Summary: Bucky is recaptured by Hydra where their scientists conduct more experiments on him. There he meets an unlikely ally, an innocent looking young woman who is hiding a much darker side. Meanwhile Steve has tracked his best friend and discovered his location and is preparing to mount a rescue mission with the help of some of his fellow Avengers. Can they save Bucky before it's too late? And who is this mystery woman? Co – Written with Dixon – Vixen 13. Bucky/OC, Steve/Sharon, Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper. Rated M for graphic violence, language and eventual sexual scenes.

Soldiers And Spies

Chapter 2

A swarm of men burst through the doors and once again took down the duo with tranq darts, dragging them off to the scientists and doctors to be experimented on further.

Eva woke several hours later, back in the cell that she shared with Bucky. She looked over to find him sprawled out on his bed, still unconscious. Her head hurt like hell. Being in this place was like a nightmare. Sure she had been trained to handle torture, but this was at a whole other level. They weren't beating her but messing with her brain, messing with her DNA. She felt like some kind of lab rat. She sat up slowly, allowing her body time to work through the last of the sedative in her system. When she felt ok she moved over to her new friend.

"Bucky," she whispered as she shook his arm. "Bucky wake up."

Bucky groaned in response as scrunched up his face as he started to come to. He looked up at Eva, whose face was very pale. "You ok?" He questioned, a little worried about her.

"I'm alright… are you?"

"Yeah, I think so." He replied still feeling groggy from the drugs.

"We have to find a way out of here Bucky. I don't know how much more of their experiments I can take." She told him.

"I know. Well the good news is that they seem to need us alive so they won't kill us. Have you managed to see any way we could escape?"

"Not really. Those bastards keep drugging me before they take me anywhere. I never get a chance to see much of anything. All I've seen is rooms, not the hallways that connect them."

"Me either. This is slightly problematic." He replied. The sad look on her face almost broke his heart. "Don't worry Eva, we will work something out. I promise I will get us out of here."

"I believe you, Bucky." Eva said softly and sat down on the bed. She found two blankets, handing one to him he took it gratefully and they both lay down on the lumpy mattress of Bucky's bed, trying to get some rest.

Bucky felt exhausted and mentally drained as he looked at Eva who was starting to look very sleepy, her chest rising and falling as she pulled the hair band from her hair.

Her hair was a deep blonde and it gently curled around her shoulders, he could actually feel the tips of the strands tickling him as he closed his eyes for a while.

"Eva." He said quietly and Eva opened her eyes and glanced at him.

"Yeah?" She asked quietly.

"I am going to get us out of here, I swear to you that I will get you out of here." Bucky promised and Eva felt her eyes burn with tears, she nodded and squeezed his hand tightly.

He squeezed it back, noticing how she didn't seem afraid of his cybernetic left arm. Upon looking at it closer he noticed that it had been upgraded while he'd been unconscious, he'd be sure to test it out when he woke again.

'I'm gonna get us out of here.' He mentally promised her.

'I know you will, but how are we going to escape this hell hole?' She replied, but she hadn't even opened her mouth.

Eva blinked in shock and Bucky just stared at her.

"Eva?" He spoke out loud, sitting up slightly to look at her. "Did you just communicate with me telepathically?"

"I... I guess so. I mean I heard you somehow. It's not like I was trying to read your thoughts... it... it just happened." She stuttered nervously. Worried that he would think she was prying into his mind.

"It's ok." He reassured her. "I guess this is a new thing since they last experimented on you. This is getting really crazy."

"Tell me about it. I can read minds. I'm like some sort of circus freak." She sighed.

"Eva, you're not a freak. Not at all."

"I just don't know what to think or feel anymore."

"I know. All of this is weird. But try not to think about it. I'm here for you, whatever you need. I'll do my best to protect you from these guys okay."

"Thank you Bucky. I just want to..." She trailed off as she lay back down on his bed with her back pressed against his chest, needing to feel some sort of comfort in that moment.

