So, this one is a little long, but I'm hoping you can keep up with the third section - I'm not sure if it's a little jumping or if it makes sense. Let me know and I can change it if it needs to be changed.

Sorry for any mistakes spotted - there's always one.

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"Are you going to tell me what's up with your eyes?" Nat asked as we sat at the table. I was going over the data, trying to help Frankie build some walls. "They're flashing a whitey-blue around the edges."

"I've got contacts implanted, it's like dad's system in his suits. I can see everything decoded and analyzed in front of me. It's a bit like my phone when I showed you the holograms this morning," I told her, typing away on my laptop. Maria had managed to grab one of my go-packs before she came here.

It had a laptop, tablet, and phone with Frankie installed with all my apps. It was easier for me to code as it had all my algorithms implanted which helped with the hacking and coding.

"Did you do that?" she asked, causing Sam to lean on the table to peer at my eyes.

"Yeah, it helps me when I'm hacking and coding," I muttered, glancing up at them both. Sam was looking at me with a weirded out look on his face.

"I suppose that makes you dangerous, it would explain why you were on the list," Nat said.

"But it doesn't explain why Pierce took me off it," I grumbled, trying to break down a wall so I can find out what Hydra had on me.

"I think I know why," Nick announced, taking our attention. I frowned at him, not understanding why he would know. "Your mother is Pierce's daughter. You're his granddaughter."

"What? That's not possible," I muttered, stopping my hacking as I looked at Fury in disbelief.

"He's always had a soft spot for you and I wanted to know why. Even before you joined Shield he seemed to know a lot about you," Nick said.

"Well, a lot of people know a lot about me. My dad's Tony Stark, I'm not exactly a hidden fact." This couldn't be true. Why would dad hide this from me? "Dad would have told me."

"Not if he didn't know."

"So my mom lied to him?"

"She went by her mother's maiden name, Winters, I believe? I doubt Tony knew who she was or that it was planned for her to fall pregnant with you," Nick said, causing me to choke in disbelief.

"What?" Nick slid a tablet to me and I took it with shaking hands.

Project Recruit T. Stark

Roseanna Pierce will undergo her mission of recruiting Tony Stark to Hydra. She's decided to undergo this task by trapping him in a relationship by getting pregnant with his child.

She has one year to accomplish this mission or Hydra will send in the Asset.

Alexander Pierce has agreed to the terms and encourages his daughter to complete her mission.

Doctors will be helping by implanting Roseanne with TS98OV – a supplement that allows the test subject to be ovulating continuously until she falls pregnant.

Project Recruit T. Stark – Successful.

Roseanne conceived during the first months of the mission and is due April 5th, 1992.

Project Recruit T. Stark – Failed.

Roseanne died during childbirth and could not recruit Tony Stark. Tony Stark had taken custody of the child and had no contact with Hydra.

Mission failed.

Possibly send in the Asset to retrieve the child at Pierce's orders.

There was more but I couldn't read on.

"This can't be real," I whispered, dropping the files and letting Nat pick them up. There was no point keeping it from her, she already heard what Nick said. "Why would she do that?"

"It was her mission and she believed it was meant to be done," Nick answered, shrugging as if he couldn't think of anything else.

"That means I'm a product of Hydra," I stated, feeling sick at the thought. It felt like my whole life was a lie.

"You're not," Nick argued, a stern look on his face. "You're a good person, a good agent. You don't belong to Hydra."

"But she didn't even love me. I was just a mission to her." I think that's what hurt the most. That I came to be because of a mission set by Hydra. I wasn't even wanted, I was just a pawn in Hydra's games.

"What's this mean?" Nat asked, pointing to something on the tablet.

SS Implant – Giving during stage one and two of the pregnancy.

Taking the tablet from her, I clicked on the section underlined and frowned as new data appeared in front of us.

Super Soldier Serum – Roseanne's fetus was implanted with our remodeled version of the Super Soldier Serum during stage one and two of the pregnancy. It already seems to be affecting the fetus, as rapid growth has begun in the last stages of pregnancy.

It's believed the baby will arrive a couple of weeks early. It will be interesting to see what else develops from the serum. We believe the baby will be immune to illnesses and will have rapid healing abilities. We do believe the rapid growth will stop after the child is born.

More test results to be concluded.

"They gave me the Super Soldier Serum," I muttered, looking at the data that Frankie supplied next to the data on the tablet. "I believe it's the same serum they gave Barnes but not as effective. It says here that I'll be immune to illnesses and have rapid healing abilities."

"And have you ever been ill?" Nick inquired. I know he was doing it to help me understand everything, but I felt like he was seeing something potential from this. Was he seeing me as a weapon?

