Steve Rogers is still living in Washington, DC as he seems to have come to grips with the modern world as he lives ins. After the dispensation of S.H.I.E.L.D, Steve fights alongside some of his fellow Avengers members and former S.H.I.E.L.D agents such as Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton and Sam Wilson, all under the guidance and supervision of director Nick Fury. Their mission is to rescue a group of agents trapped in unknown facility in Belgium filled with Hydra agents. Steve and the rest of the team are able to take them down and find the missing agents and take them to safety. However they discover that they were being kept hostage by Hydra agents Viper, Grim Reaper and Crossbones. Agents that were thought to been defeated and killed at the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D on the island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a few members of the team are killed in the process but the core group make it out alive and are able to bring the agents back to the Avengers Headquarters. Questions begin to arise as the team come together to seek answers on how these supposedly dead Hydra operatives are alive. Fury and Agent Maria Hill do some digging and discover this is all began towards the end of World War II where Armin Zola had formed the New Hydra once the Nazis won the war. Zola had been pronounced dead but seems as though that the act on S.H.I.E.L.D was planed decades.