"Hydra had trigger words. After all, they couldn't just wipe his mind whenever he didn't obey which as actually much more often than you'd think. They kept a book on him, anything you need to know about the Winter Soldier. I'd bet anything that the psychologist had it. Said the words, asked him about whatever he wanted to know, then set him loose," Amnesia says calmly watching over where her James was kept, his metal arm clamped down to keep him in place. She stressed that it wasn't necessary but despite this, Sam and Steve weren't taking any chances.
"What about you? He seemed set on dismantling the place until he saw you," Sam says.
The corner of Amnesia's mouth turns up in a smirk. "I was in an enemy facility, any of Hydra's weapons are programmed to protect and return me at all costs. I knew he'd get us out of there. And if our boy here wasn't fast enough, who knows where we'd be by now."
They fall silent as Bucky starts to come to. Immediately, Amnesia flies to his side, despite Sam and Steve trying to hold her back.
"It's alright, you're safe, I'm here, they're still gone," Amnesia murmurs softly, cradling his head, running a hand through his hair like she did whenever he was shook from sleep. He pulls her close with his free arm before he can start panicking about not being able to move his metal appendage. He buries his head in her neck and she leans on him, her eyes closed, her head particularly absent of any thought that isn't of him. He goes to move his other arm though and stiffens, realizing just as quickly that they are not alone. He moves Amnesia into a position where he can move easier as well as defend her as he analyzes the other two people.
"Steve," he says not showing the relief in his voice.
"Which Bucky am I talking to?" Steve asks coldly.
Bucky can't answer for a moment, as he himself has no clue who he is entirely. "Your Mom's name is Sarah," Bucky says and Amnesia snickers at the choice in information, sure that there's one of those "yo momma" jokes that the kids love so much in there somewhere. "You used to wear newspapers in your shoes," Bucky says laughing and Amnesia smiles watching his face as he does so.
"You can't read that in a museum," Steve says sounding a touch relieved.
"Just like that we're supposed to be cool," Sam asks astounded and Amnesia fixes him with a hard look, lightning flickering between her fingers.
"What did I do," Bucky asks and Amnesia sighs.
"Whatever he commanded. But the good news is, you got us out," Amnesia says tightly giving the two others scathing looks when they open their mouths to answer.
"I knew this would happen, everything Hydra put inside me is still there," his eyes meet Amnesia's as they've had this conversation before. "All he had to do was say the god damn words."
"Why don't you just make him forget it like you did to me?" Sam asks.
"If I wanted him to be brain dead I would but I happen to be against turning people into vegetables," Amnesia says tartly, hating him for even suggesting it.
"I'm just saying, you had no problem doing it to me."
"I did it out of sympathy. You're a good guy Sam Wilson, and I knew you'd follow me to right whatever wrong. I couldn't have that and I didn't want you torturing yourself. Besides, I was new and I could easily pick out every memory you had of me," Amnesia finishes her explanation then, works on releasing her James. She gives Steve an exasperated look when she can't release the clamp because she's still as weak as a child and he helps her allowing Bucky to get up, Amnesia glued to his side like usual, and his arm around her waist as he looks over his metal arm.
"Who was he?" Steve asks.
"I don't know."
"People are dead, the bombing, set up, he doctored all that to get ten minutes with you. I need you to do better than I don't know," Steve says.
"He wanted to know about Siberia. Where I was kept," Amnesia frowns not having a lot of information on Siberia, only that her soldier was kept there from time to time. She knew nothing, no layout, no information on what happened while he was kept there, just when he got there and when he left. "He wanted to know exactly where."
"I don't even know that," Amnesia murmurs.
"Why would he need to know that?"
"No..." Amnesia murmurs. "I thought those experiments didn't work out."
"I'm not the only Winter Soldier. And they didn't, at least, not like the ones they did on me. They were stronger, less susceptible to Hydra's control. To Hydra, I came out perfect, and they came out too feral. They're Hydra's most elite death squad. They have the most kills in Hydra history, and that was before the serum."
"The Doctor, could he control them?" Steve asks.
"Enough."
"He said he wanted to see an empire fall," Steve replies speaking of the psychologist.
"They can do it. They speak thirty languages, can hide in plain sight, infiltrate, assassinate, destabilize, they can take a whole country down in one night and you'll never see him coming," Bucky says and Amnesia gets stuck on why. She knows he isn't Hydra, well he could be, but she doubts it. Does he want to rule the world? Revenge? What empire is he aiming to take down? "Are you okay?" Bucky asks her quietly.
"I'll always be okay when I'm with you. You won't allow otherwise," she says just as softly and he chuckles.
