Emily's pov
When morning came around that the four of them were back in Washington D.C., Emily has a feeling that Severus was worried about Arabella by now. Honestly, Emily wasn't sure what Arabella would tell him, not only that but she was unsure of what to tell Severus Either. When they reached a housing area that Steve went to a house and knocked on it, after a minute a black man answered the door, Emily assumed that this was Sam, the guy Steve told her about.
"Hey, man."
"I'm sorry about this. We need a place to lay low."
"Everyone we know is trying to kill us." Sam paused for a moment before he opened the door to let them enter.
"Not everyone." As Emily and the others were cleaning up that Emily noticed that Natasha look sad and thoughtful but she noticed that Arabella looked thoughtful as well.
"Arabella, are you all right?" Arabella looked over at Emily.
"Is this normal for you? To get blow up in the last seventy years?"
"The last time was in World War II, after Hades adopted me, I knew one day my war life would catch up with me." Emily paused before looking at Arabella. "As you know that I didn't tell you of who I was till I felt I was ready, there was also more to it than that and Hades knows it. Besides not telling you of who I was till I felt ready another reason I didn't want to tell you was because I was worried that you would be caught up in it. I didn't want that to happen to you, you already had enough to worry about besides being a demiwitch and another war on it's way in your other world." Emily looked at the mirror before Arabella spoke up.
"Emily, I had a thought, what if the winter soldier is someone from your past?"
"I thought that there was a good chance of that, but I never knew anyone with a metal arm before."
"What if their arm was cut off since you saw them and was giving a metal arm?"
"That is possible." Emily looked back at Arabella before putting her hand back on Arabella's shoulders. "But like I told you before, let me worry about the winter soldier. For what I learned in the war and from Howard that the winter soldier might have not have been willing to be the winter soldier. I did tell you about what they wanted to Gabe that one time in the war. But yes I am aware that that the winter soldier could have been willing to do this. But until I know who it is and asked him some questions, that I am not certain of which one it is. For I learned in my long life that there is more than one way to look at things." Arabella nodded as they joined Steve and Natasha as Steve spoke to Natasha.
"You okay?"
"Yeah."
"What's going on?"
"When I first joined SHIELD, I thought it was going straight. But I guess I just traded in the KGB for HYDRA. I thought I knew whose lies I was telling, but...I guess I can't tell the difference anymore."
"There's a chance you might be in the wrong business." Natasha smiled faintly.
"I owe you."
"It's okay."
"If it was the other way around, and it was down to me to save your life, and you be honest with me, would you trust me to do it?"
"would now. And I'm always honest."
"Well, you seem pretty chipper for someone who just found out they died for nothing."
"Well, I guess I just like to know who I'm fighting." Emily put her brown leather jacket on before she spoke.
"Natasha, Steve never really dread, he was just asleep." Just than Sam walked into the room.
"I made breakfast. If you guys...eat that sort of thing." The five of them went into the kitchen as they are that they spoke.
"So, the question is: who in SHIELD could launch a domestic missile strike?"
"Pierce."
"Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world."
"Too bad the labyrinth is destroyed that would be a way to get in. However the only downside to that is the time frame, one never knows of how much time will pass in the labyrinth."
"But the labyrinth is dangerous as well."
"True." Sam and Natasha looked at Emily and Arabella funny. It was Sam who spoke.
"Labyrinth?"
"Long story, I will tell you later." Steve went back to what they were talking about.
"But he's not working alone, Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star."
"So was Jasper Sitwell."
"So, the real question is: how do the four most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?" Emily shook her head when Steve said that.
"It's just three, SHIELD has no record of Arabella. I made sure of that." It was Natasha who spoke.
"Did you hack?"
"No, I hit Nick in the face when he brought up about giving Arabella a record." Natasha raised her eyebrow when Emily said that. "I will explain that later." Sam looked at Emily, than he looked over at Steve.
"You two look a like but you two are different. I guess that helped you two to lead the howling commandos. Anyway as for kidnapping a HYDRA agent. The answer is: you don't." Sam dropped a file in front of Steve.
"What's this?"
"Call it a resume." Natasha picks a photo of Sam with the para rescue team.
"Is this Bakhmala? The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you." Than Natasha looked at Steve as Emily and Arabella looked at the picture in her hand. "You didn't say he was a para-rescue."
"Is this Riley?"
