Um...yep still don't own anything...

Chapter 5

Captain America had been playing a round of baseball. It was important to him to have a well-rounded life, and that did not include devoting all his time to fighting. Then a woman with sunglasses approached him with a file.

"Steve Rogers, SHIELD has a mission for you. Agent Romanov and Agent Barton have been kidnapped by an unknown group. We have reason to believe that more than one individual is behind this."

Captain America was surprised, of all his teammates on the Avengers Black Widow and Hawkeye were the last people he expected to have to save. He'd assumed Tony would blow something up first, or the Hulk would rampage. If they'd been kidnapped, this was serious. He opened the folder, and began reading.

Then he got angry.

"How long has he been alive and you not told me?" Steve slammed his hands down on the table. Fury just stood impassively.

"You know we don't freely give information. We've been trailing the Red Skull for quite some time. Now, if I were you I'd start looking. You know what he does with prisoners he keeps." Steve just left, venting some of his frustration by severely denting a poor offending garbage can. He passed by the tracking services, and was surprised to see Dr. Banner working.

"What are you doing here? I thought you left for good." Steve asked, leaning against the door.

"That's what I thought too, I take it you got brought in about 'Agent Romanov' and 'Agent Barton'? I've been looking for them, and I've set up the algorithm for the computer to scan for. I'm getting better at SHIELD technology, and that worries me."

"I have to say I'm surprised they convinced you." Steve said, nodding with a smile.

"Well, after they found me so easily I tried for Africa. Of course, I knew they were following me but on some level I needed to believe they trusted me enough to deal with, the other guy, on my own. When they came, I realized they were desperate. I mean, come on, they have all the scientists they could possibly get their hands on, and they come to a gamma radiation expert?"

"You are brilliant." Steve offered.

"Maybe, but not like this." Bruce sat down and put his head on his hands. He looked tired. He had probably been working through the night to construct the algorithm. 70 years ago it would have taken weeks, if they had even had the technology. That couldn't translate that fast.

"When will it be done?" His voice was grim. He remembered the man who had risked millions of lives to be a god, or so he thought.

"Soon, you should rest. When the system finds them, you're leaving that minute. They fight even have you sleep in the heli-carrier." Bruce joked.

"You're not coming?" Steven asked.

"Tall, green, with a bellow that can shatter windows, the other guy isn't exactly low profile." Bruce said.

"Thanks." Steve said. Bruce just sighed, and shooed him from the office.

Captain America was frustrated. They had known where the base was for days, so why weren't they in there. SHIELD had sent two other agents to assist him. Apparently there was some technological shielding booby-trap thing that had to be taken care of.

It didn't surprise him that Red Skull had taken to this technological world so easily. He'd always been creating new machines and using the latest technology. The team said there was some sort of atomic bomb sensor; maybe that was it. Whatever it was, it was a threat.

So the men had called in a lot more men. No one was trying to explain it to him. Then, there was a massive surge in power and then the building, which was a cover to an underground base, went dark.

"Move in!" One man hissed. That was all Steve needed to hear, as he ran stealthily into the complex. As he stepped in the lobby, he knew based on the plans he needed to get to the southwest wall, which led to the entrance of the tunnel.

Of course, this was heavily guarded. A lot of men came at them, and Captain America tried to disable as many as possible.

After a few minutes of concentrated fighting, he reached the wall. He pulled his arm back and punched it with everything he had. The wall burst apart with a loud THWOOM! That shook the building.

Clint heard it, and looked up. He was hopeful, that was the sound of a battle, and he needed to be ready to help anyway he could. He had to find Natasha. He pulled himself up and focused on how to make his move.

Yelena heard it too, and she immediately called all nonessential personal to protect the base. She was very very angry. She looked at the monitors and looked for Natasha. Clint was still in his cell, and she was…in the Red Skull's chambers? Her arms were hanging above her head, and her feet weren't touching the ground. She was jerking around like a rag doll as the Red Skull pulled out a syringe. That was her prisoner! She would kill Natasha and no one else. She grabbed her guns, and raced to the Red Skull's room.

The Red Skull was impressed, a normal human would have given up seven or five poisons ago, but she was still fighting for control. He admired her dedication. But it would not last very long. Then he heard the bang and lights began lighting up as he saw people headed this way. He growled, he did not like to be interrupted. He realized this would probably send Yelena to him and she might not be pleased to see him hurting her captive.

The Marvin and Arthur guarding Clint's prison were new at this. Not that they were going to say anything about that. When a friend had told them of a great job, they jumped on it as fast as they could. They did not want to get on the bad side of either of their bosses. Marvin had been a night security guard, which he boasted was for the Pentagon. It was actually for the Washington public library. Arthur was just an accountant, hoping to supplement his income.

It was quiet in the cell, and they looked nervously at each other. They had heard the command to go fight, but they weren't sure if they were "essential personal" or not. So they stayed.

"What if they alarm was because of the prisoner escaping?" Marvin asked Arthur edgily. He eyes flickered back and forth. The library had never been this exciting.

"I don't know, you check!" Arthur said his voice wobbling. Marvin didn't want to, and they bickered in hushed tones for a few minutes.

"Together!" Marvin demanded. Arthur nodded, and they opened the cell door.

Clint had been listening for a while, enough to know they were going to peek, so he positioned himself behind the door so they would see him. It worked, and they opened the door up wide. He simply knocked them out, they didn't seem that bad. They had been wearing guns though, which he grabbed.

The double vision drug was out of his system, so he had his aim back. He wasn't overly fond of guns, they were Nat's thing. But he'd use them. He found the armory after interrogating a guard, and grabbed his bow and arrows. Now, he needed to find Natasha. This were about to get messy.

Sorry about Marvin and Arthur...seriously no idea where they came from...kinda like them though...

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