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Chapter 10 - End of SHIELD

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"It's like we're back in the forties," I grinned, looking over Steve in his new-old uniform.

"Can you get us in there without being seen?" Sam asked.

"I think so," trying to think of a spell that could hide us, I slowly made a few turning motions with my hands, "Stick to the shadows just in case, and be quiet."

We entered the compound without much fuss, the spell working better than I thought it would. Once we were inside the main control center, Steve knocked out the guards standing outside. A worker opened the door to see what was going on, catching us as I dropped the spell.

"Move aside son," Steve ordered the smaller man. The guy held his hands up, pointing to where we had to go.

"You want to talk?" I asked Steve, motioning to the speaker. My brows raised in surprise when he shook his head, "But you're Captain America."

"And you're their friend. They'll trust you more."

I bent down to the com, pressing the button, "Attention, all SHIELD agents. This is (Y/n) Altovar. Steve Rogers is here next to me. I know you've heard a lot about us the past few days. Some of you were sent to hunt us down. But the time for lies is over. SHIELD is not what we thought it was. It's been taken over by Hydra. Alexander Pierce is their leader. The Strike and Insight crews are also Hydra, I don't know how many more. But they are in the building.

"Hydra almost has what they want. Absolute control. All of you joined SHIELD for a reason. It's time you stand up, and fight for that reason. If those helicarriers launch Hydra will kill millions. Unless we stop them. I understand that I'm asking a lot of you. The price for freedom is high, I've come to understand that. If we're the only ones willing to pay it, then we will fight to our dying breath. But, I have a feeling we're not."

I stepped away from the com, smiling at the other proudly. Steve nodded in approval.

"Did you write that down first, or was it off the top of your head?"

"Royals are good at coming up with speeches. I only had ten minutes to figure out my goodbye speech to my planet," I shrugged casually, "Let's go."

Sam, Steve, and I ran from the control room, leaving Maria in the control room. She had the extra scale since Nat and Fury were handling Pierce. We passed through the bay and out the launch doors.

"Remember where those chips go, I only need to activate self destruct from one ship."

"How do we tell the good guys from the bad guys?" Sam questioned.

"If they're shooting at you, they're bad," Steve advised as we reached the edge.

I took a few steps back, then sprinted for a running start. I created a shield below myself, wobbling slightly before evening out. As I flew higher above the ground, people from below, and air above began to shoot their guns up at me. I ducked down, creating another shield around myself.

Coming to my rescue, Sam swooped down and charged them up, making them explode. I pushed forward onto the next ship, somersaulting onto the deck.

"Okay, okay," I mumbled to myself, sprinting towards the canons. I closed my fists, discs forming around them. As I passed by each canon I hit a vital point, shutting it down.

Ducking down, I dove into an open door. After taking a few turns, the panel holding all of the programming chips was in front of me. I ran towards it, taking out a random chip and pushing in my scale instead. I made sure it scanned correctly before I ran off.

"Delta locked," I reported into the com.

"Alpha locked."

Putting up the same spell I used earlier to keep us hidden, I sprinted to the main deck, silently taking out the two guards outside. I pulled their bodies into a room across from control, shutting the door.

"Falcon, status?"

"Had to take a detour!"

I slipped into the main deck. Three guards, four workers. All of whom were most likely armed. I shifted into one of the guards I had taken out, clothes and all, straightening up and walking in.

"They wanted the two of you to go check out the disturbance on the roof," I pointed at two of the guards. They nodded, passing by me. Something on their uniforms began to beep. I tensed up. Both of them pulled up a small device and pointed it at me. The beeps became louder and closer together.

"One of the perks of Hydra is their tech," one of the guards grinned, "They got enough of your blood to make a scanner."

I shifted back into my natural form, throwing a kick at the guard closest to me. One grabbed my below my shoulders, their hands on the back of my neck. I threw my head back, hitting her nose and feeling a satisfying crack from her face. That guard dropped me, clutching her rapidly bleeding nose. I kicked the back of her knees, kicking her temple when she fell.

Turning to the last two, I pulled out the female guards escrima stick from her uniform. I roundhouse kicked one of the guards in the back, sending him flying into the other one. Activating the escrima, I shocked both of them until they were out.

"That's what it feels like," I snapped. I turned to the workers, panting heavily. All of them dropped their weapons to the ground and held up their hands, "In the corner. Sit down."

