Melody's head rested in Clint's lap as she let out light snores and he began to pet her head. He was lost in the blonde loops, running his hand from the top of the strand all the way to the bottom before picking up another. Steve watched him as he sat across from him on the uncomfortable bunker floor, smiling a little at just how peaceful she looked. She needed a good night's sleep. Tomorrow, they were stepping into the middle of a war. "You should get some sleep too." Steve whispered to Clint, doing his best to not wake Melody.

"I'll be fine with a strong pot of coffee in the morning." Clint muttered, but tiredness was in his whole voice. He didn't look away from Melody as he spoke. He just couldn't. She was dying. She didn't look it, but she was. These were just the beginning stages. He remembered the stories from Melody of how bad her father got. The thought of watching the strongest woman he knew wither away almost brought tears to his eyes.

"We're gonna cure her." Steve insured while nodding towards his niece, the same thing that was going through Clint's mind, going through Steve. "HYDRA has to have some sort of cure, and if not, we can develop it."

Clint smiled a little bit at the thought of him helping her find a cure. Yeah, Melody would let him help in her lab. She would most likely be slapping his hand whenever he touched something. His face then got serious, beginning to stroke the strand closest to her temple. "So much has gone wrong with her life." He shook his head before picking it back up to look at Steve. "I just want her to be happy." Steve then turned his head to the side. "And she has to be normal."

Steve looked at him for a moment before laughing, trying to contain his laughter not to wake any of the other sleeping bodies lying around them. "She already is happy. She has you."

Clint looked up at him with a confused face. "But she wants to be normal. That's all she's ever wanted."

Steve began to chuckle again, this one not as intense as the last one. "Sure, having a normal life would make anyone happy, but you know what?" Clint shook his head. "Normal is overrated, and I'm pretty sure she's figured that out by now." Clint laughed along with him that time. "You make her the happiest."

Clint looked down at her again, a smile growing on his face as he put himself in her shoes. He could have all the things in the world that would make him happy, but if he didn't have Melody, none of it would matter. She made him the happiest too.

Everyone was getting all of their things together the next morning for their fight against HYDRA. As everyone got ready, Melody cautiously walked up to Steve who was kind of just standing there. "You know," Melody kind of chuckled out. "If we're gonna fight a war, you need a uniform."

Steve began to chuckle, thinking about his talk with Sam earlier that morning. She did remind him of himself. They were using the same lines now. "Funny because that's exactly what I told Sam earlier."

"Well, I need a uniform too." Her face was almost pleading, and in that moment, Steve would do anything to get her what she wanted. "And I think I have a good idea of where to find some." Steve turned his head to the side, not sure what she was talking about, but she simply reached her hand out for Steve to take it. "Come with me."

Steve took her hand cautiously as she led him away. "Is it illegal?"

Melody stopped for a moment, trying to figure out how to answer that question. Should she lie or tell the truth? Truth. "Extremely."

The group began their walk towards the Triskelion building. Rhodey was flying the helicopter Fury was in, waiting for their signal. Natasha was already inside the building. That just left Sam, Emily, Maria, Clint, Melody and Steve.

Maria and Emily were wearing their SHIELD uniforms, Clint and Sam their wings, but Melody and Steve were both in something a little more…old fashioned. Steve was in his old uniform from the forties which was in the Smithsonian. Melody, she was wearing Bucky's old uniform. Steve was so proud.

They made it to the top of the hill, looking at the building they were about to infiltrate. It was probably one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the world, but with this skill set, they knew they could do it. They all shared a nod before continuing with the walk.

Inside the building, they had established a control room for the new helicarriers to monitor them and fix any problem from the ground. In all their headsets, there was a piercing sound, making them all take them off. "What the hell was that?" One of the men whispered.

"I'll check it out." One of the men said as he got up. When he opened the door the room, though, he was greeted with Sam, Melody, Maria, and Emily holding up their guns, Steve holding up his shield and Clint pulling the string back on his bow. Without hesitation, the man threw his hands up in surrender before letting them all come in, Melody making sure to run her shoulder into the man. As they stepped in, everyone in the room got panicked and quiet.

Steve moved to the intercom that would broadcast throughout the entire building, taking a deep breath before starting. "Attention all SHIELD agents, this is Steve Rogers." It was like the whole building had went silent at the sound of his voice. Everyone stopped what they were doing and just listened. "You've heard a lot about me the last few days. Some of you were even ordered to hunt me down." Sharon was in one of the computer labs, panicked at the sound of his voice. "And I think it's time you know the truth."

