Later the next morning S.H.I.E.L.D was on high alert. Steve and Sonya walked through the hallway, dress in uniform, along with their equipment to Alexander Pierce office, where Pierce just got done talking with Kate, "Captain, Agent." she tells them.
"Neighbour." they both said and walk into the office.
"Ah Captain, Agent, I'm Alexander Pierce." he held out his hand to them.
"Sir, it's an honour." Steve shook his hand, Sonya shook his hand as well.
"The honours mine Captain, my father serve in the 101st." he tells them and beckons them into his office. They both walked into the office and look at the photo handed to them, "That photo was taken five years ago when Nick and I meet, when I was at state department in Pototave. Leland rebels took the embassy and Security got me out, but the rebels took hostages. Nick was Deputy chief of the S.H.I.E.L.D station down there and he comes to me with a plan, he wants to storm the building through the sewers and I said, No, we'll negotiate, turn out the E.L.M did negotiate and they put out a kill order. They storm the basement and what do they find, it was empty." he tells them, placing the file down on the table.
"Nick had defied my direct order and carry out an unauthorized military operation on foreign soil, he saved the lives of a dozen political officers, including my daughter." he tells them when they sat down on the couches.
"So you gave him a promotion?" Steve asks him.
"I never gave him a cause that he didn't regret." he tells them, Sonya sighs. "Captain, why was Fury in your apartment late night?" he asks them Steve looks over at Sonya.
"We don't know." she answers.
"Was it bugged?" he asks, she shrugs her shoulders.
"Perhaps." she answers.
"Did he tell you he was the one that bugged it?" he asks her.
"Nothing specific, he didn't give us the full details." she tells him, he nods.
"I want to show you something." he tells them and turns on a video, seeing that they captured an acquaintance of their.
"Is that live?" Steve asks him.
"Yeah, they pick him up last night in a not so safe house in Lejurses." he informs them.
"You're saying he's a suspect?" Steve asks him.
"Not possible. Assassination isn't one of Bartroc many qualities." Sonya adds.
"No, no, no. It's more complicated than that, Bartroc was hired anomalously to capture the star by email and paid by wire transfers, and the money was run through seventeen accounts." he said, making the siblings look over at him. "The last going to a hold company was register to a Jacob Viche." he handed the file to Steve.
"Are we supposed to know what that is?" Steve asks him as he looks over the file.
"Not likely, Viche died over six years ago. His last address was 1435 Elmer's drive. When I first meet Nick, his mother lived at 1437." he tells them and they both look at her.
"Are you suggesting Fury himself hired the pirates, why?" Sonya questions him.
"The pro-veiling theory. Was it that the hijacking was a cover for the acquisition and sell or classified intelligence." he states, Steve looks back at the files.
"The sell went sour and that lead to Nick's death." he adds.
Sonya looks at him, "If you really knew Nick Fury as you claim to, you know that isn't true." Sonya tells him.
He nods at her, "Why do you think we're talking?" he asks her and stood up, they follow in pursuit, "You see I took a seat on the council not because I wanted to but because Nick ask me too. Because we were both realist." he said and walks up to the window and leans against it. "We knew that despite all the diplomacy and the hand shaking and the redbrick, that to build a better world sometimes you have to tear the old one down." he said, Sonya glares at him, he then turns and looks at them.
"And that makes enemies. Those people that call you both dirty is because you have the guts to stick her hands in the mud and try to build something better and the idea that those people can be happy today, makes me really, really angry." he said and went straight to the point,
"Captain, you and your sister were the last ones to see Nick alive and that's no accident and I don't think you do either." he tells them, they just look at him, "So I'm going to ask again, why was he there?" he asks them again.
"We don't know, it's like I said before, he said nothing specific, he never shared any details with us." Sonya tells him, he nods at her.
"Anything else?" he asks her.
"No, just that he died on our floor." she tells him, he just sighs.
"Excuse us." she tells him and they both leave the office as Steve place his shield on his back.
"Captain, Agent. Somebody murdered my friend I'm going to find out why and if anybody gets in my way, they'll going to regret it. Anyone." he promises them,
"Understood." Steve tells him
They exit the office and walk to the elevator. -why did you lie?- Steve asks her as the step in front of the elevator.
-You heard what Fury said, not to trust anyone and that means Alexander as well, there's something about him and I don't like it. I couldn't even read his mind- she tells him, the door than opens, and they both step inside.
Steve looks out the window. "Operations control." he tells the computer. "Confirmed." it responded.
It went to close the door, but Rumlow and some of S.T.R.I.K.E force walks into the elevator.
"S.T.R.I.K.E force on sight." he said through the comm. "Captain, Agent." he nods to them.
Steve turns to him. "Rumlow." he said back, and hand his back press to the railing.
-What gave it away, that Alexander was up to something?- he asks her after she leans against the wall.
-He spoke highly of Fury then accuses him of hiring the pirates, Nick is a smart man, he may hide secrets but, he would never endanger S.H.I.E.L.D like that, unless for a good damn reason.- she tells him.
"Evidence response frenzies wanted us to see on the roof, you want me to get the tack team ready?" Rumlow asks him.
"No let's wait to see what it is first." Steve tells him.
"Right." he answers, Steve looks over and saw one of them gripping his weapon. -Sonya. . .- Steve calls out in his mind,
-I know.- she answers, hearing their thoughts then the door opens, men in suits and brief cases walk in, Sonya narrows her eyes at them, then closes, they make Steve stand in the middle.
"I'm sorry with what happened to Fury, mess up what happen to him." Rumlow tells him, making Steve look at him.
"Thank you." he said to him, then looks over at one of the men in the suit, cold sweat rolls down his temple. Then the door opens again and the rest of S.T.R.I.K.E forces enters the elevator and the elevator moves.
"Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?" Steve questions them.
Then they attacked them, and Sonya was grab by the neck and slam up against the wall and Steve was slam up against the wall next to her. They went to cuff Steve, but Sonya kicks the cuff out of their hands kicks them back at the windows, knocking them out. She then kicks the one in the gut, making him let her go, she then right hooks him in the face and he fell to the ground, Sonya looks over at the others holding her brother, she thrust her hand out threw them against the door, Steve lands onto his feet and they both look over at Rumlow.
"Whoa, there, I just want you two know, it's nothing personal." shouts and swings at them, but Sonya grabs the back of his neck and electrifies him enough to make him pass out.
"Really, cause it kind of feel like it's personal." she tells him, letting go and he collapse to the ground.
Steve glares at him then walks over to Sonya, cupping her face, checking for injuries. "I'm alright." she tells him, he lets out a sigh and press his lips to her forehead and hold her tight in his arms.
He then pulls back. "Let's get out of here." he tells her, she nods and Steve moves to the elevator doors. Seeing that they were at the bottom of the next floor, but saw Agents running at them, guns pointed at them.
Steve closes the door and pulls his shield off his back and onto his arm, he then looks out the window, seeing where they are. He then steps back and pulls Sonya behind him. "I'm not going to like this plan, am I?" she asks him.
"Nope, you might want to wrap your arms around my neck." he tells her.
"Okay." she answers and wraps her arms tightly around his neck and he break through the glass and they fall to through the glass roof of the lobby and right before the crash land Sonya uses her powers to stop them face planting on the floor.
Steve looks down and he plops on the ground. Sonya props herself on top of him. "You're welcome." she groans and rolls off of him.
"Thanks." he groans and the both sat up seeing the other agents look at them. Steve stood up, then helps Sonya to her feet and they ran.
They both then mounted Steve's bike and he drove out of the garage just in time as the door closed, he drove along the road and saw the gate was closed along with spikes poking out and a Qin-jet flies out and spots far in front of them.
"Sonya fly!" Steve orders her, Sonya jumps into the air, her green flames surrounding her and flew into the air and she grips the jet with her mind and crushed one of the wings.
"All yours Steve!" Sonya shouts, then heard static in her ear peace. She flinches a little and the static clears out as Rumlow's voice came on.
"Sonya, don't do this. Just come back." he begs her.
"I can't." she tells him, taking out the earpiece and crushes it in her hand. Then saw the Qin-jet spiral out of control, she flew over it and Steve held out his hand and she grips onto his arm and flew him off the Qin-jet, and the Qin-jet exploded, the wave knocks Sonya and Steve out of the air and they hit the ground and rolls right onto their bellies.
They watch as the jet crash lands on the road in front of the garage, Sonya props herself on her elbows,
"Steve. . . we need to get that hard drive." he tells him, he nods at her. "Yeah. Double time it." he said and they pull themselves off the ground and took off running.
They ditch their S.H.I.E.L.D uniforms and were wearing casuals clothes, Steve wore his hood over his head as his sister wore a baseball cap, Sonya had her hair pulled back into a ponytail and through the hole in the back of her cap and wore glasses along with a hoodie, a black tank top under her hoodie, tight black jean along with black boots; Steve wore his white shirt, with his jacket over his hoodie pants along with Romeos. They walked the hallway of the hospital and got to the vending machine and saw that the bubble gum section was gone, along with the drive.
"Where is it?" Sonya whispers to him, they both then saw Natasha walk up from behind them in the reflection, enjoying her bubble gum. Steve and Sonya turned to her, anger looks on their faces and Steve shoves her into a room and Sonya closes the door behind them. Steve shoves her up against a wall and pulls off his hood,
"Where is it?" Steve questions her.
"Safe." she answers.
"It better be." Sonya growls at her.
"Where did you get it?" she asks them,
"And why would we even tell you?" Sonya questions her.
Natasha realizes. "Fury gave it to you, why?" she asks again.
"What's on it?" Steve questions her.
"I don't know." she answers.
"Stop lying." Steve demands of her.
"I only act like I know everything, Rogers." she tells him.
"I bet you knew that Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?" he questions her.
"Well I guess it makes sense, Fury needed a way in and so did you." she tells them.
Sonya grips her throat tightly. "We're not going to ask you again." she growls at her, she looks between them.
"I know who killed Fury." she tells them, Sonya looks at her and loosen in her grip and lets go.
"Most of the in-source intelligence believe he didn't exist. The ones that do call him the Winter Soldier, he's credited with over 2 dozen assassinations in the last 50 years." she informs them.
"So he's a ghost story." Steve states, "5 years ago, I was part of an escort for an nuclear engineer on the run, my tires were shot out near Odessa control, I went straight over a cliff. I pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there, I was covering my engineer so he shot him right through me." she said, showing them the scar. "Silver slug. Bye-bye bikinis." she adds.
Sonya sighed, calming down. "Yeah I bet you'll look terrible in them now." Steve tells her, calming down as well.
"Going after him is a dead end. I know, I've tried. Like you said he's a ghost story." she said and shows them the hard drive.
Steve looks at her and Sonya took the drive from her hand. "Lets find out what the ghost wants."
Sonya, Steve and Natasha walked through the mall, Steve kept looking over his shoulders. "First rule of going on the run, don't run." she tells them. Sonya smiled at her.
Sonya looks over at Steve. "Stop doing that, you'll draw attention to us." she whispers to him.
"If Sonya or I run in these shoes, they'll fall off." he said, Sonya held in a snicker and they walk into a tech store and the three stood in front of a laptop and Natasha types away.
"This drive has a level 6 homing beacon, so as soon as we boot up. S.H.I.E.L.D will track us in no time." she tells them.
"How much time do we have?" Steve asks her.
"Uh. . . about nine minutes from. . . now." she tells them and plugs in the drive. Sonya watches over her shoulder as Natasha looks for the source. But then listens in on other people's thoughts.
"Sonya what do you hear?" Steve asks her, her eyes shot from person to person.
"Everything." she answer.
"Fury was right about that ship, somebody was trying to hide something. This drive is sort of protected by some A.I and it keep rewriting itself somehow." she tells them.
Then a clerk walks over to them. "Can I help you with anything?" he asks them, they look at him.
