Me, Sam and Bucky sat in a small car under an overpass, watching Steve meet with Sharon. Somehow Sam had taxed the front seat and Bucky wasn't happy about it.
"Can you move your chair forward" Bucky said as more of an order than question.
"No" Sam replied, watching Sharon hand their gear to Steve.
Steve then found a weird way of thanking her by kissing her. I accidentally laughed but it looked like Sam and Bucky weren't far off from doing it themselves. Somewhere deep inside it made me miss Nat, a feeling I had been trying to hide, to not let it jeopardise our mission. We needed to get to these other soldiers before it was to late, if that meant fighting Nat, so be it. This was probably the longest I had been without her for ages and it felt like a part of me was missing in the most cliché way.
Sharon got back in her car and Steve turned to us and we all gave him a thumbs up which made him role his eyes. He got in the car and it was silent for a while as he drove towards Leipzig airport where we were to meet the others.
"So... how was it" I ask eventually and Steve sighs, thinking he had avoided this topic.
"Past it's due date but... I didn't feel anything that I should of."
This made me raise my eyebrows in surprise and I was about to ask why but Bucky nudged me and gave me a warning look.
"Какие? (What?) " I ask in Russian so the others won't know what we are talking about.
"У него был любовник до того, как он пошел на лед (He had a lover before he went in the ice)" Bucky answered and my mouth opened and then shut. I couldn't imagine how hard that must be for Steve, for their time to be cut short and then for him to wake up and her be older, having lived her life without him. Maybe it's because of how lonely I have been, but I don't think I could ever carry on living without Nat. We are born to die in the end and I have always been ready and accepting of it but now I have Natasha, I want to live for eternity with her. So divulged n my own thoughts, I didn't even realise we had arrived at our destination.
Parked next to a grey van in a parking garage was our battered old car. We all got out just as someone I hadn't seen for ages got out of the van.
"Clint!" my voice exclaims in delight. He opens his arms with a smile on his face and enwraps me in a tight hug. Behind him, Wanda shyly gets out and I push Clint aside so I can greet her.
"You okay?" I whisper in her hair. I feel her nod and Pietro stands leaning against the van with his arms crossed.
"Princessa, where is my hug?"
I roll my eyes and just give him the finger.
"Cap" Clint greets Steve.
"You know I wouldn't of called if I had any other choice."
"Hey man, you're doing me a favour. Besides, I owe a debt."
"Thanks for having my back" he said sincerely. I walked over to Bucky and held his hand, seeing as he gets anxious meeting new people. He looks down at our interlocked hands and then gives me a weak smile in gratitude.
"It was time we got off our ass" Wanda said nodding to her brother.
"How about the other recruit?" questioned Steve.
"Oh, he's raring to go. Had to put a little coffee in him, but... he should be good" Clint replied, opining the slide doors of the van to reveal a man lying down. He quickly shot up when he heard the door opened and groggily rubbed his eyes.
"What time zone is this?" he asked.
"Come on, get up" Clint dragged him out so he stumbled in front of Steve. He grabs his hand and shakes it... for ages.
"Captain America" he breathed out in awe.
"Mr Lang" Steve said formally.
"It's an honour. I'm shaking your hand too long," Scott realised, letting go eventually , " Wow, this is awesome! Captain America!" He then looks at Wanda and her brother. "I know you guys too! You're great!" Scott then looked back at Steve, putting his hands on his shoulders. "Jeez. Ah, look, I wanna say, I know you know a lot of super people , so... thanks for thinking of me!" To finish, he finally looked at me, Sam and Bucky. "Woah... I just want to say you're arm is so cool! Also your stealth is scary... but incredible! Hey Sam!"
"What's up, Tic Tac?" Sam greets.
I hold in my laugh, I hadn't met someone with such enthusiasm. Sam had gave us a brief description on Scott's abilities, how he cant turn into the size of an ant.
"Uh, good to see you. Look, what happened last time when I..."
