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Suspect
Damian stirred and looked at the TV. The conference was just starting, finally. He gently shook Wanda awake and she smiled up at him before turning to the TV. On it, the Wakandan King was discussing Ultron's use of Vibranium in an attempt to destroy the world. He discussed the fact that he was attempting to "better the world that Wakanda is trying to join" and that he thanked the Avengers for supporting the Accords, at least, in half.
"We should be there," Damian said. "We'll be late to sign."
"That's alright," Wanda said. "We don't need to sign it yet. And Nat will probably sign it for us anyway."
Just then, the TV was filled with an explosion. Both sat bolt upright, staring at the TV. It was utter chaos. After a few minutes, firetrucks arrived to start putting the fire out and the newscasters around finally managed to start talking about what happened.
"A bomb hidden in a news van, ripped through the UN building in Vienna," the newscaster said. "More than seventy people have been injured. At least twelve are dead, including Wakanda's King, T'Chaka. Officials have released a video of the suspect who they have identified as James Buchanan Barnes, the Winter Soldier. Barnes is an infamous Hydra agent linked to numerous acts of terrorism and political assassinations. Anyone with information on the suspect is urged to report it immediately."
"Isn't Barnes a friend of Steve's?" Damian asked.
"Yes," Wanda nodded.
Damian backed the TV up then paused it on the image of the suspect's face. Most of the man's face was blurry from the poor camera quality, and he had a dark hood up, hiding anything above the top quarter of his forehead, and the jacket's high collar hid everything below his mouth.
"Vision!" Damian called, Vision stepping into the room a moment later. "What's the probability that that's not actually Barnes?"
"I detect a seventy five percent chance that it is not," Vision said.
"Thanks," Damian said, picking up a phone and dialing Natasha. "Romanoff, it's Damian. Vision says that it's not Barnes."
"When did I say that?" Vision asked, Damian holding up a hand.
"What do you mean?" Natasha asked.
"It's not Barnes," Damian said. "Think about it. If it were Barnes, he'd have put the van inside the building and killed everyone."
"Unless he only wanted T'Chaka," Natasha said.
"Why would he only want him?" Damian asked.
"I don't know, the Winter Soldier was never very clear about why he attacked certain people," Natasha said.
"Listen," Damian said. "We both know who's going to try and bring him in alive. And if he is innocent, that's good. Because it means we won't be killing an innocent man."
"No one's killing anyone," Natasha said.
"Come on Romanoff," Damian said. "You and I both know they'll be given shoot on sight orders. I'm going to go help Steve. Steve is the least likely to die trying, and if my name is on the Accords roster, I can keep him out of trouble. You know how good I can be at sweet talking."
"You are a silver-tongued bullshitter," Natasha agreed. "Alright. I'll make sure your name's on the list, you keep Cap out of trouble."
"Tell her to add mine too," Wanda said.
"Wanda says she wants you to double-check her name too," Damian said.
"Will do," Natasha said. "And Damian. Be careful."
"I will," Damian agreed. "See you after they arrest me."
He hung up and sighed, standing.
"Well, looks like I'm going to have to leave you and Vision alone for a bit," Damian said.
"It's alright," Wanda smiled. "Be careful, okay?"
"I will," Damian nodded. "Be back soon."
As he waked out of the room, he dialed Steve.
"Hey Cap, it's Damian," Damian said. "Where's he at? I'm coming to help bring him in."
"I thought you signed the Accords," Steve said.
"I did," Damian said. "Because now, I can tell the politicians to kiss my ass twice before they arrest me."
"He's in Bucharest," Steve said. "I'll send you the coordinates of where to meet us when you're in a jet. Are you bringing Wanda?"
"Just me," Damian said, getting on the jet and closing the ramp. "Unless you count the hallucinations. Then maybe. Alright, I'm on the jet. Send the coordinates."
A couple minutes later, Damian was off, picking up Steve and Sam from a field somewhere in England, then flying to Bucharest. After a couple of hours, they landed somewhere where no one would see them and Damian sent the jet back to the Avengers facility.
"Why'd you end our ride home away?" Sam asked.
"Oh please," Damian said. "There's no way we're going to take Barnes in without being arrested, it doesn't work like that. We don't need the jet."
"I agree," Steve said. "But at least he'll be alive."
Damian nodded and they all waked into the city, Steve leading them to an apartment building where he said Barnes was living. Sam went to the roof to keep watch, and Damian and Steve walked inside, finding Barnes' apartment to be empty. Steve walked over to the fridge as Damian looked out the window.
