*Peter pov*
We sat in the meeting room, discussing what we were going to do. I was worried about y/n but I couldn't show it.
Essentially, I was at the big kids table now, and I needed to start acting like one, and not cry. Hypothetically. I wouldn't cry anyway.
Stark had tried to tell me not to come again but I refused to stay this time.
"I know Hydra." Steve said. "They're going to be expecting us. We need to find a way to sneak in to give more time to find y/n without alerting anyone."
"It's an underground base, how are we going to do that?" Banner asked.
"We're going to need a distraction, and then some people can sneak in."
We split into teams. Banner, Thor, Wanda and Stark were one team. They were to cause a distraction at the entrance, as the rest of us found a different way in.
"Everyone clear with the plan?" Stark looked around the room to see everyone nodding.
"Um question." He said "Where is Bucky?"
I looked to where Bucky usually sat next to Steve, but the chair was empty.
"Someone made sure he was here before the meeting started, right?" Stark sighed.
No one said anything.
"Where is he then?"
"I, uh. I think he went to Miami." I said.
"Oh no. Shit." Stark groaned.
"What? We'll just go after him? He's fine right? He's got the metal arm and everything." Everyone else around me looked really worried.
"Kid, we got the phone call over an hour ago. He's long gone." Stark said.
"And knowing Bucky, he went in without a plan." Steve sighed.
"Meaning..."
"Meaning it's a one vs hundred fight and he has about a 1% chance of winning." Nat confirmed.
"Oh. Right. We better go then."
"Woooooh. Family holiday to Florida!" Clint clapped. I laughed but stopped when no one else was.
We all walked out and I whispered to Clint "woooh!". We high-fived and he walked over to talk to Nat.
*Bucky pov*
I sat on a roof top opposite the Hydra building. Above ground, there were only two floors. I threw grenades into all the windows I could see from where I was.
I waited a minute after they exploded, and used my gun to shoot anyone I could see still standing. I jumped down and smashed through one of the ground level windows.
I stormed down the nearest stair case.
People came at me with guns, but I shot one person after another before there bullets came near me.
The layout of this Hydra base seemed to be the same as the one I was held in years before. I heard screams coming from down a hallway that I recognised as having a torture room at the end.
I ran towards it and thrust open the door. The chair in the middle of the room was facing the other way and I ran around to face it. Only, there was no one in the chair.
A scream rang out in the room again, and I looked up to see speakers on the walls. The door behind me locked. I ran over and pulled the handle. It wouldn't budge. I tried to rip the door of its hinges, but it was fixed to the wall. I picked the chair off the floor, and through it at the double sided mirror. It didn't break, the chair just fell to the floor in front of me.
Smoke started seeping out of the ceiling above me. The room filled with gas and I was forced to inhale it.
I fell to my knees, then onto my side, lying on the floor. I closed my eyes and slowly passed out.
*y/n pov*
Finally, the torture stopped. The machine pulled away as the man walked in. Now that your screams had stopped and the door was open, you could hear gunshots in the distance.
Your eyes widened as you knew what this meant.
"Our guest of honour is here." The man wiped the tears off your face. His hands were like blocks of ice on your burning face.
He started to unbuckle the restraints, the one on your forehead last. You fell forward as your head felt heavier than the rest of your body. The man picked you up and fastened you into a wheelchair.
"Let's go get a better seat to watch the show." He wheeled you out but you didn't go very far. He pushed you into the next room, the one on the other side of the double sided mirror.
The man pressed a button, and your prerecorded screams were played over speakers in the other room.
"What are you going to do?" you ask.
"You'll see." He smiled and continued looking through the window.
A few minutes later and Bucky ran into the room.
"Bucky! No Bucky run!" You screamed.
"Hush now. He can't hear you."
"No. Bucky." You sobbed. You flinched as he threw a chair at you, but the glass didn't break. You watched as gas set down over him and he passed out. You watched as the fog cleared and some people went in to drag him out the room. You watched as he was dragged past the door of the room you were in.
"Don't worry. You'll see him soon. You just might not know who he is."
You groan as he forced liquid down your throat, and you blacked out.
*Bucky pov*
I woke up in a cell on a cold metal bed. I sat up, but struggled as my metal arm had been removed. Someone was standing on the other side of the window looking into the cell.
"How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Where is she?"
"Who?"
I stood up and marched over to the window. "You know damn well who I'm walking about! Y/n! Where is she?"
He pulled out a phone and pressed it against the glass. The screen showed live camera footage of an empty cell, and lying in the middle, on the floor, was y/n.
