Starlyn just stared at Peggy, she hadn't seen her friend in a while because of the separate duties they had, but the first time they talk in so long and Peggy tells her that a camera crew would be following them around for a while as they went about taking the HYDRA bases out.

"You can't be serious Peg."

"I'm sorry but that is what is happening Starlyn, the Senator want's the Allied nations to see what Captain America and Lady Liberty are doing with the Howling Commandos and how effective they are with doing their job of ridding us of HYDRA and in effect the Nazi regime." Peggy explained.

Star ran a hand through her hair, "Do you have any idea who bad it can get putting civilians in the line of fire?" She questioned, "They can get skittish Peggy, and that means they can get dead. I will not be responsible for them."

"They have signed a consent form, they have been told of the rules for following you but there has to be someone with them to keep them safe as well." Peggy explained.

"Then find another baby sitter because it isn't going to be me, I've already had a couple of film crews blown up on me because they wanted to report the story of a century, this, I will not do, ask someone else." And with that Star stormed out of the room.

"What was that about?" Gabe questioned as Peggy came out of the office.

"A film crew will be following you around for a little while and Starlyn hasn't taken too kindly to it." Peggy explained, "I don't really like it either but my hands are tied."

"Just let her cool down." Steve spoke up, "She just doesn't want any unnecessary blood on her hands."

Peggy sighed, "How have you all been?" She questioned, she hadn't seen them in a while.

Each man grumbled their responses letting Peggy how they had been, what they had been doing when they weren't off raiding the HYDRA factories and they had asked Peggy how she had been doing and what she had been up to. No one had noticed that Bucky had slipped off after Starlyn to check on how she was doing.

Bucky walked into the gym where Star had disappeared to and saw that she was sitting on the seat of the bench press, "You alright doll?" He asked coming over to the seat and sitting down behind her straddling the bench and tucking her into him.

"Yeah, I'm okay. Just don't need to have a couple of civvies joining us when there are explosions and bullets raining down, it's not a place that they should be." She explained to Bucky.

"It's happened to you before?" Bucky questioned.

"Yeah and they ended up dead, parts of their bodies all over the place." She said, "I told them to walk where I walked but of course they didn't listen and paid for it with their lives."

"Well let's hope that these guys listen." Bucky said in an effort to calm her down, "If not, we'll just have to send them packing and there won't be a problem."

Star chuffed, "Brandt's an ass, he won't let that happen." She told him with a sigh and lent back into his chest, she felt worn out from everything and it seems that it was catching up with her, she could do days without sleeping as she was conditioned when she was a child but it felt like everything was coming down on top of her right now.

"Doll?" Bucky spoke up and looked down to see the half lidded look of her eyes, "You been getting some sleep?" He asked.

"Yeah I have, not as much as usual because of all of the shit floating around my head but I get a few hours a night." She explained.

"Well maybe I could come by yours tonight and we can cuddle on the couch again." Bucky offered.

Starlyn laughed a little and played with Bucky's fingers as she sat there, "Sounds good to me, doesn't seem like we've had much time together now that we're together." She mumbled and Bucky brought her hand up to his lips in response.

"Sorry doll, guess we've just been a bit busy." He muttered.

"It's okay Buck, it don't blame you, and we're both on the same boat in that respect." She assured him.

"It would be nice if we could go out on a date though." Starlyn hummed her agreement at the sentiment.

What the pair of them didn't know was the crowd that was hiding sneakily at the door listening in on the conversation like a bunch of gossips, when nothing else was said between the pair they quickly moved back and headed down to the map room.

"Finally." Dum Dum cried out once the door was shut and the others cried out their agreement but Steve who was looking down at his feet, thoughtful.

"How long do you think it's been going on?" Gabe wondered.

"Not long I would suspect." Peggy spoke up, "I think it's more of a recent development."

"Why would you think that?" Morita asked.

"Well if they were together when all of you were captured, she would have been a little worse off in the emotion department then she was. When she found out he was missing she was upset but if they had been dating she would have been a blubbering mess." Peggy explained.

"Agent Carter is right." Steve spoke up, "Except for maybe the blubbering mess part, she'd go on a murderous rampage and then she would be a blubbering mess." He told everyone, "I'm just not sure on when it started." He said and went back to his thoughtful pose while he tried to figure out when it was possible that they could have gotten together.

