Michelle is leaning against Sam's car, cellphone to her ear as she talked to Clint Baton.
"You sure everything's ok?" His voice was asking. "Hotaru's been nervous for the last few weeks."
"I promise, everything's being handled." Michelle promises.
"Fury's really dead, isn't he?" Clint asked softly.
Michelle bit her lower lip. "He is." She answered with a nod. "The doctors cut him open, his heart stopped."
There was a whistle of disbelief on the other end of the phone. "Damn. Now I'm conflicted. Should we come to help?"
She shook her head. "No. Stay where you're at. And being the amazing dad to Hotaru that you already are, she really missed you Clint. Everything's pretty dangerous right now. We can't afford Hotaru to want to bring out Sailor Saturn. Earth is still alive, it's just SHIELD is compromised."
"So it is true. That's it, I'm turning in."
"Not until Steve says."
"How is the Captain? He's gotta be going out of his mind thinking he died for nothing." Clint asked.
"Right now he's dealing with the facts that SHIELD wants us dead." Michelle replied. "I don't think it's really sunk in for him yet, and if it has he's a good actor."
"Well, let me know when it's safe." Clint told her. "Hotaru's gonna want to visit Fury and of course see that Trista's ok."
"I definitely will." Michelle looks up to see Steve approaching, hand gripping Jasper Sitwell's jacket shoulder. "Have to go now."
"Ok. Be safe Michelle." With that Michele and Clint hung up just as the others approach her.
"Stevie, Hotaru wants a picture of you and Trista once we get a chance." Michelle told him.
"Once she's out of the hospital and feeling better." Steve smiled.
"How is she?" Natasha asked, shoving Sitwell into the backseat.
"She's ok for now. She's still with Clint." Michelle answered. "He wants to put arrows through the whole STRIKE team."
Natasha smirks. "His target can be Rumlow."
"Hotaru?" Sam asked after opening the driver door of his car.
"Great kid." Steve nodded as he gets into the passenger seat. "Hawkeye's daughter."
"I remember her from New York." Sitwell said, he quickly leaned his back against the door behind him when Natasha turns to shove the barrel of her gun into his chest.
"Go near her." The assassin threatened cocking her gun.
"No blood inside my car, please." Sam told her as he pulls out onto the street.
"Just making sure he knows his place." The red head responded.
Michelle smiles. "I know Trista would want to send him back to diaper years." Her smile fades as she glares at Sitwell.
Steve turns to the backseat, his blue eyes wide. "Trista can do that?"
"She can." Michelle nods.
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Sitwell complained the whole trip as they headed for SHIELD. Michelle sat behind Steve, Natasha sat in the middle and Sitwell behind Sam. Michelle tuned out the conversation, mostly so she didn't have to listen to Sitwell's complaints. Suddenly glass is heard shattering, a metal arm is then seen grabbing Sitwell and throwing him out of the car right into front of a Simi Truck. Sam slammed on the breaks, jerking everyone forward and staring as a man with a metal arm land in front of them.
"Please tell me he's an assassin friend of yours Nat." Michelle nervously said as she turns to the red head.
Before Natasha could respond to the question, an armed car behind them slammed into the back of Sam's car, jerking them all forward as the car is forced forward. The man with the metal arm leaps onto the roof of the car, as he does Natasha climbs over to sit in Steve's lap, as Michelle also moves to the front, the Assassin slams his metal fist down - shattering the windshield as he grabs the steering wheel and yanks it out.
"Hold on!" Steve yells as he holds Natasha to his chest using his shield to break the passenger door, Natasha wraps her arms around his neck, Sam grabs Michelle's waist as Steve reaches with his free arm to grab Sam's shirt. As the four lean heavily on the shield, the car begins to tip to the left. Steve leans back. Steve and Natasha slide along the shield together, while Sam and Michelle roll in different directions.