"Oh no, my fiancé was helping me with some honeymoon destinations." Natasha tells him. Sonya held back a laugh.
"Yeah, we're getting marry." Steve adds.
Natasha swung her over Sonya's shoulder and "And my little sister promise to be my planner and maid of honour." she said and Sonya waves a little.
And they both turn back to computer. "Congratulations, where do you plan on going?" he asks them, Sonya looks at the computer and saw that the tracking was done.
"New Jersey." she answers, the man nods and looks at Steve and Sonya stiffens a little.
"I have the exact same lens." he tells him. Sonya and Steve sigh, "Wow you two are practically twins." Natasha jokes dryly.
He was about to ask them something else when Sonya got close to him and looked him straight in the eyes, "You will walk away, forget that we were here and if anyone asks, you never saw us"
Steve looked at her, "What did you do to him?"
Sonya shrugged, "Just a little Jedi mind trick as they say". Natasha snickered.
Steve looked at both of them, "What?"
Sonya rolled her eyes, "Once this is over, you and I are having a Star Wars movie binge"
Steve looks down at his watch, "You said nine minutes, right, let's go." he tells her.
"Shh, relax. Got it." Natasha tells her. Sonya and Steve look at the and saw Wheaton, NJ. Both the siblings look grew intense. The spy notices this, "You two know it?" she asks them.
"We use to. Let's go." Steve took the drive out and places it in Sonya's satchel and they all walk out of the store, "Stagger tag team, two across, two behind, two coming straight at us." he warns them, Sonya eyes all of them, "If they detect us, I'll engage, you and Sonya run for the east elevator." he instructs them.
Sonya shook her head and took out a book. "Shut up and put your arm around me and laugh at something I said." Natasha orders him, he just looks at her as Sonya open the book to a random page pretend to read.
"Do it." she growls a little. Steve did as she told him and fakes a laugh.
The two pass then without a second glance. Steve looks over his shoulder, surprise that even work, "Don't stare, they'll think you're hiding something." Sonya whispers to him.
Steve nods at her and they head for the escalator, then Sonya spots Rumlow, she turns to the side and looks at the decorations.
"Kiss me." Natasha orders Steve.
"What?" he questions her.
"Public display of affection makes people uncomfortable." she tells him.
"Yes, they do." he agrees, Natasha then grips his side of his head and press her lips to his. Making a few people uncomfortable.
Rumlow looks away as he went up. Then Natasha pulled away and Sonya looks down at them a small smirk on her lips.
"You still uncomfortable?" Romanoff asks him and walks down the escalator.
"That not exactly the word I would use." Steve tells her, Sonya giggles as they followed after Natasha.
Now entering New Jersey, the state garden. Steve drove a truck, Natasha sat up front as Sonya was in back, leaning against Steve's seat. "Where did Captain America and Agent Psych learn how to steal a car?" Natasha asks them. Sonya smirks a little,
"Please, I've done a lot of things, even before you were born Romanoff" Sonya says smugly as Natasha rolls her eyes.
Steve shakes his head at his sister, "Nazi, Germany. And we're borrowing, take your feet off the dash." Steve tells her, She looks at him, smirks and removes her feet from the dash.
"Okay, I have a question for you, which you do not have to answer, but you might answer to though, you always do." she rambles.
"What?" he stops her rambling.
"Was that your first kiss since 1945?" Natasha asks, Sonya covers her mouth to stop the snickers.
"That bad, huh?" he states.
"I didn't say that." Natasha inputs.
"Well it kind of sounds like that's what you're saying." he states.
"No, I just, I kind of want to know how much practice you had." she asks.
"You know I don't need practice." Steve denies. Sonya rolls her eyes.
"Everybody needs practice." Natasha inputs. "It was not my first kiss since 1945. I'm 95, Sonya is 93 and we're not dead." Steve said.
"Nobody special now." Natasha tells him, he just scuffs. "You know it's kind of hard to find somebody that shares the same life experience." he tells her.
"Well that's alright, you just make something up." she tells him, Sonya leans back and looks out the window.
"What like you?" Steve asks her.
"I don't know, the truth is a matter of circumstances, it's not all things stop people, all the time. Either am I." she tells him.
"That's a tough way to live." he tells her.
"It's a good way not to die though." He adds, "You know it's kind of hard to trust someone, when you don't know who that someone really is." Steve tells her.
Sonya looks up at the two. "Yeah. . . . who do you want me to be?" Natasha asks him.
"How about a friend?" Sonya asks her, Natasha looks back at her and chuckles a little. "There's a chance that you may be in the wrong business, Rogers." Natasha tells her.
Sonya just smiles and prop her temple on her knuckles, "Don't try to act tough. I can see right through it." she said and looks back out the window.
Natasha frowns at her a little bit and they arrive at the destination, the three exited the truck as they arrive, Steve had his shield out as Sonya and was prepared for anything that was thrown at them.
They all walk up to the abandoned military base camp. "Is this it?" Steve asks.
"This is where the file came from." Natasha tells him,
"So did we." Steve answers, making Natasha look at him.
Night fell and the three wandered around the abandoned structure, "This camp is where Sonya and Me were trained." Steve tells her.
"Change much?" Natasha asks, as she follow the signal.
Sonya looks up at the flagpole and stood rooted in her spot. "A little." she answers, then could hear their commanding officer shouting out his orders, a squadron of trainees wearing their packs and carrying their guns. They watch them run by and saw small Steve, and normal Sonya ran back to him, placing her hand on his shoulder, with concern in her eyes, he nods at her and they both look their future selves in the eyes.
"Rogers, move it!" their CO shouts at them and they took off running, the ghost fade to nothing.
"Well this is a dead end, zero heat signatures, waves, not even radio." he said as she placed her tracker away.
Sonya looks around, "Who ever wrote the file must of used a router to throw people off." she tells them, Steve's face hardens as the two saw a building out of place.
"What is it?" Natasha asks him and he walks off.
