Whiskey | 18+ {Bucky Barnes}

Chapter Five

East Berlin, Germany

Erica held her breath as she opened the heavy metal door; Redwing had sensed about four men in the building, which was already concerning since the base was supposed to be abandoned. Someone knew they would be there next; at least Joaquin wasn't having similar issues. Whoever was behind this new serum movement focused on them, leaving Joaquin to handle business quickly.

The door creaked loudly. "Shit," she mumbled under her breath.

"I thought you were supposed to be stealthy?" Bucky grumbled in the comm.

"I hate you.", Erica spat as she heard the men's loud steps approaching.

"Headed to your location.", Bucky snapped.

"Jesus, what the hell is wrong with you two?" Sam asked.

"Nothing!" Erica and Bucky both snapped. 

Erica waited until the men were closer to being seen before she walked around the corner smiling as she was sporting her tactical gear, dirty blonde hair pulled into a low ponytail.

They stopped in their tracks, looking her up and down.

"It's just a silly woman.", one said with a thick Russian accent smiling as he pulled a knife out.

"Why don't you come to see what this silly woman can do?" Erica batted her eyelashes.

The man looked back at the other one, who nodded and said, "Make it quick."

With approval, the man lunged at Erica, who grabbed his arm and smashed his face into the wall beside her, twisting his arm and making him drop the knife. He groaned and stood up, shaking his head; he swung again. Erica dodged. She was just playing with him at this point. He turned again, hitting her face; she stumbled back a moment. He laughed along with the others, and she looked up at him, smiling as she spat out blood. She stepped back a few feet and took off running, jumping up and wrapping her legs around his neck as she took him down.

"Did you just pull a Romanoff?" Sam asked, checking the scene through Redwings visual.

"She was my mentor.", Erica said as she knocked the man unconscious, turning to the others, "Who's next?"

Bucky had finally shown up. "I see you started without me.", he said, attacking one of the men.

"Stop for drive-thru, did you?" Erica said, running towards one of the men and swinging herself onto his shoulders; she wrestled with him until he fell unconscious.

"I know how you like your Starbucks.", Bucky grumbled as he took down the man he had been fighting with.

"Pick up the pace, Barnes, already on two.", Erica said as she slid past the fourth man running at her; once she cleared him, she stood up and ran for the lab. She stopped and turned in time to catch a knife he had thrown before Bucky got his hands on him; Erica threw the blade back and took off.

"Son of a bitch!" Bucky yelled; Erica turned to see the knife she had just thrown in his thigh.

"Sorry, Barnes!" she yelled, trying not to laugh.

"I missed it. What happened?" Sam asked over the comm.

"She fuckin' stabbed me.", Bucky said, dropping the unconscious man in his arms to the floor and pulling the knife out of his thigh.

"Erica?" Sam tried to stifle his laugh.

"I said Sorry.", Erika laughed, running into the lab.

Erica looked around; filing cabinets turned over, computers smashed. She crouched down and went through some of the papers, and they were all in German. She would have to read these later. She noticed dust was disturbed on one of the computer towers and what looked like a portable drive.  It had no significant markings on it. "Fella's no dice; whoever we're up against has already been here. I did find some documents, all in German.", Erica said into the comm.