Nat: "First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk"
Steve: "If I run in these shoes, they're gonna fall off"
Y/n: "guess that gives a reason not to run. It'll be a deaaad giveaway"
They go to a Mac store to use one of the many computers on display.
Nat: "The drive has a Level Six homing program, so as soon as we boot up SHIELD will know exactly where we are"
Steve: "How much time do we have?"
Nat: "Uh...about nine minutes from... Now. Fury was right about that ship, somebody's trying to hide something. This drive is protected by some sort of AI, it keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands"
Steve: "Can you override it?"
Nat: "The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly. I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from"
Y/n: "worker incoming"
Employee: "Can I help you guys with anything?"
Nat: "Oh, no. My fiancé was just helping me with some honeymoon destinations"
Steve: "Right! We're getting married"
Employee: "Congratulations! What about you little guy? You with them?"
Y/n: "oh! u-uh... Im... Their... Son. Yes. I'm their son. I get most of my genetics from my grandfather"
Employee: "ah! Nice, so, where are you all thinking of going?"
Steve: "New Jersey"
Employee: "Oh"
the employee looks at Steve for a moment
Employee: "I have the exact same glasses"
Nat: "Wow, you two are practically twins"
Employee: "Yeah, I wish. Specimen. Uh...if you guys need anything, I've been Aaron"
Y/n: "yep! Thank you Mr. Aaron!"
Steve: "son? Really?"
Y/n: "sorry! I panicked!"
Steve sighs before turning to Nat.
Steve: "You said nine minutes, come on"
Natasha Romanoff: "Shh, relax. Got it. You know it?"
Steve Rogers: "I used to. Let's go"
Steve pulls the flash drive from the computer and they walk out of the store
Steve: Standard tac-team. Two behind, to across, two coming straight at us. If they make us, I'll engage, you hit the south escalator to the metro"
as two agents are coming straight towards them
Nat: "Shut up and put your arm around me, laugh at something I said. Y/n, take out your phone and play with it"
Steve: "What?"
Nat: "Do it!"
Steve quickly puts his arm around Natasha and laughs, while y/n quickly pulls out his phone and fidgets with it. It worked, as the agent walks past them, the three get onto an escalator. Nat the spots Rumlow on the escalator next to them going up, she turns to Steve.
Nat: "Kiss me"
Steve: "What?"
Nat: "Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable. Y/n, keep playing on your phone"
Y/n gave a thumbs up as he was actually texting his grandfather about the situation. He also wanted to make sure zed was ok. Nat quickly pulls down Steve's head and kisses him making Rumlow look away as he goes past them on the escalator.
Nat: "You still uncomfortable?"
Steve: "It's not exactly the word I would use"
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The three were now inside a car that Steve had hotwired for them to use, y/n was sitting in the back seat looking out the window, spacing out.
Nat: "Where did Captain America learn how to steal a car?"
Steve: "Nazi Germany. And we're borrowing. Take your feet off the dash"
Natasha takes her feet off the dash
Nat: "Alright, I have a question for you, oh, which you do not have to answer. I feel like if you don't answer it though, you're kind of answering it, you know?"
Steve: "What?"
Nat: "Was that your first kiss since 1945?"
Steve: "That bad, huh?"
Nat: "I didn't say that"
Steve: "Well, it kind of sounds like that's what you're saying"
Nat: "No, I didn't. I just wondered how much practice you've had"
Steve: "You don't need practice"
Nat: "Everybody needs practice"
Steve: "It was not my first kiss since 1945. I'm ninety-five, I'm not dead"
Nat: "Nobody special, though?"
Steve: "Believe it or not, it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience"
Nat: "Well, that's alright, you just make something up"
Steve: "What, like you?"
Nat: "I don't know. The truth is a matter of circumstances, it's not all things to all people all the time. And neither am I"
Steve: "That's a tough way to live"
Nat: "It's a good way not to die, though"
Steve: "You know, it's kind of hard to trust someone when you don't know who that someone really is"
Nat: "Yeah. Who do you want me to be?"
