Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Alive but not Awake | Ava?

Bucky, Steve, Natasha, Sam and the guy who told them everything they needed, were all stuffed inside a four seated black car the guy owned. It was rather cramped but it was the only ride they could get at the time without looking very noticeable.

"Hydra doesn't like leaks." The coloured guy with specs spoke, his voice telling everyone that he was scared of something. He had basically ratted out the entire mission for Hydra to them in under five minutes, there was no way he was getting out of this alive. If a second-hand man didn't kill him then Pierce would shoot him straight blank in the head without remorse or concern for his well-being.

Sam looked at him through the middle mirror as he drove the car, "How about you stick a cork in it?" He suggested, annoyed by the man – not only because he was in on Hydra's plan but because his voice was just too dam annoying after being in the same vicinity as him for more than an hour.

Natasha poked her head forward, "Insight is launching in 16 hours," She calculated in her head quickly, "We're running it a little bit close here." She was optimistic that they would be done before the deadline, it was just the matter of having a good plan that would work on how to stop those Helicarriers going up into the air.

"We know," Steve nodded, looking back to Bucky as he spoke, "We can use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarriers directly," Gesturing their very own little Hydra prisoner.

The guy's eyes widen in disbelief, "What?" He exclaimed, moving forwards like Natasha had done moments ago, "Are you crazy?"

Bucky pursed his lips for a moment before nodding, "Yup, we're known for doing the crazy stuff shorty."

He ignored Bucky's comment and kept on ranting, "That is a terrible, terrible, terrible – " He was cut off by a thud coming from the roof and a metal arm grabbed his suit from the now broken backseat window, pulling him out of the car and throwing him into the incoming truck that crushed him – killing him instantly.

The metal armed assailant started to shoot through the roof, making Natasha climb to the front seating area – sitting on Steve's lap while Bucky dodged them whenever they came through the roof but moved as much as he could to the front to avoid being a target practice.

Steve moved his hand to the handle brake and pulled it back sharply, causing the car to stop in its movement almost instantly. Each person in the car looked forwards to see the metal armed girl fly through the air, landing in the middle of the road, rolling onto her feet as she skid across the ground – her metal arm scraping against the floor as it aided in her stopping.

Bucky's eyes widen as he immediately recognised the girl as the Winter Soldier, Steve and Natasha had done the same but both for different reasons. For Natasha, she was seeing the same woman as the one who shot her, to get her target and Steve was because this would be the first time he saw her.

The Winter Soldier looked up as her hand unhooked from the ground, her face covered in a mask that covered her mouth and nose while a pair of thick black goggles covered her eyes. She slowly lifted herself up from the ground, her body always pointing towards the little black car that held the two men she was determined to eliminate. She didn't care for the cars passing by in the other two lanes beside her as she was going to do whatever it took to get rid of those two soldiers. She and the stopped car were still in the middle of the highway.

From inside the car Natasha was going to open fire until the car jolted forwards as a black Shield truck hit them from behind intentionally, crushing the backside of the car – sending the four occupants inside the small black car to tumble forwards in their seats slightly. Natasha dropped her gun at the sudden hit.

As the car moved towards; Winter jumped and landed on the back of the black car as her hand grabbed onto the roof and clung herself there with a steel grip; there was no letting go this time – before she had been surprised at the notion but now she knew their tricks so it won't happen again.

Sam tried to shake her off, but it ended in her metal arm crashing through the roof and grabbing onto the staring wheel and ripping it out of its socket, making him stare at the spot in disbelief. Natasha was able to grab her hand gun and shoot towards the areas where the Winter Soldier was.

Winter just turned around and jumped onto the black truck that had rammed into the back of the now wheel-less car. She sat on the top, watching as it rammed into the small car again – causing it to swerve and crunch itself into the side stone-barrier that kept the cars on the road.

