I'm at beautiful, hot, sunny, Lagos. Sitting down with Wanda at a cafe drinking coffee. I had my hat on and sunglasses. I leaned my head back a had a little suntan. Steve, Sam, Wanda, Nat, and I are on a mission looking for someone. Can I say that this sun feels good on my skin. This is the only time I can actually do this.
"Can you not suntan while we're on a mission, Crystal." Wanda told me. I picked up my head and drank my tea.
"This is the only time I'll get the sun." I told her.
"Stop and focus. All right what do you see?" I heard Steve say in the earpiece.
"Standard beat cops, small station, quiet street. It's a good target." Wanda said.
"There's an ATM in the south corner, which means-"
"Cameras." I said looking around and rubbing my nose.
"Both cross streets in one way?"
"So compromise the escape routes." Wanda answered.
"Means our guy doesn't care about being seen." As Steve talked, I picked up a newspaper and the front cover showed the one we are hunting down. Rumlow aka, Crossbones. "He isn't afraid to make a mess on the way out. You see that ranger over halfway up the block?"
"You mean the red one? It's cute." Wanda said as she looked at the right.
"She's right, cute." I sipped on my tea as I glanced over to the right.
"It's also bulletproof, which means private security, which means more guns, which means more headaches for somebody, probably us." Nat said in the earpiece and I looked at the left side where Nat was.
"You guys know I can move things with my mind, right?" Wanda reminded them.
"We're aware." I said and I got up to leave.
"Looking over your shoulder needs to become a second nature." I heard Nat said as I walked past her. "Hey Red, see the guy over there? I think he has the hots for you." I looked around and saw the man eyeing me. Since I'm undercover, I grabbed my hat and pulled it down.
"Anybody ever tells you, you're a little paranoid?" Sam came in the talk.
"Not to my face. Why you hear something?" Nat told Sam.
"Eyes on target, folks. It's the best lead that Crystal had on Rumlow in 6 months." Steve said. "I don't want to lose him."
"If he sees us coming there won't be a problem." I saw Sam on the roof. "He kinda hates us."
"Of course he does, a building landed on him." I said walking past people in the cafe. "And he blames us."
"Sam, see that garbage truck? Take it." I walked some more, looking around the street stores.
"The trucks loaded for max weight, and the drivers armed." Sam said.
"It's a battling ram." Nat confirmed.
"Go now." Steve said and I started to speed walk. Wanda and Nat got up to catch up with me. "He's not aiming the police."
"It's heading to Institute for Infectious Diseases." I told Wanda and Nat. Sam came and got me with Steve, and flew to the scene. I hear gunshots from the distance, we're close. Sam dropped me and Steve and we began to fight Rumlow's crew. I threw fireballs at them. "Two down!" I saw Steve kicked the car, making a crewman hitting it. I screamed, making three crewmen injured.
"Body armor. AR15s. I make 7 hostiles." I walked to Steve. "You and I are going in." I nodded at him and grabbed a crewman's gas mask and put it on.
"I make 5." Sam confirmed. I saw Wanda coming in. "4. Rumlow's on the third floor."
"Wanda. Just like we practice." I told her as me and Steve walked side by side.
"What about the gas?" She asked.
"Get it out." Steve told her. Wanda used her abilities to lift us to the third floor. We crashed into the window and started to fight. I couldn't scream because, A, Rumlow would hear. And B, the gas mask is in the way. I backed kicked the guy and melted his mask off. Then we heard shots firing. I was the gas clear out, I took off from mask. Me and Steve ran behind two pillars. Steve threw his shield at the man. "Go Crystal!"
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"On it!" I ran to the lab. The weapon was gone. "It's gone, Steve." I told him as he came into the lab.
"Rumlow has a biological weapon." Steve told the team.
"I'm on it." Nat told us. We began to walk.
"Go where Wanda and Sam are. I'll catch up later." Steve looked at me.
"Okay, see you then." I ran out of the room. I saw Wanda and Sam.
"Sam, he's on the main humvee heading north." Sam flew away, while me and Wanda ran over there.
"GET OUT! GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!" We both yelled at the civilians. Without a doubt, they all ran for their lives. We split up to tell them to get out of here. I looked up when I heard an explosion.
"Steve? What happened?" I talked to the piece. And there's no answer. I saw Wanda on the left of Steve. She signals me by nodded her head. I looked ahead and saw the wanted man. Crossbones. I shielded the civilians by my ability Pyrokinesis from the explosion. I looked behind and saw Wanda using her ability to stop Rumlow. She lifted him and accidentally released him, making the building itself blow up. She covered her mouth from what she did. I ran to her side. "On my..." I said.
"Sam. We need... Fire and rescue, on the south side of the building." Steve ran away. I hold Wanda and hugged her.
"This isn't your fault. Wanda, it's okay. It's going to be okay." I tried to comfort her. I heard her cry. We kneel down and she's still crying. "It's okay." I said. "It's going to be okay." I whisper.