Steve: "How about a friend?"
Nat: "Well, there's a chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers"
Y/n: "hey... Quick question... Are we there yet?"
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the car pulls up to outside an abandoned military base. Supposedly where the signal has led them.
Steve: "This is it"
Nat: "The file came from these coordinates"
Steve: "So did I. This camp is where I was trained"
Y/n: "whoa... I'm in the training grounds of captain America... I'm so using this as bragging bait"
Nat: "Changed much?"
Steve: "A little"
Y/n: "must be nice... Being back somewhere you recognize"
Nat: "This is a dead end. Zero heat signature, zero waves, not even radio. Whoever wrote the file must have used a router to throw people off. What is it?"
Steve Rogers: "Army regulations forbid storing ammunition within five hundred yards of the barracks. This building is in the wrong place"
Steve opens the lock with his shield and they enter inside, when they turn on the lights they notice it's a SHIELD office
Natasha Romanoff: "This is SHIELD"
Y/n: "oh my gosh... SHIELD has just as many hidden bases as the plumbers"
Steve: "Maybe where it started"
Nat: "There's Stark's father"
Steve: "Howard"
Y/n: "that's Tony's dad? he looks closer to start than I thought"
Nat: "Who's the girl?"
Steve doesn't reply and turns away to walk further down the room and stops by a massive book shelf
Steve: "If you're already working in a secret office..."
he pushes the books shelf and slides open to reveal an elevator behind it
Steve: "Why do you need to hide the elevator? "
Y/n: "reminds me of that one Scooby Doo episode-"
Nat: "don't start with the pop culture references please"
Y/n: "sorry"
they go down the elevator which takes them to a room with old looking computers
Nat: "This can't be the data-point, this technology is ancient"
suddenly Natasha notices a small flash drive port, she places the flash drive in it which then activates the ancient computer in the room
Computer: "Initiate system?"
Nat: "Y-E-S, spells yes. "Shall we play a game?" It's from a movie that..."
Steve: "Yeah, I saw it"
Y/n: "grandpa says I can't watch horror movies until I'm fifteen"
suddenly they hear an voice speaking
Zola: "Rogers, Steven. Born, 1918. Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna. Born, 1984 Tennyson, y/n Kirby. Born, 2001"
they see an old camera moving above them as it analyzes them
Nat: "It's some kind of a recording"
Y/n: "ew! It knows my middle name!"
Zola: "I am not a recording, Fräulein. I may not be the man I was when the Captain took me prisoner in 1945, but I am"
Nat: "Do you know this thing?"
Steve: "Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He's been dead for years"
Zola: "First correction, I am Swiss. Second, look around you. I have never been more alive. In 1972 I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body, my mind, however, that was worth saving on two hundred thousand feet of data banks. You are standing in my brain"
Steve: "How did you get here?"
Zola: "Invited"
Nat: "It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. SHIELD recruited German scientists with strategic value"
Zola: "They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own"
Steve: "HYDRA died with the Red Skull"
Zola: "Cut off one head, two more shall take its place"
Steve: "Prove it"
Y/n: "y-yea! Prove it!"
Zola: "Accessing archive. 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"
Nat: "That's impossible, SHIELD would have stopped you"
Zola: "Accidents will happen. HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum"
in anger Steve suddenly smashes the computer screen
Zola: "As I was saying..."
Steve: "What's on this drive?"
Zola: "Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm"
Nat: "What kind of algorithm? What does it do?"
Zola: "The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it"
Y/n: "what?"
suddenly the doors starts to close, Steve tries stops it by throwing his shield in between it but he's too late
Y/n: "oh no-"
Nat: "Steve, we got a bogey. Short range ballistic. 30 seconds tops"
Steve Rogers: "Who fired it?"
