" Hey Jordan, listen, it's Robin calling for the seventh time. I don't know where you are but I really need you right now." Robin said into her phone as she searched through the Black Windows floor for anything that she could take and use. She had already taken a new shirt and some jeans because she did not want to face Hydra in running shoes and a tank top. Though she had to stop herself from putting on the catsuit. " I have tried calling Ward but he is not picking up either. Listen, Hydra has Simon and Cecilia and well. . . I am going after them. If you get this, call me, better yet get your ass to Stark Tower, we are leaving from there. Jordan I am scared out of my mind and could really use you right by my side right now. You. . . you said that you were going to be here for me, you are the one person that I know that I can trust in this world and you. . . you aren't answering your phone. Dammit, where the fuck are you Jordan?" Robin hissed as she kicked the wall as hard a as she could. " Listen, we are leaving soon. If you don't get here in time. . . well keep tracking the news, if you hear me being dead. . . just. . . just make sure that my siblings are fine. Keep them safe." Robin whispered as she hung on the phone before kicking into one of the safes that had some of the Black Widow's best weapons in them.
" Ma'am, I could have opened that for you." JARVIS said, making Robin jump.
" Not now, Jarv, I am breaking into shit and really, honestly, if just feels better breaking into it." She said as she just felt an evil smile come to her face as she placed her hands into one of her favorite Avenger's weapon. The Black Widows Bite, she had heard all about it and as she slide the gloves around her hands and the charged weapon around her wrists, she felt strong.
" Might I add that there are some charged disks in the next case over." JARVIS said to her as she spun her leg around, kicking into the glass as she did so and placed some of the weapons into her pockets.
" Thanks Jarv." Robin whispered as she walked back to the elevator and found that the guys were all looking for her as she hit the button to charge up the bite in the Black Widows Bite. " So, I was thinking. Cap. you go with Falcon, take the back entrance to the place that we are going into. They'll want James, its what they are really after anyway, so we will go in there guns blazing and shoot down as many people as we can. Take down as many bastards as we can and see who gets to my siblings first." Robin said, trying to keep it cheerful.
" How do we even know where they have taken them?" Sam asked as he looked from Robin to behind him, that's when she noticed what James was wearing.
It wasn't anything that the Winter Solider would have wore, no that would have been all black and battle ready. No this, this was all him, but the other him, Bucky. From head to toe, he looked like a Hollowing Commando. The one that she had seen in the museum, Steve must have gone and stolen it for him. It was the same blue jacket that he had worn, or a replica, combat boots, and pants that showed everything. Robin bit her lip lightly as she tried to keep her composure, she really didn't know if she was going to break out laughing or rip all of his clothing off, either way she had to bite down on her lip until she thought it was going to bleed to stop her from doing it. And, of course, they were all weaponed out, even Steve had a few guns wrapped around her belt, but he also had his shield with him. Sam looked just like the Falcon that she had heard about from people of S.H.I.E.L.D, ready to fly off at any moment. She knew that she looked the most unprepared, but then again, she had never even been in a gunfight before, this was still all new to her. It still scared her half to death.
" Because, they want him." Robin said as she pointed to James. " They know that if they have me, they have him. To get me, they need something that I would not stand to live without, my siblings. They have to take them someplace that they would know that the Winter Solider would know about. Someplace that would be easy for him to get to, someplace that he would be able to get to quickly so that they could get him back in a timely fashion. They take him to a place that he knows."
" There is only one Hydra shelter around here. It's about twenty minutes outside of New York City. They'll most likely have the kids as close to the bottom floor as they can." James said as he started to look over to Robin.
" Why would you say that? Lower levels are the easiest to get to." Robin said, wondering how much he really knew about Hydra.
" No. They go underground. Just because S.H.I.E.L.D liked having their buildings high in the sky does not mean that Hydra is that dumb. And that is where they'll have a machine to wipe my memory." Robin felt shocked as she looked to him, he was willing to have it all wiped to get her siblings back.
" It wont happen." Robin said as she placed her hand on his shoulder. " Ohana."
" Lilo and Stitch? Really?" Sam asked, rolling his eyes.
" I. . . I don't understand that reference." Steve said, looking from one face to another.
" Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind or forgotten." Robin said with a wink. " Now this is a shoot to kill mission. Ya see someone, ya kill them. I don't give a shit if they look like they are fifteen or eighty. They may be former S.H.I.E.L.D agents, shoot them before they try to give you an excuse. Get my siblings. That. That is the mission." Robin nodded lightly as she said it, trying to keep herself from crying.
" We're going to find them." James whispered to her.
" If you are going to wear that outfit, you need a haircut. It just looks all weird like that." Robin said, as she started to make her way towards the elevator.
" So, if me and Cap. are going to fly there. How are you two going to get there?" Sam asked as Robin made sure that both guns were working.
" I was thinking about taking one of Tony Starks cars, slamming it into the entry way of Hydra and possibly running some people over in the process." Robin said as she got into the elevator and hit the lower level button.
" Do you think that he is going to be mad that one of his cars is going to be destroyed." Steve asked as Robin just smiled to him, wiping out her phone and hitting the speed dial for Pepper's number.
" Hi Pepper. Have you seen the news? You have? Well good, I am taking one of Tony's cars and I am going to be slamming it into the doors of Hydra's building. Do you think that Tony will mind?" Robin asked, getting sick of all of the questions.
" Nah, you don't have to send Tony. He will just have to watch the news, make sure that you heard from me within the next forty-eight. If not, well then have him go in guns blazing." Robin said as she hung up the phone, making sure that neither Jordan or Ward had called. They hadn't.
" She's a brat when she's scared." Sam said as Robin just sighed.
" Wouldn't you be if the only two people that you loved in the world were in the hands of an agency that you thought was long gone?" James said back to Sam as the elevator doors opened as Robin walked away and started to look at all of the different cars before she found the one that she wanted.
" Hello Beautiful. We meet again." Robin whispered as she ran up the the blue Camaro. " You boys want a ride somewhere near there? It's a little windy and I wouldn't want you two getting lost along the way."
" She a brat." Sam whispered as Robin snickered.
Robin sped, like a bat out of hell, though she thought that ti seemed like the other way around. It seemed like they were going to an old, abandoned mill in the middle of no where, Robin allowed the rain and wind to sink into her skin as she waited for Falcon and Cap. to get out of view, hoping that she had not just sent them to their deaths. They all had communication with one another, they all had earpieces in that Steve had stolen from one of Tony's rooms. Robin could feel the weight of her heart in her stomach as she got back into the car, James still sitting in there, fumbling with something that he had been messing with the whole time as she finally looked to him, she tried to keep herself from crying. She could see everything in his eyes, his regret, his sorrow, his need to forgiveness from the one person that he loved, Robin wanted to give it all to him. She wanted to wrap him in her arms and just take him back into her apartment and wake up and have this whole thing just be some terrible nightmare, but she couldn't. If they died, she'd never forgive herself, she'd never forgive him.
" Listen, I understand why you did it. I know that you didn't have a choice. A mission is a mission, even a person who didn't even try out of S.H.I.E.L.D knows that. But. . . but until Simon and Cecilia are okay, I . . . I just."
" It's okay. I get it. But here." He whispered as he handed over two things, both hanging from his hands.
" Dog tags?" She asked as she looked at them, rubbed her fingers against them until she figured out the name. BARNES, JAMES. 306542580USA A NEG. CATHOLIC. " You. . . your dog tags?" Robin asked, looking up to him.
" I think that one of us better remember me. Seeing as they'll just take them from me if I am captured. . . again." He said as she looked down at them once again, rubbing her fingers against the letters.
" You're not going anywhere. Stop. . . stop thinking like that. I'm not losing anyone that I love today." She whispered.
" You. . . you still love me?" James asked with a smile that she thought could light up the sky.
" I can't stop loving you in just a few hours." Robin chuckled as she placed his dog tags around her neck. Then she took the other thing from him. " A pair of goggles?" She asked looked from him to the goggles with a doubtful look on her face.
" Their bullet proof, they will detect body temperatures through concrete, and they have night vision." James said as she placed them on her head.
