A few minutes later that they were up in the air in an airplane with Howard flying the airplane, Emily knew she could count on Howard to fly them there. Lauren was showing them a map of where the HYDRA camp was. "The HYDRA camp is in Kransberg, tucked between these two mountains ranges. It's a factory of some kind." Howard spoke form the pilot seat.
"We should be able to drop you right on the doorstep." Emily nodded when Howard said that.
"Just get us as close as you can." Steve looked over at Lauren. "You two are gonna be in a lot of trouble when you land."
"And you two won't?"
"Where I'm going, if anyone yells at me, I can just shoot them."
"They will undoubtedly shoot back." Steve tapped his shield.
"Well, let's hope items good for something." Steve looked over at Emily.
"Don't worry, I can find ways to protect myself from being shot at." Before Steve could say anything that Howard spoke up once more.
"Agent Huntington? If we're not in too much of a hurry, I thought we could stop in Lucerne for a late night fondue." Emily smiled a little, it seems ever since Lauren and Howard meet that it seems Howard asked Lauren out half of the time, a couple of times he asked Emily out but Emily refused like Lauren does. There times when Howard would flirt with Emily or Steve. However this time Lauren decided to not to pay any heed of what Howard said and looked at Emily and Steve.
"Stark is the best civilian pilot I've ever seen. He's mad enough to brace this airspace. We're lucky to have him." Steve gestured between Howard and Lauren
"So are you two... Do you... Fondue?" Emily snorted, but Lauren didn't bother to answer that question, instead she toss the question aside and handed Steve a transponder.
"This is your transponder. Activate it when you're ready and the signal will lead us straight to you."
"Are you sure this thin works?"
"It's been tested more than you, pal." Suddenly they were started to get shoot at, Emily and Steve went to the door, Emily sat in the floor of the door along side Steve. Steve merely nodded, Emily looked down and one thought cross her mind, Lava wall. Lauren followed Emily and Steve over to the doorframe that they were sitting on.
"Get back here! We're taking you two all the way in!" Steve looked at Lauren before he spoke.
"As soon as we are clear, you turn this thing around and get the hell out of here!"
"You can't give me orders!"
"The hell I can't! I'm a Captain!" As soon as Steve said that, that they jumped out of the plane, Emily used her powers over plants to give them a softer lander. A couple of vines shot out at them grabbing them before lowering them down in the forest below. When they were in the forest that Emily and Steve made their way through the forest and towards the base. As they made their way to the doors that they hid a few times to make sure that no one noticed them as they went inside. They went through the base, when they reached a couple of big cylinder things that Steve noticed a container thing on top of a barrel. Emily looked at it, there was a blue light coming from it, Steve picked it up and pocketed it before they moved on. After a few minutes that they came across a walk way, down below was cylinder cells and the capture men were in there. Emily and Steve managed to knock out the four guards above the cells, Emily use the poppy and made a fist so that they hit the wall when the poppy fist hit the two guards while Steve knocked the other two with his shield and fist. When they did that one of the prisoners spoke up.
"Who are you two supposed to be?"
"I'm... Captain America. She is is Lieutenant USA." Steve walked down to free the Steve's as Emily followed him thar she spoke.
"What did you call me?"
"Lieutenant USA." Before Emily could say anything more that one of the prisoners spoke.
"I beg your pardon?" Just as Emily reached the ground that Emily heard a voice all too familiar to her.
"Emily? Is that you?" Emily looked to the nearest cell and at the edge of the cell were the last four men that she expected to see there.
"John! Thomas! Luke! Richard!" Emily went to the cell and used the poppy to open the cell as Steve went to open another cell to let the prisoners out. As Emily opened the cell door that she notice Steve had a confused look on his face. As the four of them left the cell and Emily went to the next cell that she spoke. "I have to admit that this explains of why Lauren and I haven't heard from you in a while. What are you four doing here?" It was John that responded.
"We were captures a few months ago. You have grown." As Emily opened the last cell that she looked at John.
"I would be worried if I hadn't changed somewhat since the last time I saw you four was when I was sixteen and I am like two months short of being twenty." Before John could say anything that one of the other men spoke and was looking at one of the foreigners in the group.
