*narrator pov*
Sam was on the phone to his friend Torres, when Bucky walked in.
"Okay, that doesn't seem like a big problem" Sam said.
"What's the problem?" Bucky asked. He had just got back from the states, from going to see you, unsuccessfully.
Sam nodded in greeting, then said "car crash." He decided to put Torres on speaker so Bucky could hear. Torres was on site, looking around.
"Anyone hurt?" Bucky wondered, while pouring a drink.
"See, that's the weird thing..." Torres started. "There's no one in either car..."
"What happened to the drivers?" Sam enquired.
"Exactly what I thought. No one knows."
"Helpful" Sam sighed sarcastically. "But a car crash and missing persons... why not let the police handle it? We're kind of busy with Karli right now."
"Yeah about that..."
Bucky started to listen properly.
"One of the cars was registered to a member of the Flag Smashers."
Bucky and Sam exchanged nervous glances.
"What about the other car?" Sam wondered.
"Hang on, I'll ask..."
There was quiet, only a little rustle, on the other end of the phone.
"You're not going to believe this" Torres said. Where he was, he walked over to the other car and began to look around inside through the broken door.
"What?" Sam asked. Bucky got closer to the phone as he was still listening in.
"This car belongs to Tony Stark."
Bucky froze.
Sam noticed.
"Buck, you found y/n, right?"
"Mhm."
"Was she with Tony?"
"Mhm."
"Wait I found something" Torres informed them.
They turned to listen again.
"There's a phone..." Torres said, examining it. He saw the photo on the Lock Screen - a mirror pic. A guy standing behind a girl, with his arms around her, kissing her cheek while she smiled at the camera.
Torres recognised one of them.
"Did you say Bucky had a girlfriend?" Torres asked.
"Yes, why?" Sam answered.
"Call her..."
Bucky quickly pulled out his phone and called you.
They could hear the faint sound of ringing in the background of the call with Torres.
"It's ringing..." Torres sighed.
"Yeah we heard" Bucky frowned, looking for another contact on his phone.
There was a moment of pitiful silence.
"Okay thank you Torres" Sam said.
"I'll keep you updated" he ended the call.
Sam turned to Bucky, who started yelling down the phone.
"Are you kidding me?! You let her leave?! ... No she is not fine! ... Oh please! This is your fault! I can't believe I left her with you! ... I should've known! ... No! You can stay out of it now! ... No! Goodbye!"
Bucky hung up on Tony.
"You okay?" Sam asked.
Bucky was infuriated, as he picked up something from a table and threw it at the wall.
"I'll take that as a no..."
"How could I possibly be okay, Sam?"
"I'm taking it things didn't go as planned when you went to see her?"
"Obviously not!" Bucky spat. "And now she's seriously in trouble!"
"Don't worry. We're gonna find her."
"How?!"
"Karli sent Sarah the address for us to meet her at. I suggest we go and talk to her."
"Right. Talk."
"Bucky, I'm not playing around here. Karli's dangerous, and if she's the one that stole that device thing you were talking about... I guess y/n is really in trouble."
"No shit. What do you think I've been saying?"
"My point is... if Karli has y/n, we shouldn't just go and attack her. We need to talk."
"Fine" Bucky hesitantly agreed.
———
"Karli!" Sam yelled as they walked in to the courtyard.
They spotted her, leaning over a balcony.
Bucky and Sam headed up the stairs to face her.
"You called my sister?" Sam asked. "That's how we're gonna play this?"
"Sam I would never hurt her. I just wanted to understand you better" Karli claimed.
"What about y/n?" Bucky marched forward. "You'd hurt her? Where is she?!"
Sam put an arm out to stop Bucky from getting too close.
"Who?" Karli asked.
"Y/n! Where is she?"
"I don't know who you're talking about."
"Stop lying!"
"You have to end this now" Sam warned.
"I don't want to hurt you. You're just a tool in the regimes I want to destroy" Karli said, and she looked at Bucky. "And I'm not lying. I don't know who you're talking about."
"I know you're lying. She was taken. By someone that has something to do with the Flag Smashers."
"I promise you. Whatever happened had nothing to do with me. Now you should either join me, or let me go. You'd be doing the world a favour."
"Hey Sam" Sharon's voice came from a device on his wrist. "New Cap is moving. Looks like he's found them, or maybe they found him."
"It's Walker" Sam looked at Bucky.
Bucky jumped off the balcony, but Karli followed and kicked him aside. Sam jumped down next to her, and they started to fight.
"I'll send you the location. Go" Sam told Bucky, and he ran off.
Sam used his wings to fly off into the air, and Karli ran after Bucky.
Sam crashed through a window of the building Walker was on, just as he knocked someone to the ground. With an unusually great amount of force.
"What'd you do?" Sam asked.
"They've got Lemar" Walker explained, and headed off the find him.
When Bucky arrived at the building, he got inside and ran up some stairs.
No one seemed to be around, until someone jumped out of nowhere, trying to choke him.
Bucky punched him back and kicked him down the stairs.
"Stay there" he warned, and walked away from him.
Suddenly, a scream rang through the halls.
Bucky instantly ran in the direction it had come from.
He found Sam and Walker, and started fighting with them.
After a while, Karli joined the fight from out of no where.
Bucky looked around, as he thought he had heard something, but someone came at him with a knife, so he went back to fighting.
———
*several minutes ago*
You woke up on a cold, hard floor.
When you tried to move, you found your hands were tied together by chains, which were wrapped around a pillar in the middle of the room.
You tried to pull your wrists apart, but you were unsuccessful.
You tried to use your powers to help you.
But a burning sensation pained around your neck, and quickly spread through the rest of your body.
You urged your powers to work more, but it seemed to be making the pain worse.
You looked down, and around your neck was some sort of necklace, burning into your skin.
You raised your hands up and tugged at it, but it was attached to you like a magnet. It wouldn't come off.
As soon as you stopped trying to use your powers, the pain stopped too.
You quickly realised... this was what Bucky and Tony had been talking about. It was the device that was meant to stop you.
Two people approached you, but you didn't realise until they were holding one of your arms each.
They undid the chain from around the pillar, and although your wrists were still tied together, you took the opportunity to try and get away.
They pulled you up, and you kicked back at one of them.
You swung your hands at the other, and the chains hit them in the face.
A third person came into the room, and kicked you in the back so you fell to your knees. They grabbed onto your hair and held your head up. You screamed out in pain, and they placed a knife against your neck.
A fourth person walked in - a girl - Karli.
"Who is this?" she asked worriedly.
"This is something the power broker wants. We thought we could get it first, and reason with him."
Karli walked up to you.
You gulped nervously, feeling the metal blade pressing against your skin.
"Are you y/n?"
You nodded slowly, cautious of the knife.
"Get her out of here. You've just complicated things to much more" Karli sighed, then turned to leave.
As she opened a door, you heard fighting come from the other room.
"Bucky!" you tried to yell, but someone had already forced something into your mouth.
Before you could do anything, you felt something hit the back of your head, before falling to the floor and feeling nothing.
———
As they had been fighting, Sam had noticed something small out of Bucky's pocket.
When Karli had left with the other super soldiers, Sam picked it up and sighed pitifully.
"You dropped this" he frowned, giving him your ring back.
"Thank you" he nodded as he took it, and secured it in his jacket pocket.
"Buck, I'm sorry."
"Whatever. Let's go."
