(M/N) = Middle Name
It was almost scary, the ride down the long elevator, standing in silence trusting the old tech to send you all down safely. Honestly after your most recent elevator ride you were a bit scared. Hopefully you wouldn't have another situation like that again, finally the elevator stopped making an almost loud thudding noise as the doors creaked open the lights automatically turning in as you all stepped in seeing old computers filling up almost the entire room, these had to be from the 80's the whole thing was too bulky.
"This cant be the data point this technology is ancient" Natasha scoffed a bit as you all gathered around a computer now. Suddenly you noticed a drive port and opened your hand silently asking for it, Natasha fished it out from somewhere before handing it to you letting you put it in as the computer booted itself up after you turned it on the sound almost jarring at first before finally calming down.
"Initiate system?" The computer asked aloud as you moved in front of the key board typing now.
"Y-E-S, spells yes, or ye-s?" You tried to make a sort of joke before you pinched the bridge of your nose shaking your head. "Sorry that wasn't even funny" you laughed a bit and smiled beaming almost as Steve chuckled a little before your attention was drawn back to the computer.
"Shall we play a game?" The computer asked now sending chills down your spine while Natasha just smiled laughing a little turning to Steve fighting he wouldn't understand.
"It's funny cause it's from the movie-" she started at first before Steve sighed cutting her off.
"Yeah, I saw it" he muttered a bit only to look alert as a thick accent started to talk now.
"Rogers, Steven born, 1918" the voice said before moving on. "Stark (M/N) (Y/N), born 1986" then it moved on again. "Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna, norm 1984" in the corner of your eye you noticed a small camera moving above you all seeming to analyze making you squint your eyes curiously while natasha found this almost a bit hard to believe.
"It's some kind of old recording" Natasha tried to justify before narrowing her eyes suddenly.
"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" the computer spoke back to natasha causing your eyes to widen, there's no way! This tech is so old to transfer something like a person....this was surreal!
"Steve?" You turned your head to look at him now as he narrowed his gaze as the computer showed a picture of the man it once was, Dr. Arvin Zola.
"Do you know this thing?" Natasha looked at Steve with a hardened look but you couldn't help but wonder if it was from the fact that this thing was actually talking and she didn't want it to see her slight fear.
"Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull...He's been dead for years" Steve stared at the computer monitor causing you and Natasha to look back. This was sending chills down your body, down your spine and not in the way Steve had sent chills down it not too long ago. There's no way, just no way!
"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." Doctor Zola had said causing you to take a slight step back in fear at the mere idea. Gross. "This is a technological advancement your father would of loved to of been apart of Ms stark" the way Doctor Zola said that was almost like a sneer as you looked around. You almost wanted to cling to Steve honestly, this was giving you chills of nothing but fear!
"How did you get here?" Steve decided to change the subject a bit seeming to notice your slight distress as Doctor Zola directed his attention to him.
"Invited" Doctor Zola laughed a bit causing you to take a slight step closer to Steve.
"But no one would just invite an enemy scientist into their facility!" You tried to argue but Natasha shot down your point.
"It was Operation Paperclip after World War II S.H.I.E.L.D recruited German scientists with strategic value" Natasha stared at the computer monitor now as you just stared at the floor with a breath leaving you. Well, it was stupid but to be honest sounded like something they'd do, don't people get it? you can't change some one who doesn't want to be changed, why would they of really helped them? Something wasn't adding up in your mind.
"They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own" Doctor Zola seemed to laugh a bit causing you to look up from the floor piercing your lips, you had a certain look about you, were you angry? Steve couldn't tell but it was different than the soft you he had gotten to know.
"H.Y.D.R.A died with the Red Skull, you're stalling" you spit out before your face fell a bit as Doctor Zola just laughs a bit at your sudden fire.
"Cut off one head, two more shall take its place" Doctor Zola replied to you now and Steve could see you just about to burst at the seams. Though he'd be lying if he said he wasn't getting annoying with Doctor Zola either.
"Prove it" Steve decided to speak up for you now watching as Doctor Zola seemed to do something.
"Accessing archive" Doctor Zola seemed to be doing something now as the screen showed old footage of a man named Johann Schmidt, otherwise known as the red skull.... "H.Y.D.R.A 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" he paused in his slight speech almost like Doctor Zola was enjoying the look of slight anger and despair on both yours and Steve's face. "After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D was founded and I was recruited. The new H.Y.D.R.A grew. A beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D, For seventy years H.Y.D.R.A has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed."
"That's impossible!" You suddenly spoke up with Natasha to back you while Steve just seemed so lost in thought.
"S.H.I.E.L.D would have stopped you" Natasha clenched her fists as Doctor Zola chuckled for a moment before the screen changed a bit.