"It's ok." He reassured her as he stretched an arm protectively over her and listened to the steady rhythm of her breathing.

Eva had fallen asleep and Bucky leaned his head back as he made a vow to himself to get the both of them out of this hell they had been forced into. He held her tighter and tried to get some rest as well. Neither of them had noticed, that they were holding hands as they slept.

The next morning was gruelling, they'd been dragged outside into a forest but luckily they were given warm clothes to wear for the slightly cold weather.

"What do you want us to do?" Bucky asked suspiciously.

"You will be fighting together against two agents who have betrayed our cause, you are to take them out." The man instructed and left them. Eva looked at her uniform then and noticed that it was similar to the one that she had worn in her Red Room days, only this one was black and had purple piping that glowed.

"Begin!" The voice on the speaker commanded harshly. Eva was really starting to hate that god damned voice.

The two agents had their bounds cut and were pushed towards Bucky and Eva. They clearly looked worried about being set upon by these Hydra experiments, but they knew what they had to do to survive, as did the two captives.

Bucky was becoming tired of these constant tests. If they were trying to make him loyal to HYDRA once again it was never going to happen. That ship had long since sailed. They had screwed him over enough, and now that he had regained his memory he would do anything not to lose who he was again.

He charged at one of the agents tackling him to the ground before landing punch after punch to his face. The agent pushed Bucky off and scampered to the side to regain his composure. He stood back up and charged Bucky and the two of them fought for the upper hand.

Meanwhile Eva had begun to fight with the second agent. She was easily able to take him to the ground. Her strength was increasing with what the scientists had been doing to her. But it wasn't just an increase in strength that she felt, something was different. Within her mind, within her body. God only knows what they had done to her, but these crazy things that had been happening to her lately she wasn't sure if any of it was good.

The Quinjet landed a mile out from the Hydra base while in stealth mode. Steve, Clint and Natasha began to go over their plan to rescue Bucky. Through Natasha's connections she had managed to get some inside intel on the layout of the underground facility so they knew exactly where Bucky was being held and how to get there. What they didn't know was what or who they would be up against once they got there, and that was worrying.

After struggling for a few minutes and exchanging multiple blows the first agent was looking much worse for wear, but Bucky was still managing to hold his own. When the agent grabbed a hold of him, Bucky flipped him around, holding him in a headlock he cut of his air supply until he was on the brink of passing out.

"Finish him!" The voice ordered harshly.

Bucky sighed, he never wanted to kill again, but there was only one way he was getting out of this. With one swift movement he snapped the agent's neck and threw his body to the ground. He looked over to Eva who was struggling a little with the other agent. He had her pinned. Bucky rushed to help her but before he could Eva let out a piercing scream and the agent was flung high in the air then came crashing back down hard.

"Very good work Miss Nikolayev... now end him." The voice spoke once more.

She looked at Bucky hesitantly and he just nodded to her as if to say it's ok, it's what needs to be done. Eva approached the lifeless body of the agent and gave his head a sharp twist, breaking his neck just like Bucky had done to the other.

Eva began breathing heavily, trying to comprehend the fact that she had just taken a man's life. She nodded at Bucky who nodded back and the men reappeared to take them back to the base. They were escorted back into the ballet studio, that he been transformed into a makeshift gun range where they saw guns were lying on the table.

"Now begin showing us how well you can shoot." The voice said coldly and they began shooting at the fake targets with the pistols that had been given to them.

Bucky was easily able to use a gun as he had plenty of military training. Eva was pretty quickly getting the hang of it and it didn't take long for her to become a good shot.

"You both did well the knives yesterday, so begin again." The voice instructed as they were handed dummy training knives by the guards.

They began their fight much like the day before, dancing around one another, slashing and stabbing. At least this time they couldn't do much damage. Bucky figured that they didn't want them hurting each other and compromising any plans for future experiments. This was purely for training and assessment of their skills.

