That night Bucky was at a bar with the Commandos just staring at his beer thinking while the others were looking at him.
"So what's up Barnes? We know that look in your eyes." Jones said.
"He's right. We've known you since Steve saved our ass and created the team. What's eatin' ya?" Falsworth asked and Bucky looked at them.
"I don't think HYDRA is gone." Bucky said and they froze.
"WHAT?!" they all yelled and everyone at the bar looked at them confused.
"Shhhh!" Bucky said waving a hand down.
"What do you mean they're not gone?!" Falsworth whispered.
"I saw Zola talking to someone the other day and he was holding something with a HYDRA logo on it." Bucky said and looked at them. "He's reassembling HYDRA." he said and they sat there in silence.
"What do we do?" Morita asked.
"What we did last time, kick their ass." Bucky said and looked at them strong. "But for good this time." he said and they nodded.
"What if Zola created another serum?" Dum Dum asked and they froze.
Bucky bit his lip while they looked at him for an answer.
"Then, he gives it to me like last time." Bucky said and they nodded.
"Quand commençons-nous?" Dernier asked and the others looked at Jones.
"When do we start?" Jones asked for him.
"Tomorrow." Bucky said and they nodded.
The next day the Helicarriers were being held at the Triskelion and the Commandos were there in positions despised.
Bucky had given Dernier a smaller part since he doesn't know much English and Jones had taught them a few simple French words and promised to teach them more after.
"We are in final launch sequence." Man on PA said.
"We are go on guidance." SHIELD Tech said.
"All personnel to launch station." A woman on PA said.
Meanwhile Pierce met the World Security Council as they arrived at the Triskelion.
"And how was your flight?" Pierce asked.
"Lovely. The ride from the airport less so." Hawley said.
"Sadly, SHIELD can't control everything."
"Including General Barnes." Rockwell said and Pierce walked over to one of the guards handing him a case containing four pins.
"This facility is biometrically controlled, and these will give you unrestricted access." Pierce said and the council members each took a pin to wear.
Meanwhile.
"I've been parking there for two months." Com Tech 1 said.
"But it's his spot." Com Tech 2 said.
"So where's he been?"
"I think Afghanistan."
"Negative, DT-6. The pattern is full." Com Tech 1 said into his earpiece. "Well, he could have said something." he said to his colleague. "Ow!" he said when they heard a sharp noise through their earpiece.
"Must be the dish."
"I'll check it out."
"Triskelion command request we clear the area for launch." the man on PA said.
As the Tech went and opened the door he was faced with Bucky, Jones and Falseworth on the other side of the door, Jones and Falseworth pointed their guns at him.
"Move or be hit by three Howling Commandos, those are the options." Bucky said and the tech held his hands up stepping aside to let them enter.
"I know the road hasn't exactly been smooth, and some of you would have gladly kicked me out of the car along the way. Finally we're here, and the world should be grateful." Pierce said addressing the World Security Council members.
As they started drinking to his toast they heard Bucky over the SHIELD microphone that everyone in the building could hear.
"Attention, all SHIELD agents. This is General James Barnes. A few people don't believe my theory while my team do. So I'm going to prove it to all one you. SHIELD is not turning out what we think it is, it's being taken over by HYDRA. With Zola getting sick Alexander Pierce, the son of a 101st, is their leader. The STRIKE crew is HYDRA as well. I don't know how many more, but I know they're in the building. They could be standing right next to you. If you launch those Helicarriers today, HYDRA will be able to kill anyone that stands in their way, unless we stop them. I know I'm asking a lot, but the price of freedom is high, it always has been, and it's a price I'm willing to pay. And if me and the Commandos are the only ones, then so be it." Bucky said and Jones and Falsworth looked at him nodding.
"You smug son of a bitch." Rockwell said to Pierce after learning the truth.
"Arrest him." Singh said to the two HYDRA agents entering the room, thinking they were SHIELD agents but they pointed his gun at Singh.
"I guess I've got the floor." Pierce said.
Meanwhile Rumlow and his men broke into the control room where Dernier was and walked over to one of the techs.
"Preempt the launch sequence. Send those ships up now." Rumlow said and the tech hesitated visibly. "Is there a problem?"
"I'm..." the tech said and shook his head nervously.
"Is there a problem?
"I'm sorry, sir." [the tech said and took a few nervous breaths. "I'm not gonna launch those ships. General's orders." he said and Rumlow pointed his gun at the tech's head.
"Move away from your station." Rumlow said when Dernier walked over to Rumlow pointing his gun at him.
