First Light | Steve Rogers (Book Two)

Chapter Ten: Freight Car

"This had better go well" I muttered as Sam, Bucky and I entered the main airport. It was quiet, not a single person in sight.

Sam deployed Redwing, watching as the small drone flew away. He pressed a few buttons on the device on his wrist before calling to Steve over the comms link, "We found it. Their quinjet's in hangar five, north runway"

We began to sprint through the building, anxiously glancing around as we went. A red and blue figure on the window caught my eye and I frowned, "What the hell is that?"

"Everyone's got a gimmick now" Sam huffed.

The figure suddenly crashed through the glass, kicking him to the ground. I rushed forwards, yelping as something flew towards me, sticking one of my hands to a pillar. Bucky yelled angrily and aimed a punch at the figure, eyes widening when they caught it.

"You have a metal arm?" they asked. The person's voice was quite high, making them sound quite young. They chuckled, "That is awesome, dude!"

Sam swooped towards him, knocking him off of his feet as I used one of my knives to cut myself free from the sticky substance on my hands. Once I was free, I made my way over to Bucky. We both stared in confusion as the figure clung to Sam, swinging through the air when he was dropped.

I watched the figure in confusion as he swung off of the beams supporting the ceiling, using what looked like spider webs to catch himself. Bucky flung a notice board at him, looking absolutely bewildered.

"Hey, buddy. I think you lost this!" he yelled. We ducked behind a pillar just in time as the notice board flew over our heads and crashed into a souvenir shop.

"Shoot him!" I heard Bucky hiss as he nudged me.

My eyes widened and I stared wildly at the stranger, "H-he sounds like a kid. What if he is a kid? I'm not gonna shoot him!"

There was a thunk and we span around, seeing that Sam had been stuck to a railing, his wings covered in webs. The figure landed on a pillar near him, "Those wings carbon fibre?"

Sam nodded to the webs binding his hands to a railing, "Is this stuff coming out of you?"

"That would explain the rigidity-flexibility ratio... which, gotta say, that's awesome, man" the figure complimented.

"I don't know if you've been in a fight before, but there's usually not this much talking"

"All right, sorry. My bad"

I fumbled for the stun setting on my blaster, knocking the figure off course for a moment. Bucky leapt forwards, suddenly getting knocked off of his feet as the figure swung into him and Sam. I aimed another shot at the figure, gasping as they grabbed me and lifted me into the ground with surprising ease. He dropped me, letting me land next to Sam before webbing my hands and feet to the floor.

The three of us stared up at them in shock as they landed on top of a pillar, "Guys, look. I'd love to keep this up, but I've only got one job here today and I gotta impress Mr Stark. So, I'm really sorry-"

Redwing soared into the figure, dragging him out of a window and dropping him outside. "You couldn't have done that earlier?" Bucky growled as we lay on the floor in a dazed state.

"I hate you"

Bucky and I raced outside, gradually joining the others until we were all running together as a team. A beam of light appeared from above and I only just managed to skid to a halt as a line was burnt into the ground in front of us, missing me by an inch. "Captain Rogers," Vision called as he floated above us, "I know you believe what you're doing is right, but for the collective good you must surrender now"