Opposing Sides
'Italics means that they are speaking in Russian'
As Steve drove the group to meet up with the rest of the team, Bucky was unsure of how to deal with his current problem, the sleeping blonde on his arm. After meeting up with Sharon so that Sam and Steve were able to get their gear back, Anna had fallen asleep on the former assassin's metal arm. Not too sure how to deal with the sleeping teen, the assassin just sat awkwardly while Steve and Sam tried to hide their chuckles at the scene.
"We're here" Steve stated as they pulled up into the airport carpark, before looking at the passengers in the back seat "Buck, wake Anna up"
While Sam and Steve got out of the car and started talking to the other members of the Avengers who were willing to help them, Bucky just continued to stare at the blonde before he tentatively shook her shoulder. Groggily Anna sat up before rubbing her eyes and looking at the assassin asking "what did I miss?"
"We are here" Bucky responded as Anna reached over to get out of the car, following her lead the soldier mirrored her action on his side of the car. As he leant against the car while the enhanced teen ran over to the Avenger's and greeted them with a hug.
"Sorry I called you guys, I didn't know who else to call" the former con-artist spoke to her sister's family, looking between the witch and the archer.
"You did me a favour. 'Sides I owe a debt" Clint responded as he glanced towards the Sokovian.
"Thanks for having my back" Steve thanked the assassin, and looking to Wanda
"It was time to get off my ass" Wanda deadpanned, causing Anna to give her sort-of father a look
"Stop corrupting Wanda old man" the blonde teased trying to lessen the tension in the room before turning to the resident witch "and what is this about paying me back for Paris?"
"The nearly dying?!"
"You're still alive aren't you?"
"Not the point"
"Anna. Wanda." Steve chided the two younger members of the group. Before he turned to Clint "How about our other recruit?"
"He's raring to go" Clint responded to the Captain as he opened the van door "I had to put a little coffee in him but he should be good"
"What time zone is this?" the man in the back of the van asked as the archer led him out of the vehicle. During this Anna moved from next to Wanda, over to Bucky who was still behind the car.
"Thanks for letting me sleep in the car" the blonde whispered as the newcomer, Scott, talked to Steve and Sam "I guess all the excitement just caught up with me"
"It's fine" Bucky responded, still not looking her in the eye. Figuring out why this was happening Anna rubbed her temples before she spoke up again.
"I know why you act so weird around me and I want you to do one thing, forget it ever happened. No one knows about Washington and I'm not going to tell them"
"How can you-"
"Forget about it. Alright?"
"Alright" Bucky reluctantly agreed as the pair turned their attention back to the conversation happening on the other side of the car.
"They tell you what were up against?" Steve was asking Scott, who to be honest was taking the whole thing remarkably well… though to Anna he resembled an excited puppy.
"Something about psycho assassins" Scott responded, his response made Wanda glance towards her closest friend on the team (apart from Ivy, though technically she was her sister-in-law) as it seemed like an answer that the eccentric blonde would give.
"Were outside the law on this one. So if you want to come with us you're a wanted man"
"Yeah, well what else is new?"
"I like him" Anna chuckled, earning a snicker from Sam and Wanda at her comment
"Anna, you sure you're in?" Clint questioned. Looking at Annabelle he saw Ivy, not the Avenger's Ivy the Ivy he rescued from the woods outside Sokovia three years prior.
"I got nothing better to do"
"We should get moving" Bucky stated, as he looked at the team in front of him. Apart from Scott, it was clear that they all got along and trusted each other, in a sense they were a completely dysfunctional family.
"Kat leant us a chopper" Clint informed before seeing the look that the teenager was giving him "She is aware that it may not come back with us"
Before anyone had a chance to say anything else an alarm was sounded, listening to the words being spoken Bucky was the first one to break the silence "There evacuating the airport"
"Stark" Cap stated as he looked around his new team, giving one simple command "Suit up"
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As Steve, Anna and Scott (in his suit) made their way through to meet up with Tony while everyone else split up into pairs, Sam and Bucky as well as Clint and Wanda. As they ran to the helicopter, Tony and Rhodey flew down, having disabled the vehicle, an act that caused Anna to curse under her breath.
"Wow it's so weird how you run into people at the airport. Don't you think that's weird?" Tony said as he landed
"Definitely weird" Rhodes agreed
"Hear me out Tony. That doctor, the psychiatrist he's behind all of this" Steve attempted to explain as T'Challa jumped down and landed in front of them, only Natasha and Steve registered how Anna flinched when she saw the man who had injured her in Romania.
"Captain" T'Challa spoke to the super soldier before turning his attention to Anna "Miss"
"You're Highness"
"Anyway Ross gave me 36 hours to being you in, that was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?" Tony questioned.
"You're after the wrong guy"
"Your judgement is askew. Your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday –"
"And there are five more super soldiers just like him. I can't let the doctor find them first Ton. I can't"
"Steve you know what's about to happen. Do you really want to punch your way out of this one?" Natasha asked, trying her own way to defuse the situation.
"Alright I've run out of patience. UNDEROOS" Iron man called as someone in a red suit flipped over head catching Cap's shield in a web like substance "Nice job kid"
"Thanks, well I could have stuck the landing a little better, it's just a new suit. Wait its nothing Mr. Stark, its perfect thank you" the kid stated, still holding the shield.
"Yeah. We don't really need to start a conversation"
"Ok. Cap-captain, big fan. I'm spiderman"
"Yeah we'll talk about it later"
"Hey everyone"
"Good job"
"You've been busy Stark" Annabelle spoke up as her knuckles turned while from how tightly she clenched her fists, ending the conversation between Spiderman and Tony.
