"YOU ARE FAILING!" Schmidt was beyond furious about all of his Hydra compounds being destroyed by the Howling Commandos. He turned to Zola, boiling over with rage, his red face making him even scarier. "We are close to an offensive that will shake the planet, but we are continually delayed because we cannot out a simpleton with a shield!"

Zola began to hurry after him in the rubbish of the destroyed compound. "This isn't my area of expertise. I am merely develop weapons. I cannot fire them."

Schmidt just stared down at him, still feeling the rage. "Finish your mission, doctor, before the Captain finishes his."

"Sir!" They both turned around to see his masked guards approaching with a man in a dirty torn suit.

"I'm sorry, sir." He spoke nervously. "We fought until the last man."

Schmidt pulled one of the Hydra weapons out of his belt and aimed it right at the man. "Evidently not." When he shot it, the man completely vaporized. Zola had to turn away, disgusted with all of it.

Schmidt tried to walk away, but one of the masked soldiers pulled him to the side to talk to him. "Sir, I found a picture in one of the Howling Commandos' pockets when we first captured them." Schmidt's brow furrowed so the soldier pulled out the picture and gave it to him.

Schmidt studied the picture of Maria in the thigh high and garters, knowing she looked familiar. It suddenly hit him. This was Captain America's sister. Not only Captain America's sister, but the now wife to Steve's best friend. He began to smile, knowing they had a way to get to the Howling Commandos. He looked back to the masked soldier, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Thank you very much. You've been very helpful." The soldier nodded and walked off.

Schmidt looked back down at the photo, beaming with delight. "Dr. Zola!" The short man hurried over to him when Schmidt pushed the picture into his hands. He studied the picture in confusion, not understanding what he was supposed to do with it. "Find the girl in that picture. She could be the key to finally ending the Captain and the perfect candidate for our new project."

Maria and Howard were doing weapon repairs while the boys were out on a mission. Howard began studying one of his guns that seemed almost unrecognizable. "I don't think I can fix this one."

Maria looked up from the weapon she was oiling and shrugged. "Then toss it into the pile and we'll burn it down and use it for another weapon."

He sighed, got up and moved into the other room to find the pile of damaged weapons that had been collected since they went overseas. "You know," Howard began as he looked down at the pile sadly. "They really need to be a lot more careful with my weapons."

"They're in a war, Howard." Maria laughed out from the other room.

"They can still be careful." He leaned down to place it with the others when he heard crashing from the room Maria was in. He straightened up and the noise suddenly stopped. "Maria?" He called out.

She didn't respond so he slowly walked into the other room, getting the gun strapped to his belt ready. When he looked inside the room, he saw that a masked Hydra soldier had a gun to Maria's head, holding her in a choke hold as tears streamed down her face. Howard picked up his gun to shoot him, but the soldier was faster. He pulled the gun away from Maria's head and shot Howard. She screamed as he fell and he gripped her neck tighter, forcing her out the door as she began kicking and screaming for him to let her go.

They walked down the hall for Maria to see all the people she had worked with lying dead on the floor. They had killed them all just to get to her. When they got outside, the cold hit her immediately and Schmidt with his red face stood in front of her. The soldier let go of her and pushed her into Schmidt as she looked up at him in fear. "Maria Barnes I take it?"

She swung her fist back and nailed him in the face. "Get the hell away from me, you ugly son of a bitch!"

She pushed past him and tried to run away, but another soldier stood in her way. Schmidt then grabbed her hands as she continued to kick, scream and claw, anything she could do to try and escape. "Calm down, sweetheart." He got her into a choke hold as her arms flailed around, trying to hurt him in some way so he could let go, but he was too strong. Her fight got slower and slower until she passed out from the lack of oxygen and Schmidt let her fall to the ground. He looked up at his soldiers and made a hand movement, trying to tell them to take her away.

Zola hurried to him and watched as they took the girl away. He couldn't help, but feel this guilt. She was never meant to get caught up in this. She was the queen when she wasn't even meant to be included on the chess board.

