Broken

Six

I sit in the middle of the backseat with Nat on my right and Sitwell to my left. "HYDRA doesn't like leaks." He says still freaked out about being killed. "Then why don't you try sticking a cork in it?" I tell him tired of the complaining.
"Insight's launching in 16 hours. We're cutting it a little bit close here." Nat tells the rest of the car.
"I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the helicarriers directly." Steve states the plan. "What? Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea." Suddenly a thud hits the top of our car, Sitwell's pulled out of the window and thrown in front of a bus driving the other way. "Oh fuck!" I shift on top of the car, seeing the man aiming to shoot inside the car. I quickly kick him off making him fall, and fly in front of the car. I shift back into the car as Sam breaks, leaving 20 ft between us and him. "That's him." Steve says before we're rammed into from behind, my entire body hit on impact. We're pushed closer and closer to him as he gets back on top. I can see Sam pushing on the brake but the car pushing us kept us moving.
On top of the car he pulls the steering wheel out from through the windshield. I pull my gun out and start to shoot up at him. He runs off our car and onto the roof of the one pushing us. They back off for a moment and we have no control of the vehicle. I see them start to rev up again, preparing to hit us and make the car crash. "You three jump out on Steve's shield when we flip!" I order them just before we're hit again and I was correct. I shift outside the car and see the three sliding on the door of the car and his shield, and the car rolling towards me. I hold my hands out and stop the car, also leaving it on the side of the road so I'm hit with Hydras car as they came to a stop. I go flying back but shift myself to be standing next to Steve who was off the ground along with everyone else. We look to see the winter soldier shoot a grenade launcher towards us. Steve pushes me out of the way blocking the blow with his shield, flying back and to the intersection under the bridge.
I shift myself down to where he was and see a bus turned over with him inside it. I bust one of the windshields, "EVERYONE MOVE!" I shout to them as they pick themselves up. Everyone able bodied runs out, a few men helping the ones who can't. I walk in and help some get free or find someone who can help them get to safety. I see Steve out of it for a moment. I give him a kick and he looks around before he picks himself up. I stop him after hearing what sounded like a minigun warming up before I see hundreds of rounds firing starting in the other side of the bus. I catch a glimpse of his shield just outside the bus. I grab Steve and shift him to his shield and then myself behind a hydra-man, shooting him and making him drop his gun for me to take. I take out two more while Steve takes out the one with the minigun. I notice someone shooting above and see Sam watching our backs. "Go! I got this!" He shouts to us.
I run and Steve trails behind me. We follow the opposite of where people are running away from. We run around a corner to see the Winter Soldier aiming at Nat who was behind a car, down. I tap Steve as I part from him to tell him I'm going to Nat as I go to her side.
I kneel down to see her holding her shoulder. "You're hit?" I ask. She just nods, in pain. I tear off half of the bottom of my shirt and tie it around the wound, tight to stop bleeding as much as I can. "Stay here." I tell her as I move over to the grenade launcher, Winter Soldier dropped. I stand up to see Steve flip him over his shoulder, taking the mask off of him as he rolls over.
He stands back up and I freeze.
It wasn't an illusion. It wasn't a delusion. He was alive. He was there.
"Bucky?" Steve calls out making me snap out of it. He just turns his body fully, "Who the hell is Bucky?" He starts to walk toward Steve. I hold the launcher up for defense but Sam swoops in with his wings, kicking Bucky back to the pavement. He jumps back up and in anger and confusion he raises his gun to Steve. It wasn't Bucky. This wasn't the man I fell for in the war. I shoot the car near him and he flys out of the way.
Suddenly sirens and cars speed towards us at all angles.
I couldn't think, I couldn't move. STRIKE move out of the vehicles in full riot gear, aiming at us.
"Drop the shield, Cap! Get on your knees!"
"Get on your knees!"
"Get down, get down! Get on your knees!"
I drop the launcher and drop to my knees. An agent runs to me and places heavy duty cuffing on me. "Try to shift out of these 12,000 volts of electricity run through your veins." They warn me as they lock them on. I didn't care. Bucky was alive and I just shot at him with a grenade launcher.

"It was him. He looked right at me like he didn't even know me." Steve says as in shock as I am. "How is that even possible? It was, like, 70 years ago." Sam asked confused.
"Zola. Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43." I explain to everyone. "Zola experimented on him with me. I thought I was making him up, seeing him in corners of rooms waiting for his turn to be in the hot seat.." I couldn't keep talking.
"Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him and..." Steve trails off.
"None of that's your fault." Nat tells us.
"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky." Steve finishes. I look at him but he doesn't look at me. I look across to see Nat bleeding out of the torn shirt. "We need to get a doctor here. If we don't put pressure on that wound, she's gonna bleed out here in the truck." I tell the officers in the back with us. One only threatened with a taser. Before putting it away they out the officer next to them. They take off the helmet and Hill reveals herself. She sights after getting it off, "That thing was squeezing my brain." I smile a bit knowing we'd be out of here. Hill only looks at Sam for a moment, "Who is this guy?"
After freeing all of us, and coming to a stop, Hill lasers a hole in the floor of the truck. We all drop through and hide behind a van as they pull away. Hill breaks into the van and hot wires it as we get settled.
She drives us to a tunnel system. Steve and Sam jump out first as I help Nat out and we make our way inside.
"GSW. She's lost at least a pint." Hill tells a man inside. "Maybe two." I add, holding her up to walk. "Let me take her." He says but we pass him. "She'll want to see him first." Hill says as he's now following.
Hill leads us to a room and moves a curtain to show Fury. Alive. On a hospital bed. "About damn time."

"Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, and one hell of a headache." Fury goes through his injuries. "Don't forget your collapsed lung." The doctor adds while fixing Natasha's arm. "Let's not forget that.. Otherwise, I'm good." He shrugs. "They cut you open. Your heart stopped." I say confused. "Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great for him, but we found a use for it."
"Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us?" Steve asks.
"Any attempt on the Director's life had to look successful." Hill answers for him. "Can't kill you if you're already dead. Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust."

Fury, Hill, Sam, Natasha, Steve and I all gather around a table, running him down on what we found out.
"This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize." Fury says looking at a photo of Pierce. "He said peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility. See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues."
"We have to stop the launch." Steve tells him. "I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore." He opens a case with 3 chips. "What's that?" I ask. "Once the helicarriers reach 3,000 feet, they'll triangulate with Insight satellites, becoming fully weapon." Hill tells us. "We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own. One or two won't cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work, because if even one of those ships remains operational, a whole lot of people are gonna die." She finishes.
"We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We have to get past them, insert these server blades.And maybe, just maybe we can salvage what's left..."
"We're not salvaging anything." Steve interrupts him. "We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We're taking down S.H.I.E.L.D."
"S.H.I.E.L.D. had nothing to do with this." Fury says defensive. "You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s been compromised. You said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed."
"Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed."
"How many paid the price before you did?" I ask him making him become quiet.
"Look, I didn't know about Barnes." He clears up.
"What about me?" I ask making tension go high. "No." He answers sounding sincere. "Even if you do would you have told us?" Steve asks. "Or would you have compartmentalized that, too?.. S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, it all goes." Steve orders.
"He's right." Hill adds making him look at her. Then to me, as I cross my arms. Natasha, who leans back. Then Sam, "Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower."
"Well...It looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain."