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𝐃𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆
CHAPTER TEN— FINAL FIGHT, BE AFRAID.

          Steve Rogers was a drama queen, Hope decided. Before they went to go take down HYDRA hiding inside of SHIELD, Steve decided that he would make a speech over the intercoms to all the agents of SHIELD, specifically those who were good and not apart of the Nazi organization, to let them know what had really been going on.

Hope had contacted a few agents within SHIELD that she could to give them a heads up, the ones she knew wouldn't be HYDRA. One of them happened to be Sharon who trusted Hope's word and remembered the stories her great-aunt had told about the great Steve Rogers.

"Steve, have I told you that you're dramatic? As in more dramatic than Tony and Lizzie combined?" Hope huffed as they entered the tech room where said intercoms were, Sam and Maria threatening the techies with guns if they tried to retaliate.

"You have, many times" Hope hummed in satisfaction with the answer he gave. Lizzie was by Hope's side since they entered the Triskelion, wearing a talisman necklace that Hope had grabbed from the warehouse that held a huge amount of magic in case Lizzie needed to siphon more.

"And she's right. Now get on with your speech, William Wallace" Lizzie stated, referencing the speech from Brave Heart. And Steve did, his words shocking the entire agency building to its core.

"Attention, all SHIELD agents. This is Steve Rogers. You've heard a lot about me over the last few days, some of you were even ordered to hunt me down. But I think it's time you know the truth. SHIELD is not what we thought it was, it's been taken over by HYDRA. Alexander Pierce is their leader. The STRIKE and Insight crew are HYDRA as well. I don't know how many more, but I know they're in the building. They could be standing right next to you. They almost have what they want: absolute control. They shot Nick Fury and it won't end there. If you launch those Helicarriers today, HYDRA will be able to kill anyone that stands in their way, unless we stop them. I know I'm asking a lot, but the price of freedom is high, it always has been, and it's a price I'm willing to pay. And if I'm the only one, then so be it. But I'm willing to bet I'm not". 

"Did you write that down first, or was it off the top of your head?" Sam retorted, everyone except for Maria had made fun of his speech at that point but Steve could care less since they were only playful jabs.

The five got ready to split off. Natasha was on her own mission, infiltrating the Security Council meeting with Pierce using a magical bracelet that changed her appearance to look like one of them. Lizzie was splitting off to aid Maria with some of the behind-the-scenes work because, even though she's refuse to admit it otherwise, she was a bit of a nerd and knew quite a lot about computers.

"Hope Andrea Mikaelson—" Hope turned to her siphon friend who was ready to give her own speech. "I would say 'be careful' and 'don't do anything stupid' but that's practically a challenge for you" Hope smirked, confirming this.

"Just don't die, I'm not ready to handle a moody, brooding full-on tribrid as my roommate" Hope couldn't help but hug the blonde who hugged her back. "You don't die either, I'm not ready to handle a bossy heretic as a roommate either" Hope referenced the fact that Lizzie had Hope's blood running through her veins as a safety precaution like Natasha did once again.

"Give them hell, short-stack" Hope knew Lizzie was taking a jab at her small stature compared to her, so she just scoffed in reply before going off with Steve and Sam to go fight a bunch of Nazi's again.

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

Sam, Steve, and Hope were making their way to the Helicarriers. Steve was wearing his Captain America costume that he stole from his own exhibit at the Smithsonian, Sam was wearing his Falcon suit, and Hope was wearing a new combat suit that Tony had made her as a joke/for emergencies. It was all white, playing on the "dove" alias that she had been given when she first joined SHIELD by Clint himself.

"Hey, Cap, Dove, how do we know the good guys from the bad guys?" Sam questioned the two as they got closer and were about to engage in battle. "If they're shooting at you, they're bad" Hope snorted shamelessly before the three split off.

There was a huge drop from where they were to the next platform. Sam took off flying with his jet-pack wings while Hope and Steve jumped down. Steve used his shield to help him as he tucked and rolled to land smoothly while Hope's supernatural abilities allowed her to land without breaking a bone(magic and wolf).