Sonya and Natasha followed. "Army regulations forbids storing ammunition within 500 yards within the barracks. This building is in the wrong place." Steve tells the spy as they walk up to the door.
"Sonya... some help." Steve asks, she nods, stepping up to door, she raise her hand up, clutches her hand, breaking the lock off then sends a wave of telekinetic energy towards the doors to open them.
They walk in and down the steps, then Natasha turns on a switch and the light blink on, showing the old S.H.I.E.L.D HQ.
"This is S.H.I.E.L.D." she states, the three slowly walk through the room. "Maybe where it started?." Steve mumbles.
Sonya shook her head, "Not that I know of" they then walk through a door that Steve opened and saw three pictures with three familiar people.
"There's Tony's father." Natasha said.
"Howard." Steve corrects.
"Coronal Phillips, never expected him to found S.H.I.E.L.D. Back then but he did" Sonya mumbles and they both look over a Peggy's photo.
"Whose the girl?" Natasha asks them, they look at Peggy's photo with sad eyes and move along.
Sonya walks up to a bookcase and looks at it, it was similar to the one when Steve went to perform the Super soldier project.
"Steve. . ." she starts.
"I know. When you're working in a secret office. . ." he starts and pushes open a hidden room. "Why do you need to hide the elevator?" he asks them. Natasha scans the numbers on the side, gets the code and the elevator opens.
They all went inside and went down, they reached the bottom floor and the doors opened, showing them a dark room, they look around and Sonya slowly steps into the room, the two follow after her. The doors close behind them and as they walk through the room, lights flick on and the room was an old computer room. Back from 1945.
"This can't be the data point, these computers, this technology is ascent." Natasha informs them, Sonya scoff a little then looks at the hard drive plug in strip. She walks over to it, pulling out the hard drive from her satchel and place into the strip, as the other two step up behind her and everything came online, everything was working and operating.
Natasha walks up beside her, looking at the bigger monitor. 'Initiate system?' the screen asks. "Y-E-S. Yes." she types in. then smirks, "Shall we play a game?" she quotes, Sonya rolls her eyes.
Natasha looks at the two, "It's from a movie, that was real popular. . ." she starts.
"We know, we've seen it." Steve stops her, then the camera on top of the big monitor turns to Steve as a face appears on the screen. "Rogers, Steven born 1918." the familiar voice states, then turns to Sonya. "Rogers, Sonya, born 1920." he states.
Sonya looks at her in shock, then the camera turns to Natasha. "Romanoff, Nateleia Alenofna, born 1984." he said.
Sonya stiffens in her spot. "It's some kind of recording." Natasha states.
"I am not a recording, Fraulein. I may not be the man I was when the Captain and Agent took me prisoner in 1945, but I am." he states, Sonya covers her mouth.
"It can't be. . ." she mumbles and removes her hand from her mouth. "Doctor Martin Zola." she states.
"It is so lovely to see you again, Ms. Rogers." he states, sending negative shivers down her spine.
Natasha looks at her, "You know this thing?" she asks her, Sonya looks away. Steve pulls her away and gently rubs her back. "Martin Zola was a German scientist that work with the red skull. He's been dead for years." he states, Sonya grips onto his sleeve, calming down.
"False correction I am swace, look around you, I have never been more alive." he tells them. Sonya pulls out of his arms and stood firm.
"In 1972, I receive a terminal diagnosis science could not save my body. My mind however that was worth saving, on 200,000 data banks. You are standing in my brain." he tells them and Sonya walks up next to Natasha.
"How the hell did you get here?" Sonya questions him, "Invited." he answers.
"There was a operation, paperclip after world war two. S.H.I.E.L.D recruited German scientists with. . . surgic value." Natasha informs her.
"Yes. . . they thought I could help the cause. I also help my own." he adds. "HYDRA died with the red skull." Steve states.
Sonya shook her head. "Cut off one head and two more shall takes it's place." Zola tells them.
"Prove it." Steve dares him and the monitors on the sides flash on, showing them, information.
"Accessing archive; HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with it's own freedom. What we did not realized is that if you try and take that freedom, they resist." he states as the videos of Steve and Sonya come into play. "The war taught us much. Humanity need to surrender it's freedom willingly. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D was founded after the war and I was recruited, the new HYDRA grew beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D." he tells them,
Sonya clutches her fist. "For seventy years HYDRA has been secretly feeding prices, weeping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed." the image of the Winter Soldier's metal arm passes through.
"That's impossible, S.H.I.E.L.D would of stop you." Natasha throws in, then a newspaper article was shown of Howard Stark and his wife, saying they died in a car accident.
"Accidents will happen." he states, as a report of Nick Fury's death as well, rage boils in her blood, knowing her friends was murdered. "HYDRA created a world so chaotic, humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won Captain, Agent. Your deaths among the world, the same as your lives. A zero sum." Zola tells them everything.
Sonya snaps, pulls her fist back and slams it forward, breaking through the screen, the two look at her in shock and she pulls her fist out of the now broken screen.
Then Zola appears on another monitor, getting their attention. "As I was saying. . ." he states, Sonya walks up to the strip and points at the hard drive.
"What's on this drive?" she questions him.
"Project Insight requires insight, so I wrote an algorithm." he answers.
"What kind of algorithm, what does it do?" Natasha asks him.
"The answer to your question is fascinating. . . unfortunately you shall be too dead to hear it." he said, the heavy doors in front of the elevator close, Steve throws his shield at it, but it just bounces off of the sealed doors and flies back at Steve.
Natasha scanner went off, making the two look at her. "Guys we got a boggy, short range ballistic, 30 seconds tops." she informs them.
"Who fired it?" Steve asks her.
"S.H.I.E.L.D." she answer, the three look around quickly.
"As you see Captain and Agent, I have been stalling." he tells them, Sonya threw out her hand and the hard drive flew into her hand and she quickly place it into her satchel.
"Admit it, it's better this way." Zola went on.
