Steve shoved Jasper Sitwell across the rooftop after Sam had fetched him for them. Maggie and Natasha watched from the end of the roof near the wall.

"Tell me about Zola's algorithm," Steve demanded.

"Never heard of it," Sitwell lied.

"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?" Steve said.

"I was throwing up, I get seasick," Sitwell said. Steve shoved him onto the side of the roof, holding his collar tightly to stop him from falling off. "Is this little display meant to insinuate that you're gonna throw me off the roof? Because it's really not your style, Rogers," he said.

"You're right. It's not. It's hers," Steve stepped aside. Natasha booted Sitwell off the side of the roof.

"Oh, wait. What about that girl from accounting?" Natasha looked at Steve.

"Laura?" Maggie interjected. They were still trying to set Steve up with someone.

"Lillian. Lip piercing, right?" Steve said.

"Yeah, she's cute," Natasha smiled.

"Yeah, I'm not ready for that," Steve said.

Sam flew up onto the roof, throwing a still screaming Sitwell onto the floor.

"Zola's algorithm is a program...for choosing Insight's targets!" Sitwell cried.

"What targets?" Maggie said.

"You! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa city. Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to HYDRA! Now, or in the future," Sitwell said. Maggie's eyebrows shot up. So, she was still a target, then.

"The future? How could it know?" Steve scoffed.

"How could it not?" Sitwell laughed. "The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it. Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future," he said.

"And what then?" Steve said.

"Oh, my god, Pierce is gonna kill me," Sitwell cried.

"And you think I won't?" Maggie snapped, pulling out a knife and putting it to his throat. "What then?" she demanded.

"Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few million at a time," Sitwell said, a sick grin on his face.

"Fucking slimy bastard," Maggie kicked him away from her, pocketing her knife again. "Let's go," she said.

"You okay?" Natasha grabbed her hand.

"Yeah," Maggie said.

"Just, don't be letting your anger make you stupid. Keep your guard up, alright?" Natasha said quietly.

"I know. I'm fine. Promise," Maggie said. Natasha raised an eyebrow. "I'll tell you if I'm not," Maggie added.

"Thank you, Mags," Natasha smiled slightly.

"HYDRA doesn't like leaks," Sitwell winced as Sam drove the five of them to Triskelion.

"So, why don't you try sticking a cork in it?" Maggie said sarcastically.

"Insight's launching in sixteen hours, we're cutting it a little bit close here," Natasha poked her head between Sam and Steve in the front.

"I know. We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans and access the Helicarriers directly," Steve said.

"What? Are you crazy? That's a terrible idea!" Sitwell cried.

There was a thud on the car roof and Sitwell was yanked out of the window. He was launched into oncoming traffic and hit by a large truck. Maggie caught sight of who it was and felt both rage and fear inside of her.

The Winter Solider.

Bucky Barnes.

"Shit!" Maggie cried.

Maggie pulled her gun out and started firing up through the ceiling as Sam tried to throw him off the roof. Bucky was firing right back at her.

"Nat, in the front!" Maggie said, pushing Natasha in front while she fired up at Bucky.

Natasha climbed into the front and Maggie quickly wedged herself against the car door, lying back to fire more efficiently.

The windscreen smashed and Bucky pulled the steering wheel right out.

"Shit!" Sam yelled. The car started swerving all over the place but Maggie wasn't giving in that easily.

Bucky had shot her. He had also shot Natasha. He had also been on several missions with Maggie where they'd killed people fighting against HYDRA. She wasn't letting him go any time soon.

She got to her feet on the seat and elbowed the window until it smashed.

"Maggie, no!" Steve yelled, but Maggie had already wriggled out of the window and onto the roof of the swerving car.

Bucky was on the car behind them and Maggie started firing at him. Unconsciously, parked cars from under the bridge started levitating up and getting launched at Bucky. He smacked them away with his arm or the car he was ridi  bc on  swerved out of their way but Maggie just sent more flying at him.

The car underneath her started flipping and Maggie jumped up before it could take her under, hoping to land on another car so she could get down safely.

To her surprise, she hovered perfectly still in the air. She stared with wide eyes as Steve, Sam and Natasha landed on Steve's shield in the middle of the road, the car rolling ahead into the concrete dividers.