" Yeah, cause you know, they are totally going to be going for my eyes if they are shooting for me, not my chest." Robin said as she turned the car on, blasting the music as loud as she could, and slamming her foot on the gas. " Let's go take down Hydra."
Robin felt herself screaming, but not out of fear, just for the fact that they hurdled straight through a gate, through a doorway, and straight into the entryway of Hydra. James had been shooting the whole time, Robin even hit someone and parked the car over them, unfazed by the fact that there was an alarm going off or the fact that there were people coming towards both her and James, shooting guns already as she placed the goggles around her eyes and ran right for them. Robin found that she was even good at dodging bullets, go figure. She jumped, wrapping her hand around the gun of the first man, spinning them both around before twisting his arm and slamming him on the ground. The next she just shot, not in the mood to be twisting and turning too much as James shot two, the bullets going right past her ears as they walked on.
" Stairs?" Robin asked as James pointed with his gun towards the very back of the building.
" We're in." She heard Steve say, making her chuckle.
" Oh common boys, you're late for the party." Robin said as she shot another guy, making it known that they were already in and working their way down.
" And I'm guessing that they know it." Sam chuckled as they made they way down the stairs, Robin jumping railings as she ran towards the bottom level.
She was shocked on how few people she saw between the lobby and the last level of the entire building. Robin felt like she should have shot, shocked, or permanently damaged more than a couple people here and there. She worried that they had been tipped off that they were all coming, that it was not just Robin and James coming to get her siblings, that they would have taken them to another place or worse. Killed them. As James opened the door, it seemed like all of the doors were slammed shut, all meaning that no one would be hiding around the corners for them not to see, all but one. It was light up, it could not not be seen from the entire floor and when James stopped dead in his tracks, Robin knew that they were in the right place. Robin lightly placed her hand onto his shoulder before she dropped it. Something made her heart stop in its place, their voices calling to her.
" Robin?" Simon screamed making her stop in her place.
" Robin?" Cecilia screamed, her voice was soft and yet so scared.
" You know there are going to be people in there, waiting for us." James whispered, trying to hold the girl back. " We should wait for the others."
" Robin!" Cecilia screamed at the top of her lungs, it sounded like chains were being wrapped around her body and that is when Robin snapped and took off running.
The first person in the room, she just slid right past him, throwing two of the electric disks at him as she past and smiled as he went to the ground. The next, well the next she lunged herself off of the man on the grounds body, wrapping her legs around him, she used her changed Widows Bite and fell to the ground with him. She could hear the bullets coming pat her, hitting more people as she just ran to her siblings. They had a been blindfolded, their arms and legs all tied up. Robin just shook her head and kissed them both, through the blindfolds, letting them know that she was here for them finally as she searched for something to cut them free with, she didn't want them to see the bodies on the ground. But as she searched she could hear more people coming, she was ready to throw her final two disks at them when a voice called out that made her smile, the voice that had always been there for her.
" Little bird?!" Jordan screamed.
" Jordan! Where in here!" She screamed as the man came around the doorway. " Jordan, what. . . what, how did you find us?" She asked as he cocked his gun and pointed it right to her head.
" Hey little bird." He whispered as she looked from James to Jordan as another person that she had always trusted came into the room. Ward.
" Ward?" Robin asked, she could not believe what she was seeing.
" Sorry Sweetheart." He said as he pointed his gun to her as well, she dropped her gun instantly to the ground and kicked it to them as Jordan came around, taking her other gun away from her and taking her Widows Bites off of her wrists before he pointed the gun straight to her head.
" We're getting caught up. Too many people. Where are you two?" Steve said into her earpiece, which Jordan had not heard.
" I'm really sorry that you got yourself into this, Robin. But please know, I was trying to protect you this whole time." He whispered to her, the gun still on her lobe.
" How?! By kidnapping my siblings and keeping me away from them?" Robin cried out as Grant went over and took the weapon from James. Jordan ripped her goggles off of her face, she could hear the snap of her noise as he did so and she had to do everything in her power to keep from screaming as the blood started to come out of it.
