Your past is what makes you

by amybos

She continued to live her life as best as she could after her brother was lost in the ice. A super Soldier like him, but with a unique gift. Follow Steve's sister as spent 70 years trying to live without him but they finally find Steve.

2. Chapter 2

As they closed in on New York, their mouths fell open a huge beam of light had shot up into the sky and now, high above Stark Tower, a portal had opened. And from the portal came the Chitauri army, pouring out of the hole in space and raining down on New York.

They could see a tiny dot that was probably Tony flying up to try stop the army, and he managed to blow up quite a few but there were still a lot more and they began to fire down on New York. From their distance, they couldn't see exactly but their scanners were picking up the life-forms spreading around Stark Tower and they could see smoke rising from various parts of the city as fires broke out.

Sonya's grip on the quinjet's gunner tightened as they drew in closer and she called to Tony.

"Tony, we're heading North East."

"What, did you stop for drive-thru?" Tony quipped sarcastically. He added as he refocused.

"Swing up Park, I'm gonna lay them out for you."

"Clint?" Sonya called

"Got it." he responded.

They flew down the street as Tony had told them, and Sonya activated the guns just as Tony flew around the corner.

She fired, hitting all targets, but they were nowhere near finished.

"Sir, we have more incoming." Jarvis's voice said through the comms and Tony replied.

"Fine. Let's keep them occupied." He peeled away, heading back towards the portal as Clint flew the quinjet towards the Stark Tower. They could see Thor and Loki battling it out on the top floor.

"Yeah?" Clint asked and Sonya replied shortly.

"See them." Clint swung them around and Sonya opened fire at the golden-armored Loki.

The God swung Thor away and lifted his scepter. "Clint, watch-!" Nat shouted just as Loki fired.

Clint swerved, but the blast hit their wing and the whole jet jerked. Sonya stopped firing and stood up as the jet shuddered and began to go into free-fall. "Hang on!" Clint shouted, and Nat and Steve did just that.

Sonya spread out her arms, concentrating, green flames surrounded her arms then her body before moving to surround the jet to help Clint maneuver through the many skyscrapers, trying to avoid hitting one as he tried to land them safely.

They finally came to a stop into an empty street, and Clint heaved a sigh of relief as the agents unbuckled themselves quickly while Steve lowered the ramp and ran out ahead.

They followed quickly, heading into the chaos of the streets as police sirens wailed and people ran away screaming.

"We've got to get back up there." Steve said firmly as he looked up at Stark Tower a few blocks away, and they began to run towards the building, moving against the crowd when there was a deep growl from the portal. They paused, staring up at the sky and Sonya's eyes widened in terror as a giant worm-like creature flew out.

It flew above them, heading down the street and it released more Chitauri warriors from its sides as it went. This must be what Thor had warned them about- the Chitauri Leviathan, an almost motherhouse of its soldiers. Sonya took a deep, shaky breath as they watched the released Chitauri soldiers cling to the sides of buildings and begin to fire at and attack innocent people.

"Stark, are you seeing this?" Steve demanded through their ear comms, and Tony replied shakily.

"Seeing. Still working on… believing." He added urgently, "Where's Banner? Has he shown up yet?"

"Banner?" Steve repeated in confusion, while Sonya's brows furrowed standing next to her brother.

"Just keep me posted." Tony told them, before he began to fly after the Leviathan. Steve motioned to them to take cover, and they all ran to duck behind some abandoned yellow cabs, just as a group of Chitauri flew by on their chariots, led by…

"Loki." Steve muttered as they watched the group fire explosives down the street as they went.

"Those people need assistance down there." Steve muttered, and then flinched away as a Chitauri blaster hit the cab window, just missing his face.

Sonya whirled around as Nat began to fire her pistols back at their attackers. Clint ran, still crouched over, closer towards the Chitauri as they landed on the streets nearby the four and Nat ducked back down to say to Steve firmly.

"We got this. It's good. Go."

Steve hesitated as Sonya slid down the street after Clint, and he asked Clint and Sonya seriously, worried about his sister and the two non-supers on the team. "You think you can hold them off?"

Sonya sent him a rather amused expression as Clint glanced back and said flatly. "Captain," he clicked his bow and an arrow whirred into ready position in his quiver, "it would be my genuine pleasure." He grinned,

Sonya smiled at him, "You should see what I can do" and then both he and Sonya stood up quickly, Clint pulling his arrow.

Clint fired the arrow as Sonya used her powers to either shoot things like debris at them or incapacitated them anyway she could, Clint hitting the Chitauri slightly in front and Sonya hitting the ones at the back.

Clint's arrow released electric shocks, hitting the two Chitauri beside the one he'd hit, making it a total of five down when the pair ducked back down for cover.

Steve nodded, reassured and he ran off their bridge, heading to help the civilians further down the street as Nat stood and fired at the Chitauri once more. She and Sonya covered Clint as he helped civilians trapped in a bus on their street.

He urged them towards cover as he pointed to the subway entrances, and Sonya moved to cover them as the crowd of people ran, using her powers to her potential. As soon as the bus was cleared, Clint joined Nat, shooting arrows into the Chitauri as she fired both pistols from behind a cab

Sonya joined them soon after, Clint fired another arrow, Nat commented. "Just like Budapest all over again!" Sonya snorted as Clint retorted.

"You and I remember Budapest very differently. Son?"

"I'm with Nat." Sonya replied nonchalantly as she crushed another Chitauri with her powers, and Clint muttered as he fired another arrow.

"Of course you are." Nat fired a shot at one Chituari and Sonya threw debris in the same direction, hitting the one behind as Nat's target dropped dead.

They continued, moving out of cover as the Chitauri closed in. There were just too many, and as the fight soon became close quarter, the three spread out into a loose circle.

By this point Nat had run out of gunfire and had stolen some form of spear-gun from one of the Chiaturi to use against her opponents as Clint alternated stabbing his arrows into the aliens and then firing them at further targets.

Sonya whipped around, crushing the Chitauri heads, necks or chests to ensure they didn't get back up. She occasionally shot her guns when necessary, usually when she was backing up Nat or Clint, but she knew she needed to conserve some of her energy as much as possible or she was going to wear herself out. She had very few shots left in her own gun, which she was saving just in case as the fight wore on longer.

She was beginning to tire as she crushed each Chitauri, and every time they thought the numbers were beginning to dwindle, a new group of the things would arrive and the fight would repeat itself.

Sonya grunted as she shot another Chitauri, only for it to grab her arm as it died. One of its comrades threw itself on her as she struggled to break free, knocking her off her feet.

She kicked it, reaching for a knife when it was whacked off of her by Captain America's shield as Steve jumped into the fray.

He glanced back to check she was alright, and she nodded briefly in thanks as she jumped to her feet, and used her powers to crush the Chitauri behind Steve.

They turned to the side to face the advancing Chitauri, when suddenly the aliens were all hit by lightning bolts and Thor appeared out of the sky.

He landed before them as Nat and Clint walked over, and the DELTA team checked each other quickly as Steve asked Thor urgently. "What's the story upstairs?"

"The powers surrounding the cube is impenetrable." Thor replied tightly.

They all looked up as more Chitauri flew overhead and Tony added. "Thor is right. We gotta deal with these guys."

Clint checked his bow as Nat and Sonya turned to Steve, and the redhead asked. "How do we do this?"

"As a team." Steve replied firmly. Nat looked skeptical but Sonya took her arm, nodding in agreement with Steve.

Nat flew hair out of her face, nodding a little reluctantly as Thor interjected. "I have unfinished business with Loki."

"Yeah?" Clint chimed in flatly. "Get in line."

"Save it." Steve ordered as he turned to the team, "Loki's gonna keep this fight focused on us and that's what we need. Without him these things could run wild." He glanced around at the Chitauri. "We got Stark up top," he pointed at Stark Tower as he began to make plans, "he's gonna need us to-"

Steve broke off as they all heard the sound of a motorcycle. They looked around to see Banner arriving on the small vehicle, and Steve led the way as he quickly walked over to meet the man.

Banner commented as he got off the bike. "So, this all seems horrible."

"I've seen worse." Nat commented pointedly, and Banner glanced at her.

"Sorry." He said sincerely, and Nat corrected with a small smile.

"No. We could use a little worse." Banner looked surprised, though pleasantly so, and Sonya grinned at them.

"Stark?" Steve called into his comm. "We got him."

"Banner?" Tony asked and Sonya teased.

"No, the other scientist with breath-taking anger issues." She winked at Banner as he glanced at her and he cracked a smile.

Steve gave her a pointed look as he told Tony. "Just like you said."

"Then tell him to suit up." Tony replied. "I'm bringing the party to you." He added and they all looked up just as Tony flew around the corner.

Sonya's eyes widened as the Leviathan followed behind, smashing the side of a skyscraper as it made the sharp turn after Tony.

Thor snarled as he lifted his Mjolnir, while Nat said in a mix of shock and confusion. "I, I don't see how that's a party…"

As Tony flew towards them, the Leviathan following, Banner turned and started down to meet them. Steve called after the scientist. "Dr. Banner. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry."

"That's my secret, Captain." Banner commented as he planted his feet. He turned to them as he explained. "I'm always angry." With that, he turned back around to face the Leviathan.

