"Buck. Are you watching this?" Winnie asks looking away from the television
"I am." Bucky says shortly.
"You okay?" Winnie asks as the interview with Good Morning America begins.
"No." Bucky answers flatly.
"I found out where the Flag smashers are." Winnie changes the subject.
"Good" Bucky answers, his eyes not looking away from his television screen.
"So did Sam." Winnie adds.
"I'm not calling him." Bucky thinks about throwing something,anything at the tv but stops himself.
"You don't have to. I leave Fri-tomorrow to check it out." Winnie informs him.
"You can't go alone." Bucky shakes his head even if she can't see him through the phone.
"I'm not alone." Winnie packs her bag.
"If you're right and these are super soldiers, you and Sam won't be enough to take them." Bucky insists.
"Then grab your oil can and let's go." Winnie laughs.
"We need a plan,"Bucky says.
"What we do have is a plane, a former avenger, a man with a vibranium arm, that's you, and a stunning tech whiz, that's me." Winnie says.
"That will have to be enough, I guess." Bucky sighs.
" Meet me at the bus station, four in the morning tomorrow."Winnie hangs up.
Winnie and Bucky stand at the lower part of the military complex.
"Your guy better be here." Bucky says.
"He is."Winnie points up towards Joaquin and Sam.
Bucky sighs.
"Shouldn't have given up the shield." Bucky walks over.
Winnie follows and holds him by the shoulder. "Easy Buck."
"Good to see you too, Buck." Sam scoffs.
"This is wrong." Bucky starts.
"Hey hey, look, I'm working, all right. So all this is gonna have to wait." Sam stops him.
"You didn't know that was gonna happen." Bucky asks.
"It was pretty obvious." Winnie interjects.
"Who are you?"- Sam looks at Winnie.
"I'm Winnie, Ex- shield and a hacker friend of Buck's." Winnie answers.
"Anyway, no of course I didn't know that was gonna happen." Sam adds. " You think it didn't break my heart to see them march him out there, and call him the new Captain America."
"Steve didn't want this." Bucky says bluntly.
"Oh my god. What do you want me to do? Call America and tell them I changed my mind. Huh."Sam replies.
"You had no right to give up the shield." Bucky says sternly.
"Buck." Winnie warns.
"Hey, this is what you're not gonna do. You're not gonna come here in your overextended life and tell me about my rights. It's over, Bucky. Besides I have bigger things to deal with now." - Sam walks away with Bucky and Winnie following.
"The Flagsmashers, we know."- Winnie explains.
"How do you know?" Sam asks.
"I hacked Joaquin's phone and your drone, Green Sparrow." Winnie says.
"Red Wing." Sam corrects.
"Green, red it's the same to me." Winnie shrugs.
"I don't trust red wing." - Bucky adds.
"You don't have to trust Redwing, But I'm gonna go see if he's right. Cause I have a feeling they might be part of the Big Three." Sam puts on his goggles.
"Big three?"Bucky asks.
"Androids, Aliens, and Wizards." -Sam replies.
"That's not a thing." Bucky says definitively.
"That's definitely a thing." Sam argues.
"No." Bucky argues back.
"Everytime we fight, it's one of the three." Sam readies his wings.
"Who are you fighting now, Gandalf?" Bucky scoffs.
"How do you know about Gandalf?"- Sam questions confused.
"I read the Hobbit in 1937 when it first came out." Bucky says.
"Old man flex but okay." Winnie adds.
"So you see my point."
"No I don't. There are no wizards."
"Doctor Strange."
"Is a sorcerer."
"A sorcerer is a wizard without a hat."
"You know I thought he was missing something." Winnie interjects.
"But these guys aren't magical, they use brute force just like you, the incredibly annoying guy with the staring problem."
"I'm coming with you." Bucky insists walking towards the plane.
"Me too."- Winnie follows
"No you're not." Sam follows the two of them to the plane.
Winnie taps her rocket boots making sure they are ready for the big jump.
"So you made those?" Joaquin asks.