" No! By trying to make you figure out who the hell he was before it got out of hand. See when S.H.I.E.L.D fell, Hydra had already recruited me a long time ago, see they were the reason that little old me even got into S.H.I.E.L.D. So when I found that that lover boy was in your house and wasn't going to leave, well I had a Hydra agent act like she was some freak with a crystal ball, thinking that you would figure it out then. But nooo, you had to still be a good girlfriend. By the time that he had just come out and said it, it was too late, the mission was already in place. I tried to tell Grant to stop, but you know how bad boys can get." Jordan said with a smile to Ward.
" See? Not so tough now that your girlfriend is in danger. See this guy put up a good fight back at that park. Tried to take him out there but. . . he had too much to fight for back then, though it would be pretty bad just to leave you and the kids before." Grant said mostly to James, who just kept his eyes on Robin. " You cut me up pretty bad, but your girlfriend saved me."
" You. . . you were. . . you were Hydra." Robin whispered.
" We're in the staircase, can see that you both have already been there. Where are you?" Falcon cried out.
" You wanna hear another secret?" Jordan whispered. " I was spying on your parents the whole time for Hydra. When they knew too much, well it was time for them to go, but I still made sure that you and the kiddos were going to be out of the building that night. See, I thought that it would make you smart enough to leave, send them to a good school, and we could enjoy the real life, away from S.H.I.E.L.D for awhile, until I could bring you over to our side. But nooo, you had to be a good big sister, you had to make sure that they still had a sense of family. You had to be with them. You had to go to Stark for a job. You had to allow him into your house." Jordan said as he flailed the gun at James for a moment before putting it back to her head.
" You wanna see her die, Solider? Because you are going to see her brains scattered on the floor if you don't get into that chair." Grant said as he started to pull James over, Robin had not even seen the chair in the middle of the room before, that must have been the one that they had used on him before.
" No!" Robin screamed as she tried to pull away from Jordan's tight grip. " Please Jordan I know that you are better than this. I know that you are a good person, please do not do this to us!" Robin cried out, trying to see where her best friend that turned so evil. James did not move, he only kepts his fearful eyes on Robin.
" Shoot her." Grant said. " Just make it unfatal for now." He added as Jordan looked to her and it seemed like there was nothing left of her old friend.
" No!" James screamed as he finally started to move, walking straight to the chair.
" Good Solider." Grant said as James sat in it and strapped him in.
" No! Don't do this! Please! Please! I will do anything. I . . . I will do anything that you guys ask of me!" Robin cried out, trying to break from the grip of Jordan who was surprisingly strong. As they placed something in his mouth, she just kept her eyes on him.
" We're in the basement." She could hear Falcon cry out of her earpiece.
" See, we are going to wipe your mind, then we are going to make you slaughter the three of them. Good way to get you back into the game." Grant said.
" No!" Jordan cried out as Robin did not take her eyes off of James. " No. . . they are good for us. They still can be brought to Hydra, they can be good agents. Besides, we both know what he would do to her when he has just come out of his. . . wiped stage." Jordan said as he looked at James, Jordan had known who he was from day one.
" Fine." Grant said as he looked to Robin.
" Thank you Ward!" Robin cried out.
" Shoot her." He said and at that exact moment she felt the warm blood coming from her side, she could hear the shots, two of them back to back bang bang. But she really did not know it had been her who had been shot.
" No!" James screamed at the top of his lungs.
" I am so sorry little bird. I'll. . . I'll make sure that they become good Hydra agents, something that will make you proud." Jordan whispered as he allowed her to drop to the ground.
The last thing that could hear something snap, it was loud, it could be heard from floor above. She could see the feet of both Captain America and Falcon come in and she could see Grant fall to the ground, dead. Robin was starting to feel the pain coming from her double wounds to the gut as she cried out. But then, she could see James standing above her, his hand around Jordan's throat, she could see the look of terror coming from her best friends face. Then she could hear the snap. She could feel the tears of both pain and sadness coming down her face but she could feel the fire coming from her stomach more than anything else. Her hands were freezing cold as Jordan's body dropped to the ground and she found her head lifted up, James lightly moving the hair out of her face as he looked to her full of terror and sadness.
" They're safe?" Robin whispered as all he could do was nod.
" Good." She whispered as she closed her eyes, the pain already becoming too much for her. And she slipped and everything went black.