As he turned, he changed, turning green and growing larger, ripping out of his shirt while his pants stretched, and it was the Hulk that met the Leviathan, punching it hard and forcing it to a stop with a loud snarl that echoed through the streets. The Leviathan cracked as it met the Hulk's fist, and its protective shell broke open.

But it began to flip over the Hulk's head and down towards the team.

Sonya flinched, but thankfully Tony flew in, calling. "Hold on." He fired explosives at the Leviathan's now exposed innards, causing it to explode.

Thor covered Nat as Clint ducked beneath a cab and Steve threw up his shield to cover both himself and Sonya from the resulting debris.

The whole place was filled with the screams of the Chitauri as they looked down at what had killed their motherhouse.

The Avengers simply stood proudly in a circle, Tony landing to join them as they faced the oncoming army while the Hulk roared at the shrieking Chitauri.

Sonya glanced up and saw more Leviathans coming out of the portal, followed by thousands more Chitauri. Nat saw the same thing and she said warningly. "Guys."

The rest of the team looked up as well, and Tony said urgently. "Call it, Captain."

"Alright, listen up." Steve ordered sharply. "Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, I want you on that roof," he nodded over to the tallest building nearby, "eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or your turn it to ash."

Tony nodded as Clint asked him. "Wanna give me a lift?"

"Right. Better clench up, Legolas." Tony grabbed Clint.

Sonya called to them sharply. "You two, be careful or I'll kill you myself."

"Don't worry, Aunt. I'd never leave you to have to deal with the Cap alone." Tony tossed back as he took off, taking Clint with him.

Steve continued. "Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You've got the lightning. Light the bastards up." Thor spun his Mjolnir and flew off, and Steve turned to the remaining two agents. "You two with me, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here."

Nat and Sonya exchanged tense looks, nodding firmly, as Steve turned to say finally. "And Hulk." The large green beast turned to him at its name, and Steve pointed up at the many Chitauri scaling the buildings.

"Smash." He said simply, and the Hulk grinned menacingly before he jumped to an incredible height. He landed right on a Chitauri chariot, smashing the Chitauri on it as he made his way further up various buildings. He tore apart all the Chitauri in his way as he jumped from building to building and right into the middle of a group of flying chariots.

Thor flew up to the top of the Empire State building and began to cause a lightning storm, drawing power from that raw energy before sending blasts of lightning at the portal, blowing up a Leviathan right as it was making its way out.

Sonya turned her attention back to her fight, and ran at a group of approaching Chitauri.

They fired at her, but she slid on the ground, and sliced at their shins. They screamed in pain as she leapt to her feet and began to stab at each of them, using her position in the center of the group so that they hit each other when they tried to shoot her. She projected her power outward so it crushed the Chitauri around her.

She could vaguely hear the others talking in the background, at one point Clint and Tony exchanging light banter, but as none of it was important or directed her way, she ignored most of it as she took on another group of Chitauri. She heard a grunt and spotted Nat pinned to the hood of a car by a Chitauri soldier.

Sonya flew over to help her, throwing another Chitauri backwards that was approaching the redhead just as Nat circled her legs around her attacker and raised herself up so that she could wrench out the nerves on its neck. She then blasted it with her spear as Sonya jumped on the last Chitauri, stabbing it in the neck, and landing on her feet as it collapsed.

Both women turned sharply, weapons raised as they felt a presence drop behind them but lowered it as they saw it was only Steve, his shield raised warily just in case they attacked first. He walked over as the Nat leaned back on the car hood and Sonya bent over to catch her breath, both exhausted.

Nat sent a nod of thanks at Sonya, who shrugged in response, before she said to Steve grimley. "Captain, none of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal."

"Our biggest guns couldn't touch it." Steve replied tightly.

Sonya's eyes narrowed as Nat said flatly. "Well, maybe it's not about guns." A group of chariots began to sweep past and Sonya glanced at them. Steve had his eyes fixed on a nearby group of Chitauri as he commented.

"You wanna get up there, you're gonna need a ride."

"I got a ride." Nat replied and Steve glanced at where the women were looking. Nat added pointedly. "I could use a lift though."

"Do you want me to come with you?" Sonya asked her seriously, and Nat shook her head.

"You do what you can to help the Cap here, I'll let you know if I need backup." She said firmly and Sonya nodded.

Nat backed up a bit as Steve braced himself and held up his shield, angling himself even as he asked Nat. "You sure about this?"

"Yeah. It's gonna be fun." Nat replied, sounding just a little sarcastic. She then sprinted, leaping onto the car hood, then Steve's shield. He drew his arm in and then lifted the shield again in a quick springing movement, throwing Nat high into the air with the double momentum.

Sonya watched worriedly as Nat grabbed the bottom of a chariot just as it flew by overhead, and turned away as it flew off. Steve had also watched its path worriedly, but glanced at Sonya as she began to move again. She took off for the group of Chitauri and Steve took a deep breath before he followed.

Sonya stabbed, turned, punched, crunched and repeated the pattern as she took out the Chitauri. Steve joined her, and the two were soon working in sync, having worked out each other's fighting style and pattern.

Steve hit a Chitauri and Sonya stabbed it, and they repeated.

Tony flew in to join them, and he shot his suit's laser at Steve, who used his shield to rebound it on the remaining Chitauri. Tony then flew off and Steve called to Sonya. "You okay?"

"Never better." Sonya replied sarcastically but she grinned.

He gave her an answering grin before they then took off again, heading for the block over. They fell back into a pattern, working around and with each other, until one of the Chitauri landed a solid punch on Sonya. She went flying, just as another Chitauri jumped Steve, knocking him to the ground.

Sonya whipped up, but a Chitauri jumped her as well, she struggled against it as it tried to choke her, even as she kicked out and used her legs to snap the neck of another Chitauri. Her attacker suddenly let go and Sonya turned to see an arrow in its back.

She saluted the tiny figure on the roof, knowing he'd see the gesture, before she threw a knife at the last Chitauri as Steve kicked and incapacitated his own attacker. Clint called. "Captain, Son, the bank on 42nd past Madison, they caught a lot of civilians there."

"We're on it." Steve replied and he gestured for Sonya to follow him. They ran through the streets, even as Sonya could feel the fatigue wearing down on her muscles. Steve jumped into the bank through an open window, and Sonya followed just as he threw his shield at one Chitauri.

It dropped the bomb it had been holding, as the other three Chitauri began to fire at Steve and Sonya. Steve ran for the beeping bomb while Sonya dodged the blasts and kicked the legs out from underneath the three gunmen. Steve fought the Chitauri who'd been holding the bomb, knocking it out and tossing it down the balcony to where the crowd was.

"Everyone, clear out!" Steve ordered and Sonya called at him as two of her opponents ran from her and at the super soldier. "Steve!" He turned right as the Chitauri jumped at him, and they fought.

He kicked one off the balcony railing, and it struggled to hang on as the other caught Steve in a chokehold while Sonya's opponent used her momentary distraction to grab her in a headlock, all while the bomb continuing to beep faster.

Sonya stabbed her opponent's arm just as the Chitauri that had been hanging onto the railing pulled itself up at shot a blast at Steve. Steve threw himself up and over his attacker's head so that the blast hit the Chitauri, and he finally escaped the chokehold his attacker had on him although he lost his helmet in the process.

Sonya twisted out of her attacker's grip and stabbed it as Steve's second attacker grabbed the bomb, and Steve yelled out warningly. "Sonya!" She turned towards him as he ran for her, grabbing her and pulling them into a ball behind his shield as the Chitauri raised the bomb, getting ready to throw it at them.

The bomb exploded before the Chitauri could throw it, and the force of the blast sent both Steve and Sonya flying out a window, both landing with a heavy crash on a car roof outside the bank as glass rained down on them. Steve grimaced but quickly turned his head to his younger sister as he called worriedly. "Sonya?"

She didn't move from her spot on the crushed roof, and Steve's heart dropped as he shifted his aching body to check on her. Her head was bleeding pretty badly, but as he touched her cheek lightly her eyes fluttered open and she groaned as she blinked her dazed blue eyes at him.

"What happened?" She asked and he sighed in relief.

"Those people, are they hurt?" Sonya asked with a wince as she slowly began to focus again. The downside was that it meant she could now feel every aching muscle in her body, and she was going to have several wicked bruises tomorrow.

"I think so." Steve murmured, wincing himself as he slowly slid down off the car, landing on his feet on the streets. He glanced back as firemen arrived and began to pull people urgently out of the destroyed bank, ushering them to safety.

He looked up and as Sonya didn't move asked her concernedly. "Are you injured?"

She shook her head, wincing as she picked herself up and slowly slid down to stand beside him. "Could be better." She joked weakly, as she clutched her arm in pain and he looked her over worriedly. "You lost your helmet." Sonya noted and he sighed, nodding unhappily.

"Son?" Clint's voice asked sharply over their ear comms

She groaned. "I don't need you to mother me right now, Hawkeye. I'm the one who does that to you and Nat." Sonya retorted into her earpiece.

Clint exhaled sharply. "Don't give me that, Son. Are you hurt?" He demanded and she sighed.

"Sorry, and no. I'm fine, Clint. Don't worry about me, we need to stay focused." Sonya told him, and it was at that moment Nat called over their com.

"Hawkeye." Sonya and Steve stiffened, listening intently as Clint asked in disbelief.

"Nat, what are you doing?"

