AN: I am at the winter soldier part, this is the biggest area of change in the story or things were added. For this is important part of the story just like the avengers. For Emily reunites with Lauren and Steve in the avengers and in the winter soldier she reunites with Bucky.
As soon as Emily and Steve entered a gym with their hoodies up that the tossed the bag with the uniform in it in a basketball court before they left the gym. Once Emily and Steve left the gym that they walked quickly and carefully to the hospital to retrieve the flash drive from the vending machine. When they reached the vending machine that Emily panicked for the flash drive was no longer there. Anyone could have that flash drive and they most likely won't know what was in it, well she didn't either but there was clearly some S.H.I.E.L.D. stuff on there. This Emily noticed in the reflection of the glass of the vending machine was Natasha chewing on some gum. Steve saw her, he was not happy for he pushed Natasha into a room and Emily quickly followed Steve.
"Where is it?"
"Safe."
"Do better!"
"Where did you get it?"
"Why would I tell you?"
"Fury gave it to you. Why?"
"What's on it?"
"I don't know."
"Stop lying!"
"I only act like I know everything, Rogers."
"I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?"
"Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you." Emily stood at the side watching Steve and Natasha, Steve was about ready to say something when Emily spoke.
"Look, I know that with what you learned in the last couple of days was a lot to to we in, but we not here to talk about Nick hiring the bloody pirates." As Emily said the last part that she hardly notice she spoke in an English accent. Steve looked at her oddly.
"Did you just use an English accent and an English swear word?" Emily froze when Steve said that, Emily clapped her hand to her forehead.
"I went to Hogwarts to often." Emily looked at the other two. "Never mind, we are not here to talk about accent that I unknowingly used." Steve looked back at Natasha before he went on.
"I'm not gonna ask you again."
"I know who killed Fury. Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists, the ones who do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last fifty years."
"So he's a ghost story."
"No he isn't Steve." Steve looked at her. "While he has been doing assassinations in the last fifty years but Hades and myself believe that he might be around longer than that."
"The earliest record of his assassinations was fifty years ago." Emily looked at Natasha.
"True, but from what I learned form the ones he killed as well as from Howard before he died was what he looks like as well a a who he was working for. Even if I hadn't seen him that I know at some point he worked for the Soviet or the KGB. I am not sure which one but I am not sure if he was just found by them or not but he works for HYDRA now." Emily this turned to Steve. "If you remember in World War II at the castle do where I blacked out from over using my powers that Zola was playing on using the serum on Gabe and makes him into a face of HYDRA or something similar to that."
"Are you saying that someone from Project demigod or someone that worked with us is the winter soldier or something?"
"I don't know, not for sure." Steve and Emily looked at Natasha before she spoke.
"I can't say for sure of who he is but I have saw him before. Five years ago I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot at my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff, I pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, so he shot him straight through me." Natasha pulls her shirt up to show the bullet wound on the side of her stomach. "A Soviet slag, no rifling. Bye-bye bikinis."
"Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now." There was a hit of smile from Natasha.
"Going after him is a dead end. I know, I've tried." Natasha holds up the flash drive. "Like you said, he's a ghost story." Steve takes the flash drive from Natasha.
"Well, let's find out what the ghost wants."
"Well that's different. It's mostly trying to find the winter soldier." Steve and Natasha merely smiled when Emily said that. Once they left the hospital that Steve, Natasha and Emily to to the mall disguised as a civilian couple and friend.
"First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk."
"If I run in these shoes, they're gonna fall off." Emily smiled when Steve said that.
"Good thing that is not the case with me." Steve laughed when Emily said that, Emily smiled, it was great to see Steve was more adjusted to this time an he has been when the battle of Manhattan happened. The three of them entered a Mac store to use one of their computers, it was Natasha that was using the computer.
"The drive has a level six homing program, so as soon as we boot up SHIELD will know exactly where we are."
"How much time do we have?"
"Uh...about nine minutes from..." Natasha put the flash drive into the computer. "Now." There was a few moments of silence as Natasha was trying to figure out what was on it. "Fury was right about that ship, somebody's trying to hide something. This drive is protected by some sort of AI, it keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands."
"Can you override it?"
"The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly."
