After retrieving the Falcon suit, they went for Sitwell. They were waiting for Sitwell in a building and when he got there Sam took him right up to the roof.
"What is Zola's Algorithm?" Steve asked Sitwell.
"I don't know what you're talking about." He said walking backwards.
"Okay then, what were you doing on the Lumerian Star?" Chris asked.
"Throwing up."
He hit the edge of the roof and Steve grabbed him by his collar.
"Gonna throw me off the roof? Not really your style Rogers." Sitwell laughed.
"You're right. It's hers." Steve said and Natasha kicked him over the edge.
"So, you two ever gonna tie the knot?" Tash asked.
"No." Steve said.
"No?" Chris asked.
"I mean we haven't talked about it yet."
"So that means no?"
"It means we haven't talked about it."
"That's why you sounded so nervous when I called you my fiancé at the mall. You don't want to get married."
"Chris,-" Steve was cut off by Falcon coming up and throwing Jasper on the roof.
"Zola's Algorithm is a program that Insight uses to pick it's targets." Sitwell said frightened that Sam would throw him off the roof again.
"What targets?" Chris asked.
"You, you, you." He said pointing at them. "Anyone who is a threat to Hydra. Now. Even in the future."
"How can it tell in the future?" Steve asked.
"Everything is recorded digitally these days. It will read everything about people so it can predict their futures." Sitwell explained.
"What then?" Steve asked.
"Pierce is going to kill me."
"Then Insight will kill them if they're seen as a future threat." Chris said realizing it.
They took Sitwell back down and got in the car.
"Hydra hates leaks." Sitwell said continuing to panic.
"Then stick a cork in it." Sam said.
"Insight launches in sixteen hours. We're cutting it really close here." Natasha said.
"We'll use Sitwell to bypass all the DNA scans." Steve said.
"Are you crazy?" Sitwell asked.
There was a thud on the roof of the car and Sitwell was pulled out of the window and thrown into traffic. Then shots were being fired at them through the top of the car.
Natasha laid down on the floor in the back seat and Chris jumped up into Steve's lap. Sam hit the brakes and whoever was on top of the car went flying off. Chris pulled out her gun to shoot, but they were rear-ended. The Winter Soldier pulled out the steering wheel. They were about to crash. Steve grabbed all of them and they slid on the shield as the car rolled. They stood up and a grenade was fired at them. Steve pushed Chris away and used his shield to protect himself. It hit the shield and Steve went flying. Natasha, Sam and Chris hid behind cars as they took heavy fire. Chris was grazed on the arm, but she barely noticed. Natasha had been running and trying to dodge the grenades the Winter Soldier had launched at her. She had somehow ended up down below. Chris stood up and they had all repelled off the bridge. The last one was about to go down, but Sam killed him. Sam took the guys gun and they started to help Steve. He seemed to be doing really well himself as he redirected the bullets that were fired at him to kill the men shooting him. Sam and Chris just provided backup for the ones he had his back to. Sam and Chris were still trying to take out one guy that just would not let the bullets hit him. Chris looked down at Steve who was looking at them.
"You two go. I've got him." Sam yelled and continued to shoot.
Chris launched herself over the edge of the highway and began to fall through the air. She landed in Steve's arms. He put her down and she grabbed a gun following him after the Winter Soldier and Natasha. They found them and Steve ran at the Winter Soldier while Chris ran to Natasha. Steve was just pounding on him while Natasha and Chris ran. Chris just wanted to get her to safety. She sat her against a building and ran back to help Steve.
Steve stopped fighting when the Winter Soldier's mask came off. He was just standing there. Chris picked up his dropped grenade launcher and shot at him. He dodged and ran away. Steve looked at Chris then back at where the Winter Soldier had been standing.
There were sirens and a dozen SUVs pulled up. Rumlow and the rest of the STRIKE team climbed out with guns pointed at all four of them.
"Put the shield down, cap." Rumlow said to Steve.
They held up our hands and got on their knees. Chris watched as they pressed a gun to Steve's head.
"No!" Chris yelled and elbowed the guy cuffing her. She got up to run towards him, but she was tackled.
"Chris!" Steve yelled.