"You're flying!" Natasha cried as she struggled to her feet. Maggie

"Look out!" Maggie yelled, firing her gun at the advancing HYDRA agents at Bucky's side.

Natasha, Steve and Sam took off in different directions, while Maggie floated helplessly in the air. She had no idea how to get back down, so she just kept firing at the soldiers who had stuck around to get rid of her.

"Come on, come on, get down!" Maggie cried to herself, swapping her empty magazine for her last one.

She closed her eyes as she heard Natasha let out a loud groan from somewhere. Her family was getting hurt and she was useless floating in the air. She let out a deep breath and opened her eyes again.

She pushed her arms forward and four cars shot forward from behind her. They slammed into the soldiers, sending them skidding up the road with just a trail of blood, skin and ripped leather to show for it.

Maggie slammed onto the floor a few seconds later, groaning as her wrist panged from her landing on it. She dragged herself to her feet with a wince, catching sight of her own reflection in a car window.

"I look like shit," Maggie muttered to herself.

"Okay, enough ogling yourself. Back to battle!" Sam yelled, waving her over to where he was firing at Bucky, who was fighting Steve and Natasha under the bridge.

Maggie raced over and pulled out her throwing knives. She delivered a good shot to Bucky at the same time Steve knocked his mask off.

The man straightened up.

"Bucky?" Steve said, barely audible from where she and Sam stood.

"Who the hell is Bucky?" Bucky scoffed.

"I'm going in," Sam said.

"I'll cover you," Maggie said quickly, taking his gun. Sam jumped off the bridge, flying down and kicking Bucky aside.

Bucky moved to take aim but a quick delivered grenade from Natasha had him blown back. He took off as soon as he got to his feet and Maggie cursed.

She moved to run after him, but three men were stood behind her, guns aimed at her head.

"On your knees, Sokolov," the agent glared.

"Gonna kill a sixteen year old girl?" Maggie raised her eyebrows, raising the gun right back at them.

"If we have to," the agent said.

Maggie looked over the side of the bridge, seeing Natasha, Steve and Sam also in cuffs. They were getting led towards the van. Natasha caught Maggie's eye and nodded.

Maggie dropped the gun and got to her knees.

"Fine," she said.

The click of the handcuffs felt like yet another death sentence she would have to find her way out of.

"It was him. He looked right at me like he didn't even know me," Steve said on the way to the HYDRA base. Maggie stiffened slightly.

"How's that even possible? It was like seventy years ago," Sam scoffed.

"Zola. Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43, Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him and..." Steve trailed off.

"They did," Maggie said. Steve looked at her. "I got sold to HYDRA by the Red Room when I was ten. Bucky and I did a few missions together. He shot me when I was eleven because I didn't want to kill the person we had to. We got back to the base and I saw what they did to him," Maggie said.

"What?" Steve said quietly.

"They've altered his brain. They deliver electroshock therapy, amongst others. It effectively wipes his memories, makes him into a perfect soldier. He's still in there. He comes out after a while, but they always do it again until he forgets," Maggie said.

"Is that what they did to you?" Steve said.

"No. They did something different to me. Bucky had it worse, though. He has no idea who he is," Maggie shook her head. Steve looked down with a sad face.

"None of that's your fault, Steve," Natasha said.

"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky," Steve said.

Maggie spotted blood on Natasha's shoulder, clearly coming from a gunshot wound.

"We need to get a doctor here. We don't put pressure on that wound she's gonna bleed out here in the truck," Maggie said to the two guards transporting them.

One of the guards pulled out an electric rod and stabbed the other guard in the chest. He fell to the floor, unconscious. The first guard pulled off the helmet, revealing themselves to be Maria Hill.

"I think I like woman," Maggie whispered to Steve with wide eyes. "That was hot," she whispered.

"That thing was squeezing my brain," Maria winced. Sam stared at her, baffled. "Who's this guy?" she motioned at Sam.

"You getting us out of here?" Maggie asked hopefully.

"Duh," Maria grinned.

"GSW. She's lost at least a pint," Maria yelled as she ushered Maggie, Natasha, Steve and Sam into the secret SHIELD base she'd set up in.

"Maybe two," Sam said.

"Let me take her," a doctor raced towards them.

"She'll want to see him first," Maria said.

"Who?" Maggie perked up curiously.

Maggie stared at Fury, lying alive in a hospital bed.

