Winter Soldier x Reader

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All three of us are standing on the mattress, staring at each other. The thought of fighting against my own boss feels little bit odd. No matter if it's just for practising purposes. Looking at the billionare in disbelieve:"...Wh- what you mean by..-", "Don't bother that pretty little head of yours, and just get ready." Tony order while wrapping his knuckles. Little... Clear my throat a bit and shake my head. "Sir, I don't think this is a good idea." try to talk myself out of this. "Show me what's you got shorty." he says bluntly while having his back on me. SHO- My hair arms gets up but I quickly push the feeling down. Steve shifts his eyes between us two, wondering what's going on. "Please don't call me that..." I whisper under my breath. Tony turns to me, looking all smug:"What? Short?". My fist clenches. "That." my voice got stern. But he completely ignores my warning and continues:"What's wrong with that? I'm just stating the obvious; you are short. Little miss--", it all goes dark after that.

The next thing I know is Steve calling my name:"-/N)..! Hey, (Y/N)!!". Blink my eyes wide open, like I've just woken up from under a spell:"Huh..?". "..Get your stinking feet off of my face..!!" Tony struggles in my hold. We are laying on the mattress and I'm holding Tony in full body lock, having his feet wrapped around my arms and my legs around his neck. Immediately I let go after realizing Tony is struggling to breath:"I'M- I'm SO sorry..!!!". Steve quickly steps in, grabs me by the arm and pulls me up to my feet. Tony gasps air and raises himself on all fours. I'm panicking:"Tony, I- I'm so sorry..! I didn't mean to--", "No, no..." he put his finger up for me to stop talking. Staring at my boss all worried. Steve keeps his hand on my shoulder. "(Y/N). What was that all about?" he asks confused. My head shoots up to look at the super-soldier:"I... I-", "She has her own trigger words." Tony says while getting up. Both of us turn to look at him. "What?" Steve frowns and lets go of me. "How did you know?" I ask.

Tony rubs his neck and goes to get his water bottle:"I watched the tapes I found... They all have one thing in common.". "Tapes?" Steve is confused. Tony turns to look at me:"After someone says the trigger words to you, you blackout and fight viciously.". Genius indeed. Steve turns his head to me. I start nodding and cross arms over my chest. Guess I need to address couple things to them. "When I was young, I got bullied a lot... No matter how much my parents talked to the teachers or the parents, the bullies didn't stop. It was bad." I tell them. Steve immediately felt sympathy towards me. After all, if anyone hates bullies, it's him. "I won't go to details what they did to me, but they liked to call me such things as "little" or "short", or anything that kind related.". Tony and Steve, both of them listens to me all ears. "My parents tried to teach me how to defend myself, but I was too scared to even raise my own voice to anyone. Later, they started using this method, where whenever someone says those words to me, I blackout and fight.".

"Did the bulling stop?" Steve raise his eyebrow. Tony says nothing and just keeps staring at me. Letting out a deep sigh:"Yes. It did stop. But so did my education. I got kicked out...". Steve lets out a sigh out of frustration:"Of course they did...". All three of us stand there in silence for a moment. "And I thought my parents were hard on me." Tony chuckles, trying to light up the mood. "Tony..." Steve hisses. "What?" he asks. Then they start bickering with each other. Watching those two heroes 'defending my honor' in their own way makes me smile. Can't help but start giggling at them. Both of them turns to look at me confused. "What's so funny?" Tony frowns irritated. But I keep laughing. I don't wanna move out of the Tower.

Months goes by. I did found a nice little apartment to live in near to the Tower. The Avengers begged me to stay, but because Tony didn't say anything about it, I thought the best thing to do is move out. After all, the place is for the Avengers. And I'm not one of them. But that doesn't mean I can't still hangout with them or use the training room after work. "How is the apartment?" Wanda asks while stretching. "Oh, it's really nice. I can see the shore from the window if I lean reeeeeeaally close to wall." mimicking how much I need to bend over to see it. The girls laugh. I'm now in the training room with Wanda and Natasha, doing our final stretches after an hour training.

