i want to clear things up before shit happens and ppl are mad at me. first thing: somethings about bucky will stay the same for the remained of this book series. like the whole vienna thing but bucky isn't in romania, and t'challa is still going to think that bucky killed his father but he didn't, because he wasn't even in the country at all. he is in america. all of these things will happen but it isn't actually bucky it's zemo playing as bucky to get him to go back to HYDRA and all that jazz.

second thing: i know a lot of ppl love wanda, i'm not saying i don't but she isn't going to be in this book series at all, as it feels weird having wanda in here while ingrid is a living copy of her with the same powers and all that, so i decided on taking her out. i was originally going to be having wanda in here, but decided against it. i think that's the only two things that i wanted to say but idk what else to put here. so before i blab about random shit here is the chapter that i've been wanting to do.

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third person's pov

a day later

natasha and ingrid had to wake up extra early like one o'clock in the morning to go on the mission that nick gave them. it was a long and agonizing one to say the least. nick gave steve a man who could fly as he was the falcon but he has a name by sam wilson. he is Steve's guy while natasha and ingrid are together. their mission starts in lagos.

two days later

after they got to lagos and got into their suits which was natasha's black widow suit and for ingrid it was her old HYDRA suit. ingrid sat at a coffee stop table in a particularly small part of lagos, as natasha sat several tables away. while sam was perched on top of a roof within the vicinity his eyes scanning the area for anything that seemed out of place. steve's job was pretty much the same as sam's though he remained hidden inside an apartment complex. natasha was seated a couple tables away from ingrid.

ingrid dumped her small packet of sugar into her tea as her hair flowed past her shoulders as a pair of dark sunglasses shielding her eyes from the sun rays. a crackling sound corrupted ingrid as steve's voice ranged clearly through the comm hidden cleverly behind her now short locks, as her hair got cut before they left for their mission. "all right, ingrid. what do you see?"

ingrid takes a look around her surroundings as she hasn't been doing that. "standard beat cops. small situation. quiet street. it's a good target." she says as after she took a sip from her tea. there's a new voice through the radio as it's natasha's. "there's an atm in the south corner, which means...." natasha says trailing off a bit. "cameras."

ingrid rolled her eyes as she knew that but natasha being the idiot she was beat her to it. she and natasha hasn't gotten along just yet but apparently fury said this was going to be an agonizing week long mission. but it's only been four days, there's still three. but it's agonizing when it's with your enemy.

"both cross streets are on one way." ingrid butts in as she looks over her shoulders to take in her surroundings to make it look like she has been doing that, and also making it obvious that she hasn't.

ingrid and natasha craned their necks noticing the way the cars stayed in line, not one making a u-turn or turning left at the market. their brows sync as they furrowed as it wasn't like this criminal to choose such a public place with little room to make a full escape to make his next move. "so compromised escape routes." both natasha and ingrid say in unison as natasha scoffed after she said that.

"means rumlow doesn't care about being seen, he isn't afraid to make a mess on the way out. you see that range rover halfway up the block?" ingrid says as the others turn to look at the car that ingrid was talking about.

"yeah the red one?" sam asks as ingrid hummed as an answer as said sam takes a good glimpse at the red car. "it's also bulletproof, which means private security which means more guns, which also means more headaches for somebody. all of us." ingrid's smooth russian accent rang through the group's radio.

"hey natasha, anyone ever tell you're a little paranoid?" sam says speaking into the comm as ingrid rolled her eyes. "not to may face. why? did you hear something?" natasha replies with a smirk on her face. "eyes on target folks." ingrid says scolding the two adults. "focus up, this is the best lead we've had on rumlow in six months, i don't want to lose him."

"you don't want to know what i want to do to him." ingrid says in a tone of voice that scares sam as he may have peed a little into his suit. "if he sees us coming, that won't be a problem, he sorta hates us." ingrid also continues in her normal monotone voice, which gave sam a relief.

just then a sudden commotion in the streets caught the attention of natasha and ingrid. a garbage truck was pushing its way through the traffic, completely ignoring honking cars and pissing off pedestrians that yelled cuss words after almost getting barrelled through by the speeding vehicle. ingrid lowered her glasses, her mouth slightly hanging at the scene happening in front of her.