Once they stopped sliding, Natasha pushes herself up letting Steve get to his feet. He soon looks over her head as a rocket is suddenly launched at them. He shoves her to the side and tried to block the rocket with his shield, but it sent him flying backwards.
On the ledge, Michelle pulls out her transformation pen. "Neptune, Crystal Power!" Once the blinding light disappears, she jumps up onto the roof of a car. "Deep Submerge!" Her attack sailed at the men.
Sam came up behind her, a machine gun that he stole from the enemy rested on his shoulder. "Whoa!" He gasped. He walked up to the car as Sailor Neptune jumped down from the roof and faced him. "Michelle?" He asks.
"That's right." She smiled with a nod, bullets suddenly started to shower towards them. Sam shoots back at them. Neptune places a hand on Sam's shoulder, causing him to look at her, and she gently pushes him to the side. "Stand back Sam." She warns. He does as Neptune summons her violin. "Submarine Violon Tide!" The wave of energy slams into the remaining men.
Sam let out a whistle. "Nice."
"Come on!" She turns and leaps off the ledge, Sam runs up to the ledge to see her perfectly fine and looking up at him. "Let's go Falcon!"
"Roger that!" Sam jumps down, landing on a car's roof, he walks down to join her.
Neptune looks around at the devastation, she closes her eyes and her tiara glows softly, she's soon engulfed in a soft blue light when it faded she was back to civilian form. "We need to find Steve."
"Shouldn't be too hard since he's standing right in the open." Sam remark, throwing the machine gun to the ground before grabbing his uniform and pulling it on.
Michelle runs towards Steve. "Steve!" She calls, rushing to his side. But Steve stood like he's in a trance, staring straight ahead. She turns to see what he was staring at. The Assassin now has his face revealed. She couldn't help but to stare, he looks pretty damn handsome with chocolate brown eyes, his long brunette hair brushing the top of his shoulders. There was something about him that she was instantly drawn too.
"Bucky?" Steve breathed.
"Who the hell is Bucky?" The Assassin questions, he pulls out a gun and aims it at Steve. Suddenly Sam comes swooping in, delivering a powerful kick to Winter Solider, knocking him down.
Winter Solider turns to look at Steve with a mixture of shock and confusion, his chocolate eyes side to look at the woman with teal hair standing by the blonde, she's beautiful.
Suddenly, sirens are heard in the distance and the Winter Solider runs to disappears. That broke Steve out of his shock.
"Bucky!" He yells, starting forward, but suddenly the STRIKE team arrives and quickly surround them.
"Let go of me, you worm!" Michelle struggled against Rumlow.
"I've been waiting for this." He said.
"Watch the hands, worm!" Michelle struggled as he shoves her into the back of the van. Once inside Rumlow chains her hands together, she kicks him hard in the face then another kick to his chest, knocking him the to the floor of the van.
Rumlow sat up and rubbed his jaw. "You're gonna regret that, bitch." He points at Steve, who was lost in thought while looking down. "Your bodyguard is broken." With that he turns to leave the back and slam the double doors.
"Another point for you Michelle." Natasha breathed, her wound was bleeding out more and more.
"Stevie." Michelle gently nudges him with her shoulder. "You ok?" She asks gently.
"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky."
"How's that even possible? You said he died." Sam said.
"I thought he was dead." Steve continued to stare at his lap. "Half his unite was captured by HYDRA." He starts to explain. "Because Bucky's a Sargent, they experimented on him. Made him survive the fall."
"Don't worry Steve, we'll get your best friend back." Michelle reassured him.
Sam started to say something, but Natasha's head slid down to land on his shoulder, he looks at her then turns to the guard in front of him. "She needs a doctor or she's gonna bleed out."
The guard held up a weapon, then turned and slammed it into the other guard, knocking him out. The guard pulls the helmet to reveal Maria Hill.
"That helmet was squeezing my brain." She wipes some locks her hair out of her face, she looks at Sam then looks at Steve. "Who's this guy?"