Lessons in Stars and Stripes

12

Sam drove them to the Triskelion and Sitwell said, "HYDRA doesn't like leaks."

"So why don't you try sticking a cork in it," Sam retorted.

"Insight's launching in sixteen hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here," Natasha warned.

"I know," Steve said. "We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarriers directly."

"What?!" Sitwell cried. "Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea."

Suddenly, the Winter Soldier landed on the car roof, pulled Sitwell out through the window and threw him into the oncoming traffic, killing him, then started shooting at them until Steve pulled the brake handle, making the Winter Soldier drop down onto the street as another car smashed into their car and pushed them along. The Winter Soldier jumped back onto their car, smashed through the windscreen and pulled out the steering wheel.

"Shit!" Sam yelled as Natasha started shooting at the Winter Soldier, but he jumped onto the vehicle behind them. As their car was being pulled off the road, Steve held on to the car door.

"Hang on!" Steve yelled as he broke open the door. Holding onto Natasha, Shelby and Sam, they slid on the car door through the streets.

The Winter Soldier was joined by HYDRA agents and started shooting at them. The four scattered and ran off in different directions with the Winter Soldier shooting at Natasha, but she managed to shoot him in his eye goggle mask. The Winter Soldier removed his mask to reveal a blank glare before standing.

"Она моя. Я позаботимся о ней. Найти его," the Winter Soldier said.

(She's mine. (I'll take care of her.) Find him.)

The Winter Soldier went in pursuit of Natasha as the HYDRA agents went after Steve and Sam who both managed to fend them off as they shot at them. Steve and Shelby then noticed the Winter Soldier in pursuit of Natasha.

"Go, I got this!" Sam told Steve and Shelby.

The Winter Soldier thought he'd found Natasha hiding behind a car as he could hear her voice.

"I make an LZ, twenty-three hundred block of Virginia Avenue," Natasha's voice said. "Rendezvous two minutes. Taking fire above and below expressway. Civilians threatened. Repeat, civilians threatened." He rolled a bomb towards where he thought she was hiding. As the bomb rolled behind the car, Natasha wasn't actually there, but a recording over her voice was being played back on a phone. "I make an LZ, twenty-three hundred block at Virginia Avenue. Rendezvous two minutes." As the bomb exploded, Natasha jumped onto the Winter Soldier's back and tried to kill him, but he threw her off. She started running off as the Winter Soldier went after her.

Natasha said to the civilians as she tried to get away from the Winter Soldier, "Get out of the way! Stay out of the way!"

Shelby, seeing the Winter Soldier raising his gun, pushed Natasha down and got shot in the shoulder. She mentally cursed herself as she fell and looked around her.

As the Winter Soldier came up from behind to shoot them, Steve jumped in and attacked them. They fought and in the process, the Winter Soldier took Steve's shield and threw it at him, but Steve managed to avoid being hit. After battling it out more, the Winter Soldier's mask came off. He looked around at Steve who was shocked.

"Bucky?" Steve called.

"Who the hell is Bucky?" the Winter Soldier asked.

Bucky went to shoot at Steve, before he could shoot, Sam flew in and kicked Bucky aside. Bucky took aim again but before they could shoot, Natasha used the grenade launcher Bucky dropped earlier to shoot at Bucky who vanished in the smoke of the explosion. The four heard sirens after which they were surrounded by HYDRA agents being led by Rumlow.

"Drop the shield, Cap!" Rumlow ordered. "On your knees! Get on your knees! Now! Get down! Get down!" Steve held his hands up. "Get on your knees! Down!" He kicked Steve's leg and Steve knelt down. "Don't move." Rumlow looked at the helicopter flying above them and warned Rollins who was holding Steve at gunpoint. "Put the gun down. Not here. Not here!" Rollins lowered his gun. The HYDRA agents took Steve, Sam, Shelby and Natasha into custody.