"Yeah, a couple of other things too. These coveralls, completely bulletproof, the kevlar long sleeve under shirt also helps. Steel whip, taser bombs, black out bombs, dagger boomerangs." Winnie tries not to brag.
"And Shield never used any of it." Joaquin asks, confused.
"Yeah, that's how the cookie crumbled." Winnie trails off
Bucky is glaring at Joaquin. He has no reason to dislike the guy, just he's too friendly with Winnie.
"One minute to drop off, Sam." Joaquin reminds.
Sam and Bucky are now staring at each other.
Winnie sitting beside Bucky.
"So what's our plan?" Bucky asks.
Sam ignores him.
"Great no plan." Bucky says to himself.
"Yeah we're winging it." - Winnie nudges Sam to receive no reaction.
" Thirty seconds." Joaquin warns.
"Enjoy your ride, Buck." Sam says.
"No, you can't call me that."
"Why not? That's what Steve called you." Sam reasons.
"Steve knew me longer and Steve had a plan." - Bucky adds.
"Fifteen seconds to drop." Joaquin comes back again.
"I have a plan."- Sam readies himself to jump.
"Really. What is it?" Bucky asks.
Sam jumps out of the plane.
"Nice plan." Winnie adds getting herself together to jump.
"Great, where's the chute?"- Bucky asks Joaquin.
"We're at 200 feet. It's too low for a chute." - Joaquin answers looking out of the plane.
"I don't need it anyway." Bucky shrugs and jumps.
"Bye Joaquin." Winnie yells before jumping out with her rocket boots.
Winnie glides through the air gracefully landing on her feet beside Bucky who fell and screamed.
Redwing hums beside Bucky.
"You alright, Buck." Winnie taps her boots back to normal.
"Yeah." Bucky lays on the ground.
"I have all that on camera, you know that right." Sam's voice comes from Redwing.
"Get out of my face, Sam, or I'll break it." Bucky growls.
"So Sam, about Red Wing…" Winnie starts.
"No." Sam cuts her off.
"You don't even know what I was going to ask." Winnie
"Bucky keep Gadget over there away from Red Wing." Sam says.
"Fine." Winnie huffs.
"Head north you two, come on." Sam is outside the warehouse.
Bucky and Winnie run up to the warehouse.
Red Wing flies above Bucky
"Oh-ho-ho. Don't hurt him."Sam laughs at Bucky swatting at the drone.
"I think he's cool." Winnie shrugs.
"You're doing the staring thing 're in there"- Sam reminds Bucky.
"Where's the guy?" - Bucky peaks over.
"I don't know." Sam watches.
"There has to be more of them."Winnie gets a look for herself.
"I think they're smuggling weapons though." Sam gestures towards the crates.
"But if they are super soldiers, then why do they need to smuggle weapons. They're the weapon." Winnie interjects.
"I think Sam could be right. Only one way to find out." Bucky adds.
"Hold up." Winnie grabs him.
"I see a clear path. I say we take it." Bucky tells the two.
"We're not assassins." Sam stops Bucky.
"I'll see you inside or not." Bucky pushes him off.
"Hey come on man, I'm just messing with you. Come back." Sam whispers.
Winnie follows Bucky stealthily.
"Look at him all stealthy." Sam laughs. " A little time in Wakanda and you come out White Panther."
"It's actually White Wolf." Bucky corrects.
"Huh?"
"Not to interrupt the banter, but we have something kind of important over there." Winnie interrupts.
"We're inside. Therefore, way ahead of you. Not great but doable." Bucky says to Sam.
Sam stealthily and quickly is beside the two.
"Alright, let's go."
"No, wait." Sam grabs him
"I got a vibranium arm. I can take them."
"And I can fly. Who gives a shit? Wait." Sam watches the guys.
"Sam's right, like I said earlier there has to be more." Winnie adds.
"I want to see where they're going."Sam and Winnie watch the guys grab crates and load them into a truck.
"There's two people." Bucky says.
"You only see two."
"That's what I saw." Bucky replies.
"Let's see what Red Wing sees." Sam taps on his arm controller.
