Chapter Twenty One

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Louise walks silently through the halls of the H.Y.D.R.A. base, her movement in the shadows undetected as she took out over eight men before reaching the doors of the main lab and office. Her hands clutch a handgun, a blue glow shining from the barrel as she held one of H.Y.D.R.A.'s weapons.

Louise keeps focus, feeling Steve's presence and many more foriegn guards behind the large metal doors. She kneels against the door, her blonde hair hanging before her face as she closes her eyes to concentrate. She lets her mind unfurl, her power finding the closest presence to the door. Her mental state inducing the soldier to move to the door, commanding them through great focus and control to open the doors and follow her.

"Of course. But unfortunately I am on a tight schedule." Louise hears Schimdt say as she sees behind a few guards, Steve on his knees with a gun to his head from Schimdt. The soldier she controlled for a few seconds, fell to the ground softly in fear, freezing his movements from a mental state placed by Louise.

The sound of the zip lines stabbing into the earth of the mountain outside the windows, catches most of the soldiers attention. The Commandos sped across the line to attack, as Steve spoke and kicked Schimdt back. Glass shatters and gunfire rains out as the Commandos landed, Louise firing inside at the soldiers as Steve got back up. She dodges Scmidt's shot, letting Steve run after him as she bids the Commandos off and chases after them.

Loud rumbles sound through the compound, the mountain shook heavily as Colonel Phillip's exterior forces bomb the entrance to enter. Louise keeps a slow sprint, having to slow to fight off guards that appeared after Steve ran by.

She kicked one of the three guards, her foot taking out the first soldier's gun. Her left hand grabs the second one's black helmet, entering the person's mind without heavy concentration. The second guard tenses and turns to the third, shooting their gun at the third and the first across from it. Both soldiers turn into dust in a blue electrical hue, and she pulls back triggering the third soldier to collapse from her mental force.

Louise skips back, grabbing a dropped hand gun filled with the blue energy from the blue energy source, and continues down a metal hallway. Hearing gunfire and the firing hum of the energy powered weapons all around; Louise sprinted faster to catch Steve. She flips and dodges another group of H.Y.D.R.A. soldiers, throwing a smoke bomb from her boot at their feet to cloud and confuse them as she ran off.

Steve pauses halfway down a hall, reaching back slightly and launching his shield around the bend in the hall to catch up with Schmidt. The shield bounces off the right, then left side of the hall before slamming into the door frame around the curve and sticking. Steve takes off to catch up, freezing as a large H.Y.D.R.A. soldier steps up from an opening and shoots fire from guns attached to its arms.

Louise slid to the ground, fire erupting before her as she fell and slid across the ground from her momentum, Steve shouting her name as he jumped into a doorway. Her wig and stolen H.Y.D.R.A. jacket catches aflame as the man nears and she kicks the man's legs out. Gunshots fire from behind the man, landing into the gas tank on the soldiers.

Louise flips back as the fire settles and the tank explodes, making her duck back as the soldier falls to the ground and Steve runs out. She tears free her wig and jacket, letting it fall onto the man as she shakes off any other flames.

"Lou-" Steve pauses as he sees her standing fine, her natural brunette hair showing, his eyes cast lower as his eyes catch a slight jingle on her chest plate.

"Are those Bucky's?" Steve questions as the Allied soldiers and Peggy emerge from where they had attacked down another connecting hall. Louise glances up slightly grabbing the dog tags that hung over her dark combat suit.

"Yeah, I found them in my chest pocket. Bucky must've snuck them there when I looked away." She lies, and picks up the gun she dropped when she fell, tucking the tags inside her suit before standing back up.

"It's good to see you're still agile as ever." Steve tries to converse but moves onto Peggy as she steps up..

"You're late." He says as he approaches her closely, staring down at her. Louise glances to them, a slight smile on her lips as she remembers the feeling and moves to continue on.

"Weren't you about to..."

"Right." Steve responds to Peggy's words as he sprints after Louise who ducked under his shield. He tears the shield from between the mechanical doors, running through the door as it closes behind him and they run to the flight hanger.

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