Nat: "S.H.I.E.L.D"
Zola: "I am afraid I have been stalling, Captain. Admit it, it's better this way. We're both of us...out of time"
Steve notices a small opening on the ground, he throws the metal door aside and just as the place explodes he throws himself y/n, and Natasha into the hole and protects them with his shield, he then manages to get them out from under the building rubble just as STRIKE agents arrive to roam the area for them
Rumlow: "Call in the asset"
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returning home from his morning run Sam hears a knock at his door, he opens the door to see Steve, Nat, and a very sleepy y/n.
Sam: "Hey, man"
Steve: "I'm sorry about this. We need a place to lay low"
Nat: "Everyone we know is trying to kill us"
Sam: "Not everyone"
Sam lets them in. As Steve and Nat walk off to get cleaned, y/n stretches and grunts as he felt his back pop.
Y/n: "ow.."
Sam: "you good kid? You seem exhausted"
Y/n: "I am exhausted... I haven't had a good sleep in a couple days..."
Sam: "you hungry? If not, there's a couch over there for you to take a nap on"
Y/n: "I'll take a nap... I'm y/n by the way..."
Sam: "Sam Wilson. Nice to meet you kid"
Y/n: "you too Sam..."
Y/n lets out a yawn and thanks Sam again, before laying down on the couch, almost immediately falling asleep.
Later the next day, y/n had slept all day, while Steve and sam were all in the kitchen.
Nat: "So, the question is: who in SHIELD could launch a domestic missile strike?"
Steve: "Pierce"
Nat: "Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world"
Steve: "But he's not working alone, Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star"
Nat: "So was Jasper Sitwell"
Steve: "So, the real question is: how do the two most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?"
Sam: "The answer is: you don't"
Sam drops a file in front of Steve
Steve: "What's this?"
Sam: "Call it a resume"
Natasha picks up a photo of Sam with his para-rescue team
Nat: "Is this Bakhmala? The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you. You didn't say he was a para-rescue"
Steve: "Is this Riley?"
Sam: "Yeah"
Nat: "I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs. What did you use, a stealth chute?"
Sam: "No. These"
he hands Steve the file, Steve opens it and reads it
Steve: "I thought you said you were a pilot"
Sam: "I never said pilot"
Steve: "I can't ask you to do this, Sam. You got out for a good reason"
Sam: "Dude, Captain America needs my help. There's no better reason to get back in"
Steve: "Where can we get our hands on one of these things?"
Sam: "The last one is at Fort Meade, behind three guarded gates and a twelve-inch steel wall"
Steve looks at Natasha who shrugs her shoulders
Steve: "Shouldn't be a problem"
Y/n: "I'm in"
Nat: "aw, hey sleepyhead. How'd you sleep?"
Y/n: "amazing actually. Now let's get this stuff for Sam, then kick some butt!"
Sam: "I like this kid"
Steve: "he really grows on you, don't he?"
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Stern: "Listen, I gotta fly home tonight, cause uh...I got some constituency problem, and I gotta press the flesh"
Sitwell: "Any constituent in particular, Mr. Senator?"
Stern: "Uh...no, not really. Twenty-three, kind of hot. Real hot. You know, wants to be a reporter, I think. I don't know, who listens at that point?"
Sitwell: "Doesn't sound much of a problem to me"
Stern: "Really? Cause she's killing my back. Look, this isn't the place to talk about it. This is a nice pin"
Sitwell: "Thank you"
Senator Stern: "Come here. Hail, HYDRA. See, it's right there..."
Sitwell: "I just saw that, yeah"
Stern: "Should I get it checked?"
Sitwell: "I think you should. I need a minute. Bring the car around. Yes, sir?"
Sam: "Agent Sitwell, how was lunch? I hear the crab cakes here are delicious"
Sitwell: "Who is this?"
Sam: "The good looking guy in the sunglasses, your ten o'clock. Your other ten o'clock. There you go"
Sitwell: "What do you want?"
Sam: "You're gonna go around the corner, to your right. There's a grey car, two spaces down. You and I are gonna take a ride"
Sitwell: "And why would I do that?"
Sam: "Because a friend of mine can force you into that car before you even blink"
Sitwell felt a small swift of wind from behind him. He turned around and looked at the ground, seeing a pair of skid marks.