"Bravo locked."

"Took you long enough," I sighed, moving to the main monitor, "Madame Teyla would have eaten you alive if she tutored you."

I began to type in the several different passwords for the systems self destruct. I had made the process long so no one with the wrong intentions could get into it. I twas a decision I was currently regretting. I had three more codes, two retinal scans- one for each eye- and a fingerprint scans.

"The Winter Soldier is here!" Steve yelled into the com.

"I need more time," I yelled back, glancing at the workers to make sure they were behaving, "Keep him busy!"

"Guys I'm grounded. The suit is down. Where are you?"

"Still on the helicarrier. I don't see Bucky anywhere. (Y/n) I think he's heading your way."

"Helk wurn," I swore, completing my second code. I kept my eyes open as both retinals scans were completed.

The door swished open behind me and I froze. I knew exactly who it was. I just prayed to Atreya that he wasn't brainwashed to the point of not remembering who I was. I pressed my right pointer finger against the screen, finishing the print scan. I only had one code left.

"He's here," I whispered, fingers hovering over the number pad.

"I'm on my way (Y/n), hold on!"

Bullets rained over me as I created a shield to keep me safe. Three bullets slipped past the hastily cast spell. One in my shoulder, one in my thigh, and the other grazing my side and shattering one of the nearby screens. I got three numbers into the ten digit code before Bucky punched through my shield, shattering it like glass. I ducked under another punch, kicking him in the gut, he stumbled back maybe two steps, giving me the chance to put in another three numbers.

"One minute left."

Cold, metal fingers wrapped themselves around my neck. I yelped as they forced my head into the large window in front of me. Blood carved a path down my face. One more slam and the glass would break and send me out into the open air.

"Thirty seconds."

"Bucky please," I cried out as he slammed my back against the panel, "This isn't who you are!"

Bucky froze, giving me the chance to type in the last four numbers in the code. Bucky reverted back into Winter Soldier mode when he saw the red lights flashing. The computer began to announce minute second countdown. Bucky moved his hand to my neck again, slamming me against the glass. This time, it shattered.

"(Y/n), Cap, you need to get out of there, the ships have one minute before they explode," Maria warned.

"(Y/n)'s fighting Bucky, (Y/n) I'm almost there!"

"Get out now!"

"But-"

"Do this for me, please! I love you Steve," I choked out as Bucky's grip tightened, cutting off my airway completely.

The ship began to explode, starting in the roo with the chips. The impact of it made Bucky loosen his grip around me. As a final attempt to save myself, I shifted into Steve. There were flickers, at one moment my arm or torso would shift back.

"I'm with you, to the end of the line."

Bucky let me go. Steve's form fell away, and I was myself again. My com flew out of my ear with the wind. I was weightless, numb, my wounds weren't my main concern. Me faling wasn't my main concern. I was bleeding out, tumbling towards water that would feel like concrete, and I wasn't scared.

My vision blurred as I came even nearer to the water. I wasn't afraid of dying. It was the end of everything, but the beginning to everything at the same time. I knew the risk of this, and I was willing to take it for Steve, for the world. I was however, afraid of what this would do to Steve, he would now lose two of the women he had loved.

My body hit the water, and from the impact, bleeding out, or just plain shock. Everything went black, for what I assumed would be, the last time.

And I was ready for that.

~*~

Pain. It was the first thing that came to me when I woke up. It was dull, toned down, but it was still there. It told me I was alive. My vision cleared and I tilted my head to look around. I was in a hospital, Steve in the chair next to me.

Star Trek's tell-tale theme flowed into my ears. I smiled, instantly regretting it. The pan had intensified and settled in my cheeks.

"Star Trek movie night," voice hoarse, and throat burning, I croaked out those four words.

"As soon as your out," Steve grinned, his eyes shining with tears.

"There was a scene like this in the second one," I groaned, "Jim lived too. Spoiler alert."

"You're supposed to say that before you say the spoiler," Steve chuckled.

"I'm on so many drugs right now. Be happy I'm speaking english."

~*~*~*~

"Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth?" A woman stood in front of Steve and Natasha, swearing them to the truth in front of a slew of politicians and reporters.

"Yes," they said at the same time.

They moved to their seats, ready to be asked an onslaught of questions. (Y/n) was still in the hospital, better, but not yet ready to be discharged.

