The Soldier's Luna (Bucky Barnes x OC)

Chapter 23

The sound of the explosion pierced my ears as parts of the walls started flying. Bucky immediately moved us out of the way and covered me with his bionic arm, taking the hits of the debris. Another explosion occurred, causing us to go airborne. The dust and smoke circled me as it filled my nose and stung when it went into my eyes. Bucky and I skidded down the hall as he held onto me, covering my head and keeping me close to him as much as possible. I coughed and tried to focus, but my head throbbed and everything sounded muffled. I looked around to see that the far end of the hallway was on fire. There was a large hole at the end of the hallway from the explosion.

I felt Bucky pulling me up to my feet. He grasped onto my upper arms and made me look at him. I watched as his lips moved, but I couldn't hear what he was trying to tell me. It sounded like he was underwater, plus there was a horrible ringing noise too.

"What?" I shouted. He tried talking again, but it still wasn't clear. I gestured to my ear and shook my head at him. "I can't hear you!" He grimaced and started to use the hand signals we used when we were on missions whenever we needed to keep quiet. Bucky pointed at me and then at him, he waved his hand towards the hall, followed by pointing his index and middle fingers towards his eyes.

You follow me. Eyes open. I nodded my head in response.

He quickly grabbed my hand and we started to run. I turned around to see what was happening behind me. I realized that men were coming in from the hole that was made by the explosion. When Bucky and I turned the corner, a Hydra agent appeared with his gun at the ready. Bucky quickly pushed me behind him, grasped the gun from the agent, and hit the agent hard enough to knock him unconscious. Bucky grabbed the handgun and gave me the other handgun from the agent's utility belt.

My hearing was starting to come back due to my accelerated healing. "Bucky? Iliana? Are you okay?" I heard Steve through Bucky's com-link.

"Steve, Iliana and I are alright. What's the plan?" Bucky asked.

"There are men on the roof. Stark is trying to take out their helicopter. Get out of the building now. Nat, Hill, and I got the quinjet. We'll pick you up at the front."

"How are we going to get to them?" I asked Bucky.

Bucky pulled me behind a wall to take cover. "You okay?"

I nodded, "Hearing's back."

"Stay close and follow me. We got to take the emergency stairs down."

I nodded my head. There was a risk of the building collapsing if Bucky and I tried to break a wall to jump, even a window might be risky. We didn't know how many innocent workers were in the facility.

Bucky and I ran to the emergency stairs as we shot the men that were still coming into the building. When Bucky opened the emergency stairs' door, an agent was already there. Bucky quickly shoved the man down the stairs. We started to fight our way down the stairs as the men tried to attack us. Shooting at those who were coming from above and below the stairwell. When my magazine was empty, I used my gun to hit the agent in the face and kicked him hard in the stomach. Bucky's gun ran out too. He slammed his metal arm against an agent, causing a few that was behind to fall. Bucky grabbed my waist, went over the railing, and jumped down. As soon as his feet touched the ground, he set me down. We grabbed each other's hands and kicked the emergency door down.

We started to run to the main exit in front of us, but more debris started to fall causing us to dodge and jump over them. As we neared the exit, I felt a rough shove, making me dive down, but I rolled forward so that I could go back on my feet instead of falling. I turned to see that Bucky pushed me out of the way when the building was beginning to collapse more. Large pieces of rubble separated us.