"Hang on." Steve looked at Emily when spoke. "Why would a flash drive have an AI on it?" Natasha merely shrugged.
"I don't know."
"That just seems odd to me." Something was just off about that flash drive with the AI on it, at times it seems like there was a soul in the flash drive but that seems unlikely. It might be possible, cosindering what Colonel Phillips did, but it was more likely to built a machine Huns out a soul int a flash drive.
"I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from." Just than an apple employee walked up to them.
"Can I help you guys with anything?" Steve was unsure of what to say as well as Emily but Natasha seem to thought of something for she put one hand on Steve's arm and the other on his shoulder before she spoke.
"Oh, no. My fiancé and his sister was just helping me with some honeymoon destinations."
"Right! We're getting married." Emily was glad Natasha thought of something, not that she wouldn't have been able to, with S.H.I.E.L.D. after them that with coming up something quick was a little difficult for Emily since her mind was everywhere as well as her senses. Natasha resumed using the tracer on the flash drive.
"Congratulations. Where do you guys thinking about going?" Just than that there was a a beeping sound as the signal was being traces somewhere in New Jersey. Steve looked at the monitor to see of where the signal was being traced before he looked back at the apple employee.
"New Jersey."
"Oh." The employee and Steve were looking at each other for a moment. "I have the exact same glasses."
"Wow, you two are practically twins." Emily snorted and was close of laughing when Natasha said that.
"Yeah, I wish. Specimen. Uh...if you guys need anything, I've been Aaron."
"Thank you." Emily was getting a bit antsy and it seems Steve was as well.
"You said nine minutes, come on."
"Shh, relax. Got it." Emily couldn't believe it of where the signal was coming from, it was one place of where she hasn't been to in years. Steve lean forward as he looked where the signal was coming from.
"You know it?"
"I used to. Let's go." Emily pulled the flash drive from the computer as they walked out of the store, as they walked out that Emily could see some of the agents walking around. "Standard tac-team. Two behind, to across, two coming straight at us. If they make us, I'll engage, you hit the south escalator to the metro." Emily looked around trying to think of a better way out of this mess.
"I don't think that is the way to go, Steve. If this was a HYDRA base, than go for it. But this is a mall not a blood HYDRA base." Two agents were coming straight towards them.
"Shut up and put your arm around me and Emily, laugh at something I said."
"What?"
"Do it!" Steve quickly put his arms around Emily and Natasha and laughs, the two agents walks past them. Steve moved his arms away before heading towards the escalator, as they rode down that Emily noticed Brock, Natasha noticed him as well. Natasha turned to Steve.
"Kiss me."
"What?" That was what Emily thought. Emily wondered what Lauren would be thinking if she was here, most likely be pissed off.
"Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable."
"Yes, they do." Natasha quickly pulls Steve's head down and kisses him, Brock looked away from them, he hardly noticed Emily standing behind Steve and Natasha. When Brock looked away that Natasha let go and the three of them walked down the rest of the escalator.
"You still uncomfortable?"
"It's not exactly the word I would use."
"Yeah, while you are just lucky that it is me and not Lauren. Otherwise I think she would be hitting your shield at the moment."
"Thank you for that reminder."
"Any time, bro." Emily said that as she walked next to Natasha, Natasha looked between the two of them before she smiled and shook her head. The three of them walked out of the mall. They moved quickly through the parking before Emily spotted a truck that could hold four people in the front without a problem. Emily and Steve ran over to it while Natasha followed them, Emily and Steve started to rewire the truck, as they did so that Emily heard a shout.
"Emily!" Emily looked up from the engine and noticed that Arabella was walking in he parking lot looking around. Emily whistled, Arabella heard and noticed Emily as Emily waved Arabella over to where Emily was as Steve went on rewiring the car. When Arabella reached them that Emily spoke.
"What are you doing here?"
"You didn't show up, last night after you said that you were going to visit Steve, than go to Hogwarts." As Arabella spoke that Emily went back to helping Steve rewiring the truck. "What are you doing?" Emily looked at Arabella.
"Borrowing the truck."
"Why?" Just than Steve managed to get the truck started.
"Get in and I will explain of what happened last night and what is happening." Steve went into the driver's seat while Emily and Arabella sat in the back and Natasha sat next to Steve in the front.
