This Is War

Chapter Seven: It Keeps Getting Better

I opened my eyes slowly. The man looked down through a broken elevator door.

"Hey," I said. He heard me and started to run away. I stumbled to stand up, but sprinted after him. There was a noise that came from the elevator. I had already lost the guy, so I ran back to the elevator shaft. There was a large whole in the doorway as if someone had been pushed through it. I looked down and saw Steve climbing the cable wires.

"Steve!" I yelled.

"Hey, help me up." I grabbed his hand and helped him up.

"What happened when I was out?"

"Nothing besides me being shoved down an elevator shaft."

"That guy bolted. I lost him. I'm going to go find Buck." Steve grabbed my arm and stopped me.

"When I say be careful, I mean it. Think before you act. Bucky is in Winter Soldier mode. He's very dangerous." I nodded and continued on.

I ran past a food court and glanced to the side. Bucky and Tony were fighting. Bucky shoved Tony back and he fell into some tables.

"Tony!" I covered my mouth. Bucky turned around and we made eye contact.

"Katie! Get out of here!" Tony screamed. Bucky walked forward and I lunged at him. He swung right and I ducked. I put my hand on his ribs and shocked him. He fell back a few steps and screamed. He is pissed. He ran forward and I quickly shot up. Suddenly, he grabbed my foot and pulled me down. I screamed and he slammed me into the ground. I rolled over and groaned. He aimed for my head and I rolled to the side to dodge his fist. Sharon came out of nowhere and Nat followed. They landed a few kicks and hits in but both ended up down. Natasha was on top of Bucky repeatedly hitting the top of his head with her fist. He slammed her on a nearby table chocking her. T'Challa kicked Bucky off of her and battled back and forth for a while.

"Katie," Tony said. I looked over and saw him getting up. I got up and ran over to Bucky. I was still angry with my father. Nothing changed my mind about what he would have done to me. Bucky was heading for the helicopter. I couldn't let him get in it. I was lost in my thoughts and lost him down the corridors.

"Crap!" It took me a few minutes to finally find him. I walked out to the helicopter pad and was terrified.

"Cap!" He was being held by the neck by Bucky as the chopper began to fall off of the pad. I ran onto the pad and after them.

"Steve!" I was so afraid of heights and stopped and saw them fall into the river below. I couldn't jump. They weren't coming up.

"No! No! No!" Then I saw them. It looked like him was carrying someone. I levitated myself down to the shore by Steve and Bucky.

"Are you okay?" I asked him. Bucky was unconscious.

"Yeah. We have to go."

LATER

"Hey, Cap!" Sam yelled. We were in an abandoned warehouse and Bucky had his metal arm clamped in a huge industrial vice. Cap ran back into the room.

"Steve," Bucky said.

"Which Bucky am I talking to?" Steve asked.

"Your mom's name was Sarah. You used to wear newspapers in your shoes," Bucky responded with a laugh.

"Can't read that in a museum."

"Just like that, we're suppose to be cool?" Sam asked.

"What did I do?"

"Enough," I said.

"Oh, God, I knew this would happen. Everything HYDRA put inside me is still there. All he had to do was say the words."