"sam you see that garbage truck? tag it." steve commands sam as from the back of sam's falcon jet pack a small drone, redwing, launches and flies down to scan the garbage truck. "give me a x-ray." sam instructs the drone as ingrid's sunglasses were made by stark as they followed redwing and scanned faster than the drone. "those trucks were loaded for max weight and the drivers were armed." ingrid says into the radio as sam pouts as the girl beated him to it.

"how'd you do that?" he asked the girl before natasha mutters a curse under her breath. "it's a battering ram." "he's not hitting the police." steve mumbled before taking off.

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INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES

a man is sitting at the guard station, a magazine occupying his hands and his feet propped up on the counter. suddenly a huge rumbling sound caught the attention of the guard. the garbage truck was headed straight his way at full speed, and no intention of slowing down anytime soon.

the guard curses at the driver jumps out right before the truck slams into the station, creating a huge opening in its path. two new trucks, occupying soldiers dressed in blacks rush into the freshly-made hole, dropping off the men in the middle of the courtyard before driving off somewhere.

the soldiers' rifles and large gas bombs in hand, emerge, firing their gums at screaming citizens. some set off bombs in the building, four soldiers clad in gas masks entered set on retrieving whatever they were instructed to grab.

as the soldiers continue to fight, steve arrive. the blonde man immediately take out several soldiers swiftly knocking them out with his fists and trusty shield."body armor, AR15s, i make seven hostels." steve says through the group's comms.

sam then flies in with his wings expanded to deflect heavy rain of bullets intended to pierce through his flesh. he takes out two soldiers rather quickly, using his wings as a weapon. "i make five."

ingrid then arrives and flies over the rooftop and into the courtyard blocking fire with her powers. using her telekinesis she lifts one of the soldiers in the air. sam flies down just as ingrid lets him go, and the soldier falls on top of sam's wings.

"four."

ingrid looks through her glasses that has a scanner and sees any sign of their main target. "he's on the third floor." she says as sam looks at her again as confused as earlier."how the hell can you do that?" sam says as ingrid grins at the man before turning back around. "i will go into the building." steve says as ingrid used her telekinesis and steve got to his destination.

steve immediately knocks out a soldier and snatches the gas mask from his face to protect his lungs from the poisonous gas fumes. meanwhile rumlow is inside using an attachment to his suit to knock down the door. he roughly moves aside a guard entering the room with the viral 'biohazard' labeled in clear, bold letters on the front. the sick man smirked evilly turning to his men 'pack it up'. but as the soldiers pack up the chemical vials, rumlow hears the commotion coming from the courtyard. he rushes onto the balcony as he sees the chaos the avengers have caused. "he's here."

as rumlow stands outside, steve rushes into the room noticing the vial is gone. "rumlow has a biological weapon." meanwhile natasha is riding on a motorcycle as she responds. "i'm on it." she says as she jumps off the motorcycle and it skids towards a soldier taking him out. she runs forward, taking out soldiers through hand-to-hand combat with her widow's bite cuffs. rumlow comes up behind her and grabs her collar, dragging her onto a car. she fights back and zaps his neck but no response. natasha's eyes widen watching on fearfully as rumlow snatches her neck. "i don't work like that anymore." the man tosses the red head like a ragdoll through an open hatch of a tank and drops in a grenade and closes the door hoping it'd blow the woman to bits. "fire in the hole."

natasha acts quickly taking out the soldiers inside then grabbing a rather bulky soldier as she uses him to shield herself. the door opens and both her and the chubby soldier are thrown twenty feet high, the woman lands on the gravel with a grunt. coughing and spluttering, natasha feels each of her limbs, and making sure none were bleeding, which they weren't as she sighs in relief. she doesn't want to deal with steve asking her a bunch of questions later when they are on their way back home. granted, yes she does love him but now when she gets a paper cut and he's all protective of the woman.

after hearing an explosion, ingrid runs onto the balcony and spots rumlow one of her superiors at HYDRA aiming a mounted grenade launcher. ingrid curses using an energy bubble to deflect the explosion, but her impact causes her to fly backwards. she scrambles to her feet as rumlow fires two more times, throwing her out a window onto a truck and finally the ground.

