A/N: Okay dokay, so important note of the day is that I've started a spiderman fanfiction and it'll be updated as regularly as this fanfiction, so you all should go and at least try and bare that fanfiction, just go on my proile and it'll be listed there, it's called 'Comical Love'.
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
― Tom Clancy
It the middle of the day and guards were walking around arrogantly around the house, it looked like your average house but what people didn't know is that it was one of SHIELD's top hideout facilities. It was surrounded by fields of grain and while the inside of it was still grimy and disgusting, the cellar was filled with top weaponry and only the best equipment.
A mile away on the main road, a sleek black car pulled up near the thick trees. Out stepped Bucky and Captain America, they both quickly worked to covering the car up with shrubbery. Iron Man slowly landed, Bucky stared in amazement at the red and yellow suit made completely out of metal.
"Take a picture," Tony quipped from inside of the suit, his smirk hidden by the mask, "it'll last longer." His feet clanged as they impacted the ground with each step he made towards the two people.
"Save it for later Stark," Steve said, his usually quiet and kind tone taking a serious tone as he began to tell his two partners their orders. "I'm guessing it'll be heavily guarded so Tony, you'll go in first and use your aerial powers to dispose of any guards outside and then me and Bucky will go inside and knock out the remaining guards, then we search the house for Summer." The two nodded in reply to his commands and Tony quickly flew off.
"Are you okay Bucky?" Steve asked gently, patting his friend on the back.
Bucky shook his head, "if she's been harmed in any way… it's all my fault."
"Now don't go blaming yourself," Steve said snappily, causing Bucky to look up to his friend in surprise, "whatever has happened isn't your fault, the person to blame here is the person who kidnapped Summer - the person who made the wrong decision on what kind of man he wanted to be."
Bucky stared at his old friend, taking in his words. Sometimes Bucky would forget what Steve went through with the serum, sometimes when he thought of Steve he imagined a tiny kid from Brooklyn who wouldn't back down. Now Steve was this large kid from Brooklyn who didn't need protecting any more, he could fight his own battles and he could win. "You've changed." Bucky mumbled.
Steve sent his friend a small smile, "let's go." He replied, cocking his head to the left where the path that led to the SHIELD base was. They patted each others back, both of them laughing with a joyous smile replacing their seriousness as they began to jog. Even with the current circumstances, both Bucky and Steve were glad to have each other back.
"Hurry up Bucky!" Summer called out from the kitchen, "I want to make this apple pie before Steve comes here."
"Coming Summer," he called back, soon appearing wearing his favourite apron. He strutted across the room and once he was stood beside her he gave her a gentle kiss. "Let's get cooking then." He winked at her before beginning to walk away to around the counter.
Summer went to follow him, but she soon saw his back and froze, eyes widening. "Bucky, are you naked? Again?!"
"Yes why?" He asked back nonchalantly.
Summer shook her head with a loud sigh, though she tried to hide the smile which was thanks to the wonderful shaping of Bucky's butt. Summer didn't want Bucky to know how affected she was just by the sight of him naked, then he'd think he might actually have some power over her, "just help me make this pie, if Steve walks in seeing me cooking and you naked then I promise you there will be no sex for a week." This managed to win her back her pride as he began to rush with the measuring of the ingredients.
Steve didn't even know Bucky and Summer were in a relationship yet, and Summer didn't really want him too. If he found out then he'd ask her a million questions over the matter and start using the whole relationship ordeal so he could finally say to her 'I told you so'. Something Summer would always hate being said to her.
Bucky and Summer had joined together after a quite heated meeting last night to make Steve a pie for his birthday, neither really knew how to bake anything but they figured it'd be much easier for them to make a pie then a cake, mainly because they both loved pie much more than they loved cake.
"Okay," Summer muttered calmly, bringing the cookbook closer to her face and reading out the instructions, "you need to crack two eggs."
"Like this?" Bucky asked, lifting two eggs from the carton with just one hand.
He ended up dropping the eggs onto the floor and Summer let out a loud squeal. "James! What did I say about making a mess? My apartment hardly gets cleaned anyway, you could at least try not to make it more messy!" Summer turned around and scanned the kitchen for a mop or any other cleaning equipment which she could use to clean up the mess.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Bucky giggled in response, "I never make a mess." As he said those last few words, Summer felt a slight puff of air on her back and something tickled her neck.
"You didn't." Summer whispered in anger as she brushed her hands against her neck, when she brought her fingers back into her line of sight and saw the white powder she turned back to Bucky with a face filled of anger. "James Buchanan Barnes!" She hissed through her teeth, the anger took over her actions and she ran back to where she'd been standing before and grabbed a handful of flour, throwing it back into Bucky's face, letting out a deep chuckle of her own.
"Oh, now it's on." His tone was dark and caused a slight shiver to pass through Summer's spine.
Soon enough they were both just randomly throwing flour at each other, eventually Summer ended up blinded by the flour and so she just threw the flour wherever - forgetting entirely of her initial hope of not making a mess. Somehow, they both simultaneously lost their footing on the slippery egg (which had previously been dropped on the floor) and fell, Summer ended up crashing down on top of Bucky and the both of them let out yelps of pain.