"All right."Bucky sighs.
"You two bicker like an old married couple." Winnie scoffs.
"How many people do you see now? One two...Oh here it comes again." Sam shows the two of them.
"Four five" Bucky counts.
"Yeah five yeah." Sam says.
"So they're strong. Whatever." Bucky scoffs.
"Too strong…" Winnie adds " I was right."
"All right let's go." Bucky
"Wait." Sam
A small oil can clatters when it hits the ground.
"Shit." The three hide behind the shelves.
"There's an eighth person. I think they have a hostage." Sam sees through Redwing.
Bucky runs, Sam flies with his wings. Winnie taps her boots and goes to rocket boots. She's in the air with Sam. The wind flies through her hair. She instantly feels like her old self again, the Shield badass inventor and agent.
Bucky is in the truck with the hostage. He opens the truck and climbs in.
"Hi" - Bucky says to a small looking girl.
"Bucky, talk to me. What's going on?" Sam asks.
"You okay." Winnie's voice through Red Wing.
"Found the hostage."- Bucky says to Sam then turns towards the girl" You okay?"
Girl smiles and kicks Bucky out of the truck, against the next truck.
"Shit" Bucky groans.
The girl puts on the mask. Bucky is grabbed by the masked people and taken to the top of the truck. Red Wing shows up to fight and is grabbed by the girl and broken.
"I've always wanted to do that,"Bucky says while being captured.
Sam lands on the truck and kicks the girl.
"Glad of you to join the fight Sam." Bucky is being held by two guys.
Winnie drops onto the truck and grabs a guy by the arm with her whip, she's nearly thrown off the truck with her own whip until she flies around with it and kicks the guy From above two new people join the fight and the shield is involved. A helicopter delivers another guy kicking people off the truck.
"Sam. John Walker, Captain America" The new man introduces himself.
"Lemar Hoskins." The man beside him introduces.
"Looks like you guys could use some help." John adds.
"A little less talking, more punching." Winnie yells as she's thrown off the truck.
She grabs the other truck with the side of her whip and throws herself into the grass.
Bucky is hanging upside down onto the bottom half of the truck.
"That little girl kicked your ass." Sam reminds.
"Ahh!" Bucky yells as he tries to slow down the trucks with his arm.
Sam weaves through the wheels of the truck and tackles Bucky onto the grass, both of them rolling into a field of wildflowers.
Winnie is there wearing a flower crown cleaning herself off with a medicated wipe.
"Could have used that shield." Bucky adds.
"Get off of me." Sam pushes Bucky off of him.
"Oh uh Sam…" Winnie starts.
"I don't want to hear it." Sam interrupts.
"Okay." Winnie grabs her book bag and reattaches it to her coveralls.
"Those were all Super Soldiers, Sam."
"I know." Sam nods. "You're welcome by the way."
"I think we did pretty good." Winnie says " All things considered. No one died."
The three of them walk along the small stretch of backwoods.
"Sorry about Red Wing." Bucky breaks the silence.
"No you're not." Sam deflects.
"About Red Wing I.." Winnie trails off.
"I know you wanted to mess with answer is still no." Sam
"I grabbed what was left of him. No man left behind." Winnie taps her backpack.
"Thanks." Sam says to Winnie,then turns to Bucky "What's going on in that big cyborg brain of yours?"
"It's computing." Bucky replies sarcastically.
"I can actually see it. I can see the gears they're malfunctioning, shutting down, Yep, they're on fire." Sam goes along with it.
"We gotta figure out where the serum is coming from." Bucky says finally.
"And how in the hell after 80 years are there eight Super Soldiers runnin' loose?Sam adds.
"They are not very selective in who they give the serum to." Winnie adds " I mean the red head looks like a kid."
The car pulls up and honks beside them.
"So that didn't go as planned, huh?" John Walker smiles at them.
The trio ignore him.
"Look at least we know what we're up against." John Walker says " And we're pretty sure it's one of the big three."
"Aliens, Androids, or wizards."
"Pretty sure."
