Laura, Steve and Nat make it back to Sam's apartment looking like wrecks the next morning and knock on his door after his morning run "Hey man, Laura" Sam nodded at them.

"I'm sorry about this. We need a place to lay low" Steve explained.

"Everyone we know is trying to kill us" Nat added as Laura remained silent still in shock.

"Not everyone" Sam said letting them in. Later that morning Laura was passed out on the couch with Nat and Steve at the table "You ok" Steve asked Nat?

"Yeah" she replied softly.

"What's going on" Steve asked?

"When I first joined Shield, I thought I 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" Nat explained.

"There's a chance you might be in the wrong business" Steve joked as Nat smiled softly.

"I owe you" Nat told him seriously.

"It's ok" Steve replied.

"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" Nat asked?

"I would now. And I'm always honest" Steve reassured her.

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

"I'm more concerned about her right if anything" Steve said as they looked at Laura still sleeping on the couch.

"That missile must have brought up some buried memories for her either with the mess at Tony's old house or New York and Zola didn't help as well" Steve said as he sighed. "We're made for this but she… she really thought she was gonna die back there" Steve finished.

"Well two things one she was trained by me remember so don't insult us" Nat said as Steve chuckled. "And two she's tougher than she lets on and she won't because she's stuck with us now" Nat said smiling faintly as Sam walked in.

"I made breakfast. If you guys... eat that sort of thing" Sam said setting it on the table as Laura woke up smelling the food.


As the four were eating breakfast in Sam's kitchen "So the question is who in Shield could launch a domestic missile strike" Nat asked and both Laura and Steve gave each other a knowing look.

"Pierce" Steve answered.

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

"But he's not working alone, Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star" Steve replied.

"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" Steve asked?

"The answer is, you don't" Sam interrupted dropping a file as Laura opened it and began reading it.

"What's this" Steve asked as Laura and Nat looked at a photo of Sam with his para rescue team.

"Call it a resume" Sam told them.

"Is this Bakhmala? The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you" Nat asked, and Sam nodded.

"You didn't say he was a para-rescue" Nat asked Steve?

"Is this Riley" Steve asked?

"Yeah" Sam said.

"I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs. What did you use, a stealth chute" Nat asked?

"No these" he gives them the file as Laura read it wide eyed.

"I thought you said you were a pilot" Steve asked?

"I never said pilot" Sam countered.

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

"Dude, Captain America needs my help. There's no better reason to get back in" Sam said firmly.

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

"The last one is at Fort Meade, behind three guarded gates and a twelve-inch steel wall" while shrugging his shoulders. "Shouldn't be a problem" Steve said casually.


After they leave to go get Sam's equipment at Fort Meade Sitwell meets with Senator Stern in a plaza. "Listen, I gotta fly home tonight, cause uh... I got some constituency problem, and I gotta press the flesh" Stern told him walking out.

"Any constituent in particular, Mr. Senator" Sitwell asked?

"Uh... no, not really. 23, kind of hot. Real hot. You know, wants to be a reporter, I think. I don't know, who listens at that point" Stern told him jokingly?

"Doesn't sound much of a problem to me" Sitwell replied smiling.

"Really? Cause she's killing my back. Look, this isn't the place to talk about it" Stern said touching the pin on his jacket.

"This is a nice pin" Stern complimented.

"Thank you" Sitwell nodded.

"Come here" Stern said as they embraced.

"Hail Hydra" Stern whispered!

"See, it's right there..." Stern said grabbing his knee walking down the stairs.

"I just saw that, yeah" Sitwell replied.

"Should I get it checked out" Stern asked?

"I think you should" Sitwell said as he walked away but got his phone out from his jacket pocket seeing it ringing seeing Alexander Pierce on the screen.

"Agent Sitwell, how was lunch? I hear the crab cakes here are delicious" Sam joked.

"Who is this" Sitwell asked unamused?

"The good looking guy in the sunglasses, your ten o'clock" Sam said as Sitwell turned around.

"Your other ten o'clock." Sam said as Sitwell saw him sitting at a table with a coffee cup.

