Little Situation

Chapter 20

"If you want to back out of the mission now, we all understand," Steve said as they all got into position.

"I can do this, Dheaidí. It's like any other mission."

"You finish your homework?"

Sarah laughed. "Is now really the time? But yeah, I finished it earlier this morning."

"Alright." Steve fist-bumped her. "Move out, team."

Steve didn't like to hover when it came to anything dealing with the Avengers. On missions, he was Sarah's captain not her dad. He didn't want her to feel like he didn't see her as an actual member of the team. However, they knew Rumlow would likely be there and that made him worry about Sarah. Everyone was in their positions: Wanda and Nat sitting at cafe tables, Sam on some rooftop, Steve in the corner room of a motel.

Sarah was the only one with a moving position, walking around the streets of Lagos. It was funny, the stealth suit was still so different from what people were wearing on the streets yet they didn't spare the girl a second glance for anything. Sam was using his drone, Redwing, to track a garbage truck that seemed suspicious. Sarah was stalking not too far behind.

"That truck's loaded for max weight and the driver's armed," Sam said into the comms, reading the x-ray from Redwing.

"It's a battering ram," Nat said.

"Go now." Steve's voice came in. "He's not hitting the police."

The truck battered into the barricade of the Institute for Infectious Diseases before Sarah could try and stop it. Two more trucks came from the corner and lots of men poured out. She ran in head first towards the back area since the bullets couldn't pierce her skin. The men didn't seem to get a clue as the ones with guns kept firing even after she started taking them out. Sam, Steve, Wanda, and Nat showed up in the front courtyard where the truck had crashed. Steve ran over to a guy on top of a van and kicked him so hard he slammed into the building.

"Body armor. AR-15s. I got seven hostiles."

Sam threw another off of the smaller roof area, landing on the van with a crash.

"I got five."

"You guys are children..."

Everyone heard Sarah's comm go silent minus the grunts and knew she was about to come on again with a smart remark. They heard the spray of gunfire.

"Ow, you actually chipped my nail... Nine hostiles, I win. Back's all cleared."

"Alright, Wanda like we practiced," Steve said and braced himself for Wanda to lift him into the air so he could quickly be on the sixth floor. Wanda then directed her attention to getting rid of the gases in the building.

"Rumlow's got a biological weapon," Steve said.

"I'm on it." Nat came in on a motorcycle, throwing herself off of it and attacking a soldier.

"What was that?"

Sarah had heard multiple explosions that sounded like grenade launchers. Both Nat and Steve were coughing and groaning giving her an idea that they might have been hurt or at least slowed down. Steve's voice came over the comms saying where Rumlow's van was headed. Both Sarah and Sam headed in the direction Steve said.

"I've got four. They're splitting up," Sam said.

Nat, who had found another motorcycle, had weaved through the crowd. "I've got the two on the left."