A/N: Sorry for the late update but real life has gotten hectic and I also played with a few ways to do this chapter and decided this was the best one to go with. In the next chapter the whole time is going to be briefed and the plan is going to be sat in motion. Hope you all enjoy. Read review and much love.
Furry walked up the steps and onto the porch of a small but comfortable sized house out in the middle of nowhere and knocked on the door. He had received more information about who had taken Alexis Cobburn and it wasn't good. He was glad that he had went ahead and decided to send the information through e-mail to Natasha so she could brief Clint and give Tony a little of a heads up to wrap his head around working with someone that he had no interest in ever seeing again.
Steve got up from the couch and turned off the TV where he had been watching the news and grabbed the small but powerful pistol that he kept on the coffee table and made his way quietly through the house. He was expecting Furry but he didn't know if he had been compromised. It was just caution and his years as a solider taking over. He looked through the peephole and saw that it was just Furry. Steve sighed and sat the gun down and opened the door; holding his hand out to Furry.
"How you doing Cap?" Furry asked as he shock Roger's hand; smiling a little. Even though the reason he was here was bad it was still good to see an old friend. "I've been better. So what brings you all the out here." Steve said as he stood aside to let Furry in and began to lead the man toward the kitchen. Once inside the kitchen Steve sat down at the table and motioned for Furry to do the same. Furry throw a copy of the same file that he had given Stark just a the day before onto the table and sat down as Steve began to read it.
He had to admit that he was impressed by the girl and her powers. He was also thinking that maybe she could help Bucky. She had almost complete power over memories and that's all the H.D.Y.R.A training was was false memories and codes placed in Bucky's brain. This could be the answer that they were looking for to give him a second chance. Steve hoped more than he ever had that they could get to this girl in time to save her. She might just be link that was needed to start to make things right again.
Roger's nodded at Furry as he sat the file down. "Okay, what's the catch?" He asked as he leaned back in the chair. "First I want my team put back together and I want this bullshit between you and Stark squashed because this is going to take all of you working together as a unit with you and Tony in the lead. Second I have just learned tonight on my way here that the faction of H.Y.D.R.A that created the Winter Solider are the people responsible for her capture and you are going to have to go to Wakanda and wake Barnes." Steve sighed. Bucky had asked to be left on ice until they could disable what H.Y.D.R.A had done to him.
"I don't know how well that is going to go over Nick?" Steve sighed with concern evident on his face. "We think that she can undo or at least disable The Solider's training. He is going to be the only one that can get us in and out of the base." Steve nodded. "Okay. I'll get Wanda, Sam and Scott to meet and give them a brief mission statement. I am assuming that you have already briefed the others." "Nat and Clint are on their way to Stark Tower now and Tony was given that file and told to assemble his team and wait for further instructions. And thanks Captain I knew you would come through for me. Be at the Tower by 0700 in the moring the quinjet will be waiting for you about a mile down the road.
Steve picked up his phone and sent a message for everyone to meet him at the coordinates that Furry had given him for the jet along with a very brief statement as to why and what it concerned. They would be at the jet in about half an hour. He then called Nat and found out that she and Clint were already at the Tower on their way up to the penthouse to speak with Tony.
Tony was pissed. He had to have Peter lie to his Aunt May again so that he could come to the Tower for the next three days for the briefing. He was going to have to actually put the kid on his pay roll soon if he had to keep telling May that Peter was coming over to work on projects for him and if he was honest the kid was good with Tech. He just hated involving someone so young on missions and if he could help it the kid would not be coming along on this one. Currently the kid was in Tony's lab playing with spare parts and having a blast.
He also didn't like the idea of working with Rogers again so soon after everything that had happened during their last meeting and he had a feeling that he and Barnes were fixing to be spending a lot of time together which meant that he had to put his differences aside for the good of missions and Tony knew that he was a petty son of bitch when it came having to be an the bigger man when it came to his own bullshit. Tony couldn't put a finger on it but he had a feeling this girl was about to change all of their worlds and he didn't know if he was ready for that or not. Then there was the problem of getting a hold of Bruce and Thor but he decided to put that thought to rest until after everyone arrived and they could figure it out together.
A knock on the door pulled Tony from his thoughts he got up to go answer it. Natasha and Clint stood in the door way. He expected Rogers to be with them but was also un-surprised that the two best friends and partners were alone. "Romanoff. Barton." he said as he nodded and moved aside to allow them access into his home. "I've had your old rooms sat back up for you so go ahead and make yourselves at home." Clint pushed past him and immediately went up the stairs. He was still pissed off at Tony agreed to sign the Accords which caused him to get pulled back into this whole mess and for allowing his judgement to get in his way where Bucky and Steve were concerned. He of all people knew what it was like to have someone take complete control of your mind and force you to do horrible things in their name. Loki had done it to him in fact it was what lead him to become an Avenger himself.
"Can I talk to you for a minute?" Natasha asked. She knew that she was going to have to be the voice of reason in the middle of all of this. She was the only one that had chosen both sides when it had mattered and understood each view she was also the only other person that had known Bucky before the whole shit storm had started.
Tony nodded at her as he lead her over to the bar. He didn't know if she needed a drink but he knew that he did. "How much do you know?" She asked deciding to lead with the mission first instead of her time training under The Winter Solider in The Red Room. She wasn't quite ready for everyone to know about her past as his lover yet. "I know that we need to get this girl back before because her abilities absolutely terrify me and that she could cause chaos on an universal scale. I know that I going to have to put up with the bastard I called friend that stabbed me in the back according to Coulson and Furry." Tony told her as he knocked back a two finger shot of the strongest Scotch that he had. "Well I'm going to go ahead and ruin the rest of your night. I'm not at liberty to give all the details under Furry's orders, Steve will brief us all in the morning at 0700 when he arrives as head of the team but I can go ahead and inform you so that you are prepared for it and so it also comes from a friend." Tony shot a look that told her he didn't believe that anymore. "Tony I am still your friend but I am also Steve's and Bucky's..." she held her hand up cutting off anything that Tony was about to say. "That's a story for another time. But Bucky is going to have to come along with us."
Tony slammed his glass down on the bar. "Goddamn it! I knew I was going to have to deal with that murderer. He said as he scrubbed his hand across his face; a gesture that was becoming more and more common place with the billionaire philanthropist. Natasha sighed. "Do you blame Clint for the lives he took and the chaos he caused under Loki's control?" She asked calmly as she looked Tony dead in the eyes. "No and you know I don't Nat. But this is different." "How? Because years ago while under someone's complete control he killed your parents. Because it is personal? Come on Tony think about it. If anything you should have sympathy for him and Steve as well as your own grief. They were both close personal friends of your father. Now stop and put yourself in Bucky's shoes. What if it was you and it was Clint and Laura or their kids even or any of us. How would you feel even if it was completely out of your control and it was your closest friends blood on your hands." With that Natasha got up and walked up stairs leaving Tony alone to ponder her words.
Tony poured himself another drink and sat back down at the bar. He had been thinking about the fact that Bucky had not had control of his own actions and he had even looked at it from Rogers view and knew he would do the same for anyone of his team mates but he had never had anyone give him the perspective that Nat had. He remember the vision that Wanda had shown him. All of his friends dead in a pile at his feet because of his actions. He recalled the anger and despair that it had created within his own mind and it had only been a vision. He could not possibly imagine the hell that Bucky had to deal with because the blood as actually on his hands and maybe that was punishment enough for the man that had killed his parents all those years ago and maybe by some fucking miracle the Avengers could be put back together because he had the most horrible feeling that this shit was the the beginning to something much larger and sinister for them all.