Summary: Bucky is recaptured by Hydra where their scientists conduct more experiments on him. There he meets an unlikely ally, an innocent looking young woman who is hiding a much darker side. Meanwhile Steve has tracked his best friend and discovered his location and is preparing to mount a rescue mission with the help of some of his fellow Avengers. Can they save Bucky before it's too late? And who is this mystery woman? Co – Written with Dixon – Vixen13. Bucky/OC, Steve/Sharon, Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper. Rated M for graphic violence, language and eventual sexual scenes.

Soldiers And Spies

Chapter 1

James Buchanan Barnes found himself being wheeled into what looked like the operation room where he had been given his cybernetic arm years ago.

That was when he saw a light blonde haired woman lying on a table; she was clearly out of it as he saw two doctors operating on the poor young girl.

"What the hell are you doing to her?" Bucky asked suspiciously as he found himself being strapped down onto the table, like he was some feral animal.

"Something that will make Miss Nikolayev stronger, and with any luck not fail like you have so many times." A scientist answered as he plunged a needle into his arm and knocked Bucky out, before beginning his experiment on him.

Bucky woke up what seemed like hours later and saw the young blonde haired young woman from earlier. She was leaning up against her bed looking pale and tired. He thought for a moment he must be dreaming because she looked like an angel.

"So you're the infamous Winter Soldier?" She spoke quietly.

"That's what they call me." He replied gruffly as he struggled to sit up, the effects of the drug still lingering in his system.

"I've heard a lot about you. You are quite the legend where I'm from. I'm not sure whether I should be impressed or afraid of you." She stated bluntly.

"Neither."

"Oh? And why is that?"

"I'm not that man anymore."

"And I'm just supposed to believe you?" She asked sceptically.

"Believe what you want, but it's the truth. Whatever they did to me, to make me forget, it wasn't permanent. I know who I am now. I know the difference between right and wrong. More importantly I know the difference between my friends and my enemies. So which are you?"

"I guess that makes us friends. I'm just as much a pawn in their sick little game as you are. So if you are no longer going by The Winter Soldier, then who are you?"

"James Buchanan Barnes." He stated proudly as he stood up and stretched a hand out to her. "But you can call me Bucky, everyone does."

She climbed off her bed and took a couple of steps toward him grasping his hand gently and giving it a small shake. "Pleased to me you."

"And you are?" He asked curiously.

"Evangeline Nikolayev, but I go by Eva."

"It's nice to meet you Eva, why are you here?" Bucky asked quietly as he looked at the light blonde haired young woman who had deep blue eyes and was wearing black sweatpants and a grey tank top.

"I was on the run for three years but they caught me last night and dragged me here. They did something to me, but I don't know what." Eva said bitterly as she rubbed the left side of her temple as if she had a throbbing headache.

Bucky looked at her quietly, she looked young and it made him dread to think of what HYDRA had done to her. Eva looked like she was in her early to mid-twenties and he detected a slight, Russian accent then.

"How old are you?" Bucky asked curiously as he looked at his metal arm and then at the star that was painted on it.

"Twenty five years old." Eva said quietly.

"Did they do stuff to you as well?" She asked quietly and Bucky was silent as he looked at his metal right arm then.

"They experimented on me years ago, made me stronger somehow. I survived a horrible fall that surely would have killed me otherwise. They caught me again, gave me a cybernetic arm. They made me into a killer and wiped my memory after each assassination." Bucky informed her darkly. "You're Russian right?"

"Yes?" She replied somewhat questioningly.

"So how is it that a young Russian girl managed to get involved with HHYDRA three years ago? You said you have been on the run for three years. I assume you meant from HYDRA?" He asked intently.

"Have you ever heard of the Red Room?"

"I know what it is, yeah."

"Well that's where I was trained from a young age as an assassin. See Bucky, you and I are a lot alike." She told him.

"I'm beginning to see that."

"Well they had me assassinate one of HYDRA's lead scientists. And of course, HYDRA did not take too kindly to that. They have hunted me ever since."

"Wow. And your… employers? Did they not help you?" He asked quietly.

"As far as the Red Room cared, I fulfilled my mission. If I was caught or killed in the aftermath of it, it was none of their concern." She said bluntly.

"That's pretty cold."

"That's life as an assassin." She said with a sarcastic kind of laugh.

"Before that, I was their top assassin after the famous Black Widow who had been a legend in the Red Room. All of us were trained to look up to her and I did too." She added quietly as her lips twisted into a small smile.

Bucky noticed that she was playing around with a silver necklace around her neck, she looked tired and slightly unstable.