"Not that I can recall," I muttered, glancing up from the tablet and over to Steve who had been listening quietly. "Do you reckon if I trained I'd be a bit like you?" I asked him, wanting to get the honest truth from someone.

"It worked for Bucky." Steve was right. If this was the same serum used on Bucky, then why should it be different for me? The only difference between us was that I wasn't trained to be an assassin and Bucky was. Bucky had training and I didn't.

"I don't think I want that," I said, rising from the table and walking away. I needed a few minutes by myself, so I can wrap my head around everything.

"I don't think it's going to make much of a difference," Steve said joining me outside as we watched the sunrise.

Nat and Sam hadn't given me much space throughout the night. It seemed they were worried about me which was sweet, but I wasn't going to do anything stupid. I was bothered about what Hydra had done, they'd manipulated my mother and because of that, she conceived me. While I wanted to blame them, I felt like I couldn't.

While Tony didn't know the means of my conception the way I did, he had never treated me badly. He was a caring father, giving me the love I needed and considering he was my only parent, I never went without love, even with the lifestyle he had.

Pepper had been a massive part of my life, always there for me when Tony wasn't, and I suppose in some way she was a mother to me, but no one could fault Tony for being a bad parent. He'd always been, and amazing father and I don't think that would ever stop.

"What?" I asked Steve, not understanding what he was talking about. I had assumed he was talking about the way Tony would react but from the look on his face, I was guessing that wasn't what he was talking about.

"The serum they used on you, I don't think it's going to make much of a difference to you." At my confused look, Steve gave me a smile and rested his hand on my shoulder. "You've loved almost twenty-two years without it turning your life upside down. Apart from never being ill, I don't see any side effects from the serum."

"I've been thinking about it all night, but I can't ever remember being sick as a child. I do remember breaking my wrist once and the most peculiar thing happened." Steve was waiting for me to go on and I knew how weird it was going to sound because I had never questioned it. "I was about sixteen and had fallen during gymnastics and I broke my wrist. It was painful, and the doctors obviously put a cast on, but I remember it only aching for a week before it felt like normal. When the cast came off and I had my check-up x-ray, there was no sign of a break. The doctors just thought I healed remarkably well, but now I understand that my bones probably healed over due to the serum," I said, leaning against the railing as I looked at the rising sun instead of Steve.

"It was the same for me after I had the serum," Steve said, leaning on the railing next to me as he looked at the rising sun too. "I was a small thing before all this, I suffered from asthma and was sick all the time, but after the serum everything was gone. No more asthma, no more illnesses and I had shot up. People who overlooked me before couldn't keep their eyes off me. It's like I turned into someone else, but I was still me."

"You're trying to tell me that this serum doesn't change who I am, aren't you?" I muttered, laughing at the sheepish look on his face.

"You were amazing before you found out you have the serum in you. You've done amazing things, you made them," Steve said gesturing to my eyes and the contact I'd implanted. "I have no idea how you managed to do it, but you're almost like a walking robot."

"Hey," I snapped, hitting him on the arm. "If anyone's a robot, it's got to be Barnes. He's got the fricking metal arm, I've got some cool scientific contacts." Steve's smile seemed to dim at my mention of Bucky. "Well get him back, Steve. I know you find it hard to believe at the moment, but I swear to you, I'll do anything in my power to help bring him back to you."

"You know, after getting to know Tony and after getting to know you, I keep finding it hard to believe that you're his daughter," he muttered, glancing over to the door as it swung open revealing Sam.

"I think I got all my good traits from Pepper," I joked, resting my hand on his arm and I reached up and placed a kiss on his cheek. "I promise you I'll get Bucky back for you, Steve." Pulling away, I gave him a soft smile before walking towards Sam and leaving the two alone.

It must be about time for us to leave. Frankie had done everything she could to slow down the launch of Project Insight, and it had given us a couple of hours, but if we really wanted to stop it, we'd have to infiltrate Hydra and doing it manually.

"Hey," Nat called coming over and resting her hands on my shoulders. "I was wondering where you got off to. We're getting ready to head out. You coming with or you gonna stay and do your magic from here?"

"It's not magic, Nat, it's just hacking, and you can do it too," I grumbled going her and Maria at a table where Nat was getting into some loose clothes. She wouldn't be wearing them for long anyway.

"I'm nowhere near as good as you, you're like freaky good at it. Plus you've got Frankie to help you," Nat argued as she picked up a gun and started checking it over.

"I've actually got an idea, but I'm not sure you're going to like it."