Steve took a pause before going on with the next part, knowing this would destroy a lot of lives and beliefs, but they had to know. Melody gave him a little nod of encouragement before he turned back to the microphone. "SHIELD is not what we thought it was. It's been taken over by HYDRA." You could almost hear the gasps through the building. "Alexander Pierce is their leader." Everyone in the World Council turned to look at him, finding it hard to believe that one of their own could do this. He just shrugged at them. Like it was no big deal. Like he could just brush it off. And that pissed Natasha off.

Melody then moved up to the microphone, taking it with shaking hands. "The STRIKE and Insight crew are HYDRA as well." Everyone turned, knowing that voice. Melody Barnes/Dark Violet. "I don't know how many more, but I know they're in the building. They could be standing right next to you." Everyone began to look around at the people they were standing by. Colleagues, friends, people they thought they could trust no matter what. In one moment, all their trust was going right through the window. "They almost have what they want. Absolute control." Melody looked down at that. They had absolute control of her grandfather. "They shot Nick Fury and my mother." Everyone had some look of shock on their face at that news. "And it won't end there."

Melody looked back at Steve, him giving her an encouraging nod to continue like she had done for him. "If you launch those helicarriers today, HYDRA will be able to kill anyone that stands in their way. Unless we stop them." Melody took a deep breath. "And I know what you're all going through. You feel this sudden sense of betrayal. I know…because I helped developed Insight thinking I was doing this for the better good." Melody then turned to look at Clint, giving him a small smile. "But someone helped me realize that a protective front isn't always a good one."

Melody then stepped back, giving Steve the microphone again. He took a pause, looking down, thinking about all the lives that were going to be lost today. "I know we're asking a lot, but the price of freedom is high. It always has been." He looked up, knowing that these people needed some inspiration like the kind Melody gave him. "It's a price I'm willing to pay." He nodded his head, knowing he got what he needed to get out there. "And if I'm the only one, then so be it." They all looked to him. Clint, Melody, Sam, Maria and Emily. And they knew they could tell him in that moment that he was not going to be the only one. "But I'm willing to bet I'm not."

Steve ended the transmission with that, everyone silent for a moment before Sam stepped forward, looking between Steve and Melody. "Did you two write that down first or was it off the top of your heads?"

Melody gave him a little smile before leaning forward and placing a hand on his shoulder. "You'll never know."

Everyone in the World Council had now turned to look Alexander Pierce in the eye. "You smug son of a bitch." The older man muttered while shaking his head, ashamed that they had elected him.

STRIKE Team then piled into the room, minus Brock Rumlow, confusing everyone in the room at how cool and casual they were being when they just found out this man was running HYDRA. "Arrest him." One of the councilmen said obviously, but Rollins just brought a gun to his head.

Pierce looked so proud of himself while giving the group a cocky shrug. "I guess I've got the floor."

Everyone in the computer lab felt numb after Steve and Melody's message. They all kind of just sat or stood there, running the speech through their brains again. All they could do was look at each other. Statistics showed that at the very least, there was one HYDRA agent in here. That's when the HYDRA guard dog came in. Brock Rumlow. Everyone was frightened, knowing STRIKE was HYDRA and Brock was the leader of STRIKE. How bad was he really?

Brock walked up to one agent, small and curly haired and in charge of getting the helicarriers in the air. Brock stood right behind him, Klein quivering from his stature. "Preempt the launch sequence. Send those ships up now." Klein continued to sit there, looking down at his keyboard. He was terrified. This man would kill him without breaking a sweat, but he couldn't just send those ships in the air. They would kill millions. He turned around to look at him, Brock giving him an obvious nod. Klein then turned to look at all his colleagues, begging him not to with their eyes. "Is there a problem?" Brock's voice boomed across the whole room, making Klein jump.

"Sorry, sir." Klein spoke, knowing he needed an answer…and Klein was going to do the right thing here. "I'm not gonna launch those ships. Captain's orders."

Everyone stood still for a moment, not sure what was going to happen next. Until Brock pulled out his gun, pointing it straight to Klein's head. "Move away from your station." Brock commanded, but Sharon was right there, aiming her gun right for Brock.

"Like he said," With that, everyone began to pull out their guns, SHIELD aiming and HYDRA and HYDRA aiming at SHIELD, proving once and for all who was who. And it hurt. "Captain's orders."