Sitwell: "oh no"
Now on a rooftop, Steve throws Sitwell across it, Natasha and y/n follows behind him. Y/n had a chocolate smoothie in his hand. Or claws, considering he was still XLR8.
Steve: "Tell me about Zola's algorithm"
Sitwell: "Never heard of it"
Steve: "What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?"
JSitwell: "I was throwing up, I get seasick. Is this little display meant to insinuate that you're gonna throw me off the roof? Because it's really not your style, Rogers"
Steve: "You're right. It's not. It's hers"
Steve steps aside and Natasha kicks Sitwell off the roof. He plummets down, screaming.
Nat: "Oh, wait. What about that girl from accounting, Laura...?"
Steve: "Lillian. Lip piercing, right?"
Nat: "Yeah, she's cute"
Steve: "Yeah, I'm not ready for that"
XLR8: "your really set on getting Steve a date"
But then, Sam, in his Falcon jet-pack suit with wings, flies up holding Sitwell and throws him down on the roof. The three all walk towards Sitwell, as he holds his hand up in fear
Sitwell: "Zola's algorithm is a program...for choosing Insight's targets!"
Steve: "What targets?"
Sitwell: "You! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa city. max Tennyson, Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to HYDRA! Now, or in the future"
XLR8: "grandpa..?!"
Steve: "The Future? How could it know?"
Sitwell: "How could it not? The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it. Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future"
Steve: "And what then?"
Sitwell: "Oh, my God. Pierce is gonna kill me"
Steve: "What then?!"
Sitwell: "Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few million at a time"
Later
Sitwell: "HYDRA doesn't like leaks"
Everyone was currently in Sam's car, as he drove to their destination, Triskelion. Y/n However was running at the pace of the car from outside, as he's still XLR8, and couldn't fit in the car with the four all in it already.
Sam: "So why don't you try sticking a cork in it"
Nat: "Insight's launching in sixteen hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here"
Steve: "I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarriers directly"
Sitwell: "What?! Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea-"
XLR8: "incoming!!"
True to y/n's words, a man known as the Winter Soldier lands on the car roof, pulling Sitwell out through the window and throws him into the oncoming traffic, killing him, despite y/n not liking it, he needed to help his friends. The winter soldier then starts shooting at them through the roof of the car, until Steve pulls the break handle making the Winter Soldier drop down onto the street, as another car smashes into the trio's car, just as y/n speeds up to dodge it. the Winter Soldier jumps back onto their car, smashes through the windscreen and pulls out the steering wheel
Sam: "Shit!"
Natasha starts shooting at him, as y/n prepared to grab him, but the Winter Soldier jumps onto the vehicle behind them, as the trio's car is being pulled off the road Steve holds on to the car door.
Steve: "Hang on!"
he breaks open the door, holding onto Natasha and Sam, they slide on the car door through the streets with y/n running behind them. the Winter Soldier is joined by HYDRA agents and they start shooting at them, the trio scatter and run off in different directions with the Winter Soldier shooting at Natasha but she manages to shoot him in his eye goggle mask and run off. Y/n grunts and zooms off towards them, taking down three HYDRA with ease, but he then heard something he didn't want to hear.
XLR8: "Nonononononono-"
The winter soldier backhands y/n away, just as he times out, returning back to human.
Y/n: "I really hate it when it does that..."
the Winter Soldier then continued his pursuit on Natasha as the Hydra agents that didn't get knocked out by y/n, go after Steve, y/n and Sam. Steve and Sam were able, to fend them off as they shoot at them. Y/n however, could only run away, until he smirked and turns back around to face them, then pulls out the very same alien tech basedpistol that max used all those years ago.
Y/n: "alien gun! haha! Fire!"
Y/n smirks and started firing on the agents, before taking cover behind a car.
Y/n: "guess all that training with Diamondhead, heatblast and stinkfly really improved my aim!"
Sam: "Go, the kid and I got this!"
Y/n: "yea! I got a gun now!"
