The next day,

We pulled up to an apartment building after Natasha woke up fully recovered. It was a few miles from SHIELD Headquarters. We went to the top floor where a man opened the door.

"Hey man." He said to Steve

"I'm sorry to have to do this, but we need a place to lay low."

"Everyone we know is trying to kill us." Natasha added, he stared at the three of us and stepped back.

"Not everyone."

The three of us took turns taking a shower and changed into some clean clothes. While Steve and Nat talked I joined our new friend in the kitchen.

"I don't think I've ever introduced myself to you." I said "I'm Kida."

"I know Steve's told me a lot of great things." He reached over and shook my hand. "Sam Wilson."

"How did you meet Steve?"

"We like to run on the same paths every morning." He grabbed a pan and started to cook some eggs.

"Let me help you with that."

I helped him cook breakfast for us and when we finished Steve and Natasha joined us. The three of us sat at the table while Sam stood near the counter.

"So the question is who at SHIELD can launch a domestic missile strike?"

"Pierce" Steve answered

"Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world." I added

"He's not working alone Zola's algorithm was on that ship."

"So was Jasper Sitwell." Nat said

"So the real question is how do the three most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?" I asked as I took a sip of orange juice.

"The answer is you don't." Sam walked over to us and tossed a file onto the table.

"What's that?" I asked

"Call it a resume." Nat grabbed the file and went through it.

"I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPG's, what did you use? A stealth shoot?" Nat asked

"No, these." He handed Steve another file, I looked over and could see a smirk on Steve's face.

"I thought you said you were a pilot."

"I never said pilot" Sam corrected

"I can't ask you to do this Sam, you got out for a good reason."

"Dude Captain America needs my help, there's no better reason to get back in." Sam replied

"Where can we get our hands on one of these things?" I asked

"The last one is at Fort Mead, behind three guarded gates and a twelve inch steal wall."

"Sounds simple enough." I said and turned to Steve with a wicked smile on my face.

Noon,

After a quick run to Fort Mead we went to a restaurant in downtown D.C. where Sitwell was eating lunch. I waited in Sam's car down the street, I looked through the rear view mirror and smiled when I saw Sitwell walk towards me. He climbed into the back and Sam joined us and sat down next to me.

"Good to see you Sitwell." I said as I started driving.

"Stark, I should've known you would be a part of this." He said "Most members of Hydra thought you ran off to Asgard."

"I'm not leaving until every single Hydra agent in SHIELD is dead or captured."

"Big threat coming from a princess, we read your files carefully. And since your DNA was a success in Tahiti you've helped advance Hydra into a new age of biological weapons."

"How about you shut up?" Sam said

"What happened in Tahiti?"

"Project Tahiti, I thought Fury would've told you since it was so important to the Avengers, and your old friend."

"That's enough." Sam snapped, I pulled to the side of the building and stopped the car. "I'll park, can you take him up to the roof?"

"Yeah." I climbed out and grabbed Sitwell by the back of the shirt. We walked into the empty building and into the elevator. When the door closed my eyes glowed in bright gold light and I lifted him two feet above the ground before slamming him into the wall. "What is Project Tahiti?"

"Fury created a compound, a mixture of your blood with another substance." He said in fear "It was kept for the purpose to bring back a fallen Avenger. But it was first used on Agent Coulson."

"He died!" My voice turned deep as my eyes glowed more. "Why test it on him?!"

"To see if it would work and it did!" He said "Coulson was brought back after being dead for three days."

"You're lying! He was stabbed through the heart no one can survive that!"

"Stranger things have happened."

I tossed him onto the ground when the doors opened and I pulled him to the roof where Steve and Natasha where waiting.

"Tell me about Zola's algorithm." Steve ordered

"Never heard of it."

"What were you doing on the Lumerian Star?"

"I was throwing up I get seasick." We all walked towards him until he backed up to the edge and Steve grabbed him. "Is this meant to insinuate that you're going to throw me off the roof Rogers? Cause that's not really your style."

"No it's not, it's hers." Steve stepped back and Natasha kicked him over the edge. After a few moments Sam flew up with Sitwell. He dumped Sitwell back on the roof and landed by the door. I walked to him with gold eyes and he raised his hand up.

"Zola's algorithm is a program! For choosing Insight's targets."

"What targets?" I asked

"You, Rogers, the other Secretary of Defense, a high school student in Iowa, Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange anyone who's a threat to Hydra." He said quickly. "Now or in the future."

"The future, how can it know?" Steve asked

"How could it not? The 21st century is a digital book, Zola taught Hydra how to read it." He said as he stood up. "Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, emails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future."

"And what then?" I asked

"Oh my God Pierce is going to kill me." Sitwell mumbled

"What then?" Steve asked

"Then the Insight helicarriers scratch the people off the list, a few million at a time."

I stood in silent shock by Steve, Sam grabbed Sitwell and we went back to his car. We needed to come up with a plan to take down the helicarriers.

"Hydra doesn't like leaks." Sitwell said as Sam drove

"Then why don't you stick a cork in it." He replied and I held back a smile.

"Insight is launching in sixteen hours we're cutting it a little close here." Natasha said

"I know we'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the helicarriers directly." Steve replied

"What?! Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible…"

A sudden thud above us cut him off, the window shattered and he was pulled out and hit by a truck.

