Sentimental Journey

09

Sam drove them to the Triskelion and Sitwell said, "HYDRA doesn't like leaks."

"So why don't you try sticking a cork in it," Sam retorted.

"Insight's launching in sixteen hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here," Natasha warned.

"I know," Steve said. "We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarriers directly."

"What?!" Sitwell cried. "Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea."

Suddenly, the Winter Soldier landed on the car roof, pulled Sitwell out through the window and threw him into the oncoming traffic, killing him, then started shooting at them until Steve pulled the brake handle, making the Winter Soldier drop down onto the street as another car smashed into their car and pushed them along. The Winter Soldier jumped back onto their car, smashed through the windscreen and pulled out the steering wheel.

"Shit!" Sam yelled as Natasha started shooting at him, but the Winter Soldier jumped onto the vehicle behind them. As their car was being pulled off the road, Steve held on to the car door.

"Hang on!" Steve yelled as he broke open the door. Holding onto Natasha, Anneliese and Sam, they slid on the car door through the streets.

The Winter Soldier was joined by HYDRA agents and started shooting at them. The four scattered and ran off in different directions with the Winter Soldier shooting at Natasha, but she managed to shoot him in his eye goggle mask. The Winter Soldier and removed his mask to reveal a blank glare before standing.

"Она мои. Я позабочусь о ней. Найдите их," the Winter Soldier said.

(She's mine. (I'll take care of her.) Find them.)

The Winter Soldier went in pursuit of Natasha as the HYDRA agents went after Steve, Anneliese and Sam who each managed to fend them off as they shot at them. Steve and Anneliese then noticed the Winter Soldier in pursuit of Natasha.

"Go, I got this!" Sam told Steve and Anneliese.

The Winter Soldier thought he'd found Natasha hiding behind a car as he could hear her voice.

"I make an LZ, twenty-three hundred block of Virginia Avenue," Natasha's voice said. "Rendezvous two minutes. Taking fire above and below expressway. Civilians threatened. Repeat, civilians threatened." He rolled a bomb towards where he thought she was hiding. As the bomb rolled behind the car, Natasha wasn't actually there, but a recording over her voice was being played back on a phone. "I make an LZ, twenty-three hundred block at Virginia Avenue. Rendezvous two minutes." As the bomb exploded, Natasha jumped onto the Winter Soldier's back and tried to kill him, but he threw her off. She started running off as the Winter Soldier went after her.

Natasha said to the civilians as she tried to get away from the Winter Soldier, "Get out of the way! Stay out of the way!"

She got shot in the shoulder. She fell and looked around. As the Winter Soldier came up from behind to shoot her, Steve and Anneliese jumped in and attacked him. They fought and in the process, the Winter Soldier took Steve's shield and threw it at him, but Steve and Anneliese managed to avoid being hit. After battling it out more, the Winter Soldier's mask came off. He looked around at Steve and Anneliese who were shocked.

"Bucky?" Steve called.

"Who the hell is Bucky?" the Winter Soldier asked.

Anneliese tried walking forward, hoping to jog his memory, but Steve held her back.

She stared at him, his cold steel blue eyes ripping through her soul. Infinite questions flooded her mind. How was he alive? What had they done to him? Would he ever remember her and Steve? Did he still love her? Of course he'd remember them. Of course he still loved her. She vowed in that very moment to do whatever it took, even if she lost her life, to save the man she loved.

Bucky went to shoot at Steve and Anneliese, before he could shoot, Sam flew in and kicked Bucky aside. Bucky took aim again but before he could shoot, Natasha used the grenade launcher Bucky dropped earlier to shoot at Bucky who vanished in the smoke of the explosion. The three heard sirens, Anneliese saw the flashing lights, after which they were surrounded by HYDRA agents being led by Rumlow.

"Drop the shield, Cap!" Rumlow ordered. "On your knees! Get on your knees! Now! Get down! Get down!" Steve held his hands up. "Get on your knees! Down!" He kicked Steve and Elisabeth's legs and Steve and Anneliese knelt down. "Don't move." Rumlow looked at the helicopter flying above them and warned Rollins who was holding Steve and Anneliese at gunpoint. "Put the gun down. Not here. Not here!" Rollins lowered his gun. The HYDRA agents took Steve, Sam, Anneliese and Natasha into custody.