"There's no such thing as wizards." Bucky says firmly.
"Then it's aliens, or androids." John Walker
"Or Super Soldiers." Sam adds.
"Shit. Super Soldiers,for real." Lemar asks.
"Yeah." The trio nod.
"Then we gotta work together."
"That's not happening." Bucky shakes his head.
"I think we stand a much better chance if we all just.." John insists.
"Just cause you carry that shield, it doesn't mean you're Captain America." Bucky blurts out.
"Look I've done the work." Walker insists.
"No you haven't." Winnie argues.
"Who are you?" Walker looks at Winnie up and down.
"Winnie, ex-shield operative. I keep a low profile but you haven't. Being paraded on television, kissing senator's hands and shaking babies," Winnie mocks.
"You ever jump on top of a grenade?" Bucky asks.
"Yeah actually I have. Four times. It's this thing I do with my it's twenty miles to the airport, do you guys want a ride. Guys, Gary stop, get in." John Walker says.
The trio looks at each other and gets in the car.
"Okay so eight super soldiers on a bulk supply run." John starts trying to theorize.
"They say they're trying to get things like they were during the Blip. Maybe they're trying to help." Sam answers.
"Funny way of showing it." Bucky adds.
"That serum doesn't have the best track record. No offense. "John says.
"Buck's problem wasn't the serum." Winnie interjects.
"Winnie, he didn't mean."Bucky puts a hand on her shoulder.
"You got a good woman by your side." John nods.
"We're not." Winnie adds.
"Oh." John trails off.
"We need to figure out where they're going, How did you track them here?" Sam asks Lemar.
"We didn't track them. We tracked you, uh through Red Wing." Lemar answers.
"You hacked my tech?" Sam adds.
"It's not exactly hacking. It's government property. Kind of the government." John.
"More like you're government property." Winnie rolls her eyes.
"I'm not. Anyway does he always stare like that?" John asks about Bucky's staring.
"You get used to it." Sam shrugs.
"You know things have gotten kind of uh" John trails off.
"Chaotic." Lemar finishes.
"Yeah the GRC is doing the best they can to get things up and running smoothly, post Blip." John Walker explains.
"Reactivating citizenship, social security, health care. Managing resources for refugees who were displaced by the return." Lemar adds.
"The Global Repatriation Council does that. I get that. So why exactly are you two here." Sam
"Intimidation, Occupation, Why send a whole army when you can get by with two." Winnie answers darkly.
"No, They provide the resources, we keep things stable." Lemar answers.
"Violent revolutionaries aren't good for anyone's cause." John adds.
"Usually said by people with all the resources."Sam argues.
"We got a lot of resources. If you guys joined up with us, we could.." John insists on a team up.
"No." Bucky adds bluntly.
"I got mad respect for y'all but you were getting your asses kicked till we showed up." Lemar adds.
"You know they fought a genocidal alien right?" Winnie asks. "He was purple, snapped everyone away."
"Who are you?" Bucky asks, shifting his gaze to Lamar.
"Lemar Hoskins." Lamar says.
"Look I see a guy hanging out of a helicopter in tactical gear, I need a lot more than Lemar Hoskin." Sam scoffs.
"I'm Battlestar, John's partner." Lemar adds.
"Battlestar, Stop the Car!" Bucky calls out.
"Look I get it." John starts.
Bucky gets out of the car shaking his head.
"And I'm not trying to be Steve.I'm not trying to replace Steve.I'm just trying to be the best Captain America I can be." John adds to Sam and Winnie.
"One thing, don't call him Bucky, you haven't earned it. For you it's James. Two, the three of us know what we're doing. There's a lot out there John, that you've never seen." Winnie says harshly.
"I think I know what I'm doing. And It'd be a whole lot easier if I had Cap's wingmen on my side." John adds.
Sam scoffs leaving the car," It's always that last line."
"This is my que." Winnie announces and starts to climb off.
"You know, Winnie, I could get you a nice desk job, with the CIA if you walk away from them." John informs.
"John, I don't know if you've noticed but I don't trust the government." Winnie laughs.