"There you go" Sam said raising his cup while nodding at him.

"What do you want" Sitwell asked annoyed?

"You're gonna go around the corner, to your right. There's a grey car, two spaces down. You and I are gonna take a ride" Sam ordered.

"And why would I do that" Sitwell asked amused? "Because that tie looks really expensive, and I'd hate to mess it up" Sam answered as a red dot appeared on his tie.


A short while later Steve throws Sitwell on the roof through the stairwell door stumbling backwards towards the edge of the tall building with Laura and Nat walking behind him. "Tell me about Zola's algorithm" Steve asked?

"Never heard of it" Sitwell lied.

"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star" Steve tried again?

"I was throwing up, I get seasick" Sitwell lied again as Steve forced him to the edge with Nat and Laura next to him as Sitwell smiles amused.

"Is this little display meant to insinuate that you're gonna throw me off the roof? Because it's really not your style, Rogers" Sitwell said unimpressed.

"You're right. It's not. It's hers" Steve stepped aside as Nat kicked him off the roof as he screamed down.

"Oh, wait. What about that girl from accounting, Laura..." Nat asked causally?

"Lillian. Our Laura mentioned her as well" Steve corrected as Nat and Laura nodded.

"Yeah she's cute" Nat replied as Sam flew up suddenly holding Sitwell throwing him on the roof with and Sam putting his wings away with Laura glaring daggers at him. "Zola's algorithm is a program... for choosing Insight's targets" Sitwell yelled while panicking!

"What targets" Steve asked?

"You…, her" Sitwell said nodding at Laura. "A Tv anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa city. Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to Hydra! Now, or in the future" Sitwell told them still breathing heavy. "Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future" Sitwell continued.

"And then…" Laura asked?

"Oh, my God. Pierce is gonna kill me" Sitwell said panicking again.

"What then" Laura yelled bringing her spear out aiming it at Sitwell's neck and getting in a stance!

"Then the insight helicarriers scratch people off the list. "The helicarriers, you helped design" Sitwell admitted smugly as Laura went wide eyed. "A few million at a time" Sitwell finished.


Later Sam is driving them in his Chevy Impala to the Triskelion with Laura in the middle back seat between Nat and Sitwell "Hydra doesn't like leaks" Sitwell told them.

"So why don't you try sticking a cork in it" Sam replied annoyed.

"Insight's launching in sixteen hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here" Nat told them.

"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 idea" Sitwell yelled!

"Why? I think it's a fantastic…" Laura began sarcastically but stopped when the Winter soldier landed on the roof of the car pulling Sitwell out through the window smashing it while throwing him into oncoming traffic on the bridge killing him as the Winter soldier begins shooting at them.

"Holy…" Laura yelled as she and Nat moved quickly to Steve's seat pulling his dead down. Steve puts the transmission into park as he flies off onto the highway using his metal arm to slow down as he slowly gets up and they get into a standoff. A Hummer smashes into the four's car and pushed them along towards him as Sam stomped on the brakes causing smoke from the tires. The Winter soldier jumped back onto their car while Sam is still smashing the brakes as Steve tried reaching for his pistol, as the Winter soldier smashed through the windshield and ripped out the steering wheel.

"Shit" Sam yelled as Laura rolled down the window and brought her spear out staring at the Hummer intently while climbing out the passenger window sitting on it. Sam is still driving on the bridge as her and Nat begin shooting at him on the Hummer as Laura shoots at it as the blaster destroys the Hummer behind them with ease as the others turn around as they look at her wide eyed seeing it blown up into several pieces across the lanes as the winter soldier was seen jumping from it. He jumped on their car again as Nat pulled Laura back inside as Sam tries to maintain control crashing into the median but fails as Steve kicks the door open and yelled "Hang on" as they fell backwards as the car flipped over multiple times ahead of them as they slid on the car door on the highway with Steve holding onto Nat and Nat gripping Laura's waist as she gripped Sam as tight as she could door as the door slid on the road as they slowly skidded to a stop. They get up and run as the Winter soldier is joined by an approaching Suburban as Hydra agents get out he grabs a grenade launcher and they start shooting at them as Nat and Laura ran off as Steve blocked the approaching grenade with his shield and is flung back off the bridge and falls into a bus window below as a cherry picker crashed into it flipping the bus over. Meanwhile another agents are shooting at Laura and Nat as they are pinned down next to a van as they exchange fire.