"Heads up guys," Sam said over the communicators. "German special forces approaching from the south."
"Got it," Steve said.
Damian glanced toward the door and stopped. Barnes was standing about two feet from him, Damian never having known he was there.
"Man you are terrifyingly good," Damian said, Steve turning around to see who he was talking about.
"Do you know me?" Steve asked.
"You're Steve," Barnes said. "I read about you in a museum."
"They've set the perimeter," Sam said.
"I know you're nervous, and you have plenty of reason to be," Steve said, setting the book he had been looking at down. "But you're lying."
"I wasn't in Vienna," Barnes said. "I don't do that anymore."
"They're entering the building," Sam said.
"We know you didn't," Damian said. "But we've only got a couple of seconds before the people who think you did bust in here and kill you. So we might want to get moving. We can help you but only of you're alive and you don't kill anyone on the way out."
"They're on the roof, I'm compromised," Sam said.
"They're going to shoot on sight," Barnes said. "That's smart. Good strategy."
"This doesn't have to end in a fight Buck," Steve said.
"It always ends in a fight," Barnes said.
"Five seconds!" Sam said.
"You pulled me from the river," Steve said. "Why?"
"I don't know," Barnes said, pulling a glove off his left arm, displaying his shiny metal hand.
"Three seconds," Sam said.
"Yes you do," Steve said.
"Breach! Breach! Breach!" Sam shouted.
At the same time, a flashbang grenade was fired through the window and Steve smashed it back out with his shield. The next in Barnes kicked to Steve, who slammed his shield down over it. Then, a third came in, but was blocked by the mattress Damian was holding to the window. Someone began to hit the door with a battering ram, somehow not breaking it the first three times they hit it. Barnes hurled his table into the corner, blocking the door even further just before two special forces troops crashed in through the window. Barnes punched one with his human arm and Damian dropped the other with his Vibranium one, a metal clang filling the room as it his the man's kevlar helmet. Then, Barnes hurled his target into the wall as a patio door burst open and a soldier charged Steve, only for Steve to catch his rifle and Barnes to kick him, knocking him out. Barnes then moved to the door.
"Buck stop!" Steve shouted, catching his hood, making Barnes spin toward him. "You're gonna kill someone."
Barnes instantly slammed Steve to the ground and punched the floor beside his head.
"I'm not gonna kill anyone," Barnes said, ripping a hidden backpack up from under the floor before hurling it out of the apartment to the roof of the next building over.
Another soldier dropped in the far window but before he could shoot at anyone, Damian swept his legs out from under him then knocked him out with a quick tap to the head. Another came through the window with a shotgun and Barnes shoved Steve out the window, shield first. Just then, someone shot out the hinges on the door. Damian smirked and at the same time as Barnes put his mechanical arm through a wall to knock out one of the soldiers waiting outside, Damian kicked the door, smashing it into three more. Damian stepped out, punching two before kicking a third just as another, most likely the last on the roof, smashed through the skylight, beginning to rappel down the center of the stairwell, shooting at Damian, who blocked the bullets with his arm. Barnes stepped out of the room, grabbing the soldier's rifle and smashing him into the wall before picking up the battering ram and smashing it into one of the soldiers hit with the door, then one coming up the stairs. Damian passed him, kicking the next one coming up the stairs and Barnes jumped onto the now dangling soldier, using him to swing around to a lower point on the stairs, grabbing the one just above him and hurling him into the two below him. Damian jumped to the next point down, hitting one with a flying lariat using his left arm before spinning and kicking another over the railing toward the next level down. He began to fall short just as Steve flipped down to that level, catching him and looking up at Damian.
"Really?" Steve asked.
"What?" Damian asked. "I'm still getting used to my strength. Besides, you caught him."
Just then, Barnes ripped the top part of the railing off and used it to swing down a level, kicking a soldier through a door as he did. Then, he lunged down the stairs, punching another soldier into the wall before flipping over the railing and dropping several stories before catching the railing, stopping himself. Damian and Steve sprinted after him, Damian taking down two more soldiers on the way, before turning into the room Barnes had jumped from, running to the balcony and stopping, seeing someone wearing a black body suit and mask with some kind of claws attacking Barnes on the next roof over.
"Sam southwest rooftop," Steve said, backing up.
"Who the hell's the other guy?" Sam asked.
"About to find out," Steve said.
