Holly POV

"Alright Cap, call it." Tony asked as they stood around the holographic representation of the Fortress. They had landed undetected a few hundred yards from the main grounds, behind a huge rock outcropping. It had been late night when they left the States and now was early morning. They stood outside in the snow and cold to do a final briefing.

"Stark, you and Thor cover the outside and the air. If anything comes flying in or tries to fly out, you take it down. Lady Sif and Black Widow, you take the west entrance, be careful, it's a good place for snipers to hide. Hawkeye, you and Mockingbird will take the East Entrance. It opens into a large room so have those arrows ready. Lady Skywalker, you're with me. We're going in through the hanger if Thor and Stark would be so kind to drop us off. We'll all meet up here." He pointed to the center room. "This was Red Skull's main office and laboratory. If Holly is right about his meglomania, Doom will be there too."

"The rest of us will join you once the way is clear." Coulson spoke up. "Skye, Fitz and Simmons with Jarvis' help should be able to override whatever program Doom is using to control his Doombots."

"Umm, what about me?" Banner asked. The man looked like he was hopeful that his job would be to get the popcorn ready for the movie back home.

"If we need help, Hulk up and smash in." Holly quipped. "Hopefully you won't need to."

"Exactly." Steve said with a nod of agreement. "Everyone stay in communication, report anything of consequence. If we don't find anything, we get out, in case it's a trap and lift off." Then a small smirk took his face. "Then we bomb this place out of existance for old times sake."

In unison, both Holly and Tony said, "Or for fun."

Holly looked around at the mountains surrounding them and the drop off yards away, thankful Thor had been very gentle about dropping her off. It was nearly a sheer drop to the bottom. Snow covered the runway and there was no sign of any kind of defenses. "I don't like this. It's too quiet. There should be some kind of defense this close."

"Agreed." Steve, no Captain America said, very serious as he began carefully heading down the long runway, his shield ready. His eyes were in constant motion, scanning for danger. She wondered if he almost expected to see the Red Skull waiting for him. Hell, she almost expected to see the maniac herself. She knew very well what this runway had led to and couldn't believe she was there in person. The historian in her was completely fangirling.

"Does it look different?"

"Not from the outside." He said tightly, walking quicker and she lightly jogged to keep up. No doubt he just wanted to get in, complete the mission and get out. Touching his earpiece, he spoke to the team. "Stark, what's it like from above?"

"Quiet. No one up here but me and Shakespeare."

"Black Widow?"

"Doesn't look like anyone is home. Are we sure the intel is right?"

"It's quiet over here too. There's equipment, a few weapons but I think they've been here since the last time you were here Cap. I'm seeing really old Hydra stuff but nothing new." Hawkeye spoke up. "I don't even see any signs of a security system. You know, this is EDT, your Bavarian castle has been broken into, we're sending assistance."

"I have a bad feeling about this, the intel was good. We made sure of it." Coulson spoke up. "Cap, you make the call."

He didn't even hesitate. "We continue to the meeting point. Stay sharp."

Steve POV

Steve sensed the Doombot the moment before Holly did and managed to pull her to his chest and turn his arm so the shield deflected the energy blast. Then he flung out his arm and using the opposite wall, bounced the shield off it and decapitated the bot before catching the shield easily. "We have contact inside the hanger." He spoke to the team. They had nearly made all the way through the cavernous hanger before encountering the Bot.

Holly stepped back, united her saber, twirling it on and taking a defensive stance. "We have lots of contact Cap." Her eyes flashed with the light of her weapon, scanning the area around her, assessing threats much like she had in her classroom not even a day earlier.

He looked and saw the Doombots coming from all round them, weapons drawn, electronic eyes blue. It brought him back to when he had first come to the Castle and been surrounded by Hydra soldiers. Their energy weapons even looked similar. "Confirmed. The bots can cloak themselves. I bet we are all surrounded. Fight to the center folks. Banner, keep your ear open!"

Holly POV

"Cap, on your 6!" Holly called out, doing a backflip before kicking down a bot and using her saber to decapitate it and then mentally throwing the head through the chest of another bot.

"Skywalker down!" She dropped flat to the ground as Steve flung his shield in the direction she had been standing, taking out one bot while one of Hawkeye's arrows took out another. Black Widow and Mockingbird worked together to take out one, Widow using her Bites to fry it while bo staffs were driven though it's head. She was conserving her ammunition.

