Bucky's POV
Bucky was back inside the bank vault that he goes back to after a mission, the scientists were fixing his metal arm after his fight with two of his targets. However if the third one was there but she remained unseen or she could change her appearance. He knew he would have to deal with her first but until she reveals herself that he couldn't kill her. As he sat there with his arm being fix that memories were flooding back into his mind or that is what Bucky was assuming. There was an old man and he was being dragged somewhere in the snow and mountains. The old man was talking.
"Sergeant Barnes..." Suddenly there was another memory of where he was falling off the train, there was a man trying to help him get back onto the train. It was the same man that he was fighting with on his last mission, the one that called him Bucky, whoever that was.
"Bucky, no!" Another one of where he was being dragged into some sort of base with an arm missing.
"The procedure has already started."
"Please, don't do this." It was his own voice that he heard as he raised his hands to see one was metal arm now while the other one was flesh with a wedding ring, the ring that was still on his finger now. "You are to be the new fist of HYDRA." The older man looked at the other men in the room. "Put him on ice." As he was being frozen over that a woman appeared before him promising that they will be together again. Suddenly the flashbacks back, Bucky was anger and he knocks over the scientists that was working on his arm. The others pointed their guns at him before he could attack anyone else, Bucky just stared straight ahead.
"Sir, he's...he's unstable. Erratic." Bucky hardly paid much need when he heard that or when his superior entered the room and spoke to him.
"Mission report." Bucky just stared ahead looking blankly at the wall in front of him. He didn't even bother to look at his superior. "Mission report, now." His superior moved closer to Bucky before he strikes him across the face, Bucky looked up at him before he spoke
"The man on the bridge... Who was he?"
"You met him earlier this week on another assignment."
"I knew him." His superior sat down in front of him.
"Your work has been a gift to mankind. You shaped this century, and I need you to do it one more time. Society is at a tipping point between order and chaos. Tomorrow morning we're gonna give it a push. But if you don't do your part, I can't do mine, and HYDRA can't give the world the freedom it deserves."
"But I knew him." His superior turned to the scientists.
"Prep him."
"He's been out of cryo-freeze too long."
"Then wipe him and start over." They put a thing in his mouth and he but down on it as his superior got up and walked back some before the table was moved back and the things came back. The machine started to work, his last memories started to disappear and Bucky started to scream. The woman who been in his dreams for the last seventy years entered his vision, she was look down at him with sadness but there was a small amount of hope in her eyes.
"Soon, Wind Prince. Soon we will be back together now that everything is clear even if you don't realize it yet, my love. Soon we will be back together and we will never be apart ever again." As the machine moved away from his head that the woman faded from his mind.
The next day
When he managed to grounded one of the three that was boarding the Helicarrier that he went down to where the target area was. He was standing there when he other two came down there, the man was standing in from while the woman was behind the man. She was looking around the man's shoulder to look at him but he was not looking at her, he was looking at the man that was standing in front of her. The man was looking back at him, there was no way he was going to let him stop of what was going on, besides he was one of his three targets, one of his missions and nothing more. The man in front spoke up.
"People are gonna die, Buck. I can't let that happen. Please, don't make me do this." He stared at the man coldly before he started to attack him, he paid no heed to the woman behind him, he didn't notice at first that the man didn't have the chip anymore till he heard Charlie locked. He punched the man in front of him and saw the woman at the targeting area, he took a gun and shot at her a couple of times. She managed to dodge the first bullet but the second one entered her arm. Before he could take another shot at her that the man knocked the gun out of his hand and they went on fighting with each other. Bucky didn't understand of why the woman was more of the threat than this man was for the man was matching his every move for the most part. However the man managed to knock him out for a couple of minutes at any rate. When Bucky came around that some rubble fell on him and he was trying to get it off of himself. The man came and help, as soon as Bucky was free that the man spoke once more.
"You know me." He hears the woman yelped when he hit the man in anger
"No, I don't!"
