I still have no idea where this fic is going to go post CA:CW. Just have to see where my head goes next, I guess.

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xo

Chapter 7

Lady

Bucky, Sam and Lex were crouched down inside a terminal of the airport, watching as Steve made a run for the chopper, but he was merely a distraction to draw out Tony Stark's team. They knew they were in the airport somewhere, they just needed to know where, and also to find out where Tony's Quinjet was currently residing.

Sam, suited up in his wing suit, was currently seeking out the Quinjet with his remote controlled drone, Redwing. They were all commlinked through ear pieces so they could hear what was happening.

"How many has Stark got?" Lex asked quietly, peering from their hiding spot out over the tarmac where Steve was now facing four of Tony's team, Iron Man, T'Challa, Black Widow and War Machine.

"Don't know," Bucky replied quietly, he glanced sideways at Lex. She was dressed in an all black full bodysuit, seemingly similar to the one Black Widow wore. Clint had made Wanda find it for her before they made a break from the Avengers headquarters. Her blonde hair was tied back into a high plait, that draped down her back like a thick rope.

In addition to the bodysuit, Clint had given her one of his spare retractable staves, which was now attached to her back by way of a magnet. She fidgeted in the outfit, constantly trying to stretch the sleeves or wiggling her shoulders, but glanced up, meeting his gaze. "What? This shit is uncomfortable, man."

He grinned at her. She tapped his titanium shoulder with her fingernail, touching the red star. "Just couldn't help themselves, could they?"

He sighed grimly, looking away. "Yeah, just in case you ever wanted to forget." She nudged his elbow with hers, bringing his attention back to her. She turned her head and lifted her plait, before lowering her head, moving some stray hairs at the base of her neck.

There, nestled into the base of her hair line, was a red star. It had to be about the size of a golf ball and it looked like she had attempted burning it off at some point, as it was somewhat distorted in places, but it was evident what it was.

He looked at her sympathetically as she straightened up again. "Don't worry, comrade, I know how you feel," she murmured in Russian, nodding at him, before looking back out to watch Steve.

"And there are five more super soldiers just like him. I can't let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can't."

"Steve... you know what's about to happen. Do you really wanna punch your way out of this one?" Natasha asked the super soldier.

Steve didn't answer, and that seemed to annoy Tony.

"All right, I've run out of patience. Underoos!"

"Heads up," Lex hissed, as they watched someone appear above Steve. Their warning was too late as the newcomer shot a strange sticky material at Steve, binding his hands together and stealing his shield.

"Nice job, kid," Tony commended him.

"What the hell?" Bucky muttered, staring at the newcomer. "Who is that?" He was small and wirey, dressed in a red and blue full body suit, with what looked like black webs printed on it.

"Thanks," the newcomer replied proudly, holding the shield in one hand and looking to Tony. "Well, I could've stuck the landing a little better. It's just the new suit... Well, it's nothing, Mr. Stark. It's-It's perfect. Thank you."

He sounded like a kid.

"Wow," Lex muttered in wonder next to him, narrowing her eyes as she stared at him. "He can't be more than fifteen or sixteen."

"Yeah, we don't really need to start a conversation," Tony replied, looking away from the kid.

"Okay," the kid replied, before looking towards Steve. "Cap... Captain. Big fan, I'm Spider-Man."

"Yeah, we'll talk about it later. Just..." Tony tried to shut down the conversation.

"Hey, everyone."

" ... good job," Tony finished in exasperation.

"You've got to be kidding me," Sam murmured under his breath, shaking his head at the kid, while still looking at the drone feed on his wrist.

"You've been busy," Steve remarked, a small grin playing on his lips.

Tony flared at Steve. "And you've been a complete idiot. Dragging in Clint. 'Rescuing' Wanda from a place she doesn't even want to leave, a safe place. I'm trying to keep..." Tony stopped and took a breath. "I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."

Steve looked at Tony pointedly. "You did that when you signed."

Tony glared at Steve, looking furious. "Alright, we're done. You're gonna turn Barnes and Nikulkin over, you're gonna come with us. NOW! Because it's us! Or a squad of J-SOC guys with no compunction about being impolite." Steve looked away solemnly. "Come on!"

Beside Bucky, Sam straightened slightly, before speaking. "We found it. Their Quinjet's in hanger five, north runway."