"What happened?"
"Nick managed to get into Steve's apartment last night." Emily went on telling Arabella of what followed about that, minus the part to where Nick was not really dead. For Emily knew that Arabella would know Nick wasn't dead, Emily implied that Natasha and Steve don't know about Nick being alive and that Emily would learn of why Nick faked his death later. It become clear that Arabella wasn't happy about Nick's faked death, but was able to figure out that they would get those answers later form Nick or Maria depending on who Emily and Arabella was able to find first. When Emily finished explaining to Arabella that Natasha spoke up.
"Where did Captain America and Lieutenant USA learn how to steal a car?"
"Nazi Germany."
"Mm."
"And we're borrowing. Take your feet off the dash." Emily slumped slightly against the seat as Natasha takes her feet off the dash.
"Alright, I have a question for you, of which you do not have to answer. I feel like if you don't answer it though, you're kind of answering it, you know?"
"What?"
"Was that your first kiss since 1945?" Before Steve could reply that Emily spoke up.
"Let me answer that question with a statement, he's engaged to Lauren." Natasha shrugged.
"I just wondering how much practice your brother had."
"I don't need practice."
"Everybody needs practice."
"It was not my first kiss since 1945. I'm ninety-one, I'm not dead. Unless if your forget that I am engaged." Emily was close of laughing when Steve said that, even though she is the same age as Steve.
"Just Lauren, though?" Steve and Emily chuckled.
"Pretty much, even if she did age that it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience."
"You just make something up."
"What, like you?" Emily looked over at Arabella.
"I am surprised that he didn't count me with that." Arabella laugh.
"So did I."
"You don't count, Emily."
"Why not?"
"Just because."
"Why not?"
"I am a Captain."
"I am the princess of the underworld, what's your point?"
"Forget it." Emily rolled her eyes when Steve said that.
"Like that makes sense." However it seems Natasha decided to stir the conversation back to where it was left off before Emily spoke up.
"The truth is a matter of circumstances, it's not all things to all people all the time. And neither am I."
"That's a tough way to live."
"It's a good way not to die, though."
"You know, it's kind of hard to trust someone when you don't know who that someone really is."
"Yeah. Who do you want me to be?"
"How about a friend?" Natasha laughs softly.
"Well, there's a chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers."
"Even if he was, I know he would be bored if he has nothing to do with his life." When they pulled up to the gates of an abandoned military base that Emily couldn't believe it. She never thought that the signal would come from this place. Emily, Arabella, Natasha and Steve got,out of the truck and stood I. From of the gates of Camp Lehigh.
"This is it?"
"The file came from these coordinates."
"So did I." Emily walked up to the gates and pulled out an old pin and unlocked the rusty lock with ease. Emily pushed the gates open before they entered the camp. Emily and Steve looked around as the four of them slaked around the camp, she looked towards to the forest to the left of where the camp set up for the demigods was.
"I can't believe I am standing here again, the last time I was in this place was the morning of when you become Captain America." Steve looked over at Emily.
"I thought you would have come here after that."
"Well for a few years I was busy with the war, after that, my husband, brother had best friend were lost." The four of them walked around trying to pinpoint of where the signal comes from.
"This camp is where I was trained."
"I thought that was Camp Halfblood."
"No, he never went to camp expect for the battle of the labyrinth and a couple times I World War II. Once when I blacked out and the other couple times were the Fourth of July fireworks." Emily pointed to a clump of trees, there was enough light and enough space to see that inside the clump of trees was some sort of camp. "That was Project Demigod trained while the super soldier programs was in training."
"Did this camp change much?"
"A little." Emily stood besides Steve close to the flag pole, Emily remembered one days when she was watching Steve train. As she thought of that day that memory seem to be playing around the camp. For she saw the group of men that Steve trimmed with running past her and present Steve and the one soldier was yelling at them.
"Pick up the pace, ladies! Let's go! Let's go! Double time! Come on Rogers, move it!" The former Steve, small and skinny. Stopped and stares at Emily and present Steve. Emily could barley make out at the edge of camp was her former self, wearing a SSR uniform with some of her hair back. She was a couple of years younger in the memory but not much though. "Come on! Fall in! Rogers! I said fall in!" Former Steve runs off, just than Emily flew a hand on her arm, the vision left and she looked over to see Arabella standing there. Before Arabella could say anything that Natasha spoke.