Steve looks at one of the vents in the ground, ran to it and pulls it out of the way. "We are both of us. . . . are out of time." he said as they three jump into the small space. Natasha went in first, Follow by Sonya and Steve follow after his sister.
The bombers came, and destroying the base; everything crumbles around them, Sonya thrust her hands out, creating a bubble like field around them as the rumble collapse on them. Sonya shouts, holding on and everything went dark.
The collapsing stop and stay in place. Sonya pants, dropping the force field and falling to her hands and knees, Steve whams his shoulder to the loose wall next to them. It came loose and falls to the side. Steve and Natasha stumble out of the small created room and Sonya leans back on her back against the rumbled wall. Steve looks back at her, walks over to her and pulled Sonya into his arms. The two ran of the area, staying out of sight.
Rumlow and the rest of S.T.R.I.K.E force scouted the area, Rumlow came to were the push out crumble way he looks down and saw two footprints in the dirt, head away from the area. He walks away and place his hand to his earpiece, "Call in the Asset." he said through the line.
That same night, Alexander walks through his house and headed into his kitchen, opening his fridge and pulls out the carton of milk, he sets it down and saw the Winter Soldier sitting at the table, within the shadows, light shines on his blue eyes and a silver gun place on the table.
He just sat there looking at Pierce. Pierce closes the door and looks at the soldier. "I'm going to go Mr Pierce you need anything before I leave." his house maid tells him.
"No, it's fine Renotta you can go home." he tells her.
"Okay, Night night." she said and walks out the door.
"Want some milk?" he offers the Soldier, but the response was met with silence, Pierce shrugs and pours himself a glass of milk.
"The time table has turned. Our window is limited. Three targets, level 6." he tells him taking a seat in front of him. Setting the glass down.
"They already cost me Zola, I want confirm death in ten hours." he orders the soldier, his glare narrows and Renotta came back and into the kitchen.
"Mr. Pierce I. . ." she starts, seeing the soldier, the two look over at her. She look frighten in her spot, "I. . . forgot my phone." she tells him, feeling more frighten.
"Aww Renotta, I wish you would of knocked." Pierce said, grabbing a hold of the gun, aims and fires at her without a second thought. She screams as she felt two bullets hit her through the chest and she collapse to the ground.
Later that morning Sam went on his morning jog, he arrived home sometime later, pulled out his Sunny D container, went to drink from it but then heard knocking on his sliding glass door, he set his Sunny D down and walks over to his back door.
He then opens the blinds and saw Natasha, Steve and Sonya, covered in dirt and looking exhausted, he slides the door open and looks at the siblings, "Hey guys." he said to them.
"Sonya and I are really sorry about this, we need a place to lay low." Steve tells him.
"Everyone we know and trusted is trying to kill us." Sonya tells him, Sam looks at all three of them.
"Not everyone." he answers, stepping to the side and allowing them to enter his home, he shot a cautious look outside, then closes the door shut and shuts the blinds.
Sonya sat on the bed next to Natasha, her wet hair sat on her shoulder, wearing her clean black tank-top, pants and her boots. She looked down at the hard drive in her hand as her thumb subconsciously brush along it. She remembers Zola well, the experiments performed on her body and mind, his laughter as he enjoy hearing her scream for mercy and pain, it sickened her, how could someone take joy from torturing someone, but the results was her telepathy and Telekinesis powers, becoming a hero in America, but still after all this time, Zola still haunts her.
She was snap out of her thoughts as Natasha place her hand over hers that held the hard drive. Sonya sighs, "I'm alright." she tells her, Natasha place her towel on her shoulder and rub Sonya's shoulder with concern for a friend.
Sonya smiles at her and place her hand over her friend's, "Natasha I'm alright, I promise." she tells her, Natasha nods at her and pulls her hand away from her shoulder and hand. Steve finishes washing his hand and Natasha went back to drying her hair.
"You two alright?" Steve asks them, they look at him.
"Yeah." Natasha answers as Sonya nods, placing the drive into her satchel. Steve walks out of the bathroom and sat across from them.
"What's going on?" he asks them, Natasha sighs as Sonya pulls her towel from her shoulder and dries her hair "When I first join S.H.I.E.L.D I thought it was going straight, but I guess I just traded in the C.G.P for HYDRA." she starts. Sonya place her towel on her shoulder and looks at her friend. Natasha exhaled softly, "I thought I knew whose lies I was telling. . . but I guess I can't tell the difference anymore." she tells him, Sonya place her hand on her shoulder, comforting her.
"There's a chance you might be in the wrong business." Steve tells her, she looks at him and scoffs a little.
Steve then looks over at Sonya, she sighs and exhaled. "When we were in that room and Zola appeared on that monitor, everything that he did to me, what he took from me, it all came rushing back." she starts, Natasha looks at her, Sonya pulls back her hand, "I thought I was over all of it, but. . . . those horrors that we had to suffer through in the war, they never leave. They stay with you and remind you that, we're still here, and they died for what they thought was worth fighting for." she tells him, feeling a small weight left off her chest. Steve smiles at her and nods.
Natasha turns and looks at him, "I owe you, both of you." she said to him.
He just shook his head and Sonya shrugs her shoulder, "It's okay." he tell her, Sonya nods. "If it was the other way around and it was down to me to save your lives and you both be honest with me; would you trust me to do it?" she asks the Rogers, they lock eyes with each other, then looks back at Natasha.
"We would now. And I'm always honest." Steve tells her as Natasha looks at him in shock.
"It's true, he really is." Sonya vouch for him. Natasha smirks at the two, "Well you two seem chipper for some people just found out that they died for nothing." she states,
Sonya smirks and lays her head on her shoulder for a minute and then walks out the room as Steve leans back in his chair.
"Well I guess I just like to know who I'm fighting." he tells her.
Sonya walked into the kitchen where Sam cooking over the stove, "Wow, a man who can cook. I'm a fan" she said.
Sam looked at her, "Yeah, well when I asked you out for a coffee, I didn't mean instant coffee and breakfast in my apartment so soon.."
Sonya smirked, "Still going on about that, I never said yes."
