Second Chances

Chapter One

Security teams ran past her cell shouting out rapid commands to those who worked on the lower levels of the S.H.I.E.L.D compound. Emily lay on the hard mattress of her bunk looking at the speaker which hung in the back corner of her concrete cage. The voice that was ringing out was new to her. As she listened to the famed Captain America speak she realised just how different he was to others she had come across. He truly was a man out of time with his rousing wartime speech. Emily smiled looking back towards where some Strike agents were trying to get ready for transport. Listening to Cap talk made her think about everything Hydra and Strike had done to her over the years. She was an asset to them not a person. She never would be anything more than that to them, but this could finally be her chance at a way out. They would have to take her out of her cell, they would then cuff her and blindfold her. She would have all of a 10 second window to use her powers to get out.

"You ready?" Asks a nameless agent to his college.

The Strike agent looks at Emily. "You sure she won't hurt us. We all know what she's capable of."

"Rumlow said we have to get her out of here." The other replied. He was older and had been to collect her several times for different missions. "They don't want Cap or Romanoff to find her. You open the door and I'll cuff her."

Emily slowly stood as she watched the younger man walk towards the door. As the door opened and she stepped out she gave him a smile. The boy froze as he felt the taser rod in his hand slip from his fingers and turn on him. The same happened to the other guard holding the cuffs. Emily watched them both drop to the floor, completely unconscious she had never killed anyone that didn't deserve it. That was the only difference between her and the winter soldier; she just was not capable of it.

Looking down on the pair as she cuffed them she was disappointed at just how easy it had been to fool them. "Men!" She muttered walking away towards the door which led to the stairs.

She fought her way out of the building, several times coming across Strike agents that had clearly been sent after her. She had no real clue where she was going, but she finally managed to find her way out of the Hydra levels of the building and into the main reception.

Emily made her way out of the building and down to the embankment. She had spent years in that cell. The first thing she wanted to do now that she was free of it was to watch it burn. As she was sitting under the trees watching the whole thing go down as the helicarriers fell, this was the end of everything she had known. It was an odd feeling, but she didn't have long to ponder over it as she spotted first one then two figures fall through the sky from one of the helicarriers. The first went down in a blur of blue and red, Emily could only assume that it was the Captain. The next however, this figure she knew well. She could make out the silver glint of his metal arm. He seemed to be diving directly after Rogers, but why? Emily got up and walked over to the bank edge watching as the Winter soldier dragged Cap out of the lake and placed him on the shore.

He looked up at her. "How did you get out?"

"The new guy hesitated."

He raised his eyebrow at this. "You shouldn't have left."

"I would be dead if I hadn't. Look at the place, it's just rubble." Emily shook her head. She knew he was still in mission mode. "Look I told you that if I could I would leave and it would be the last time you'd see me. I'm asking now. Come with me. Last week you were given a name by that man." She pointed to Rogers. "Don't you want to know who that man was? If you are this Bucky guy maybe you can figure out who you really are underneath Hydra's bullshit."

He looks at her completely silent for a moment before nodding his head once and holding out his hand, with a smile she took it. She dragged him through the tree line towards the car pack of a nearby office building. She picked out an SUV that had lightly tinted windows and managed to get it started. "Put the gun under your seat and stick this on." Emily pulled a coat off the back seat and gave it to him. "Anyone left will look for us and that arm is a big give away."