The Alchemist Journey of Power

Chapter 12

"What is it?" She asked probably noticing my serious tone.

"That board member. Mr. Pierce? He keeps lying with every single word. His heartbeat keeps racing like someone worried to be found out." I explained.

"Thanks for the heads up. I had my suspicions but I'm glad you noticed as well. Would you mind helping with something?" She glanced around to make sure no one was listening in.

"No I don't mind. What can I do?" This must be rather important.

"Back us up while we take Jasper Sitwell with us. He is an important person in this and I think we'll be under attack on the road." She made sure to keep her voice down.

"All right." Finally something different from raiding a believed hide-out.

"There is something you should know. We believe they have a super soldier like Steve. Over the past seventy years he is believed to have a hand in several murders. I had an escort mission years ago. The man I escorted died and I have a scar to remind me of that failed mission." 

"Any particular looks that make that person stand out?" I wondered.

"Male, brown middle-long hair. Always wears a mask on the bottom-half and black goggles around the eyes which all makes it hard to identify the guy."  She described it and I groaned.

"So nothing special then. I see." Just any random guy could be a potential assassin then.

"Well aside from being a master at assassination and the same abilities as Steve, no. Oh don't let anyone know about this. For now, we can't trust anyone but each other, Steve and agent Hill."

"Understood." And I left her to do as told. She left with Steve and a guy I heard them call Sam. They found a bald guy with glasses and in a suit. After a little...roughhousing, Natasha noticed me and signed that the plan was a go. A short nod from my side that I had understood, and I followed them on a motorcycle I 'borrowed', a few cars behind them to not seem suspicious.

Suddenly a man was on the car, had ripped Sitwell out of it, and threw him into the other side of the road. Touching the ground, A cocoon of stone wrapped itself around the man. I checked to see if he was alive.

"Stay here. Don't move at all. I will come back for you." I warned the man. 

"Who are you?" He looked terrified. Smelled like it too.

"Romanoff's ally. Bye." I closed the cocoon but left a small hole for air.

"Leona, a little help would be appreciated."

"On my way. Your package is still in one piece by the way." They were rammed and the guy that ripped Sitwell out, now ripped the steering wheel out of the car through the roof. "So you have a metal arm... let me take care of that for you." I muttered.

Running to the van, I grabbed onto whatever I could and put my weight and strength into stopping it. They shot at me making me let go, which launched me a few feet away. Then they nudged the car again making it swerve around as Sam had no way of steering it. It eventually crashed and rolled. 

They fell out on a car door and cap's shield. Sam rolled off first. I made the stone in the road, shield him from bullets as I ran and crashed into some of the assassins. It distracted them from their initial targets. I knocked out most of them, but the metal armed guy kept standing.

'All right, if you won't go down this way, perhaps I should do something about that arm.' I thought. But he had turned back to go after cap and Natasha. He jumped off the bridge at some point and landed on a car then walked off of it loading a gun. "That was pretty cool you have to admit." I couldn't help but comment.

"Focus Leona." Natasha replied. "Deliver Sitwell to Hill." She ordered.

"All right, be careful." I went back to Sitwell only to find him killed. the cocoon had been blown up. pieces of Sitwell were everywhere. Smart move.

With a sigh I informed the others. "Sitwell is blown to pieces." I told them.

"Shit. Well come here then and help Sam." Steve answered.

"Okay." I helped Sam stay safe and shoot the assassins. The metal-armed guy went after Nat and Cap went after him while we took the others down. The metal guy's arm sparked at some point and his hand twitched. Metal doesn't twitch as far as I know.

"So there is still natural material in there. Fun." I muttered.

"Huh?" Sam reacted.

"If I can touch that guy's metal arm, I can disable it and we could take him down." 

"Well? What are you waiting for?" He wondered.

"I can't get there and keep you safe. Besides fire is my weakness. One well-placed explosion and I can't do much." I didn't particularly care for that bit.

"Go help civilians then. I'll help cap." We nodded in agreement and went our own ways. I made sure civilians were safe and found Natasha after a big explosion happened.

"Natasha?" I checked her over with my eyes. Her shoulder was bleeding. "Your shoulder." I reached for it wanting to fix it.

"I'm fine. Don't worry." I still did what I wanted to do and healed her shoulder. Or I tried to, at least.

"Does it hurt?" I hoped not, as I never did this before.

"No just a bit sore. Thanks." She smiled lightly.

"What do we do now?" That got answered by a group led by Rumlow.

"Hands up people. You are under arrest." I was shot with a tranquilizer. I hate my human side for that. It wasn't strong enough to really make me unconscious, I just had no energy to do anything.

"Get in. and pull the bitch in too." I hissed at the name-calling, but it probably didn't sound even a little threatening. Sam helped me up as Natasha pretended to still be hurt. Inside the van Steve told us a random story, about some Pucky or something. Perhaps a dog? I didn't quite follow it as my body worked on re-energizing. As a test, I took one of the capsules Tony and Dr Banner invented for me. 

The capsule helped but didn't quite satisfy me.  I would need the real thing quite soon.
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And so the Winter Soldier has made his appearance. What will Leona's role be in this?

Let me know what you think and have a nice week!!