Brock gritted his teeth before pushing the gun right up to Klein's head. "You picked the wrong side, agent." That was more directed to Sharon.

"Depends on where you're standing." She growled out. Another silence passed, waiting to see who would shoot first.

It was a standoff until Brock dropped the gun from Klein's head before eventually dropping it to the ground. Everyone seemed to relax just a little bit until Brock pulled out his knife, slashing Sharon's arm so she would drop her gun and he could grab his. That's when the room erupted into chaos. Everyone was shooting at each other, Brock pushing Klein out of the way before entering his override code and hurrying out of the room as the fire fight continued.

All three helicarriers began to rise out of the garage. Maria and Emily had taken control of the control room, able to alert the others about the status of the ships. Once the ships burst out, Emily pushed her ear piece even further into her ear, scared for what was going to happen to all the people she loved rushing into battle. "They're initiating launch."

The four of them began to run into battle, all decked out in their uniforms and ready to do what was right. "Okay," Melody spoke, loud enough for everyone to hear. "Clint, you're with Sam. Steve, you're with me. The main goal here is to stop those aircrafts and save literally millions of lives. No matter what, do not stray from the mission." Melody cut a look at Clint. "No matter what."

Clint gave her an eye roll as he continued to run, knowing she was right, but how could he abandon her if something were to happen? "Fine." He muttered in anger.

"Hey, Cap," Sam asked. "How do we know the good guys from the bad guys?"

Melody wanted to roll her eyes at his question, but she wasn't going to. Sam helped them out in so many ways. The least she owed him was respect. "If they're shooting at you, they're bad." Steve told him obviously before they split up into pairs, Sam and Clint activating their wings and flying off while Steve and Melody just jumped.

They both landed hard, but rolled so there wouldn't be much damage to their bodies. Melody wanted to laugh as they continued to run off. A few days ago, she would have thought she would never survive that. There was a lot more things she knew she could do, and she was ready to test them out. "It's fun being a super soldier, huh?" Steve spoke jokingly.

"Bet I could outrun you." She challenged before picking up the speed, but HYDRA agents began to shoot. Steve grabbed her, pulling her behind his shield as they ran off for cover. "Alright," Melody spoke with a shrug. "Rain check on the race."

They began to fight off the men, Steve throwing a grenade in the men's direction while Melody took one on in hand to hand combat. She ended up kicking him into one of the steel storage containers, knocking him out instantly.

As Clint and Sam flew to get to one of the helicarriers, they began getting shot at by a machine gun. They both dodged all the bullets they could, sending them in a sporadic flight pattern. "Hey, Cap." Sam called through their channel. "I found those bad guys you were talking about."

That scared Melody. "Are you both okay?" She asked, wanting to hear Clint's voice more than Sam's in that moment.

"Not dead yet."

Melody sighed, grateful for Clint's voice, but hating his words. "Don't say things like that."

"You're the one who said to," he coughed, getting ready for the best Melody impersonation he could come up with, "'do not stray from the mission, no matter what' I'm just trying to follow your orders, babe."

"God, I hate you." Melody mumbled before her and Steve took off again.

In the meeting room, Alexander Pierce was looking out the window, thinking about all his hard work on HYDRA being destroyed. He slowly paced, looking back to the Council. "Let me ask you a question," he began, everyone in the room not wanted to hear anymore from that lying mouth. "What if Pakistan marched into Mumbai tomorrow," he looked to the councilman he was talking to, a bit of a smirk on his face. "And you knew they were going to drag your daughters into a soccer stadium for execution." He handed the man a drink, him slowly taking it, not sure if he trusted him enough to drink it. "And you could just stop it with the flick of a switch." The way the councilman was looking at him wasn't one of disgust, but of pity. "Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you all?"

The councilman slowly shook his head, that sad look returning to his face. "Not if it was your switch." He threw the drink he gave him to the side, Rollins, giving Pierce a gun to finish the councilman off.

That's when Natasha kicked him out of the way, going for the gun, punching Pierce in the face and throwing one of the shocking discs at one of the HYDRA agents. She then threw the gun into Rollins throat, sending him to the ground before elbowing one man in the head and kneeing him in the gut before flipping him over. Rollins then tried to get up, but she grabbed him, sending his head into a table before flipping him over and taking his gun.