"You're right."
"I always am. What about you? Are you okay?"
"Better. I thought they'd lock you up," he says, holding her closer.
"You know what I meant," she says not allowing him to change the subject.
"I'm trying not to think about it."
"Okay then," she says meeting his eyes. "Let's just focus on taking out the death squad yeah? They should know I have that name copyrighted."
"I love you," he says softly, for her ears only.
"I know. And I love you too."
"I know," he repeats pressing a kiss to her forehead.
"Barnes, Rogers, Wilson, and whoever the hell that girl is. Thirty-six hours."
"You alright?" Natasha asks Tony as he takes a deep breath.
"Always," Tony replies, trying to look like he's bouncing back.
"I ship him and Tony too much. I just...I don't like her," Amnesia says as her, Bucky and Sam sit in the small bug waiting for Steve and Sharon to finish talking.
"Steve's straight. Tony's straight to for all I know," Sam says staring at her like she's grown another head. Bucky just smiles and holds her closer to him.
"You know nothing," Amnesia replies, blowing off his comment.
"Can you move your seat up?" Bucky asks Sam a few seconds later.
"No." Is Sam's stiff reply after seeing Amnesia curled up into Bucky's side. He can't help but be a little jealous. He was going to take her out on a date before it got all screwy. Because of him in fact. Bucky just sighs and lifts Amnesia up, setting her on his lap and switching sides so he isn't sitting behind Sam anymore.
"He's going to kiss her," Amnesia predicts bitterly. "He did it. Tony's going to be heartbroken," she says sarcastically, then chuckles at the looks Bucky and Sam are giving Steve.
"Stay close to me okay? I don't want you out of my sight," Bucky tells Amnesia as they race up the parking garage where they're meeting everyone.
"As long as you do the same," she counters and he smirks.
"Cap," Clint says in greeting as everyone gets out of their respective vehicles. He gives everyone else a nod but stops on Amnesia. He asks Steve the silent question and Steve nods in response. They exchange pleasantries but stay away from Bucky and Amnesia though they're curious. Clint opens the door and reveals the other "recruit" and Amnesia snorts trying to cover her laughter.
"Sam, that's the guy who beat you up right?" She asks getting a kick out of the guy's presence.
"Shut your mouth," Sam says pointing to him but they both know they're joking although Bucky puts himself in between the two. Amnesia walks over to Sam to continue to tease him and Bucky follows, neither paying attention to the new guy's fangirling.
"Come on, he doesn't look that tough."
"We're not talking about this," Sam says firmly and Bucky is smiling at Sam's embarrassment.
"I mean listen to him, he's just a ball of sunshine," Amnesia says. "And he completely laid you on your ass," she says laughing at this point, picturing him. Then she puts a hand on his shoulder, sending him the image.
"I hate you," he tells her and she just laughs some more.
"No you don't. But you wish you could," she tells him, before retreating back to Bucky's side and he shakes his head, the mood suddenly much more somber.
"It was a great audition but let me tell you, it'll never happen again," Sam says once Lang move onto him and Amnesia laughs.
"They tell you what we're up against?" Steve asks him.
"Something about psycho assassins?" He replies.
"We're outside the law on this one," Steve says and Lang nods. "If you come with us, you're a wanted man."
"Yeah, well, what else is new?"
"We should get moving," Bucky says knowing that time is of the essence better than any of them.
"I got a chopper lined up," Clint says. "Don't take it down," he says shooting Amnesia a look.
"It was one time," she replies with narrowed eyes. Suddenly an announcement rings out and everyone listens although only two of them understand it.
"They're evacuating the airport," Bucky explains.
"Stark," they conclude.
"Suit up," Steve commands and Amnesia holds her arms out wondering what she's supposed to do before shrugging and watching Bucky prepare. He hands her a pistol and she raises an eyebrow.
"It'll do you more good than me," she tells him and he sighs, standing up and pulling her close to him by the waist.
"It'll give me some peace of mind," he explains slipping it in the back waistband of her jeans. She sighs, knowing she won't win the argument and removes it, shoving it in the inside pocket of Bucky's giant leather jacket that she stole from him as he watches. He nods accepting the change and she presses her lips to his clinging to the hope that they'll both walk out of this unscathed.
"Holy shit they're all just popping up like daisies," Amnesia murmurs as they all watch the plan unfold around Steve.
"Quinjet's in hangar five," Sam tells them all.
"Alright, lets get there," Amnesia says, holding onto Bucky like she did when they escaped the apartment.
"What the hell is that?" Amnesia asks seeing some red dude flying among the rafters.