Sam raised his eyebrows, "But you never said no. So how about it, you and me go out for coffee to get to know each other. Not a date."
Sonya thought about it for a few seconds, his mind was screaming that he had the hots for her "You know I am old enough to be your grandmother or great grandmother right?!"
Sam waved his arm, "Age is just a number. And you're still look young."
She laughed, "We shall see if you get that coffee date" she said as she walked out of the kitchen again, Sam hot on her tail.
Sonya walks in with, all three look at him, "I made breakfast, if you guys. . . eat that sort of thing." he said and walks back to kitchen, Steve looks at the two girls and sighs.
"So the questions is who at S.H.I.E.L.D could launch a domestic missile strike?" Natasha asks, Steve and Sonya sat at the table as Sam serves up breakfast for himself.
"Pierce." Steve answers, Sonya nods agreeing with him.
"Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secured building in the world." she adds.
"He's not working alone, Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian star." Steve states.
Sonya and Natasha lock contact with each other as they realize. "So was Jasper Sitwell." Sonya said as the two look at him.
Steve looks between them, "So the real question is how did the two most wanted in Washington kidnap a S.H.I.E.L.D officer in broad daylight?" Steve asks.
Sam set his things down, grabbing a folder and walks to them. "The real answer, you don't." he said, setting the file down with the photo on top.
Steve leans forward and looks at the photo, Sonya leans forward as well. "What's this?" Steve asks him.
"Call it a resume." he said, the two stood up as Natasha took the photo.
"Is this Bacmula? The coyly condoled mission, that was you?" She asks him, he said nothing as she handed Steve the photo of Sam and his friend.
"You didn't say he was a Para rescue." she adds.
Sonya looks over Steve's shoulder, "Is this Riley?" Steve asks him.
Sam nods at him. "Heard they couldn't bring in the choppers, these are the R., what did you use a stealth shoot?" she states, he shook his head.
"No, these." he handed them the file, Sonya took it, opens the file and Steve looks over her shoulder and reads the contents inside.
"You said you were a pilot." Steve points out.
"Correction brother, he said he flies, but never flies what." Sonya tells him, Steve looks at her then back at Sam, he shrugs his shoulders.
"She's right, I never said what I fly." he states.
Steve just looks at the file and shook his head. "We can't ask you to do this Sam, you got out for a good reason." he tells him.
"Dude, Captain America and Agent Psych needs my help, there's no better reason to get back in." Sam reports to him.
Sonya looks at Steve, a smirk on her face as she looks at Steve, he looks at her smirks a little and looks at Sam, Sonya also looks at Sam, closing the file.
He then look at Sam, "Where can we get our hands on one of these?" Steve asks him.
"The last one is at Fort Mead, behind three guarded gates and twelve inch steel wall." he informs them.
Steve looks at the two girls, they shrug their shoulders. Then he looks back at Sam, "Shouldn't be a problem." he tells him, tossing the file of the Exo-7 Falcon back onto the table.
That afternoon, the Secretary walks out with Jasper and a few of their guards, "Listen I got to fly home tonight, cause uh. . . I got some contingently problem and I got to press the plash." the secretary tells them,
"Any contingently in particular, Mr. Secretary?" Jasper asks him.
"Uh no not really, 23, kind of hot. Real hot." he answers as they stop on the steps.
"You know wants to be a reporter I think, I don't know who listens at that point." he said,
"Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me." Jasper state, "Really, cause she's killing my back. But this isn't the place to talk about it, this is a nice pin." he said, looking at the S.H.I.E.L.D pin.
Jasper looks at the pin then back that the Secretary. "Thank you." Jasper said to him, then the secretary pulls him into a hug.
"Hail Hydra." the secretary whispers to him and they then pull out of the hug and the secretary took a step down, but crouched over a bit.
"Did you see that?" he asks Jasper.
"Yeah I saw that." Jasper answers him,
"Should I get it checked?" he ask Jasper.
"I think you should get it checked." Jasper answers him and the secretary walks away with a few of his guards, then Jasper phone ring, he reaches into his coat pocket, pulling out his cell and seeing that the contact that was calling was Alexander Pierce.
"I need a minute, bring the car around." he orders the two and they walk off, Jasper hits the answers button as he pulls the cell to his ear.
"Yes sir." he answers.
"Agent Sitwell how was lunch, I hear the crab cakes here are delicious." Sam asks him.
"Who is this?" Jasper asks him.
"The good-looking guy in the sun-glasses at your ten clock." Sam tells him.
Jasper looks around, "Your other ten clock." he said and Jasper looks over at tables, eyeing Sam, "There you go." Sam said to him, raising up his drink.
"What do you want?" Jasper asks him.
"You're going to go around the corner to your right, there is a grey car, two spaces down, you and I are going to take a ride." Sam instructs him.
"And why would I do that?" Jasper asks him.
"Because that tie looks really expensive and I'd hate to mess it up." Sam tells him as Jasper see a small red dot on his tie.
On top of a roof, Jasper was thrown on the ground as the door burst open, Steve, Sonya and Natasha walk onto the roof.
"Tell us about Zola's algorithm." Steve orders him, Jasper stood up and placed his glasses back on.
"Never heard of it." he said backing up.
"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?" Steve asks again
"I was throwing up, I get sea sick." he said and was back against the edge of the roof, going to fall off, but Steve grips him by his coat and jerks him forward.
Jasper just smirks, Steve just glared at him.
"This little display to throw me off the roof, it's really not your style Rogers." he said.
Sonya exchange looks with Natasha. "You're right, it's not." Steve answer, letting go of his jacket, smoothing it out, "It's my sister's." he said taking a step to the side and Sonya kicks him off the roof and he screams as he fell.
"That felt good." she mumbles to herself.
"Oh wait, what about that girl from the county, Lur. . . Lura. . ." Natasha states.
"Lillian." Steve answers, Sonya smiles and looks at the two, crossing her arms.
"Lip piercing right?" Steve states.
"Yeah, she's cute." Natasha said.