"Yeah."
"I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs. What did you use, a stealth chute?"
"No. These." Sam handed Steve another file and he opens it before he reads it.
"I thought you said you're a pilot." Emily walked over to Steve and looked at the file and gasp slightly.
"I never said a pilot."
"I can't ask you to do this, Sam. You got out for a good reason."
"Dude, Captain America and Lieutenant USA needs my help. There's no better reason to get back in."
"Where can we get our hands on one of these things?"
"The last one is at Fort Meade, behind three guarded gates and a twelve-inch steel wall." Steve looked at Emily, Emily shrugged her shoulders.
"Shouldn't be a problem." Steve throw the falcon file done on the table before looking at Emily. "At the moment we need Rachel for I believe that we might need her for what we are going to do and it will let off some of your stream." Emily snapped her fingers and her appearance changed to her daughter of Hades appearance.
"Let's go find us a SHIELD agent." Emily went with Sam after getting the wings from the fort, Emily and Sam sat down at the bench of where they could see Jasper talking to the senator before he left. Emily and Sam were wearing sunglasses and Emily has a hat over her head and her hair was in a ponytail. As the senator left that Sam called Jasper, Jasper said something to his men before he answered his phone and Emily could hear Jasper over the phone.
"Yes, sir."
"Agent Sitwell, how was lunch? I hear the crab cakes here are delicious." Emily smiled when she saw the confused look on Jasper's face.
"Who is this?"
"The good looking guy and the good looking girl in the sunglasses, your ten o'clock." Emily laughed as Jasper looked around and failed to spot them "Your other ten o'clock." Jasper turned the other way and saw Emily and Jasper sitting on the bench. "There you go." Emily lowered her sunglasses and jasper glared at her when he saw of who she was.
"What do you want?"
"You're gonna go around the corner, to your right. There's a grey van, two spaces down. The three of us are gonna take a ride."
"And why would I do that?"
"Because that tie looks really expensive, and I'd hate to mess it up." Jasper looked down at his tie to see the red light on his tie. So Jasper hang up and went to the van with Emily and Sam right behind him, jasper took the front while Emily sat in the back. As they rode to the building of where the other three thst jasper looked back at Emily and spoke.
"I thought you, out of people would want what HYDRA wanted." Emily glared at him when he said that.
"Why would I want that, first off, I believe that people should have freedom. Second off, the last thing the underworld needs is more people and it's already crowded enough. Besides one thing my father told me is that it it is better to keep you pr words and be as just and fair as possible. Killing people just because they are a threat to a group is not Justice. You and HYDRA are just a waste of air." As soon as they reach the building that Steve and Natasha came out with Arabella before they headed up to the rooftop of the building. When they reached the rooftop that Steve threw Jasper across the rooftop with Natasha, Arabella and Emily just behind him.
"Tell me about Zola's algorithm."
"Never heard of it."
"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?"
"I was throwing up, I get seasick." Steve forced Jasper to the edge of the roof, Jasper just smiled.
"Is this little display meant to insinuate that you can throw me off the roof? Cause it's really not your style, Rogers."
"You're right. It's not. It's hers." Steve step aside and Emily was right behind him. Emily kicked Jasper off the roof. He plummeted down screaming, than Natasha spoke up as if is was just a normal down of throwing agents of a roof.
"Isn't Lauren's birthday soon isn't it?,
"Yeah."
"I got her, running boots. Since her old pair is close of being ruined. What did you get her Steve?"
"I got her a bracelet."
"Arabella, don't you have a new defense against the dark arts teacher this year?"
"Yes, she is stupid and annoying." Suddenly Sam, in his falcon jet pack with wings, flies up holding Jasper and throws him on the roof. Steve, Emily, Natasha and Arabella walk towards him and he holds his hands up in fear.
"Zola's algorithm is a program...for choosing Insight's targets!"
"What targets?"
"You! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa city. Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to HYDRA! Now, or in the future."
"The Future? How could it know?" Jasper laughs.
"How could it not? The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it." Steve and Natasha looked at him confused, Emily talked to Hephaestus enough times to know what and how that was possible but yet it was impossible. "Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola's algorithm evaluates peoples' past to predict their future."
"But the thing is not accurate." Jasper looked at her. "Unlike you I don't to look at it to know it's not accurate, don't ask me how I know that fact for I am not going to tell you that." Than Steve spoke up.