I could've easily mistaken it for a photo, as she was so still, if it weren't for the feet walking along at the edge of the camera. Her skin was bright red all over, and she had burns up her arms and around her skull.
With my one good arm, I banged on the window. "Where is she? I want to see her!"
I look back to the video as I saw movement. There were people picking y/n up and putting her on a medical bed. Her eyes opened as they started tightening belts around her arms and legs to tie her down. The video had no sound but I saw y/n open her mouth to scream and yell. I watched as they drive the bed out the room.
He put the phone back in his pocket.
"Where are they taking her?"
He opened his mouth to say something, when we heard noises come from further down the hallway.
"No. No. No. Please. No."
She wasn't screaming or yelling anymore. She was muttering to herself.
"Y/n! I banged on the window." I could see her now. Up close, she was in a much worse condition than I had seen before.
"Y/n!" I yell again.
She looked back at me and stopped muttering. "Bucky!" She started struggling in the bed. "Bucky! No let me go!" The people pushing her bed stopped to keep her down. One of them took out a needle and pressed it into her arm. She stopped moving.
"No!" I cried "what did they do?" Her head lulled on its side to face me.
"She's been paralysed from the neck down and has lost her ability to speak" the man who was standing with me before said. "Temporarily of course."
Her face was motionless as tears came to her eyes. She blinked and they fell sideways down her face. I put my hand over my mouth as they wheeled her off.
"What's going to happen her?"
"Don't worry. You've been invited to watch."
I hadn't noticed someone come into my cell as I was looking at y/n. Someone injected my good arm with a needle, and I fell onto a flat board. I was propped up, standing, strapped against it. I try to say something, but nothing comes out. My mouth doesn't even open. I was wheeled out the cell and down the hallway that y/n had just been down. We caught up with her as she was pushed into a room. I was wheeled after her and put in the corner of the room. She was transferred into a chair, next to a table of instruments. She looked over at me with fear in her eyes. I tried to look back, comfortingly, before someone put a mask over her face and her eyes closed.
"Let's begin." Someone said, as they picked up a needle.
*Peter pov*
I crawled along the ceiling of an empty hallway. We had successfully infiltrated the Hydra building, unnoticed as the others caused a distraction. Before I had even entered, they had torn apart nearly half of the overground base.
I looked into several, empty rooms before I saw one with people in it.
I opened the door and swung through. There were two men in there, and one of them pulled a knife out of his pocket.
"Is that a knife? Is that a real knife?
"Yes it's a real knife"
"My weakness! It's small knives. Anything but knives!" The man stepped forward but I shot him and his friend back to the walls with webs.
"Oh it's so simple." I laughed.
I looked around the room and noticed something reflecting the light.
"I'm just gonna take this" I picked up Bucky's metal arm. "See y'a."
I carry on walking through hallways, webbing someone to the wall every now and then, when I hear a loud crash. I turn the corner and through an open door, I could see y/n directly in front of me. She was half strapped to a chair, and she was unconscious. I ran towards her and was about to go through the door when someone was thrown in my way. Most of the others had found their way in to the room, and people were being thrown left and right.
The room was so small so it was extremely crowded. Fortunately, most of the enemies were on the floor, and all avengers were still standing. I helped take down the last few people, then we all stood around catching our breath.
"Can we get out of here now?" I asked.
"Sounds good." Natasha said. "Steve get the kid and Tony get Bucky."
They started freeing them from their hold.
"Anyone seen Bucky's arm?" Stark asked as he tore him free.
"Oh yeah, I just dropped it outside." I ran out the door to pick it up from where I put it down, but it wasn't there. Then, I felt metal hit the back of my head, and I doubled over in pain. I turned before the person took another swing and webbed their feet together, causing them to trip over. I took the arm off them, and then webbed their hands on the ground.
"Here you go!" I chucked the arm at Bucky, expecting him to catch it, but it just hit him in the stomach. He glared madly at me.
"Sorry Bucky! Wait. Why are you not reacting?" I asked.
Stark had completely freed him, but he still didn't move.
"Boop." Stark poked him in the shoulder but Bucky
didn't say anything or flinch. "Friday. Do a full body scan. Now. See what's wrong with him." He said to his suit.
"James Buchanan Barnes appears to be in complete paralysis and has no control over his vocal chords. It is temporary and the effects should ware off in 20-30 minutes." The system replied.
"Oh this could be fun." Stark smiled.
"Tony." Steve warned. "Don't do anything stupid."
I helped them two carry Bucky through the halls, as Wanda and Nat carried y/n.