Schmidt looked to him as he watched the men taking Maria away and sighed at the sight of his presence still there. "Don't you have a train to catch?"

The Howling Commandos were getting ready to zip line onto a train while Bucky looked down at the cliff they were standing on. It was a long way down. "Remember when I made you ride the Cyclone at Coney Island?"

"Yeah," Steve spoke in confusion at him bringing up that memory. "And I threw up."

Bucky looked up at the zip line, thinking about all that could go wrong. "This isn't payback, is it?"

"Why would I do that?" Bucky rolled his eyes at the joke, but Steve just continued to smile at him.

"We were right." They all turned around to see Eddy messing with the radio, causing them to move closer to hear this new information. "Dr. Zola is on that train. Hydra dispatcher gave me permission to open up the throttle."

Gabe looked to them and shrugged. "Wherever he's going, they must need him bad."

Bucky and Steve looked at each other, knowing this was going to be a tough one. Steve sighed and put his helmet on, the others following, getting ready to go on the zip line. "Let's get going because they're moving like the devil." James spoke as he looked through his binoculars.

"We've only got about a ten second window." Steve told them as he looked down at where he was going to land. "You miss that window, you're bugs on a windshield."

"Better get moving, bugs!" Dum Dum called loudly as Steve prepared himself to go first.

Steve, Bucky, Gabe and Eddy sailed through the zip line and landed on the top of the train, climbing down a ladder to get into one of the train cars. Bucky, Steve and Eddy got into one of the train cars as Gabe stayed on the top of the train to find Dr. Zola.

When Steve got through the train car and into another, a door closed on Bucky and Eddy. Steve turned around and panicked. He began banging on the door, but there was no use. Bucky and Eddy turned around to see one of the masked soldiers going for them. Eddy gulped and began shooting along with Bucky as Steve took on another masked soldier in his train car. Hydra's weapons were much bigger.

All three of them fortunately had boxes to hide behind and shot whenever they could. Steve blocked his shots with his shield and blast the door that was separating him and Bucky. Once he defeated the Hydra soldier, he saw that Bucky had no bullets left in his gun and Eddy was putting pressure to a wound on his stomach. He tossed Bucky his gun and then ran out, pushing one of the boxes to distract the soldier so Bucky could shoot him. "I had him on the ropes." Bucky spoke as he moved to stand next to Steve.

"I know you did."

There was a moan from behind them, causing Bucky to begin to run over when another Hydra soldier began to come into the train car. "Get back!" Steve yelled as he pushed Bucky behind him. The soldier blasted him with one of his weapons as Steve put his shield out. They were both sent back which took off the side of the train car, Bucky the closest to Steve's shield.

He bear crawled to the shield and picked up a gun to shoot at the soldier, but he just blast him with the gun again, sending him outside of the train, gripping to one of the bars for life. Steve stood up and threw his shield at the soldier, knocking him down instantly. He then ran to go check on his friend.

When he saw Bucky holding on to one of the bars, he felt some sense of hope, but there was still danger running throughout his whole body. "Bucky!" Steve got out on one of the bars and moved towards Bucky, but Bucky's bar was beginning to break. "Grab my hand." Steve called out once they were close enough. They got within fingertips when the bar broke and Bucky fell through the air.

Steve watched, only being able to replay it again in his mind. He was hoping he would be able to see some sign of Bucky making it, but deep down, he knew that wasn't possible. That fall would kill even him. He lost his partner in crime. The love of his sister's life. His best friend and the one person who had been on his side longer than Maria. His brother.

Steve and the Howling Commandos walked to their base of operations with heavy hearts. Some of them were carrying Eddy who needed to be operated on right away and others just walked with their heads down, thinking about how Bucky was actually gone.

Steve thought about how he was going to tell Maria the entire time. Peggy and Colonel Phillips were already working on getting Dr. Zola and everyone on the train, leaving the Howling Commandos time to mourn over what had just happened.