Then again so was he.

"You're only a girl still." Bucky said finally as he looked at her, she was much younger than the red head woman that he had fought two weeks ago, she two was Red room trained.

"Well they train us young in the Red Room."

The door opened then and two men dragged them out of the cell, before pushing them into what looked like a training room. Bucky felt his nerves go on edge.

This wasn't good.

"Let's see how strong you are after being on the run." A voice said calmly over a speaker and Bucky looked at Eva quietly.

She sighed.

"So you want us to fight?"

"Yes." The voice replied coldly.

"No... No I won't do it!" Eva yelled back.

"Yeah, that's not gonna happen." Bucky added.

"I guess we are going to have to do this the hard way then." The voice told them.

Before either of them had a chance to even begin to think about what the hard way might be, a couple of men armed with guns came marching through the door. They both pointed their guns at Bucky. "You will fight him, or we will kill him."

Eva looked at Bucky with pleading eyes. She didn't want to fight him. She had spent so much of her life hurting people, killing people that she knew probably didn't deserve it and she was done with that. She wasn't that person anymore. Not after the Red Room sold her out on what turned out to be a suicide mission to kill the Hydra scientist.

"I can't!" Eva shook her head, directing her words to Bucky rather than the men in the room.

"Do it... or he dies." The man said cocking his gun back and aiming it straight for Bucky's head.

"Eva... you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Just let them kill me."

"No Bucky, I can't just let you die. But I don't want to hurt you either."

"We don't have much of choice here Eva."

"I've had enough of this game. You either fight him or he dies... your choice." The guard spoke again. Eva looked Bucky in the eyes, a tear slipping down her face and she nodded to him to say that she would fight him and that she was sorry for any damage she was about to inflict on him. "Ok he dies in 3...2..."

"Wait!" Eva yelled as she thrust her hands forward in a signal to stop. Only something strange happened and both of the men went flying across the room, smacking into the far wall and crumpling in a heap on the floor.

"Eva..." Bucky whispered. "What did they do to you?"

"I... I don't know." She replied as she looked down at her hands in confusion.

Before either of them could do anything more men came busting through the door and the both of them were shot with tranquiliser darts. The last thing Bucky saw as he hit the ground was Eva being dragged off by one of the men.

Steve Rodgers took a deep breath as he looked at Clint and Natasha who both insisted on coming with him to rescue Bucky. He owed them a lot for offering to do this.

"Neither of you have to come with me, you know that right?" Steve asked seriously and they both just nodded as Natasha placed a map on the table.

"Bucky is being held in this room, in a base located in underground Berlin. HYDRA may try to wipe his mind...or." Natasha said gravely as she looked at Steve sadly.

"They might try to kill him if he doesn't co-operate." Steve finished for her and he sighed heavily.

"Tony not coming?" Natasha asked quietly.

Steve clenched his jaw, remembering how Tony had reacted to Steve wanting to save Bucky from HYDRA. Not that Tony cared, as far as he was concerned Bucky needed to face his crimes and face justice. Never mind that he wasn't himself at the time.

Steve knew Bucky was innocent, knew that he wanted to make amends as he grabbed his shield which was still scratched and scraped from his fight with HYDRA at S.H.E.I.L.D headquarters.

Natasha nodded in reply, she and Clint began to prepare the Quinjet for their mission.

'I'm coming Bucky, hang on.' Steve thought.

Eva woke up to see that she was wearing black leggings and a grey sports bra, she felt a little sick knowing that some pervert had redressed her. As she looked around she saw she was in a ballet studio, much like the one at the Red Room. Just then Bucky was dragged in and thrown to the ground.

"Maybe this time, you will both cooperate with us." The voice from the speaker said coldly and Eva knew right then, that they were being watched. She looked at Bucky who was slightly bruised and banged up.

"At least they're not making us kill each other, hey?" She said humourlessly. "Bucky, I don't want to do this." She whispered quietly so they wouldn't hear.

"I know Eva, nor do I. But we have to play their game, at least for now until we figure a way out of here." He replied grimly. "Now hit me, and make it good. Put on a show for these bastards."

Reluctantly Eva did as he told her. She drew back her fist and swung really hard until her fist connected with Bucky's face, pulling back just a little on impact so she didn't hurt him too much but it still looked like she was trying. Bucky absorbed the blow as best he could, barely losing his footing. Whatever Zola had done to him way back when he was in the army had made him a bit like Steve. He was stronger, and could take a lot more punishment than your average man. He guessed that was why Hydra were so intent on getting their hands on him again. To finish off their little experiments that Steve had so rudely interrupted when he stormed the Hydra base and freed all the men.