"And what then?"
"Oh, my God. Pierce is gonna kill me."
"Good, I will make sure you have a miserable afterlife." Jasper looked at her. "Like I said, many times before, I hate HYDRA and it's beliefs are the most stupidest things ever."
"What then?!" Jasper looked at Steve.
"Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few millions at a time." Emily shallowed before looking at the other four, wondering of how to stop this from happening. They went back down and went into the van, Sam was in the driver's seat with Steve sitting next to him. Emily was sitting next to Arabella while Natasha sat next to Jasper, Emily prefers that since she was still rather pissed off about Bucky after that fresh reminder from Zola.
"HYDRA doesn't like leaks."
"So why don't you try sticking a cork in it."
"Or I could just burn him up." Jasper turned back and looked at her, Emily looked at Arabella. "What do you think?"
"I like it, but who else agrees?"
"We still need him for the time being, we can decided what to do with him after he is no longer need. Besides Insight's launching in sixteen hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here."
"I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarriers directly."
"What?! Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea."
"Crazy is our middle name." Emily smirked, suddenly something landed on the roof of the car. Suddenly the window next to Jasper was broken and a metal hand pulled Jasper out of the car. Jasper screamed till he was threw into the incoming traffic and was hit by a truck, suddenly there was shots from above. Natasha climbed into the front and managed to get into the same seat as Steve, Emily managed to knock the seat that Arabs and herself was on and Emily pulled Arabella to one side as the shoots went on. Sudden the car stopped, Emily looked up over the edge of the seat and saw that the winter soldier was threw off of the car. The winter soldier stood up and looked at them, Emily and the others were looking at him, from where Emily was that she could see Natasha pulling her gun out and pointing at the winter soldier.
But than another car smashes into the back of the van, Emily fell forward into the seat and she grasp it as well as Emily. The car behind them was pushing the van forward, of which was part of the reason why she was grasping the edge of the seat. She could hear Natasha shooting a couple of times at the winter soldier. Emily looked over the edge of the seat just in time to see the winter soldier jump back onto the car. Than the winter soldier smashes through the windscreen and pulls the stereo wheel out from the car and out of Sam's reach. "Shit!" Emily was still grasping the seat, as Natasha started to shoot at the winter soldier that Emily shouted.
"I want to be back at Castle Zemo right about now."
"But you were separated from the howling commandos and you blacked out twice." Emily yelled back at Steve.
"That is I want to be back there, you nut. For getting knocked out, getting locked up, and than blacking out because I used too much of my powers is less worrying than this."
"I think Castle Zemo is more worrying than this."
"Says you." Suddenly the van was started to go off of the road. Emily went over to the door and used her fire power to melt the edge off just enough. Emily grasp Arabella's hand before Emily before hitting the door to break it down to get out of the van. The door broke apart from the impact because of the weaken metal around the edges of the door. While Emily breaks that door down that Steve breaks his own door as well, it was just before they broke the doors down that Steve shouted.
"Hang on!" Emily was holding onto Arabella and the door while Steve was holding onto Natasha and Sam when the doors broke off of the van. As soon as the doors broke off that the van went over the side of the bridge. When the doors stopped that the HYDRA agents started to shoot at them with the winter soldier walking in front of them. Some of the HYDRA soldiers were shooting at Emily and Arabella, Emily pulled out a couple of her guns and started to shoot back while Arabella pulled out her sword. Emily noticed out of the corner of her that a small missile hit Steve's shield and he was throw over the side of the bridge.
At that moment that a bullet hit the winter soldier's eye googles, it was clear that it did some sort of damage. The winter soldier hit one of the cars next to Natasha and she jumped over the bridge with the blown up cars right above her. Emily wasn't worried about Natasha since Emily knows that Natasha has her Widow's bite. Emily knows that has a lot of stuff in it and it was likely that Natasha would be able to use it to stop her fall in some way. Sam joined Emily and Arabella as they fought, a few times Emily used her demigod powers as well as Arabella. It didn't take long for Steve to join them from whatever happened to him after he fell off the bridge, however he was on the street below with more agents. Emily leapt over the bridge and landed on top of the car with ease, though Emily was sure she managed to spine her ankle but she was still able to get off of the car. Just as Emily jumped off the bridge that she heard the winter speak in Russian.