"Uh, a little help?" She pointed out, and Sonya listened anxiously but she smiled as Clint replied softly. "I got him."

She could almost see his satisfied smirk, and she and Steve exchanged amused glances before it became grim once more and they headed back out into the fight.

Sonya and Steve fought through grit teeth. Sonya'd run out of knives at this point but still using her powers and they were both exhausted. She wasn't even sure how many hours it might have been since the fight started, but she did know that every muscle in her body screamed when she moved and then throbbed tiredly when she paused.

She glanced up at one point and froze. The roof where Clint had been was destroyed. "Clint?!" She called into her comms urgently, but there was no response. She spotted a small hole in the building a few floors down where the glass had shattered and wondered if that was where he'd gone.

"Son? What's happened to Clint?" Nat called and Sonya began.

"He's gone, he-" She was cut off as she heard a whistling coming towards her and she barely managed to duck in time as a Chitauri swung its spear at her. But it simply whacked the butt of the spear at her head, knocking her to the ground.

Sonya groaned and then twisted away as it fired its gun from the spearhead, before she kicked at it. It dodged and made to hit her again when Steve's shield whacked it aside, knocking it out. She looked up as he ran over, asking urgently. "Son, you okay?"

She nodded, saying gratefully. "Thanks, Steve."

"You need to stay focused. Barton's strong, he'll have found a way to survive." Steve told her sternly and Sonya nodded, hanging her head. "I should know. I trained him. I'm sorry." She murmured, and Steve paused.

He glanced around to make sure they weren't in danger at the moment before he clamped a hand on her shoulder and looked her in the eye. Her blue eyes met his as he said gently. "I promise you, we'll look for him as soon as we can. But for now, I need you here."

Sonya nodded slowly and then once more firmly.

"Roger, that. Captain." She said softly, almost teasing but there was a deep respect in her voice.

Steve swallowed, suddenly feeling disoriented, but her eyes became sharp and she called warningly. "Steve!" He whipped around as more Chitauri appeared and he quickly returned to the battle at hand.

The pair started fighting again, and Sonya managed to pull a Black Widow and steal a spear from one using it to fire at the others. Thor joined them as Steve threw his shield to cover Sonya, hitting away a Chitauri that was about to attack Steve as Sonya used her opponent's distraction caused by the shield to take him out. She threw the shield back to Steve with a nod of thanks, before turning back to the fight.

She'd just sent one of the Chitauri flying with a blast of her telekinetic power, when Steve suddenly grunted painfully and she whipped around to see him thrown to the ground after a blast hit him right in the stomach. "Steve!" Sonya called worriedly.

She quickly fired at the Chitauri, distracting them as Thor smashed a car at them. He kept them at bay as Sonya skid over to Steve as the super soldier slowly crawled back to his knees. He was breathing heavily, and seemed to be having trouble getting to his feet.

She touched his shoulder worriedly, asking softly. "Steve?" He grimaced at her, and they both looked up as a hand appeared before Steve's face. Thor waited, and Steve took the offered hand gratefully. Thor helped him to his feet as Sonya supported Steve, gripping his elbow.

She frowned worriedly at Steve's heavily bleeding side, and Thor asked, though he was eyeing the Captain concernedly. "You ready for another bout?"

"What? You gettin' sleepy?" Steve joked, but his face was furrowed in pain and his breathing still heavy.

Thor smiled grimly before grabbing his Mjolnir and Sonya muttered. "Men." But even her jibe was half-hearted and Steve gripped her shoulder as they turned back to the advancing Chitauri.

"You're wounded, you should rest." Sonya murmured to Steve as they took a fighting stance once more and Thor flew on ahead to meet their attackers.

"You're injured, too, and you're still going." He replied calmly and Sonya retorted.

"Injured, not wounded. You're no good to us dead, Cap."

"Neither are you. So you'd better come back alive." Steve replied lightly but there was a serious undertone to his voice. Sonya just gripped her spear tightly as some of the Chitauri broke through Thor and headed for the pair. She murmured quietly.

"You'd better be there to meet me when I do."

He nodded tightly, and then they ran forward, once more throwing themselves into the fray. Sonya had just whacked aside a Chitauri when Nat's voice called. "I can close it! Can anybody hear me? I can shut the portal down!"

"Do it!" Steve ordered, when Tony replied sharply. "No, wait!"

Sonya exchanged puzzled glances with Steve before she threw another blast at a Chitauri and Steve pointed out to Tony. "Stark, these things are still coming!"

"I got a nuke coming in. It's gonna blow in less than a minute." Tony replied and Sonya's blood ran cold. The council. She realized. Only the council could authorize this. Tony continued grimly. "And I know just where to put it."

They all looked up at the portal, realization hitting them in horror. Steve said sternly. "Stark, you know that's a one-way trip?"

"Save the rest for return, J." Tony told Jarvis, avoiding Steve's question. Sonya gripped her spear tightly as they heard Jarvis ask Tony. "Sir. Shall I call Miss Potts?"

"You might as well." Tony replied lightly, but Sonya knew he would only allow a call to Pepper if he knew he wasn't going to make it. She blasted another Chitauri, and then looked up at the sky. Thor and Steve did the same and they all watched as Tony flew up towards the portal carrying the portal.

Sonya screamed as he disappeared inside the portal. "TONY!" Steve grabbed her, holding her tightly in comfort as all the Chitauri around them collapsed, deactivated, meaning the bomb had exploded and taken out the control ship.

Sonya stared around and then back at the portal in horror, silently willing Tony to come back.

The portal gave a faint booming noise, and shimmered as a supernova started heading towards the portal gate. Sonya started to tremble as Steve and Thor exchanged looks, and Thor gave a short nod to the Captain.

Steve ordered quietly into his earpiece. "Close it." Sonya gave a broken sob, and he hugged her to him, her head pressed against his chest as they stared up at the portal. The beam from the Tesseract faltered as Nat closed it, before it disappeared and the tears began to stream down Sonya's face at last.

Steve could feel the wet spots appearing on his suit and he whispered to her sadly. "I'm sorry." She didn't reply as she cried silently, and they watched the portal shut… just as a small figure fell through.

Sonya's eyes widened as Steve murmured in disbelief. "Son of a gun."

Sonya began to smile, but it dropped as Tony continued to free-fall. Both Steve and Thor noticed as well, and Steve gripped Sonya tightly as Thor muttered, beginning to swing his Mjolnir. "He's not slowing down."

Sonya started concentrating her power to help Tony slow down as much as she could. But with her energy depleted from the fight, she could only slow him down a little bit.

But it turned out it wasn't necessary as, with an almighty roar, the Hulk appeared out of nowhere, jumping through air and catching the falling man. The Hulk crashed into a building with one hand, using its grip to slide down the building before it jumped off and landed heavily on the ground, cradling Iron Man in its other arm.

The trio ran over as the Hulk placed the Iron Man suit on the ground and Thor quickly turned the prone body over, pulling off the helmet as Steve knelt down and checked for breathing. Sonya skid onto her knees beside Steve, waiting anxiously.

Steve lifted his head and checked Tony's chest, where the light from his arc reactor was also out. He slowly turned Sonya, shaking his head and she placed a hand over her mouth, stifling sobs. He wrapped an arm around her as Thor turned away, unable to look any longer.

But the Hulk wasn't having that and it roared right in Tony's face, and they all jumped as Tony gasped, his eyes flying open in shock. Steve's face broke into a disbelieving smile while Sonya's face blanked in complete shock, and the Hulk roared again in triumph, beating its chest proudly.

"What the hell?" Tony gasped, and he stared at Steve. "What just happened?" He then saw Thor as the Norse God turned back and leant over Tony's head. "Please tell me nobody kissed me?" Tony said flatly before his eyes landed on Natalie.

Steve sighed and raised his eyes to the destruction around them as Tony added. "Well, not that you'd be a bad choice, but…" Tony trailed off as Sonya's face didn't change.

He also noticed tear tracks on her face, very noticeable around the grime and dirt that covered it. She never cried…Damn, he thought, I guess it was really bad. Steve meanwhile kept his firm grip around Sonya, holding her tightly as she sat numbly while he muttered in disbelief. "We won."

Tony glanced at him, and then said lightly. "Alright. Hey. Alright. Good job, guys. And girls." He added, but Sonya only blinked at him. At least she was moving now. Tony rambled on. "Let's just not come in tomorrow. Let's just take a day." He groaned in pain.

"Have you ever tried shawarma?" He added randomly. Steve had to chuckle as he stared down at Tony, his blue eyes bright with emotion as Tony continued. "There's a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don't know what it is, but I wanna try it."

"We're not finished yet." Thor corrected calmly, looking up at Stark Tower.

Steve also turned to it while Sonya finally spoke as she said, glaring down at Tony. "Yeah, I need to kill Tony myself for scaring me like that." Tony blinked at her, and then tried. "And then shawarma after."

When Loki finally came to and climbed to his knees, he froze. Sensing a presence behind him, he turned to find himself face to face with all of the Avengers as Clint slowly drew his bow, his arrow pointed right at Loki's face.

He stared at each face- Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Sonya, Hawkeye, Thor, and Black Widow- and then said to Tony quietly. "If it's all the same to you. I'll have that drink now."

A few hours later

The team sat in the shawarma joint in complete silence, except for Thor's enthusiastic eating. Tony sat beside him at their round table, and he was also eating, his expression thoughtful as he chewed his mouthful of food. Bruce sat beside him, nibbling at his portion.