Bucky looked from Sam to Lex, to find she was grinning excitedly. "I'm not gonna lie, those J-SOC guys sound like a bit of fun," she murmured playfully, running her tongue over her bottom lip before standing up. Bucky looked at her pointedly before getting up quickly. "Ugh...fine!" She quickly followed suit, standing up quickly.

All three turned and made a run for it, while Scott and Clint worked to free Steve from his binds. "Alright Lang."

Bucky glanced through the windows of the terminal as he saw Scott appear as of from thin air, knocking away Spider-Man and retrieving Steve's shield.

Bucky turned his attention back to the front as he heard War Machine announce their location to the rest of his team.

"We got to move!" Sam said, as they hurried through the terminal.

As they ran, Bucky looked above them and saw something, or someone, swinging along the ceiling of the terminal. "What the hell is that?"

Sam looked up as well. "Everyone's got a gimmick now."

It was the kid that called himself Spider-Man. He changed direction suddenly, smashing through the glass wall and smashing into Sam, knocking him backwards and sending him skittling across the polished floor.

Bucky tried to throw a punch at him with his titanium arm, but Spider-Man easily caught his arm as if it was no effort at all. "You've got a metal arm? That is awesome, dude!" Bucky was stunned as the hydraulics in his arm tried to put against the kid's strength, to no avail. The kid, threw Bucky's arm away, before kicking him away with a fly kick.

"Hey!"

Spider-Man looked in surprise to his left, as Lex kicked at him fiercely, knocking him away from Bucky. "Don't be rude." She raised an eyebrow at Bucky, who lay on the ground where he had landed, as she began walking towards the young boy.

She pulled the stave from her back and fully extended it with a flick of her hand, a malevolent grin appearing on her lips. The kid looked up at her from where he landed. "Whoa, you're a girl."

"Woman, child," she corrected him. "I haven't lived through a hundred years to be called a girl," she ran at him, quickly swinging her stave expertly, to knock away the webs he tried to shoot at her. She swung her stave at him, low, causing him to jump high into the air to avoid it, only to be collected by a flying Sam as he punched through.

Spider-Man recovered enough to sling another web into the rafters to pursue Sam. He swung through the rafters in the terminal, slinging his webs from support beam to support beam, as he chased down Sam.

Sam twisted in the air, flying backwards so he could fire shots at Spider-Man, but they barely slowed him down.

On the first floor, Bucky grabbed Lex and pushed her behind a concrete pylon, before towards a newspaper stand, which he picked up easily, hurling it at the kid, who had stopped on a rafter having knocked Sam down momentarily.

"Oh god!" Spider-Man exclaimed, as he saw the stand soaring through the air towards him.

Bucky ducked behind the pylon next to Lex, who was listening for the impact. Bucky furrowed his brow when they didn't hear anything, carefully looking around it to see if he had managed to hit the kid.

"Hey buddy, I think you lost this!"

"Watch out!" Lex exclaimed, grabbing Bucky roughly and pulling him backwards as Spider-Man threw it back and it crashed into the pylon she and Bucky had been standing behind. Bucky landed on top of Lex. "Oof."

"Sorry." Ignoring their awkward position, he pushed himself up off of her, quickly grabbing her by her arm and hoisting her to her feet easily, as they began running again.

While Spider-Man was distracted by Bucky and Lex, Sam flew by, kicking him with extreme force, off the beam. He was quick to recover though, firing a web, hitting Sam in the back and sending him crashing to the floor. Spider-Man landed, clinging to the side of a concrete pylon effortlessly before he quickly fired another web which bound Sam's wrist to the balcony railing behind him.

"Are those wings carbon fibre?" the kids asked, sounding like he was very much in awe as Bucky tried to make his way to help Sam without being seen.

"Is this stuff coming out of you?" Sam asked in disgust, looking at the web attached to his hand.

"That would explain the rigidity-flexibility ratio, which, gotta say, that's awesome, man," the kid continued.

Bucky shook his head slightly, as he tried to get his head around the kid's behaviour. He really was just a young kid.

"I don't know if you've been in a fight before but there's usually not this much talking," Sam said bluntly, looking up at the kid as he continued cling to the side of the pylon, easily manoeuvring around it.