"James!" I screamed

He shot a few rounds inside the car until it suddenly stopped and he flew above us and landed a few yards away. Before I could get out another car hit us from behind and pushed us forward. James jumped back onto the car and pulled the steering wheel out as we moved forward. The car started to lose control and Steve grabbed us.

"Hold on!"

As the car flipped he budged through the door with his shield and we slid down the highway. I rolled a few feet and got a few scrapes. The car with James stopped and Rumlow's team climbed out. One of them handed James a rocket launcher, he loaded it and fired at Steve.

"STEVE!"

I felt my gut wrench as I saw him fly over the bridge and crash into a bus that flipped over. Gunshots rang out as they slowly moved forward. My anger fueled my magic and created a shield around me. Whips of light moved down my hands and grabbed two of the men before tossing them into the other side of the highway where they too were hit by cars. Bucky fired his rocket launcher again and the explosion pushed me over the bridge onto the ground. I slowly moved up and grabbed Steve's shield and climbed inside the toppled bus.

"Steve."

I lifted his shirt and healed the wounds on his side until he could stand up again. I handed him his shield and pulled him onto his feet.

"Let's go." As we moved out I saw James walk after Natasha in the reflection of the mirror.

"You and Sam take care of the men, I'm going to help Natasha with James."

He nodded his head and I ran after him, I followed the sounds of screaming and explosion until I found Natasha.

"Nat!" I ran towards her and saw James jump onto a car with a sniper rifle. "Nat get down!"

I pushed her behind a car but the bullet drove into my shoulder. I fell next to the car while Natasha was behind it. James raised his gun again, but aimed it at me.

"James!" I said "Remember me James, remember the sound of my voice."

I slowly stepped closer and when I got to the car he lowered his gun.

"That's it James listen to me, the people who hired you, the people you're working with are bad." I stopped when I got to the car and he jumped down. I could see the confused look in his eyes. "Just drop your gun and you and I can walk out of here and see a doctor. I can make you remember."

I could see his mind conflict in his eyes, he looked between me and an empty space. But he shook his head and James was gone. He raised the gun up to my head and I heard it click.

"Kida get down!"

I ducked down as Steve jumped above me, knocking James down to the ground. When I looked up I saw the two of them fight viciously. I've never seen Steve so angry before, and it was unsettling. I pushed myself up as a long whip of gold light extended from my hand. The light whipped around James and lifted him up in the air. When he tried to reach for his gun I lifted him up higher and slammed him onto the ground.

Steve and I walked closer to his motionless body, I flipped him over and grabbed his mask. When I touched it he suddenly woke up and slashed into my stomach. I covered my stomach quickly and tried to heal it quickly. Steve continued to fight him and slammed his shield into his arm before grabbing his face to flip him over. When he did his mask fell between us and him; James stood up and turned around to face us.

"Bucky?" Steve said

"Who the hell is Bucky?"

Sam flew in and knocked him to the ground, when Bucky stood up again he looked at Steve then to me. I turned around and saw Natasha fire a missile above us to Bucky, and when the smoke cleared he disappeared again. Sirens rang out and slowly got closer, I looked down and saw my healed stomach but the bullet was still lodged into my shoulder. Black vans surrounded us and Rumlow's team got out, all with their guns on us. Steve dropped his shield and went onto his knees with his hands raised. They placed handcuffs on us as a news helicopter flew above us.

I turned to Steve and saw how pale his skin was, he said nothing as we were carried into the van with Sam and Natasha. I leaned my head back as my blood flowed down my arm.

"It was him." He finally spoke "He looked right at me, and he didn't even know me."

"How's that even possible? That was like seventy years ago."

"Zola, Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43 Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall." He raised his head up. "They must've found him."

"None of it is your fault Steve." Natasha said, her words blurred in my head as I felt weaker.

"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky."

I closed my eyes tightly as the pain radiated again, I lost most feel in my left arm and could barely move it. While the truck was driving I thought of my dad, there was no doubt he'd seen the stories on the news. I kept thinking about him and mom at the tower, I could already see them watching me being dragged in handcuffs on TV. If only I could talk to them and explain.

"We need a doctor here." Sam said to one of the guards. "If we don't put pressure on that wound she's going to bleed out."

The guard pulled out an electric baton and turned it on, then slammed the baton onto the second guard. Then swiftly knocking him out in one kick, the four of us were silent in shock and confusion. The guard took of their helmet revealing Maria Hill.

"Ah that thing was squeezing my brain." She saw Sam and turned to Steve. "Who's this guy?"

"Sam Wilson, a friend."

"Alright, Stark you awake?" She asked

"Still awake." I mumbled

"Good you'll want to see him."

"Him?"

When the truck stopped Maria pulled out a high powered laser that cut through the truck and the cement into an underground tunnel. Steve carried me as we went through an opening with a van waiting. Maria drove at a hundred miles per hour to an old dam, we got out of the car and walked inside. I held onto Steve's arm to keep me up, I could see a man ran up to us.

"GSW she's lost about a pint." Maria said

"Maybe 2." Sam said

"Let me take her." The man said

"She'll want to see him first." Maria said

"Who?" I asked

We walked to the end of the tunnel to a large white curtain, the man pulled it back and showed Fury lying in a bed.

"About damn time."

~~Chapter Song~~

Ready or not

Here I come

You can't hide

Gonna find you

-Ready or Not by the Fugees (from the MI: Rogue Nation trailer)