You know the drill. I don't own Marvel.

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Me and Sam sat at the cafe, scouting for Sitwell.

"Well, this is nice. Just a couple of bros drinking some tea."

Sam glared at me. "Are we going to talk about this?"

"Talk about what?"

"Every time we almost...You back away and change the subject."

"Sam, I...I'm-"

He held up a finger. "I got eyes on him." He pulls out his phone and dials. I subtly glance Sitwell.

"Agent Sitwell, how was lunch? I hear the crab cakes here are delicious...The good looking guy in the sunglasses with a smokin ' babe," Sam winked at me, "your ten o'clock." I turned away blushing and saw Sitwell look around but doesn't see us. "Your other ten o'clock." Sitwell turned the other way and saw us sitting a few feet away from him. "There you go. 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." He smiled. "Because that tie looks really expensive, and I'd hate to mess it up." Sitwell looked down at his tie and saw a small red light from the gun being pointed at him.

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FLASH FORWARD

I sat in the car as I waited for "the signal." I reached out and tried to listen to the interrogation on the roof. All of a sudden Sitwell' s body was propelled off the roof. There was a glimmer of metal across the sky as he was caught and brought back to the roof. Whoa, Sam. Those are...I shook the thoughts out of my head and reached out again to listen to the interrogation. All I got was bits and pieces but one sentence rang clear.

"Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few million at a time."

They put him in the car and we started driving towards the Triskelion.

"HYDRA doesn't like leaks. "

Sam glared at him, "So why don't you try sticking a cork in it."

"Insight's launching in sixteen hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here, " Tasha said.

Steve nodded. "I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarriers directly."

Sitwell replied, "What?! Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea."

Suddenly something lands on the car roof, pulls Sitwell out through the window and throws him into the oncoming traffic, killing him. It started shooting at us until Steve pulled the break, making our attacker drop down onto the street, as another car smashes into the car and pushed us along. He jumped back onto the car, smashed through the windscreen and pulled out the steering wheel.

Sam cursed and Natasha started shooting at him but the Winter Soldier jumped onto the vehicle behind us.

"Who the hell is that?" I yelled.

Natasha quickly turned to me, "the Winter Soldier."

As the car pulled off the road Steve held on to the car door. "Hang on!" he broke open the door, holding onto us , as we slid on the car door through the streets. Hydra agents joined the Soldier and start shooting at us. We start fending them off and Tasha splits off from us and he tails her. Steve notices the Soldier tailing her.

"Go, we got this!" Sam yells and I nod in agreement. After we ran off the agents, we caught up and saw Steve fighting the Soldier. His mask flew off, revealing the face of a dead man.

Dad? And then everything blurred.

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The agents took us into custody.

Steve sat there in disbelief. "It was him. He looked right at me like he didn't even know me."

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

"Zola." I quietly answered.

"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…"

"None of that's your fault, Steve." Natasha said.

"Even when I had nothing…"

"You had Bucky." I looked up and gave him a small smile.

"We need to get a doctor here." Sam exclaimed. I turned and looked at Natasha. Her shoulder is bleeding really bad. "If we don't put pressure on that wound, she's gonna bleed out here in the truck."

Suddenly one of the guards pulls out an electric rod. Oh, no. But he neutralizes the other guard and knocks him out. What in the… The guard takes off his helmet and it's…

"Hill?"

"Ah. That thing was squeezing my brain." Sam looked at her in confusion. Hill turned to Steve. "Who's this guy?" Suddenly the vehicle stops.

The vibe from the soldiers outside made me panic. "Hill, we need to get out of here. NOW"

"Already on it."

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TOP SECRET S.H.I.E.L.D. FACILITY

"She's lost at least a pint."Hill told the doctor.

"Maybe two. "Sam added.

" Let me take her."

"She'll want to see him first." Hill said. Him? She brings us to a medical room. And there lies a very-much-alive Nick Fury.

"About damn time." He said.

We looked at him in shock. I was the one who spoke first. "Do you realize what you did?"

He nodded. "Yes I do, Miss Jarvis. Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, one hell of a headache."

"Don't forget your collapsed lung," the doctor added as he began tending Tasha's wound.

"Oh, let's not forget that. Otherwise, I'm good."

"They cut you open, your heart stopped." Natasha scoffed.

"Tetrodotoxin B." he replied. "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."

"Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us?" Steve asked.

"Any attempt on the director's life had to look successful." Hill replied.

I nodded. "Can't kill you if you're already dead."

"Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust."

I shook my head. "You came to our apartment, Nick. You told us SHIELD was compromised. You put your trust in us that night. So, son't you dare say you didn't know who to trust." I turned away and stormed off.

Why did you come back? Why'd you make me care? If I hadn't watched you die, maybe this wouldn't hurt so much. I mean if Coulson came back, I'd… I shook the picture out of my head. I leaned against the wall and slid down. I pulled my knees to my chest, taking deep breaths and trying to wrap my head around everything. I heard footsteps approach me and I felt an arm wrap around me.

"You okay?" Sam pulled me to his chest. I shook my head in reply.

"I watched that man get shot. I watched him die on that operating table." I replied. "And he had to come back. It's like if…."

"If what?" He asked. I shook my head. "Say it. Help me understand."

"It's like if Riley came back…" I pulled away and stood up. "If he was alive after all these years."

"Ange, that guy down the hall-"

"Is the person who knows what happened to my mom." I interrupted.

"What about the Soldier? His mask fell off and both you and Steve froze."

"He's my father." I replied.

"How?"

"The experiments." A voice said. Nick Fury. "You're mother was abducted to be the surrogate for Proxima, the next generation of the Winter Soldier."

"What?" I looked at him in disbelief.

"Once she was pregnant, the scientists subjected you to experiments. They wanted to make you stronger and better."

"That's why I…" He nodded in reply. He knows.

"I know. I've been keeping my eye on you."

Creepy…. "Why did she get sick and not me?"

"You already had the Soldier's serum in your blood. She didn't. And so her body rejected the experiments." He sighed. "She almost lost you."

"How'd y'all find her?" Sam asked.

"We didn't." he answered. "She found us."

"The Soldier helped her escape." Fury looked at me in confusion. "Well, she said my father did. And if the Soldier is Bucky Barnes, then he helped her escape." A wave of dizziness hit me.

"- Mission report...Mission report, now-"

"-The man on the bridge. Who was he?"

"-You met him earlier this week on another assignment.-"

"-Your work has been a gift to mankind. You shaped the century, and I need you to do it one more time.-"

"-But I knew him.-"

"-Prep him.-"

"-He's been out of cryo-freeze too long.-"

"-Then wipe him and start over.-"

I gasped. "Come on, we have people to save."

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"This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said, 'Peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility.'" Nick threw a picture of Pierce on the table. "See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues."

"We have to stop the launch." Natasha said.

"I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore." Fury opened a case containing three chips.

Sam steps closer to the table. "What are those?"

"Once the Helicarriers reach three thousand feet," Hill turns her computer around showing a computer model of Insight. "they'll triangulate with Insight satellites becoming fully weaponized."

"We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own." Fury continued.

"One or two won't cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work, because if even one of those ships remains operational a whole lot of people are gonna die."

"We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We need to get pass them, insert the server blades, and maybe, just maybe, we can salvage what's left…"

"We're not salvaging anything," Steve exclaimed. "We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick, we're taking down SHIELD"

"SHIELD had nothing to do with it."

"Like hell it did, Nick." I objected.

"You gave me this mission, this is how it ends. SHIELD's been compromised, you said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and no one noticed."

Fury gestured to the room around him. "Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed."

"And how many paid the price before you did?"

"Look, I didn't know about Barnes."

"Even if you have, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that too?" Steve replied. "SHIELD, HYDRA, it all goes."

"He's right," Hill muttered. Fury looked at me and Tasha and then at Sam.

"Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower."

"Well…" Fury leaned back in his chair. "Looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain."

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Me and Sam walked outside and saw Steve standing on the bridge.

"He's gonna be there, you know?"

"I know." Steve replied.

"Look, whoever he used to be, the guy he is now, I don't think he's the kind you save. He's the kind you stop."

"I don't know if I can do that."

I gave Sam a pleading look. "We have to try, Sam."

"Well, he might not give y'all a choice. He doesn't know you."

"He will. Gear up, it's time." Steve turned and started to walk off.

"You gonna wear that?" I asked.

"No. If you're gonna fight a war, you gotta wear a uniform."

I smirked as I saw the idea in his head. That poor security guard….

"You don't have to do this," Sam said as he turned to me.

"I know."

"But I know I can't stop you." He grasped my shoulders. "I don't want to see you get hurt."

"I know. But I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try."

He nodded as he released me. He turned to walk away. "Come on, you heard the Captain. Suit up…"

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