Then, he sprinted forward, leaping over the railing and landing on the edge of the building before rolling forward and sprinting at the fighting pair.
"Oh this is such a bad idea," Damian said, also backing up. "Sam, would you mind catching me if I miss?"
Then, he sprinted forward, jumping onto the railing then off of it, leaping to the rooftop and landing in a roll, shockingly not killing himself. Then, he sprinted after Steve, who had stopped when a chopper began to shoot at the man in black, the bullets bouncing off of his suit.
"Vibranium," Damian realized, sprinting past Steve as Sam slammed into the chopper's tail, forcing the pilot to regain control.
Barnes kicked the man off and took off running, the man following only for Damian to tackle him, pinning him down.
"T'Challa!" Damian said. "It wasn't him!"
"It was!" T'Challa said, kicking Damian off and sprinting after Barnes again.
"Did you just say T'Challa?" Steve asked, stopping beside Damian as he flipped to his feet, cracking his neck.
"Yes," Damian said. "And now we chase them."
"On it," Steve said, jumping off the side of the building, using his shield to cushion his fall.
Damian dropped off a moment later, landing just behind him and sprinting after him. Both dropped over the edge of the road they were on, landing in the middle of one below, then looking around, seeing T'Challa and Barnes in the distance, sprinting away.
"I'm so glad I asked T'Chaka for these after Ultron," Damian said, pulling his combat boots off and tossing them aside, revealing his Vibranium-Adamantium alloy shoes.
"How thick are those?" Steve asked.
"Thicker than necessary for my purposes," Damian said. "Try to keep up."
And with that, he was off, the Vibranium shoes sending him hurtling along the road, Steve sprinting along just behind him
"Nice shoes," Steve said. "Very helpful."
"Agreed," Damian said. "And with the upgrade Tony gave me, more than enough to catch them."
Suddenly, a police SUV began to catch up and Damian smirked, speeding up. As he did, Steve jumped, his shield hitting the windshield, the cop slamming on the break. Then, Steve pulled him out, kicked the windshield out, and sped off in the stolen vehicle. He quickly passed Damian, who rolled his eyes, then T'Challa, who leapt on, his Vibranium claws allowing him to easily latch onto the vehicle. Steve began to try to shake him off but it was no good. Soon, there were police cars starting to catch up to them as well, nearly twenty of them. Steve began to slam his vehicle into their as they caught up to him, slowing himself and them down enough for Damian to pull ahead of him. Ahead of Damian, more cars began to enter the underpass so Barnes, and then Damian, both leapt over several barrels of probably sand serving as a barrier. Steve crashed through right after, T'Challa still holding on. Up ahead, Barnes caught a motorcycle with his left hand, knocking the rider off of it, then flipped it around onto the road, leaping onto it in mid air, then sped off.
"Show off," Damian said.
Then, he jumped, landing on the hood of Steve's SUV. He turned to T'Challa and T'Challa stared at him.
"Someone's framing him, T'Challa," Damian said. "What purpose would a master assassin have of showing his face on camera just after bombing the UN building and starting a global hunt for himself? It doesn't make any sense."
"He killed my father," T'Challa said, getting his feet under him. "I'll kill him."
"Then I'm sorry about this," Damian said before ripping the roof of the SUV off with his vibranium arm, flipping it to the side where it crashed into the wall harmlessly, T'Challa landing in a roll and Damian dropping down beside Steve. "Alright, now let's catch up."
Just as he said this, Barnes hurled an explosive onto the overpass above them, the explosion dropping the cement. Sam, who had been flying behind them with T'Challa clinging to his leg, stopped on a dime, T'Challa shooting past Damian and Steve after Barnes, slashing his rear tire. Damian leapt out, flying past the cement a second before Steve cut the wheel and bailed, making the vehicle roll rather than jump from the pile of cement on the road. Damian reached T'Challa first, wrapping his right arm around him and dragging him away from Barnes, then setting him on his feet as dozens of police cars skidded to a stop around them. He took a couple of steps back, raising his hands.
"I'm sorry, your highness," Damian said. "But Barnes is innocent this time. Someone framed him."
T'Challa stared at him, retracting his claws as the police hurried forward, weapons drawn. Then, War Machine landed beside them, aiming one hand at Steve, one at Damian, and his minigun at Barnes.
"Stand down, now," Rhodey ordered.
Steve put his shield on his back, raising his hands, and T'Challa pulled his helmet off, holding it under his arm.
"Congratulations, Cap," Rhodey said. "You're a criminal."
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