"Right, sorry, my bad," the kid replied, launching himself from the pylon and swinging down as Bucky reached Sam. Bucky jumped in front of Sam, just as Spider-Man reached him, kicking out with both feet and causing Bucky and Sam to fall through the glass down onto the next floor.

The kid webbed up Sam's arms and wings, before webbing Bucky's titanium arm to the floor. "Guys, look. I'd love to keep this up but I've only got one job here today and I gotta impress Mr. Stark. So, really sorry," he said, looking to swing away.

"I don't think so," Lex said, bashing into him and knocking him to the side again.

Spider-Man rolled to his feet along the floor, looking back towards her. "Wow, lady, you're really strong."

"So I'm told," she replied, grinning malevolently again. She lunged forward and Spider-Man went to web her, but she swung her stave quickly, collecting the web on the end before flinging it straight back at him, it connected with his face, sticking there.

"Hey!" he exclaimed, slightly disorientated as he went to pull it off. She was quick to run at him, swinging the stave in her hands. She connected with his back, knocking him forward before she brought her knee up and smashed it into his chest. "Ugh!" He fell backwards, hitting the floor hard.

"What's wrong, kid? You're all talkative against the boys, you don't want to talk with me?" she mocked menacingly, as he struggled back to his feet.

"Don't take this the wrong way, but you're really scary, lady," Spider-Man said, backing away slightly, before Lex charged at him again. She swung her stave again, and this time he dodged it, trying to punch at her. She blocked his attack with her stave, before flipping, collecting his face with a foot as she spun.

She smashed his ribs repeatedly with her stave, her movements fierce and agile, before spinning it upwards to smash against his face again.

"Geez, lady," Spider-Man moaned, stumbling back. "Where'd you learn to hit like that?"

"Funnily enough, I was about your age when I learnt to kill for the first time," she answered, staring straight at the boy with an icy smile.

Spider-Man faltered slightly. "Wh...what?"

Lex moved to run at him quickly, but he was ready this time. He shot web at her legs, but she flipped to avoid them, spinning mid-air and landing at a crouch. But as she had flipped, he had started running towards her, shooting a web into the rafters and slings hotting himself straight at her, he hit her hard, smashing into her mid section and sending her flying across the terminal. She smashed high into one of the pylons heavily, before falling towards the ground.

Bucky and Sam had managed to free themselves while Lex had been keeping Spider-Man busy, Bucky turning in time to see Lex get hit hard by Spider-Man.

He ran to catch Lex as she fell from the top of the pylon, sliding along the floor once she was in his arms, while Sam used Redwing to catch one of Spider-Man's webs as he tried to swing up and away through the rafters and drag him out through the glass wall, smashing him into a metal pole as he went, shouting all the way.

Bucky carefully lowered Lex to the floor. She'd hit the pylon very hard, so hard in fact, that some of the concrete had come away and fallen to the ground around them.

"You couldn't have done that earlier?" Bucky asked sardonically as Sam ran over to check on her too.

"I hate you," Sam responded flatly, before looking at the woman lying in front of him. "Hey, is she okay?" Sam asked in concern.

Bucky touched her neck, feeling a steady pulse. "Yeah, she's out cold though."

Sam looked conflicted for a moment. "Man, we gotta move."

Bucky looked down at Lex lying on the floor. She looked strangely peaceful as she laid there, no malevolent grin, or menacing eyes, her face grimey and blood on her cheek from an open cut. He touched her cheek, wanting to check her over quickly to make sure she didn't have any serious injuries, when her eyes flicked open and her hand shot up to grab his hand roughly.

"Whoa," Bucky exclaimed quickly, trying to calm her as her eyes darted around in a panic. She calmed quickly and her eyes drifted over both their faces, a look of suspicion on her face.

Finally, she winced. "Ooowww."

"That was quite a hit you took," Bucky said, feeling a wave of relief wash over him as he and Sam began to help her up.

"It took you two long enough to get free," she muttered, as she finally stood up. She stretched out her shoulders and neck. "I'm getting too old for this shit."

Sam laughed lightly at her, as Bucky shook his head in disbelief, that didn't even come close to describe what they were doing. "Come on," Sam said, motioning for them to follow him. "We gotta catch up with Cap."

They turned and sprinted to the end of the terminal.

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Krayzee