"Why not?" John leans on the shield.
"A lot of reasons, but right now you're one of them." Winnie deflects.
"I'm a good old boy from Georgia." John explains.
"And I'm from Brooklyn, but you know what, you're right. I should be a little more welcoming." Winnie has an idea about how she's going to get that blood sample.
"You could start with a smile." John suggests.
"Give you a nice warm Brooklyn welcome." Winnie leans on the car as she grins at him.
"That's better." John smiles back at her.
Winnie slugs John straight to the nose.
Lemar pulls John away from the edge of the car. "Go Gary Go!"
Winnie turns back to see Sam smirking with his arm crossed and Bucky is staring at her.
She puts the ring in a small plastic bag.
"You throw a good punch, Gadget." Sam
"Thanks." Winnie adds " We should get to walking."
"Bucky, are you coming?" Sam asks.
"Yeah." Bucky walks on the right side of Winnie with Sam on her left.
"I'd do it again." Winnie puts her fists up.
"Easy, Graziano." Bucky pats her shoulder.
"I can do this all day." Winnie starts shadow boxing as they're walking.
Sam's laughing at her bob and weaving.
Bucky stares at Winnie and thinks, Man Steve would've liked her a lot. He'd probably help her punch John even though she didn't need any help. He wouldn't understand the constant technology but would love to see her sketchbook. They'd probably draw together.
The three are picked up at the airfield. Bucky sits in the middle and Sam off to the side laying down. Winnie sits on the other side of Bucky.
"You alright?" Sam asks.
Bucky nods.
" So any ideas on where to go now?" Winnie asks.
"Let's take the shield, Sam. Let's take the shield and do this ourselves." -Bucky says gruffly.
"I like that idea." Winnie adds.
"We can't just run up on the man, beat him up, and take it." Sam shakes his head.
"I mean you 's doable." Winnie nods.
"Do you remember the last time we stole it?" Sam asks.
"Maybe." - Bucky says.
"I'll help you in case you forgot. Sharon was branded an enemy of the State, and Steve and I were on the run for two years. I don't know about you but I don't want to live the rest of my life la vida loca" Sam reminds.
Winnie looks off when Sam mentions Sharon.
"We just got our asses handed to us by super soldiers and we got nothing." Sam continues.
"Not entirely true. There is someone you should meet." Bucky says.
When the plane lands in Maryland Bucky looks over towards Winnie.
"You okay?" Bucky
"Yeah." Winnie says.
"So who's this guy, you want me to meet." Sam asks.
"You'll see." Bucky
The plane lands near Baltimore, Maryland.
Two kids playing as Bucky, Sam, and Winnie pass them.
"Hey it's Black Falcon. What up?" The first kid says.
"Just Falcon, kid." Sam corrects.
"No, my daddy told me it's Black Falcon." - The first kid argues.
"Is it because I'm black and I'm the Falcon." Sam continues.
"Bucky, are you sure this is a good idea?" Winnie asks Bucky as Sam is busy with the kids.
"Yes." Bucky nods.
"It's just the shield file says…" Winnie trails off.
"You don't have to go in." Bucky reminds.
"Great, I'll call Joaquin, I have a favor to ask him." Winnie thinks back to her punching John and her ring.
"Well technically I mean yes." The first kid says to Sam.
"So are you like black kid?" Sam asks laughing.
The first kid sighs.
"I got him, right." Sam laughs.
Bucky and Sam knock on the door. Winnie is standing on the driveway near the road.
Winnie sees the two not getting in at first and starts to call Joaquin.
"Pick up.." She says softly.
"Hey, Winnie the pooh." Joaquin answers.
"Can I get a different nickname?"- Winnie asks.
"Breech, or Rocky." - Joaquin answers.
"Oh so you heard about me punching John."Winnie sighs.
"Yeah, not a lot of people are happy with that, but it's okay by me." Joaquin says simply.
"Why?"
"You were defending Bucky, or at least that's what John told everyone."
"He what?"
" He said that you were defending your boyfriend's honor, which now that I think about it makes sense, he was glaring at me all throughout the drop off."
