Sam

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Next day. morning. In D.C. 
Cap knocked on Sam's door. 

Sam opened it "Hey, man."

Steve " I'm sorry about this. We need a place to lay low."

Me "Everyone we know is trying to kill us. "

Sam shook his head  "Not everyone"
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I was sitting on the bed. 

Cap walked over to me "Ley?"

I looked at him.

He kneeled down in font of me "you okay?"

I nodded. 

Cap " What's going on?"

I looked down. 

Cap "Fury told me about your past about you and HYDRA"

Me "what else did he tell you?"

Cap "That you are on the run from them. "

Me "did he tell you why?"

Cap shook his head "no"

I nodded "good. I owe you."

Cap nodded " It's okay."

Me " If it was the other way around, and it was down to me to save your life, and you be honest with me, would you trust me to do it?"

Rogers "I would now. And I'm always honest."

Me "Well, you seem pretty chipper for someone who just found out they died for nothing."

Rogers" Well, I guess I just like to know who I'm fighting."

Sam walked in "I made breakfast. If you guys...eat that sort of thing."


In the kitchen. 

Me " So, the question is: who in SHIELD could launch a domestic missile strike?"

Cap "Pierce."

Me "Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world."

Cap "But he's not working alone, Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star."

Me "So was Jasper Sitwell."

Cap " So, the real question is: how do the two most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?"

Sam "The answer is: you don't."

he dropped a file on the table. 

Cap "What's this?"

Sam " Call it a resume. "

I looked at it "Is this Bakhmala? The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you. You didn't say he was a para-rescue. "

Cap "Is this Riley?"

Sam " Yeah."

Me "I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs. What did you use, a stealth chute?"

Sam "No. These. "

He handed Steve a file. 

Cap "I thought you said you were a pilot."

Sam " I never said pilot."

Cap shook his head  " I can't ask you to do this, Sam. You got out for a good reason."

Sam "Dude, Captain America needs my help. There's no better reason to get back in."

Cap "Where can we get our hands on one of these things?"

Sam " The last one is at Fort Meade, behind three guarded gates and a twelve-inch steel wall. "

me "shouldn't be a problem"


On a rooftop. 

Sam had brought Sitwell to us. 

Steve threw Sitwell across a rooftop, Natasha followed behind him.

Rogers "Tell me about Zola's algorithm."

Sitwell shook his head "Never heard of it."

Cap " What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?"

Sitwell " I was throwing up, I get seasick"

Steve forced Sitwell to the edge of the rooftop.

Sitwell smiled " Is this little display meant to insinuate that you're gonna throw me off the roof? Because it's really not your style, Rogers."

He nodded "You're right. It's not. It's hers."

Then i kicked him off the rooftop. 

He screamed as he fell down. 

Sam flew down to him, grabbed him and brought him back to the roof. 

Sam's got some wings on him now. 

Sitwell cried out " Zola's algorithm is a program...for choosing Insight's targets!"

Cap " What targets?"

Sitwell "You! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa city. Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to HYDRA! Now, or in the future."

Cap " The Future? How could it know?"

Sitwell laughed "How could it not? The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it.  Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future."

Cap " And what then?"

Sitwell "Oh, my God. Pierce is gonna kill me."

I yelled " What then?!"

Sitwell "Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few million at a time."

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