Caught In The Widow's Web

Ch 33

Sam, Steve and I are sitting on one side of a table with Sharon on the other side in a different office. I was watching Bucky being evaluated on a screen but the audio was turned off so I couldn't hear what they were saying.

"The receipt for your gear." Sharon says sliding a paper in front of us.

Sam takes it in his hand lifting it up to get a good look.

"Bird costume? Come on." He huffs.

"I didn't write it." She defends as she then presses a button which stops the restriction on the audio from Bucky's evaluation.

"I'm not here to judge you. I just want to ask you a few questions. Do you know where you are, James? I can't help you if you don't talk to me, James." The evaluator speaks.

"My name is Bucky." He responds lowly.

~

We are now at the UN bunker and are studying the blurry photo of the man who bombed the congress in Vienna.

"Why would the Task Force release this photo to begin with?" Steve asks as he looks closely at the photo.

"Get the word out, involve as many eyes as we can?" Sharon says in a questionable tone.

"Right. 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." He nods.

"You're saying someone framed him to find him." She says in realization.

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

"We didn't bomb the UN. That turns a lot of heads." I break my silence.

"Yeah, but that doesn't guarantee that whoever framed him would get him. It guarantees that we would." Sharon says and her gaze falls on the evaluator on the screen as her eyes narrow.

"Yeah." Steve frowns and looks around.

Suddenly the lights in the bunker go out.

"They're gonna get him." I say and Steve, Sam and I bolt out of the bunker.

When we get outside the chamber. Red emergency lights flash around. There are many agents slumped on the floor. All of them out cold.

"Help me. Help." We hear and we near the chamber.

I find the evaluator in a heap inside the chamber

"Get up." I say as I grab him and shove him against the wall.

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

"To see an empire fall." He replies making my eyebrows furrow.

When Steve and Sam get inside the chamber Bucky starts to fight them making me get into the fray. In the mist of all the fighting I end up being thrown down a dark elevator shaft by Buck. I groan then start to climb up the elevator shaft.

When I make it out I rush outside and see Steve holding onto a chopper from taking off. I run over and grab onto the railing with one hand then the chopper's landing gear with the other helping Steve to not let it take off. The chopper's nose slams into the edge of the helipad. The rotor blades are smashed to pieces and we duck as the tail swings around. The chopper lies twisted on the mesh at the end of the pad. Bucky's arm smashes through the glass and growling he grab my throat as Steve tries to fight him off. The chopper starts to to list over the edge. The tail breaks off and falls into the river below. The holds were kept on each other as the whole vehicle drops and slams into the river. Steve and I resurface with a knocked out Bucky's arm over our shoulders.

~

Steve, Sam, a knocked out Bucky and I are in an abandoned warehouse. I look through a gap to see a chopper flying over head.

"Hey, guys!" Sam calls making me look over to see Bucky come to.

Steve and I make our way over to them.

"J.D. Steve." He says as we stare at him.

"Which Bucky are we talking to?" Steve asks as we crosses his arms over his chest.

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

"Can't read that in a museum." Steve says looking over at Sam.

"Just like that, we're supposed to be cool?" The flyer asks unimpressed.

"What did I do?" Bucky asks grabbing our attention.

"Enough." I sigh running a hand through my hair.

"Oh, god, I knew this would happen. Everything HYDRA put inside me is still there. All he had to do was say the goddamn words." He shakes his head looking down.

"Who was he?" Steve asks.

"I don't know." He shrugs.

"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"." I tell him rather roughly through the stress and Steve pats my shoulder to ease up.

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

"Why would he need to know that?" Steve asks confused.

"Because I'm not the only Winter Soldier." He answers making Steve, Sam and I look at each other.

"Who were they?" Steve then asks as we turn back to Bucky.

"Their most elite death squad. More kills than anyone in HYDRA history. And that was before the serum." He sighs.

"They all turn out like you?" Sam asks him.

"Worse." He answers plainly.

"The doctor, could he control them?" Steve raises an eyebrow.

"Enough." He tilts his head with a sigh.

"Said he wanted to see an empire fall." I mumble even though it was well heard.

"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." He informs us.

Sam then turns to Steve and I.

"This would have been a lot easier a week ago." He tells us.

"If we call Tony-

"No, he won't believe us." I shake my head cutting Steve off.

"Even if he did-

"Who knows if the Feds would let him help." Sam says.

"We're on our own." Steve sighs.

"Maybe not. I know a guy."  I tell them.

"So do I." Sam smirks.