"The scan is complete. Success rate of zero percent," JARVIS informed the gathering.

"How is that possible?" Bucky questioned; "Is he saying there's zero percent chance of finding her?"

"If you'd been listening, you'd know it'd mean there's a zero percent chance of them being somewhere in this city."

"So she left the city?" Bucky questioned Tony, who rolled his eyes at his question.

"Either that or Loki got himself some sort of dinghy and they're doing a sightseeing around the statue of liberty. You know, he's new to this world, he might wanna see the local landmarks! Of course they left the city!" He yelled at Bucky, who stood up from his seat.

"He's not here for sightseeing, he's here to kill, and now he has her!" He shot back.

"He has them," Natasha interjected.

"And this isn't helping, guys," Bruce pointed out with a sigh; "we need a plan."

"I don't need a plan, I'm going to go find them," Bucky decided, turning to leave.

"Bucky," Steve tried.

"You're gonna go find them? How the hell will you find them if I can't?" Tony questioned him.

"Because I'm the only one who wants her back in this tower! I am the only one who isn't begging for her to head back to England!" he yelled back.

"Buck, you know that's not true," Steve tried calming him.

"Of course I don't want her here! See what being here got her?! Until now, she was the only one living in this tower who didn't suffer from PTSD, but after what she's experiencing right now, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that that's over!" Tony went off at him.

"You think she was doing good before? She was abandoned by her mother and by her father, she left everything behind to come here, only to find that her own dad doesn't even care about her?" Bucky challenged.

"That's not true! She knows I care!" Tony yelled.

"How does she know that? When have you told her that?" Bucky retorted.

"That's enough!" Natasha interjected, standing up. "You are both being ridiculous, and you're both being jerks. Arguing isn't going to help Lana or Clint, who he also kidnapped, in case you forgot."

"I'm going out," Bucky stated, turning around and heading towards the door.

"Buck, where are you going?" Steve asked, taking a step after him before stopping.

"To find someone who knows something!"

"Buck?" Steve asked when he heard the door shut quietly, his look immediately darting to the person who entered

"Mh," Bucky hummed, his back to the room.

"You've been gone for 14 hours, Tony's waiting for us in the lab," Steve informed. "Where've you been?"

"Thought someone might know something," Bucky muttered; "That maybe I knew someone who knew something."

Steve narrowed his eyebrows slightly at the figure of his best friend.

"Look at me," he ordered, making Bucky slowly turn around to reveal the bruises on his face.

"What the hell happened to you?" he asked, taking a step closer before stopping when he saw Bucky step back.

"I told you, I thought someone might know something," he repeated annoyed.

"And did they?" Steve sighed.

"They weren't too keen on telling me, but I don't think so," he told quietly, looking down.

"Oh, Buck. What did you do?" Steve asked softly, worried about his friend.

"What it took, Steve. And I'm going to be back at it if we haven't found her tomorrow!" Bucky stated, and when not receing and answer he continued; "What does Tony want?"

"Let's find out," Steve just suggested before walking to the door.

"Super soldiers. I see you finally made it," Tony greeted when they arrived; "What the hell happened to you?"

"What do you want, Stark?" Bucky asked, rolling his eyes at the genius.

"I want to find my fucking daughter, so I'm glad you could tape wheel of fortune to be here," Tony shot back; "I need to know where they are."

"If I knew where she was, I wouldn't be here listening to you, I would be getting her back," Bucky informed flatly.

"Luckily there's no reason to, because I've got this. I'll save her, thank you very much," Tony told.

"Or we could just work together and find her as quickly as possible," Steve suggested, looking sternly at the two. "What exactly do you need, Tony?"

"I need to talk to the man who lived before the invention of shampoo and clearly has not yet learned to use it, but I don't want to die, so you have to be here, too," Tony explained to Steve before turning to Bucky. "You might not like this, but you're the worst person in this tower. If you had her, where would you go?"

"Tony," Steve interjected quickly.

"I would go far away from you so she wouldn't have to listen to her jerk of a father," Bucky told.