"You lying bastard," Maggie said.

"Hello to you, too, Magdalena," Fury grunted with a sigh. "About damn time you idiots got here," he said.

"Says the man who faked his own death and left zero instructions whatsoever for us to meet you here. Sure. We love logic, of course," Maggie muttered sarcastically.

"Attitude," Natasha said, but it wasn't filled with the usual parent-tone Natasha used. She was clearly thinking the same.

"Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, one hell of a headache," Fury listed as the doctor stitched up Natasha's wound.

"Don't forget your collapsed lung," the doctor said.

"Oh, let's not forget that. Otherwise, I'm good," Fury said.

"They cut you open, your heart stopped," Natasha frowned.

"Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn't work so great for him, but we found a use for it," Fury said.

"Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us?" Steve said.

"Any attempt on the director's life had to look successful," Maria said.

"Can't kill you if you're already dead. Besides, I wasn't sure who to trust," Fury said.

Maggie hummed. They did have a point.

"We need a plan," Maria said. "On what to do now," she said.

"I think we've got that covered," Steve nodded at himself, Natasha, Sam and Maggie.

"This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said peace wasn't an achievement. It was a responsibility," Fury held up the photograph of Alexander Pierce.

"It's stuff like this that gives me trust issues," Maggie sighed.

"We have to stop the launch," Natasha said, hands fiddling with the ends of Maggie's braids while they all sat around the table.

"I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore," Fury rolled his eyes. He opened a case containing three chips.

"What's that?" Sam asked.

"Once the Helicarriers reach three thousand feet, they'll triangulate with Insight satellites, becoming fully weaponized," Maria explained.

"We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own," Fury said.

"One or two won't cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work, because if even one of those ships remains operational, a whole lot of people are gonna die," Maria said.

"We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We need to get past them, insert the server blades and, maybe, jut maybe, we can salvage what's left," Fury said.

"We're not salvaging anything. We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We're taking down SHIELD," Steve said.

"SHIELD had nothing to do with it," Nick said.

"You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. SHIELD's been compromised. You said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed," Steve said firmly.

"Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed," Fury scoffed.

"And how many paid the price before you did?" Maggie said quietly. Nick sighed.

"Look, I didn't know about Barnes. I didn't know about you, Magdalena. I didn't know what they did to you," he said. "I still don't," he said.

"Even if you had known, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that, too? SHIELD, HYDRA, it all goes," Steve said.

"He's right," Maria said. Fury looked from Natasha to Maggie to Sam.

"Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower," Sam nodded at Steve.

"Well, looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain," Fury said to Steve.

"I'm okay. This is absolutely fine. We're not crawling to our deaths, not today," Maggie muttered, wriggling through the small vent of one of the Helicarriers.

She had been tasked with getting one of the chips into one of the Helicarriers while Steve handled the other two. Natasha was infiltrating the council from inside and Sam was flying around to kill any enemies. Fury was on his way and Maria was controlling the computer room.

She kicked the vent open and dropped down onto the walkway. She looked around.

She was alone and she could get the chip in right now if she hurried. She'd then be able to catch a ride from Sam to another Helicarrier and help Steve out.

Maggie ran down the walkway and over to the chip bay. She scanned it quickly and found the right place for it. She put it in and turned around.

A hand grabbed Maggie's shoulder at the moment a needle was stabbed into her neck, and her legs fell out from under her. Her back slammed against the cold metal and she winced. She looked up at who had tackled her and her blood ran cold.

Dimitri Sokolov reached down and pushed the blue liquid from inside the needle into Maggie's veins. He grabbed her radio, putting it to his mouth.

"I'm sorry," he said, Russian accent ringing clear, "But Magdalena won't be joining you for the rest of your suicide mission. She's coming home with her papa," he said.

"Maggie?!" Steve yelled into comms. "Are you okay?" he said.

"Say your goodbyes, princess," Dimitri smirked down at his daughter, putting the radio to her mouth. Maggie looked between comms and her father.

She had to get out of this. She had to survive. She just didn't know if she would survive another fight against her father after the last one and she didn't know if whatever he'd just injected into her would kill her first.

She reached up and took the radio into her own hand. She was shaking but she paid it no attention. Natasha had said she was brave and strong. She had to be that right now.