Inside the small car Bucky turned to Steve, "You grab Nat, I got Sam." As both of them grabbed their shields, Steve agreed. "Hold on!" He yelled to the both of them as he grabbed Sam while Steve did the same with Natasha. Bucky held onto the driver's seat door and Steve took the passenger seat one, both of them nodded before pushing outwards – causing the doors to brake of and fall to the floor when the car flipped over in the air. Bucky held Sam tightly to him, not allowing himself to let go until he was sure they had come to a reasonable stop.

Winter jumped off the truck when it skidded to a halt, which was a couple of metres away from where each of the boys had stopped. She grabbed the large bomb gun from one of the lackeys beside her and held it up for aiming, ready to fire. She moved the gun to Steve first - as it fired the force of the hit threw Steve of the bridge as he had held up his shield. Her aim went towards Bucky and did the exact same while he went the complete other direction from Steve.

Steve had landed in a bus, now below the bridge while Bucky had been thrown into a truck full of grocery food – luckily it was pasta so it didn't ruin any of his clothing although it wasn't a really appropriate time to be thinking about that.

Winter turned her attention to the red head and coloured man who were with the Captain and Lieutenant– she couldn't leave them alive, knowing they were the enemy's friends. She walked forwards without any concern as eight people in black behind her continued to rapidly shoot as they got closer to the targets.

Winter's eyes caught the flash of red hair by the edge of the intersection and shot another bomb in her direction, but she gritted her teeth in annoyance when the red head flung herself over the side to the next roadway before the bomb could hit her. All of the shooters attention fired upon Natasha now, Winter's eyes narrow in concentration as she aimed her bomb gun once again and fired it when Natasha ran behind a silver car. The explosion caused the car to flip off the higher road itself and Natasha followed it, by swinging underneath the bridge to come out the other side without the Winter Soldier knowing.

One of the guys next to The Winter Solider gave her one of their large machine guns and took away the bomb gun, knowing that this one would be of more use right now. She took it and walked over to the other side of the bridge, the one she calculated Natasha would come out from. There was nothing there, she aimed the gun ready again – waiting for the fiery red head to make an appearance.

Suddenly, several shots hit her in the face – or rather her goggles making her stumble back and slide her back against the wall. Winter ripped off her googles and threw them to the ground, not wanting them anymore now that they were broken – she didn't even know why she wore them for her mission clothing, Pierce and Zola had been the ones to demand of it.

Winter sneered before getting back up, twisting her body back around sharply and aiming the gun towards that insufferable woman she met 5 years ago – she should have just taken her out then. She lowered her gun down when the red head started to run away while everyone else behind her continued firing, she knew it would be wasting bullets if they try and catch her from this distance.

"Я получил ее, найти его!" Winter spoke in a commanding tone, her eyes still looking in the direction Natasha ran off to. She grabbed onto the side of the bridge before jumping off, landing on one of the wrecked cars with a crunching thud.

While Winter went off to find Natasha, 4 each of the lackeys went to Bucky and Steve who were grunting as they slowly got up from where they had landed.

Winter strolled to the place where her gut was telling her that the red haired girl was at, her gun was at the ready as her enhanced hearing began to try and pick out anything that would signify where the girl was.

She stopped short when she heard the wanted voice coming from behind one of the cars, as quietly as she could, Winter grabbed one of the grenades from her pants pocket and rolled it underneath the cars to the voice. Within seconds the car and voice went up in flames as the explosion expanded.

Without warning as Winter started to turn around, the gun was knocked out of her hands by the red head who was supposed to be dead, she kicked it away. Winter gave an internal groan of impatient-ness as Natasha was able to string a cord around her neck, Winter rolled her eyes at the stupidity before throwing the girl off so she landed meters away.

Just as Winter picked up her gun again she felt something attach itself to her metal arm, electricity ran through her arm in high currents making her groan out loud in discomfort before ripping off the device. Her metal hand curled in anger as she set it right, her negative emotions were getting more heightened by the second – she just wanted to kill this girl so she could get on with her real targets, the ones she'll really gain pleasure from.

