It was the next morning.

Sam Wilson was going on his morning run through the park.

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Sam returned home, drinking orange juice from the bottle.

There was a knock on the door.

Sam closed the bottle, putting it down, walking toward the door, opening the blinds to see Steve, Bree and the Spiders outside. He opened the door. "Hey, guys."

"I'm sorry about this," Steve told him. 

"We need a place to lay low," Bree told him.

"Everyone we know is trying to kill us," Natasha told him.

Sam looked between. "Not everyone."

Sam let them inside, looking around outside to make sure no one was watching, closing the door, closing the blinds.

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Steve, Bree, Natasha, Tatiana and Ana had been getting themselves cleaned up.

Bree saw the Spiders in a room, walking in. "You okay?"

Ana nodded unconvincingly. "Yeah."

Bree walked toward them. "What's going on?"

"When we first joined S.H.I.E.L.D, we thought we were going straight," Natasha told her. "But the place that rescued us from Hydra is working with Hydra."

"I thought we knew whose lies we were telling, but I guess I can't tell the difference anymore," Tatiana told her.

"There's a chance you might be in the wrong business," Bree told them.

They smiled small smiles.

"We owe you," Ana told her. "We owe Steve."

Bree shook her head. "It's okay."

"If it was the other way around, and it was down to us to save your lives, now you be honest with me, would you trust us to do it?" Natasha asked.

"I would now," Bree answered. "And I'm always honest."

"Well, you seem pretty chipper for someone who just found out they died for nothing," Ana told her.

"Well, guess I just like to know who I'm fighting," Bree told them.

Steve walked in. "Sam made breakfast. If you four are done with the girl talk."

Bree, Ana, Natasha and Tatiana looked at Steve.

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Sam, Steve, Bree, Natasha, Ana and Tatiana were in the dining room.

"So, the question is, who at S.H.I.E.L.D could launch a domestic missile strike?" Tatiana asked.

"Pierce," Bree answered.

"Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world," Ana told them.

"But he's not working alone," Steve told them. "Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star."

"So was Jasper Sitwell's," Natasha told them.

"So, the real question is, how do the five most wanted people in Washington kidnap a S.H.I.E.L.D officer in broad daylight?" Ana asked.

Sam walked closer. "The answer is, you don't."

Sam placed down a packet.

"What's this?" Tatiana asked.

"Call it a resume," Sam told them.

Tatiana picked up the picture. "Is this Bakhmala? The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you?"

Ana looked at Steve and Bree. "You didn't say he was a Pararescue."

Steve took the picture of Sam and his partner in their uniforms. "Is this Riley?"

"Yeah," Sam answered.

"I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs," Natasha told him. "What did you use? A stealth chute?"

"No," Sam answered, picking up a file, handing it to Steve. "These."

Steve opened the file, looking to the picture inside. He looked at Sam. "I thought you said you were a pilot."

Sam smirked, shaking his head. "I never said pilot."

"I can't ask you to do this, Sam," Steve told him. "You got out for a good reason."

"Dude, five members of the Avengers need my help," Sam told him. "There's no better reason to get back in."

Sam held up the file. "Where can we get our hands on one of these things?"

"The last one is at Fort Meade," Sam answered. "Behind three guarded gates and a 12-inch steel wall."

Steve, Bree, Natasha, Ana and Tatiana exchanged a look, shrugging.

Bree looked at Sam. "Shouldn't be a problem."

Steve put the file on the table.

The file read: 

EXO - 7

FALCON

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Jasper Sitwell, Senator Stern and several guards walked out of a hotel building.

"Listen, I got to fly home tonight because I got some constituency problem, and I got to press the flesh," Stern told him.

"Any constituent in particular, Mr. Senator?" Jasper asked.

Stern shook his head. "Oh, no, not really. 23, kind of hot." They stopped walking, facing each other. "Real hot, you know? Wants to be a reporter, I think. I don't know. Who listens at that point?"

"Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me," Jasper told him.

"Really?" Stern asked. "Because she's killing my back. But this isn't the place to talk about it." He touched the pin on Jasper's jacket. "This is a nice pin."

