Daniella had a normal life. She had a mom, a dad and two big sisters. She could never ask for more. That's when an organization called "the Red Room" took her in as their youngest assassin. She later ends up the best in working for HYDRA. Could she...
"It was Operation Paperclip after World War II, SHIELD recruited German scientists with strategic value.
"They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own." Zola states.
"HYDRA died with the Red Skull." Steve declares.
"Cut off one head, two more shall take its place." Zola says.
"Prove it." Steve demands.
"Accessing archive." Zola says and images begin to appear on the screen. "HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize, was that if you try to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, SHIELD was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside SHIELD. For seventy years HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed."
"What's on this drive?" Steve asks.
"Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm." Zola says.
"What kind of algorithm? What does it do?" Natasha questions.
"The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it." Zola says.
The doors close over the elevator and Steve tried to stop it by throwing his shield, but fails.
Dani checks her phone and notices that S.H.E.I.L.D. fired a bomb.
"Steve, Nat, we got a bogey," Dani says. "Short range ballistic. 30 seconds tops."
"Who fired it?" Steve asks.
"S.H.I.E.L.D." Dani replies.
"I am afraid I have been stalling, Captain," Zola says as Steve, Natasha and Dani find a place to hide. "Admit it, it's better this way. We're both of us...out of time."
Steve throws a metal door to the ground and Dani and Natasha jump in just in time.
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"Wake up, sleepyhead." A familiar voice says and Dani groans and opens her eyes.
"Hey." Dani says casually getting up as if she wasn't unconscious previously.
"Hey, how do you feel?" Natasha asks.
Dani shrugs. "Like shit, per usual."
Natasha chuckles.
Dani rolls her eyes. "But it hurts." She complains.
"Don't be a baby." Natasha says with a sigh.
Dani shakes her head. "I'm not a baby." She notices Natasha look distracted. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"Take a guess." The older sister mumbles.
"I think someone is in love again." Dani grins and puts the back of her hand to her head to act dramatic. "James, oh James, where art thou James?"
Natasha raises an eyebrow. "I thought you don't like Shakespeare."
Dani shrugs. "Acacia made me read Romeo and Juliet," Dani says and sighs. "she's a hopeless romantic."
Natasha laughs. "Sounds about right."
Dani laughs along with Natasha until Sam walks in.
"I made breakfast. If you guys...eat that sort of thing." He says.
Dani frowns. "Not like we're aliens, We're superheroes."
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"So, the question is: who in SHIELD could launch a domestic missile strike?" Natasha asks.
"Pierce." Steve states.
"Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world." Dani adds.
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"But he's not working alone, Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star." Steve says.
"So was Jasper Sitwell." Natasha states.
"So, the real question is: how do the two most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?" Steve asks.
"The answer is: you don't." Sam says and drops a file.
"What's this?" Steve asks.
"Call it a resume." Sam says.
Dani picks up the file and recognizes some of the information.
"Is this Bakhmala? The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you?" Dani asks and turns to Steve. "You didn't say he was a para-rescue."
"Is this Riley?" Steve questions.
"Yeah." Sam confirms.
"I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs" Natasha says. "What did you use, a stealth chute?"
"No. These." Sam says and hands Steve a file.
"I thought you said you were a pilot." Steve says.
"I never said pilot." Sam says.
"I can't ask you to do this, Sam," Steve states. "You got out for a good reason."
"Dude, Captain America needs my help. There's no better reason to get back in." Sam says.
"Where can we get our hands on one of these things?" Steve questions.
"The last one is at Fort Meade, behind three guarded gates and a twelve-inch steel wall." Sam says. Steve look at the Romanoff sisters who shrug their shoulders.