"Bucky, you've known me your whole life." Bucky hit the man again, before he could do it again that a poppy wrapped itself around his hand. The poppy looked oddly familiar to him, he grasp the poppy before he pulled at it to break it. But it didn't break, instead he felt something pulled towards him, Bucky looked towards of what was in the other end of the poppy and he froze when he saw what was on the other end. He was close of panicking, he was also in disbelief when he saw the woman in the other end. It was the same woman that appeared to him when he was on missions or when he was being put in the ice. The same woman spoke to him, the one that told him at they would be back together, even time he heard that, that he didn't believe her because he thought he made her up in his head. For in a way he hoped that there was someone out there waiting for him or that there was more to life than what he was doing, but he had nothin else. But she was real, he pulled on the poppy again just to make sure that the woman was real and she stumbled forward gripping the end of the poppy that was tied to her wrist
However, unlike when he saw her, in his mind, that she was wearing an uniform similar to the man in front of him or color wise at least. It was a jumpsuit that fitted her form perfectly. There were so many questions and things he wanted to say to her or ask her, about his life and his past. He may not know much outside of assassination, but he knows he used to have a life before that and somehow he knows that this woman was the key of unlocking his past and hopefully unlocking a better future for him as well. But he knows in order to know who she was and who he was that he needed to make sure she stays out of this fight. He looked behind Flower Princess, for that was the name he kept referring to her as and she calls him Wind Prince. He sent a blast of warm breeze at her sending across the Helicarrier before ending up on the walkway. Than he let got of the poppy, he went back to the man and hit him again just before he spoke once more.
"Your name is James Buchanan Barnes." Bucky hit the man again, he didn't bother to look at Flower Princess as he yelled at the man.
"Shut up!" The man took his mask off and drops his shield out of the Helicarrier, the man was looking at Bucky and Bucky was looking at him. It was the man from the bridge, the one that caused the memories to cone back.
"I'm not gonna fight you. You're my friend." Bucky pushed the man to the ground.
"You're my mission." Bucky started to mercilessly punch Steve across the face several times.
"Then finish it." Bucky has his arm back ready to punch the man but he hesitated in the punch than the man spoke. "Cause I'm with you till the end of the line." Bucky looked at the man, fuzzy memories were coming to him as he looked at the man. As Bucky looked at the man that the bottom of the Helicarrier gave away and the man fell from the Helicarrier and his grasp. Flower princess yelled from behind him.
"Steve! No!" Before the flower princess could say or do anything else that Bucky jumped off after the man. As he fell to get to the man that he noticed that flower princess fell from the Helicarrier and he panicked when he saw that happened. When he hit the water that he grasp the man first before he grasp the arm of Flower princess before heading to the surface of the water. When Flower Princess hit the surface that she gasp for air, He dragged Flower Princess and the man to the shoe. When he got to the shallow that he let go of them and made sure the man was next to Flower Princess. Before Bucky could say or do anything that there was a shout and a younger girl came running out of the forest and towards Flower Princess
"Emily, you are all right!"
"I am all right, Arabella, for the most part. I will live."
"I thought you were going to be claimed by death."
"Well, I got lucky." The younger woman let go of flower princess, that Flower Princess stood up but the younger woman saw him. She shouted him, of which surprised Bucky.
"What are you doing here?" Flower Princess looked up at him, the younger woman went running towards him but Flower Princess before the younger woman reached him "Let me go, Emily, he nearly killed you. He also killed a bunch of other people."
"Arabella, I know what he did. But don't you remember the time that Steve, myself and the howling commandos attacked Castle Zemo. That Zola was going to try to use Gabe as an assassin or an experiment for a different version of the super solider and what else he was going to do to him."
"But he nearly killed you."
"No, it was HYDRA that nearly killed me. If it wasn't for HYDRA, Bucky wouldn't be the winter soldier." The younger woman stopped struggling against Flower Princess and she went on. "Arabella, I can understand your anger but if you want to direct at someone directed it at HYDRA." Bucky looked at the two as they interacted, they acted like sisters.
