Red, White & Blue | Bucky x Reader

Chapter Twenty

My fitted grey pants and dark blue jacket fit just how I remember them, and seeing Steve in his old WWII uniform brings back a few memories from the warfront. We follow Agent Hill as she leads us, and Sam, through the trees along the Potomac, making our way to an unguarded maintenance tunnel for Project Insight.

Reaching the door, Hill punches a code into the keypad, and the lock beeps, allowing us to enter the facility. We climb down the stairwell and walk along the long hallways toward the Insight control room, soon coming to another locked door. Hill pulls out her phone.

"Unfortunately, none of us have access to Project Insight anymore," Hill states, nodding to the thumbpad on the wall. "But if I can jam the signal for one of the satellite dishes..."

A few minutes later, a technician pushes through the door, on his way to check the satellite, but instead, he finds us with our guns raised in his direction and my hands glowing.

"Excuse us," Steve orders, and the technician nods, stepping out of our way.

We move into the control room, Sam and I forcing the remaining technicians out as Steve and Hill rush toward the computers.

"Attention, all SHIELD agents," Steve addresses into the microphone on the desk. "This is Steve Rogers. You've heard a lot about me over the last few days. Some of you were even ordered to hunt me down. But I think it's time you know the truth. SHIELD is not what we thought it was. It's been taken over by HYDRA. Alexander Pierce is their leader. The STRIKE and Insight crew are 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... They almost have what they want. Absolute control. They shot Nick Fury. And it won't end there. 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 I'm the only one, then so be it. But I'm willing to bet I'm not."

Hill and I look down, thinking about Steve's words, but Sam steps up to him. "Did you write that down first, or was it off the top of your head?"

"You should've seen him during the war," I joke. "There were speeches left and right."

Steve rolls his eyes at me, shaking his head as we fall into silence once again, preparing ourselves for the fight. While we take care of the helicarriers, Natasha and Fury will infiltrate the Triskelion, hacking into SHIELD's encrypted files and publishing them to the internet, exposing HYDRA from within.

Hill pulls out the computer chips, handing one to each of us as a computer beeps nearby, and she turns to read the screen. "They're initiating launch."