"I don't know what there is left left for her to say. I think her saving millions from being killed says enough," Nat sassed, crossing her arms.

"Well she could explains how this country's expected to maintain its national security now that she and you two have laid waste to our intelligence apparatus."

"Hydra was feeding you lies," Steve crossed his arms as well, "Not intelligence."

"Many of which you seem to have had a personal hand in telling."

"Agent Romanoff, you should know that there are some on this committee who feel, given your service record, both for this country and against it, that you belong in a penitentiary, not mouthing off on Capitol Hill."

"We have a secure location for Miss Altovar," Capitol Hill spoke up again, "She is not of this world and this has proved just how much of a threat she can be. It would be in Earth's best interest if we ran a few tests on her and her abilities."

"(Y/n) isn't a threat. Neither is her planet, they're more peaceful than we can understand," Nat said defensively, "But I can promise they won't be if you experiment on the Princess of that planet. You think she's dangerous? Try millions of her, angry for revenge."

"Was that a threat Agent Romanoff?"

"No sir, just a promise."

"What happens on the day she decides she doesn't want to defend this planet anymore?" Scudder questioned, "When she decides to shapeshift into a secret service officer and kill the president? Or imitate a general and order a nuclear missile strike? This woman is a danger to global security, more than most of you. It would be safer to have her in our sights, than have her working, now, on her own."

Steve clenched his fist in anger. These high ups, were threatening, no, they sounded like they were determined, to see (Y/n) slip up so they could send her to this 'secure location' to 'run some tests'. That was the one thing (Y/n) always feared about being on Earth. That they would take her, and they would experiment on her because she could shapeshift, because she was alien, and was different. Steve would fight with everything he had to make sure that didn't happen.

"You won't arrest us, or put (Y/n) in a science lab," Nat said surely, "Because at the end of the day, you need us. We may have taken down SHIELD, but we are the most qualified to save the world. And (Y/n) may be the biggest danger, but that also means she's the biggest danger to the people like HYDRA."

"If you want to arrest us, arrest us," Steve added, "You'll know where to find us."

Steve and Nat stood up, silently and confidently walking out of the conference room. As soon as they were out, Steve and Nat shared a worried look.

"We can't let her know what they want to do to her," Nat shook her head, "She'll shift and hide, and she won't ever come out of that."

"Her biggest fear is Earth turning on her, experimenting on her. The government was fine with her while she was under SHIELD. She's a hero, and they want to lock her up because of it."

"I hate to say it, but they do have a point. She could become anyone. She's dangerous."

"But not to the people she wants to protect."

~*~*~*~

I let out a sigh, looking at Fury's 'grave' with Steve and Sam beside me. Fury soon joined us, the eyepatch gone, replaced with dark tinted sunglasses.

"We've been data-mining Hydra's files. Looks like a lot of rats didn't go down with the ship. I'm headed to Europe tonight, wanted to ask if you'd come."

"There's something we gotta do first," Steve and I shook our heads.

"What about you, Wilson? Could use a man with your abilities."

"I'm more of a soldier than a spy."

Each of us shook hands with Fury as a goodbye. But something inside of me instinct or magical future vision, told me we would be seeing him again someday soon.

"Anybody asks for me, tell them they can find me right here," Fury pointed at his grave, then left.

"You should be honored. That's about as close as he gets to saying thank you," Nat chuckled, approaching us as Fury walked off.

"Not going with him?"

"Nope. I blew all my covers, I gotta go figure out a new one," Nat smiled lopsidedly, "That thing you asked for, I called in a few favors from Kiev."

She handed Steve a thick file. She then gave each of us a quick hug, "Stay together. You two are cute. Be careful, alright?"

As she began to leave as well, Steve opened the folder. The files on Bucky were numerous, some holding missions, others holding torture information. We were lucky I knew Russian, otherwise this would be a lot harder.

"Wait," I picked up the top file. There was a sticky note from Nat on it.

Thought you'd want to read this ;)

"What is it?" Steve read the file over my shoulder, as if he could read Russian.

"It's the file about the mission where he met me," I read it over quickly, "He was punished for not getting the information he needed. But, he saved me, and didn't give me up as an alien."

"You're going after him," Sam stated.

"You don't have to come," Steve assured, wrapping an arm around my shoulder.

"I know...When do we start?"