"I'm sorry," Maggie said quietly, knowing Natasha was listening into their conversation, too, from where she was infiltrating the council inside the SHIELD building. "I'm sorry that I left," Maggie looked at her father.

"You tried to kill me," he hissed. Maggie raised an eyebrow.

"You survived. Why are you whining?" she said.

"Because you tried to kill me!" he yelled.

Maggie watched as he stood up and pulled out a gun.

"And now, I'm going to kill you," Dimitri said.

"Maggie, you need help?!" Sam yelled into comms. Maggie looked between her father and the radio again.

"Keep an eye out for a falling body. Might be mine," Maggie said quietly.

She dropped the radio and quickly kicked her legs out. They hit Dimitri's and he stumbled backwards, giving Maggie a second to jump to her feet and pull out her own gun.

They pointed them at each other, neither breaking eye contact.

"Why did you do it?" Maggie said lowly. "Why did you take me and do all of those experiments on me?" she said.

"I had a vision of what you could be. You, the Winter Soldier, I was building an army of HYDRA soldiers," Dimitri said.

"Didn't really work out for you, though, did it? I left. I left and I took a lot of your men down when I did," she said.

"Eighty seven of them. You're a monster, Magdalena," Dimitri smirked evilly. "Nobody loves a monster," he said.

"You can call me a monster," Maggie said, her finger moving to the trigger. "But you have to remember something," she said.

"What?" Dimitri raised an eyebrow.

"I am the monster that you created. Everything I've done, the people I've killed, the people I've tortured, that's on you. That is all on you," Maggie said.

She fired her gun up at the ceiling, making Dimitri fire his at her. She ducked, rolling sideways so she fell off of the walkway. Her fingers snaked their way through the small squares in the metal from underneath and she quickly used her legs to start swinging herself backwards and forwards.

The wind was blowing her braids back and she could feel how cold it was outside because of the fact that her t-shirt had ridden up. She could hear Dimitri's footsteps walking towards where she was hanging over eight hundred feet in the air.

Maggie took a deep breath and prayed that her powers would come in handy right now. She had done it before. She could do it again.

Maggie let go of the metal, but Maggie didn't fall to her death. Maggie rose in the air, landing behind Dimitri silently on her feet. Dimitri knelt down and looked over the side of the walkway, looking for any sign of Maggie.

"Looking for me, papa?" Maggie said. She shot him in the back quickly, watching as he groaned and struggled to his feet. He turned to look at her with a grin.

"That's my girl. Fighting to the death, just like I taught you," Dimitri said.

"Three minutes, guys!" Maria's voice came over comms. Maggie had already put her chip in, so she just had to kill Dimitri for real and get the fuck away from the Helicarrier before it blew.

"You taught me to stand up for what I believed in. You just never thought I'd stand up against you," Maggie said.

Dimitri shrugged.

"I knew you were more like your mother than me. Still, she's not here to save you. She tried, you know?" Dimitri said.

"Shut up," Maggie's jaw clenched as she pointed her gun at his forehead.

"She looked. She looked for years. And then, I did what had to be done," Dimitri said. He stepped forward and Maggie raised an eyebrow.

"You killed her, didn't you?" Maggie said.

"I did much more than that, princess," Dimitri smirked.

Maggie dropped her gun and dropped to the floor, kicking his legs out from under him again. He landed on his knees and she took the opportunity to launch herself on top of him, punching him repeatedly in the face.

His hands scrabbled around them and grabbed Maggie's gun, firing it into her stomach.

She gasped as a searing pain shot through her side, falling back onto the walkway. Dimitri lumbered back to his feet, standing over her with a sick grin. He knelt down and put one hand around her neck, pushing her so she was half on the walkway, half hovering in the air.

If he let her go, Maggie knew she would fall to her death. Her powers wouldn't save her while she was so weak from the gunshot.

"One minute!" Maria yelled through comms.

Maggie turned her head and spat blood out of her mouth. She looked back up at her father.

"Do it. Kill me, just like you killed her," Maggie said.

Dimitri stared at her for a few seconds.

"You want to die?" he said.

"No," Maggie shook her head. "But if I'm going to die, I'm taking you with me," Maggie said.

She grabbed his wrists with hers and yanked him down so he was lying beside her on the walkway. She felt her body slide down and she tightened her grip on Dimitri.

Maggie fell off of the walkway. Dimitri fell with her.