"No surrender!" the soldiers repeated.

Strucker said quietly to List, "I am going to surrender. If we give the Avengers the weapons, they may not look too far into what we've been-"

"The twins," Dr. List interrupted.

"They are not ready to take on-"

"No, no. I mean..." he pointed to where Pietro and Wanda were standing, but were now gone, "Twins."

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Pietro sped through the forest. He caught Clint's arrow as he shot at the bunker, then circled back around and knocked Clint down.

"You didn't see that coming?" Pietro asked, running off before Clint could shoot him with an arrow and Clint got shot at.

"Clint!" Natasha called.

Pietro knocked down Steve and Bucky as he sped past them.

"We have an enhanced in the field," Steve and Bucky informed.

"Clint's hit!" Natasha cried.

Natasha went over to where Clint was lying down and said, "Somebody want to deal with that bunker?" She saw Hulk coming in, and he barreled through the bunker and destroyed it. "Thank you."

Steve and Bucky fought the soldiers. As they did so, Steve said, "Stark, we really need to get inside."

"I'm closing in," Tony replied. "JARVIS, am I... closing in? Do you see a power source for that shield?"

"There's a particle wave below the north tower," JARVIS answered.

"Great, I wanna poke it with something." He blew up the forcefield to the base. "Drawbridge is down, people."

Thor said to Steve and Bucky, "The enhanced?"

"He's a blur," Steve replied. "All the new player's we've faced, Buck and I've never seen this. In fact, we still haven't."

"Clint's hit pretty bad, guys," Natasha warned. "We're gonna need evac."

Thor glanced at Steve and Bucky. "I can get Barton to the jet. The sooner we're gone the better. You two and Stark secure the scepter."

"Copy that," Steve and Bucky said.

Thor, referring to the approaching soldiers in their HYDRA tank, stated, "It looks like they're lining up."

"Well, they're excited," the Super Soldiers commented as Thor pounded on Steve's shield with his hammer and the resulting wave of force knocked down all the soldiers.

"Find the scepter." He flew off.

"And for gosh sake, watch your language!" Tony added.

Steve let out a sigh. "That's not going away anytime soon."

Bucky shook his head. "You walked into that one."

"Yeah, I did."

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Tony entered the HYDRA base and the soldiers started firing at his Iron Man suit.

"Guys, stop, we gotta talk this through," Tony told them as he shot down the soldiers using rockets from his suit. "It was a good talk."

"No, it wasn't," a fortress soldier retorted.

Tony found List and knocked him out, then stepped out of his Iron Man suit.

"Sentry mode," Tony said as he walked over to the computers. "Okay, JARVIS. You know I want it all. Make sure you copy Hill at HQ."

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