《Distraction》Whatever it takes
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By the time Bucky and Steve pull up to the compound the avengers were already waiting outside.
'Is it Daisy?!' Tony asks as the guys step out of the car.
'Has she gone into labour?' Bruce asks as he puts on a pair of medical gloves.
Tony reaches out to grab the door handle of the back seat but bucky places his hand on top of his arm and shakes his head. 'They've got her'
'Who?!' Tony asks, a mixture of shock and confusion.
'Hydra' Steve says completely distraught. His head hanging down so nobody could see the pain that was plastered across his entire face. 'Hydra has her' He mumbles out again before he feels himself becoming light headed from the sheer thought of you being gone from him.
'Easy Cap!' Tony calls out as he frantically rushes to Steve's side, holding him steady. Bucky the other side of him.
'Got you pal' Bucky whispers quietly as they lead him into the compound and to a meeting room, everyone else following behind.
'What happened? Explain this to us' Tony asks, trying to remain calm as he lowers Steve down into a seat, Bucky sitting beside him.
'She said she wanted ten minutes alone...' Bucky sighs. 'We we're just out front. Chopping some wood for the fire, I don't understand how...' His voice trails off and he swallows. Unable to finish his sentence.
'What about the pregnancy? Is she close to delivering?' Bruce now speaks up, trying to make sense of what he can.
'She's been having some pain on and off for the last couple days...' Steve mumbles.
'Pain?! What kind of pain?!'
'She said like a sharp shooting pain? It would last a couple seconds and then fade away'
Bruce gives Tony a concerned look and Tony puts a finger up to his mouth, signalling Bruce to keep it to himself, not wanting to panic Steve or Bucky further.
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'How did they manage to find her?' Nat whispers to herself but the room is so quiet everyone could hear, making the tension thicker and the film seem suddenly smaller.
'Because you clearly didn't do a good enough job searching for Hydra the last two and a half months we've been gone!' Steve stands up and shouts. Raising his voice, his eyes bursting bloodshot and his forehead sweaty from shock and distress.
'I...I didn't mean...'
'He knows Nat, he's just worried' Bucky tries to reassure Nat who is overcome in guilt the minute she see's poor Steve.
'We all are' Tony corrects Bucky.
'It's not like we haven't been trying. We've been out day in day out, searching databases, going through Howard's old records, anything we can to...' Pietro speaks up quickly and face paced, Bucky raises his hand to stop him speaking. 'We know, we do. And we're grateful'
'INCOMING VIDEO MESSAGE' FRIDAY calls out.
Everyone looks around confused as the giant monitor on the screen in front of them switches on.
'Hello! You probably don't know who I am, but I know who YOU are, and I'm sure you know who THIS is!' The screen brightens to you. Lying there on a medical table. Your arms and locks shackled to the rails.
Steve immediately gasps and everyone else freezes.
'Daisy?!'
'Actually..' The voice continues. 'I stand corrected. YOU know exactly who I am, don't you soldier?' The man comes into the camera and Bucky clenches his fists.
'Who is it?!' Tony asks him panicked.
'The man who made me the winter soldier...the leader of hydra...'
'I wish I could see the look on your faces right now but this is an automated message...' He sighs dramatically but continues to speak confidently and proudly. 'I just thought I would inform you all on my little plan...'
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He walks over to the table where Daisy was lying, picking up a marker pen and jotting lines down and over her pregnancy bump.
'I'm going to cut out this little super soldier growing inside of her and train and raise it to be unstoppable! And with this at play too....' He holds up the tesseract and everyone's face now grow even more so with fear, fear of the unknown. 'You all stand NO chance!' He roars, walking up to the camera one more time and holding up a scalpel 'Shame you'll never get to say goodbye...Captain!'
The video shuts down and Bruce speaks up first. 'I'm going to track and reverse the imaging! See if I can locate...'
'Don't bother' Bucky grumbles and everyone looks at him. 'I know where she is'
'How do you....' Tony goes to finish his sentence but stops himself.
'I blocked it all out until I saw that room. It's the room they used to attach my arm...' Bucky's voice wobbles and everyone looks around on edge. 'Well Captain, what do you say?' Bucky puts his arm out to Tony who passes him the one thing that could bring Steve out of his stunned state. His shield.
Bucky places the shield in Steve's hand and Steve looks up at Bucky warily.
'Whatever it takes' Bucky says quietly.
Steve nods at Bucky before looking up at everyone, waiting for his command. 'SUIT UP. I have a plan!'
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