on the other side of the rift is in the state of turmoil. The year is 1985 – about 5 years behind us. America and much of Europe have been utterly devastated in the Second World War, which begins at the end of 1945.”

The man pauses for the information to sink in.

”We do not know exactly what happen, but Nazi Germany postponed their plan to invade Poland for a few years unlike in our time. This might have something to do with a meteor strike that had impacted Berlin around 1935. Our Nazi friend keeps mentioning that in his delirium so I thought it is important somewhat. So, the events that leads to the current state of the world are as follows...”

I listen to the debriefing. Like most of the people in the barrack, I could not hide my surprise.

Germany manages to successfully invade and occupy most of the Soviet Union after Poland. It is before deploying atomic weapons against the United States and the rest of Europe.

United States retaliates with its nuclear arsenals, but that is when the strangest thing happened.

Almost all nuclear strikes against Nazi Germany impacts against a seemingly invincible energy shield.

Some parts of Germany did turn into fiery hell, but most of the country remains relatively intact thanks to their new defensive technology. This includes their military installations and production facilities to keep the war efforts going.

Once shield technology is utilized on tanks, ships and planes, the war is effectively over. No projectiles such as bullets or shells is able to penetrate the shield, giving the Nazi a decisive victory.