"Accidents will happen" the screen changed showing the death of your parents before you and all you could do was watch tears brimming the edge of your eyes as you clutched the desk a bit watching Your father and mother swerve off the road in a car crash and you couldn't help but bare you teeth fighting back tears. Your head was starting to pound again, your nose was starting to have a bit of pressure and now your eyes stung. You wanted to throw the computer off the desk in a fit, but you just couldn't and all you could do was watch as the screen changed to show the most recent death of Fury. "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, H.Y.D.R.A's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum"
You watched as Steve suddenly got angry again letting you see for the second time what his anger really looked like as he suddenly put his hand into a fish and punched the computer cracking the screen but not enough to break it. You'd have to thank him later for that, honestly you wanted to do the same thing just so badly.
"As I was saying..." Doctor Zola trued to continue but Steve interrupted, he didn't want to hear anymore of this, not from him and definitely not with you in the room.
"What's on the drive?" Steve presses his lips into a thin line in an attempt to try and relax himself.
"Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm" was it just you? Or did it feel almost like Doctor Zola was laughing at you all?...
"What kind of algorithm" you suddenly talked up pressing your hands down on the desk as you stared at the computer with the most frustrated look you've probably ever had your entire life. "What does it do?!" You breathed out trying to keep calm as a hot tear ran down your face for a moment.
"The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it." Doctor Zola breathed our enjoying the look of surprise on all your faces now as you took a step back noticing the door beginning to close. Luckily Steve noticed them closing too and swung his shield towards the elevator, but unfortunately he was too late.
"Steve, we got a bogey, Short range ballistic 30 seconds tops..." Natasha suddenly said causing your eyes to widen as Steve began to look around in haste.
"Who fired it?"
"S.H.I.E.L.D"
'No' you thought for a moment staring at Doctor Zola with a breath leaving you. 'H.Y.D.R.A fired it' "Steve there's an opening over there how tough is your shield?" You poured hastily to a small opening in the ground as you Ann circled behind the computer quickly to get to it as Doctor Zola began to laugh.
"I am afraid I have been stalling, Captain. Admit it, it's better this way. We're both of us...out of time" Doctor Zola almost laughed again as Steve heaved the door up from the ground letting you and Natasha fall into the opening first before he fell in after you both his shield raised just as the bombs exploded.
Natasha curled up to her self as Steve wrapped his free arm around your waist your face hidden in his chest as the explosions sounded off from all around you. And was it a sound that could of make you deaf honestly, but it didn't last long now as Steve lifted his shield helping you and Natasha up first before getting you all out of the ruble.
"Come on lets go" Steve breathed out hastily grabbing your hand and running with you and Natasha now as you all booked it to the car.
"I'm glad you parked closer to the forest" you laughed a bit but honestly you couldn't laugh about anything at the moment. Steve flashed you a slight smile now as you all raced through the open to hide before any S.H.I.E.L.D or S.T.R.I.K.E agents got to the scene. Which honestly would of been pretty fast unless they had all known you were heading here, from what Doctor Zola said it made sense.
"Get in the car I'll drive" Steve ordered now pushing you through the drivers end as Natasha got in the back hastily before Steve got in starting the car again and making it race out of the area taking a serve and creating more dust than there already was in the air before he zoomed off back down he road taking some sort of back way. Now you had a moment to lay back and let out a breath your shoulders relaxing a bit even if you had a few scrapes and cuts from the explosion, not to mention the state of all your clothing, good thing you brought extra, as for Steve you don't think he brought anything with him other than what he was wearing. You'd help him later you guessed for now you just wanted to sit in silence and go just go!
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Pierce sighed as he stood in the kitchen and comfort of his own home looking out over the bar that revealed the living room to him. He mixed a drink before noticing some one sitting in his living room gun on the table and metal arm shimmering in the dim light. Finally.
"I'm going to go, Mr. Pierce! You need anything before I leave?" His house keeping lady called from behind the door causing pierce to turn and look at it now trying to keep her from walking in.
"No. Uh...it's fine, Renata, you can go home" pierce stated causing Renata to sigh a bit seeming to nod her head on the other side.
"Okay night" it sounded like she left now causing pierce to turn to the man in his living room a smirk almost against his lips.
"Want some milk?" Pierce moved to the fridge offering but the man before him didn't say anything causing him to shrug it off a bit as he looked at him now just ready to say what he had to say. "The timetable has moved, Our window is limited....Three targets, Level Six" pierce pours himself his own glass of milk before walking around the bar to sit at the couch across from the man as he placed the cup down. "They already cost me Zola. I want confirmed death in ten hours, but as for the (H/C) hair one, I want her alive....she's valuable to us, and she'll do what ever we say if we keep that friend of hers got it?" Pierce leaned back moving to take a sip of his glass of milk before looking to the door seeing poor Renata walking in.
"Sorry Mr. pierce I forgot my-" she cut her self off noticing the man sitting across from pierce, and his metal arm causing her to trail off in her words. "My phone..."
"Oh Renata" pierce sighed standing up. "I wish you would have knocked" suddenly pierce picked up the gun off the table shooting Renata causing her to fall to the ground before he placed the gun back down. "Remember our agreement, kill the other two, keep that girl alive" pierce walked to the door to go get rid of the body while the mysterious man rose narrowing his eyes and just like he had suddenly appeared, he was gone.