Eva pushed Bucky away from her with a knife, but he shoved her onto her back, she jumped up and twisted her knife for a minute before charging at him again.

She slashed at his metal arm, but he blocked her attack and pushed her up against the wall.

As the two continued their knife fight a loud explosion could be heard coming from somewhere above them in the compound. It was quickly followed by the sound of distant gunfire.

"Get them back to their cell!" The voice over the speaker yelled. Two men came rushing through the doors and dragged them both off at gunpoint. As they neared the cell Bucky decided that this was the opportunity they has been waiting for. This was their chance to escape. He hoped that Eva was tapped into his thoughts again as he tried to communicate with her.

'Eva, if you can hear me this is our shot.'

'I hear you Bucky. What do we do?'

'As we reach the cell and they let their guard down, I will take one guy out with the door. You handle the other okay?'

'Okay. I got it.'

Just as planned as they reached the cell and were being escorted inside Bucky used his metal arm to swing the door back as hard as he could smashing the guard in the face. As he hit the ground with a thud the other began to point his pistol at Bucky.

"No!" Eva yelled as she held her hands up. The guards arm began to tremble as he fought for control of his limb, but Eva was too strong. She used her new found powers to make him aim the gun at his own head. A mere distraction as Bucky got close enough to knock him out. She didn't want to kill again unless she absolutely had to.

"Let's get out of here." Bucky said as he grabbed her hand and they began to run down the corridor.

They took out more soldiers as they made their bid for escape from HYDRA as they made their way through a series of corridors. They held each other's hands tightly as more HYDRA soldiers emerged, Eva used her telekinesis powers to knock them out by throwing them up against the ceiling. As they saw another team of men file in the door in front of them one took the opportunity to fire an RPG at them.

"GET DOWN!" Bucky yelled quickly and threw himself over Eva as debris flew everywhere. Half of the wall exploded but his shot was pretty lousy as Eva had used to powers to knock him off balance and he ended up killing a few of his own men in the process.

"Shit! We're gonna have to fight our way out, Eva." Bucky said grimly as he grabbed a gun from of the dead men, Eva nodded and grabbed herself a weapon, a colt python, and they began shooting their way out. As they made their way closer to the door Eva got shot in the left side causing her to yell out in pain before taking her shooter down.

"Damnit!" Eva cursed angrily as she clutched her bleeding side.

Bucky ran over to her and picked her up and put her over his shoulder. As he ran with her towards the fire exit and up the stairwell, Eva covered his back by shooting at the others with her colt python which she seemed to excel at using.

"Almost there Eva!" Bucky called out quickly, worried about how much blood she might be losing.

"Just hang on a little longer Eva. I'll get us out of here I promise" He told her. As he made his way up the stairs with Eva thrown over his shoulder, held securely in place with his metal arm he found himself surrounded by more HYDRA agents. A group of them were closing in from a couple floors above, and another group had emerged from the door below where they had come from.

As he raised his gun to fire upon the men below, shots rang out from above him. He looked up to see a light brown haired man abseiling down the middle of the stairwell using a bow and arrow, holding tightly onto the red head woman he a fought a while back. She was dual wielding her pistols and took out the whole gang of Hydra agents they were descending the stairs toward them.

The red head emptied her magazines and as the pair of them continued down she threw a few small disc like things from her belt which emitted some kind of electric pulse rendering the other agents unconscious. The two of them landed on the bottom level and the man unhooked his bow from the zipline.

Bucky raced down the stairs towards the pair but before he had a chance to ask them what they were doing there he heard the distinctive noise of someone else speeding down the zip line. He looked up just in time to see a man release his hold on the line a few metres up and land on the ground in front of him, a shield tucked firmly on his arm. He would recognize that shield anywhere.

"Steve!?"

"Bucky." Steve smiled in relief. "Duck!" He ordered and Bucky ducked, putting Eva behind him as Steve threw his shield at a few HYDRA agents that had entered the stairwell through the door, knocking them off their feet as Steve charged at them knocking them out cold.