"uh, sam he's in an AFV heading....." ingrid says trailing off as she just lays on the ground as sam thought that something was wrong with the girl as she wasn't responding. "ingrid where is he heading?" he asks the girl as he may have not known her for that long but he feels protective of her as steve isn't around to help her back to her feet. "is he heading south?" he asks again maybe she'd at least groan as a yes, which apparently she read his thoughts (get it bc of her powers, okay just me nevermind), as she groaned as she spits dirt out of her mouth.

inside the truck rumlow hands the liquidly vile to a soldier before speaking. "take this to the airstrip. we're not gonna outrun them. lost the truck." as the truck crashes into a nearby structure sam lands on top of a roof using his goggles to scan the area for any signals of the criminals. he was surprised that ingrid had beat him to it, so he said. "i got four, they're splitting up."

natasha hears the information from sam and she abandons her motorcycle amongst traffic and sprinting across the hoods of cars in pursuit of the vial and it's occupants. "i got the two on the left." steve is following natasha's actions and spots a black vest in the middle of the street. "they ditched their gear. it's a game now. one of them has the payload."

then suddenly steve felt the weight of his shield shift. cursing he sees the ticking bomb attached to his weapon acting quickly he tosses it up away from the busy streets of lagos, where it detonates without any harm to anyone rumlow sneaks behind steve, catching him by surprise with a huge punch to his back. steve wonders if this was the same man who was one of ingrid's superiors at HYDRA.

"there you are you son of a bitch. i've been waiting for this!" rumlow growls out maliciously as a sadistic smirk plastered on his face. "i'd watch it if i were you." steve says threateningly to rumlow who had a smirk on his face. "what you gonna go about it?" rumlow says back to the hero who had an annoyed look on his face. "this." steve says as he steps back and rumlow is confused before he sees a glowing red eyed ingrid who had her hands in the air aimed directly at her old superior. ingrid shot rumlow into a building as a group of citizens surrounded the girl and steve as rumlow face began to bleed from a previous injury.

meanwhile natasha is still in pursuit tacking a soldier to the ground and punches him swiftly maneuvering around, dodging blows, and kicking before applying her own, her many years of training in the red room paid off. when another soldier decides to join the mix, natasha throws a basket of distraction, before fending off both men, skillfully throwing punches and twisting arms until a very satisfying crack could be heard, as she knew that ingrid would love hearing that sound. it's all fun and games until she comes face-to-face with another soldier. they whip out their guns, the barrels point at each other's faces, daring one another to move.

a moment of silent intimidation passes until a soldier reveals the vial dangling in front of her face. "drop it. or i'll drop this. drop it!" he shouts to her like he's talking to a dog, which she is anything but an animal. then as if her prayers were mentally answered, red wing swoops in with guns at the ready and fires at the soldier holding the vial. he drops into it and the amount of distraction natasha fires at the gun-pointing soldier, killing him before quickly catching the vile with a huff.

"don't thank me." sam says with a cocky grin that natasha could see if she could as she rolls her eyes. "i'm not thanking that thing." natasha remarks before a limping ingrid comes into view. "ingrid likes him, so you better." sam says as natasha sighs before going off, and just when she left ingrid collapses to the ground. sam immediately gets to the girl and checks for a heart heat, and smiles faintly when he got one he checks for any wounds and injuries since this whole thing started and he frowns when he sees a bunch of wounds and cuts all over. he's guessing that she lost a lot of blood which caused her to collapse.

rumlow and steve are now fighting again , even after countless punches and teeth-chipping kicks to the face, neither of them seem to be getting the upper hand. "come on!" rumlow cries pinning steve to a wall, extending a sharp blade from his suit. "this is for dropping a building on my face!"

just before the knife was about to slit steve's throat, he grabs the gauntlet, ripping it from the villain's suit. he kicks him to the ground, repeatedly using his shield to try and tame the masked beast, and luckily to his relief rumlow stayed down as if he is finally defeated.

"who's your buyer?" steve commands the masked beast. "you know he knew you. your pal, your buddy, your bucky." rumlow told steve who's eyes widened a little hearing this. "he remembered you, i was there. he got all weepy and a baby about it. til they put his brain back into a blender. he wanted you to know something, he said to me. 'please tell rogers, when you gotta go, you gotta go.' and you're coming with me." then rumlow activated his vest, intending in killing him in a suicide pact. steve flinches waiting for the burning flames of the explosion, but to her surprise they never came. steve glances over a sigh escapes his lips as ingrid regained consciousness and is in sam's arms. ingrid used a forcefield to shield the blast, enclosing rumlow in a bubble of pain. ingrid held on as long as possible, her powers taking a toll on her already painful body, before she let go and the explosion finally ignited, engulfing a nearby building in a fiery blaze. when the young girl sees what she did she let out a gasp her scarred hands fleeing to her mouth in shock.