"Yeah. . . no. not happening." Sonya tells the two.
"I agree I'm not ready for that." Steve adds in.
"Son, Still thinking of going on that coffee date with Sam" Natasha asked.
Sonya shook her head, "Haven't made up my mind yet."
Steve looked at his sister, "We will talk about that later"
Then they heard Jasper's screaming coming back up, Sam, wearing his wings, flew up and drops Jasper back onto the roof, then he himself sets and, his wings fold in he then turns and looks at him, the three walk over to Jasper.
"Zola's algorithm is a program for choosing Insight's targets." Jasper loosens his tongue.
"What targets?" Steve asks him.
"You, the D.V.A in Cigro, the Secretary of defence, the high school's Victoria eye in Ohio, Bruce Banner, Steven Strange. Anyone who's a threat to Hydra, now or in the future." he tells them.
"In the future, how could it know?" Steve asks him, Jasper just chuckles,
Sam took a step closer. "How could it not?" he questions him, then stood to his feet.
"The 21st century is a digital book, Zola taught Hydra how to read it." he tells them, Sonya gasp as she knew what he meant.
"Bank records, medical history, voting patterns, emails, phone calls, the S.A.T scores." she states, Jasper looks at her and smirks, "Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future." he said.
"And what then?" Steve asks him,
Jasper looks down at the ground. "Oh my God, Pierce is going to kill me." he mumbles.
Sonya walks up to him and grips his throat making him look up at her, "I will do much worse, what happens than?" she threatens him, he gulps down his fears.
"And the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list, a few million at a time." he answers.
Sonya lets his throat go and backs away, she then looks at Steve, locking eyes contact with her.
They sat in a car as Sam drove along the highway, Sonya change out of her hoodie and pulls on her leather jacket, "Hydra doesn't like leaks." Jasper tells him.
"Yeah, why don't you try sticking a cork in it." Sam tells him.
"He did say it's launching in 16 hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here." Natasha tells them.
"I know, we'll use him to bypass the D.N.A scan and access the Helicarriers directly." Steve tells him. Sonya toss her hoodie in the back window.
"What, are you crazy?" Jasper questions him, Sonya pointed her gun at him, the two look over at him "That is a terrible, terrible idea." he said, then something lands on their hood, breaks the glass, grabbing a Jasper and throw in into the other lane, he gets run over.
Sonya looks and saw someone's leg and metal hand, the Winter Soldier was here, they other then roll up front, Natasha lands in Steve's arms and Sonya lands in Sam's lap, avoiding the bullets. Steve then pulls the emergency brake, the car come to a complete stop, the Winter Soldier on top flung forward, hitting the ground, but quickly removes, using his metal arm, slowing himself down. The four look at him and saw he removes his steel fingers from the concrete and stood up, a mask covers his eyes and face, and he stood there. "Natasha." Sonya calls out, Natasha points her gun at the winter soldier but they were soon ram in from behind by a black Jeep, jerking them forward a bit.
It makes Natasha drop her gun, the Jeep pushes them forward to the Winter Soldier as Sam tries to stop, slamming on the brakes, Sonya thrust her hand out, helping out as well, but the soldier jumps landing on top of the car, smashing the top down a bit, he reaches in, through the window, grabs the wheel and jerks it out of it's place.
"Shit!" Sam shouts, Sonya points her gun at the roof and fires at the soldier, he jumps over to the keep behind them and they pull back, and slam into the back against the car, making it spiral out of control.
Steve pulls on his shield on his arm and press it against the door, "Hang on." he tells the three, Sonya and Sam move over to him as the car goes to flip, the four push the door off it's hinges and they fly off it, the car flips and they land on the ground, the door slides along the road. The car really spiral as the door slide along the road, the jeep pulls out in front of them, Sam falls off and rolls along as the door slows down and came to a stop.
Steve, Natasha and Sonya pushed themselves off the door and ran back, the soldier then jumps off the hood of the Jeep, the hydra agent hands him a grenade rifle, he aims it and fire, Steve turns, pushing the two to the side and raise up his shield and the grenade hits his shield, sending him flying back and off the bridge.
"Steve!" Sonya shouts out, but Natasha pulls her back and they both hid behind a van as the hydra agents fire at them, Natasha fires at them, then the soldier fires at the two, they both jump into the other line, Natasha rolls dodging the oncoming car, Sonya uses her power to give her a boost and jumps over the car and lands next to Natasha. They then hid behind another car and the soldier fires at the car.
They both jumped over the edge, Natasha aim her hook gun, shooting it at the bridge above them and swung then lands on her feet, running, Sonya just landed on her feet, cat style and ran along with her.
The soldier and agents look over the ledge seeing if they could find the three targets, the two run under the bridge, seeing the shadows up top, so they readied their guns; the soldier and agents look around and eyed the turned over bus the soldier aims his gun to fire, but a bullet hits his goggles, he shot down, leaning his back to the wall he reaches up jerking off his goggles, and tosses them to the ground, then stood up and fires below them, Sonya leans out from behind the tow truck, firing at them.
Then the two took off into different directions as they ran out of ammo, the soldier fires after them, but stops as they ran, he stops and watches them, then said something in German, jumping over the ledge and lands on top of a car, smashing the top and walks off it.
Sonya stood on the side of the turned over car, she then thrust her hands forward and apart, creating a hole, she then saw Steve trying to collect himself. "Steve." she whispers to him, he turns and looks at her.
"Son." he whispers then the agents fire at them.
"Shit, come on!" she held out her hand, he took it and both ran out and hid behind his shield, he held Sonya close to him, protecting Sonya from the rifles and machine gun fire. She looks to her sides, seeing the two, she then thrust her hands out to her sides, making their bullets snap back at them, Steve turns his shield, making the bullets hit the other agent.
The other agents gets shot from above by Sam as he provided cover, Steve then push forward to the machine gun, then as they jump onto the car, Sonya stood up, steps onto Steve's shoulder, forcing herself up, she then thrust her hand out, sending the agent flying back she lands on top of the gun, crushing it under her feet. They then took cover behind the car, Steve looks up at the bridge, seeing Sam.
