Sorry for making last chapter so late. I apologize! Thanks again to Crowley's Apprentice, without her you wouldn't get anything worth reading from me ;) I will try to update at a more regular pace, but I'm still getting used to writing fics instead of just reading them… Anyway:

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Chapter 3

Tony looked around the room at the small group of people, all of whom were looking expectantly at Steve and Natasha. He knew all of them, even Sam Wilson, who he'd been introduced to on the ride there. What he didn't know was what they all had in common (Not all of them were Avengers, or worked for SHIELD) or why they were in a concrete bunker 50 feet below the lowest SHIELD sublevel. Tony didn't like not knowing things.

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Sam was sitting in a room full of Avengers. Avengers and spies. Were they all going to rescue Steve's girlfriend? Why were they in a war bunker again? He was all for helping out a friend, and it wasn't like he'd never run a high – risk rescue before, but even so, Steve had some explaining to do.

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Natasha looked around the room at the faces before her. She had never seen a mission with worse prospects. Oh well. Her job was to do the impossible, after all. She'd just never done something quite so…. Impossible.

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"Alright, everybody, I know not everyone here knows each other, so we're going to –" He cut off before he could continue with an icebreaker. He remembered Natasha, how she'd told him they'd need to do this mission differently. Do it her way. "We're going to say who we are, and why we're here, and how we can help this mission." Hill raised an eyebrow.

"What is this mission?"

Natasha came to his rescue. "Please, Maria, try not to be in charge for just a few minutes." That shut her up.

"I'll go first. I am Captain Steve Rogers. I'm here because there is somebody very important to me that I should have saved a long time ago. I'm good at leading, and I can keep my head in the game."

"Natasha Romanoff. I am here because I have an opportunity. A good one at that. I can get answers and get the job done."

"Hawkeye, trick – shot extraordinaire. I'm here 'cause I like Steve and Nat told me we had a mission. I can take out some bad guys, and I follow orders most of the time."

"I'm Sam Wilson, I'm helping out a friend, and I want to help out our country again. I have the Exo – Falcon pack here, and I have war training as well. I'm a pilot."

"You know who I am. I'm here 'cause I'm a superhero, and superheroes save people. They also help their friends. And y'know, I just happen to have a fully – armed power suit on me. No big deal."

Hill rolled her eyes. "I'm Commander Maria Hill; I'm here to fix a mistake I didn't make. I do that a lot. I'm handy with firearms, and I've had 14 years of training as a SHIELD agent."

Steve leaned forward, embows on his knees and hands clasped as his head rested on top of them. "Alright, here's the deal. Agent Peggy Carter was the founder of SHIELD, and director as well, until a Hydra faction, specifically their Human Experimentation team, captured her. We are going to get her back."

"How do you know this again?" Hill looked suspiciously at Natasha.

"I found a folder when I was looking through reports am catching myself up. It's a good thing I did, because looking through related files told the whole story. SHIELD gave up on her a long time ago, now it's our job to get her back." Steve looked around the room. Tony was frowning at Hill, Natasha looked at him expectantly, and the others were all nodding. "All of the mission files were there, which is good, because that's all we have to work with. Even if I was comfortable using the computers for our information, they track who logs on when and what files they access. Fury would be onto us in a heartbeat." There was muttered "Faster than that," from Clint.

"As the case was closed roughly 60 years ago, there is little chance of someone going looking for the hard files. So this is what we have at our disposal." Steve passed the documents around the room. As they reached Hill, he heard a sharp intake of breath, probably related to the classifications on the folder. He leaned back in his chair. He'd done his part, and now it was time for Natasha to take over."

"Stark and Wilson will go first. By the time they get us an updated scan, Clint and I will have arrived in a quinjet. As Steve and Maria go in on the ground, the four of us will create a distraction. With any luck, as Clint and I attack, Stark and Wilson will be able to get inside and rendezvous with Steve and Maria." Shooting a look at Steve, she continued. "As soon as they get the info, Tony, Maria, and Sam will head elsewhere to cause more distraction, while Steve heads in and rescues Agent Carter. He has been adamant that he will do this on his own. Clint and I will get out of the way, off the radar. On Steve's word, all of you will board the qui jet. If everything goes according to plan, we'll have Agent Carter with us."

Shocked faces gazed around, heads turning in wonder as they realized this near – suicidal plan could work.

"We'll have to do everything perfectly," Hill commented.

"Then it's a good thing we have a team of people who'll never settle for less," Steve agreed. Sam began to laugh. It was contagious, and soon everyone had gathered in a group, arms around each other.

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Thanks for reading! I hope I wrote this well, and I will try to write chapter 4 faster as I know you are all excited for some Steggy romance! Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleeeeeease review!