"Thank you," Jasper told him.

"Come here," Stern told him. They hugged. Stern whispered in his ear. "Hail Hydra." They pulled away. They were being watched from a distance. Stern started to walk down the steps, wincing. "See, it's right there..."

"Yeah, I just saw that," Jasper told him.

"Should I get it checked?" Stern asked.

"I think you should," Jasper told him. Stern and his bodyguards walked down the steps, walking away, leaving. Jasper's phone rang. He pulled it out. The Caller ID said Alexander Pierce. Jasper looked at his two bodyguards. "I need a minute. Bring the car around." The bodyguards nodded, walking away, leaving. Jasper answered his phone. "Yes, sir?"

Sam's voice was on the other line. "Agent Sitwell, how was lunch? I hear the crab cakes here are delicious."

"Who is this?" Jasper asked.

"The good-looking guy in the sunglasses, your 10 o'clock," Sam answered. Jasper looked to the right. "Your other 10 o'clock." Jasper looked toward that direction. Sam was sitting at a table, wearing sunglasses. "There you go."

Sam raised his glass.

"What do you want?" Jasper asked.

"You're gonna go around the corner to your right," Sam told him. "There's a gray car two spaces down. You and I are gonna take a ride."

"And why would I do that?" Jasper asked.

"Because that tie looks really expensive, and I'd hate to mess it up," Sam told him.

Jasper looked down to see a red laser of a gun aimed at his chest. He looked around worriedly.

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Jasper was thrown onto a building roof.

Steve, Bree, Natasha, Ana and Tatiana walked closer. They were all suited up.

"Tell us about Zola's algorithm," Steve told him.

Jasper stood. "Never heard of it."

"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?" Bree asked.

Jasper backed away from them toward the edge of the roof. "I was throwing up. I get seasick." He nearly tripped over the edge of the roof to fall off. Steve grabbed him, pulling back up. "Is this little display meant to insinuate that you're gonna throw me off the roof? Because it's really not your style, Rogers."

"You're right," Steve told him, letting him go, straightening out his jacket. "It's not."

Natasha held her hand toward Ana and Tatiana on either side of her. "It's ours." 

Ana kicked Jasper in the chest, making him fall off the roof. 

Jasper fell toward the ground, screaming. 

Bree looked at Steve. "Oh, wait. What about that girl from accounting, Laura?"

"Lillian," Steve answered. "Lip piercing, right?"

"Yeah, she's cute," Bree told him.

"Yeah," Steve agreed. "I'm not ready for that."

Sam brought Jasper back up, flying in his own suit that made him Falcon, tossing Jasper across the roof, landing on it, turning to face the others.

They all walked toward Jasper.

Jasper held his hand up. "Zola's algorithm is a program for choosing insight's targets."

"What targets?" Ana asked.

Jasper gestured to Steve and Bree. "The two of you." He gestured to Tatiana, Natasha and Ana. "The Spiders. A TV anchor in Cairo, the Under Secretary of Defense, a high school Valedictorian in Iowa City, Tony and Jackson Stark, Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who's a threat to Hydra. Now, or in the future."

"In the future?" Tatiana repeated. "How could it know?"

Jasper laughed. "How could it not?" He stood. "The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught Hydra how to read it. Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, emails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola's algorithm evaluates people's past to predict their future."

"And what then?" Natasha asked.

Jasper sighed, breathing heavily. "Oh, my God. Pierce is gonna kill me."

Ana stepped closer threateningly. "What then?"

"Then the Insight helicarriers scratch people off the list," Jasper answered. "A few million at a time."

Tatiana, Natasha, Ana, Steve, Bree, and Sam were in shock, horrified.

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A black van was driving down a freeway.

Steve, Bree, Sam, the Spiders and Jasper were inside.

Sam was driving.

Steve was in the passenger seat.

The girls and Jasper were in the back.

"Hydra doesn't like leaks," Jasper told them.

"Then why don't you try sticking a cork in it?" Sam asked.

"Insight's launching in 16 hours," Natasha told them.