"What, are we taking everybody?" The guy pulled out his dog tags and looked at the one who spoke.
"I'm from Fresno, Ace." The one that ask if they were taking everyone looked at Emily and than at Steve.
"Are you two dating, if you are than is a date for you two?"
"No, he is my brother." At those words that Thomas spoke up.
"Hang on." He looked at Steve. "You are Steve Rogers, Emily's twin brother?"
"I am, who are you four? How do you know Emily?" Emily spoke up.
"They are Lauren's older half brothers." Emily looked at the others and noticed that Bucky wasn't among them. "Besides that the fact that I know at least of these men, where is James Barnes?" One of the other prisoners spoke up.
"HYDRA had took Bucky in the back a month ago and we hadn't see him since."
"Get out fast and give 'em hell. I'll meet you guys in the clearing with anybody else I find." Steve ran down past the cells and Emily followed him. When Thomas yelled down at them.
"Wait. Do You two know what you're doing?"
"Yeah. I knocked out Adolf Hitler over 2 million times."
"And I fight over who knows how many HYDRA soldiers, not counting this time and make sure you get out of here." Emily heard John, Luke, Thomas and Richard join Steve and Emily and Richard spoke.
"We are currently not to let you two go by yourselves." Emily looked at Richard.
"Go with the others. I will be fine, I been trained and I have Steve." Luke spoke up.
"Year right and have our half sister get mad at us if we left you and die. Who do you think she is going to blame."
"Fine." So the six of them ran, after a few minutes that they reached a hallway. Just as Emily and the others reached the hallway that a man emerged from the room and looked at them in slight fear before running in the other direction. So Emily and Steve went over to the room that he left, she managed to convince Luke, John, Richard and Thomas to remain just outside to look out if anyone was coming. Steve went in first and he took off one of the guns, Emily followed suit for who knows of what they might find in here. As they went into the room that she could hear someone muttering, she knows it was no HYDRA soldier for if it was than he would left with the other man or he would have shoot at them when he left the room or would have started to shoot when they entered. As they walked further in that Emily coils hear the words of the man, not only that but his voice sounded oddly familiar but it sounded different at the same time.
"Sergeant. Three-two-five-five-seven." When they were more into the room that Emily saw a table, there was a man strapped to the table that has different belts that was placed on him to hold him in place. There was this big huge weapon or something that might be used on him for who knows what pointed at him. The man's hair was a darkish brown color, as Emily went to the table that she saw that his eyes were blue like the sky. His skin was once tanned but there was a slight pale color to the skin, even though she hasn't seen him in about fourteen years that she knew at once that this was Bucky. Steve quickly went over to the table and Emily followed Steve.
"Bucky. Oh my god!"
"Is that ..."
"It's me. It's Steve." Emily and Steve started to undone the belts and ropes that tied Bucky to the table as Steve spoke up. Bucky was looking at Steve as Emily and Steve helped him to sit up on he table and he spoke ranger groggily.
"Steve?"
"Come on."
"Steve." Emily and Steve helped Bucky off the table, he seem rather shaky making it clear that HYRDA has been doing things to him.
"It is not just Steve. I am here too." Bucky looked over at Emily, he looked slightly confused but he was still dazed from whatever happened to him. "It's Emily."
"Emily?" He reached out and touched her face as he looked at her. "Emily, the last time I saw you that you were six." Emily smiled lightly when he said that than Steve spoke.
"I thought you were dead." Bucky looked back at Steve and it seems Bucky was suddenly aware of Steve's new size.
"I thought you were smaller."
"Come on." Emily put one of Bucky's arms over her shoulders and Steve put Bucky's other arm over his shoulders. As they walked out of the room that they found Bucky in that Bucky spoke once more. "What happened to you two?"
"I joined the army."
"I become part of Project Demigod."
"Demigod?" Just as Emily and Steve left the room that Richard, John, Luke and Thomas joined them.
"You know like Hercules or Theseus? Steve is one too but he doesn't know how to his powers." Emily wasn't sure what else to tell Bucky about the godly but it seems that he decided to figure out more about Steve and ask what happen to him. Steve told Bucky about what happen and the serum, when they reached the main area of the base that Bucky was able to work by himself but not really well.
"Did it hurt?"
"A little."
"Is this permanent?"