"Like he said!" Dernier said as good as he could and all the SHIELD agents drew their weapons pointing them at Rumlow. "General's orders."
"You picked the wrong side, soldier."
"Depends on where you're standing." Dernier said and Rumlow dropped his gun, but as he did he grabbed his knife and cut Dernier's arm, leading to the SHIELD agents firing their guns, amidst the bullets, Rumlow managed to release the Helicarriers and ran off.
"Close the bay door! Close the bay door now! Close the bay door!" an agent said as the bay doors holding the Helicarriers were about to be opened.
The HYDRA agents entered and started shooting and killing the crew and techs.
At the headquarters Flasworth watched on the monitor as the Helicarriers were being initiated.
"They're initiating launch." Flasworth said.
Meanwhile Bucky and Jones made their way to the Helicarriers when the HYDRA agents starting shooting at them.
"Shit!" Jones said and jumped avoiding getting shot. "Thank god we all got trained for this."
"No kidding. It was a pain in the ass but now that you think about it, we'd be dead if we weren't." Bucky said as the HYDRA agents kept shooting at them.
Meanwhile Secretary Pierce watched from the window the commotion caused by Bucky and Jones trying to stop the Helicarriers launching and turned to Singh.
"Let me ask you a question. What if Pakistan marched into Mumbai tomorrow, and you knew that they were gonna drag your daughters into a soccer stadium for execution?" [Pierce said and handed Singh a glass of champagne. "And you could just stop it with a flick of the switch. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you all?"
"Not if it was your switch." Singh said, tossed the glass aside and one of the HYDRA agents handed Pierce his gun and Pierce pointed it at Singh when Hawley kicked Singh away, then took down the other HYDRA agents in the room before taking the gun and pointing at Pierce removing her disguise to reveal it's Morita.
"Not who you were expecting?" Morita asked.
"Satellites in range at three thousand feet." Charlie Weapons Tech said referring to the Helicarriers.
"Jones, status?" Falsworth said.
"Engaging." Jones said, managed to jump down to the Hellicarrier bay with a parachute taking down the HYDRA jets chasing him. "Alright, Bucky, I'm in." he said when another HYDRA jets headed his way and started shooting at him. "Shit!" he said, took off his parachute and avoided getting hit.
Meanwhile Bucky was fighting off the HYDRA agents as he tried to get inside the Helicarrier.
"Eight minutes, Bucky." Falsworth said.
"Working on it guys." Bucky said.
"What are you doing?" Rockwell asked Morita on the computer.
"He's disabling security protocols and dumping all the secrets onto the Internet." Pierce said.
"Including HYDRA's." Morita said.
In the control center of Helicarrier Alpha.
"Alpha locked." Bucky said.
"Jones, where are you now?" Flasworth asked.
"I had to take a detour!" Jones said running towards one of the Helicarriers when heat-seeking missiles were shot at him by HYDRA, so he jumped back towards the Helicarrier and managed to get the missiles aimed at him to hit the Helicarrier giving him entrance. "Oh, yeah!" he said and jumped into the Helicarrier. "I'm in. Bravo locked." he said to Flasworth and ran out of the carrier.
"Two down, one to go."
"All SHIELD pilots, scramble." a SHIELD pilot said when a HYDRA agent cam firing and killing them all after which he got into one of the jets and flied off.
Back inside the building Morita, Pierce and the council members.
"Disabling the encryption is an executive order, it takes two Alpha Level members." Pierce said.
"Don't worry, company's coming." Morita said when Dum Dum came in with a gun in hand. "Besides, Bucky gave us both access to it." he said and they both looked into the retinal scanner.
"Alpha Level confirmed. Encryption code accepted. Safeguards removed." SHIELD computer said.
Back with Flasworth at HQ.
"Charlie Carrier's forty-five degrees off the port bow." he said and noticed two HYDRA agents breaking in but shot and killed them as they enter. "Six minutes."
On the Helicarrier Bucky was trying to get away from the HYDRA agents shooting at him.
'Please let this serum be worth it.' he thought, jumped off the edge as a HYDRA agent shot a missile at him and landed onto the last Helicarrier.
He slowly put one arm in front of his face and the other up for support panting and sweating.
"Ohhh, that's gonna leave a mark." he said, winced and slowly got up.
Suddenly an agent appeared, pushed him off the edge.
Soon he was holding onto the side of the Helicarrier having a flashback of Russia in 45 but shook his head and pulled himself up.
Meanwhile everyone at the Triskelion was rushing around trying to evacuate the building while Rumlow fought and killed some SHIELD agents.