As much as he didn't want to hurt Eva he had to play along so he ducked down and swept his leg around behind her feet making her fall to the floor. They wrestled on the ground before he let Eva get the upper hand. She straddled him on the ground and began to land punch after punch to his torso and face. Most of them Bucky was able to block but he let the odd one slip through just for good measure.

Quickly he turned the tables on her pinning her to the floor. Unfortunately that was a bad move as it ignited a primal sort of fear within her and she began to panic. Before she knew what had happened a surge of power radiated from her body throwing Bucky off of her and halfway across the room.

She got up quickly and ran to him. "Bucky are you ok? I'm so sorry. I... I don't know what happened." She whispered. But Bucky was unconscious and she got no reply. "Shit." She whispered horrified.

Standing up she yelled out to whoever was watching. "Are you happy now!? Get what you wanted!?"

"Very much thank you Nikolayev, but you are not done yet… continue." The voice said as Bucky began stirring for a moment and groaned before waking. Eva walked over to him and helped him up.

"Are you alright?" She whispered quietly and Bucky nodded reassuringly at her, he had a slight headache but aside from that, he was okay.

"I'm fine. I suppose they want us to continue to fight?" Bucky asked grimly and Eva nodded in reply. As they began fighting again Bucky pinned her to the wall, but Eva kicked him back and doing a graceful back flip to put some distance between them.

Bucky kicked at her hands, knocking her off balance and he grabbed her by the legs throwing her against the side banister. Eva stood up and punched him, causing him to dodge her, but she kicked him, making him to stagger slightly.

Undeterred but impressed by her fighting skills, Bucky grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder, causing her to crumple in a heap.

Two hunting knives were dropped down into the room then through an air vent, Bucky grabbed his one while Eva grabbed hers and they began practising their combat training against each other.

Eva tried to stab him in his metal arm, but he blocked her and pushed her away as he swiped his blade in her direction. She side kicked him, knocking him backwards. Grabbing her knife in her dominant hand she tried to stab him, but ended up cutting the wall.

They continued to slash and stab at one another, all to please these bastards pulling their strings and using them as their puppets. Neither one of them wanted to hurt the other, but they knew they had to do this or they would be killed.

Bucky kicked her knife from her hand and flipped her over, pinning her to the floor with his metal arm. She struggled against him but it was no use, she couldn't match his power. He studied her face as he held her there, in that moment he realized how truly beautiful she was. If the circumstances were different he would definitely be making some suggestive joke about their current situation, the way he was straddling her on the floor. But he knew now was not the time for that.

He looked at her with mercy as he brought the knife high in the air, hoping that she would understand that he wanted her to dodge his attack. With all his strength he plunged the knife downwards towards her chest, but at the same time he released his hold on her slightly with his cybernetic arm, just enough that she would be able to get out from underneath him. She caught his drift and as the knife came plummeting towards her she threw he body upwards knocking Bucky off slightly, just enough to roll out from beneath him as the knife was lodged securely into the floor.

She followed up with a swift kick to his side as he tried to remove the knife from the floor to mount his next attack, but it was stuck and there was no way it was coming out. And now they were down to just one knife.

Eva grabbed her knife and looked at Bucky who nodded at her as she swung it at his neck, but he grabbed her right hand and forced her to drop it onto the ground again.

He then grabbed it and tried to stab her but she did a backflip, avoiding his attack and kicked him in the stomach. Bucky staggered back slightly. He lunged toward her tackling her to the ground. He grabbed her by the arms, pinning her onto the floor as the people watched from the video camera in the room.

"They're evenly matched, Dr Wolfgang." A young man informed him and he nodded in approval as he watched the two fight against each other for a while.

"Tell them to leave the knives and to now use their physical bodies against each other, I was wrong about the Winter Soldier, he may still be of value to us." Viktor said thoughtfully as his fellow scientist Edward Carson spoke over the speakers and instructed them to fight using psychical strength.

He knew was getting close to making the ultimate weapon.

Bucky knocked Eva off her feet, sending her onto the ground for a moment but she quickly got back up and punched him in the face. He grabbed her by the waist and threw her to the side, she faltered slightly but jumped back up ready to continue. She then ran at him and did a roundhouse kick, he dodged it and grabbed her by the throat with his metal arm.

"That will do…" The voice called out over the speaker. "That was a fine display, but we need you both intact."

Bucky and Eva looked at one another wondering what these psychopaths had in store for them next.

Enjoy :)