Steve sat beside Thor, leaning on his fist tiredly, as he picked at his food. Sonya was sitting beside him, then Nat, and then Clint, none of them even bothering to try to eat. Clint had his legs propped up on Nat's chair, and Sonya was beginning to doze off as she leaned against the super soldier tiredly.

"So, what now?" Bruce asked, finally breaking the tension. Sonya lifted her head sleepily to look at the scientist as he nodded at the group, continuing. "We've beaten the bad guys, great, but what next?"

They glanced at each other before Tony piped up. "Well, I'm going home."

"It's in shambles." Steve pointed out and Sonya pulled a face, knowing what Tony was going to say.

Lo and behold, Tony retorted. "My Malibu home."

Steve rolled his eyes, but now their banter was playful. Sonya grinned as Tony added. "Pepper's going to meet me there."

"Bet she was worried." Sonya murmured softly, and Tony nodded. His face softened and for once he showed his genuine side to the team as he admitted.

"I thought I'd never see her again. Now that I can, I will as soon as I can."

"How come you're still here then?" Clint teased, and Tony replied airily.

"Her jet takes longer, and I'm not going to go early just to sit and wait. Don't worry though," he added as he caught Sonya raising her brows at him, "I'll be there before her. So don't make that face, Aunt Son."

She laughed at him while the others chuckled. "You could come with me." Tony suggested suddenly to Bruce, who raised a brow.

"What, so I can watch you cuddle with your girlfriend?" He asked, and Tony rolled his eyes.

"Stark Tower's a mess right now, but my Malibu house has two floors where I do my work. It's not much but it's got enough toys to keep us entertained until the Tower's back on track."

"Two floors isn't much?" Steve asked skeptically and Sonya teased.

"It isn't for Tony."

He stuck his tongue out at her as Bruce mumbled. "Thanks, but I don't think-"

"Think of it as a thank you present to the other guy for saving me." Tony interrupted and Bruce paused, looking uncertain.

Sonya decided to chime in. "Tony, it's still a little awkward for Bruce while you and Pepper are around." Tony opened his mouth to argue but Sonya carried on as she suggested. "I know your team's probably already starting work on reconstructing the Tower. How about Bruce sticks around to help, and he can stay in the Tower for the night? Your lower floors weren't damaged- he could stay there."

Bruce looked surprised while Tony thoughtful. "You know, Aunt, I remembered why I liked you." Tony joked and Sonya laughed, shaking her head at him.

"You kinda have no choice, I've watched you grow up and I used to change your diapers" Everyone laughed. Tony stayed silent and ignored that comment.

Tony looked around the room as he offered. "Any of you need somewhere to stay, the Tower does have some rooms in the lower floors you could stay in."

"Nah, I'm good, thanks. I've got somewhere I can go." Clint replied nonchalantly.

Nat nodded. "I'll be joining you." She grinned and he nodded.

They waited, and Nat glanced at Sonya in surprise as the younger agent pursed her lips thoughtfully. Sonya was glancing at Steve, who was looking pensive.

Thor interrupted. "I do not wish to be too far from my brother. He is talented in magic and trickery, and I would feel better if I was closer to him." Tony nodded understandingly, but he pointed out.

"SHIELD's New York office building doesn't have rooms. You wouldn't have anywhere to sleep."

"He can stay with me." Sonya offered. The team turned to her in surprise, but she was looking at Thor as she said. "I live in the SHIELD apartments, right across the block from the office. It's as close as you'd get and basically the same as being inside. My apartment's also hardwired to SHIELD's security system- one of the perks of being me - so if something happened with Loki, you'd know right away."

Thor looked astonished, but he nodded as he agreed. "If it is alright with you, I would be very grateful." She then turned to Steve as she added. "You could stay, too, if you want. I have enough room." He blinked at her as she pointed out. "Your apartment was on one of the streets that got blown. I doubt you'd be allowed in. Besides, we could catch up"

He nodded- he'd already been thinking about it- Steve looked stunned so Clint laughed as he told him. "There's no such thing as modesty when you're a spy. Trust me, we've all had to share less than an apartment."

Bruce was looking distinctly uncomfortable with the topic while Thor was looking confused.

"Anyway," Sonya interrupted as she calmed down again, "so, how about it, Steve?" He looked at her thoughtfully before he said at last.

"Why not, I guess." Tony raised a brow while Sonya nodded and she said cheerily. "Great. And Bruce," she added to the good doctor who looked at her startled, "you're welcome to come at any time as well. Dinner will be on me."

"How come I'm not invited?" Tony demanded as Bruce blinked, taken aback by the friendly offer. "You know I love your cooking."

"Get Pepper to cook for you." Sonya teased him, and Tony shot back. "Maybe I will."

"Then good." She laughed at him and he pouted at her.

"You know she is almost double your age, right." Nat pointed out to Tony, who immediately retorted. "So?"

"She used to change your diapers." Nat muttered as Clint chuckled and Sonya laughed again while Thor began to smile. Steve slowly began to grin as well as the four bantered lightly, and even Bruce joined in as they all began to laugh and joke around.

May 4, 2012

It had been two days since the Battle of New York. Amidst the press, good and bad, the Avengers had recuperated while SHIELD scrambled to do damage control and kept Loki under lock and key. Officials were still trying to decide what to do with the team that had now become famous around the world, but it seemed the people of New York were firmly on the side of the heroes who had saved the city.

Fury was dealing with the Security Council personally, firmly siding with the Avengers by giving them a 'leave of absence' as he'd pointedly called it. Basically, it meant lay low until the whole incident blew over and the council was forced to see things from his perspective.

They'd done exactly that, each going their way as they'd agreed during their shawarma stint. And Sonya had actually enjoyed having Steve and Thor with her in her apartment. She found it rather amusing waking up to a demi-god making PopTarts in her kitchen, although she found it less amusing when he broke her mug.

Steve was a quieter guest, but the two had grown close during the battle and she was thankful that he was found. Gave her a chance to catch him up on things and teach him a few things with technology.

When Fury called in during their two-day respite to ask Steve formally to join SHIELD, Steve agreed. He had had his doubts, because even if it had been Howard and Peggy who started the organization, he wasn't sure he could trust its current authority. But he decided that if two people with good hearts, Sonya and Phil, believed in it enough to fight at SHIELD's side, then he could trust it too.

He wanted to work alongside his sister after spending 70 years in the ice and didnt want to miss out on anymore time with her.

Sonya had teasingly sulked when he was automatically awarded a clearance level of 8, placing him at above almost everyone in SHIELD. In fact, only Nick Fury, senior SHIELD official Alexander Pierce, and Maria Hill had a higher clearance level than Steve. He'd felt somewhat uncomfortable but she'd just laughed at him good-naturedly, making him crack a smile as well in the end.

To both his and Sonya's surprise, Fury had asked Sonya to partner with him while Steve got used to things at SHIELD. She'd agreed of course, when she did, his heart had pounded excitedly. It wasn't the first time they would be working together.

Well, that's what he told himself, even though somewhere he knew it wasn't quite that. He'd caught himself staring at Sonya a little too much more than once during his stay. Admiring how strong and smart she had become over the years, even without him around. Bucky would have been proud of her too.

They'd agreed to return to work once Thor left for Asgard… which was today. The whole team had gathered in Central Park to say farewell to Thor, at least until next time. Sonya hugged him briefly before he went, and Thor almost crushed her ribs when he returned the embrace.

She walked back and watched as Thor led a manacled and gagged Loki into the center of park while Tony carried forward the case with the Tesseract. Dr. Selvig was there too, and he and Bruce Banner place the Tesseract into a container for Thor to take back to Asgard.

Sonya arrived next to Steve and leaned against him as they watched Thor say goodbye to Selvig, giving the old scientist a warm hug. Thor then nodded at them in thanks and farewell, and Steve saluted him as Sonya gave him a small, cheery wave. He gave them one more almost pensive look before he returned to his brother.

The team had all become better friends since the battle, so it surprised no-one that those two had gotten closer after spending so much time apart.

The rest of the team then broke off to say their goodbyes to each other for now. Steve shook hands with Tony, the two finally having seen somewhat eye to eye, before Sonya gave Tony a tight hug that he returned. Nat gave Bruce a warm smile as she handed him his belongings that SHIELD had collected for him, and Bruce answered it hesitantly before he moved to join Tony by the billionaire's car.

The pair were heading back to the Stark Tower, where Bruce would continue to help Tony with the renovations… and Sonya was sure he'd be staying. After all, 10 floors of R&D facilities was nothing to scoff at. Clint got into a car with Nat, the two heading back to SHIELD base, while Sonya gave Bruce a hug too, much to the scientist's surprise.

He and Tony then got into Tony's red convertible and they drove off as well, while Sonya walked back over to join Steve at his motorcycle. He was taking them to the SHIELD office and he grinned at her as she walked up. She returned it as she climbed onto the back of his bike, and then she clung to his back as he drove them off.

The team was splitting up for now, but Sonya was sure they'd all see each other again someday, and she was looking forward to it. But for now, she was content as she held onto her brother's waist as they took off down the streets of New York.

Sometime later...

Later in the early morning as the sun was coming up over Washington, a man went jogging, as he jogs along the bridge, not that far behind him a man with a tight white shirt, slacks and sneakers ran passed him. "On your left." Steve said.