"All SHIELD agents regroup at Rally Point Delta." a SHIELD agent said and Romlow killed the speaker and another three agents.
"Sir, Council's been breached." HYDRA dispatch said on the radio.
"Repeat, dispatch." Rumlow said.
"Private Morita's up there."
"Headed up!" Rumlow said and Falsworth noticed Rumlow on the monitor.
"Jones?" Falsworth said.
"Yeah?"
"Rumlow's headed for the Council."
"Got it." Jones said and ran.
Inside the Helicarrier Bucky was confronted by the HYDRA agent staring at each other coldly.
"You know, they wanted me to be what you are. The only difference, I am a Super Soldier!" Bucky said and they started battling each other.
As they fought Bucky managed to bring up the targeting blade system, but as the agent attacked him the chip fell from Bucky's hand.
Back at the Council.
"Done." Morita said and looked at his mobile device. "And it's trending." he said when Pierce set off the pins he gave the council members, causing it to burn deeply into their sternum so Morita and Dum Dum pointed their guns at Pierce.
"Unless you want two inch hole in your sternum, I'd put that gun down." Pierce said but Morita didn't back down. "That was armed the moment you pinned it on." he said and they reluctantly lowered their weapons.
Back at the Helicarrier Bucky and the HYDRA agent were battling and the agent stabbed Steve in the shoulder with his knife and then grabbed the fallen chip, but Bucky managed to get the knife out, grab him by the throat and threw him down, armlocks him.
"You're. Not. Winning. Anything!" Bucky yelled as the agent kept holding the chip and Bucky broke his arm and held onto his throat until he passed out and let go of the chip.
Then he grabbed the chip and rushed off.
Back at the Triskelion an office in the SHIELD HQ.
"I'm on forty-one, headed towards the south-west stairwell." Rumlow said and Jones attacked him but he manages to knock Jones down. "This is gonna hurt. There are no prisoners with HYDRA, just order. And order only comes through pain. You ready for yours?"
"I only take orders from General James Barnes or Captain Steven Rogers!" Jones said and they kept attacking each other.
"Lieutenant, how much longer?" Pierce asked.
"Sixty-five seconds to satellite link. Targeting grid engaged. Lowering weapons array now." Charlie XO said on the radio.
"One minute." Flasworth said to Bucky watching from the monitor. "Thirty seconds, Buck!"
Meanwhile Bucky desperately tried to get back up to the Helicarriers to get to the targeting system when the agent became conscious and shot at Bucky in the left thigh and then the right shoulder, but Bucky still managed to climb up.
"Stand by." Bucky said and got the chip out. "Charlie…" he said and the agent shot Bucky in the stomach and he fell on one knee with a hand on the ground. "Oh god. Haven't gotten this in a while." he said and winced but took a deep breath and slowly got up.
On the helicarrier's bridge.
"We've reached three thousand feet. Sat link coming online now." Charlie Weapons Tech said.
"Deploy algorithm." Charlie XO said.
"Algorithm deployed."
"We are go to targets." Pierce said on the radio as Falsworth watched as the weapons were being targeted at Washington, the White house, the Pentagon, Stark Tower, aiming to kill over 700,00 people.
"Target saturation reached. All targets assigned." Charlie Weapons Tech said.
"Fire when ready." Charlie XO said.
"Firing in, three, two, one." Charlie Weapons Tech said when Bucky put the chip in the Helicarrier's targeting blade overriding the system and locking it down.
"Charlie locked." Bucky said with a hand on his stomach.
As they watched the targets went offline.
"Where are the targets? Where are the targets?" Charlie XO asked.
"Okay, Buck, get out of there." Flasworth said and got the Helicarriers weapon targets to open fire upon each other.
"Fire now Flasworth!" Bucky said.
"But, Bucky..."
"Just do it! Do it now!" Bucky said and reluctantly Flasworth made the Helicarriers open fire on each other.
Inside the Helicarrier Bucky was looking at the agent below him.
Back at the Triskelion Pierce watched the Helicarriers as they were firing at each other.
"What a waste." Pierce said.
"Are you still on the fence about Bucky's chances?" Morita asked.
"Time to go, Councilwoman. This way, come on. You're gonna fly me out of here." Pierce said and started to leave with Morita but Morita activated a small disc emitting an electric shock through his whole body and disabled the pin, giving Dum Dum a chance to shoot Pierce twice.
Then Dum Dum walked over to Morita lying unconscious on the floor, knelt down and started shaking him.
"Morta! Morita! Moria, come on pal! We're soldiers! Howling Commandos! We survive anything!" Dum Dum said and Morita opened his eyes.
