Clarity ~ Captain America (Going Under Major Editing)

Chapter Four

After Steves performance about being Captain America I felt bad for him. All those men in the audience were rude towards him. It's not his fault that he can't go out and fight. He wants to. It's why he joined.

"Hello Steve." I say as I approach him. He looks up from drawing.

"Hi." He says back realizing it's me.

"Hi."

"What are you doing here?" He questions me.

"Officially I'm not here at all. I'm suppose to be helping Stark but he told me to come and find you. That was quite the performance."

"Yeah. Uh. I had to improvise a little bit. Crowds are usually happy to see me. Cheering and everything. And more uh twelve."

"I understand your Americas new hope."

"Yeah I guess."

"You know the only thing stronger than fear is hope. At least that what they say."

"What's that suppose to mean."

"That because of you America won't have to live in fear."

"They don't realize that I can't fight for them. I only can perform. Either that or be stuck in a lab."

"And those are your only two options?" I question Steve. "A lab rat or a dancing monkey?" I ask motioning to the drawing. "You were meant for more than this you know." Steve just looks at me. "What?"

"You know for the longest time I dreamed about coming over seas. Being on the front lines. Serving my country. Finally got what I wanted and I'm wearing tights. You at them. They look like they been through hell."

"These men are the most." Peggy says appearing out of now where under a umbrella standing in the rain. "I herd what you said Steve. Schmidt sent out a force. 200 men went up against him. Less than 50 returned. The rest either killed or captured. You audience contained what was left of the 1-0-seventh." My eyes went wide.

"The 1-0-seventh?" Steve questions.

"What?" Peggy asks. Steve stands up and so do I.

"Come on!" Steve said running into the rain. Peggy and I ran right behind him.
                        ~~~

"Cornal Phillips!" Steve says while entering the tent.

"Well if it isn't the star spangle man with a plan. What is your plan today?"

"I need the casualty list."

"You don't get to give me orders son."

"Please I just need one name. Sargent James Barnes from the hundred and seventh."

"You two are going to have a conversation later that you won't enjoy." Phillips said pointing to Peggy and I.

"Please tell us if he is alive sir. B-A-R." Steve got cut off.

"I can spell. I've signed more of these consulate letters today than I care to count. The name does sound familiar. I'm sorry." I all of a sudden feel numb. I can't move. All I do is stare at the ground.

"What about the others? Are you planing a rescue mission?" Steve asks

"Yeah it's called winning the war."

"But if you know where they are why not-"

"They're thirty miles behinds the lines threw some of the most heavily fortified territory in Europe. We lose more men than we save. But I don't expect you to understand that because your a chorus girl."

"I think I understand just fine."

"We understand it somewhere else. If I read the poster correctly you got somewhere to be in twenty minutes."

"Yes sir. I do." Steve says while looking at the map.
                          ~~~

"What do you plan to do? Walk to Austria?" I ask walking towards Steve.

"If that's what it takes." 

"You heard the Colonel. Your friend is most likely dead." Peggy said. I looked down not wanting to think about Bucky being dead.

"You don't know that."

"Even so he's planning a-" Steve cuts Peggy off.

"By the time he does that it'll be to late." Steve said running out.

"Steve!"

"Sky you told me I was meant for more than this. Did you mean that?"

"Every word."

"Then you got to let me go."

"I can do more than that. You're not going alone."
                          ~~~

"The Hydra camp is tucked between these two mountain ranges." I told Steve pointing it on the map.

"We should be able to drop you around the door step." Howard said from the front of the plane.

"Just get me as close as you can. You know you too are going to be in a lot of trouble when you get back."

"I bought us sometime with Peggy back at camp stalling for us. And who's to say you won't."

"Where I'm going if anybody yells at me I can just shoot them."

"They'll shoot back."

"Hopefully this thing is good for something." Steve said pointing to his shield.

"Sargent Tomlinson. If we are in no hurry thanks to Peggy. Maybe we can stop for some late night fondue?" Stark said. Right after he said that you could feel the tension in the room.

"Stark is the best civilian pilot I've ever seen. We are lucky to have him." I told Steve.

"So are you two- do you?" I look at Steve with a questionable look. "Fondue?"

"This is your transponder. Activated it when your ready. The signal will lead us straight to you." I said taking out the transponder and handing it to him.

"Are you sure this thing works?" Steve asks Stark.

"Tested more than you pal." Just then hydra spotted us and started trying to shoot us down.

"Get back here!" I yell to Steve. "We're taking you all the way in."

"As soon as I'm clear you turn this thing around and get out the hell out of here."

"You can't give me orders."

"The hell I can't I'm a captain." Steve said smirking.

"Steve wait." I say right before he jumped out. "Bring him home please."