Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel, I do not own the Avengers. If I did, then we would all know the answer to what really happened in Budapest and there's be a Strike Team: Delta Movie. I was inspired by two fanfics Loki Must Die and Frozen Web, specifically a small scene in Loki Must Die. I've seen this movie about ten times (this year so far, I may be wrong I've lost count honestly), hopefully I have a better idea at what I'm doing.
Chapter Fourteen: The Hard Drive
If Steve had it his way, he would have taken the hard drive up to his room and scan through it alone, reading every bit of information he found, take note of it, and share the findings with the team. There, simple as that.
But then Tony began to insist that Steve let him handle the hard drive, to encode it and have JARVIS scan it for content and possible viruses uploaded with it. Tony insisted that they used the computers in his lab instead of the laptop that Steve had in his bedroom so the inventor could sort through the information as well.
Steve found that request a bunch of BS, why in the world should he give Tony the hard drive? Did Stark come to get it with the team? Did he help get Natasha in to retrieve the information? Did he download it onto the hard drive or deal with an electrical fire? No. So why should he give Tony this information? Tony didn't want anything to do with the mission, he provided transport but other than that he didn't have the right. He didn't work to get this like Steve and the rest of the team.
Steve had no problem reminding him that when he stormed to his room, door shutting with a bit of an unnecessary slam.
Clint was just leaving Stark Industries extensive vehicle armory, a section Clint needed to remember should Loki ever order them to leave the building immediately. The archer was merely walking down the halls, hoping to talk to Tony if he could find the genius engineer. But he was also hoping to possibly overhear one of Hill's secret calls to Coulson.
Hill was an increasing danger to their plans. The assassins knew that if she smelled something fishy going on or sensed a fatal explosion about to happen she'd be on the case to stop it. Hill would be the voice of reason next to Bruce, and while Bruce was a concern, if Hill managed to prevent Steve and Tony from fighting then all that work would be for nought. The only way to keep her from ruining it was to pull her into the fighting.
Clint suddenly stopped, turning his head slightly when he swore he heard an extremely muffled conversation coming from behind the door. He quietly approached the door, turning the door knob slightly so the door was opened just a crack, and placed his ear against it.
A sick, deviously pleased grin stretched across his face when he heard the sound of Coulson on the other end.
With eyes already beginning to glaze over and ache from the bright screen, the super soldier read each piece of information carefully before flicking onward to the next page of a file. As he did this he could not believe how tedious and impractical this was, yet the captain was ever stubborn and determine to be thorough with his findings. God forbid he overlooked something that could change the course of this investigation.
But so far, Steve was finding nothing useful whatsoever. He was searching through a lot of old bank statements and figures that he could not comprehend even if he tried. He was growing tired with each passing sentence, feeling an urge to stand and walk away.
Then, just as he was about to stand, he caught exactly what he was looking for. Steve leaned in closer, almost touching the screen with his nose.
Reports began to line up on the screen, reports that spanned from several hundred other Hydra bases and recounted from a million different perspectives. All of them were detailing encounters and sightings on Bucky, on the Winter Soldier. Steve picked one of the most recent reports and started to read as fast as he could.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Rogue Winter Soldier was last seen spotted rampaging the base on the western end of Germany, killing 97% of the stationed agents. Base was trashed and completely destroyed, all research done within the base is completely lost...
Steve continued to read, flicking from report to report. Some were extremely brief like the first one and others were long, rambling and detailed. The blonde read, jotting sloppy notes on a piece of paper to keep track of everything he was reading.
And little did he know that all of this information was a fabricated lie designed by the Black Widow.
Clint smirked deviously as he entered his and Natasha's floor, trying to formulate the perfect plan to hinder Hill and unveil Coulson to the other Avengers. The only tricky thing was that Clint and Natasha could not let the others know that they are working for Coulson or that they were the ones to give the secret away.
But how did they go about this? The team walking in on Hill seemed like a simple plan but difficult to master. How could they make it all look like an accident? How could they make something they staged to look like it randomly happened?
They could try to get the team to run into Coulson and his people while on a mission to find the Winter Soldier, but that was even more difficult. There was no way to set it up without Hill or someone pointing it right back at them.
"What are you so happy about?"
Clint blinked, turning to look at the red head who broke him from his thoughts. He just continued to grin at her before saying, "I'm just trying to figure out how to expose Hill for the lying rat she is."
Natasha nods, chewing on her bottom lip when she realized that this was going to be difficult. But at least the Captain had taken their bait.
Completed. I apologize for the long wait. But I have good news, I got into three of the six colleges I applied too and they're my top three :D.
Please Review. What will happen next? How will they reveal Hill? Maybe it's more simple than the assassins think. And what's going on with Loki? Recruiting people still most likely.
I sort of realized that I'm like writing my own version of Civil War. But extremely different nonetheless. No one mention that movie! Thinking about it and the Avengers fighting upsets me!