"New friend?" He asked nodding at Eva. "I think there's a story here but the Quinjet's outside and we don't have time." Steve said quickly and Bucky nodded as he was tossed a Smith and Wesson pistol, he fired it at few HYDRA agents making their way down the stairs and he picked Eva up again and she covered his back with her new favourite gun.

They raced up a few more flights of stairs, Bucky held on tightly to Eva and she gripped his shoulder.

"I'm guessing these are friends of yours, soldiers?" Eva asked as she shot at another HYDRA soldier while using her telekinesis on another.

"Steve is and the other two must be friends of his, spies I think." Bucky answered as they neared closer to the exit.

"That makes sense, because I'm pretty sure the red head is the famous Black Widow. I never met her, but they showed us pictures of her in the Red Room when I was younger, before she went rogue." Eva said hurriedly.

They raced through a door and into a small hallway down as they were chased by more HYDRA agents with RPGS. One of them let off a shot and blew up part of the roof over their heads.

"GET DOWN!" Steve yelled as he tried to protect both himself, Clint and Natasha with his shield.

Debris scattered everywhere, knocking Bucky off his feet and sending Eva flying from his shoulders. Bucky frantically searched for her as they were covered in clouds of dust. "Eva!" He yelled out, only to be met with the sounds of her screams.

"Eva!" He yelled again as the dust began to settle he started to be able to see the damage the RPG had done. That's when he saw Eva, she was pinned to the ground by a large concrete pillar. He ran to her, and with all the strength he had, he tried to move the solid concrete from her body, but it was no use.

"Steve! I need your help!" He yelled out to his friend who was busy fighting off another horde of Hydra agents with the other two members of his team. The red haired woman became over powered and was stabbed by one of the HYDRA men. Her partner rushed to her, taking out three guys in the process and assessed her wound.

"Steve, Nat's hurt pretty bad. We gotta go... Now! Get Bucky!"

Steve ran to Bucky's aid and tried to help him lift the concrete that was crushing the young blonde haired woman. The two men struggled as they put all their strength into lifting, but it only moved an inch. Not enough to get her out. "Bucky... I'm sorry, we can't..." Steve trailed off.

"I can't leave her, Steve!"

"Just go Bucky." Eva choked out. "Please... just leave me. Get out of here!" She begged pleadingly.

"No Eva, I won't leave you!"

"If you stay all of this was for nothing. Please... save yourself. I'll be ok." She tried to reassure him.

"Buck... I know you don't want to, but we gotta go now."

Bucky yelled out in frustration. He had been through so much with Eva and he had promised that he would get her out of there, and now he was going to have to leave her behind. God knows what HYDRA would do to her now. That's if she even survived her injuries. Bucky grabbed her face and kissed her desperately and passionately. "I will come back for you Eva. Please be strong. I need you to be strong for me okay. Wherever they take you, I will find you and I will save you... I swear." He whispered as a tear slid from his eye.

"I know you will." She replied as she planted a gentle kiss on his cheek. "Now go, before it's too late."

Reluctantly Bucky got up and ran after Steve, looking back at Eva one last time before they left the corridor following the other two out of the building, taking anyone out who stood in their way as they made it back to the Quinjet. Bucky felt so tired as he flopped onto the floor. Exhausted from the fight, and distraught that he had to leave Eva behind.

Two scientists wheeled Eva into an operating room which was overseen by Wolfgang Von Strucker. He watched as the two surgeons operated on the young blonde haired woman to rebuild the broken bones in her legs, which had been caused by the explosion.

"Project Psyche is ready to start." Wolfgang informed his partner Eleanor who had just entered the room. She smiled triumphantly as she watched them operate on the young woman and wipe her mind clean of any recent memories.

They remade her bones with vibranium metal and studied her condition for at least five hours, before being satisfied with the fact that Evangeline Nikolayev had survived the procedure.

They finally had their ultimate weapon. They now had Psyche.

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