Soon the group found themselves surrounded, facing the open doors of the former laboratory of Johann Schmitt. Doom had been a busy boy, there were easily 200 bots counting the ones already taken down. "If you cover me, I can get behind them and we can break through." Holly murmured, thanks to the earpieces, the team able to hear every word. The bots had been focusing on Tony any time he left the ground, no doubt programmed to limit one of the main strengths of the Iron Man armor. But they couldn't have much programming when it came to her.

"How do you plan to accomplish that?"

"With a bit of a boost from Captain America of course."

"You're sure?" Steve asked, looking first at her and then the ceiling over the bots, no doubt figuring the angle he'd need to have the shield at. The ceilings in front of the lab were high, but not limitless.

"Come on, I saw the footage of Nat during the Battle of New York. It'll be cake."

"Then we'll do a repeat. I'll cover your back." Black Widow spoke up, flinging one of her Widow Bites and shorting out a nearby bot.

Holly took a running start and jumped onto the infamous shield, Steve easily lauching her into the air, angling the shield so she went up and over instead of just up. She couldn't help her cry of "Wahoo!" and hoped somewhere Dum Dum was proud to see his niece fighting besides his old friend.

"I am not yelling that." Natasha's flat tone made Holly laugh outloud as she landed on both feet low to the ground, her saber behind her and one hand out to balance herself. God, she missed this shit. The bots seemed confused when she had sailed over them, taking out four before even touching the ground. They didn't seem to understand which direction they should focus in as Natasha landed beside her in the same position, having fried more than one bot on the way over.

"Now this is reminding me of Belaruse." She quipped, as both she and Natasha began attacking the bots before them, working together as the others worked their way toward them.

"You would have to bring that up." Clint said with a sigh, one of his arrows taking out a bot as it tried to move around the two. There was now a clear path to the main laboratory.

A quick moving Doombot came out of it's cloak and before Holly could yell a warning, smashed Steve in the chest, throwing him into the far wall. She quickly reacted, turning and easily cutting the machine in quarters, slicing with both blades quickly enough to form an X before it fell apart. Natasha diving between the legs of another one to duck it's swinging arm.

She hadn't seen that the bot had been a distraction for another larger one to grab her from out of nowhere. Not keeping her back to the team was a mistake. She didn't panic and fought against it's steel grip, trying to get at it with her blades. It simply crushed her against it's body with one arm, causing her to cry out from the sudden sharp pain while it yanked the saber from her hand and crushed it under it's heavy block feet.

It backed to a doorway and she heard the voices over her earpiece shouting that she was being taken. The urge to yell back was pushed down by her training. Conserve her breath for fighting, not talking. Steve had recovered from his impromptu flight into the wall and was running after her, fighting against Doombots that were moving to intercept and keep the team away. "Holly! HOLLY!"

Holly struggled as the Doombot tightened it's hold on her as it backed into the laboratory, the doors moving to close of their own volition Her saber was destroyed and her arms were restrained. The more she fought, the tighter the bot's grip was. She couldn't exactly knock it in the stomach or any of the normal self defense moves. She couldn't even reach the gadgets on her belt or backup weapons. She wiggled and kicked as best she could, not knowing just how flexible the robot might be. If she could knock it over, that could be a chance. She couldn't get a sense of it telekenetically. Was it different from the others? Shielded somehow?

Suddenly it's arms retracted so that it could grab her with both of it's claw like hands and bodily smash her against a wall and she screamed in pain. She could feel her ribs strain then break and she gasped to breath through the white hot stabbing agony. "Stop struggling scum." It's mechanical voice commanded. Again, another smash and her head bounced off the stone and her vision grayed as she felt blood coming out of her ear and nose. Great, a concussion.

The next events were a bit of a blur. From above them, the Hulk came smashing through only a few yards away and crushed the bot's head with his hand before it could react. The now defunct bot body collapsed and so did she. Then the other bots that had been fighting the team, turned their attention toward them. The door stopped from moving thanks to the combined work of Thor and Tony. "Hulk, look out!" She managed to gasp from the floor, the pain overwhelming as she tasted blood. Punctured lung?

Hulk turned and saw the bots and with a strange tenderness, picked her up, holding her against his chest while the bots fired ineffectively against his back. His large hand nearly wrapped around her entirely as he protected her. "Tiny Jedi. Hulk save Jedi." His voice growled to her as he kept her close.

"Thanks." She managed before giving in to the darkness and passing out.