He shoots a grenade at them and her and Nat run away as the van exploded behind them while jumping over the median dodging oncoming traffic with as they ducked behind a car dodging machine gun fire and run off. Her and Nat are still running away as another grenade is launched exploding the convertible behind them as she grabbed Laura and repelled down over the bridge as they run as fast as they can on the street below running towards civilians getting out of their cars looking on. He aims at the crashed bus from the bridge as Nat and Laura shoot at him back from the street below next to the crashed cherry picker pinning him as Laura destroys the concrete guardrail next to his head as he crawled away ducking from the blaster fire. Her and Nat are still pinned by the cherry picker as he begins raining bullets on them from the machine gun as they fire back exchanging gun fire as they get a chance to run off. "Она у меня. Найди его. ("She's mine. I'll take care of her") he said while looking at Laura running away behind Nat.

Laura and Nat are still running down the street as the Winter soldier blows up an approaching D.C. police car while casually walking towards them with civilians fleeing the scene. He crouches down and rolls a grenade under a van hearing a voice on the other side. The grenade lands next to a recording of a voice on the device next to a car as it explodes, and Nat kicked him from behind while getting on his shoulders choking him, but he flips her over with ease. As he grabbed his gun Laura runs up fast behind him knocking him in the head to the ground with her spear hard running by Nat who throws devices at him disabling his metal arm as they sprint off quickly as he looks at his arm pissed off now ripping off the devices.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way" Nat yelled as they ran through civilians running away!

"Get the hell out of here" Laura yelled while running and panicking next to Nat getting tired as she gets shot in the back twice by her right shoulder and lower back by her waist falling down behind her. "Shit" Laura yelled in pain as Nat turned around hearing her as she got shot in the back of her shoulder crouching behind a car as Laura collapsed onto the street quickly grabbing her dropped spear as she crawled her way over to the car next to Nat quickly holding onto one of the bullet wounds losing blood fast as she looked at her hand covered in it and with worry in her eyes who looked at Nat who looked back the same.

Suddenly he jumped onto a car in front of them as they turned around as Steve ran from behind with his Shield as he blocked it with his metal arm. He kicked Steve off the car while shooting at him who blocks the machine gun fire with his Shield kneeling on the road closely. They continue to fight each other until the Winter soldier flips off as his mask comes off revealing himself as he turned around.

"Bucky" Steve asked in shock?

"Who the hell is Bucky" Bucky asked as Bucky goes to shoot at Steve as Sam flew in and kicked Bucky aside as Bucky takes aim again but before he can shoot Nat uses the grenade launcher Bucky dropped earlier to shoot at him who vanished in the smoke of the explosion, then the four hear sirens as Hydra Suburban's and armored vans pull up quickly surrounding them as Laura quickly brings the spear back into the handle.

"Drop the shield, Cap! On your knees" Rumlow yelled as Laura tried getting up still losing a lot of blood as it flowed down her leg staining her jeans still but collapsed again. "Drop the spear Laura drop it now on your knees now! Get on your knees! Now! Get down! Get down" Rumlow yelled as Laura tried getting up again but fell on the street again dropping the handle exhausted trying to crawl over and reach it as she is handcuffed with the others and is taken with the others into custody.

"Put the gun down. Not here. Not here" Rumlow told the other agent" as Laura noticed the news helicopters around them and sighed not wanting to think who was watching while watching an agent grab her spear.

In the Hydra van being escorted away Laura was still cuffed in severe pain trying not to faint and still losing blood "It was him. He looked right at me like he didn't even know me" Steve said in shock.

"How's that even possible? It was like seventy years ago" Sam asked?

"Zola. Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43, Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him and..." Steve rambled but Nat spoke up.