Frenchie spoke up and Gabe translated for him, "Why don't we just ask them?"

"Ask who what?" Starlyn questioned as she came in with Bucky behind her, everyone just stood and stared at the pair not saying anything, "Guys what's going on?"

"Nothing." Dum Dum said quickly.

"Dum Dum, just spit it out already." Bucky spoke up from behind Star.

"How long?" Dum Dum finally asked.

Star and Bucky looked at Dum Dum in confusion, "How long what?"

"Oh for goodness sake." Peggy huffed and turned to the pair, "How long have the two of you been dating?" She asked for those present.

Bucky and Star were stunned, it's not that they were keeping it a secret or anything they just didn't think that it really mattered that anyone but Steve knew, Steve had a right to know before anyone else but they hadn't had the time with the missions, "Uh." Starlyn muttered thinking back to when it happened, "It was just after our first successful mission." She said a little unsure and looked to Bucky for confirmation and he nodded an affirmative.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Falsworth questioned.

"Haven't exactly had the time, what were we supposed to do say 'hey guys we're dating' in the middle of fighting HYDRA?" Bucky asked of them.

The guys each nodded in response but they were still a little miffed that they hadn't told them as soon as they were able to, since they were on some down time to prepare for the next mission and Star could read that on their faces, "Jesus guys, we got here yesterday afternoon had a meal and went to bed we were all so tired, when in all that did you want us to tell you?" She asked getting a little frustrated, "And besides if anyone deserved to know first it would be Steve." She snapped at them and with a huff headed out of the room.

Bucky groaned, "Oh come on, I just got her calmed down about the camera crew." He sighed and looked over to where Steve was, during the entire conversation he hadn't said a word the entire time they had entered the room, "Steve?"

Everyone looked over to where Steve was standing all quite, an arm across his chest his hand propped under his chin the forefinger running back and forth over his lip, he had his thinking face on and Bucky knew that he wouldn't be able to get Steve's attention until he had stewed on whatever thoughts he had. Bucky moved over and took a seat near Steve to wait until he had come out of the process.

"What's going on?" Falsworth asked confused.

"We have to wait until he's finished thinking." Bucky responded, "When he gets like this he's thinking things through, analysing that sort of thing and when he's done he'll say something." He explained and just sat back and waited for Steve to come back to 'em and have his say.

Finally Steve put his arm down to rest in on the other and looked at Bucky, "Hurt her and I'll kill you before she or HYDRA get the chance." He told Bucky firmly.

Bucky chuckled, "I'll let you." He responded, "I won't hurt her Steve, I swear." He said firmly as he look Steve right in the eyes.

Starlyn had to make sure that she never removed her mask, it wouldn't do for the camera to catch what was under the mask and set out warning bells for everyone when she couldn't afford to for when she finally got back to her time. Star walked out from the locker room all dressed up and ready to go, they had a mission to go on.

"Ready for the camera's doll?" Bucky questioned throwing an arm around her shoulders and walking with her.

"I'm hiding behind you the whole time Buck." Star responded as they entered the meeting room where everyone was doing their last minute checks on their weapons and supplies, "Every one ready to go?" She questioned as she quickly checked her stuff.

"Let's get to it, we won't be back for a couple of weeks this time." Steve spoke up and headed out to where their transport was waiting and they all climbed in. The drive and the flight was droll as they headed for the area they needed to land in and check over everything one more time before they went off and did what they did best – blow HYDRA scum to pieces.

The camera man and reporter chatted with the guys and Star when there was a free moment asking every day questions just trying to known the men behind the Commandos so that they could humanise the men to the people of the world and show that they are helping in the war effort. Star co-operated but kept up a front since she was the Femme Fatale, she was supposed to be covert.

The group advanced on the base, making sure that the camera crew stayed back, where it was safe with the soldiers that they had for backup should they need it. There was something different about this base, there weren't as many soldiers around, just a basic amount, but the surrounding was locked down tight.

"I don't think that this is a production plant." Star spoke up as she looked around from where she was taking a look at things.

"What do you think it is then?" Dum Dum questioned.

