𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐈𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 • 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬

Facing Off With The Winter Soldier

And out of the corner of my eye, I saw Steve facing off the Winter Solider. I managed to run across the street and hid behind a van. When I looked back at Steve, I saw him flip the Winter Solider, making his mask fall off and I heard was...

"Bucky?" Steve said. Who in the hell is Bucky? Oh! Him... The guy WHO SHOT ME TWICE! That's Bucky ladies and gentlemen!

"Who the hell is Bucky?" He said pulling a gun and almost shooting at Steve. I grabbed a gun from 'Bucky' and was about to shoot at him, but Sam came with his wings and kicked Bucky. Bucky was going to shoot Steve one more time, but I triggered the gun and shot at the van where Bucky was. I leaned against the van with my wounded shoulder. I left like collapsing. The three of us heard sirens.

"Shit." I mumbled. I saw 'agents' pointing guns at me.

"Don't use any of your powers or you'll be send to HYDRA!" Well, that was harsh.

"Get on your knees, Stark!"

"Hands in front of you!" I did what they said and they made me get on my knees by hitting behind them. I winced in pain. They put cuffs in front of me and I saw Steve and Sam doing the same. We got into the van and locked us up.

"It was him." Steve said. I have heard of his stories of Bucky and him in their childhood and some other memories that they had together. I guess that when he said 'Bucky?' I reacted to quickly. "He looked right at me like he didn't even know me."

"How is that even possible? It was, like, 70 years ago." Sam told Steve. Two guards were in the back with us sitting there quietly.

"Zola. Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him and..."

"None..of..that..was..your..fault, Steve." I cut him off and also catching my breath from the pain in my shoulder.

"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky." I banged my head against the wall of the car and bit my lip, making Sam turn to me. He looked at my shoulder.

"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." Sam said tell one of the guards and one if them pulled out a taser and tased the other guard sitting next to it, also it hit him across the face. It took off its helmet and revealed... Maria Hill. Thank god! Thank you!

"Ah. That the was squeezing my brain." I chuckled and I winced at the same time. "Who is this guy?" Then we got to a stop and Hill made a huge hole and we got out. A van was waiting for us and Hill drove.

"Where's Elena?" I asked Hill.

"She's okay." I sighed in relief. My dream kept bugging and something is making me feel like it's going to happen...Soon...

When we made it to our destination, Steve got out and helped me out of the van. I looked around and it looks like we are at an abandoned place or something. We made it to a gate, Sam and Steve had their hands on my back.

"GSW. She's lost at least a pint." Hill yelled and I saw one of the doctors from SHIELD running towards me.

"Maybe two." Sam told the doctor.

"Let me take her." The doctor said.

"She'll want to see him first." Who? Him? What are we talking about? I looked confused and I looked at Steve.

"Everything is going to be okay." He whispers. We walked into a room and I couldn't believe my eyes. Nick Damn Fury. My jaw dropped.

"About damn time." Nick said telling to us. I took a deep breath out. Everything will possibly be okay. I took a seat and the doctor told me to take off my shirt. I did and he began to pressure the wound. "Lacerated spinal column, a cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, and one hell of a headache." Nick told us what was fractured from the shooting.

"Don't forget your lung collapsed." The doctor said pushing harder to my shoulder. I winced.

"Let's not forget that. Otherwise, I'm good."

"They cut you open. Your heart stopped." I told Nick.

"Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great on him, but we found a use for it."

"Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us?" Steve told him.

"Any attempt on the Director's life had to look successful." Hill answered Steve's questions.

"Can't kill you if you're already dead. Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust." Nick said. I was still having the doctor pushing my shoulder. When we were done, we all sat around the table, and some of us standing.

"Where's Elena." I asked again. I can't lose her, not like what's going to happen.

"She's with Pierce." Hill said.

"WHAT! How dare you leave my best friend in the arms of a killer! She's going to die!"

"Crystal..." Steve said but I had some steam.

"SHUT IT ROGERS! She's my best friend and I'm not going to lose her. Not like this."

"Stark, she's in the arms of agent Carter, you remember Sharon Carter?" Hill said

"I remember."

"She's keeping an eye on her." I want to call her. I want to see if she's okay. There was a moment of silence.

"This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility." Nick said talking about Pierce. "See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues."

"We have to stop the launch." I said.

"I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore." He opened a case with 3 chips.

"What's that?" Sam asked.

"Once the helicarriers reach 3,000 feet, they'll triangulate with Insight satellites becoming fully weaponized." Hill showed us the plan from the computer.

"We need to breach those carriers and replacing their targeting blades with our own." Nick said.

"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 going to die."

"We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We have to get past them, insert these servers' blades. And maybe, just maybe we can salvage what's left..." Nick got cut off.

"We're not salvaging anything." Steve spoke. Oh boy. "We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We're taking down SHIELD."

"SHIELD had nothing to do with this."

"You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. SHIELDS has been compromised. You said it 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?"

"Look, I didn't know about Barnes."

"Even if you had, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that, too? SHIELD, HYDRA, it all goes."

"He's right." Hill said. Nick looked at me. I leaned back from my chair.

"I'm with them. It's my job, right? To save people. So Steve is right." I told him. And he looked at Sam.

"Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower." Then Nick looked back at Steve and he chuckled.

"Well...it looks like you're giving the orders now, Captian."