"This is a dead end. Zero heat signature, zero waves, not even radio. Whoever wrote the file must have used a router to throw people off." Emily looked at Natasha when she spoke before looking away,than she noticed one of the buildings nearby, Steve noticed it, for they both know that building was not suppose to be there. "What is it?" Emily, Steve, Arabella and Natasha walked over to the building as Steve spoke.
"Army regulations forbid storing ammunition within five hundred yards from the barracks. This building is in the wrong place." Steve opens the lock with his shield before the four of them entered the building. Emily saw the switch and turned the lights on, as the lights turned on that she gasp in surprise. For they were standing in an old S.H.I.E.L.D. office, she should have figured that S.H.I.E.L.D. would a be used an old camp to use as their first headquarters.
"This is SHIELD."
"Maybe where it started." They four of them entered another room, there old frames of Howard Stark, Lauren Huntington and Colonel Chester Philips or Daedalus.
"There's Stark's father."
"Howard."
"That's Lauren Huntington." Steve didn't say anything and he walked away, natahsa loked at Emily, Emily just shrugged but didn't bother to say anything since there was nothing to say. Emily just wanted to figure out of where that signal came from and she knows it comes from here. As Emily walked around that she noticed that Steve went to a massive book shelf, Emily walked over to Steve as he spoke.
"If you already working in a secret office..." Steve pushed the book shelf and it slides to reveal an elevator behind it. "Why do you need to hide the elevator?" Emily, Arabella, Steve and Natasha entered the elevator, Natasha used one of the gadgets and punched in the numbers before the elevator went down. When the doors open that the entered a room with old looking computers, Emily walked further into the room as Natasha spoke.
"This can't be the data-point, this technology is ancient."
"I wouldn't count your chickens before they hatch." As Emily looked at the computers that it suddenly went into life, Emily looked to where Natasha was. Emily noticed that there was a small flash drive port and the flash drive was in the flash drive port. Emily walked over to where Natasha and Steve were and Arabella joined Emily.
"Initiate system?" Natasha typed on the keyboard.
"Y-E-S, spells yes." Natasha took a couple of steps back and smiles. "'Shall we play a game?'" Emily smiled as Natasha turns to Steve. "It's from a movie that..."
"Yeah, I saw it." Suddenly there was an accented voice that spoke up that sounded oddly familiar to Emily.
"Rogers, Steven. Born, 1922. Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna. Born, 1984. Barnes, Emily Sarah Nee Rogers. Born, 1922. Evans, Arabella Persephone. Born, 1997." Emily looked up and saw an old camera moving above them as it analyze them.
"It's some kind of a recording." Emily looked at the machine, as she looked at it that Emily realized something for the first time. It seems at that moment Arabella realized it as well, for Emily got the answer to the question she has been asking for years. Emily looked at the computer screen and spoke.
"This is not a recording." Before Natasha or Steve could say anything that the accented spoke once more.
"Correct, Lieutenant. I may not be the man I was when the Captain and the Lieutenant took me prisoner in 1945, Fräulein, but I am." Suddenly there was an old photo of Dr, Arnim Zola appeared on the screen.
"Do you know this thing?"
"Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He's been dead for years." Emily looked over at Steve.
"Steve, Zola is alive, somehow in someway Zola managed to get his mind into this comforter but it is different from how Daedalus did it though." Thins Zola spoke.
"First correction, I am Swiss. As for the second, the Lieutenant is right. For I have never been more alive. " Emily looked at the computer anger building up in her, even though Arabella was calm that Emily knows that Arabella was not thrilled but she was most likely more panicked an anything else, expect for anger. For Zola was the reason Bucky fell and she lost him for seventy years and Bucky was still lost. "In 1972 I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body, my mind, however, that was worth saving on two hundred thousand feet of data banks. You are standing in my brain."
"How did you get here?"
"Invited."
"It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. SHIELD recruited German scientists with strategic values." Emily looked at Natasha.
"What?" Natasha looked at Emily.
"I thought you knew about that."
