After I caught up with Natasha we ended up at a mall to find a place to hack into the drive. She made me change my clothes into a hoodie, beanie, sunglasses, skinny jeans, and some tall sheos that looked like sneakers but had a heel in them.

"First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk." She said.

"If I run in these shoes, I'll face on my face." I replied as we headed into a computer store.

"The drive has a level six homing program, so as soon as we boot up SHIELD will know exactly where we are."

"How much time do we have?"

"Uh...about nine minutes from..."She placed the drive into the computer. "Now." She began to hack into the drive. "Fury was right about that ship, somebody's trying to hide something. This drive is protected by some sort of AI, it keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands."

"But you can override it?"

"The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly. I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from." Suddenly one of the stores workers came up to us.

"Can I help you guys with anything?"The worker asked us.

"Oh, no. My sister was just helping me with some honeymoon destinations."Natasha covered.

"Right! She's getting married."I added.

"Congratulations. Where do you guys thinking about going?"he asked and I looked at the monitor.

"Jersey." I said.

"Oh. Well Uh...if you guys need anything, I've been Aaron." He said and left. Time was running out.

"Thank you. You said nine minutes, come on." I said as he left.

"Shh, relax. Got it." The coordinates were up it was for Wheaton, NJ. "You know it?" Tasha asked.

"I used to. Let's go." I said finally I noticed the team members and after tasha kissing me too hide us from Rumlow we were out and on our way.

"Where did Captain America learn how to steal a car?"Natasha asked with a smirk.

"Nazi Germany. And we're borrowing. Take your feet off the dash." I replied.

"Alright, I have a question for you, of which you do not have to answer. I feel like if you don't answer it though, you're kind of answering it, you know?"

"What?"

"Was that your first kiss since 1945?"

"No, but it definitely wasn't one I appreciated. Was it that bad for you?" I asked.

"I didn't say that Stevie."

"Well, it kind of sounds like that's what you're saying."

"Nobody special, though?"I laughed.

"Believe it or not, it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience. Besides the one man I truly loved in life I lost." It became silent.

"I forgot about Barnes I'm sorry Stevie."

"It's okay. You'd think I would've moved on but he was my best friend and no matter how hard I try I can't. I still wear is dog tags you know."

"I've noticed but if you ever need a friend Stevie I'm here." I smiled.

"That sounds nice." Finally we got there under the cover of night. "This camp is where I was trained." I observed.

"Changed much?" She asked.

"A little. Come on." We went to the building that wasn't there before. I broke in where we found an elevator. Why was it hidden though. Taking the elevator down we found a secret computer room.

"This can't be the data-point, this technology is ancient." Natasha said but plugging in the flash drive the system started up with Tasha's command. The computer started up and started to talk in a familiar voice.

"Rogers, Stephanie Grace. Born, 1918. Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna. Born, 1984."It was a face of a man I thought long dead. My eyes widened.

"It's some kind of a recording." Tasha said to herself.

"I am not a recording, Fräulein. I may not be the man I was when the Captain took me prisoner in 1945, but I am." It was Zola, but it couldn't be? Could it?

"Do you know this thing?"Natasha asked looking at me.

"Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He's been dead for years."I added facing the computer screen.

"First correction, I am Swiss. Second, look around you. I have never been more alive. In 1972 I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body, my mind, however, that was worth saving on two hundred thousand feet of data banks. You are standing in my brain." He said.

"How did you get here?"

"Invited."

"It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. SHIELD recruited German scientists with strategic values."Natasha said.

"They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own."Wait, no it couldn't be true, could it?

"HYDRA died with the Red Skull." I argued.

"Cut off one head, two more shall take its place."

"Prove it."

"Accessing archive. HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize, was that if you try to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, SHIELD was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside SHIELD. For seventy years HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed." ARticles and photos passed on the screens including one from Howard's death.

"That's impossible, SHIELD would have stopped you." Natasha argued.

"Accidents will happen. HYDRA created a world so chaotic that 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. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum." I was angry and punched the monitor smashing the glass. He appeared on another screen. "As I was saying... What's on this drive? Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm."

"What kind of algorithm? What does it do?"

"The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it." He said Natasha looked at her phone alarmed.

"Stevie we've got a bogey coming in." OH this entire thing was a trap."Admit it, it's better this way. We're both of us...out of time."

"Tasha get in!" I shouted noticing a gap in the floor. I jumped in and covered the opening with my shield. I got out after noticing the helicopters were gone. We had to get out of here and SHIELD wasn't an answer anymore. Tasha groaned in pain. "It's alright come on." I said and helped her out of the hole she was injured so I carried her out and to another car. We couldn't go back to the truck as they probably placed a bug on it. I knew of one place we could go. I saw him running through the monuments and followed him back to hs house knocking on the door.

"Stevie?" He asked as he opened the door.

"Hey I'm sorry about this. We need a place to lay low."I replied.

"Everyone we know is trying to kill us." Natasha added.

"Not everyone."Sam said letting us in. I got a shower while he stitched up Natasha and I found her sitting in a chair with a blank stare on her face.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Yeah."She replied.

"What's going on?"

"When I first joined SHIELD, I thought it was going straight. But I guess I just traded in the KGB for HYDRA. I thought I knew whose lies I was telling, but...I guess I can't tell the difference anymore."

"There's a chance you might be in the wrong business."I joked and she smiled.

"I owe you."She said.

"It's okay. If anything I'd say we're even." I replied.

"But, If it was the other way around, and it was down to me to save your life, and you be honest with me, would you trust me to do it?"

"I would now. And I'm always honest."

"Well, you seem pretty chipper for someone who just found out they died for nothing."

"Well, I guess I just like to know who I'm fighting. Everything's revealed now and we have to stop it Tasha." I said taking her hand.

"You're right, I'm in." She said.

"So am I." Sam added. Now we just had to figure the rest out.