"Buck isn't my boyfriend."
"You call him Buck."
"Yeah, if I were to date someone, I'd call them something more affectionate than Buck."
"Anyway, what did you need?"
"I don't trust John."
"Obviously."
"Those tests from MIT were off the charts. There has to be something wrong with him."
"I'd need blood to run some tests on."
"Is dried okay?"
"Yeah, so that's actually why you punched him. To collect a sample."
"That and he has a very punchable face."
"Where are you right now?"
"Uh Baltimore,why?"
"How good are you at scrambling a police car's computer."
"I've done it a couple times, why?" Winnie
"There's a warrant out for Bucky."
"What did he do?"
"It's more about what he didn't do."
"Therapy." Winnie sighs.
"Yeah, part of his pardon."
"Conditional pardons aren't even part of the Federal process, that was something made up just for Bucky."
"Yeah, it's bull shit, just stay out of trouble, Rocky."
"I'll try." Winnie hangs up.
Sam and Bucky are quickly out of the house and arguing.
"Sam" Bucky says
"Why didn't you tell me about Isaiah? How could nobody bring him up?"Sam asks, getting louder.
"I see this went well." Winnie follows the two out, closing the gate behind them.
"I asked you a question, Bucky."Sam continues.
"I know." Bucky ignores the first question.
"Steve didn't know about him." Sam asks.
"He didn't. I didn't tell him."Bucky answers.
"Most of Shield never knew, either. Coverup stories run deep." Winnie adds.
"So you're telling me that there was a black Super Soldier decades ago and nobody knew about it!" Sam says loudly.
People are starting to watch. Sirens pull up to the three.
"Hey!" An Officer yells getting out of his car.
"What's up?" Sam asks.
"Is there a problem here?- Officer asks.
"No we're just talking." -Sam answers.
"We're fine." - Bucky answers.
"Young lady, are you okay?" Officer asks Winnie.
"Yeah, I'm good. You can go back to the Wee Woo Wagon." Winnie pulls out her phone to record this.
"Can I see your ID?" Officier asks Sam
"I don't have an ID, why?"
"Do you have a reason to be asking?" Winnie asks.
"Okay sir just calm down."
"I am calm. What do you want? We're just talking."
"Just give him your ID." Bucky says.
"James, stop talking." Winnie warns.
"No I'm not giving him shit. We're just talking."
"Is he bothering you?" Officer asks Bucky again.
"Do you know who he is?" Bucky gestures towards Sam.
Second officer comes up and whispers "Hey these guys are Avengers."
"Oh god I'm so sorry . I didn't recognize you without the here" The Officer goes back to his car.
"I didn't tell anyone because he had already been through enough." Bucky says softly to Sam.
" ." The officer comes back. "There's a warrant out of your arrest."
"Shit." Winnie starts typing on her phone to mess with the computer's in the police cars.
"The president pardoned him for all that." Sam defends Bucky.
"Not for that. You missed your court-mandated 's like missing a check in with you PO. Sorry Mr. Barnes, you're under arrest." He handcuffs Bucky and walks him to the police car.
Bucky is put into the back of the police car, he can see the computer malfunctioning and can't help but to smile a little. It starts to short circuit.
"So let's go to jail." Winnie starts walking.
"Wait, did you know?" Sam follows her.
"Know about Isiah, yes but I wasn't supposed to. I wrote to him, and asked if I could help him" Winnie explains then stops.
"And." Sam
"He asked me to leave him alone. So I did." Winnie ends the story.
"Not Isiah, did you know about Sharon?" Sam asks as the two walk out of the neighborhood.
"Uh no." Winnie answers shortly.
"Were you two close?" Sam asks.
"Yeah." Winnie nods.
"Do you have her number?"
"No, I deleted it a few days ago."
"Why?"
"I don't want to talk about this." Winnie then asks "Do you have any money to bail Buck out."
"No, what about you?" Sam turns his pockets out.
"Fifty bucks and a coupon for frozen yogurt." Winnie shakes her head "Not even enough for a good bribe."
