Steve and Rachel walked through the hospital in sweats with their hoods up. They approached the vending machine and looked inside. The SHIELD device and the gum in front of it were all gone. They saw a reflection pass in the glass. Natasha popped a bubble behind them, chewing gum. They turned around. Steve pushed her into a nearby room and Rachel followed him. "Where is it?" he asked. "Safe", Natasha replied.

"Do better"

"Where did you get it?"

"Why would I tell you?"

"Fury gave it to you. Why?"

"What's on it?" Rachel said.

"I don't know"

"Stop lying", Steve said.

"I only act like I know everything, Rogers"

"I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?"

"Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you"

"I'm not gonna ask you again"

"Steve, calm down", Rachel said. "I know who killed Fury", Natasha said. "Most of the intelligence community don't believe they even exist. The ones that do call them the Winter Soldiers. They're credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last 50 years". "So it's a ghost story", Steve concluded.

"Five years ago, I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran. Somebody shot out my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff. I pulled us out. But the Winter Soldiers were there. I was covering my engineer so one of them shot him straight through me. Soviet slug. No rifling. Bye-bye, bikinis"

"Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now", Rachel teased.

"Going after them is a dead end. I know, I've tried. Like you said, it's a ghost story"

"Well, let's find out what the ghost wants", Steve said.

Steve, Natasha and Rachel walked through a mall, dressed casually. "First rule of going on the run is don't run, walk", Natasha explained. "If I run in these shoes, they're gonna fall off", Steve replied.

They entered a tech store to use a laptop to see what was on the drive. "The drive has a Level Six homing program, so as soon as we boot up, SHIELD will know exactly where we are," Natasha explained, typing on the laptop. "How much time will we have?" Rachel asked.

"About nine minutes from now"

"Fury was right about that ship", Natasha said. "Somebody's trying to hide something. This drive is protected by some sort of AI. It keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands. The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly. I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from". "Can I help you guys with anything?" a worker asked, approaching them.

"Oh, no. We're just looking at some vacation destinations"

"Right. Yes, we're going on vacation", Steve added. "Great. Where are you guys thinking about going?" the worker said. Rachel leaned over the screen to see the location. "New Jersey", she said. The worker looked at Steve for a second. "I have the exact same glasses", he said. "Wow, you two are practically twins", Natasha deadpanned.

"Yeah, I wish. Specimen. If you guys need anything, I've been Aaron"

"Thank you", Rachel said. "You said nine minutes. Come on", Steve said to Natasha. "Relax", she reassured. "Got it". The computer showed Wheaton, NJ and Steve and Rachel looked at it in recognition.

"You know it?"

"Used to. Let's go", Rachel replied. Steve took out the USB and they started speedily walking out of the store.

"Standard tac team", Steve said, looking around them. "Two behind, two across, and two coming straight at us". "Okay, three's a crowd. We're too obvious. I'm gonna split, act like a couple and I'll meet you at the car", Rachel said before walking off quickly in the opposite direction.

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