Winters War

Chapter 23:

~Trigger warning. This is a dark chapter that involves harm to a child. If you are uncomfortable with this please skip this chapter. If you want to skip but want to know what happens without detail please message me. ~

         After I gain control of myself I push last Bucky and joint the others at the entrance. "Everything okay?"Sam asks. "Peachy."I respond. "Here, before we go in take this."Sam says. Slowly I reach out as my hands feel the barrel of a gun. "I don't want you going in unarmed."he says. "So you trust her with a gun but not me."Zemo says under his breath. "Yeah because of she's going to shoot anyone it's Bucky." "Valid point."Zemo replies.

       Music filled the air the closer we get. That's when  light starts to fight with the darkness and it's beams being me a small amount of comfort. Vials are scattered around tables as we sweep the area. Shockingly there isn't a soul in sight. Out of the corner of my eye in the blue light I see a man. The others take notice and follow my lead. Sam stops the record player forcing the man to turn around. The moment I see his face I nearly drop my damn gun. Until now I never put two and two together, this is the man who helped torture me, who injected me with super soldier serum.

       "Dr.Negal?" Sam questions. "Who are you and what do you want?"he asks. As soon as he finishes the questions his eyes fall on me. My stomach sinks as my anxiety levels rise.  "We know you created the super soldier serum." "Get out of my lab." He demands. "Unless you want this bullet through your chest I suggest you don't take another step."I snap. Again he just watches me.

      He knows who I am, he hast to know who I am. His eyes then jump from myself to Bucky. "You know who they are right."Sam says. "And this is Baron Zemo. I know you've heard of him, too, right? You seem like a pretty smart guy, so you better become conversation real quick." "How about a counter proposal?"Negal suggest, "make me a better offer and I'll talk." "We don't owe you a better offer."I snap again. This time there is more emotion in my voice than I would have liked.

       Suddenly Sharon speaks over the ear pieces, "guys we have company." Bucky then grabs Negal and forces him into a chair. I step in from of him so I can make eye contact with him, so he can see he can't hurt me anymore. "Every bounty hunter in the city is here. We got to go."Sharon tells us. A warning shot is fired forcing him to speak. "Okay, okay. I was brought into Hydra's Winter Soldier program to pick up their work, after the five failed test subjects in Siberia.  When Hydra fell, I was recruited by the CIA. They had blood samples from an American test subject with semi-stable traces of the serum in his system."

Isaiah.

      "After much labor, I was able to isolate the necessary compounds in his blood. I was a god. I did what no other scientist since Erskine was able to do. But mine was going to be different. No clunky machines or jacked up bodies. Mine was going to be subtle, optimized, perfect. Your partner here is the perfect example of my work."he says as he nods to me. Shit.

      "What?"I hear Sam say but I ignore him. "How have we not heard about this"Zemo asks. "Because before I was able to complete my work, I turned to dust. Then when I returned it was five years later, program had been abandoned so I came here. The Powerbroker was more than happy to find the recreation of my work. And I must say it is stunning."he says with a smirk, his eyes looking me up and down.

         "How many vials did you make?" "Twenty. Karli Morgenthau stole nineteen of them and kidnapped my test subject, so I can only imagine what the Power Broker has planned for that poor girl." "Where's Karli now?"I ask. "I don't know where she is, but a couple days ago she called and asked if I could help someone named Donya Madani. Poor woman has tuberculosis. Typical of overpopulation is displacement camps like that."