"What did you talk to Joaquin about?"
"I don't trust John."
"Same here."
"I asked Joaquin if he could test John's blood for anything irregular."
"You think he has some serum in him."
"Well not enough to make a difference, we got our asses kicked."
The conversation stops.
"For real though, what's up with you and Bucky?" Sam breaks the silence.
"Coworkers, I guess. I did intel so he could make his amends. He texts me so I guess we're friends." Winnie shrugs.
"He lets you call him Buck." Sam reminds.
"Yeah." Winnie shrugs again.
"That's pretty big."
"Is it?" Winnie asks.
"Yeah that was Steve's thing."
"What happened to Steve, he never told me." Winnie asks.
" The truth or what we tell civilians."
"The truth." Winnie clairfies.
"He went back in time, and created a different reality for himself."
"He abandoned Buck."
"I'm sure he had his reasons."
"I'm not so sure I would have liked Steve, if he can just abandon his friends."
Sam and Winnie make it to the jail and are waiting in a large room with couches and an old coffee maker.
"I've heard a lot about you Sam. I'm Dr. Raynor, Bucky's therapist." Dr. Raynor shakes Sam's hand.
Winnie looks up at the women speaking.
"You must be W, nice to meet you." She adds.
"Thank you for getting him out." Sam shakes her hand.
"That wasn't me." Dr. Raynor says.
"Christina!" John Walker calls out walking down the hallway.
"You gotta be kidding me. You know him."
"Yeah, we did some field ops back in the day."
"I heard you were working with Bucky, so I thought I'd step in. Bucky's not going to be following a strict schedule any longer."
"We haven't finished our work. Who authorized this?" - Dr. Raynor asks.
"Um." John gestures towards himself.
Winnie stays seated near Sam ignoring John, with the small bandage over his nose.
"He's too valuable an assent to have tied up. Just do whatever you got to do with him, then send him off to me. Got some unfinished business me and him, you too, Wilson. I'll be outside." John explains.
Winnie sits up when she hears that.
"James, condition of your release session now, You too, Sam." says.
"That's okay I'll be out here with…" Sam trails off.
"That wasn't a request." Dr. Raynor walks off to the room.
"Don't do anything stupid, Gadget." Sam says to Winnie before following Dr. Raynor.
"You and Buck are taking all the stupid with you." Winnie stands up and makes herself a coffee at a dingy machine inside of a cheap styrofoam cup.
She goes outside with it.
"Winnie." -John says sharply.
"John." - Winnie replies. " Here." she holds the coffee out to him as a peace offering.
"What did you do to it?" John asks looking in the cup.
"A little sugar, little cream." Winnie answers, the cup of coffee looks like a very light shade of brown.
"No poison."
"No poison, unless you hate cheap coffee."
"Thanks." John takes a sip.
"We got off on the wrong foot." Winnie starts.
"The wrong foot that ended with you punching me."
"Yeah sorry about that. Would you like a coupon for free frozen yogurt."
"No."
"Listen, I care about Buck."
"You showed me that when you broke my nose."
"Again, sorry, I just wanted to talk to you about what you said earlier." Winnie
"I'm not helping you get a CIA job."
"No not that. You called Buck an asset."
"He is one."
"I just want to make sure he keeps his autonomy, and isn't treated like a weapon."
"And he will, I promise." John adds " Regardless of what you are or aren't to Buck, he has a good woman by his side."
"You can't call him Buck, you haven't earned it."
"Getting him out of jail isn't enough."
"No."
"Listen, you're trying my patience. I'm just trying here, being the best Captain. I can be."
"Speaking condescendingly to two Avengers who've saved the world from aliens isn't helping you. You're out of your element, having Buck and Sam around, dealing with things in ways that you can't, is more helpful than you know."
"You don't know anything about me, and what I can handle."
"You're right, I don't and I don't mean to annoy you. I'm sorry."
The conversation goes silent.
"Must be heavy, huh?" Winnie gestures towards the shield.
"Not really."
"I don't believe you."