"But he could have killed you."
"But he didn't, did he? He could have just let Steve and myself fall and drown. But did that, no he jumped in and dragged us to the shore. He could still have killed Steve and myself before you got here. But did he do that, no." The younger woman was about ready say something but Flower Princess beat her to it. "Arabella, all I am saying he had many chances to kill me since the Helicarriers started to fire on each other, but he didn't kill me. If you remember that I told you that the winter soldier was under HYDRA and that there was a bigger chance that the winter soldier didn't volunteer to become the winter soldier and might have his memory wiped along with a few other possibilities. Knowing HYDRA as I do that it was likely that the forced him to become the winter soldier. Not only but father gave me the mission to figure out what happen to the winter soldier and deal with him if I must. Besides I am more worried about Steve than Bucky going to kill me." When the younger woman seem to have decided to go along with Flower Princess that Flower Princess let go of the younger woman and knelt next to the man while he younger woman stood nearby. Bucky walked over to them and watched as Flower Princess healed many of the wounds that the man gained from the fight. When Flower Princess stopped healing the man that the younger woman spoke up.
"Are you all right?"
"I have been better but I also been worse. The first time I used up too much of my powers that I passed out that I went in and out for like five days."
"You told me about that." Flower Princess was about ready to say something when Bucky spoke up.
"Flower Princess is not feeling good?" Even though the younger woman called Flower Princess Emily that he wasn't sure if he should call her Emily or not.
"Not really now, I feel like I am going ... " Flower Princess stopped talking before she stood up, than she turned and looked at Bucky. "What did you call me?" The younger woman was looking up at Flower Princess and Bucky oddly.
"Flower Princess. That's your name isn't it?" Before Flower Princess could say anything that Arabella spoke.
"Her name is Emily, Emily Barnes. What makes you think her name is Flower princess." Bucky opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out, he thought of the name that the man said was his name. James Barnes, of the man was right than this woman was his wife, Bucky looked at his one hand with the ring on it before looking at Flower Princess's hand that was on her face. There were rings on hat hand that matched his ring, so Flower Princess was his wife, that was if his name was James Barnes. However Flower Princess spoke.
"Because, Flower Princess is Bucky's nickname for me." Before anything else could be said that he could hear a jet, Bucky didn't bother say anything but ran into the forest. Bucky went just far enough in to make sure that neither one followed but he remained close by and watched as a couple of other woman and a couple of men helped Flower Princess, the young woman and the man into the jet. When the doors closed and it went into the air that Bucky entered the clearing once more and watched the jet Fly away carrying Flower Princess, the man and the younger woman.
"Who am I?"
Emily's POV
When Emily and Steve entered the hospital that they received help right away, Emily was healing quick enough but she knows that she would be in here for the night. Thankfully, the hospital allowed Steve and Emily to share a room, Emily was sure that was because they were brother and sister as well as being Captain America and Lieutenant USA. After a couple of hours that Emily heard shouting before Lauren came in and a nurse was telling Lauren that she shouldn't be here.
"Why can't she be here?" The nurse looked puzzled when Emily said that.
"What do you mean?"
"Why can't she been here? She is my best friend and future wife do Captain America." The nurse seem stunned before muttering a sorry to Lauren before leaving the room, Lauren gasp when she saw Steve laying there and passed out. Lauren went over to Steve before she spoke.
"Would he be all right?"
"Yes, I healed some of his wounds but not all of it, otherwise I would be passed out as well. But it would take him a little longer to heal than me." Lauren walked over to Emily.