"And you two have been complete idiots. Dragging in Clint, rescuing Wanda from a place she doesn't even want to leave. A safe place. I'm trying to keep, I'm trying to keep you from tearing the avengers apart"
"You did that when you signed" Steve interjected, as his gaze fell to the blonde's hands subtlety putting himself between Anna and Black Panther.
"Alright we're done. You are going to turn Barnes over, you're gonna come with us NOW!" Tony ordered, before his gaze landed on Anna "I'm surprised you are siding with Barnes, given what happened in Washington"
"Tony don't, not here" Natasha pleaded, when she saw the look of shock and fear go through the girl's eyes, as well as the confusion going through Steve's.
"What? They never told you? Remember Anna's list of aliases? That she went by Celeste Fielding for a few years? Your 'friend' was hired to kill her, and if she wasn't an enhanced she would be dead! That's who your protecting"
"We found it" Sam interjected, as he looked at the man next to him "Their quinjet is in hangar 5 north run way"
"About freaking time" Anna muttered, as Steve raised his webbed hands for Clint to free with his arrow "Time to start moving boys and Wanda"
"All right Lang" Steve stated, as he saw the blonde next to him unclench her fists. As he said this Spiderman looked around him
"Hey guys! Something …" the teenager was cut off by Scott turning big and flip kicking him in the head to get the shield back. Running over to Steve he held out the shield
"I believe this is yours Captain America"
"Oh great." Tony sighed when he realised that a fight was going to actually break out and there was nothing he could do to stop it "Alright there's two in the parking deck, one of them's Maximoff, I'm gonna grab her. Rhodey want to take Cap?"
"Got two in the terminal. Wilson and Barnes" Rhodey said as T'Challa ran towards the terminal, and Steve tried to slow War Machine down before following after the Black Panther.
"Barnes is mine"
"Be careful everyone" the blonde con artist told them as she took off after Natasha, who had just sent mini-Scott into the side of a can "Good to see you again Miss Romanov"
"You are really fighting alongside them?" Natasha asked, questioning the motive if the unpredictable blonde who had no reason to actually be involved in this fight.
"Seemed like fun at the time"
"Anna. What side would Ivy be on?"
"Not yours. Oh I remember why I'm on Steve's side, he defended Ariella against Stark calling her a monster. Plus Clint and Wanda are on this team"
"I'm sorry Anna" Natasha sighed as she shot her Widow's Bite at the young teen, an attack that did not affect the blonde "I guess you really are an enhanced"
"It's kept me alive all this time" Anna responded as she tossed the redhead into the same van that Scott had been sent into "Sorry Nat. Nothing personal"
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"Guys, get to the jet" Steve called out, as the team started making their way there. As they ran towards it, a beam of energy shot out and stopping them in their tracks.
"Captain Rogers" Vision called out, floating about the team "I know you believe what you are doing is right, but for the collective good you must surrender now." As the android spoke the rest of those who sided with Tony lined up opposite them.
"What do we do Cap?" Sam asked, as the stare off continued
"We fight" Steve answered as they started walking towards each other before it became a full on run.
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"Wanda, toss me something" Anna called out as she avoided the stray attacks, the Sokovian looked around before using her powers to throw one of the stray cars at the blonde. Easily catching the car, the youngest member of Team Cap were able to toss it at T'Challa who was not expecting the attack and narrowly avoided the attack, "I owe you one for Romania." Walking over and standing in front of Bucky, who had been slammed into some crates, "Come on, and fights not over yet?"
"So feel like explaining your powers to us yet Annabelle?" Sam asked, as he watched the smallest person in the entire fight throw a car like it was a beach ball. That was before she helped up a man who had tried to kill her two years prior.
"If we make it out of here I'll give you my life story. We need to hurry this up a bit though"
"That guy could already be in Siberia by now"
"We got to draw out the fires. I'll take Vision, you two get to the jet" Steve ordered as he popped up next to the pair
"No!" Sam countered "You get to the jet, the three of you. The rest of us aren't getting out of here"
"As much as I hate to admit it, if we're going to win this one, some of us might have to lose it" Clint added on as he shot arrows at members of Team Iron Man.
"This isn't the real fight Steve."
"All right Sam, what's the play?" Steve reluctantly agreed to the plan
"We need a diversion, something big"
"I've got something kind of big but I can't hold it very long. On my signal run like hell and if I tear myself in half don't come back for me" Scott threw in, as he started running towards the fight
"He's going to tear himself in half?" Bucky questioned what was going on around him, while Anna just shrugged in response.
"Are you sure about this Scott?" Captain America asked feeling worried about the man.
"I do it all the time. I mean once … in a lab … and I passed out…. I'm the boss, I'm the boss. I'M THE BOSS"
"SHIT!" Anna shouted as Scott turned into a giant
"I guess that's the signal" Steve stated, as he grabbed Anna and started to run towards the quinjet with Bucky following behind them
"I want to see the giant-man fight"
"Another time Anna. You are coming with us to Siberia"
"Way to go tic tac" Sam smirked as he saw giant man grabbing Rhodey, buying them enough time to get away from the fight.
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Running through the falling debris that Vision was using to block their path, the trio stopped in front of Natasha who was standing in their way.
"Your not going to stop?" Natasha asked remorsefully, as she looked at them
"You know I can't" Steve
I'm going to regret this" as she shot her attack between them so that it hit Black Panther who had followed them "Go. There all safe aren't they Anna?"
"I took care of it before I called Clint. Everyone's somewhere safe" Anna responded as she ran onto the plane with the two men from the forties. "I hope one of you knows how to fly this thing"
"I got it" Steve called back from the cockpit once he sat down, already starting to take off.
"Try and avoid crash landing in the ocean this time Cap"