"I've got a feeling it's something that we're not going to like." She said and they moved swiftly on the base, Steve and Star jumping the wall and taking out the guards that so happened to walk where they had jumped before they moved over to the gate and opened it for the guys.

Walking around the front of the building, keeping to the shadows they came to the corner of the building where Steve poked his head out and had a look and quickly brought his head back and looked at Starlyn and the others in shock, "It's a POW camp." He said in shock.

"Shit." The Commandos cussed, this changed everything, they couldn't just go in like they usually would, and there were innocent people around so they had to be more careful with what they did about this HYDRA base.

"What do we do?" Falsworth questioned.

"We're going to have to split up." Star said, "Few of us into the building looking for others and the rest to get those people out of the camp."

"Alright." Steve agreed, "Buck I want you out here with me, up high, eyes on everything." He started ordering, "Falsworth you're with me as well as Frenchie. Dum Dum, Morita and Gabe you check out the factory with Star. We need to be quick, take these men out and get those people safe."

Everyone nodded and broke off to do as Steve ordered, Star's group going into the factory to look for more POW's that could be separate from the others. Star walked through the factory slowly with the guys behind here, guns at the ready. They walked through the halls looking into each room that they came across before Star closed the door and broke off the handle so that no one could go into those room and they couldn't be ambushed from them.

"This floor is clear." Gabe said in confusion, "Why is there no one in here?"

"We need to go down, so keep your eyes open and your guns high." Star said and started towards the stairs, "If there is anyone on the stairs, stay back and I'll take care of it, we don't want to advertise we're coming." She said and started down the stairs making sure to keep to the wall as they went down.

The stairway was clear, but once they had gotten down they could hear an abundance of sound coming from the basement, angry yelling, sobbing, pegging, pleading there were definitely prisoners down there and they needed to get them out with minimal injury and no loss if they could.

"How do we do this?" Morita questioned, "We've gotta be careful about it."

Star shook her head, "I don't know." She sighed as she looked around where she could from where they were hiding to see if there was anything that they could use to help them out but there wasn't much, just the overhead pipes hanging from the ceiling, "Dum Dum give me a boost?" She asked and pointed up at the hanging pipes, it was probably the only way they could by-pass the soldiers enough to get between the soldiers and the POW's.

Once she had made it across and slid into an alcove Morita came over, since he was the next lightest out of the four of them, so that there was two aside, with a nod the four moved from their positions and because of their surprise took out the soldiers with little gunfire, only a couple of shots rang out from enemy gun, each hitting Starlyn as she put herself in between the shots and Morita, they then moved from that hall to another where they walked in to see a four people in white coats that had locked themselves in a viewing lab in fear.

"Check those bodies for the keys for the cells." She ordered Gabe, "Keep the stairs in your sight line." She said to Dum Dum and then turned to Morita, "Check out the rest of the rooms, I'm going to go in there and talk to the scientists." She said with a sinister grin as she looked through the viewing window, she could see the scientists shake in shock and quite possibly fear.

Starlyn moved over to the door while the guys did as they were told, they needed to get the prisoners out of there but had to check everything and everyone was taken care of first, one of her claws slid free and slid through the lock and she pushed the door open and walked in, "Good evening." She greeted in German, "Don't do anything stupid and you just may live to see tomorrow." She said and went over to where there were papers lying around, she could make out a few words, she could speak it better than read it, and made sure to bundle them up to take with her and give to the S.S.R to go through.

Star kept an eye on the scientist as she went through the room, when she noticed a door at the back that seemed to be kept locked up pretty tight with all of the locks that were on it, "Who has the keys?" She questioned but no one answered her, they were keeping mum, she shrugged and went over to the door and with a few kicks it ended up in the room, completely off the hinges, it was only then that one of the scientists moved to open a draw and shoot at Star and hit her in the throat.

Starlyn faltered for a moment because of the obstruction of blood and the cutting off of oxygen but with a snarl she lunged at the scientist and upon reaching him she thrust her claws into the man's stomach and chest, killing him swiftly before she backed up, her claws now retracted and she looked at the other scientists, daring them to do something. They were too busy looking at her in fear since she didn't go down like another would but continued on with her business.