"Everyone's got a gimmick now," Sam mutters just before he crashes through a window and takes him down. Amnesia snorts but is taken aback when he catches Bucky's punch.
"You have a metal arm! That is awesome dude!" The red guy says and Amnesia shakes off her shock before Bucky and reaches out to KO him but Sam flies into action before it connects. Amnesia lets go of Bucky and runs over to a box containing important electrical stuff.
"James! Can you open this?" She asks because it's screwed shut. Without any questions he does and soon Amnesia is blowing the lights out trying to hit the red guy but he's moving too fast and Amnesia doesn't quite know what she's doing. Sam and Bucky distract him and soon enough he's sitting on a bunch of speakers. She throws enough electricity at it to make it go up shooting him into the air and right into Sam's drone.
"You couldn't have done that earlier?" Bucky asks him.
"I hate you."
"You guys are idiots," Amnesia calls down to them when she finally finds them.
"I love you too," Sam says and she rolls her eyes while Bucky narrows his. Amnesia's breathing hard when she reaches them, still having the endurance of an overweight cat. But she burns the webbing away from them in a matter of seconds and soon enough they're on their way. They meet the others outside but they all skid to a stop when they see Vision burning a "do not cross" line into the asphalt.
"Captain Rogers, I know you believe what you are doing is right, but for the collective good, you must surrender now," he speaks.
"I'm on team let's not and say we did!" Amnesia shouts. "If you really want, I can make you think that too!" She casually threatens as Team Iron Man lines up across from them. "Did you find it," she asks Natasha on a more serious note.
"It was there, but he took it with him. You've got no proof that's what happened," Natasha tells her and Amnesia frowns then steps away from Bucky, feeding him the image of the plane moving so he knows what she's doing and he reluctantly lets her. They all start charging towards each other and Amnesia turns and heads for the plane thirty feet behind them. She sets a hand on the front wheel sending energy into the plane and turning things on, her eyes glazing over as she puts all her attention into the task to get it done faster. A minute later, she's sending a commercial jet, full speed, at the three high flyers on the other team.
She moves back towards Bucky on instinct, aiming to take the cat out before he hurts him although Bucky seems to be holding his own fairly easily. Just as the tide turns though, Bucky gets throw into a crate.
"Throw him to me!" Amnesia yells seeing Wanda have their back. She does and Amnesia reaches down and drains the energy out of him, putting the cat to sleep. Bucky pulls her up and slings her back on his back giving Wanda a thankful look.
"We gotta get going, that guy's probably in Siberia right now," Bucky tells Cap.
"I'll take Vision, you two get to the jet," Steve commands.
"No!" Sam says over their comms. "You get to the jet, all three of you. The rest of us aren't getting out of here."
"He's right," Clint pitches in. "As much as I hate to admit it, if we're gonna win this one, some of us might have to lose it."
"This isn't the real fight," Sam yells over the comm when there's no response from Steve.
"Alright Sam, what's the plan?"
"We need a diversion," he says simply. "Something big."
"Well, I already launched a plane at them, I don't really have any other tricks," Amnesia murmurs bitterly.
"I got something kinda big," Lang says. "But I can't hold it very long. On my signal, run like hell. And if I tear myself in half, don't come back for me."
"He's gonna tear himself in half?" Bucky asks just as confused as everyone else.
"We sure about this big guy?" Steve asks.
"I do it all the time. I mean once. In a lab and I passed out," he replies and Steve looks ahead, already coming up with another plan.
"I guess that's the signal," Steve says as the three of them walk out of their hiding spots.
"Well stop staring we're supposed to be running," Amnesia mutters and Bucky nods then pulls Steve into action.
"I can't fix that!" Amnesia yells when they see the watchtower coming down thanks to Vision. Wanda catches it though and she gives Bucky a burst of energy allowing him to pass Steve. Her hand brushes his shoulder and soon Steve is catching up, both faster than before, and just in time too. Rhodes comes out and hits her with some sort of beam causing Wanda to lose focus and the tower to come down. They clear the wreckage though only to see the Widow.
"You're not going to stop," she states and Steve shakes his head.
"You know I can't."
"I'm gonna regret this," she says shooting T'Challa behind them. Amnesia frowns.
"How the hell is he awake? I practically put him in a coma," Amnesia says aloud and kinda pissed off.
"Go," Widow commands ignoring her. They get on the quinjet and take off.
Amnesia stands near Bucky as Steve pilots the jet. He focus is on her comm as she tries to get a message to Natasha. She eventually sends it in morse code. Get out of there now, even though she doesn't need the advice, Natasha is very good at hiding, however, she gained Amnesia respect and that's a hard thing to do.