Y/n smirks and blasts another agent, sending him flying. Steve nods and runs off the help Nat, as y/n and Sam got next to each other to fight off the agents.
Sam: "you wouldn't happen to have a spare on you?"
Y/n: "sorry, but you can use mine once my watch recharges!"
Without realizing, y/n suddenly had himself locked in an arm lock, with Sam being held at gun point. Guess they didn't last long. As long as Steve got away.
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Scratch that. Steve was the first one cought. The four were currently stuck in a van, being escorted somewhere.
Steve: "It was him. He looked right at me like he didn't even know me"
Sam: "How's that even possible? It was like seventy years ago"
Steve: "Zola. Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43, Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him and..."
Nat: "None of that's your fault, Steve"
Steve: "Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky"
Y/n: "you had each other. So maybe you can help him?"
Sam notices Natasha is bleeding from her shoulder and looks at the guards
Sam: "We need to get a doctor here. We don't put pressure on that wound she's gonna bleed out here in the truck"
suddenly, the two guards that were in the van with them took off their helmets, revealing one to be Maria hill, while the other one was max.
Y/n: "grandpa?!"
Sam: "this guy is your grandfather!?"
Maria: "Ah. That thing was squeezing my brain. Who's this guy?"
Max: "Sam Wilson. Nice to meet you"
Sam: "I can't believe I'm meeting the max Tennyson... Wow. Dude, you were a legend!"
Max: "thanks for the compliment. Now let's get out of here"
Hill and max have taken the four to a secret facility, a man runs towards them, referring to Natasha's wound
Maria: "GSW. She's lost at least a pint"
Sam: "Maybe two"
Doctor: "Let me take her"
Maria: "She'll want to see him first"
Hill takes them to Fury who's alive and lying in bed, the four look at him in shock
Fury: "About damn time"
Later, Nat finally got her wound looked at, and patched up.
Fury: "Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, one hell of a headache"
Doctor: "Don't forget your collapsed lung"
Fury: "Oh, let's not forget that. Otherwise, I'm good"
Nat: "They cut you open, your heart stopped"
Fury: "Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great for him, but we found a use for it"
Steve: "Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us?"
Maria: "Any attempt on the director's life had to look successful"
Fury: "Can't kill you if you're already dead. Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust"
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Nick Fury: [looking at a photo of Pierce] This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said, "Peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility." See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues.
Nat: "We have to stop the launch"
Fury: "I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore"
Sam: "What's that?"
Maria: "Once the Helicarriers reach three thousand feet, they'll triangulate with Insight satellites becoming fully weaponized"
Y/n: "that's bad... That is bad, right?"
Fury: "We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own"
Maria: "One or two won't cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work, because if even one of those ships remains operational a whole lot of people are gonna die"
Fury: "We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We need to get pass them, insert the server blades, and maybe, just maybe, we can salvage what's left..."
Steve: "We're not salvaging anything. We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick, we're taking down SHIELD"
Fury: "SHIELD had nothing to do with it"
Y/n: "I mean..."
Steve: "You gave me this mission, this is how it ends. SHIELD's been compromised, you said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed"
Fury: "Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed"
Steve: "And how many paid the price before you did?"
Fury: "Look, I didn't know about Barnes"
Steve: "Even if you have, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that too? SHIELD, HYDRA, it all goes"
Maria: "He's right"
Fury looks at Natasha then Sam
Sam: "Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower"
Fury then looks at the pair of Tennyson's.
Max: "I'm still technically retired"
Y/n: "what? I'd something on my face?"
Fury: "Well... Looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain"
Later on, everyone began to plan out of how to take down HYDRA, and in turn, SHIELD.
Y/n: "actually... I think I'll sit this one out. I... I want a normal life. I know I'm not gonna get that anytime soon, but I want to at least-"
Steve: "don't worry. We won't make you come along. get some rest, spend time with max. We'll handle it"
Y/n: "yea... Kick their butt for me, alright? Especially you Sam!"
Sam: "I got ya kid!"
Y/n 10 will return