I spun on my chair, swiveling around as I looked at the screens laid out in front of me. Against Nat's wishes, I'd convinced Maria to hand over all the laptops they had in the cave and give them to me.

I'd convinced them to let me bunker down in an SUV, laying the seats down in the middle and used it as a sort of desk for all the laptops. My own personal laptop was on the dashboard in front of the passenger's seat, and I was using that as my main base of control, but Frankie was in charge of the six laptops on the back seats.

"Alright, Frankie, we've got to slow them bastards down enough that it helps Maria out," I muttered, turning back round to pull my laptop onto my lap.

"Of course, Ma'am, it'll be my pleasure."

"Did you have to swear?" Steve asked over the commlink, causing me to laugh.

"Chill a bit, Stevie, it's not the 40s anymore, plus we've got more important things going on than you monitoring my language," I said to him, glancing at the laptops behind me. Frankie was making sure that there was a camera always on the others. I could see Steve on one screen, Sam on another, and Nat in her disguise on the third. Maria also had a screen, so I could watch what she was doing, and my tablet was next to her laptop showing me the screen she was hacking into. "It was a nice speech by the way," I added, having just heard his speech about Hydra and Shield. If I ever get married, I want you to be my best man."

"Hey," Sam said, and I glanced at the screen showing him to see him looking annoyed. "Haven't I known you longer than him? Shouldn't I get to be the best man?"

"I thought it was the groom that chose the best man," Maria input a smirk on her face. "Where are you at Sam? Have you planted your blade?"

"Umm, I'm kinda busy, give me a few minutes," he argued, and I could hear how out of breath he sounded. A quick glance at his screen showed me he was fighting against a butt load of missiles.

"Steve? Are you anywhere near with the third blade?" Maria asked him, but all we could hear in his end was fighting.

"I think Stevie's a little busy right now," I said to her, turning back to my laptop and hacking into the mainframe. "Nat, I know you can't reply to me, but I'm starting the upload process, all you need to do is get the Alpha codes to gain access. Once you've got the codes everything shall upload immediately."

"I'm in," Sam said, his voice cutting me off. He sounded boastful and I knew it had something to do with him beating all the missiles aimed at him. "Bravo lock."

"Two down, one to go," Maria stated, and I glanced at the countdown, knowing we had less than twenty minutes to get the last blade in before they launched Insight.

"There's a disturbance on base, Ma'am," Frankie said, and a hologram of planes blowing up appeared from my phone. "I believe that The Winter Soldier has arrived."

"Thanks, Frankie." Glancing once again at the hologram, I bit my lip and shook my head. This was going to complicate things. "Did you hear that, guys? We've got company."

"Six minutes," Maria said, causing my heart to sink. There was nothing more I could do for them. Everything was down to the timing of the last blade. Closing my laptop, I slide it into my pack before looking back at the screens.

"Hey Sam, I think I'm gonna need a ride!" Steve yelled causing me to glance at his screen to see him jump off one of the helicarriers. He was crazy.

"There's not much I can do from here, but I can be your eyes," I muttered, squeezing through the gap between the two front seats and swiping my fingers over my tablet. All of the screens became holographic allowing me to see them all together. "I'll try to be of some help."

"Effie, I think it's time you got out of here," Steve said once he was safely on the last helicarrier.

"What? No, I'm not leaving you, Stevie," I said, feeling ridiculous for getting upset over it. I knew why he was doing it. He didn't want to have to tell Tony I had been hurt or killed because of him.

"You know, you're a lot heavier than you look," Sam said to him, and I watched as his wings closed up into his suit. I had to wonder where Frankie was getting the camera feed from but just assumed she'd hacked into the helicarriers feed.

"I had a big breakfast," Steve said just as I saw movement from in front of them. Before I could warn him, Bucky jumped out pushing him off the helicarrier.

"Steve!" Sam shouted the same time I did, and I watched as he went to go after him, but Bucky grabbed him from one of the wings stopping him from going after Steve.

I watched as Sam fought Bucky, but I leaned over to one of the laptops, dragging it to me and typing quickly. I need to get a good look at the area, see where Steve got to.

"Cap! Cap, come in, are you okay?" Sam asked just as I managed to locate Steve climbing up onto the helicarrier.

"Yeah, I'm here. I'm still on the helicarrier. Where are you?" Steve asked, and I knew he was on his own. Sam had lost his wings, there was no way he'd be getting to Steve.

"I'm grounded. The suit's down. Sorry, Cap."

"Don't worry. I got this," Steve assured him, and my heart went out for the super soldier. This was Bucky his was fighting. This was his best friend.

"You okay, Sammie?" I asked, zooming in on his screen so I could check him over.