"We're cutting it a little bit close here," Ana told them.

"I know," Bree told them. 

"We'll use him to bypass the DNA scans an access the helicarriers directly," Steve told them.

"What?" Jasper asked. "Are you crazy? That is a terrible, terrible idea."

There was a thud on the roof.

The metal arm of the Winter Soldier punched through the window next to Jasper, grabbing him, pulling him out, making him scream.

Dark Shadow was in the middle of the street ahead, shooting an explosive device into the hood of the van.

The bolt exploded, making the Winter Soldier fall off the van as the van flipped down the road.

The Winter Soldier landed on the pavement in a crouch, scratching into it with his metal fingers to stop him from going anywhere. He looked up, standing.

Steve, Bree, Natasha, Ana, Tatiana and Sam got out of the van, running away from it before it exploded.

Steve held his shield.

Bree held her staff.

A Hydra car pulled over nearby.

Agents got out.

Dark Shadow held his gun toward the group, shooting an explosion device toward them.

Steve ran in front of the others, using his shield to protect himself and them.

The device exploded, throwing Steve back over a car behind him, down the bridge into a bus underneath. 

A truck drove into the bus, making them crash and the people inside scream.

Agents walked toward the team's hiding places, firing.

Natasha, Tatiana and Ana took cover behind three different cars that had crashed in the process, shooting at the agents.

Dark Shadow walked ahead of the agents, receiving the shots in his chest and stomach, but as the metal overlayed his torso, he couldn't be killed that way. He shot an exploding device toward Bree.

Bree jumped over a brick wall, taking cover behind it for safety.

The device exploded.

A car drove toward Bree.

Bree somersaulted out of the way, standing, flipping over a car, running toward the agents.

Dark Shadow shot an explosive into a car ahead of Bree, making it explode, throwing her over the bridge. 

Bree used the hook of her staff to scratch into the concrete of the bridge, riding it down to the lower half of the freeway, running underneath the bridge.

The Winter Soldier took a gun from Dark Shadow, walking toward the other side of the bridge toward the bus where Steve and the people were inside, aiming to shoot.

Bree stood below him on the road, throwing her staff against the gun, making him drop it. 

The Winter Soldier held the staff in his metal hand.

Bree held her electromagnetic gloved hand toward the staff, trying to use it to bring the staff to her.

The staff was struggling to leave the Winter Soldier's grip to connect with Bree's gloves.

The Winter Soldier held too tight.

Ana flipped over a car, shooting The Winter Soldier in the mask with a bullet to make him let go of the staff.

The staff swung back down to Bree's electromagnetic gloved hand.

The glass of the Winter Soldier's mask was cracked. He took the eye piece off.

Dark Shadow walked toward the hiding place of the Spiders, firing toward them with the explosion device.

Natasha, Tatiana and Ana turned around, running away behind cover just as it exploded.

The Winter Solider looked at Dark Shadow, watching Bree below. "I have her. Find him."

The Winter Solder jumped off the bridge down to the car in front of Bree.

Bree held her staff ready, spinning it around.

Dark Shadow jumped off the bridge to the road, walking toward the bus where Steve and the people were.

The Agents on the bridge continued to fire toward Natasha, Tatiana and Ana.

Natasha, Tatiana and Ana continued to fire at them.

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Dark Shadow walked toward the bus.

"Steve, get out!" Bree told him.

The Winter Solider tried to punch Bree with the metal arm. Bree ducked, hitting him in the face with the staff.

Dark Shadow shot the bus with the explosion device.

Steve ran out of the bus just as it exploded, falling to the ground, holding up his shield to protect himself.

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An agent got too close to Tatiana. Tatiana came out of hiding with a crossbow, kicking him in the leg, punching him in the face, shooting him in the stomach with crossbow bolt, pushing him off the bridge down toward the others.

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The agent landed on the ground several feet away from The Winter Soldier, Bree, Dark Shadow and Steve. The crossbow bolt exploded, throwing them through the air, making them fall.

Dark Shadow was forced to let go of the explosion device gun. The gun slid away past the bus.