"Get off me Dum Dum. Bucky was right, the reason you stayed Corporal is because you're so damn fat." Morita said and Dum Dum couldn't help but laugh.
"Hail HYDRA." Pierce said laying on the floor with his last dying breathvas the Helicarriers kept destroying each other.
Then one Helicarrier crashed into a dam beneath the Triskelion as the Helicarrier kept falling with Bucky and the agent.
Inside, at the Triskelion Jones and Rumlow kept fighting each other.
"You're out of your depth, Jones." Rumlow said when the first Helicarrier crashed into the Triskelion, catching him in the destruction.
"Oh shit!" Jones said. "Please, tell me you got that chopper in the air!" He said to Morita sprinting away.
"Where are you?" Morita asked.
"41st floor, north-west corner!"
"We're on it, stay where you are." Moria said and Jones tried to get away from the destruction the Helicarrier was causing to the building. "Not an option!" he said as the building was being destroyed, jumped out of the window and was caught by the chopper held by Morita and Dum Dum.
"Yeah. You?"
"You. Any word from Falsworth or Bucky?"
"Falsworth, where's Bucky? You got a location on Bucky?" Morita asked.
Back in the third Helicarrier Bucky was looking at the agent trapped under some rubble.
"The last living HYDRA agent." Bucky said.
"NO, I'M NOT!" The agent said, lashed out at Bucky, and tried to punch him in the face but Bucky caught his hand chuckling.
"Have you forgotten that I'm the Super Soldier they created and not you? There were only two Super Soldier created. Me and Steve Rogers!" Bucky said and hit the agent hard. "I am General James Buchanan Barnes! The last living Super Soldier and leader of the Howling Commandos!" he yelled and hit the agent again.
Then they jumped on each other and started hitting each other visibly leaving each other marks, and bruises.
The agent tackled Bucky into the ground and repeatedly punched him across the face but Bucky grabbed his wrist and snapped it.
Suddenly a piece from the roof struck the bottom of the Helicarrier, causing it, the agent and Bucky to fall down into the river below.
While they fell Bucky grabbed the agent, pulled off his belt, wrapped it around the agent's neck chocking them and threw them to the water.
Then he looked down, snapped right into the military training he got for the war, got into diving position, took a deep breath and dove.
A few minutes later he shot up taking deep breaths and coughing up water.
When he had control of his breathing he looked around and saw land so started stroking to the land.
When he got there he slowly walked onto land, fell to his knees, stomach and turned to his face on the side losing conciseness while hearing his name.
"BUCKY/GENERAL BARNES!" someone said but he was gone.
A few days later the Commandos, Peggy and Howard were sitting in a SHIELD hospital room where Bucky lay still unconscious.
Peggy and Howard sat there in guilt while the Commandos sat there worried.
Bucky had tried to get Howard and Peggy to believe him before telling his crew his theory, but they didn't believe him. And now they regret it.
As for the Commandos, they always had his back.
Suddenly they heard someone groan and looked at him to see him move a little and slowly open his eyes still looking exhausted.
Then he looked at Peggy and Howard.
"I told you we couldn't trust Zola. He was recreating HYDRA and you didn't believe me." he said and winced while moving a little to look at the Commandos. "But these guys believed me." he said and they smiled.
Then he coughed so Jones got up, got him some water and helped him take a few sips.
"Thanks." Bucky said and Jones nodded.
"No problem." Jones said smiling and sat down.
Bucky looked at them knowing what they came here to tell him.
"That was our last mission together, wasn't it?" Bucky said and they sat there in silence. "It's OK guys, I get it. You have families now, getting older unlike me, want to spend time with your kids, watch them grow up. Go, live the rest of your lives. I'll be OK." He said smiling and they smiled back.
"We're sorry Bucky." Morita said. "But you're right. We are getting to old for all this." He said and chuckled.
"We can still hang out though. Meet up at the bar every now and then." Dum Dum said and Bucky smirked.
"So you can get drunk as usual? End up with one of us driving ya home?" Bucky said and they laughed.
"You know me well Barnes."
"I'm usually driving you all home because I'm the one that can't even get drunk."
"I don't know if that's lucky, or just plain sad." Falsworth said and they chuckled.
"Probably both. On the bright side, I don't get hangovers and can stay as late as I want. On the bad side, I have to drive all you guys home and if it's a crappy day that I wanna be out of it I can't be." Bucky said. "So, 50/50."
Then they saw Bucky fighting his eyes to stay awake.
"Get some sleep pal, you deserve it." Morita said and Bucky nodded, closed his eyes and was gone.