"What happened?" Emily started at the beginning, with the help of Sam that they told Lauren the whole story of what happened. Lauren was surprised when Emily told her about Bucky, Lauren and Bucky were not as close to each other as Emily or Steve were to Bucky. But they meet a few times before when Lauren would come and talk to her about different things, mostly Project Demigod. Lauren stayed in the room with Emily, Sam and Steve, when morning came around that Emily was allowed to leave the hospital. But didn't, she remained in the room, each took a turn sleeping in the hospital bed since the chairs didn't work as well to sleep in. The nurses brought in food for them as they waited for Steve to wake up, while Lauren managed to fall asleep in the chair and Sam was sleeping on the bed she used her first day here. Emily was leaning against the wall next to the window looking out, normally she would be at Hogwarts to help Arabella train or just leaving Hogwarts.
She still plans on doing that but it might take a while with everything that has been going on. For so much happened on the space about five days, she wasn't sure if it was five days or it was more or it was less. No matter of how many days it was, her life was turned upside once more like it did when Bucky fell and Steve crashed into the ice. Emily closed her eyes, as she thought back not to long ago when the winter soldier was unmask. Emily had a hard time believing it, she wasn't sure of what happened but she knows Bucky was slowly coming back to being himself. For the connection between Steve, Bucky and herself were getting stronger with each down, like he remembers them. As Emily thought back that she could hear Sam moved, she knows it wasn't Lauren for the sound wouldn't have fit. Than Emily heard music being played, it was troubled man or something like that if she remembers right. As the song played that she heard someone speak.
"On your left." Emily opened her eyes and looked over at Steve as he shifted his head around after he spoke. Emily smiled as Steve shifted after two days of being passed out.
Natasha's Pov
"Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth?"
"I do." Natasha sat down in the chair facing the committee in front of her. There were newspaper people around, as well as other people there to watch and listen of what was going to take place.
"Why haven't we yet heard from Captain Rogers or Lieutenant Barnes?" Natasha merely smiled when the committee general asked her that question.
"I don't know what's left for them to say. I think the rock in the middle of the Potomac made their point fairly eloquently."
"Well, they could explain how this country's expected to maintain its national security now that Captain Rogers, Lieutenant Barnes and you have laid waste our intelligence apparatus."
"HYDRA was selling you lies, not intelligence."
"Many of which you seem to have had a personal hand in telling."
"Agent, you should know that there are some on this committee who feel, given your service record, both for this country and against it, that you belong in a penitentiary, not mouthing off on Capitol Hill."
"You're not gonna put me in a prison. You're not gonna put any of us in a prison. You know why?"
"Do enlighten us."
"Because you need us. Yes, the world is a vulnerable place, and yes, we helped make it that way. But we're also the ones best qualified to defend it. So if you want to arrest me, arrest me. You'll know where to find me." Natasha stood up and walked out of the room as the newspaper people took pictures.
Emily's pov
As soon as Steve was allowed to leave the hospital that Emily and Steve went to Nick's grave with a bunch of flowers along with Sam and Lauren. There was a phrase on the tombstone, just like with her own tombstone but the words were different and it was from the bible, 'The path of the righteous man.' Just as they finished putting the flowers on the grave that Nick walk over to the four of them. Nick was wearing sunglasses and a hoodie of which was odd to see Nick in his usual black leather and eye patch, as he walked over to them that Emily spoke.
"I hope that you don't mind that Lauren knows. For I doubt Steve would keep it a secret later anyway." Steve looked over at Emily when she said that. "Sure if it is from the people as a whole that is one thing. But when it comes to Lauren, I doubt you would keep secrets from her, it is just not you. Pushing people off of roofs is my thing."
"You know, you spend too much time with Gleeson."
"So did you. However he didn't teach me that, what he taught me was to pull people on the dock on the lake and push them into the lake using baseball bat." Lauren snorted when Emily sisd that, for Gleeson did that very thing with Emily when Emily was fourteen. Not exactly since he had a hard time pulling Emily to the dock., instead he used his baseball bat after a while before knocking her into the water with it. "Knocking people off of roofs is something I learned from Natasha." Steve shook his head as Emily and Lauren spoke, however Nick spoke up.
"No p, I don't mind. I half expected you two tell her anyway." Nick looked at the four of them before going on. "So, you've experienced this sort of things before?"