Natasha ran as hard and fast as she could until a bullet went straight through her body, just below her shoulder, she gasped as her body slumped behind one of the cars – holding her wound to keep in the blood that was spilling out. She turned around just as she heard a gun being reloaded, Winter had climbed onto one of the cars and aimed straight at her once again.

Winter was about to shoot until she saw Lieutenant Barnes running up to her, she punched out her arm causing it to collide with his shield with a lot of force before she pulled back and kicked out her leg – causing him to be thrown backwards onto the ground hard.

The two of them fought, Winter had to keep getting out a different gun as Barnes cornered her round in circles; trying to disorient her. She was able to steal his shield and throw it at him, but he was able to dodge it so it lodged itself into the back of a van. But Winter was loving this fight, the one she's been dreaming about for over 70 years – her revenge. She had already shot the red head who seemed to be their friend – she'll be dead soon from the blood loss.

Bucky went back up to her quickly, dodging her knife as the Winter Soldier tried to slice him into little bits. Steve had gone to take out those 8 gunman that were chasing after them while he went after Natasha, knowing that she would need either his or Steve's help when it came to this girl who seemed to have about the same strength that came with the super-serum.

They fought for minutes, neither winning nor losing until Bucky flipped her over and the lower part of Winter's mask fell off. She got up menacingly and turned to Bucky who was about to throw the shield at her but seemed to stop the moment he saw her true face.

Bucky's body froze, his eyes going into shock as he saw who the Winter Soldier was under the mask. He felt like screaming, shouting to himself that this was just a dream; but it wasn't. The woman standing in front of him looked exactly the same as the moment she slipped from his grasp, her hair was a darker shade and longer but her facial structure and body were completely the same – as if she hadn't aged a day. His mouth opened with a gape, like he was a gasping fish in need to water before he died. "Ava?" He breathed in horror, her demeanor was completely different. Those eyes, they were like death – someone with a vengeance to smash him into the ground like the hulk did to Loki when the Chitauri attacked New York. He looked into those now-dark eyes of her and he saw no recognition for him, only anger and long-awaited revenge. What was happening?

Winter froze hearing that name, watching all the emotions that filled the Lieutenant's eyes – the horror, the sadness but most of all. Love. "Who did you call me?" She demanded, her eyes narrowed at him dangerously but confused as something sparked inside her, like the name was familiar to her but she just couldn't find out why. Her name was Winter! The Winter Soldier! Who was Ava?! There is no Ava here! Urrrggg!

Winter gritted her teeth and poised the hand gun back in his direction, ignoring all the screaming sensations in her heart telling her to stop. He was just trying to confuse her, it won't work!

Suddenly, she was kicked through the air by a flying force backwards – Winter let out a noise of frustration as she got off the ground again, before aiming again - but had to dodge when one of her own bombs came flying at her. She was able to move away quickly as the bomb hit the car that was parked behind her. She shook her head, disappointed in herself that she wasn't able to complete the mission before running towards her meeting place from Pierce.

"Bucky!" Steve's voice called behind his friend, shaking his shoulder but it was like Bucky was frozen, like a molded statue on display.

Bucky finally looked up at Steve, tears filling his eyes. "It was Ava, Steve." He got out, finally gaining his voice back, "She's the Winter Soldier – and she didn't even recognise me." Steve jaw dropped, the same reactions flooding through his face as Bucky's was earlier.

As the Shield agents crowded around the streets as they circled the four of them; making them get down on their knees while they tied them as if they were being arrested for something. But, Bucky didn't care right now – his heart and mind felt numb with everything that had just occurred. He had literally fought his other half, his love of life in a live or die battle. This had been the second time he'd seen her, he should have known! He should've had the strong suspicion that it was Ava behind the mask the whole time but – nothing!

He didn't even care about what happened to him right now, all he could think about was how much he had failed his love – while Steve was still in shock, just knowing that he had also failed his own twin sister.

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