Save Me || Bucky Barnes

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As they kept walking with Steve rushing to catch up after he realized they moved on without him, something caught Bucky's eye.

"If you're already working in a secret office," he paused as he pulled a section of the bookcase away from the wall before he continued to speak, "Why do you need to hide the elevator?"

"Good eye, Buck." Steve acknowledged as he walked over to look at the elevator with Natasha on his heels. Once they were all ready, they stepped into the elevator and patiently waited for its out-of-date gears to propel them to the bottom floor.

"This can't be the data-point. This technology is ancient." Natasha complained when they stepped into the hidden basement.

All around them, were computers that looked like they came from the seventies or eighties. Not that either of the boys would know that, but Natasha did. She didn't quite know if she would be able to get into them and find out what they needed to know. But then, on the table in front of the largest computer screen, she noticed a small flash drive port.

Steve and Bucky watched her walk over to the flash drive port and insert the flash drive she had stolen from them back at the hospital. As soon as she took her hand off the flash drive, the computer screen turned on. Immediately after, words in a small, green font flashed across the screen.

"Initiate system?" the trio read quietly. Natasha leaned forward towards the keyboard and began to type something.

"Y-E-S, spells yes." she muttered quietly as she typed in instructions. A smug smirk crossed her face as the computer finally whirred to life.

"'Shall we play a game?'" she quoted, mainly to herself. Steve and Bucky both quirked an eyebrow and shared a glance with each other, not really understanding why she said that.  

"It's from a movie that..." she began to explain before Bucky cut her off.

"Yeah, we saw it." 

Steve glanced around the room nervously. He got a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach, but he didn't know why. They were just hacking into an out-dated computer, what could possibly go wrong?

The computer began talking, breaking Steve out of his train of thought. The voice was enough to send shivers up his and Bucky's spines. They knew that voice. Steve's eyes widened as he turned to face the computer screen.

"Rogers, Steven Grant. Born, 1918. Barnes, James Buchanan. Born, 1917. Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna. Born, 1984." a thick German accent voice spoke. As the computer spoke, the trio noticed an old camera above them, moving left and right as it analyzed them.

"It's some kind of recording." Natasha murmured to the boys. She had no clue how the computer would know that from the file, but immediately she grew wary of the computer's intentions and knowledge. 

"I am not a recording, Fräulein. I may not be the man I was when the Captain and the Sergeant took me prisoner in 1944, but I am." Natasha quirked her eyebrows in confusion as she stared at the picture that popped up on the screen.

"Do you know this thing?" she asked the two men standing behind her before she turned slightly to look at both of them.

"Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He's been dead for years." Steve replied, bewildered as to how the scientist was still alive.

"First correction, I am Swiss. Second, look around you. I have never been more alive." the computer spoke up again. The trio looked around the room before they came to the sudden realization that he was very much alive, with the help of hundreds of computers.