Complicated Love (Bucky Barnes x Reader)

Chapter 16: The Howling Commandos

"Hey, love birds. Stop your snoozing, and let's get moving... See what I did there, a rhyme. Okay, we'll see you out there," Gabe says, waking me up. I sigh, not wanting to leave this bed and face the world just yet.

"Still not going to back out of this?" I hear the morning voice of Bucky next to me, a little sarcasm in his voice.

"Nope," I say, not lifting my head off the pillow, and I hear Bucky chuckle.

"Then we gotta get moving, doll," Bucky says, kissing my cheek. I feel the bed shift, and Bucky begins to get ready, and I realize I should to. I slump out of bed, and walk over to where my clothes were set out. Bucky smiles at me, now seeing I'm up.

I grab my uniform, which consists of work pants, boots, and a t-shirt. I change into it, getting ready for the long day of driving we are about to have. I decided to dutch braid my hair, as it is an easy hairstyle that stays in for a while, which is needed for the long trip we are going to have. "Ready doll?" Bucky says, finishing tying his shoes as I get my things that I'm bringing.

"Yup," I say. He grabs his stuff, and we head out, walking to the trucks. There we find everyone waiting for us, all with smirks on their faces with assumptions on why we were the last to arrive.

"Ready to go?" Bucky says, ignore everyone's looks as if they were nothing.

"We are just packing everything up. We should be on the road in t-minus 30 minutes," Gabe says, and I nod. I told everyone that I would be right back, and made my way to the research tent, where Peggy was going to be. I enter, finding Peggy at her desk, looking over the files that I need to be given.

"You know, I hate how you are leaving me," she says, handing me the file that shows us our routes.

"Then you should join us. Kind of dreading be stuck with a bunch of boys for the foreseeable future," I say, putting the files in my backpack.

"You know I have to stay back to analyze your track and to give you guys updates," she says, and I sigh knowing she's right. I just wish that she was going out there with us. She grabs the communicator that Howard built and says, "Use this if you ever need anything. Transportation, directions, advice, anything. I'll always pick up."

"Good to know," I say, taking the communicator. "I'll miss you."

"It's hard not to," she jokes, making us both laugh. She pulls me into a tight hug. She has been my best friend ever since I joined the office. I'm not sure where I would be without her. "I'll miss you too." I enjoy the hug from her, and pull back, knowing I have to get back to the group. "Now go be a leader, and don't be an idiot."

I laugh at that and say, "But that's my natural state." I give her a salute as I walk out, causing her to laugh at my stupidity. I got back to the group, seeing the trucks were all packed.

"Look who decided to join the fun," Dum Dum says, and I send him a sarcastic smile. I hand Steve the backpack filled with the files as I keep the communicator at the moment, knowing Steve won't just use it for emergencies.

"Let's get on the road," Steve says, and we started to get in the truck. Pinky took the first driving shift of the day, leaving Steve, Bucky, Dum Dum, Gabe, Falsworth, Sawyer, Juniper and Morita in the back. I sit down in one of the seats in the corner as Bucky sits down next to me, Steve across from me and everyone sits in the empty seats around us.

It has become an hour till nightfall, and we were a 20 minute walk away from our first base we were going to invade. I started to go over the plan with the group as we all sit in the back of the truck. "From our research, this is an information base. There are only 15 heat signatures, people, from the last time we checked 24 hours ago. That isn't a lot, but we all know what their weapons are capable of."

"We need to surround them, and make this quick. It's an in and out situation. We go in, take out the agents, and get out to blow it to hell," Steve says, and I nod in agreement. We are currently deep into the woods as we all hop out, loading up our guns and making sure we have extra ammo. I put a handgun in my thigh holster, along with a pocket knife in each of my boots and a rifle in hand. I put some extra ammo on my belt, and wait for everyone else to be ready. I also grab a backpack filled with multiple bombs that I need to set in a section of the base.

In the distance, I hear a wolf howling at the full moon, making me hold up my gun in the distance. Behind me I hear Pinky howl back at him, making Gabe slap him to be quiet. "What are you doing?" Gabe whispers irritated.

"What, I wanted to see how far away the wolves are," he says. Then the wolf howls again, and Pinky adds, "2 miles away."

"What are you a howling commando?" Morita says, sarcastically as we start to walk our way towards the base.

"You know, that's not a bad name. We could be the Howling Commandos," Falsworth says, as if he made the name up.

"If we make it out of here alive, you can name the group whatever the hell you want," Bucky says, making the whole group smile. We slowly made it to the edge of the woods, and we started to spread out, about to make the first move. I get to the back of the base, and I hear Steve through the walkie talkie that we need to make our move.

I made my way into the base, shooting at the camera at the entrance, hoping to not reveal who we are. I pushed the door open, and made my way inside. I take my bag and start placing bombs all of the second floor of the building. I hear gunshots around me, but definitely not in my region. I have yet to see a Hydra agent yet. I've been lucky, too lucky. I know I shouldn't have thought of that when I place down my last bomb, setting the timer and I feel a sharp pain on my cheek.

I hiss in pain as I turn around to find a Hydra agent staring me down with an ordinary rifle in his hand, pointing it straight at me. I roll out of the way, making him shoot the window behind me, glass flying everywhere. I grab my rifle, shooting at him. I hit him once in the arm, making him drop his gun but of course my gun jams. I grab my pocket knife and stab him in the stomach once, then twice. I wipe away the blood I feel trickle down my cheek as I see him drop to the floor.

I had one more bomb to place as I go deep in the base. I had only a minute left to place it before the bombs go off again. I get to the final destination, placing my bomb on a metal pipe that is hopefully a gas pipe, 

"The bombs are about to go off, get out of there," Steve says, through the walkie. I start running to an exit. I hear Steve trying to get a hold of me, but I'm more focused on getting out of here than wasting my time telling them I have the walkie talkie. "They are going off in 3...2..." I see the window that the Hydra agent shot at and I run as fast as I can towards it. I quickly jump through the window, hitting the ground hard. The bombs go off behind me, creating a blue flash and sending a wave of smoke and fire over me. I lose my vision for a moment but then I get up as quickly as I could in order to get away from the building.

I cough, knowing that I won't feel good tomorrow, but in pretty good shape other than the cut on my face. "Y/n, do you copy?" I hear Steve say.

I grab the walkie talkie off my belt and press the button and say, "I copy, making my way to you." I get up, grabbing the communicator for Peggy, letting her know we were successful. I jog my back to the truck, finding everyone already gathered up there. Bucky jogs up to me, quickly examining my body to make sure I'm not any more wounded than I already am. He wraps me in a hug, and kisses my forehead, not even having to say anything to tell me that he's glad I'm okay.

"Alright, Howling Commandos. 1 down 4 more to go," Steve says, followed by a little cheer. We get back in the truck, which we celebrated the night with drinks that Dum Dum stole from the base.