As soon as they were spotted by the HYDRA agents, bullets came flying at them. Steve has his shield to reflect bullets off of while Hope used a spell to block them. The two were both running at inhuman speeds, stopping whenever there were agents trying to stop them by combat, which was a terrible mistake given who they were.

One agent tried to stop Hope by grabbing her from behind. Hope's claws instantly came out of her hands where her human nails usually were as she turned her arm and impaled the HYDRA agent with them. The man screamed in pain, letting Hope go, only to be roundhouse kicked after she turned around to face him.

Hope went to catch up with Steve after she heard the explosion caused by one of the grenades he had packed.

"Hey, Cap, I found those bad guys you were talking about" Sam spoke over the comms as they heard gunfire pointed in the air where he was flying around at. Hope worried for the man as she continued to run and fight those dumb enough to engage her.

"You okay?" She heard Steve ask the man. "I'm not dead yet" Was how the man replied, reminding Hope exactly why Lizzie and Sam got along.

The tribrid made her way through the HYDRA agents who seemed to have multiplied in numbers. She used both her werewolf abilities and spells such as "Motus" to get them out of her way. She ended up getting so annoyed with it that she started going for the kill instead of just to incapacitate. Hope couldn't afford any of the agents to still be alive.

"Eight minutes, Cap, Dove" Maria warned them over the comms. "We're there," Hope said over her own comm. The two Avengers were able to get on one of the three quinjets in order to put the necessary chips in to stop it. "Alpha locked" Steve confirmed for Maria before making eye contact with Hope. Both held the same determination and worry in their blue eyes. Neither knew what was going to happen next, they had no idea if they were going to survive.

The two got off the Hellicarrier and started running the other way as the fire was directed towards them again. Hope spat out a quick deflector spell so neither would get hit, it was just annoying her at this point that they continued to shoot anyways.

"Hey, Sam, we're gonna need a ride," Steve told the Falcon as the two got closer and closer to the edge of the platform. While Hope could use enough magic to keep her levitating, she knew they both needed to get to the last Hellicarrrier quickly and agreed that Sam was their best bet at getting there as fast as they could. And as Hope heard the HYDRA agents getting a missile ready to launch at them, she knew it was time.

"Roger! Let me know when you're both ready" Hope smirked to herself, joining in on the dramatic actions of Steve as they both jumped off the edge right as the missile was shot at them. "I just did" They were free-falling now, a terrifying feeling even if you knew you couldn't die if someone didn't catch you. Luckily for Hope, Sam was able to catch both her and Steve, struggling just a bit due to the weight shift of the two holding onto him.

Sam managed to land them on the Hellicarrier pad, a bit exhausted due to the weight shift he did last second. "You know, you're both a lot heavier than you look" He snarked, making Hope smirk a second time. "He's a super soldier and I'm part wolf, what did you expect?" Sam snorted this time, amused at the words.

They were then ambushed at the last second by the Winter Soldier, aka Bucky Barnes, who showed up out of nowhere(Hope's senses going off at the last second) when he shoved Steve straight off of the side of the launch pad, sending him flying down. "Fuck" Hope swore, letting the soldier think he had the upper hand when he pushed her down too, only to easily hold on to the side of the hellicarrier that had been directly below them, finding Steve doing the same.

"Oh hey, how's it hanging?" Hope's joke was ignored as the two roughly pulled themselves into the hellicarrier from the side. "Cap? Dove? Come in. Are you two okay?" Sam asked worriedly.

"We're still here, we got on the hellicarrier, Steve ignored my joke" She huffed for a moment before asking, "Where are you, Sam?" They didn't get to see Sam frown at the question. "I'm grounded, the suit's down. Sorry, Cap, Dove" Hope and Steve shared another look, both preparing for the possibility of death from this, no escape plan from the hellicarrier after stopping it in place since Sam's suit was down. It meant they'd most likely die, or in Hope's case, become a vampire after death.

"Don't worry, we got this" Steve reassured Sam over the comms before they focused back on the mission. They didn't know that the Winter Soldier had seen them survive and was now coming for them.

It took him what felt like mere seconds to board the hellicarrier himself and capture the two Avenger's attention when they got to the overbridge to see that he was standing on the other side, waiting for them.