Then a woman with long dark brown hair with blonde highlights tied into a ponytail, wore a black sports bra, colourful singlet top, tight compression shorts and sneakers ran right past the man, "On your left." Sonya said, the man jogging was confused; the sun was almost up as the man jogs past the building with the pillars in front of it.

The Rogers Siblings ran past him again,"On your left." Steve said,

Then "On your left." Sonya said.

"Uh-huh, on my left, got it." the man said, getting it, sort of.

As the sun raises high, the man jogs past the gigantic water pool, the siblings ran to him, "Don't say it, don't you say it." the man tells them,

"On your left." Steve said. "On your left." Sonya said and they ran right past him.

"Come on!" the man shouts, trying to catch up with them. But they were long gone.

The man leaned against a tree, panting, "Need a medic?" Steve calls out to him as he and his sister walk up to him,

"I need a new set of lungs. You two just ran thirteen miles in thirteen minutes." he tell them.

"Got a late start." Steve states, placing his hands on his hips, Sonya giggles and crosses her arms.

"Really, you should be ashamed of yourself, you should take another lap... Did you just take it, I assume you just took it." he jokes.

"What unit were you with?" Sonya asks him.

"58th Para rescue. But now I'm working down at the V.A." he tells them, the held out his hand for help, "Sam Wilson." he introduce himself.

"Steve Rogers." Steve helps him onto his feet.

"Sonya Rogers." she held out her hand to him. Sam shook her hand when Steve let go of his hand.

"I kinda put that together. It must be strange coming home after the defrosting thing." he states when Sonya took back her hand. She looks around. "Takes some getting use to." Steve answers.

Sam looks at Sonya, "Were you frozen too?"

Sonya shakes her head, "No, I have been around all this time that he has been frozen. Helping out where I can"

"Wow! Impressive. So you have seen quite a lot" He asks.

Sonya smiled, "Sure have"

"Maybe you and me should grab a coffee sometime." he asks smiling.

She just looked at Steve who was reading a message on his phone and then back at him, "Seriously, you just asked me that in front of my brother? Your brave. I'll give you that" she said smiling.

"Well see you around Sam." Steve tells him then they both turn and started to walk away.

"It your bed, right?" he calls out to Steve, they both turn and look at him.

"What?" Steve asks him.

"It's your bed, it's too soft. When I was over there, I would sleep on the ground, rocks for pillows, like for cave man. When I'm home, laying in my bed, it's like. . ." Sam started. "Laying on a marshmallow?" they both answers, he looks at them.

"Like I'm going to sink right to the floor." Steve adds. Sam just chuckles.

"How long?" Steve asks him, "Two tours. You two must of miss the good old day." he cross his arms.

Steve looks around, "Things aren't so bad, food is better, we use to boil everything, no polios is good, internet, so helpful. Been reading that a lot." Steve tells him as Sonya place her hand on her hip, shifting her weight a bit.

"Marvin Grey, 1972, trouble man soundtrack. Everything you missed, jammed into one album." he tells him.

Steve took out a small notebook and writes it down, Sonya looks over his shoulders, seeing if he wrote it down right. "I'll put it one the list." Steve tells him.

Then his cell went off, as Steve places his notepad away, he pulls it out of his pocket and looks at the message; 'Mission Alert. Extraction Imminent. Meet me at the curb :)'. He sighs.

"Well Sam, love to stay and chat some more, but duty calls." Sonya tells him, placing her phone away. "Thanks for the run." she shook his hand.

"If that's what you want to call running." she adds, Sam looks at her, feeling insulted.

"Oh, is that how it is?" he questions her. "Ohh, that's how it is." Steve he tells him, they all chuckle. "Okay, maybe I should retract my offer for coffee." he tells her, as she took back his hand, they both turn to walk away.

"No you won't" she said confidently and smiled.

"Anytime you both want to stop by the V.A. to make me look awesome in front of the girl at the front desk, just let me know." he offers them.

Steve and Sonya walk backwards, "We'll keep it in mind." Steve promise him as the black cobra pulls out next to the curb. The window was rolled down and there was Natasha. "Hey fellas and lady, any of you know where the Smithsonian is, I'm here to pick up some fossils." she jokes.

Sonya rolls her eyes and they both walk up to the car, "That's hilarious." Steve throws out, Sonya opens the car and hops into the back and Steve sat up front. Sam kneels down, looking at Natasha, "How you doing?" he flirts.

"Hey." she flirts back at him, she turned to Sonya, "He's cute."

Steve looks over at him and Sonya leans forward a bit, "Can't run everywhere." Steve tells him.

"No you can't." Sam answers, then Steve rolls up his window and Natasha drove off.

Somewhere over the ocean

It was night as the Qin-jet flew over the ocean, S.T.R.I.K.E. force lead by Steve and his second in Command, Sonya, both dress in S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform as they were debriefed by Rumlow. "Target is a mobile satellite launch platform, the Lemurian Star. They were setting their last play load when Pirates took them, 93 minutes ago." he tells them.

"Any other Mass?" Steve asks him.

"Billion in a half." he answers.

"Why so steep?" Sonya questions, with her arms crossed.

"Because it's SHIELD's." he answers her, she sighs.

"So it's not off course, it's trespassing." she states and the Rogers eyes Natasha.

"I'm sure they have a good reason." she states.

"Yeah, Sonya and I are getting tired of being Fury's janitors." Steve tells her.

"Relax, it's not that complicated." she tells them, Sonya looks away from her, Steve did the same thing.

"That's what you always say." Sonya mumbles.

"How many pirates?" Steve asks him.

"25, they're top mercs, lead by Joinh Bactra." he shows them the picture of the man.

"Next D.G.S.C, action division. He's at the top interpol's red notice, before the French demobilized, he had 30 killed missions, this guy's got a rep for high casualties." he informs them. "Hostages, most techs. One officer, Jasper Sitwell. In the galley." he tells him.

Sonya nods and checks her equipment, "What's Sitwell doing on a lost ship?" Steve questions.

"Sightseeing perhaps, I hear the Indian ocean is lovely this time of year." Sonya smirks.

Steve chuckles, not believing just joked about something. "Stark is definitely rubbing off on you." he tells her.

"Where do you think he learnt it all from?" She asks as Steve shakes his head at her.

Sonya went over to the monitors when Rumlow and the team was making sure they were all prepped.

Rumlow turns to Sonya, "I want you to be careful." He said quietly.

Sonya looked at him, "I'll be fine. You know I'm more then capable of looking after myself" he paused, "You worried about Natasha too or is it just me you're worried about?" He couldn't answer, "That's what I thought."

"Look, stay focused on the mission. Can't afford to be distracted."

"Yeah, your right. I'll be focused." He said as she walked over to her brother.

One of the guys came up to Rumlow and whispered, "Please tell me you don't have a crush on boss lady"

Rumlow shoved him, "Leave it alone." And continued to prep.

Sonya walked over to her brother, "What was that about?"

"Nothing" she said as she checks her ammo packs just in case she needs them as Steve gives out the orders

"Alright, Sonya and I are going to sweep the decks and backtrack. Nat, you kill the engines and wait for instructions." Steve orders.

"Rumlow, you sweep left, find the hostages, get them to the life pods, get them out." Sonya orders.

"S.T.R.I.K.E, you heard the Captain and Psych. Gear up." Rumlow orders them as the Sibling walk to the back.

"Secure channel Seven." Steve said over the comm, Sonya checks her's in her ear.

"I'm good." she tells him, walking over to her weaponry, "Channel Seven secure. So did you and Sonya do anything fun Saturday night?" Natasha asks them.

"Well, all the guys from my barber shop are dead, so no not really." Steve tells her, she smiles at him.

"Coming up on the drop zone, Cap." the pilot tells them, Sonya pulls down her sleeves so the little hoops hook around her middle fingers to keep in place and she hits the release button, making the back open.

The two them walk to the ramp. "You know Steve, in you ask Kelly out, she would probably say yes." Natasha tells him as he clips on his helmet.

"That's why I don't ask." he tells her.

"Too sad or too scared?" she asks him.

"Too busy." Steve answers and he and Sonya jump out if the Jet.

Rumlow walks up to Natasha, "Did they just jump out, without a parachute?" he asks her, Natasha shook her head at him.

Steve and Sonya dive for the ship, as it came into view, Steve then dived into the water, while Sonya used her powers to lower herself quietly on the anchor chain where Steve caught up with her.

Staying quiet as possible they climb up the anchor chain, they then jump onto the ship, dispatching all the Pirates on the ship.

Steve would throw his shield and Sonya would wave her hands to place them into a deep sleep. They then reached a small squadron of men, Sonya pulls out her dagger and threw it at another one close to the wall and Steve dispatched the other two, the one with a dagger embedded into his shoulder.

He then looks up at the fire alarm and went to pull it, but Sonya grips his wrist, slams it against the wall and held a dagger against his throat. "I wouldn't." she warns him. He glares at her then she knees him in the gut and socks him in his face, and lowers him to the ground.

"Son, come on." Steve whispers to her and they continue on, Steve and Sonya reach the back and took care of the last few, Sonya uses her powers to put a few of them to sleep. Steve threw his Shield at them and pulls it back on his arm.