"Go I got this." he tells them. Steve nods at than pulls his sister along,
"We have to help Natasha." Sonya tells him as they ran.
"I know." he answers and they both kick into high gear.
A police car came to the scene, but was soon blown up, the soldier switches the grenade launcher to the rifle and he walks along the street, people exited their cars, running from the Winter Soldier, he walks slowly, then heard Natasha voice come from his right. He kneels down beside the mini van, pulls out a grenade and rolls it under the van, it rolls until it hit the sidewalk next to the blue car, but what he thought was Natasha was just her phone, playing a recording.
He then stood up, aiming his rifle at the car, waiting for her to pop up. But the explosion went off, leaving the soldier confused.
But when he turns, Natasha jumps at him, kicking his rifle out, twist, one leg wrap tightly around his shoulder, she pulls out her wire, pulling it at his neck, but he place his hand in the way, he stumbles back against the car he then reaches up and throws her off of him and she rolls and lands against the car, the soldier leans down and pulls his rifle into his hands, he aims his gun at her, but she pulls out a smaller disk and throws it at his arm, it sticks and send electrify throw his robotic arm, it fell limp to his side, as the bullet misses her. Natasha stood up and took off running.
He drops his rifle, reaches over and pulls off the disk, he stood there, clutches his metal fingers a little, then with one arm roll, he picks his gun back up and walks after her; "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Natasha warns nearby civilians as she ran for it, but as she pass a car, the window shatters and a bullet hits her right in the shoulder, she shutters, falling to her knees and then press her back to the car, pressing her hand to her wound.
She looks around for the soldier, but saw nothing, the soldier then appears as behind on when he jumps on top of a car and his gun aim at her, but then Steve and Sonya ran at him, the soldier looks at them from the corner of his eyes. Steve ran at them and the soldier throws at him, but meets his shield, and a high pitch ring rang out, Sonya covered her ears from the hurtful sound, she then looks up at them, the soldier moves the shield out of his way and kicks Steve back, making them both land on their back.
Sonya ran over to Steve and stood in front of him, the soldier fires at them, but Sonya held up her own shield, stopping the bullets and they just drop to the ground. The soldier rolls away off the car, the two took their chance and ran behind the car as the soldier fires at them, he run out of ammo and then went to switch with his other gun, Sonya slides over the car and kicks the gun out of his hand, then cartwheel to the side and Steve slide over the hood in front of him, the soldier then pulls out his hand gun firing at the two, but they both dodge his fires, Steve jams his shield at him, but it meets the soldier's metal fingers instead, he socks Steve in the side then in the face, twist flipping Steve over and pulling his shield off his arm and onto the his metal arm.
Steve threw a punch at him and his fist meets the shield the soldier threw a punch at him gut sending Steve flying onto his front, Sonya then kicks the soldier's feet out from under his, flips over him and takes back the shield. She then rolls and was in a low stance, she press the shield to her back, the soldier glares at her, she then twists as she stood and threw the shield at him, but the soldier dodges him and it sticks into a van door above Steve, the soldier pulls out knife as Sonya raise up her fists, Steve walks up behind him, but the soldier turns, going to slide at him but Steve blocks his every one; as Steve kicks him away and ran to his shield.
Sonya took a hold of his knife, and as she stood the soldier came up behind her, wrapping his arm around her neck and tries to pry the knife from her hand, but she pulls her leg up and hits in the face with her leg, making him stumble away, letting her go, she then turn and kicks him in the chest, sending back a bit more.
She then ran at him, jumping a little and jams her knee into his face, breaking the glass window, she then threw a punch at him, but he blocks it, she the dodges his punch, grips his arm and throws him over her shoulder and right onto the ground, but the soldier recovers and grips her neck tightly, she gasp, gripping his metal hand tightly, he jerks her close to his face then threw her at the car, her back hits the hood, slides across it and lands on the ground, she shook off the throw and saw the soldier above her, "Crap." she exclaims and rolls avoiding his punch, she pulls herself to her feet, she pulls up her arms and dodges the punches and he slams her against the van, she turns to him, seeing that he recovered the knife.
He tries to jam it into her face, but she stops the knife then dodges it, when the soldier uses his metal arm, but the knife cuts her cheek in the process, it digs into the metal van, and he pushes her along and throws her at the ground, Steve grips him at the waist from behind and send him flying back onto the ground, Sonya collected herself as Steve retrieves his shield, he then blocks all the hits and attacks, he then grips the soldier's arm, damaging it with his shield a bit, slams the shield into his face, twist a bit, ending up in front of the soldier then, grips him from behind and sent him flying forward. The soldier rolls onto his feet as his mask fell off, Steve stood up as Sonya walks up next to him, the soldier turns, Sonya gasp, taking a step back.
"Bucky?" Steve calls out.
"Who the hell is Bucky?" he asks, then points his gun at them, but then Sam appears, kicking at Bucky, sending him flying to the ground.
He then lands as Bucky stood up, Sonya eyes follow him, shock fills her eyes, he looks at her confused by her expression. He then aims the gun at them again but a grenade flies over Steve.
Bucky dodges the grenade as it hits the ground, Natasha leans against the car, holding the gun. Then more Hydra agents drive up to them, boxing them in. they exited the cars, aiming their guns at them. "Drop the shield Captain and get on the ground!" Rumlow orders him.
Steve did as he said as both him and Sonya slowly raise their hands. "Get on the ground!" one shouts, kicking at Sonya's leg, she slowly got to her knees and Rumlow stood behind her, cuffing her hands behind her back. One of the Agent's points their rifle at Steve, Rumlow looks up seeing the helicopter with the camera crew.
"Not here." he whispers to them, he backs off and saw Sonya's horror expression. "I'm sorry." he whispers to her, she looks over her shoulder a little.
"You knew he was alive, didn't you?" she asks him, he said nothing as he pulls her to her feet.