Bucky waited in the shadows with Natasha and the resistance fighters as Vision, Tony and Wanda lit up the sky right after Sam and Tony took out the security sensors. Guard buildings crumpled, the sound of falling walls reverberating through the ground. A large heavy weapon split into pieces, causing the heavy metal to fly around them. Wanda's energy shot through the air, the red waves guiding the debris far away from the invading army.
The resistance fighters, dressed in dark clothes not unlike Natasha's, their faces covered with dark scarves stood in the woods behind them. Their leader spoke only to Tony and gave a cursory glance at the team giving no extra attention to Bucky. The helmet was hot and tight but that was his own fault. He should have cut his hair before this mission.
Bucky and Steve often talked about how loud noise and sudden light might be worse for them, with their enhanced senses. Everything was brighter and more chaotic around them but they learned to adjust. A team of the resistance army rushed into the remains of the building and the sound of shots carried out of the ruins. Through the chaos, the forms of Sam's wings and Tony's flew overhead, dim shadows in the night sky. A crackling sound alerted them to the disabling of the sensors. More blasts from Sam and Tony and a long red streak across the sky from Wanda was their signal to move in.
Leading their group, Bucky kicked in a door and with Natasha took on the defenders of the main facility. Punch, kick, shoot. Beside him Natasha sat on the shoulders of a guard, shocking him with her wrist weapons. He collapsed beneath her and she rolled on the floor ready to take on the next attacker. Bucky heard a noise behind him and turned to take out an oncoming defender with the Shield and without looking knocked out another one who tried to sneak up on him. The resistance fighters continued to pour in, doing their own dirty work. They did this hall by hall, down until they reached the basement level. The Shield obeyed him, ricocheting off walls and back again. The farther in, the worse the fighting got. He caught a faint image of Iron Man joining them, along with Wanda. Bits of furniture and doors flew across the room, and pieces of glass sparkled between the blasts of bullets and energy beams as the weapons fired back and forth.
Then two guards came at him at once, pushing him hard against the wall. Natasha engaged in taking down another guard and the resistance fighters were busy with a control panel, trying to open the final door. Bucky hit with such force, his metal arm banging into the wall when a hot weird shock shot down his shoulder and out his fingers, accompanied by a bright white light, going through his opponent to the door, blasting it open to the astonishment of everyone present. Natasha gave her guy another gut punch and kicked him then took on the other astonished guard. She walked over to Bucky to pull him up.
"What the hell was that...?" She asked. Sudden silence interrupted the chaos. All the resistance fighters stared at him, open-mouthed.
"Secret Weapon," he said to the fighters, at loss an explanation. The thing was a complete secret to everyone, even to him. "Go! GO!" He turned his arm, pointing his hand away from them because he had no idea what it would do next. "Shuri didn't tell me about this," he half whispered to Natasha. "Should we follow them?"
"Let's let them go first. They've got this," said. The sound of running feet and yells echoed back to them. Natasha leaned back against the wall and burst into laughter. "The look on your face when that thing blew off the door."
"What's scary is I have no idea what else this thing can do." Bucky walked a distance away from her, aiming his hand toward an empty part of the hallway, shaking his fingers hard. Nothing happened. "I can't explain it."
"Well whatever it was, I'm glad it worked right when we needed it," she said. The shouting from the lower levels got louder." We need to go below..."
"That's a shocking, amazing ability I didn't know you possessed," said a voice from behind him. Tony's voice sounded hollow inside the suit. "Couldn't you have used that earlier?"
"I didn't know I could do that," Bucky said. "Maybe we should keep it a secret for a while."
"Let's hope we don't hit any severe turbulence on the way home," Tony continued. "The last thing we need is you accidentally destroying the inside of the Quinjet."
They didn't need to follow the fighters. Sounds of an oncoming struggle grew louder until the army rejoined them, holding the beaten and bruised Consortium leaders. One, Pierce, spotted Iron Man and made a futile lunge toward him, stopped by the fighters holding onto him.
"We had a deal, Stark!" he growled. "Now we tell the world..."
"The world already knows. About now, our good friend, King T'Challa of Wakanda is holding a press conference, telling the world why it is they haven't seen too much of us since Paris and me specifically. Your reign of terror is over."
"Take off that mask and face me!"
"I don't take orders from you anymore. Our work here is done, Cap. What's say we gather the team together and leave the cleanup to the locals?" Tony asked not expecting an answer. Bucky replaced the Shield on his arm and nodded. Without saying a word, he followed Tony away from the scene.
"No way in hell am I going to take the top of this thing off and let them see what I'm wearing on my head," Tony muttered as they stepped over the debris. Natasha caught up with them.
"Take off that mask and face me!" she exclaimed, doing her best imitation of the Consortium Leader.
"Shut up Romanoff. And Barnes, you are sitting in the back of the plane, with that pointed away from the rest of us!"
For the first time, Bucky felt like one of the team.