She then stood face to face with Alexander Pierce, a cocky smile growing on her face before moving to the morphing mask she had on, disguising herself as the councilwoman. "Oh, I'm sorry." She pulled the mask off her face and then the wig, her smirk never unchanging. "Did I step on your moment?"

The helicarriers finally reached three thousand feet, panicking everyone on SHEILD's side. "Falcon?" Maria asked. "Hawkeye? What's your status?"

"Engaging." Sam reported, the two still dodging bullets left and right.

They finally got on one of the helicarriers, taking a moment to be proud of themselves. "Alright," Clint spoke in a sigh. "We're in." That's when an aircraft came right for them. "You've gotta be kidding me?!"

They both took off, finding the other aircraft's wings on the helicarrier great cover for a little while. They got off the ship, leading the aircraft on a goose chase.

Melody happened to look up when she saw them doing loops around the aircraft. She punched one of the men in the chest before slamming her fist into his throat, eyes still locked on what was happening in the air. "Babe," she started as she began to fight off another HYDRA agent. "What are you doing?"

"Oh," Clint responded as Steve threw his shield at one of the men. "Nothing. Stalling. What are you doing?"

"Eight minutes, guys." Emily reported.

Melody sighed, surveying it all. She made these things. She could shut them down. "Working on it." She reported to her mother before nodding to Steve for him to follow her. "Come on." With all the immediate HYDRA threats gone, they slipped through one of the doors, getting them inside the first helicarrier.

Natasha went away on the keyboard in the meeting room, confusing everyone else by Pierce. "What are you doing?"

"Disabling security protocol." Alexander Pierce spoke for her, a bit of a smirk on his face. "And dumping all the secrets on the internet."

"Including HYDRA's." She sang out.

"And SHIELD's." He jumped in, that smirk still on his face, but Natasha just kept working like no one was there. "If you do this, none of your past is gonna remain hidden. Are you sure you're ready for the world to see you as you really are?"

That stopped Natasha, but not for the reason he thought it did. She looked up at him, mimicking his smirk, knowing she could do one better. "Are you?"

Steve hurried to the control station while Melody stayed back to keep watch in case anyone saw them slip in. He quickly switched out the targeting blades before turning around to Melody giving her a nod. "Alpha locked." Steve reported before the two rushed out of the helicarrier.

Maria and Emily shared a small smile at the first one being locked before getting back to business. "Falcon, Hawkeye, where are you now?"

"Had to take a detour." Sam almost shouted at Maria. She would forgive him for that. They were under a lot of pressure. But not next time.

A shower of missiles got sent to the two, finding it even harder to dodge them. They weaved out of the way just in time for each missile to hit the helicarrier instead of them. Finally, they tricked the pilot, moving just in time for the aircraft itself to run into the helicarrier.

"Woo!" Sam cheered, giving Clint a high five as they continued to fly through the air and into the control station.

"We're in." Clint reported as Sam switched out the blades.

"Bravo locked." Sam reported before to two flew out again.

"Two down, one to go." Emily spoke with a bit of excitement at the fact that they were so close, but she wasn't going to get too excited yet. Not until they were all locked and everyone was safe.

A group of pilots made it out on the plane pad, walking confidently. "We are the only air support Captain Rogers has got." The captain reported to the men.

A shot ran through, taking down one aircraft, everyone on the pad panicking. Once the fire cleared, they could make out a man with a metal arm. The Winter Soldier. He continued his walk, blowing up another aircraft, men flying from the explosion. Then, as men were piling into a jet, he sent a grenade in it before the door closed.

He was going on a rampage, ready to perform his mission of taking down Captain America and Dark Violet. He kicked a man into an aircraft, sending it into an explosion before climbing on top of a jet and shooting the man in it. He threw out his body and the now damaged windshield before getting inside it and flying off.

As Natasha finished, it asked for an access code, Pierce thinking he finally had the upper hand. "Disabling the encryption is an executive order. It takes two Alpha Level members."

"Don't worry. Company's coming." Natasha gave him a smile before looking to the nearby window where a helicopter landed, and out came Rhodey in his War Machine suit and Nick in his signature long leather jacket.

Alexander looked at him for a moment, starting to fear for the first time that his plan wasn't going to work. He wasn't going to let any of them know that, though. "Did you get my flowers?" Nick just continued to glare at him as Rhodey stood in the background, picking his mask up so he could glare at him too. This was the man who tried to kill his girlfriend and he wanted him dead. "I'm glad you're here, Nick."