"So far." They reached the highest walkway on the base, as Emily and Steve looked around at Emily noticed the walkway that connected with the walkway on the other side. The seven of them went over to the walkway but a voice came from the other side of the walkway. "Captain America!" They barely reached the connecting walkway when Emily heard that voice and she looked across the walkway. There two men there, one of the two men was the man that she saw leaving the room that Bucky was in. The other men looked like a soldier, has black hair and was much taller than the other man, Emily took a wild guess that the black hair man was Johann Schmidt. Schmidt walked over to the connecting walkway as Steve walked across the connecting walkway so that they meet halfway across it. Wheel Johann walked there that he spoke. "How exciting! I'm a great fan of your films! So Dr. Erskine managed it after all. Not exactly an improvement, but still impressive." When he finished talking that he looked over at Emily, Bucky and the other four, so Emily glared at him. "Not only that but you brought along Lieutenant Rogers with one, one of the leaders of Project Demigod." Emily would have responded to that but Schmidt looked away from her and that was when Steve punched him in the face. So Emily didn't feel the need to respond to what Schmidt said to her.
"You got no idea." It seems that Schmidt forget about Emily.
"Haven't I!" Emily and Bucky watched the exchange, of which was a couple of punches, between Steve and the man in front of Steve currently. After a couple of punches that Emily barely noticed that the older man pulled the lever of which Emily figured that he did so that the fight wouldn't go to far and the walkway has started to part. As the walkway separated that Schmidt spoke up once more. "No matter what lies Erskine told you, you see, I was his greatest success!" Emily heard from Dr. Erskine of what happened to Schimdt though she wasn't sure if that was really the case or not. But she heard of weirder things than become red and having no hair, as Schmidt started to take his face off that she knew that Dr. Erskine didn't make that side effect up. So that when he removed his face that Emily e pecked to see a red skull in place of a human face.
"You don't have one of those, do you?"
"I doubt it, I was there when the serum entered his system." John spoke up.
"That is disgusting." Schmidt spoke up before any of the others could say anything.
"You are deluded, Captain. You pretend to be a simple soldier, but in reality you are just afraid to admit that we have left humanity behind. Unlike you, I embrace it proudly. Without fear!" As he spoke that he dropped the face mask that he was wearing into the fire below and walked to the elevator with the older male.
"Than why are you running away." Schmidt didn't respond to Steve, instead he closed the elevator doors to leave the base. When the elevator doors closed that Luke spoke up.
"One of the leaders to Project Demigod. Who is the other leader and what is Project Demigod?" Emily looked at Luke.
"Later, we needed to get out of here." It was than that Steve put his hand on her shoulder and nodded to the rail. The seven of them went to the railing, Emily got in first followed by Bucky, Emily got on first because he others insisted on that. As soon as Emily made it that Luke and Thomas started to follow and when Bucky made it that Richard and John followed. When Luke and Thomas were almost there and Richard snd John we're halfway that the railing gave way. Emily panicked slightly, thankfully she didn't panic for long since they used the air and wind to hold them up and land on the same side as Emily and Bucky. Emily looked across at Steve of who had no way to get across. Steve waved at them as eh spoke,
"Go on get out of here." Emily was about ready to tell him no when Bucky spoke.
"I am not leaving you here." Steve looked at Emily and Bucky, she knew from their faces that they were not going to leave him there and she knew that the other four wouldn't leave without her. Not unless if they wanted to face the wrath of Lauren or a worse one when they meet her since Emily was sure that Lauren would not be happy to learn about where they have been as well, as the fact they haven't written in a while. Steve backed up before he ran and jumped across, by sheer luck that Steve managed to get on their side without any help from Emily or the four sons to Zeus. The seven of them quickly got out of the base where the other prisoners at managed to get ahold of the guns and a couple of the tanks. When all of them were far enough that everyone cheered, Emily got a four way sandwich hug from John, Richard, Thomas and Luke. She also hugged Steve before she put her arms around Bucky's neck and he picked her up and spinner her around a coupe of times. When Bucky set Emily down was when Bucky did something that Emily didn't expect him to do, for Bucky kissed her. Emily found herself kissing Bucky back, she hardly noticed that the others started to cheer louder than they had before.
