Ozymandias vs Captain America. No specific when or why, just a good fight between two peak humans.
Cap walks into Oz's fortress, and Ozymandias sees him from every angle on the computer screen wall. Ushering Bubastis back to her den, he stands and slowly begins to remove his cape and headband, revealing golden body armor and a purple tunic.
Cap walks along the hallway, calm yet prepared, as he steps along the hallway, he suddenly stops abruptly, dead in his tracks, and a steel door slams shut mere inches from the tip of his nose. Any closer, and he would have been sliced in half.
The door is too thick to break through. Even with Cap's strength. He turns, looking around the hallway. There appears to be no way out except for the long window leading out into the snow. He narrows his eyes and walks towards it.
The window of Ozymandias's study shatters and Cap leaps through. Oz speaks to him, smiling slightly. "I underestimated you, Captain.... but I knew the hologram wouldn't hold you for long."
"I knew there would be something you had in store for me." Steve replies, and then spins with lightning reflexes. His shield slashes upwards, and slams against Bubastis as she leaps for him. The snarling lynx claws at him, raking his shoulder.
Cap hits Bubastis hard with the shield. She sprawls backward, growling, hitting the ceiling and dropping back to the floor, where she lays with a broken front paw. Cap turns back to Oz. "More tricks, Veidt?" he asks.
"No." Oz replies simply. "No, Captain. We are to have a one on one battle. No limits, nothing. Just the two of us. No traps, no tricks, no catches this time. It is simply a test of physical ability."
They stand opposite each other, staring. Then Cap flings his shield. It hisses through the air at a tremendous speed... yet Ozymandias twists sideways and catches it deftly in both hands. Cap looks surprised, and Veidt tosses the weapon aside before beckoning Cap to battle with his natural fighting skills.
For the next few minutes, the two men fight with grace and precision, seeming almost to dance. Fists lock and parry; feet lash and strike; and neither gets a strike on one another. Ozymandias kicks. Cap blocks, and counters with a punch. Oz dodges it. They are equal in skill and power, neither tiring, neither faltering.
Then Cap curves away from his foe, cartwheeling backwards and picking up his shield in mid-somersault. "This fight cannot be determined by hand to hand, Veidt." Steve tells his opponent. Oz smiles.
"True," he says, and leaps into teh air, all his weight bearing down into a drop kick. Cap raises his shield and Oz bounces off it with teh force of the impact, throwing Cap onto his back. Oz lands again, actualling standing one foot on Steve's shield and forcing it down towards his throat. It takes all of Cap's power to restrain him, and then....
Whok! Cap's foot shoots out and trips up Oz's ground leg. He hits the floor hard, and they both roll, standing again. Three lightning jabs are deflected by the flat of Cap's shield, and then he drives the edge up into Veidt's chin and flips him high over his head. Oz lands on his feet and locks Cap's arm behind his back, then kicks him behind the shin and brings him down, twisting the break his neck. Cap takes the strain of the pull, and drives his elbow into Veidt's guts. Oz staggers away from him, yet follows up with a lashing kick that propels Steve against the wall.
The Captain sits on his hands and knees, blood pouring from his mouth. Ozymandias doesn't move. "Don't try to trick me, Captain." he says. "You aren't THAT weak as to succumb already."
But Cap is just as smart as Oz, and spins with all his might. Using all the strength he can summon, teh Captain hits a support beam with his shield and it buckles inwards. A crack runs across the ceiling. Cap hits the support beam again, and a few splinters run across it's surface.
Veidt looks surprised. "Again, I underestimated you. But we will meet another day, Captain America." And with that, he is gone.