Sonya then walks up to him and nods they then heard a gun cock and a man shouted at them in French, but then was taken out as Rumlow landed. The two turn to him.

"Thanks." Steve said to him.

"Yeah, you two looked pretty helpless without me." he said, taking off his harness.

The rest then landed as well, Steve pulls his shield onto his back and they all started heading to their positions. "What about the nurse that lives across the hall from you and Sonya, she seems kinda nice." Natasha starts, Sonya smiles a little, unaware that Rumlow was looking at her.

"And have you take Sam's offer" she said smiling at Sonya.

"Secure the Engine room, then find me and my brother dates." Sonya ordered her.

"I'm multitasking." Natasha tells her and jumps over the ledge.

"What about you, Psych, ever think about dating someone?" Rumlow asks her, she looks at him and shook her head.

"No, I think I'm better off not dating, I don't think anyone could keep up with me." she tells him and walks off, following Steve.

They then took off, close but out of sight from the bridge. Steve fires a listening chip to the window, listening in on the conversation happening

Sonya touches her ear piece, honing into the conversation, "Can you make out what they're saying?" Steve asks her.

"Almost, Yeah. One is saying he doesn't like waiting, Bactra is telling him to call Durand. He wants the ship ready to move when the ransom come." she whispers to him.

Steve nods and they lean a bit over looking over at the bridge. "Natasha, what's your status?" Steve asks over the comm, "Status Natasha." Steve asks again.

"Hang on." she said over the comm. Steve looks up at Sonya. "Give her a minute, she's got it." she tells him, he sighs, looking away and shaking his head.

"You spent way too much time with her and Clint." he adds, she smiles and light bumps her knee into his shield. "Hey, they have their moments. Besides, someone had to train them to be bad asses." she giggles, he shook his head, loving his sister.

She nods a bit, knowing she was right about that. "Engine room secured." Natasha said over the comm.

He looks up at Sonya and she nods at him and turns to his comm, "On my mark, three, two, one." then, they then heard the gunfire over the comms. Sonya placed her fingertip to the ear comm.

"The man tells him no one is answering, that no one is responding." Sonya warns him and Steve stood up.

"We better hurry." Steve tells her and they both came out of hiding and Steve through his shield at the glass window, killing the man, but Bartroc dodges the shield just in time. Steve jumps into the room first and was kick in the chest, making him stumble back a bit and ran off as Sonya jumps into the room.

"Damn." she mumbles and ran after him, Steve pulls his shield out of the wall and follows after her.

Sonya reaches outside and saw that Bartroc was gone, "Damn." she mumbles, banging her hand against the bar.

"Hostages in route to extraction. Romanoff missed the rendezvous point, Psych. Hostiles still in play." Rumlow informs her as Steve ran out next to her.

They both walk down the steps and stood on the platform. "Nat, where the hell are you?" Sonya calls over her, Steve the ran over to her, shoves her out of the way and blocks Bartrco's kick, Sonya stumbles and falls flat on her front. She then props herself onto her elbows and shook off the suddenness.

She then pulls herself up, turns and looks at the two the fought. She then ran over, socking him in the face, making him stumble and then kicks his feet out from under him, Bartroc pulls himself back up and then flips away from them.

Steve and Sonya stood tall and look at him. "Are you two more then a shield and powers?" he asks them in french.

Steve exchanges looks with Sonya, they both look at him, Steve place his shield onto his back then removes his helmet and Sonya removes her weapons and ammo, tossing them. "Lets see." Steve answers him and they all took a fighting stance.

Bartroc charges at them, Steve blocks every attack thrown at them. Steve then smacks his head against his, making him stumble back, Steve then bends a bit, Sonya rolls over his beck and shield, she then kicks him in the face, making him stumble back, she then turns her back to him and as he charges at her but she back flips of the ground and kicks in face again, Sonya turns to him glaring steps back away from him, Steve stood straight and looks at Bartroc, as he groans and stood up.

Sonya held her arm out to the side, her equipment flies back at her and places itself back onto her body in their right places. Bartroc was going to charge at her, but Steve charges at him, and rams him to the door, busting it off it's hinges, and Steve knocks him out as Sonya walks through the door.

"Well this is awkward." Natasha calls out, The Rogers Siblings look over at her.

Seeing that she was hacking into the computers. "What are you going?" Steve asks her, both of them walking over to her.

"Backing up the hard drive, it's a good habit to get into." she tells him.

"Rumlow needed your help, what are you doing?" Sonya asks her.

"Have a crush, Sonya?" Natasha asks her, "Don't turn this to me and answer the question." Sonya cross her arms.

Steve then looks at the screen. "You're saving S.H.E.I.L.D Intel." Steve answers.

"Whatever I can get my hands on." she tells them.

"Our mission was to save hostages." Sonya states, running her hand through her hair.

"No that was your mission." she said, the transfer completed and took out the drive and smiles at Steve. "And you've done a beautiful job." she tells him.

Natasha went to walk away, but Steve grips her arm, "You just jeopardized this whole operation." Steve warns her.

"I think that's overstating things." she tells him. Sonya sighs, face palming.

Then they all heard glass shuffle, they turn and saw Bartroc get up and throw a bomb at them, running for it, Steve pulls his shield out, smacking the bomb away from him, he then grips Sonya's waist with his shield arm and Natasha with his other arm, he then jumps onto the table, Natasha shoots at the window Steve then jumps through the glass. Sonya us d her powers to form a green bubble around them for protection, as the bomb went off.

Steve held Sonya close to him as she hid her face into her hands, making sure that the glass wasn't getting into her face.

They then crawled back and pressed their backs against the wall, Sonya laid against Steve as he looks out and saw no trace of Bartroc and leans against the wall, holding Sonya close.

"Alright, that one's on me." Natasha admits, Steve glares over at her and swung Sonya's arm over his shoulder.

"Ya damn right." he agrees with her, then stood up, pulling Sonya along with him, she groan a little as he helps her walk out, Natasha laid there, bangs her head lightly against the wall, knowing she screwed up, big time and not just on the mission.

S.H.E.I.L.D headquarters

Steve and Sonya barged into Fury's office, "You just can't stop yourself from lying, can you?" Steve question as the Siblings had no pleasant looks on their faces.

"I didn't lie, Agent Romanoff had a different mission than yours." Fury informs them.

"Which you didn't feel obliged to share." Sonya adds to the list.

"I'm not oblige to share anything." he tells her,

She growls a little, "Really, considering I was the one who helped found this organisation with Howard and Peggy and my clearance is the same level as yours"

Fury went quiet knowing she was right.

"Those hostages could of died, Nick." Steve tells him.

Fury turns to them, "I sent the greatest Soldier and Agent in history to make sure that didn't happen." he tells them.

Sonya press her hands to the desk, bending over a bit. "Soldiers and Agents are suppose to trust each other, that's that what makes it an army, not a bunch of guys running around and shooting guns." Steve tells him, making Fury stood up from his chair.

"Last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye." he tells them, but that doesn't change the fact the Fury didn't tell them, "Look I didn't want you two doing anything that you weren't comfortable with, Agent Romanoff is comfortable with everything." he tells them.

Sonya push herself off the desk, still upset. "We can't lead a mission when the people we lead have missions of their own." Steve tells him. "It's called compartmentalization; no body spills the secrets because nobody knows them all." he said and Sonya scuffs.

"Except you." she said, crossing her arms. He slowly pushes himself off the desk, "You're wrong about me, I do share. I'm nice like that." he tells them.

They all then walked into the elevator, "Insight bay." Fury tells the computer.

"Captain Rogers does not have clearance for project Insight." the computer tells him.

"Directive override, Fury Nicholas J." he tells the computer.

"Confirmed." the computer answers and the elevator took them down, Fury leans against the rail directly in front of the door, Steve was on the right, leaning against the railing arms folded in front of himself and Sonya was on the right, arms cross, left foot press to the wall and she leans her head back as well.

"You know they use to play music." Steve said, Sonya smirks a little as Fury chuckles.

"I know, my granddad use to operate one of these things for forty years. My granddad worked in a nice building, got good tips he'd walk home every night. A roll of ones stuffed into his lunch bag, he'd say 'Hi', people would say 'Hi' back. Time went on, neighborhood got rougher he say 'Hi', they say 'Keep on steppin'.' Granddad got a grip on that lunch a little tighter." Fury tells them.

"He ever get mugged?" Sonya asks him.

Fury looks at her and smiles. "Every week some punk would say, What's in the bag." Fury said.

"What did he do?" Steve asks him, "He'd show him a bunch of crumpled ones and a loaded 22 magnum." he answers, Sonya then pushes herself off the wall and looks out the elevator, pulling her arms out and grips the rail. "Granddad loved people, but he didn't trust them." Fury states, moving away from the rail and looks out the side on Steve's side.

The siblings then look over and step on both sides of Fury, "I know, they're a little bit bigger than a 22." he tells them as they all see 3 Helicarriers being constructed on, her grip on the railing tightens a little bit more.

Fury lead them around, seeing all the new upgrades in everything. "This are the three next generation Helicarriers, sync the satellite targeting." he tells them as Sonya looks up at the Helicarriers.

"Launch in the middle of a marine star?" Steve asks, getting Sonya to look at Fury as well.

"Once we got them in the air they never need to come down. Continues suborbital flight, certify of our new repulsors engines." he points to the wings.

"Stark?" Steve asks.