Starlyn turned back to the room and flicked on the light to see 8 stretchers in the room, each one containing a body, each body was different, at least three were children, Star turned back on the scientists, "What were you doing to them?" She asked now that her throat was fully healed but they did not answer her, Star smiled a sinister smile and grabbed the closest scientist to her and started to break each of his fingers, the cracking echoing in the room and the man letting out cries of pain, "What were you going to them?" She asked again.

"They are not normal." One of them finally spat out, she had tears running down her cheeks, obviously there was some sort of connection between the two.

"And that makes it okay?" She questioned with a raised eyebrow, "Are they still alive?"

"Yes, they are still alive just asleep, we couldn't risk keeping them awake." She told Star.

Star smiled at the woman, "Thank you for your assistance." She said and then swiftly broke the neck of the scientist that she was holding causing the female to let out a cry of pain and anger at the action, in her grief she rushed at Starlyn only to end up like her companion before she turned to look at the last scientist, "Where are their files?" She asked.

The last scientist moved swiftly to a cabinet and shakily pulled out the files that she had asked for and placed them on the table in front of Star and then went back to where he was previously standing when Morita walked into the room, "All the other rooms are clear." He told her as he surveyed the scene, "Everything okay in here?" He asked with a raised brow.

"Peachy keen jelly bean." Star responded with a smile, "But I'm going to need some help, there are some people in the back room, knocked out with something." She explained, "The female said that they weren't normal."

Morita nodded and looked to the scientist, "What we going to do with him?"

"Maybe we should take him with us. The S.S.R might get more outta him than what I could right now and find out if there are a few more of these bases around." She said and knocked out the scientist so that he wouldn't go anywhere and went back into the back room to get rid of the I.V from each patient's arm so that whatever they were under would wear off enough so that they could walk out somewhat under their own power.

"How are things out there with Dum Dum and Gabe?" She asked coming back into the main room.

"They've opened the doors but the prisoners aren't moving from the cells, even with Gabe talking to them, trying to get them to come out and follow them, but they aren't having a bar of it." Morita explained.

Starlyn thought for a moment and looked back into the room behind her, "Come on, give me a hand." She said entering the room with Morita behind her and he watched what she was doing before following what she was doing and in a procession they very, very carefully pulled the stretchers after them to where the main of the POW's were, "Gabe go back to the viewing room and grab the scientist nearest the door, he's coming with us for information." She said to Gabe and moved the stretchers so that they were in view, "Please, we really mean no harm, we are here to help. We are with the United States Army, some of my comrades are outside getting the rest of the POW's out. We could use some help getting these people out of here, they have been drugged by the scientists so we're going to need help getting them out of here and getting them home." She gave it a turn at getting the people to come out of the cells.

The people slowly moved out of the cells, some came rushing over to the stretchers, they were either family or just knew them, but there was no one to take the children, "Do you know if the children's parents are alive?" She questioned a few of them, as Gabe came back with the scientist over his shoulder and she received head shakes in response, hopefully there would be family outside with the other prisoners, "Alright guys, let's get top side." She said grabbing one of the children while Dum Dum and Morita grabbed the others and made their way back out of the basement and into the outside world where Steve and the others were waiting for them, the soldiers dead and the prisoners free.

Three couples let out cries of joy and came rushing over to Star, Morita and Dum Dum and took the children from them, tears of joy running down their cheeks as they smothered their children in kisses. The people that had been under were slowly starting to come to.

"Do I want to know what you found down there?" Steve questioned.

"They were being experimented on is my guess and from what one of the scientists said, the people they put under, they're mutants." Star explained so that only Steve could hear, "Probably the only ones that they found because their mutation was obvious or they couldn't control it under the stress of what they were going through." She said as she looked over at the 8 that were still coming around.

"What do we do?" He questioned.

"We let these people go home should they still have a home to go to." Star responded.

Steve nodded, "Of course Star, you know I would never condone anything else." He soothed her.

Star sighed, "I know Steve, I'm sorry." She said and went back to the people and looked them over, explaining that she was a medic and was just checking them for injuries that should be treated straight away, when she got to the 8 that had been sedated they were quite weary about her approaching them.

