Avengers: New Blood (Peter Parker)/ A.M

34. The Winter Soldier

Andria got inside the office and sat next to Sam. Steve was standing near a screen, watching Bucky being evaluated by a psychiatrist. However, they couldn't hear what they were saying.

"Saw you talking on the phone?" Sam asked her.
"Yeah, it was my aunt."
"Tough talk?"
"You have no idea," Andria said with a sad smile just before Sharon entered the room and gave Sam a piece of paper.

"The receipt for your gear."
"Bird costume? Come on!" Sam said annoyed, reading his suit's description.
"I didn't write it," Sharon said, while Andria just smirked, earning a glare from Sam.

Sharon looked around cautiously and then pressed a button which activated the sound on the screen.

"I'm not here to judge you. I just want to ask you a few questions," the psychiatrist said.

"Do you know where you are, James?" He asked, using Bucky's first name.
"I can't help you if you don't talk to me, James," he said when he didn't get any answer.
"My name is Bucky," was all Bucky said.

Steve deactivated the sound and turned to face the others.

"Why would the Task Force release this photo to begin with?" He asked, staring at the photo that showed Bucky setting the bomb in the UN building.

"Get the word out, involve as many eyes as we can?" Sharon proposed.
"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," Steve said.

"You're saying someone framed him to find him?" Sharon asked more like stating.

"Steve, we looked for the guy for two years and found nothing," Sam said.
"You didn't bomb the UN. That turns a lot of heads," Andria pointed out.

"Yeah, but that doesn't guarantee that whoever framed him would get him. It guarantees that we would," Sharon said, looking at Andria.

All Andria did though, was just look towards the screen directly at the psychiatrist's figure and then back at the other three who got the hint and turned to look at the man too.

"Yeah..." Steve said, getting her point.

Not even a minute passed and all electricity-powered devices went off.

"Sub-level five, East wing," Sharon said to Steve once he looked at her.

On the sound of her words, he moved towards the door just like Sam and Andria got up and followed him, all three of them running.

Once they reached the Sub-level five in the East wing, all agents were knocked out and Bucky was out of the containment cell, which was broken, but nowhere to be found.

"Help me. Help."

They turned to look at the psychiatrist laying on the floor and Steve moved towards him kind of aggressively.

"Get up," he said, as he grabbed him and pinned him on the wall.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Steve asked him.

"To see and empire fall," the man answered with a small devious smile.

At the same moment, Sam and Andria got inside the room, only to be attacked by Bucky.

He went to punch Andria, but she dodged it and so Bucky turned to Sam.

He on the other hand tried to fight him off, but Bucky grabbed him and flipped him over, throwing him on the other side of the room towards the broken containment cell.

Steve let go of the psychiatrist and went to get Bucky, but the exact same time Andria kicked Bucky's back, making him stumble a bit forward.

"Go to Sam," she yelled, while Bucky quickly turned to her and tried to punch her.

She dodged just in time to avoid the hit, while Steve indeed kneeled next to Sam to check if he was alright.

In the meantime, Andria had kicked Bucky's back of the knee, but he didn't even budge and turned around to face her again just the moment she went to kick him.

She was going for his head, but he grabbed her leg inches away from hitting him, catching her off guard.

He looked at her with pure rage, making her blood chill.

She knew that when Bucky turned into the Winter Soldier, he was a ruthless assassin, but she never expected anything like that.

The Bucky she was watching some minutes ago was completely gone. There wasn't anything but hate in his eyes.

He pulled her leg, twisting her around and letting go off her. Andria lost her balance and was about to fall, but Bucky grabbed her neck and held her up, choking her. She tried to break free from his hold, while Sam was still unconscious and Steve was getting up from checking him and went to help her.

He wasn't fast enough, though, as Bucky had already dragged Andria towards the nearest wall and smacked her head on it.

As he let go off her, she fell down, feeling the excruciating pain in her head suffocating her.

The last thing Andria saw, before everything blacked out, was Steve and Bucky fighting with each other.