"People are gonna die, Buck. I can't let that happen" The soldier just stared at him coldly, not recognizing the man he had grown up with. "Please, don't make me do this" Hope noticed that there wasn't any response from the super soldier's BFF to the words, meaning that they would have to engage in combat while also having to stop the hellicarrier from murdering millions of people.

And so they did, starting with Steve throwing his shield at Bucky only for it to bounce off of his metal arm and shoot straight back at Steve who caught it again. Bucky and Steve engaged in close-up combat, Bucky with his gun and Steve with the shield.

"Steve, chip!" Hope called out, reminding the super soldier of what he had in his pocket. Steve hesitated only for a split second, knowing exactly what Hope wanted him to do. She wanted Steve to implant the chip while she distracted Bucky. And while Steve detested that idea, he trusted Hope's judgment and abilities to be able to handle Bucky or this version of him. 

Bucky lunged to go after Steve once he saw the American hero try to go past him to where he needed to implant the chip to stop the deaths of thousands of people. However, he was thwarted in his attempts by the tribrid who wasn't gonna let that happen. She threw Bucky back to the side they had once been standing at originally so Steve could get past and Hope could block the Winter Soldier from his path. 

"You wanna get him? You'll have to get past me" Hope cringed inwardly at her cliche statement, wondering how she got to this point in her life where she's literally the bodyguard of Captain America. Nevertheless, Hope sprung into action as soon as Bucky pulled out his gun and mumbled a quick deflection spell so that the bullets practically fell to the ground. 

Hope was ready to die if needed, to become a full tribrid in order to save the lives of innocent people being targeted, some even being people that she cared about. 

Bucky immediately sprung to hand-to-hand combat along with a knife to try and attack her. Hope could easily smell the wolfsbane infused with the metal of the knife, groaning to herself before starting to dodge the swipes of the knife. A few times she had gotten cut, she would never admit it out loud but the Winter Soldier's fighting was on par with a lot of older vampires, maybe even her family, the Original Vampires.

Blows were exchanged between the two, almost evenly matched fighters. Hope didn't know how much longer she could hold the Winter Soldier back for until he found a weak spot and got past her and to Steve.

It felt like forever, really only being a few minutes, before Steve yelled, "Got it!" which made Hope smirk and the Winter Soldier growl and easily pushed past her in her moment of distraction and attacked Steve, pushing him off the ledge all the way down to the floor of the hellicarrier where the glass panels were that kept them from falling out. Bucky jumped down and didn't stumble. 

"Steve!" Hope shouted in panic, going the other way down which was way easier and more likely for her to get the upper hand against the metal armed man. She just had to hope that Steve could hold him off long enough for her to surprise attack as they waited for the hellicarrier to finally crash into the water.

Hope didn't hear much of the words being exchanged between the two long lost friends as Steve refused to fight back and accepted every single hit coming his way. She only heard the end of it when Steve said, "Because I'm with you to the end of the line". His face was already bruised up as he looked over around Bucky to see Hope, giving her a gentle smile he could barely manage to muster up considering this was probably the end of him but not of Hope.

A confused Bucky who had a few memories start to invade his mind turned to face the tribrid behind him who he had sensed. He growled the same way Hope had only seen newly turned wolves do in a state of both anger and panic, his eye glowed a faint yellow hue which answered Hope's question.

Somehow, someway, HYDRA had created a werewolf through experimentation. 

Hope growled back with more confidence and strength coming from it, her eyes brightly glowing as she did since she was basically an Alpha since her mother died(though the Cresent Wolf Pack shockingly disbanded much after the death of Hayley but had kept in contact and still saw Hope as their sorta new alpha), 

Before either could do any actions, the hellicarrier tipped over and the glass panels shattered from the debris from parts of the hellicarrier that were falling apart, leaving the only three on board to fall through and plunge straight into the water, the aircraft exploding moments after.

And that's when Hope experienced one of the worst brushes with death that she had ever dealt with, drowning. 

*this chapter feels a bit rushed and all over the place to me so I'll certainly go back and fix it, but here you guys go! *