"You get used to it."
"Have you found any HYDRA bases? For I am sure they are still out there. I know I found some HYDRA bases that didn't have any connections to any agencies. I am pretty sure that not all of HYDRA went down with what we did."
"You are quite correct, Rachel. We've been data-mining HYDRA's files. Looks Like a lot of rats didn't go down with the ship. I'm heading to Europe tonight, wanted to ask if you two want to come." Emily smiled lightly when Nick called her Rachel, for that doesn't bother Emily since she got used to Nick calling her Rachel now. Even in her normal appearance that Nick calls her that at times, he does call her Lieutenant from time to time.
"It's funny you still call me by my other name, even in my normal appearance, of which I don't mind. But no, there is something I have to do."
"There's something I gotta do first." Than Nick looked at Sam.
"How about you, Wilson? I could use a man with your abilities."
"I'm more of a soldier than a spy."
"Alright then." Nick looked at Lauren before he went on. "I would ask you but I believe you would say no as well."
"That's right." Nick and Steve shook hands.
"Anybody asks for me, tell them they can find me right here." Nick looked at his gravestone before he started to walk away but Emily spoke up.
"Nick." Nick turned around, Emily put her hand in he pocket before she tossed something at him and he caught it. He opened the hand to reveal a bracket with a lightning bolt and poppy designs on it, Nick looked over at her.
"Is there is a reason for the bracket?"
"It is a spare bracelet from World War II from Project demigod." Lauren spoke up.
"Why did you give him that, half of the demigods are dead."
"Were dead." Sam, Steve, Lauren and Nick looked at her. "When Howard died that I learned about HYDRA. A week later that I found out of where half of project demigod have been, Hades knows of HYDRA and what they planned to do in the war and that they would have similar goals as in the war. So he made a deal with all of project demigod dead and alive, that as long as HYDRA lives that they will live and it would be their job to help destroy HYDRA. As soon as HYDRA is gone, that they will die, you may need help with taking down HYDRA. More than just us or wen Agents that are still loyal to SHIELD. Go to castle Zemo and find a trapdoor with poppy and lightning bolts on the trap door, open it and jump inside. The demigods would most likely make sure you are not an enemy, show them the bracelet for they know I have the spare bracelets." This Lauren spoke up.
"Also, make sure to tell them that the Hermes twins sent you." Emily laughed when Lauren said that.
"I haven't heard that since Steve and I formed the howling commandos." Lauren looked over at Emily.
"That is because one of the twins left project demigod." Nick, Sam and Steve looked slightly confused. Emily looked at them before she explained.
"The demigods at camp called Lauren and I, the Hermes twins because we did a lot of things together and acted like sisters instead of cousins. Everyone in project demigods were from camp Halfblood and knew us as we grew up here together. It become kind of a joke to call Lauren and myself the Hermes twins. But yeah say at also." Nick nodded before putting the bracelet on and walked away, as he walked away that Natasha spoke up and walked over to them.
"You should be honored, that's about as close as he gets to saying thank you."
"Not going with him?"
"No."
"Not staying here?"
"I blew all my covers, I gotta go figure out a new one."
"That might take a while."
"I'm counting on it." Natasha hand Steve a file as well as Emily. "That thing you asked for, I called in a few favors from Kiev. I found more stuff for you guys." Natasha kissed Steve in the cheek before she turns to walk away, but she spoke up before she walked away. "Be careful, Steve. You too as well, Emily. You two might not want to pull on that thread." As Natasha walked away that Emily opened the file and smiled as it covered Bucky and the information about his winter soldier transformation. Emily was sure that most of this was HYDRA information, Lauren and Sam walked over to Emily and Steve.
"You two are going after him?"
"Sam, You don't have to come with us. I am sure Lauren would be coming along no matter what." Lauren nodded when Steve said that.
"I know. When do we start?" Emily closed the file that she was holding before she looked at Steve as he closed his own file that he spoke.
"We just did."