"I need a specific location, fossil," Tony pointed out.

"Tony! He was under mind control!" Steve argued, gesturing angrily at him.

"So? He knows what it's like to be evil!" Tony continued, making Steve sigh loudly.

"I would have take her out if I didn't have any use for her," Bucky admitted quietly. Steve and Tony both looked at him. "But that doesn't matter, because we don't know what Loki is looking for, or what use he could have for her."

"He wouldn't kill her," Tony stated confidently; "No way. He already dragged her along, why kill her now?"

"As I said, we don't know what he wants from her. Maybe he doesn't need her alive," Bucky mentioned, crossing his arms and looking at his feet.

"Maybe this isn't about what he wants," Steve mentioned thoughtfully.

"Generally speaking in a kidnapping, the kidnapper makes the call. Trust me, I speak from experience," Tony scoffed, crossing his arms and matching Bucky's stance, which had Bucky roll his eyes again.

"No, that's exactly my point. Tony, who is Lana a spitting image of?" Steve tried.

"I don't know, no one?"

"Lana isn't like anyone else," Bucky agreed, shaking his head.

"Lana is smart, Tony," Steve tried explaining; "She's incredibly smart."

"Cap, that's nice, but she's not all that smart. I'm pretty sure she studied something like tea-"

"She studied business and marketing," Bucky interrupted with an eyeroll.

"How the hell would you know that?" Tony asked annoyed, looking at the other man.

"Because she never shuts up about Stark Industries business-model and every single time there's an add on youtube she starts rambling about the theories of marketing they use. She is smart, and it has nothing to do with the fact that she studied at Oxford, it's just because she can't help it," Bucky stated.

"Oh, come on, now how in the hell would you know that, I didn't even know that!" Tony interjected.

"Because she still sleeps in her Oxford shirts, no matter how ridicoulously worn out they are!" Bucky replied quickly. Tony rolled his eyes and scoffed, but didn't reply immediately.

"You shouldn't be looking at her when she's in her nightwear," Tony then decided in a mumble.

"I wish I didn't have to, but she refuses to leave my room," Bucky reminded him.

"Are the two of you done?" Steve questioned, waiting for a reply before continuing; "My point is, she's smart, and she's the spitting image of you, Tony, no matter how well she tries to hide it."

"That's actually true. Terrifying, but true," Bucky realised.

"It's not true," Tony argued; "How exactly is she like me?"

"She's smart," Steve began.

"Stubborn, sarcastic," Bucky continued.

"Confident," Steve mentioned.

"Annoying as hell," Bucky suggested.

"And more importantly, what exactly did you do when kidnapped, Tony?" Steve questioned. Tony sighed before shrugging.

"I don't know. I escaped," he told.

"How?" Steve pressed.

"By building an individually-controlled machine previously only theorised by anyone, one that could not only escape but also blow people's heads off with fire, entirely off scrap metal and what I could get while captured," Tony said flatly, Bucky rolling his eyes at the sentence.

"She's also has an ego that's both annoying and unrealistic. You share that trait, too," he mentioned.

"No," Steve disagreed; "You played into your strengths."

"So what you're saying is that she's annoying Loki to letting her go?" Bucky asked confused.

"What do you have against my daughter, Barnes?" Tony questioned, looking at him with irritation.

"What do you?" he retorted quickly.

"Guys," Steve interrupted before they could begin; "She was way quicker than us to decipher those guys who escaped through the sewers, she figured out the outlay of the house, she figured out how they acessed the tunnels of the sewersystem, and according to Barton's reports from Mojave she saw right through all of them immediately, too. How?"

"By bothering people until they'd tell her anything to get them to shut up?" Bucky suggested.

"I'm just going to stop asking," Steve decided; "She did it by thinking logically. If she could see through all of that simply by keeping her head cool, why wouldn't she be able to do the same with Loki?"

"Well, for one, she's not an agent. You really think she's keeping her head cool while kidnapped, possibly tortured?" Tony pointed out with raised eyebrows.

"Neither were you."