Split Personality

Chapter Nine

I walked around the area trying to see or hear where Steve was. I heard a drawer close followed by some footsteps from one of the rooms on my left. I quickly hid behind a broken door and watched Steve move towards another room. I ran over to the room and closed the door behind me. Steve whipped around, his eyes were red and his skin was pale. "Steve?" I heard a low growl come from him, "Why does everyone think I am Steve?" I took a step forward, "Because you are. Your name is Steven Rogers. You're Captain America, you are not," I paused and looked him up and down, "Whatever this is" He grabbed his shield off of his back, "You have no idea who I am. You'll never know who I am." He threw the shield at my head but I managed to dodge it.

I took out my battons and turned them on. He ran over to pick his shield back up but before he can lay a hand on them I hit him in the back which sent a shock up his back. He yelped out in pain before he tried to backhand me. Ducking out of the way, I managed to pull his shield out of the wall. He tried to reach for it but I hit him upside the head with it which made him stumble backwards. "Look, I don't know what you are trying to find, but you are not going to find it." He straightened his posture and took a step forward, making me take a step back. "Give me back my shield and you'll survive." He paused and shrugged, "Well unless you get in my way again, then you would be sorry." He once again reached over to pick up his shield but I grabbed his arm and flipped him over and held the shield to his throat.

Sam ran into the room afterwards looking around trying to find me, "Hey Nat I apprehended the other guy, how are you going with-" He paused and looked down, "Ah never mind." I laughed, "Ya how about you hand me that rope over there." I pointed towards the rope in the corner of the room. Steve tried his best to squirm out of my grip but failed, surprisingly. When Sam got over I looked Steve in the eyes, "Let's take a nap shall we?" I proceeded to hit him in the head with his shield, knocking him out. "Help me get him back on the quinjet."

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Tony's POV

I was waiting in my lab for Nat and Sam to get back. I was playing around with a broken helmet of mine when Clint walked in. "Hey buddy. What are you up to?" Placing my screwdriver down on the table I spun around in my chair to face him, "Well I am fiddling with my helmet since I am bored out of my mind. I am also waiting for Natasha and Sam to come back from wherever they went to." Clint tilted his head to the side with a confused look on his face, "You forgot already? Also they are here? I thought they were fugitives along with me, so when you invited me here I was very muched confused." I laughed. I stood up and walked over to my computer, "Ya they are and so are you but at this point I think SHIELD has given up on you guys since they are both helping me. So have fun with either unlimited or limited amount of freedom. I really don't know yet." I just shrugged and messed around with a blueprint.

Clint sighed and sat down in the chair, "Well that sounds just fantastic. By the way, what are they helping you with?" He questioned. I just continued to fiddle with the blueprint...now that I look at it, I messed up on...everything...doesn't matter, I'll fix it later. I turned my head over to face Clint, "They are helping me find Steve." As I looked away I heard laughing coming from behind me, I glared at Clint and he immediately stopped laughing. Straightening his posture he looked back at me, "Why are you trying to find Steve? I thought you hated him." I heard the door open and turned around to see Rhodey walk in. "How is everyone? Oh hi Clint."

Clint waved at him and turned his attention back at me, "So like I just asked, why the hell are you trying to find Steve?" I dropped my hands and sat down on the table behind me, "Well the reason why is because Steve was apparently captured by Hydra and Nat and Sam think they are going to control him so if we don't find him he will be more than a fugitive." Rhodey sat down on the chair in front of Clint, "So we spent about two days nonstop looking for him. Tony is drained, I am tired and I have no clue who Nat and Sam are feeling but they are tired as well." All Clint did was lean back in his chair, "So you sent two other fugitives to find another fugitive that SHIELD might take into custody? How smart of you. But thank god you didn't send me." Both Rhodey and I laughed at him. "Well we would never send you to do that, you wouldn't know what to do anyway" He just scoffed and walked out of my lab, "I'm going home, if you need anything you know where to find me."

Rhodey was kind enough to bring me lunch....and dinner....and a few snacks since I haven't eaten all day. I was about to eat something when I heard the elevator door ding. Looking over I saw Nat and Sam walk in with Steve between them both. "You found him?" I yelled and ran over to them, "How? And where." I questioned. Steve held his head, "Can you please keep it down? I have a major headache." He limped his way over to a chair and sat down. I pulled Nat and Sam closer to me, "Is he ok?" I whispered. They both shrugged, "We have no idea, but he is hopefully back to his normal self because he didn't threaten to kill us once." Sam said. I just looked at him and lifted my hand up to question him, "Don't ask. We are both tired." He cut me off. "Look how about we all get some rest, you looked dead, Steve is just super tired, and we are both exhausted." Nat said before walking back into the elevator with Sam at her heels.

I walked over to where Steve was sitting and sat down in front of him. "How are you feeling?" I questioned. He was still holding his head, it took him a minute to answer, "I don't....I don't really know....Everything is just a blur from the past few days. But after Nat hit me in the head everything is just blurry." I tilted my head to the side. "What I mean is you look like a blob, I really can't see." I just shrugged and stood up, "Well how about you get some sleep ok? You look very tired and I bet you didn't get much sleep while Hydra had ya." He nodded and stood up before nearly falling over. I caught his arm and held him steady, "How about I help you to your room?" He just nodded and limped over to the elevator with me by his side. 'Let's hope he is at least ok. If not this will be a hard thing to fix' I told myself as the doors closed.