The party is overwhelming in every way. The lights, the dancing, the people. If little else, at least there's Zemo's dance moves to help brighten their spirits. When Sharon does finally get some answers, she takes them to a cluttered, colorful shipyard in the early morning light when the air is still humid and the sun is pale white.

Their new companion opts to stay on watch so their crew can all slowly step through the thick metal doors of Shipping Container #4261 with quiet unease. A secret door at the back allows them up a narrow staircase into a blue-lit laboratory.

Through the shelves and tables they eventually find the back of a man sitting before a table filled with beakers and vials. He's nodding his frizzy head, quietly mumbling to the music floating through the air from the gramophone in the corner.

Gun in hand, Sam lifts the needle off the record, the music cuts short, and the lab is engulfed in silence. The weasel looking man swivels around with wide eyes and a gasp.

"Dr. Nagel?"

"Who are you?" The man demands in a nasally voice. "What do you want?"

Taking the lead Natasha gets straight to the point. "We know you created the super-soldier serum."

"Get out of my lab!" For someone with eight guns on him, he doesn't seem quite scared enough.

"Hey! You know who they are right?" Sam says, grabbing his arm and talking over the man's shoulder as he nods to each person in the room. "This is Baron Zemo. I know you've heard of him, too, right? You seem like a pretty smart guy. So you better become conversational real quick."

"How about a counter proposal?" Nagal asks as he's testing his back against the wall. "Make me a better offer and I'll talk."

Snatching over his collar, Adeline shoves Nagel into a chair just as Bucky raises a gun to his temple.

"Guys, we have company!" Sharon's strained voice calls out over their comms. "Every bounty hunter in the city is here. We gotta go!"

Grinding his teeth, Bucky moves the weapon and fires it mere inches from the doctor's head. Nagel gasps and flinches away, beady eyes widening in fright.

"Feel like talking now?!" Adeline questions in a low dangerous voice.

"I was brought into Hydra's Winter Soldier program to pick up their work after the five failed test subjects in Siberia, and one on a girl." The man doesn't seem to notice that Bucky shifted uneasily at this as it was obvious who the girl was. Eliza. "When Hydra fell, I was recruited by the CIA. they had blood samples from an American girl test subject with unconditional amounts of traces of the super soldier serum in her system."

Tallulah's hands tighten into fists, glancing at Bucky as she realizes what he's talking about. Eliza.

"Where is the girl now?" Sam asks, as Nagel just ignores his question.

"After much labor, I was able to isolate the necessary compounds in her blood. I was a god. I did what no other scientist since Erskine was able to do." His voice turns almost whimsical with light and pride and joy. "But mine was going to be different. No clunky machines or jacked up bodies. Mine was going to be subtle, optimized, perfect."

"Where is the girl now?!" Sam asks as his voice is getting louder, by the second.

"Before I was able to complete my work. I turned to dust. Then when I returned it was five years later, the program had been abandoned, and one vial was missing." Nagel says completely ignoring the question that Sam has been asking.

"Where is the FUCKING GIRL, NAGEL?!!" Sam shouts to the man and before anything else can be said Zemo has raised his gun and fires a shot straight through Nagel's chest so the man collapses with a massive bang onto the ground.

"Take cover--!!" Tallulah yells as the world explodes before Tallulah could finish, the metal container all around them bursting with fire and smoke.

Bodies twisted on the floor, quiet groans and smoke rose up all around them.. The chemicals begin bubbling on their tables, the gas tanks trembling in their crates, everything threatening to blow at any moment.

"Anybody seen Zemo?" Caleb asks as his voice strains from yelling.

No one has time to process that the baron has once again slipped away before Bucky is quickly helping everyone up, rushing them towards the quickly crumbling exit. They barely make it outside before the shooting starts all over again.

"All right!" Bucky yells. "Wait for my signal!"

Then Natasha and Sam do not wait for Bucky's signal and disappear around the corner without a word.

"Damn it." Bucky groans.

When they finally get enough cover to meet back beneath the halfway fallen container Bucky glares and yells over the chaos around them. "I thought we were going left?!"

"You went the wrong way!" Natasha shouts back.

"I was clearing the way!" Bucky shouts back to her.

Meanwhile as the two of them plus Sam are busy arguing, Sharon, Yelena, Caleb, Tallulah and Adeline are trying to take out as many hostels as they can, ducked down beneath the debris.

"Are they done yet?" Tallulah is annoyed by the situation of the three of them arguing, as Caleb quickly glances back at them and sees that Nat and Bucky are using hand gestures as Sam doesn't know what to say. He turns back to the others who are killing.

"No. no they're not." Caleb says as Tallulah groans.

"I came out first, you had to follow me!"

"And where are we now?!"

"Not the time--" Sharon yells over her shoulder.

"Definitely not the time, people!" Adeline and Yelena both yell in unison in Russian.

When Yelena's gun clicks empty in her hand, she hisses. "I'm out!"

"This is a barricade--"

"It's in every action movie!"

Another explosion rocks the ground beneath their feet, and when they look again, they find a man in a purple mask fighting through the men on the other side of the makeshift battlefield.

The man suddenly catches their eye and then disappears into the smoke.

The group continues their mad dash through the shipyard, working together to take out any bounty hunters that come into their path. Just when they thought they're finally free and they've finally figured Helmut Zemo all out, tires screech across the pavement and then two cars which are fancy convertible none other than the baron and another person pull up.

"Supercharged!" Zemo announces with a smile.

"You're going back to jail." Natsha says as she narrowed her eyes as she jabs a finger his way.

"Do you want to find Karlie or not?" Zemo asks.

"He's right. We need him." Yelena says as she climbs into the other car.

"Fine." Bucky concedes as the rest of them climb into the cars.

"Well." Sharon sighs as she pushes Bucky's door shut. "That was one hell of a reunion."

Natsha raises her brow. "Come back to the States with us?"

"I can't." Sharon backpedals a little. "Just get me that pardon you promised me."

Later

(That night)

As per usual Bucky couldn't fall asleep, and he obviously doesn't have Eliza, which still breaks his heart but he felt like he deserved it. He thinks he deserved his daughter going missing and the fight and whatnot.

He hasn't told anyone about the message that he's received just under six hours ago, as he's waiting for the coordinates to where Eliza is. The person said that she's in a country called Lituania.

Unknown: top floor, in a containment room, surrounded by booby traps as they know that you'll get her, and no window to escape from.

Bucky: thanks

Unknown: sure thing, Buck

Bucky wants to go and leave but he doesn't have a way to get to where his daughter is. Sam doesn't trust Bucky driving, and neither does anyone else, which is a weird thing, but okay.

Last time that Bucky drove any car was Eliza's and he had to go to the bathroom really badly and he may have almost hit a car. In his defense he had to go really bad and he couldn't hold it. Sam kept saying that he almost died, but he should talk he did the same thing a week earlier.

Bucky just wants to wake up from his nightmare and look beside him and see his daughter sleeping soundly in a deep sleep. Not in the current situation that's going on about Eliza. He decides that he should at least get some sleep, for now. So that's what he does now.

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Hey y'all. I have some news for you. I have ideas of how Eliza could come back. Not that she's dead or anything. She's gonna---

Ha you thought I was going to tell you, but if you want to know what happens next, stay tuned it's the next chapter.