"He hand a few suggestions, once he got an up close look at our old turbines." he tells them and they stood in front of one of them. "These new long range procession guns can eliminate thousand hostiles on a minute, a satellite can read a terrorists D.N.A before he steps outside his spider-hole, we're going to neutralize a lot of threats before they happen." Fury tells them.

"I thought the punishment usually came after the crime?" Sonya ask him crossing her arms.

"We can't afford to wait that long." he tells her.

"Who's we?" Steve asks him.

"After New York, I convinced the world's security council we need a qumiel surge in Threat analyses. For once we're way ahead of the curb." he states.

Steve exchange looks with Sonya. "By holding a gun to everyone on earth and calling it protection." Steve said.

Fury looks over at the siblings as they look around. "You know I read those SSR files, the greatest generation." he said, the two look at him. "You guys did some nasty stuff." he said.

Steve steps into his space, "Yeah, we compromised, some times in ways that made us not sleep so well, but we did it so that people could be free. This isn't freedom, this is fear." Steve tells him.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. takes the world as it is, not as the world to be and it's getting pretty came pass time for you to be with the program, Cap, Psych." he tells them.

Sonya walked up to him and looks him in the eye. "Don't hold your breathe." she tells him and both she and Steve turn their back and walk away from him; they were dressed in their casual clothing, Steve had his shield and Sonya had her uniform in her bag, they both sat on Steve's motorcycle and they drove away from S.H.I.E.L.D HQ and to a place that brings back old and hurtful memories.

Steve had a baseball cap on and Sonya wore a set of glasses as they walk through the WW II exhibit, all the old relics. They both walked through Captain America and Psych section, 'Two symbols to the nation, heroes to the world. The story of Captain America and Psych is one of honor, bravery and sacrifice.' the intercom said as Sonya and Steve walk pass the wall portrait painting of his and Sonya. 'Both declined for enlistment, due to poor health and gender. Steve Rogers was chosen for a program unique in the animals of American war ware, One that would transform him into the world's super solider, Sonya Rogers was unique given her crafty ability and awareness, she took the last serum to make sure the enemy won't never defeat America during the mission Steve had disappeared.' the intercom said as a little boy saw Sonya and Steve Rogers, Sonya smiles at him and place her finger to her lips, the boy nods at her.

Steve and her both walked over to a video of Steve leading the soldiers, 'Battle tested, Captain America and the Howling Commandos quickly earned their stripes, their mission, taking down HYRDA, the Nazi rogue science division.' the intercom said as the two look at the uniforms of all the Commandos. Sonya sighs and looks around, her heart cracks a little as she saw a section of a old and never forgotten friend, she slowly walks up to it, Steve looks over and follows her. 'Best friends since childhood, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers and Sonya Rogers were inseparable in schoolyard and battlefield, Barnes is the only howling Commando, to give his life in serve of his country.' it said.

Sonya looks down and saw all three of them on the video panel, Bucky had his arm over her shoulder, holding her close and Steve next to them, both she and Bucky laugh as Steve just chuckles a little bit, Bucky then looks down at Sonya and puts a big kiss on her cheek, she just smiles and Steve just shook his head at them; Tears welled up in Sonya's eyes and she looks over at the portrait of Bucky, Steve place his arm over her shoulder, comforting her.

"It was a difficult winter that night, a blizzard trapped half of our battalion behind the German line." an interview of Peggy as the Siblings sat down on the bench, watching it. "Stev - Captain Rogers, he fought his way through a HYRDA blockade that had pin our Allies down for months, he saved over a thousand men." She states, Steve looks down at his compass and opens it, a picture of Peggy. "Including the man that would of become my husband, if it turned out, even after they died, Steve and Sonya were still changing my life." she said, trying to hold back her tears.

Steve sat next to Peggy, who was old and retired, Sonya sat on the other side, Sonya rub her thumb along Peggy's sleeve. "You should be proud of yourself, Peggy." Steve tells her, looking at the pictures of her family, Peggy looks over that them and smiles.

"Hmm, I lived a life, my only regret is that you didn't Steve." she tells them, Steve sighs and Sonya looks away.

"What is it?' she asks them, noticing this.

"For as long as Sonya and I can remember, we both wanted to do what was right." Steve said. Peggy looks over at Sonya.

"And now . . . we don't know what that is anymore and we thought we could. . . throw ourselves back into it, follow the orders and serve. S.H.I.E.L.D has changed so much over the years." she states, but then pulls on a smile as a tears slides down her cheek.

"It's just not the same." she states.

Peggy just chuckles, "Always so dramatic. Look you saved the world. You have for years" she tells her. Sonya looks at her, "We rather . . . muck it up." she states.

Sonya chuckles a bit. "You didn't, knowing you founded S.H.I.E.L.D is half the reason we stayed." Steve tells her.

"Hey." she grips their hands and place them on her belly. "The world has changed and none of us can go back, all we can do is our best and sometimes the best we can do is to start over." she said then started to cough.

Sonya grips her hand as Steve went and grab her a glass of water and sat back down. Peggy exhaled and looks over at Steve, she gasp in awe and looks over at Sonya that was holding her hand. "Sonya, Steve." she said looking from Sonya to Steve.

"You're alive." she chocks a little bit, Sonya fakes a smile as another tears slides down her other cheek, "You. . . you came back." she states.

"Yeah, Peggy." Steve whispers to her.

"It's been so long . . . so long." she cries.

"Well I couldn't leave my best girl, not when she owes me a dance." Steve tells her.

"And me a show." Sonya adds, as more tears stream down her face.

Steve and Sonya headed to the V.A where Sam works. They both stopped at the door and Steve leans against it, Sonya stood next to him.

"The thing it, the things get worse, A cop pulled me over last week, he thought I was drunk, I swerved. . . to miss a plastic bag. I thought it was a I.E.D." a woman said.

"Some stuff you leave there, other stuff you bring back. It's our job how to carry it, it is going to be in a big suit case or in a little man purse. It's up to you." Sam tells them.

Sonya reaches into her shirt and pulls out her dog tags and looks at them; ROGERS, Sonya S/Psych: BARNES, JAMES B/ BUCKY.

She clutches them in her hand and pulled them to her lips, still missing him; "See you next week." the woman tells Sam, he then saw two familiar faces.

"Well look who it is, the running man and woman." he said, fixing the cards.

"Yeah we caught the last few minutes, pretty tense." Steve tells him, as he leans against the wall.

"Yeah, brother, we all got the same problems, guilt, regret." he said catching the two's attention.

"Who did you lose?" Sonya asks.

"My wingman, Riley. Flying a night mission, standard rescue op nothing we haven't done thousand times before, until a R.P.J knocked Riley's dumbass right out of the sky. Nothing I could do." he tells them.

Sonya nods a little bit, "It was like I was up there just to watch." he states.

"I'm sorry." Steve tells him.

"After that, I've had a really hard time, being over there, you know." he tell them, they nod.

"But are you happy now, back in the world?" Steve asks him.

"The number of people giving me orders is down to about Zero, so hell yeah." he answers.

"So do you think about getting out?" he asks them.

"No." Steve answers as Sonya answers, "Maybe." they look at each then back at Sam.

"No." Sonya answers as Steve answers, "Maybe." , they both sigh as Sam just smiles at the two, "We don't know." the two answer.

"To be honest we don't know what we'll do with ourselves if we did." Steve tells him.

"Ultimate fighting?" Sam asks, they both chuckled.

"No seriously, it's a really great idea off of the top of my head. You can do whatever you want to do, what makes you happy?" he asks them.

They look at him, "We don't know."

Fury drove down the road, "Open secure channel 42.24." he tell the computer.

"This is Hill." Agent Hill answers.

"I need you here in D.C. Deep shadow constitutions." Fury tells her.

"I'll be there in four hours." she answers.

"I give you 3 over and out." Fury ended the call and stops at the red light, as a police car stops right next to him, Fury looks down at the two cops in the car, "You want to see my licence?" he questions them, they turn on their sirens and drove off.

Fury went to drive off as well, but another rams right in the back and slams his car up against the pole, then the car ahead stops and pulls back. Then two more cars came in, boxing him in.

Fury pulls himself up and looks around, them the computer informs him that there are no units in the Area.

"Get me out of here." he tells the computer and the fake police fire onto Fury's car, the armor was greatly damaged, they then brought out the hammer, placing it next to Fury's window, making him move to the side, the hammer did a lot of damage to the window, but Fury waited and until it was to one percent, he pulls out his mini machine gun and fires at them, killing almost all of them.

Then fires at the van and the police car, making that car flip and land on the other one, "Full throttle." he tells the computer; it kicks the car into high, but the car in front of it blocks his from leaving, it pulls back and took off, thus beginning the car chase. Fury took over the wheel as he tries to outrun the the fakes. "Get me Agent Hill." he orders the computer, but communication were down.

"Well what is not damaged?" he asks it, Air conditioning was fulling operational, yeah that what everyone need, a cool down when your life is at stake.

Fury need to get off the streets, he need to get to less traffic, but almost every route was blocked, he whams the cars that were in his path, he then was blocked in, so he tries to get out, but some of the fakes come and fire at him, so he slams into the car, making the fakes fly off and hitting the ground and he got himself out of the blockage and drives off. And so as fakes they chase after him. One came up beside Fury and fire at him, Fury leans back and dodges their bullets, they pass a few trunks in between them. Both when the police car was in the clear, Fury took his chance and whams into them, gripping the man's gun.