"Really?" Nick spoke sarcastically with a huff. "Because I thought you had me and Emily killed."

"You know how the game works." Rhodey clenched his fists at how casual he was about murdering Emily.

Fury stepped even closer, getting right in his face. "So why make me head of SHIELD?"

"Because you were the best, and the most ruthless person I ever met. I did what I did to protect people. Our enemies are your enemies, Nick. Disorder. War. It's just a matter of time before a dirty bomb goes off in Moscow, or an EMF fries Chicago." Nick knew he was just trying to get him to see his side, but it wouldn't work. He would never trade SHIELD for HYDRA. "Diplomacy? A holding action, Nick. A band-aid. And you know where I learned that. Bogota. Emily has just been holding you back." Nick shook his head. He must have been trying to recruit him for HYDRA ever since that day. "You didn't ask. You just did what had to be done. I can bring order to the lives of seven billion people by sacrificing twenty million. It's the next step, Nick. If you have the courage to take it."

Nick was quiet for a moment, everyone scared to see if he was actually buying into this, but Nick just shook his head at the man. "No. I have the courage not to."

Nick grabbed him by the arm and dragged him to the screen. "Retinal scanner active." The computer reported.

"You don't think we've wiped your clearance from the system?" Alexander spoke cockily.

"I know you erased my password." Nick spoke with a shrug. "Probably deleted my retinal scan." Nick then moved even closer to him. "But if you want to stay ahead of me, Mr. Secretary," That's when he picked up his eyepatch revealing his scarred eye. "You need to keep both eyes open."

They both moved to the screen together, it scanning both of their eyes before reporting, "Alpha level confirmed. Encryption code accepted. Safeguards removed."

Emily was working on monitoring the helicarriers while Maria had moved to a more protection job. "Charlie Carrier is forty-five degrees off the port bow." Emily reported. That's when Maria saw HYDRA agents moving towards the control room.

Maria looked to her superior, noticing she was too locked in on the helicarriers to pay attention to what was happening outside. She rolled back in her chair, waiting for them to try to come in through the door. Once they tried, they were shot down. Emily did a jump at the sound of the bullets, not expecting as Maria rolled back to computers. Emily just continued to look at her, but Maria was still in her work mode. "Six minutes."

Steve and Melody were still shooting at the HYDRA agents, but it was kind of becoming too much, and they still needed to get to the Charlie Carrier. "Hey, Sam, Clint," Steve began as they switched to just running away. They were about to do something risky and Melody was terrified. "We're gonna need some rides."

"Roger." Sam reported.

"Let us know when you're ready."

Melody got the edge of the helicarrier, pausing and looking down at what was below her. She'd be dead. Even as a super soldier, she would be dead. "No." She protested while shaking her head. "I won't."

"Too bad you don't have a choice." Steve spoke as he moved to her sides.

"What are you doing?" She asked in a panicked voice as he began to lift her in the air. "No! Steve, don't!" He threw her off the helicarrier, her scream following as Steve jumped after her.

"We just did!"

Melody tried to straighten out her body in case she landed in the river. "Steve, if we survive this, you're so dead!" She screamed through the radio transmission.

That's when Sam went to Steve, pulling him up by the arm, Clint doing the same for Melody. "I've got you, cry baby." Clint told her as he flew straight up.

"I almost fell to my death! I don't want to hear it!"

When they got to the helicarrier, Clint placed her down lightly before touching his feet to the ground, the two ending up in a one arm embrace. "What happened to Super Soldier Melody?"

"Super Soldier Melody is going to kick your ass, I swear."

Clint opened his mouth with a smile, about to say something else when Bucky came out of nowhere, knocking Steve down, off the helicarrier. "Steve!" Melody yelled out.

Clint turned around, his gun ready, about to shoot him, but Bucky grabbed his arm. Clint struggled and Melody froze. How could she kill her grandfather? How could she let her grandfather kill her technical fiancé? That's when Bucky slammed his head into Clint's sending him falling and gripping to the ledge of the helicarrier for dear life.

I left you with a cliffhanger for the millionth time! Alright guys, I'm thinking of writing Melody and Clint into Thor: The Dark World into Melody Scribbles, so let me know if that's something you guys want to see before I began working on the Agent Carter story. Also, would you guys be interested in having review responses like how I do on my Olympus Has Fallen story? Let me know in reviews or PM's or email or whatever you prefer! I hope you guys enjoyed! Remember to review!