"No, I wasn't there when S.H.I.E.L.D. started. I was pretty much only in the demigod world. It wasn't till to about twenty or thirty years later that I learned about S.H.I.E.L.D. from Phil."
"They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own."
"HYDRA should have died with the Red Skull."
"Cut off one head, two more shall take its place."
"Prove it."
"Accessing archive." The computer screen shows them old footage of Johann Schmidt/Red Skull and the original S.H.I.E.L.D. founders. "HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize, was that if you try to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, SHIELD was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside SHIELD. For seventy years HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed."
"That's impossible, SHIELD would have stopped you."
"Accidents will happen." The screen shows them of when HYDRA killed Howard and Maria Stark and how it was made look like a car accident as well as the fake death of Nick Fury along with some others. Some of them were brought in the open that Emily brought out in the open of what really happen.
"Some of those things I brought out into the open to show that it was no accident."
"True, but you didn't get to every single thing that HYDRA did in the past many years. HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum." In anger Steve smashes the computer screen of where Zola's face was than Zola's face appeared in the right screen. In her anger, Emily smashes hat computer screen, Zola's face appeared in the last computer screen. Emily's hand hit when she broke the glass of the screen, she was surprised that the screen was smashed when she hit it. "As I was saying..." Steve was looking at the last computer screen of where Zola's face was.
"What's on this drive?"
"Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm."
"What kind of algorithm? What does it do?"
"The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it." Suddenly the door behind them started to close behind them, Emily and Arabella could get out but she wasn't going to leave Steve and Natasha behind and she was sure Arabella would remain with her as well. Steve tried to stop it by throwing his shield between the doors but he was too late for the shield just hit the doors as the doors closed.
"Steve, I got a bogey. Short-range ballistic. Thirty seconds, tops."
"Who fired it?"
"SHIELD."
"I am afraid I have been stalling, Captain and Lieutenant." Natasha takes the flash drive out of the port, despite that fact that Zola went on talking. "Admit it, it's better this way. We're both of us...out of time." At the last word that Arabella punch the last screen and was cussing in Ancient Greek, Natasha looked at Arabella oddly. Emily was unsure of what to do, for Arabella did the only thing that Emily could think of. That was until Emily notice Steve throws a metal door aside, Emily pulled Arabella over and into the hole in the ground just as Steve and natasha joins them. Steve out his shield over the hole, Emily felt Arabella hold onto her, Emily held her as the place above them explodes. This was one reason of why she didn't want Arabella to know about who she really was. For Emily knew one day her old life would catch up with her, one reason why she didn't want Arabella to come with other on that one mission though she never really said it out loud. As well as every other mission Arabella did for S.H.I.E.L.D. Emily didn't want Arabella to be caught up in her old life, more so when it catches up with her. When it was quiet above that Steve removed his shield and picks up Natasha pf who was blacked out, while Emily stood up and got Arabella to walk along side her to get out of the area quickly before the agents find them.
Bucky's pov
When his mission was successful that he went to his superior's home for his next mission. He went over to the table and sat down, it was dark in the room so no one could see him or not properly. When he sat down that he put his gun on the table next to him, and just waited there till his superior comes home to give him his next assignment. After about a hour that his superior entered the kitchen, his superior noticed right away, before his superior could say anything that a woman called out to his superior from another room close by.
"I'm going to go, Mr. Pierce. You need anything before I leave?"
"No. Uh...it's fine, Renata, you can go home."
"Okay, night-night."
"Good night." The door opened and closed, than his superior shook the milk at him. "Want some milk?" He didn't reply, he just stared at his superior. "The timetable has moved. Our window is limited. Three targets, level six." His superior pours himself a glass of milk before he joined him at the table. "They already cost me Zola. I want confirmed death in ten hours." Just than a woman entered the kitchen.
"Sorry, Mr. Pierce, I...I forgot my phone." Than she noticed him sitting at the table, he just stared at her.
"Oh, Renata. I wish you would have knocked." His superior picked up the gun and shoot it at the woman. Than he placed the gun down on the table and looked back at him. "I need you to get this mission done as soon as possible. Plus, one of the targets might cause you some trouble, kill her first." The winter solider stood up before he put the mask on, picked up the gun and left the room.