Pain and Victory

Солдат

Ashton's pov

There wasn't a lot of room in the car, so Natasha sat on my lap in the back with Sitwell next to us. I have my arms wrapped around her waist. We're headed down the freeway. "HYDRA doesn't like leaks." Sitwell says and I roll my eyes. "Then why don't you stick a cork in it?" Sam says and I snort. Sitwell glares at me and I smirk back. Natasha leans forward and my hands go to her hips. "Insights launching in 16 hours. We're cutting a little bit close here." She says. "I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the helicarriers directly." Steve says. Sitwell sits forward and I grab him and hold him back with one arm. "What? Are you crazy?" He asks. "A little bit." I say with a smirk. "That is a terrible idea." He says and I release him. All of a sudden, there's a thud on the roof. We look up as Sitwell is snatched from the car. I shield Natasha from the shattered glass. I push her up onto Steves lap and move over to the other side as bullets fly through the roof. Steve throws the car into park and we screech to a stop, the assalent flying off the roof. I see who it is. "Солдат." (Soldier) I mumble under my breath. Natasha goes to fire at him with her gun when we arm rammed from behind by a jeep. I fly forwards, smacking my head off the back of Sams seat. 

The jeep pushes us forward, towards the Soldier. He jumps over the car and lands on the trunk. Sam hits the breaks and the Soldier climbs back to the roof. He punches through the windshield and snatches the steering wheel as Natasha starts to fire at him. "Shit!" Sam shouts. I try to hit the Soldier with a fireball, but he dodges away. He jumps on the and we speed ahead. The jeep rams us again. We hit the concrete wall separating the lanes. "Hang on!" Steve grabs Natasha and Sam. He rips the door off and uses it to soften their fall. I fly out the top as the car flips. I'm immediately grabbed around the ankle and slammed into the jeep. I groan and the jeep screeches to a stop. The Soldier punches me hard with his metal arm, causing me to get dizzy. "Большой брат, давно не виделись." (Big brother, long time no see.) I say as I roll off the jeep. He throws another punch and I block it. "Они снова ранили твой разум." (They hurt your mind again.) I say as I throw a punch. He blocks it and headbutts me. "Я не знаю кто ты." (I don't know who you are.) He growls as he throws another punch at my gut. I grab his shoulders and look at face that's covered by a mask. "Это я. Твой мармелад." (It's me. Your jelly bean.) I tell him and he falters. He recovers quickly and back hands me with his metal arm, sending me flying back. I groan and sit up. I see him fire a grenade at Steve and Natasha. Steve pushes Natasha out of the way and the grenade hits his shield with a large explosion, sending him fling over the edge of the freeway.

HYDRA agents start firing and I grab Natasha and Sam to drag them to cover. We end up behind a minivan. Natasha starts firing with her gun as I fire with, well, fire. The Soldier fires another grenade at us. Natasha leaps over the wall between the lanes as I duck behind another car. Natasha runs down the lane and I run at the agents firing at her. The soldier fires another grenade at her and she leaps over the edge as a car explodes. I tackle the Soldier and we roll on the ground. "Прекрати! Пожалуйста! Я не хочу делать тебе больно!" Stop it! Please! I don't want to hurt you!) I yell as I roll on top of him. "Я тебя не знаю!" (I don't know you!) He shouts as he rolls me forward off of him. He straddle and starts punching my face. Then, all of a sudden he is tackled by Steve. I try to sit up and shake my head. A Hydra agent comes up behind me and roughly puts my in a headlock. I try to stand up, but what happens next freezes my body. "шестнадцать." (Sixteen.) The agent says and my body freezes. "Огонь." (Fire) He continues and my head starts pounding. "Смерть." (Death.) He says. Every nerve in my body feels like it's on fire. "Страх." (Fear.) He continues. Steve and the soldier come in my line of sight. Then something in me wakes up. Realizing what's happening, I bring my knees to my chest. I rock forward and flip the Agent over my shoulder. My entire body is literally on fire. "Bucky?" Steve says. The Soldier steps forward. "Who the hell is bucky?" He asks. 

A grenade gets launched at him and he ducks. I turn and see Natasha with the grenade launcher. She stumbles and leans into the car. That's when I see her shoulder. There's blood running down it. I put out the fire and thankfully my clothes weren't burnt to ash. We get completely surrounded and the agents yell at us to surrender. I go to set them on fire when one grabs Natasha and holds her at gunpoint. "On your knees, Ashton!" The agent shouts at me and I see that it's Rumlow. I growl but do as I'm told. I drop to my knees and I get handcuffed with Steel handcuffs. A power dampening collar is put on my neck. A gun is pushed to my head. Rumlow looks at the helicopter and turns to the agent. "Put the gun down. Not here." He says. I'm dragged to my feet and thrown in the back of a van with the others. I see Steve has similar handcuffs. "It was him. He looked right at me like he didn't even know me." Steve says. "How is that possible? That was like 70 years ago." Sam says. "Zola. Zola must have done something to him." I say. Steve looks at me. "How did you know him?" Steve asks me. "I told you, The Winter Soldier trained me. But he was more than just my mentor." I say. Steve looks at me. "What do you mean?" Steve asks. 

"I was 16 when I was sold to hydra. They put me in the same cell as The Winter Soldier. For a week they left us there and at first neither of us talked. He was the first one to break the silence because I was horrified to even move. He offered me some jelly beans." I say with a soft smile. "He tried to protect me as much as he could. He was the one who taught me english. We'd talk for hours. When he came back from missions, He would always bring me jelly beans and him some plums. He'd tell me about the outside world. I loved the jelly beans so much that he started to call me jelly bean. And I called him big brother. Because that's what he was. He was my big brother. For 4 years, we stayed in the same cell. He trained me in hand to hand almost everyday. Then one day, I was dragged away as he was held at gunpoint. He shouted that he would find me again. That's when the experiments started. I never saw him again until today. They whipped his memory. He doesn't remember a thing. The memories are there. Just buried very, very deep. None of this is your fault steve" I tell him before he can start blaming himself. 

"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky." He says. I feel Natasha lean against me. I look at her as does Sam. "We need to get a doctor here. if we don't put pressure on the wound. She's gonna bleed out here in the truck." Sam says. An agent pulls out an electric baton and points it at Sam. I try to move towards the agent but the collar shocks me. I tense and groan in pain. Then the agent does something unexpected. They turn the baton and jab the other agent beside them. I watch in confusion as the agent kicks the other on, knocking them out. The agent takes off their helmet and I smile. "Ah that thing was squeezing my brain." She says as she looks at us. "Nice to see you to, Maria." I say and she smiles back at me.