"Steve!"
They cuffed them all and put them in the back of a police van.
Chris sat next to Steve and he looked her over.
"You okay?"
"I'm fine." Chris said glaring as they closed the doors.
Steve leaned over and slowly kissed the top of her head.
"What happened out there?" She asked.
"It was Bucky. He looked at me as if he never knew me." Steve said looking at the ground.
"That's not possible. It was seventy years ago." Sam said.
"Zola. Bucky's unit was captured in '43. They must have experimented on him. Whatever they did helped Bucky survive that fall off the train. They must have found him..."
"It's not your fault, baby." Chris said and reached a hand to hold his.
"Even when I had lost everything I still had Bucky."
"We need a doctor. If we don't get pressure on their wounds they will bleed out." Sam said.
The guard just turned on the electrical stick and that was supposed to be their signal to shut up.
"Their?" Chris asked.
"Your arm." Sam said nodding towards her right arm and then down at her leg.
Chris looked down and saw the tear in her shirt and the blood stain around it and the dark spot on her upper hip.
"Oh, look at that." Chris said.
The guard used their stick and tazed the other guard, knocking them out.
They watched as Agent Hill took off the helmet.
"That was squeezing my brain." She said.
She looked at Sam then back at the other three.
"Who's this?" She asked.
"Sam Wilson. He and I were stationed together in Bakhmala." Chris said.
She nodded at him. They put a hole in the bottom of the truck and used it to roll out from underneath. They ran and hopped into another van. Hill drove them all somewhere. The van stopped and Steve opened the door helping Chris to get out. Sam followed Chris and helped Natasha.
They were inside a dam of some sort. Hill led the way and someone was running at them.
"GSWs. They've lost at least a pint." Hill yelled.
"Maybe two." Sam said looking at how pale Tash was.
"Let me take them." He yelled back.
"They'll want to see him first." Hill said.
Hill led the way. They walked up to a curtain and she pulled it aside to reveal a very living Fury in a hospital bed.
"'Bout damn time." Was all he said.
Natasha and Chris were being patched up while Fury talked to them.
"I came here with a lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collar bone, perforated liver and a head ache to top it off, but not dead. Oh, and a collapsed lung. Other than that, I'm perfect." Fury said.
"Your heart stopped beating." Chris said as she was getting her arm stitched up.
"Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to practically dead. Banner developed it for stress. It doesn't really work for him."
"Why the secrets? Why not tell us you were alive?" Steve asked.
"The attempt on Fury's life had to be successful. So, we made it look successful." Hill explained.
"I wasn't sure who I could trust." Fury said.
Chris was taken out of the room so they could cover up the wound on her hip. It wasn't a bullet wound. It was a burn. They gave her something to take away the pain and then wrapped it up. Chris put her clothes back on and was led to where everyone was now. She walked into the room and Steve looked at her, but she decided to stand on the opposite side of the table.
"Well, look who decided to join us." Sam smiled.
"We need to stop that launch." Chris said as she walked in.
"The council isn't really accepting my calls right now." Fury said and opened a case.
"What are those?" Sam asked.
"Once the helicarriers reach 3,000 feet they will triangulate with Insight satellites. Causing them to weaponize." Hill explained.
"We'll breach the helicarriers and replace their targeting with our own." Fury finished.
"It can't be just one or two. You'll need to do all three for it to work." Chris said.
"Exactly. Now, we need to assume that everyone aboard is HYDRA. We change out the blades and maybe we can salvage..."
"We won't be salvaging anything. We aren't just taking down these carriers, we are taking down SHIELD." Steve said interrupting Fury.
"SHIELD had nothing to do with this."
"You gave them this mission. This is how it will end. You said it yourself, SHIELD has been compromised. HYDRA was growing right under our noses and none of us noticed it."
"I've noticed. That's why we're in this cave."
"And how many have we lost before you did?"
"I really didn't know about Barnes." Fury said.
"Would you have told me even if you had? SHIELD and HYDRA. They both have to go."
"He's right." Chris said.
Fury looked at the rest of the table, but nobody disagreed.
"Looks like you're giving orders now Cap." Fury said leaning back in his chair.