"oh my..." steve stares up open mouthed, before looking at sam before going back looking at the burning building. "sam could you get fire and rescue on the south side of the building." steve says as sam goes to get fire and rescue.

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back on the quinjet everyone is shaken of what just happened as natasha put ingrid under anesthesia so she wouldn't wake up as her and sam cleaned off her blood. the reason why they put her under is because of how violent she is when she is in pain, and also because she hates natasha with a burning passion. they are doing what they can do before they get back to the compound and let the medical team continue with ingrid's wounds. natasha has wounds like ingrid's but they aren't as severe as ingrid as natasha has more of a pain tolerance unlike ingrid who she is guessing doesn't have one.

"what is the whole thing between you and ingrid?" sam asks as no one has told him what's going on between ingrid and natasha, but the red haired woman sighs obviously not wanting to talk about it but because sam doesn't know what's going on she's just going to tell him. "unless you don't want to tell me---" sam says before he gets cut off by natasha. "you asked, and i'm answering." she says with a faint smile as he returns it back to her.

"it all started almost a year ago, as i had a mission and she was it and i was tasked by fury to get ingrid and bring her back here and she wasn't easy to track down as she was hiding somewhere where we didn't know but we got her location. like if she was standing in a corner we'd see that she was in that corner but not where she lives type of thing." natasha says explaining to sam as he nods his head understanding. "so when we got to SHIELD Headquarters i don't know what the hell happened but she hated me from the beginning i guess. so you just get used to it. there are people that she'll talk to and also people she'd not talk to."

sam nods his head at natasha was finishing cleaning up ingrid's wounds at least the blood as cuts, bruises and all that can heal but natasha wanted to get rid of the blood. at least the blood's gone but everything else is relatively still there. "sorry about that actually." sam says to natasha as she nods her head as she finishes with ingrid's wound fixing and she leaves the man and goes to steve as she shoves a piece of gum in her mouth. she wraps her arms around his shoulders as he is steering them back home. "i love you, stevie." steve smiles as he sighs as they fly over the ocean as she puts her hair in a ponytail. "i love you, nattie." steve says as he kissed her cheek and she smiles as she has her chin on top of his shoulder as she watches the now sunset from the ocean, and the different color hues from the sunset on the water. it looks like something out of a fairytale where the girl and the guy live happily ever after for a split second before shit happens.

it was that moment in time where natasha felt like her life was back being somewhat normal even if there is no such thing as a normal life. at least in her opinion. what the fuck is the definition of normal? is what she thought in her head. after what felt like years flying over the ocean they finally made it back to the compound and the guys put ingrid on a stretcher and led her through the doors where as per usual tony was their welcoming community. by asking a million questions with very little answers. "tony, don't." steve says warning the billionaire as he pointed to ingrid who was fluttering on her eyes as the anesthesia was wearing off.

"what crawled up your ass and died?" stark says as ingrid starts dozing from lack of sleep. also because she's in pain from the mission as natasha has a guilt look as she was supposed to look after ingrid but she let her get hurt. she feels like it's her fault that ingrid is injured. "the mission." natasha grumbled as she brushed past tony's shoulders as he stumbled a little from the force. "what did you screw up now, nattie." tony says as natasha clenched her fist at the nickname that tony said as only steve can call her that.

tony no less than opened his mouth and fury along with coulson and maria walked through the doors as steve and clint walked with the stretcher that ingrid was on as they made their way to the medbay. "rogers, what's the status?" fury ordered as steve motioned clint to continue walking as he nods. steve went to fury and walked with the other agents and explained every detail of the mission. it felt like forever but when steve finished telling fury what happened especially to ingrid. "thank you for telling me." fury says as he sounded like he had a pain of guilt about ingrid getting injured. "also you buddy bucky asked about ingrid. i expect you go answer him, soon." fury says as steve turns around momentarily to look at fury before walking with natasha as she went to the medbay.

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