Torn Between Lies

Chapter Six~What The Doctor Ordered

I get escorted into another glass office to see Steve studies the blurry photograph of the man who bombed the congress in Vienna. "Why would the Task Force release this photo, to begin with?" I start.

"Get the word out, involve as many eyes as we can?" suggest Sharon.

"It's a good way to flush a guy out of hiding. Set off a bomb, get your picture taken. Get seven billion people looking for the Winter Soldier." says Steve.

"You're saying someone framed him to find him."

"Steve, we looked for the guy for two years and found nothing," says Sam.

"We didn't bomb the UN. That turns a lot of heads," says Steve.

"Yeah, but that doesn't guarantee that whoever framed him would get him. It guarantees that we would," says Sharon all our gazes turn back to the integration "Yeah." I start.

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Tony sits watching the integration as well "That's one hell of a girl you got on your hands Stark." says Ross standing next to Tony, he looks up at him "What do you mean?"

"I mean she's a discourse, impulse control, unstable, we all thought she was dead before you picked her up." says Ross, Tony stand now really engaged in this conversation "Wait, you knew her? From back in Harper Ferry?"

"You don't know?" asked Ross, Tony shakes his head and Ross begins to laugh "Those two were stupid teens. They found this stone that had unnatural powers, but it had never been activated before then, over the course of a week they surge kept growing stronger as they kept using it. I was called in, we pulled the two out of there school dance for questioning, told them what was really going on. The boy went out of control tried to take the stone for himself, blew up the railway part of town, killed residents." tells Ross, Tony looks on in shock "And Illisha?" he asks looking at her from across the room.

Ross glances at Tony before looking back to the screens "She destroyed him." 

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Just then all systems fail and the bunker the lights go out. The power was gone, Steve, Sam, and I turn to Sharon "Sub-level 5, east wing."

We nod and begin to bolt out of the office. We arrive outside the chamber. Red emergency lights flash all around. There are many agents slumped on the floor. All of them out cold. But we did find a guy in a heap inside the chamber. Steve grabs the man and shoves him against the wall. 

"Who are you? What do you want?" I ask.

"To see an empire fall," he says.

Just then we hear a bang and turn to see as Sam enters Bucky swings his fist which smashes through the wall as Sam ducks. Bucky grabs him by the jaw and throws him at the open pod. Steve lurches into the fight and lands a punch that Bucky barely feels. Bucky kicks and punches Steve out of the chamber. 

I quickly get my thoughts together and run into the hallway after Bucky. I put a shield around my fist and punch him in the back of the head, which did nothing, how? He turns around and punches back at me, I duck causing him to punch through the elevator behind me.

He then picks up my legs sending me tumbling into the darkened elevator shaft. I make another shield around me before I hit the ground the wind still knocked out of me. After a little bit of regaining my mind, I see Sam at the top of the shaft "You okay?" he shouts down.

"Yeah! What's the plan?" I ask.

"Steve's got Bucky we're taking him to a warehouse, meet you outside," he says and disappears. I turn and face the closed elevator doors "Haven't done this trick in a while." I say to myself closing my eyes, and begin walking forward, relaxing.

When I open I'm outside the elevator "Mass manipulation. Still got it." I say and run out the front door where Sam was waiting for me and together we run off to find Steve.

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"Hey, you awake?" I ask, kneeling. This was a huge abandoned warehouse Bucky has finally come to, his metallic left arm clamped in a huge industrial vice. He begins to open his eyes all googly, I put a hand to his cheek checking his vitals.

"That's it, soldier, at ease." I say, he seems to have come back fully and looks at me confused "Who are you?" I smile "What the doctor ordered. He's up!" I shout. Sam and Steve join me by Bucky. We stare at him. "Steve." starts Bucky.

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

"Your mom's name was Sarah. You used to wear newspapers in your shoes." 

"Bet you can't read that in a museum?" I ask Steve, he nods.

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

"What did I do?" asked Bucky.

"Enough," says Steve.

"Oh, God, I knew this would happen. Everything H.Y.D.R.A. put inside me is still there. All he had to do was say the goddamn words."

"Who was he?"

"I don't know."

"People are dead. The bombing, the setup. The doctor did all that just to get 10 minutes with you. I need you to do better than "I don't know."

"He wanted to know about Siberia. Where I was kept. He wanted to know exactly where."

"Why would he need to know that?" I ask.

"Because I'm not the only Winter Soldier," states Bucky.

"Who were they?" asked Steve.

"Their most elite death squad. More kills than anyone in H.Y.D.R.A. history. And that was before the serum." 

"They all turn out like you?" asked Sam.

"Worse."

"The doctor, could he control them?" asked Steve.

"Enough."

"Said he wanted to see an empire fall," I explain.

"With these guys, he could do it. They speak 30 languages, can hide in plain sight, infiltrate, assassinate, destabilize, They can take a whole country down in one night. You'd never see them coming."

"This would have been a lot easier a week ago," says Sam. Steve looks to me and starts "If we call Tony-"

"No! No, he won't believe us. We're on our own." I start. Sam thinks for a second "Maybe not. I know a guy."