When they walked through the door, their thoughts about Bucky went to the back of their heads because the inside was a bloody mess. Doctors were putting people in body bags and others were cleaning the floors and walls. That's when Steve began to panic. "Maria!" He took off running, pushing anyone who was in his way out of it. When he got into the main room, he saw Howard sitting down on one of the chairs with his face in his hands. Steve hurried to him with a worried face on. All he cared about right now was his sister. "Where's my sister?"

Howard looked up at him with red, bloodshot eyes, not helping Steve's nerves at all. "I don't know." He spoke desperately as everything began to run through his mind again. "Hydra took her. They shot me and they took her."

Steve felt his world begin to collapse. First Bucky and now Maria. They were both gone and he wasn't sure if he was ever going to get Maria back. Steve looked to Howard, knowing that he was also shaken up by her absence. He knew he was in love with her ever since the day they showed him the shields and he knew how bad it was to lose someone they love. "Are you alright?"

Howard nodded and unbuttoned his shirt slightly to show him his bullet proof vest. "It still hurts like hell though."

"I meant about Maria." Steve told him quickly.

Howard looked up at him, tears beginning to collect in his eyes again. "No." He shook his head as he bit down on his lip. "Not really." He looked behind Steve, noticing Bucky wasn't anywhere nearby and they were missing his wife. "Where's Bucky? He should be looking for Maria." He looked back up at Steve who was looking down, trying not to look at Howard, feeling tears already begin to fall down his face again. "What happened?" Howard asked slowly, realizing something just wasn't right.

Steve took a deep breath, collecting himself to look back up at Howard and say, "Bucky's…dead."

Howard's mouth dropped slightly. Maria loved Bucky more than anything and all he wanted was for her to be happy and safe. Now she was taken by Hydra and the love of her life was dead. "Steve," Howard began as he stood up.

Steve looked to him, feeling a tear fall down his face. "Just tell me she's gonna be okay." Howard's heart was breaking as he looked down at him. His heart was breaking for the entire Rogers family. Maria and Bucky were all Steve had. His only hope was for Maria to be alive. "Just tell me that we're going to find her and that she's going to be okay."

Howard pulled him in for a hug without even asking. He wasn't a hugger himself, but he knew Steve really needed it, and right now, Howard also really needed one. They both needed Maria. They both really needed her okay, but more importantly, they really needed each other to get through this.

Maria lied in the chair, still struggling, but the leather straps were just too strong. They had just finished doing a medical test on her which she didn't cooperate for at all. Her only thoughts were of escape. She wanted to get back to Bucky and have him hold her in his arms. She wanted Steve to hug her and tell her that he was going to protect her because no matter how hold she got, she still needed someone to say that to her. She wanted to make sure Howard was okay and she wanted to spend time with him, knowing he was the only person who could make her laugh. She wanted to go back home with everyone she loved by her side.

The door opened and Maria stopped struggling. The second they took the straps off of her, she was punching whoever this was in the face and then running. She probably wouldn't get far, but she wouldn't stop trying to escape until she had that sweet feeling of freedom.

Schmidt approached her with his red face and a clip board in hand, causing Maria to start struggling again. She hated this man more than she could hate anyone. "Hello, Mrs. Barnes."

Maria loudly hit her arms on the metal chair while giving him an angry face. "Get me the hell out of here!"

"I'm sorry." He spoke as he moved next to her, touching her face, but Maria turned away, hating the thought of his touch. "We can't let you go."

He took his hand from her cheek and she shut her eyes, fear pumping in all of her veins. "What are you going to do to me?" She asked slowly with a shaky voice.

"That's easy." He spoke as he moved to lean down right in front of her. "You're going to be our new experiment."

Her breath was rapid as he moved even closer to her, but she somehow found the strength to ask, "What experiment?"

"Darling," He spoke as he stroked her cheek again. "You're going to be the winter soldier."

Okay, obviously Maria isn't going to be the Winter Soldier because she's pregnant with Melody's dad right now, but I wanted to include her being kidnapped to mix some things up. I know this chapter was short, but I thought this was a good place to stop. Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed and please review!