Disclaimer: You should probably know this already, but I don't own any of this. Not even my Gerard Butler-portrayed Punisher. It's all Marvel-owned. Ok, maybe not the true OCs. But if I did own any of it, you'd see it on the big screen.

A/N: Hello again, everyone. Here we begin part four of Semper Fi, which deals with my take on Marvel's Civil War. I'm drawing from the comics, the movies, and a plethora of my conspiracy thriller authors and novels, along with my own little mind. This story follows both Of Their Own Accord and Stand By Me, though you can probably get by without reading any of that. If you're reading either story and are wondering where the next chapter for either of them is, be assured that I'll get to them. Right now I'm trying to make sure I don't lose focus on this arc.

This story gets an M rating for the usual stuff I write (violence, language, smut, etc) and all the warnings for that apply. It's more plot driven, but I hope it'll be balanced out enough to enjoy down the road. It has well-established Punisher/Maria Hill, near-developed Steve/Wanda, some mentions of Falcon/Darcy and Tony/Pepper, and the beginnings of Bucky/Natasha. I'm incorporating most of the MCU into this one, so I thought I'd do a brief (and probably incomplete) list of principle characters (both canon and OCs) for this story:

New Avengers Facility:

-Nick Fury, former Director of SHIELD and Chief Operator
-Maria Hill, Director of Operations, liaison of Stark Industries
-Steve Rogers aka Captain America, Team Leader of the Avengers
-Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, Assistant Team Leader
-Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes aka War Machine, Air Force liaison to the Avengers
-Sam Wilson aka Falcon
-Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch, telekinesis specialist
-Vision, synthetic android
-Frank Castle aka Punisher, deniable operations specialist
-Simon "Ghost" Riley, British weapons specialist
-Darcy Lewis, secretary

United States Government

-President Matthew Ellis
-Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Secretary of State
-Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense
-Jim Berry, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
-Sharon Carter, special agent, CIA
-Henry Gyrich, senior special agent, Federal Bureau of Intelligence, on loan to the Avengers Facility

Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division (disavowed)

-Phil Coulson, Director
-Agent Melinda May
-Daisy Johnson aka Skye, Inhuman
-Bobbi Morse aka Mockingbird
-Lance Hunter, mercenary

Other Characters of Note

-Tony Stark aka Iron Man, owner of Stark Industries
-Virginia "Pepper" Potts, CEO of Stark Industries
-Baron Helmut Zemo
-Brock Rumlow aka Crossbones, former commander of STRIKE (disavowed alongside SHIELD)
-James "Bucky" Barnes aka Winter Soldier, known former HYDRA asset and Soviet assassin, location unknown
-Scott Lang, former inmate at San Quintin State Penitentiary
-Aleksander Lukin, CEO of Kronas Corporation
-T'Challa, King of Wakanda
-Clint Barton aka Hawkeye, former member of the original Avengers Initiative (on paternity leave)
-Matt Murdock, attorney at Nelson and Murdock's Law Office
-Peter Parker, student at Midtown High School

And now, a small prologue for the time being…

Berlin, July 2015

In retrospective, Helmut Zemo found it a peculiar way of starting a war. Then again, he wasn't the one to start it. That would have been Pierce. He'd warned Pierce that it was too early for HYDRA to come out of the shadows. But choices were made, and now here Zemo was, in charge of what was left of HYDRA. And it was up to him to save it.

In some ways, it was like a game of chess. Chess had always been a passion of Zemo's. At its very core, chess was nothing more than recognizing the patterns your opponent was making, and hiding the patterns you yourself were creating. On the board, it might be a rook moving three squares, but it's the rook's move, along with many other correlated moves, that achieved the desired goal.

The game Zemo was playing was not on a board, but rather, across the planet. And there were reason for doing so.

Three helicarriers fall out of the sky and into the Potomac, and the world chalks it up as an act of terrorism. The Russian Federation occupies a small Balkan nation, and everyone looks the other way. A squad of British SAS soldiers flies out of London, breaks into a house in Germany, murders a man in front of his family, and it's called justice being served.

Lies were commonplace. This one wouldn't be any different. Zemo had no regrets sending out Rumlow doing what needed to be done.

After all, what better way to begin this great game than with a move no one would have seen coming?

I'll get back to this later. The next year of college is just around the corner and I'm still in the process of setting everything.