Then another police car came on the other side, pinning him in, Fury took away his gun so he reaches for his other one and pulled out his handgun, but Fury knocks that out of his hand as well and socks him in the face. Then an intersect came into view, Fury slams on his breaks and the two police cars didn't stop and a semi-truck slams into them, killing the men inside.

"Get me off the grid." Fury orders the computer, As Fury drives, a man in a black attire, mask and black goggles came into view, and his left arm... look like metal. He held a rifle in his hand and aims it at Fury's car, he fires and a disk of some sort flies out and low, pinning itself right under Fury's car. Then boom, it goes off and Fury's car back end flies up and slides forward on it's front, the man moves to the side and moves out of the way, letting the car fly forward, it lands on it's top, upside down and stops at the intersection, the assassin walks up to the car, Fury looked over at the man then pulls out a tool of his.

The assassin walks next to the door, gripping the handle with it's metal arm and tore it right off the hinges, he kneels down in looks inside saw that it was empty, the only thing that was in there was a carve hole in the ground and it was freshly made as well.

Later as it was night, Steve drove his motorcycle back to the apartments, Sonya sat behind him, arms wrap around his waist keeping herself from falling, Steve then parks his bike, turning it off, Sonya pulls herself off, adjusting the satchel on her shoulder as Steve got off as well.

They both then headed inside and jog up the stairs, they then run into their neighbor, Kate who look to be on the phone with someone and holding a basket of clothes, they stop at their door as her call ended, "My aunt, she can be kind of an insomniac." she tells him when she toss her cell into the basket.

Steve nods at her, Sonya smirks a little and took the keys from Steve. "Hey if you want, if you want. You're welcome to use our machine, might be cheaper than the one in the basement."

Steve offers to her, "Oh yeah, what's it cost?" she asks him.

"Cup of coffee." he answers, Sonya drops the keys to the apartment, the two look over at her, she hides the smirks and snickers.

"Don't mind me." she tells them then bends down and picks up the keys.

Kate smiles a little, "Thank you, but I already have a load down stairs and I really don't think you would want my scrubs in your machine. I just finish the rotation in the infectious disease wards, so. . ." she tell them.

"Wow, well. I'll keep my distance." Steve states.

"Hopefully not too far." she said, Sonya shook her head and walks to the door, Steve follows her as Kate goes to walk away. "Oh and I think you left your stereo on." she tells them.

"Oh right, thank you." he tells her and she walks down the steps, but Steve and Sonya looks at each other.

"We never leave music on." Sonya whispers to him then place her ear to the door. It was the forties music playing. Steve pats her shoulder and they both went to find another way in.

Quietly opens the window and moves inside, he then held out his hand and helps Sonya inside as well, they quietly walk through their apartment, Sonya quietly puts down her satchel and readies herself just incase she needs to use her powers

They move over to the wall and Steve grab a hold of his shield and press their backs against the wall quietly, Steve looks over the way and saw Fury was leaning in the chair, playing an old recorder of theirs, Steve sighs as he relaxes.

Leaning against the wall, Sonya walks out, and saw Fury was well, she sigh and leans against the wall opposite of Steve crossing her arms and legs. "I don't remember giving you a key." Steve tells him.

Fury groans a bit as he sat up, "You really think I need one?" he asks them.

Sonya catches on with he groans, "My wife. . . kicked me out." he tells them.

Sonya uncrosses her arms and pushes herself off the wall. "Didn't know you were marry." Steve states.

-Fury? what is it?- Sonya asks him using her telepathy.

"A lot of things you don't know about me." he answers Steve. -S.H.I.E.L.D has been compromise HYDRA has has taken over.- he tells her.

"I know Nick, that's the problem." Steve said walking over to the switch and turning on the light.

Fury was wounded and covered in his own blood, Steve went to say something but Fury stops him and turns off the light. -Beware of the Winter Soldier.- he warns her, as he types away on his cell and shows him the message. "Ears Everywhere." it said.

Sonya walks up next to Steve as he looks around, "I'm sorry I have to do this. But I had no place else to crash." he tells them then showed them another message, "S.H.I.E.L.D Compromised." it said.

Sonya looks at the Cell and back at Fury, "Who else knows about your wife?" she asks him, she forces himself up and shows them the real answer, "You, Steve and me." it said.

"Just my friends." he answers walking to the siblings

"Is that what we are?" Steve questions him.

"That's up to you." he tells him, then three shots came through the window, hitting Fury in the chest, Sonya and Steve were shock and Fury landed in Sonya's arms and she looks to the window, seeing silver and drags Fury behind the wall, Steve covered her with his shield.

She places him on the ground, then went to see the shooter, but Fury grips her arm, making her look down at him, he then lets do and gave her the hard drive.

"Don't. . . trust. . . anyone." he warns her and went limp on the ground. Sonya looks at him in shock then they heard the door being bang on, it was then broken down, Steve pulls Sonya close to him as they hid behind the wall,

"Captain Rogers, Agent Psych?" Kate calls out as she had a gun out. "Captain, Agent. I'm Agent Thirteen, of S.H.I.E.L.D special task force." she tells them

"Kate?" Steve asks as they pull off the wall and Steve lets go of Sonya, "I was assigned to protect you." she tells them.

"On who's order?" Steve asks her.

She looks down at Fury, "His." she said.

"Since when do I need protection. I've never had protection detailed to me."

Kate just looks at her without an answer then moves over next to Fury, then pulls out her radio.

Sonya place the drive in her pocket as she moves back over to the window, "Fox trot is down and unresponsive, I need EMT here and now." Kate said over the radio as Steve walks over next to Sonya.

"Do we have a 20 on the shooter?" he man over the radio answers. The silver then moves. "Tell them we're in pursuit." Steve said to her.

Steve and Sonya jump out the window, Steve adds in the other building as Sonya flies up and lands on the roof, both chasing after him.

Steve ran through walls and jumps over tables as Sonya jumps over big dent boxes, slowly catching up with him, he then jumps down and she follows, she then heard glass break behind her and ducks when Steve throw his shield at the shooter, Sonya was on one knee as the Shooter catches the shield with his metal arm. The two look into the Shooter's blue eyes as his medium long brown hair covers his eyes a bit, Steve glares at the assassin as Sonya just looks at him.

The Assassin threw the shield back at Steve, making him slide back a bit, Sonya pulls out her gun and fires at him, be blocks the bullets with his metal arm, she lowers her gun and he pulls his gun out and aims it at her.

She leans back a bit, but saw he hesitate a bit and just as he fires, she uses her powers put make a shield in front of her.

He leaps over the edge, Steve ran over to the edge and saw that the assassin was gone. Sonya ran over to him and looks over as well. The Assassin was long gone.

Natasha arrives at the hospital and ran into the room where Sonya and Steve watch the surgery, Sonya had her back to the window, refusing to even watch as Natasha stood next to her. "Is he going to make it?" Natasha asks him.

"I don't know." Steve answers.

"Tell me about the shooter." she asks of them.

"He's fast, strong, had a metal arm." Sonya tell her, Natasha stiffen.

Sonya narrows her eyes to her. -You know who he is don't you?- she questions Natasha using her telepathy, she looks away. -Don't back out of this one, answer my question.- Sonya demands, making Natasha flinch.

-I'm not fully sure who it is yet, I need to work out my facts first.- she tells her.

Sonya sighs as Agent Hill stood next to Natasha. "Ballistics." Natasha said.

"Three slugs, no rifling, completely untraceable." Hill informs them.

"Soviet made." Natasha said, making Hill look at her.

"Yeah." Hill answers, then Nick went into cardiac arrest, making more doctors come and work faster, then Rumlow and Jasper walked up behind them, Sonya's hand tightens with the flash drive in it.

"Come on Nick, don't do this to me." Natasha mumbles. Sonya flinches, hearing the electric pads inject energy into Fury, both results the same; no response, then Steve and Sonya walk out of the room as the doctors were taking the time of death; 1:03am.

Later on Natasha, Sonya Steve stood in a room where Fury's corpse was laid on a stretcher and white sheet overs him, up to his shoulders. Natasha stood next to him as Steve and Sonya lean against the door, Hill walks over to them.

"We need to take him." she tells them as she chokes up a bit.

Steve nods and walks over to his friend "Natasha." he said to her, she place her hand on Fury's head and walks out of the room.

Steve and Sonya follows after her, "Natasha." Sonya calls out to her as they enter the hall, she turns and looks at them.

"Why was Fury in your apartment?" she questions them, Sonya shrugs her shoulder, "I don't know." Steve answers.

"Captain, Psych, you're wanted back at S.H.I.E.L.D." Rumlow tells them, they look at him.

"Alright, we'll be there soon." Sonya tells him, "They want you now, Ma'am." he tell her.

She looks at him and nods. "Alright." she answers and he walks off, they turn back to Natasha.

"You're a terrible liar." Natasha tells Steve and walks off, Sonya sighs then looks down at her hand, pulling it up and looking at the vending machine, she looks over at Steve, he catches onto her idea.

They then walk to Rumlow. "Let's move." Steve tells him tells him, "S.T.R.I.K.E let's move it out." he orders the men and the leave, but in the vending machine behind the bubble gum; the silver hard drive.