Brought Us Together

Chapter 9

"What is it, Tony?" His helmet popped open for you to see no harm to him. His eyes darted to Rhodes before he spoke.

"The base has a high level of an EMP. It shut down my suit half a mile from it." He quickly got up, making you stumble up and take a step back. "FRIDAY, find the location of the EMP."

You stepped away from the group, gears turning in your mind. You had been able to disable an EMP on a mission before but you couldn't remember what you did. Your memories started to jumble up and you couldn't separate them. Sighing, you turned around to see Bucky's eyes fixed on you. You raised your eyebrows as if to ask why. He only shook his head and waited for FRIDAY to locate the EMP.

"Amazing," Tony said sarcastically, rolling his eyes and throwing his hands up. "The EMP is in the middle of the base. We need Capsicle to disable it and we know how he is when it comes to tech." Bucky let out a low whistle, knowing what Tony meant. He had learned to use technology thanks to Hydra, but Steve could barely use a phone, let alone disable an EMP. You sighed and held two fingers to your ear.

"Steve, can you hear me?" You had hoped that the communication would still work, but no reply meant that he couldn't hear you or you couldn't hear him. "Steve, if you can hear me, I need you to go to the center of the base and disable the EMP device. When you find it, you stick the drive in your left pocket into one of the chords." You hoped that he could hear you as Tony looked impressed by you.

"You gave him a hacking chip?"

"No," you mumbled. "I snuck it into his pocket while he wasn't looking." You shrugged when Bucky smirked at you, his eyes twinkling. "I think things through when you guys argue. Anyway, we should head over half a mile. Right, Tony?"

"Yeah," Tony breathed as he started walking towards the base with you and the two men, following.

A few minutes into walking, Tony abruptly stopped and held up his hand to stop you. Bucky bumped into you slightly, hands darting out to hold your arms to steady you. You looked back and saw his sheepish grin. You shook your head, a whisper of a smile playing on your lips.

"FRIDAY, give me a thermal scan." You waited for FRIDAY to scan the area for heat signatures. "That's great news. No one here to crash the party."

"Because we're crashing the party, Tony," Rhodes joked, smirking at him.

"I do hate not being invited." You nudged Tony with your elbow, making him look at you. "The EMP device is still functioning. I think Cap didn't hear you, [Y/N]." You rolled your eyes at his hidden joke and tried to communicate with Clint, who was staying back in the Quinjet against his will.

"Clint, we need you to try to hack into the building and then join us, whether you can get in or not. We need all the help we can get."

"Copy that, [Y/N]. I've already hacked in but only the cameras... I'm coming."

His voice started off calm but ended in an urgent tone that you had only heard when Natasha was taken by Ultron. You turned to the others, knowing they had heard the conversation, with wide eyes. You knew that everyone was thinking the same thing. Could someone have gotten hurt?

He did say he had a visual, so maybe Steve was caught or something happened? You heard a bunch of voices come from the distance and your feet, on their own accord, started to run towards them. The voices of your teammates were drowned down by the pounding heartbeat in your ears. The only thought that flooded your mind was that you could save or kill everyone by making one move.

You stood in front of the doors of the base where two guards held guns in their hands. They hadn't seen you yet, giving you time to knock one unconscious by hitting the back of your pistol on his head. The other one aimed his gun at you. You swiftly kicked his arm, knocking the gun out of his hands, and sliced his arm with a dagger. The man's voice was silenced by your hand. He quickly fell unconscious as Bucky came next to you.

Bucky gave you a half-hearted smile before pulling his rifle over his head. You smirked and opened the doors using one of the guard's IDs. The door opened and guards started to come out from every side. Most, not having guns, stood behind watching you and Bucky take down most of the guards.

Soon, you were out of bullets and started to go into combat using knives to hurt them. You soon heard the roof crack open and saw Tony and Rhodes coming in with Clint hanging by a rope. He jumped down and started to shoot arrows at the guards.

"Couldn't wait for us to start the party, could you?" You smirked and sliced another guard in the arm and stomach.

"No. You know I was excited."

"Too much, perhaps?" Vision's voice echoed throughout the room and you turned to look at him, letting a woman kick you down. You groaned before you kicked her ankle, sending her tumbling down before you stabbed a knife into her side.

"Not cool," you hissed, twisting the knife a little before taking it out and stabbing another man. Your eyes landed on Wanda who was trying to stand upright, leaning on Sam. You rushed to her side and nodded to Sam to join the fight.

"She has too much power in her. If she uses it, she said, she would lose control and likely kill us in the process," Sam filled you in. You hummed as he ran off.

Natasha was already taking down guard after guard, probably pissed that she was taken. Your attention diverted to Wanda as her hands started to glow red.

"Let's get you out of here, Wanda."