"None of that's your fault, Steve" Nat managed to say as Laura groaned next to her shifting in her seat as Sam noticed the bullet wounds in her and the one in Nat. "We need to get a doctor here" Sam asked the guards as none of them responded.

"We don't put pressure on those wounds they're gonna bleed out here in the truck" Sam pleaded as the guards ignored him. Suddenly a guard electrocuted the one next to them as they looked at the guard in shock as it removes it's helmet revealing Hill.

"Ah. That thing was squeezing my brain" Hill said holding the helmet.

"Who's this guy" Sam asked confused as Laura was trying to fight the light closing in.

"Take me… to Wakanda now" she managed to say before she passed out on Nat's shoulder as the others began to move as they stopped above a storm drain.


Hill takes them to a secret facility with Laura and Nat on stretchers with Laura still passed out. "GSW. She's lost at least a pint! Laura even more" Hill yelled as they were rushed into surgery. "Yeah maybe two" Sam added looking at Laura as she is taken away behind the curtain. "Let me take her" a doctor motioned towards Nat. "She'll want to see him first" Hill said as they walked into a room. "About damn time" Fury spoke up lying in a bed. Later that day as Nat's wound is being treated and Laura is sleeping in the other room with Steve by her bedside after her emergency surgery "Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, one hell of a headache" Fury told them. "Don't forget your collapsed lung" the doctor added. "Oh, let's not forget that. Otherwise, I'm good" Fury said sarcastically. "They cut you open, your heart stopped" Nat stated in disbelief. "Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great for him, but we found a use for it" Fury explained. "Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us" Nat asked? "Any attempt on the director's life had to look successful" Hill explained. "Can't kill you if you're already dead. Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust. Speaking of trust how is Watson" Fury asked her seriously? "She should be fine. Slugs missed her organs and spinal cord. The exit wounds were clean. The main issue was she lost a lot of blood and I mean a lot of blood, but she should be fine. Basically, she got lucky. She's sleeping now" Nat told them as Fury and Hill nodded looking relieved. "She'll want this back" Hill said grabbing the handle as they looked at it.

A few hours later Laura woke up seeing life support machines beeping next to her and a makeshift hospital room as she groaned getting up removing the blanket in pain and putting on her glasses as Steve looked at her from the chair next to the bed. "How are you feeling" he asked looking relieved.

"Like I got shot twice in the back" Laura joked while smiling faintly as Steve chuckled.

"Where's my spear" Laura asked looking around with worry.

"Safe. It's safe. Hill grabbed it somehow" Steve reassured her.

"I'll have to thank her later" Laura said looking relieved.

"You said before you passed out to take you Wakanda why they couldn't help you there" Steve asked confused as Laura tried to come up with a lie quick.

"I don't know… I lost a lot of blood, was delirious who knows" Laura answered while shrugging her shoulders as she moved her legs around the bed while groaning and ripped the fluid tubes out of her wrist.

"Hey hey hey" Steve said getting up concerned.

"We need to go and stop the helicarriers I'm fine" Laura lied ignoring the pain in her shoulder and back getting up.

"And this is why I use a suit which by the way I will be getting soon and reveal the surprise" Laura added smiling as Steve smiled back as they walked out. Nat saw her and Steve walking towards them with Steve helping her as her, Sam and Hill walked over looking relieved.

"How are you" Nat asked still concerned?

"I should be asking you that" Laura countered while looking at her shoulder.

"I'm fine and I wasn't the one shot twice in the back" Nat said smiling faintly as Laura chuckled.

"It's not a competition and I guess I'm part of the club now" Laura joked back.

"Yeah its some club" Fury spoke up sarcastically behind them as Laura went wide eyed hearing his voice. "Nick…? But how…" Laura asked in shock while pointing at him and looking at the others confused.

"You missed a lot when you were sleeping" Nat told her as Laura smiled.

"We have things to discuss" Fury told them seriously getting their attention.

"By the way you'll be needing this" Hill said giving Laura her spear.

"Thank you" she said smiling back as Hill nodded.