"I'll take care of her. Find him." Emily noticed that Natasha was running down the other way, Steve, Sam and Arabella noticed that as well. The winter soldier jumped onto the car and started to go after Natasha, but Sam started to shoot at a HYDRA agent that was behind the car shooting at Sam. Arabella was still up here using her demigod powers, Emily knows this because there was a couple of HYDRA agents that went over the side because of shadows that she could see moving around.. Emily and Steve looked at Sam and Arabella before Sam yelled at them.
"Go, we got this!" Emily and Steve ran after Natasha to make sure the winter soldier didn't get to her first. Emily was glad do her ten years of training as well as the things she has been doing for the last seventy years since she didn't think she would keep up with Steve if that hadn't happen. Emily and Steve managed to find the winter soldier just as he was about ready to kill Natasha. Emily and Steve attacked him, even though Emily and Steve court fight at equals half of the time, that she couldn't fight hand to hand with the winter soldier. For Emily attacked first and he managed to dodge and hit Emily in the stomach making her land on top of a car. As Emily got off the car that she knew it was going to be like the red skull, however the difference Emily could use her demigods for a change. As Steve and the winter soldier fought in a similar way as Steve and the red skull fought that Emily created a fireball and aimed it at the winter soldier.
What happened next surprised Emily and Steve, for the winter soldier turned and he lifted his flesh hand and suddenly the fire was absorbed into his hand and it was at that moment that Arabella appeared besides Emily. Suddenly a blast of warm breeze hit Emily, Emily stumbled band but she used the shadows to hold her in place. Than Steve started his fight with the winter soldier again, Emily looked at the winter soldier in slight surprise before she went running over to Natasha and healed the wound in her shoulder. Though it took a minute, Arabella came running over to Emily and Natasha, Natasha sat up when the wound was healed.
"The winter soldier is a demigod, isn't he."
"Apparently, I had no idea that he was a demigod." Emily got up and helped Natasha up before the three of them went to help Steve, when they found Steve and the winter soldier that Steve didn't have his shield and it was on the back of a van. The winter soldier managed to get Steve up next to the van and there was a long gash against the van like e winter soldier has a knife. Emily watched as the two of them fight, Steve managed to get his shield and hit the winter soldier in the arm before hitting the winter soldier in the face. The winter soldier rolled off of Steve's back and his face mask fell to the floor, as he rolled away, Steve stood there watching as the winter soldier stood up. Emily was looking at the winter soldier, not once has anyone seen his face, expect for his superiors. Not even the dead has seen his face once he killed them, when the winter soldier turned around that Emily wanted to scream. But she was unable to for she froze solid, she hardly noticed it when Arabella grasp her wrist with the poppy. It was Bucky, Emily lowered her gaze to his flesh arm and sure enough his wedding ring was still there on his ring finger.
"Bucky?" Bucky turned more to face Steve properly.
"Who the hell is Bucky?" Emily reached out with her Hestia powers and gasp, for she could sense her connection to Bucky slight but only through the rings that they were wearing. But she could sense his memories were gone but something seem stone clicking as Bucky looked at Steve. It was like his memory was wiped, like a computer but his memory was coming back. Bucky raised a gun before he cousin shoot that Sam flies in and knocked Bucky over. Bucky than throws a bomb at Steve but Steve managed to deflect it and the bomb exploded a car. Natasha also shot at Bucky just after Steve manage to deflect the bomb. This Bucky ran off and disappeared, Emily stared after where Bucky went to, knowing all too well that it was really Bucky. Suddenly there was sirens quickly they were surrounded by HYDRA agents, six of the agents forced Emily, Natasha and Arabella down. Brock was shouting at Steve.
"Drop the shield, Captain! On your knees! Get on your knees! Now! Get down! Get down!" Steve hoods his hands up and Brock kicks at Steve's legs before Steve kneels down and Brock spoke as that happened. "Get on your knees! Down! Don't move." Emily looked up as a helicopter flew above them, Brock noticed this as well "Put the gun down. Not here. Not here!" The agents lowered the guns before taking the five of them into a van, as Emily was being lead to one of the buses that one of the agents leaned forward to her and whispered in her ear.
"It is almost time for you to know what happen a few days ago." Emily looked back at the HYDRA/STRIKE member, Emily managed kept herself from smiling as Maria stood up more properly to act more like a STRIKE member instead of being the deputy director.