Captain America II: House Divided (Marvel XV)

Captain America II: House Divided is a 2020 featured storyline published by Marvel Comics. The story is set in Phase Two: Civil War, and is augmented into the "The Past" category.

Chapter I
At the end of World War II and the collapse of Nazi Germany, allied forces began carving the failed state in order for military and collective occupation. Steve Rogers, as Captain America, is hailed as a hero of the war, however, finds disappointment in his new found fame due to the forgetful behavior the world population holds against his former comrades. After delivering a speech in Paris, France, he is confronted by one of his former comrade's wife, resulting in an angered dispute towards Rogers by her. The criticism led by her towards him ultimately eliminates much of Roger's dignity and "fighting for democracy" policy he held towards the European conflict, as he begins re-considering his own fight against fascism and whether or not he is "doing the right thing".

After being discharged from the military and joining the early military organization SHIELD, Rogers finds himself fulfilling covert operations in the Soviet Union as a means of espionage and intelligence-gathering towards their advancing nuclear research program. Accompanied by his former war comrade Brock Rumlow, he is tasked with intelligence-gathering in the recently constructed Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. After entering the main research labratory while the primary scientists are absent, he is soon double-crossed by Rumlow, who cites Roger's popularity, his own wife leaving him following the war, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as reasoning, as well as revealing that he was a former member of Hydra working with the Soviet government. With this, Rumlow shoots Rogers numerous times, resulting in his assumed death. Numerous Soviet military personel soon enter the room, dragging the lifeless body of Rogers into a seperate room so that he may be dissected for the purpose of re-creating the Supersoldier Serum.

Rumlow returns back to SHIELD headquarters, reporting Rogers as MIA and having been compromised. The leading director, Nick Fury, considers the possibility of Rumlow having betrayed Rogers, although remains skeptical about the entire situation in itself, due to Rumlow's star-studded status within the organization. He dismisses Rumlow, and assigns him to a task in Ethiopia. Fury calls the President, who becomes infuriated by Rogers becoming compromised, and forces Fury to quite literally find a replacement of Rogers so as to secure his re-election. Through a collection of Rogers DNA, Fury establishes a task force of scientists to properly "ressurection" the Captain America identity and clone Rogers himself.