"It was a great audition, but it'll... it'll never happen again."
"They tell you what we're up against?" Steve questions trying to move the conversation away from whatever strange route it was going.
"Something about some.... psycho-assassins? No offense" Scott added on the end when he saw my stare.
"We're outside the law on this one. So, if you come with us, you're a wanted man."
"Yeah, well, what else is new?"
"We should get moving" Bucky said.
"We got a chopper lined up" informed Clint.
As he said that, an announcement came through the speakers, speaking in German which only me and Bucky understood.
"They're evacuating the airport" I say in confusion.
"Stark" Steve says immediately and my stomach drops. They were here, they were going to try stop us and that meant only one thing. A fight. "Suit up."
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Steve runs forward on the grounds of the airfield, heading for a chopper that then gets broken by Tony and Rhodey, descending down to meet Steve.
"Wow, it's so weird how you run into people at the airport. Don't you think that's weird?" Tony says and I roll my eyes, half missing his sarcasm. I was positioned behind a crate just behind Steve, since we knew he was here and he didn't know we knew, it was better to have us spread out.
"Definitely weird" Rhodey added.
"Hear me out Tony. That doctor, the psychiatrist, he's behind all this" Steve tried to plead, hoping to avoid a fight.
Out of nowhere, T'Challa appears. "Captain."
"Your highness."
"Anyway, Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?"
"You're after the wrong guy."
"Your judgement is askew. Your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday."
"And there are five more super soldiers just like him. I can't let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can't."
Then came the voice I wished to not hear. "Steve... you know what's about to happen. Do you really wanna punch your way out of this one?"
"All right, I've run out of patience. Underoos!" Tony yells.
A slim body comes flying down, swinging on... webs? He steals Steve's shield, webbing his hands together and lands expertly.
"Nice job, kid" Tony applauds.
"Thanks! Well, I could of stuck the landing a little better. It's just the new suit... Well, its nothing, Mr Stark. It's- it's perfect. Thank you!"
I take my previous statement back, this kid is way more enthusiastic.
"Yeah, we don't really need to start a conversation" said Tony.
While they're talking, I turn invisible and sneak up behind Peter, knowing Scott is going to give Steve his shield back any second.
"Okay. Cap... Captain. Big fan I'm Spider-Man."
"Yeah, we will talk about it later. Just..."
"Hey everyone!" Peter interrupted with a wave, making me feel bad for slipping the electronic bite onto his suit. Just one press and he would be tasered.
"You've been busy" acknowledges Steve.
"And you have been a complete idiot. Dragging in Clint. 'Rescuing Wanda and Pietro' from a safe place. I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."
"You did that when you signed."
"Alright, we're done. You're going to turn Barnes over, you're going to come with us. Now! Because it us! Or a squad of J-SOC guys... with no compunction about being impolite. Come on."
"We found it, Quinjet in hanger five, north runway" Sam says through our earpiece.
Steve holds his hands up and Clint shoots an arrow, breaking the web. "Alright, Lang, Ombra."
"Hey guys, I feel something..." Peter begins but gets interrupted. Scott transforms back to human off the shield and gives it to Steve, signalling me to press the button I out on Peter's suit, making him fall to the floor in a seizure like fashion.
"Who... what the hell was that?" Rhodey exclaims, him and Tony crouching next to Peter. I make my way next to Steve and Scott, unveiling myself.
They all turn to look at me and I'm glad my cloak covers any emotion I may ne showing right now. I risk a glance at Nat and my heart shakes seeing her beautiful green eyes look at me.
"Oh great. Alright, there's three on the parking deck. Two of them are the Maximoff's, I'll go to them. Rhodey take Cap and Ombra. Peter you good?" Tony questions the boy who is starting to recover.
"Wilson and Barnes are in the terminal."
"Barnes is mine!" T'Challa announces in determination, making me clench my fists.
"Hey Mr Stark, what should I do?"
"What we discussed. Keep your distance, web them up."
Then it begun.