Shannon woke up minutes later seeing that her arms were restrained. She looked up to see Steve in heavier restraints, Natasha, and Sam in regular handcuffs with two other STRIKE guards with them as they were in moving armoured van.
"Glad you okay." said Natasha, as she was bleeding out from her shoulder.
"Me too... You don't look so good yourself." Shannon spoke, as she looked to Steve as he had tougher looking restraints on his arms. Shannon moved her head to rest it on Steve's shoulder, "Thanks for stopping my fall Steve."
"You're welcome." He says to her, "Are sure you're all right?"
"Are you?"
"I don't know honestly, I guess you and I didn't expect a double whammy now did we?"
"They looked right at us and didn't recognize us..." Shannon said Sadly, "Oh this is going to crush her family..."
"Yeah I know," Steve spoke sadly, "Even when I had nothing I had Bucky... And you had Melly..."
Shannon sniffed as she felt Steve lower his head to touch hers.
"Are you two going to kiss yet?" asked Natasha.
"Natasha, you're bleeding and all you can think of is that Shannon and Steve are going to make out?" said Sam, "Look she'll die if her wound isn't treated right away."
At that point the guard took out a taser as the Guard was about to shove it in his face, But rather that the guard tased the other guard. The guard took off his helmet as they saw Maria Hill, "Okay that was squeezing my head... So who are you now?"
"Ah Sam Wilson, this is Maria Hill. Sam and I run every other morning."
"Ah well let's get out of here shall we?"
"Yes Please." Shannon said.
Location unknown
"About time you all got here." said Nick Fury as everyone say him in a hospital bed as they were in a makeshift hospital like base of operations.
"Fury!" said Shannon, "How?"
"Tetradoxine B: reduces the pulse to one heartbeat a minute. Banner made it for his stress-related issues. It didn't go well for him, but we found uses for it."
Steve and the gang got Nick up to speed on what was happening as Maria showed them three chips, that can be used to reprogram the helicarriers to destroy themselves.
"We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We have to get past them, insert these server blades. And maybe, just maybe we can salvage what's left..."
"We're not salvaging anything. We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We're taking down S.H.I.E.L.D." Said Steve.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. had nothing to do with this."
"You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s been compromised. You said so yourself. HYDRA grew under right your nose and nobody noticed."
"Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed."
"How many paid the price before you did?"
"Look, I didn't know about Barnes and Johansen."
"Even if you had, would you have told us? Or would you have compartmentalized that, too? S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, it all goes."
"He's right." Said Maria Hill.
Fury glanced at Natasha, as Natasha gave a quiet indication of the same opinion. Fury then looks at Sam.
"Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower." Said Sam.
"Well... It looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain."
Elsewhere... In a Bank
"How's Nightmare?" asks Alexander Pierce as he enters the bank again.
A Technician looks at Pierce, "And there's a small problem."
"What is it this time?"
Pierce notices Nightmare going through flashbacks, but she's fighting to stay in control but he also knows she is a force to be reckoned with if the Winter Soldier isn't around to keep her in check.
"The Winter Soldier got her pregnant again."
Nightmare remembers seeing herself fighting... in the snowy castle as she sees a large missile being launched. She sees a Woman Dressed as Captain America with long curly Blonde hair calling out "Melly!" As she jumps onto a missile as she tries to defuse it it explodes. She wakes up as she sees the Soldier again she sees her left arm is torn off, she's burned but she's healing fast. She's confused, injured, weak and as she looks at him she sees his appearance change to who he was originally...
"Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes of the 107th... Bucky did god send you here to guide me to the pearly gates?" She says to him as she smiles at him before she collapses again. He picks her up in his arms.
"Shhh, just close your gorgeous blue/green eyes. I'm right here." He finally speaks.
"You were always my hero, Bucky..." she says as she passed out.
She then remembers he was always there, at first they kept things professional although she tried to get him to smile and laugh, then she sees him smile looking over her drawings, he kissed her, then making love to her many times. She lets some tears escape as she knows he how much loves her...
Back to reality she sees the scientist talking to Pierce and by reading their lips she can tell that they know she's carrying a future that Hydra can't allow her to have just yet.
"Get her ready for wiping but take her to a clinic to get it out of her give her the morning after pill and wipe her again we need both her and the Winter Soldier at their best." Orders Pierce.
"Right."
Nightmare throws the technician off that finished repairing her arm. She glares at Pierce as she is mad. She sees the men aim their guns at her, she icily glares at them as she watches Pierce come up to her. She knows they are the Enemy, and she wants to kill everyone in this room but they have more people in here than usual with tasers...
"Now now Nightmare, you're supposed to make our enemies fear us not making us fear you."
"... The man and woman on the bridge with the matching shields..." Nightmare spoke, "Who were they?"
"They were witnesses to your last assignment with the Winter Soldier."
"... But I know who they are and who the Winter Soldier really is..."
"You're quick as a whip and honest it's clear, but after tonight you'll never tell him. You've performed very well the last few weeks Nightmare, you and Winter Soldier make a great team..." He said as he takes a fist full of her hair as he pulls, "I know you two are romantically involved and if you think you two can run away and have a happily ever after ending together think again. Because as long as you're with us you'll never have the future you two dreamed of."
"Then you better hope someone kills you before I come to my senses." She glares. 'I outsmarted you guys already once before' she thinks remembering something else, 'I hope they never find out.'
"He's shaped the century with our guidance, Nightmare you are to make sure of it continues, because next time you two conceive you won't keep it for long we will make it better than both of you two combined. Yes, Nightmare you're our bargaining chip if he doesn't co-operate and right now what's in you is ours against you."
When Nightmare wakes up, she's in plenty of pain... as she sees the Winter Soldier in the room. Nightmare turns around as she hear him sit on the bed.
"Are you okay?" He asks her in Danish.
"No..." She replies back in Danish.
"What did they do to you?"
"I don't know..." she sobbed, as he forced her to turn around. They stare at each other for a few seconds as the Winter Soldier crawls into the bed as he cuddles up to her as she cries in his arms.
"They will pay Nightmare." He promised.
"Not yet mon chéri," she sobbed, "Not until we know more..." [Mon chéri = French for Honey]
"All right Milyy," He said. [Milyy = Russian for Honey]