"Yeah I'm good, Short Stack," he replied, leaning over and rubbing his arms.

"Falcon," Maria called to Sam.

"Yeah," he sighed, sounding confident again. I totally did not understand him, but I was guessing he was used to situations like this considering he was a soldier.

"Rumlow's headed for the council."

"I'm on it."

"Be careful, Sammie," I begged him, watching as he made his way into the building.

"Don't you worry about me."

"I'll try Bird Boy, but it's not going to work." I took in a deep breath and flicked my eyes between Sam and Steve. Steve was fighting Bucky and it looked like it hurt. I wouldn't like to go up against either of them.

"Ma'am Agent Romanoff has uploaded all files to the internet," Frankie said, showing me the complete process of the Shield and Hydra's files.

"Umm, spread them through the web, send them to the emails, I don't know, make it global," I muttered to her keeping my eyes on Steve and he thought Bucky.

"One minute," Maria told Steve. This was too intense. He was so close, he had started climbing to reach the platform when Bucky started shooting him. "Thirty seconds, Cap."

"Stand by. Charlie—" he was cut off by the sound of a bullet and I froze in my seat. My eyes flicked from Steve to a new hologram of Project Insight starting up. It looked like it was locating all and any targets, highlighting them in red dots. "Charlie lock," Steve said sounding as breathless as I felt.

Jesus Christ. We did it. Had we done it?

"Okay, Cap, get out of there," Maria said, and she started typing quickly on the computer. As I glanced at Steve I knew what was about to happen. I could see the resignation on his face.

"Fire now," he said, giving the answer I was dreading.

"But Steve—" Maria started the same dread in her tone, but Steve cut her off.

"Do it! Do it now!"

"Stevie," I whispered, not wanting this to happen. "Why'd you have to be the hero?" I asked, wiping my tears as I watched him glance down at Bucky as the ships destroyed each other.

"Ma'am, it seems Agent Romanoff has been electrocuted," Frankie said.

"What?" I drew my eyes away from Steve to look at Nat and Fury.

Nat was on the floor and Fury was crouched over her, a look of concern on his face. I could see Pierce on the floor, a couple of bullet wounds to the chest, but I didn't care. He deserved it. I felt relief wash over me when Nat woke up, muttering something.

Glancing back over to Steve I watched as he made his way to a trapped Bucky. The helicarrier they were on was about to crash into the building Sam was in. Oh God, was it going to crush him?

"Incoming, Sammie," I warned him, hoping he'd be able to get out safely. Frankie pulled up a helicopter making its way to the building and she zoomed in showing me, Nat and Fury. I guess they were on the rescue team for Sam.

My eyes widened as Sam jumped through the window and landed in the helicopter. I ran my hand over my face and pinched my nose. These people were trying to kill me.

"Hill! Where's Steve? You got a location on Rogers?" Nat asked, and I watched in distress as they zoomed past him, without knowing where he was.

"Steve?" I tried, but he either couldn't hear me or was ignoring me. I couldn't hear him either, so I was assuming his comm had fallen out or was broken. Glancing up, I saw that the footage of him had disappeared as well. I couldn't see him. I didn't even know if he was alive. "Steve?"

An image of the helicarrier appeared, pushing away all of the other images and I cried out as I watched Steve fall from the carrier and into the water below. Scrambling back into the front, I slide into the driver's seat and started up the car.

I could reach Steve. I wasn't that far from the water. I could get to him and hopefully save him before it was too late. Turning the engine off, I swung the door open, realizing how close I actually was to the water. It would be easier for me to run there.

Looking up at the falling helicarrier, I pushed past people as they scrambled to get out of the way and ignored the looks I was receiving as I ran towards the destruction. I could see the barrier keeping people from going down to the water and quickly climbed over it, stumbling as I tripped on the mud.

I came to a stop a few feet away from the barrier shocked to see Bucky pulling Steve out of the water. Bucky glanced down at Steve and I made to step forward, worried he'd hurt him.

Bucky's head shot up to me and I froze as his sharp eyes took me in and he started making his way towards me. I wanted to move, I really did, but there was something about a murderous assassin making his way towards me that kept me frozen on the spot.

He stopped in front of me, his large frame making me feel like a child as I barely reached his shoulders. Had I felt this small standing next to Steve? His eyes roamed over my face before his metal arm reached out and grabbed hold of my wrist, tugging me towards him.

My heart was thumping in my chest, but I wasn't as scared as I probably should have been. His touch seemed gentle. Cold, but gentle. I felt like he could do a lot of damage with his metal hand, but he had gently tugged me towards him. Surely, if he meant to harm me he would have done so?

"I know you."

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