Sam storms in:"Hey! There is possible terror attack outside of the city. Get your suits on!". Quickly Natasha jumps on her feet and runs out. Wanda frozes right there. I turn to look at her:"Wanda?". This is her first mission as Avenger, and she looks worried. I grab her hand and her head immediately snaps right at me. Our eyes meet right away. "You'll be fine." giving her a nod with encouraging smile. "...I- I need you (Y/N)." she lets out. My eyes widens:"Huh?". She looks serious:"I need you to be there for me (Y/N). Otherwise, I can't..-", "Alright. Okay... Um--" that got me off guard.

Soon after, me, Wanda, Natasha, Sam and Steve head to the place where the attack is. Steve didn't hesitate when he realized I'm coming with them. For whatever reason, the terrorists have attacked a hospital and terrorising a market that is right next to the building. People are running and screaming while there are men outside with guns. They are all dressed up as somekind of agents with helmets on. Somekind green gass is coming out of the windows. Tear gass? Or maybe something more dangerous? Whatever it is, non of us can get in to take down the bad guys inside, we don't have the right masks for that. "Wanda, do like we've trained." Steve orders and starts running towards the building. Wanda uses her powers and flies Captain America thru one of the windows. I gasp:"But-!", "He's super-soldier, remember? He can take it." Natasha reminds me and starts running towards the bad guys outside. "Right..!" I glance after her then back up where the super-soldier went.

Sam fights the agents outside of the building with his Redwing. The glass doors shatters and the gass escapes thru the doors right us. Shit! Getting ready to cover my mouth, but Wanda uses her powers to trap the gass inside a force field. "Great job Wanda!" I smile at her. She's focused to keeping the gass inside. "..Go help Natasha." she says without looking at me. "You sure?" I ask. "Go!" she yells and I start running where Natasha went. Natasha is unstoppable! She is fighting the agents with her bare hands and I join her. I might not be as good as her, but I get as much bad guys down as she does. They just keep coming. After I get one of the bad guys down and turn to see how Nat is doing, I see there is someone holding her by her hair tightly on top of a van. The guy has weird looking suit with a metal helmet on. "Oh no you don't..!" I run towards them. The guy throws Natasha into the van thru a sealing, drops a grenade in there and closes the top. "NAT!!" I shout while running. It caught his attention.

The man jumps off of the van followed by a heavy thud. "Well, look what we have here..." he hums pleasantly surprised. Without stopping, I attack. Hard to get a good hit when the guy is wearing full body metal armer. But there is a little gab between his helmet and neck. That's the place! Quickly I pull out one of Natasha's zap devices and get the perfect hit on the spot. He gets electrocuted but... No reaction. What?! Our eyes meet. He looks quite scary what can I tell under that helmet. "That doesn't work anymore." he chuckles before he hits me. "Ah-!!" I fly few meters away, landing on one of the markets stalls that breaks under me. People near me starts screaming and running out of the way. Who the hell is this guy?! "Ash..!" holding on my side where I took the hit. The metal man approaches me while I'm trying to get up as fast as I can. "There you are you son of a bitch." he hisses. Getting ready to fight him, this time more prepared. He's about to throw another punch:"I've been waiting for this..!!", but Captain America comes in and takes the hit. "Steve!" I gasp surprised when his body flies further away.

Standing three meters away from the guy. "Don't tell me you have forgot all about me." the bad guy aims his words at me. My head snaps right back to him with stern look:"I don't remember fighting against Ironman from Wish before.". It makes him more angry and he swoop towards me. Steve runs between us and starts fighting against him. They really going at it. There are still some people around, some of them are afraid, some of them keeps taking videos with their phones. How can they time like this?! I try to order them to back off, but they won't listen. Soon, Steve gets a good kick on the guy and he flies few meter in the air, landing on their back. They seem to be out of breath. With fast steps Steve and I walk towards the man, who is now on their knees taking the helmet off. Steve grabs the guy from his vest and turns face to face with him. I'm right behind Steve. Our faces falls when we recognize the man. Brock Rumlow!?