"Everything is going to be okay, I promise, all I would like to know is if you have any injuries from your time in captivity." She explained to them, her voice soothing to them, it always worked on agitated soldiers when she was working on them. Something Star had also gotten while she was doing her rounds was that everyone, every single one of the prisoners were mutants, she could smell it in them the best she could probably do was tell them she was the same, "You were taken by the scientists because you were mutants, because you couldn't control your mutation with the fear and stress and that is why they took you." They looked at her in shock, the entirety of the POW's were, "We aren't here to hurt you." She said and grabbed her knife and cut her arm in front of them and they watched as it healed, "I am one of you." She said.

At this they let her check them over and she couldn't find anything physically wrong with them, so she moved back over to where Steve and the guys were standing. "They're all good to go, now we just need to know where to take them." She told him, "But we need to make sure it's somewhere where they can't be taken again, they need to be behind Ally lines."

"Why do they need that?" Dum Dum questioned.

"Because they are all like me." She stated simply and everyone looked over at the prisoners that were looking back at them, "Let's just get going. We'll figure something out on the way."

"We… want… to… go… home." An older man spoke up, seemed to be the leader of those gathered, in broken English.

Star walked over to them, "They might come back for you if they passed on the information about the 8 that they had in the basement." She started, "Will you be able to fight them off? Will you be willing to fight them off?"

"They took our young, did things to our young, we will fight if they come back." The elder informed her strongly.

Starlyn gave them a smile, "Of course if that is what you wish, we will take you home."

The elder gave her a smile, "There is no need, we can get ourselves home." He explained with a glint in his eyes, "Is there anything that we can do for you and your friends? For helping us?"

Gabe had translated the entire conversation for Steve and the Commandos, "Nothing Starlyn, we don't want a thing from them. We were just doing our jobs." Steve spoke up as he walked over to his sister, "We don't believe in having those we help give us something back. All we would want to know, one day in the future, is that you all lived happy and full lives from here on out." Star translated for him even though there were a couple that could understand English.

A conversation was quickly had between the POW's before a few of them left the group and went over to the Commandos and one to Steve and Star, each one of them did something to each of the men and woman in front of them that left them all a little confused as the mutants walked away from them and back to their people.

One of the children that had been down in the basement shuffled over to Steve and craned his neck so that he could look up at Steve, "You… Captain 'Merica?" He questioned tilting his head to the side curiously.

Steve went down to one knee in front of the boy, "I am, yes." He said with a smile, "This is Lady Liberty and our Howling Commandos, Bucky, Dum Dum, Morita, Frenchie, Gabe and Falsworth." He said introducing each one.

The boy beamed brightly at Steve, before turning to the group excitedly, "I told you that he would come." Star translated for him, Steve was catching on to German but was still a little shaky with it, and the group gave him an indulgent smile as he turned back to look at Steve, "I have…sign?"

Steve was confused for a second before he made sense of it, the child wanted a signature, but Steve would do him one better. Steve reached into a pocket on his uniform where he kept his sketch pad and pulled it out before going through it until he came to the right picture and carefully pulled it out and passed it to the boy, "It doesn't say 'Captain America' but it does have my real name on it." He explained with a smile and then pulled out a pen that he keeps on him and took the paper back from the child and rested it on his book, "What is your name?"

"Wolfgang Degenhardt." He responded and Steve swiftly wrote on the back of the picture before passing it on to Star, she looked at him in confusion before he handed her the pen and she finally understood and signed the paper before going to the Commandos who all quickly signed it as well and passed it back to Steve who handed it over to Wolfgang, "Danke." He said and raced off over to his family to show them what he was given.

"Are you sure you're going to get home alright?" Steve questioned.

"We will not fear those that hunt us. We will fight and we will defend as you do." The Elder responded and they began to file out of the camp, nodding their heads in thanks as they went by and once the procession had passed Steve, Star and the Commandos followed after them and over to where they were to meet the other soldiers and camera crew, who were already out and filming what was going on.

"Did we not tell you to stay down?" Star grumbled, "There could have been others coming with more prisoners or adding shifts or whatever."

Steve pulled Star over to him and gave her a hug, "Don't worry about it, keep negative thoughts away. Today was a good day." He told her gently.

Starlyn sighed, "Yeah I know, let's get back to our home away from home and then get onto our next mission." She said and they headed back to their vehicle to head back to their temporary base.