"Do you want to hold it?" John asks.
"Sure." Winnie answers.
"You're not going to try to run off with it, are you?" John asks.
"No,but could you take my picture with my phone."
"Sure."
Winnie hands John her phone. John hands Winnie the shield. From behind the shield, Winnie takes off a button from her coveralls that has a tracker inside, she attached it to the furthest part of the reinforced leather strap facing the shield so John won't see it or notice it when he's holding it. She smiles and John takes the picture. Winnie hands John the shield back and gets her phone back.
Sam and Bucky walk out of the police station, John makes the siren go off to call them over.
"Gentlemen." John calls out. Winnie stands beside John, leaning against the car. " Good to see you if we divide ourselves, we don't stand a chance, you guys know that."
"What do you got?" Sam asks.
"The leader's name is Karli 've been targeting civilians who've been helping Karli move from place to place." John answers.
"They geotag the location then scramble the signal." Lemar adds.
" But our satellites have found their symbol popping up in various displaced communities all across Central and Eastern Europe."
"We think she's taking the medicine she stole to one of those camps."
"Well there are hundreds of those all over the planet since the Blip." Bucky adds " So I guess you'll look real hard."
"Good thing I have 20/20 vision, huh."
"Where is she now, Walker? Do you know? Bucky asks.
"No we don't know Bucky." John answers "It's only a matter of time before we find out."
"Time is one thing we don't have John." Winnie adds.
"Things are really intense for you, aren't they Walker?" Bucky asks ruffling John's feathers.
"Take it easy, Walker's right. We need to find and stop them." Sam adds "But you guys have rules of engagement,and all kinds of authorizations you have to get."
"All that red tape, we just cut through it. The three of us, we're scissors." Winnie adds.
"It wouldn't make sense for us to work with you." Sam says.
"A word of advice then: Stay the hell out of my way." John warns before walking away with Lemar.
"You two, don't worry about them." Winnie says looking at her phone as the three of them walk down the street.
"He sounded vaguely threatening. Why shouldn't we worry about John." Bucky asks.
"Oh I put a tracker on the shield. See how he likes being tracked through his own equipment." Winnie answers.
"How did you.." Sam trails off.
"Oh I apologize for punching him and then tricked him into it." Winnie shows Sam the picture of her with the shield. " He's not that smart."
"You had the shield and didn't run off with it." Bucky asks.
"Well if you were there I would have tossed it to you. But you had to get yourself a warrant for not going to therapy."
"You could have scrambled the officer's computer before he arrested me." Bucky snaps.
"I didn't know you had a warrant before calling Joaquin. Also if you two weren't yelling at each other on the street no one would have called the cops." Winnie snaps back.
"Both of you stop arguing." Sam says " We need a plan."
"Well I know what we have to do." Bucky "When Isaih said my people."
"Don't take that to heart. That's not what he meant."
"No he meant Hydra."
"You think the groups might be connected, through their scientists." Winnie interjects.
"Not a chance." Sam says to Bucky.
"Walker doesn't have any leads." Bucky shrugs.
"I know where you're going with this, no." Sam insists.
"Hear him out." Winnie texts Joaquin to meet them at a small airport.
"He knows all of Hydra's secrets." Bucky "Don't you remember Siberia?"
"So you're just going to sit in a room with this guy." Sam asks doubtful.
"Yes." Bucky answers hesitantly.
"Never mind, Sam was right. This screams Danger, Will Robinson, Danger." Winnie agrees with Sam.
After a minute of thinking "Fine, Let's go see Zemo." Sam says.
" Huh, didn't take that much convincing." Winnie scoffs following along.
Once at the airfield Winnie looks around for Joaquin.
"Hey Rocky, where's the sample?" Joaquin asks.
Winnie hands him the bag with the ring.
"I'm gonna need the ring back, but there's blood and maybe some skin left on it."
"It's still pretty bad ass, you broke his nose." Joaquin
"Yeah, I'm not making it a habit, so call me Gadget." Winnie says following Sam and Bucky onto the plane to see Zemo.