Complicated Love (Bucky Barnes x Reader)

Chapter 22: All is Lost

"Are you sure this is going to work?" Falsworth asks as we see from below us Steve being surrounded by Hydra agents. My instincts wanted to jump down there and fight all of the agents surrounding him, but I know I have to stick to Steve's plan.

"We'll see, won't we?" I say. We were currently up on a mountain that faced the main headquarters of the Hydra base, where we are hoping that's where the Hydra agents will take Steve. I see Schmidt in there, soaking in all of the glory that he believes he's going to have now having Captain America in his grasp. After a while, I see a group of Agents bringing in Steve towards Schmidt.

"Here we go," Dum Dum says, as we all get our grappling hooks ready.

Once we were all ready, I yelled, "Now!" We all shot our grappling hooks towards the window where Steve was and zipped our way down there. Once we were close enough, I prepared myself for the impact of the glass as we broke through. I grab my rifle and shoot the agents holding Steve, and before I could get to Schmidt, he runs away. I get Steve by the arm and run toward Schmidt.

"Rogers! You might need this!" Falsworth says before we leave, throwing Steve his shield. Steve thanks him as we run in the direction of the red freak. We ran through the Hydra hallways, gunshots ringing through my ears. We finally caught up to Schmidt and Steve throws his shield at him, which Schmidt ducks, and the shield gets caught in closing doors, keeping it open. We ran to go follow him, but a Hydra agent with a flamethrower came our way.

Steve grabs me and pulls us to an indent in the wall to try and not get burnt. Load gunshots ring again in my ears, and the flames stop, indicating someone shot the Hydra agent down. The body was caught on fire, and we walked passed in, finding Peggy. Thank god she's alright. "You're late," Steve says to her, and I roll my eyes. I get it, true love and all but this is really not the time.

They took a moment to stare at each other and then Peggy interrupted by saying, "weren't you about to..."

"Yes we were," I say, tugging Steve by his sleeve.

"Right." I ran underneath the shield that was caught in the doors, and Steve grabbed it, running behind me. We ran to what seems to be the garage of the base, and I see Schmidt taking a large plane out of here.

"He's getting away!" I yell.

"Not for long," he says. "Hold on." He grabs me, and runs up grabbing a chain and letting us go over all of the fighting soldiers and land on the other side while we continue our chase, but we aren't fast enough. I heard a screeching sound next to me, and I saw Colonel Phillips driving a car with Peggy in the back.

"Get in!" Phillips yells. I get in the front seat as Steve sits next to Peggy in the back. Phillips drove as fast as he could, catching up with the plane.

Steve and I started to get ready to jump onto the plane as Steve yelled, "Keep it steady!"

"Wait!" I hear Peggy yell. I turn around to see her grab Steve by the collar and pull him in for a kiss. "Go get him," she says after letting him go.

I smile at their cute interaction that was interrupted by Phillips who said, "I'm not kissing ya" when Steve looked at him surprised. We drive closer to the plane, and I see one of the blades coming at us. I duck under, and Steve uses his shield to cover us. We get on the hood of the car, and I could see the edge of the road approaching. Steve grabs my waist, throwing me up onto the plane, and he quickly jumps up on the set of wheels I landed on. I look back, and thankfully I see Peggy and Colonel Phillips still safely on the road.

The wheel entered the plane, giving us stable ground to finally step on. I look around seeing multiple bombs around us. I see one labeled Los Angeles, Chicago, and the one that stocked out to me the most, New York City. They all need to be piloted by agents, and I see the agents coming our way, but it doesn't seem like they see us. There were a total of six of them, all armed with...pocket knives. I'm not complaining about what happened to their glowing guns.

Steve jumps behind them, scaring them, and I jump on the other side of them. Two of them come after me, while the others go after Steve. I would be hurt if I was worried about not being stabbed at the moment. One tries to stab my shoulder, but I dodge it, grabbing his wrist, and flipping him onto his back. I take the pocket knife out of this hand, but he kicks me over the railing, making me land near one of the bombs. I groan, getting on my feet as the two agents come after me.

I see an opening behind me from one of the bombs dropping, and a guy running at me full speed. Once he was close enough, I stepped to the side and tripped his feet, watching him fall thousands of feet. I turn to see the other guy coming after me. I grab my pocket knife out of my boot and throw at him, which he dodged and he threw his at me which fell behind me. He punches me in the gut, making me fall on my back. He grabs my throat, pull me towards the edge of the opening. My head can feel the wind whipping passed me as the air in my lungs escape.

I choke out for air, and trying to find a way to get out of this situation and I see something fly a couple feet away from me. A red white and blue shield. I could see the guy's eyes look at the shield as well, knowing that he sees it too. He takes his hands off me, and I take the opportunity of him hovering over me to kick where the sun doesn't shine the brightest. He groans, clutching his area in pain. I grab the shield and smack him in the head, making him fly out of the opening.

I hear a crash behind me, and I hold up the shield in defense, but I noticed it was Steve. "You know, you might want to stop losing this," I say, tossing him his shield.

"You know you're not my mother," Steve says.

"Oh really? Then why do I always need to take care of you?" I say, and I see him smile lightly. "Let's go find Schmidt." We walk through the airplane, until we get to the door leading to the cockpit. He steps in front of me and slowly opens the door, not finding anyone. I held up my handgun that was in my thigh holster, pointing it at any sudden movements. We walk up to the control center, and in the very center of the room was a glowing holder thing. Maybe that's the same power that powers the guns Hydra has.

I point my gun at the chair that was turned away from us, until I heard the recoil of the Hydras gun. Steve grabs me, and protects us from the blast with his shield. "You don't give up, do you?" he asks.

"Nope!" Steve and I say in unison.

"Try and redirect the plane," Steve says, and I nod. Steve approaches Schmidt as I approach the control center. I look around, trying to find the correct buttons to turn this plane around, but I don't see anything. I flew an airplane before, but nothing of this size. I grab the control wheel, and try to turn the wheel to go the opposite direction.

Suddenly, Schmidt grabs my shoulders, turning me around to face his unique red face. "Not a hero today," he says, taking a pocket knife in his hand. He tries to stab me, but only cuts my forehead due to Steve pushing him away from me and into the control panel, messing with the controls. Because of this, the plane redirects hurtling downwards. I fly back, thanks to gravity. Steve and Schmidt roll around, and I try to make my way back to the control panel, not wanting to plunge into the ground.

I pull the control wheel up, making us level. "Y/n, look out!" Steve yells. I turn around seeing Schmidt holding his gun.

"You," he says in disgust, shooting at me, but I ducked. "A woman fighting for freedom?" he laughs, shooting again but misses. "It's quite pathetic. You have lost it all," he shoots again but I jump out of the way. I get to Steve, and Schmidt shoots at us. "You could have the power of the gods!" Steve grabs me, making us run towards his shield on the other side of the cockpit. "Yet you wear a flag on your chest and think you fight a battle of nations!" Shoots again but barely misses us. "I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!"

"Not my future," Steve says, and grabs his shield. Schmidt shots him again, which was deflected and Steve throws his shield at him. He flies back into the center glowing holder, which starts to go crazy.

"What have you done?" he asks. I see a glowing cube, which is obviously the source of power, and he shouldn't have it. I quickly take the cube in my hand, trying to get it out of his grasp. I feel a surge go through me from the cube to every part of my body. It's making me feel like I have hundreds of knives in my body going through me at once. It was so painful I started seeing stars. Everything was going blue, then to black, and the pain went away.