Unchained Melody

Chapter 5

When we finally arrived at the HYDRA base all three of us quickly geared up and headed inside. It seemed as if someone was already here. The door to the tunnels was slightly cracked open. Steve headed in first to take a look, making sure that no one was around and going to ambush us. I followed closely behind with Bucky right on my tail.
After entering there was a creepy old elevator that we had to go down. The elevator leads to a long empty corridor. As we made our way down the hallway we began to hear loud creaking, as if someone was behind us.
Bucky pulled me up the stairs that I was walking up, yanking me behind him before pulling out his gun.
Steve was just a couple of steps in front of Bucky, holding his shield up to protect the two of them in case someone started firing at us.
A robot-looking figure pried through a closed set of barn-style doors. I remembered seeing this suit on the news. It was Iron Man, a.k.a Tony Stark. He uncovered his face as he made his way toward Steve. "You seem a little defensive."
Steve lowered his shield as he walked toward Tony. "Ya, well. It's been a rough day."
Tony looked up at Bucky, who still had his gun pointed at the man's head. "At ease, Soldier. I'm not currently after you."
"Then why are you here?" Steve moved into Tony's line of sight, pulling his attention from Bucky.
Tony scoffs in response to Steve's question. "It has come to my attention that you may have been telling the truth about your friends here."
Bucky lowered his gun before reaching back toward me. Holding his hand out to me so that I can grab it, letting him know I am still there.
Tony's suit covers his face again as he makes his way to the stairs, pushing past Bucky and me, to head towards the area where the soldiers are being held.

There are giant tubes on the outskirts of the room, and computers in the middle. We walk up the stairs and the lights turn on, revealing that the soldiers all had bullet wounds to their heads. Bucky and I both raise our guns as Tony raises his hand, ready to shoot if necessary.
Zemo began speaking over an intercom. "If it helps, they all died peacefully in their sleep. It's a shame, you really thought I wanted to create more of you."
My focus hopped around the room while Steve talked to the man in the small window on the other side of the room. He was explaining his intentions. Why he did it, what he wanted, blah blah blah.
"W-What's this?" Tony's voice pulled my attention to a computer monitor.

The monitor was showing surveillance tapes of a car accident. I tried to watch closely. I didn't know what was happening. It was nothing I remember being part of while with HYDRA.
A motorcycle rode up behind the crashed car as a man fell out of the driver's side. Another man, from the motorcycle, came into frame. He grabbed the man's hair and pulled him up off the ground.

My eyes widened as they shot up to Bucky. My hand instinctively came up to cover my mouth as my jaw dropped, shaking slightly. I had never seen this before. This had to have been one of those missions that they didn't want me on. Just him. My stomach was tied into knots as the video proceeded.

You could hear a woman crying in the background. The man who appeared to be Bucky had hit the other man in the face, not once, but twice. He positioned him back in the car before walking around to the other side and reaching into the car, staring straight ahead. Suddenly the cries stopped. Then walking to the camera and taking a shot, ending the video.

You couldn't even deny that it was Bucky at that point. The tension in the room changed completely, growing more intense by the second.
Steve looked over to Tony before reaching behind and signaling me to go. Something bad was going to happen and he knew it. He then grabbed onto Tony's suit before he could attempt to hurt Bucky. "Tony, don't. He didn't know what he was doing. They made him do it."
Tony turned to look at Steve. "Did you know?"
Steve hesitated for a second, "I didn't know it was him."
Tony got up into Steve's face, "Don't bullshit me."
"Yes."
Tony took a step away from Steve before striking him.

Now, I know this seems exciting. And I would love to watch as the people I care about get the shit beat out of them by probably the richest man alive. I felt that it was important to go and find where HYDRA had left behind files.
There were files among files of information about the organization. Luckily for me, I knew how to read Russian, they had taught me. Missions that they had organized, people a part of the organization, and even information about their Winter Soldiers.
I grabbed one of the old file boxes that were laying on the ground and grabbed as much as I could. Making sure that I grabbed more of the important documents. I wanted to leave behind the documents about the Soldiers. No one needs to know that the child they thought was, in my case, killed in action, was secretly being tested on in a Nazi torture dungeon. The people who lost their families to this organization deserve to know. If the government can help to inform people or find more people a part of this, then it needs to be done.
After grabbing what I thought were the most important files, I lit the whole room up. On fire to be exact. Anyone that could get their hands on this stuff is a threat to how people live.

I grabbed my box after I watched it burn for a little bit, and headed towards the elevator. The whole structure shook under my feet. As I walked outside I could see the panther figure that had attacked Bucky while we were in Romania. I dropped my box and rushed over to see him on the ground, holding Zemo in a chokehold. I grabbed zip ties out of my pocket and secured them on Zemo before pulling him off of the man.
He stood up and looked at me. This time he wasn't wearing his helmet so I could see his face.
"Greetings. And Thank you." He had an echo to his voice. Made him seem fairly intimidating. "I am T'Challa. King of Wakanda."
I turned around and walked back over to my box, picking it back up and walking it over to the Quinjet. "I am Melody, a friend of the man you almost killed for a crime he didn't commit."
"And I am deeply sorry for that. I was led by rage. Hopefully, you can understand that."
"It's all good my dude. I was tortured and forced to murder people against my own will in order to keep them from killing me. It is what it is." I faked a smile as I got onto the jet and turned it on, hoping it would generate enough heat for me to not freeze my ass off. "You know. You men haven't changed. You let your anger cloud your judgment to a point where you will destroy people without any proof of what you're fighting for."
He had followed me onto the jet. Setting Zemo down in one of the seats towards the back of the jet, positioning himself in front of him so he couldn't get up and run away. "What can I do to repay you?"
"You know what I just did?" I sat down sideways in the pilot seat, my legs dangling over one armrest while my head hung upside down over the other. Watching the entrance while we waited for the children to finish their squabbles before coming outside. "I collected evidence of the horrible things that people did here. The torture. The pain. And then I started the rest on fire, because even though I'm angry and want to burn this place to the ground. I want justice for the people like me, yet I don't believe that their families should go through something worse than what Steve is suffering from. If people get their hands on those files down there they can tell the families of those soldiers that while they thought their father, mother, brother, or sister died a noble death, they were secretly being experimented on and tortured by Nazis just to be put to sleep for years and get murdered by some douche wanting to watch the world burn. And even if they had this information, they couldn't do jack shit about it. Or destroy the families of people who were lost due to the crimes committed by these people. Or some evil sadistic fuck that is on a power trip finds it, agrees with their views, and decides they want to be a part of this fucked up organization." I turned my head to look over at him. "Now I know you can't get back what HYDRA took from me. And unless you can give back what that fucker right there took from me then. Then no. There's nothing you can do."
He stood quietly for a minute. Nodding to himself as he took in everything I said. "I might be able to help somewhat. You can come to Wakanda and take shelter with your friend while all of this settles down. I know you won't have anywhere to go."
I shook my head and looked back out the window. "I will speak to my brother and discuss it. I still don't know if I can trust you."
I stood up as soon as I saw Steve and Bucky walking from the bunker towards the jet. Walking over to the box of files, grabbing out one labeled 'Субъект Осирис', which translates to 'Subject Osiris'. I slipped it into my backpack before throwing it on my back and stepping off the jet. "We will be in touch, your highness."