"Why hello," Bucky joked while wiggling his eyebrows at her, he obviously found the position they ended up in quite amusing. Feeling courageous, he leant up slightly and locked her in a passionate kiss.
"What the hell?!" Summer and Bucky broke apart, surprised by the scream. They looked towards the door and spotted none other than Steve Rogers stood at the doorway in his baggy brown trench coat adorning a very shocked expression.
Summer wanted to laugh out loudly, and by the look on Bucky's face he was holding back a chortle as well. No doubt the scene of Bucky lying on top of Summer naked except for the apron he was wearing, the both of them were covered in flour and egg, they looked pretty stupid.
"Where's Summer?" Steve asked calmly towards the half battered soldier in front of him, Cap had a couple of cuts on his face and his right cheek was red from a punch he'd acquired of one of the soldiers a few seconds ago, it would definitely form into a bruise soon enough.
The soldier had a deep frown on his wrinkled face, "I'll never tell you." He spat with poisonous venom lacing his tone. His eyes showed the hatred he held towards Captain America and the hatred was understandable from their point of view. Once upon a time this soldier and his friends had everything, they had homes and a job and a family. Then Captain America swooped in and destroyed HYDRA's plans and as a repercussion, destroying their lives. They all hated Captain America and they were all extremely hungry for revenge.
"Just let him go, Cap, we don't need him." Tony said as he landed outside the building, walking in and scanning the entire building. "I'll find her on my own!" He cheered proudly, beginning to wander around the house, neither Bucky or Steve making a move to follow him.
They heard more noise at the doorway as another soldier made a surprise appearance. He was the same blonde haired 'pretty boy' soldier that had been touching Summer inappropriately just the day before. He'd finally returned from his secret mission only to find all his soldiers were knocked out on the floor and the only three people stood were the exact people him and his co-workers were trying to avoid.
"What the hell?" He said, already reaching out for the knife in his belt. Bucky leapt over to Cap, pushing him away so that the knife which the soldier had thrown hit neither of them. He then jumped into action, his mind suddenly turning back to the way it was when he was just the Winter Soldier - he was on a mission to kill.
The soldier pulled out his gun and went to shoot Bucky, luckily for Bucky, Tony shot out a repulsor and the soldier lost his gun onto the floor. He lunged to go and grab it again but Bucky grabbed a hold of the man's ankles and pulled him away from the gun. The soldier twisted his body around to face his enemy, eyes trying to shoot piercing lasers at the threat seen as the only weapon he had left was his glare.
His eyes widened as he saw the face of one of his old comrades that he'd worked with in the past, he didn't have time to say anything though as he watched Bucky's bionic arm crash down to the ground. The soldier swiftly moved his head out of the way but he was quickly hit again by Bucky's none bionic arm. He was momentarily dazed, and a moment was enough time for Bucky to attack him again and again and again until eventually he was knocked out.
"Well, guess you are useful." Tony muttered, looking down at the bloody and unconscious body.
Steve, however, was concentrating on something else entirely. "Wait, look at the hole Bucky punched." He stepped up to the hole in the wooden ground, it was quite large and splintered wood was still falling through it.
"There's a cellar." Tony stated the obvious as they all looked into the lit up room, from what they could see there was a desk and lots of notes, some computers as well. The three looked at each other and each agreed with their eyes on what the next step to their plan would be, first Cap jumped through the hall and then Tony. Bucky was the last to jump through the whole but also the first to spot Summer.
"Summer! Summer!" He called frantically as he saw her insensible body. Her head was pressed against her chest and her body had fallen back against the seat as she was tightly being pressed against it by numerous ropes which were wrapped around her body.
Bucky shook her body, gently slapping his hand against the side of her face, her head raised up but it did take a lot of effort, her eyes opened up into slits and her vision was extremely blurred. "Bucky?" She muttered hoarsely, recognising that silhouette anywhere.
"Summer, thank God you're okay." He had to refrain himself from kissing and hugging her seen as they currently company and a very restricted time space. "I'm here for you okay, we're here to rescue you and you'll be okay and I promise you I'll never let anything happen to you again." He ranted, hands holding up her head.
Summer was still disoriented though and Bucky's words didn't even register. "Do you like pina coladas?"
"What?" He asked, his face scrunching up in confusing. Tony just laughed in the background. Bucky soon realised she was disoriented so he left her to blurt out her random string of words, he went to the back of her chair and began to undo all the ropes which kept her trapped against the chair.
"And getting caught in the rain?" She finished in a much more melodic tone. Tony howled in laughter and turned away from the boar which both him and Steve were looking at, trying to find out what these soldiers were doing her.
"Bucky, she's probably severely dehydrated and malnourished, the best thing to do is get her back to Stark tower. JARVIS will look after her." Tony said simply, trying to be helpful. What neither Bucky and Steve noticed was the (extremely rare) sad look in his eyes as he saw the condition Summer was in, her usual bubbly character was drained completely and she was even more pale than usual.
"All right, hold on Summer." Bucky said, not even sure if she was listening to what he was saying. He bent down in front of her so his back was facing her and he grabbed her arms and wrapped them around his neck, Summer locked her arms tightly around his neck and cuddled against his body. He hoisted her legs around his body and the four of them left to Stark's tower, Summer continuing to mumble song lyrics from awful pop songs.