When, Where, and How
*Somewhere in the Allegheny Mountains, West Virginia.*
A shiver runs along her skin, a tremor she curls herself inward against. The shiver is followed by a voice, screaming, and an explosion. Instinctively, she throws her arms over her head, only to scrape one arm along the ground she is already lying on.
"Sharon! Sharon, wake up!" A warm hand is on her arm, giving her a gentle shake. She bolts upright, eyes darting around until they settle on the concerned face of Sam Wilson.
"Sam? What happened? Where's Steve?"
He looks around them, surrounded as they were by unbroken forest. "I think the better question is where are we?"
She follows his gaze and a coldness fills her gut. Digging into her SHIELD issued utility belt, she pulls out a small device. The glow illuminates the worry on her face and Sam watches with a sinking feeling as he sees it turn to dread.
"It's worse then that, Sam. It's not where, but when."
"Come again?"
She turns the device to him as she says with a grim voice, "1943."
"How is that possible?"
"When Bucky crushed the cube..." she muses, but is cut off.
"No. I mean, how do you have a device that tells you what year it is?"
Sharon shrugs. "SHIELD tech. Identifies temporal vibrations. Probably something Strange created for us."
Sam gives her his best 'I can't even' face and then turns away from her, surveying their surroundings. "Well, you got anything in any of those fancy pockets to get us home?"
"Sure, Sam. All SHIELD agents are issued time travel devices just in case a brainwashed assassin destroys a cosmic cube with his bare hands and flings us into the past," she says flatly.
"Well someone thought you'd need a "temporal vibration identifier" so...," he points out.
Sharon sighs, not sure how to respond. Sam turns to look at her, realizing that neither of them have any idea how to proceed. "Just great," he mutters to the night air.
"So now what?" he eventually asks.
"We find Steve," she says. He turns to look at her, waiting for the rest of her plan. "We go to New York. If I remember my history right, he should be in Brooklyn right about now..."