They stood. 

Bree ran toward the Winter Soldier, trying to hit him with her staff. The Winter Soldier caught the staff with his metal arm. Bree kicked him in the leg to make him let go, spinning to backhand punch him in the face, jumping up, wrapping her legs around his neck, flipping him to the ground, landing next to him. The Winter Soldier picked her up, slamming her down. 

Dark Shadow tried to punch Steve. Steve raised his shield to block the move. Dark Shadow pushed it out of the way, kicking him in the chest, making him fall, picking up a regular automatic gun, trying to shoot Steve. Steve held his shield up to protect himself. Dark Shadow continued to try and shoot him. Steve ran along to make him miss, jumping over a car, kicking the gun out of his hand. Dark Shadow drew a handgun, trying to shoot him. Steve raised his shield to protect himself, using his shield to hit the gun out of his hands. Dark Shadow hit his metal chest against the shield, making him drop it.

Bree and the Winter Soldier stood. The Winter Soldier used his metal arm to try to turn the hook of the staff back on her. Bree kicked him in the legs to make him let go, spinning the staff out of his grip, using it to hit him in the face. The Winter Solider gripped the staff with both hands, spinning it to spin her to try and punch her. Bree let go of the staff, flipping through the air to make him miss, punching him in the chest. The Winter Soldier tried to hit her with her staff. Bree ducked, grabbing the staff, using the electromagnetism in her gloves to take the staff from him.

Dark Shadow picked up Steve's shield, throwing it toward him. Steve ducked. The shield embedded itself into a van door behind him. Steve ran toward Dark Shadow. Dark Shadow drew a knife. Steve tried to punch him twice. Dark Shadow blocked both moves, trying to backhand punch Steve. Steve raised an arm to block the move. Dark Shadow slashed the knife toward him. Steve ducked, trying a series of punches and kicks. Dark Shadow used his chest and stomach to receive them all so they wouldn't have an effect of him, trying to stab Steve. Steve caught his wrist with both hands, kicking it away. Dark Shadow tried to punch him with either arm. Steve ducked both times, punching Dark Shadow in the face.

The Winter Soldier tried to punch Bree. Bree ducked, spinning around to hit the Winter Solider in his chest with the staff, flipping through the air horizontally to kick him in the head, landing, spinning around again to hit him with the staff like a baseball bat, sending him back into a van, making him dent the car. She ran closer, kneeing the Winter Solider in the chest, trying to hit him with the staff. The Winter Solider raised his metal arm to block the move, pushing Bree back, making her back away, advancing toward her. Bree grabbed his normal arm, flipping him to the ground. The Winter Soldier stood, gripping her throat with the metal arm, about to make the killing blow. 

Steve was distracted from his own fight when he saw this. "Bree!"

The Winter Solider froze, seeming confused and winded, looking at Bree for a long moment. 

Bree looked at him in confusion. 

The Winter Solider pushed Bree away over a car, making her fall to the ground. He turned away, confused.

Steve had been watching, confused himself. Dark Shadow took advantage of the distraction, punching Steve in the face. Steve tried to elbow him. Dark Shadow made him elbow his chest, making him hit metal, punching Steve in the side, pushing him into the van, drawing another knife. Steve pushed away from the van. Dark Shadow kicked him back into it, trying to stab him. Steve raised both his hands to push the knife away from his face into the van wall behind him. Dark Shadow pushed Steve along the side of the wall, scratching the knife into it, pushing Steve down. Steve pushed himself back up, flipping Dark Shadow to the ground, standing, running toward where his shield was still embedded into the back of the van, taking it out, turning to him. Dark Shadow stood, trying to punch Steve twice. Steve used his shield to block the moves. Dark Shadow tried to stab him in the head. Steve raised the shield to block the move. Dark Shadow pushed the shield aside, punching Steve in the face, kicking Steve in the chest, trying to punch him. Steve ducked, slamming the shield into the metal on his chest, making it dent, making Dark Shadow groan in pain, flipping him to the ground, pulling the hood and the cloth off his face in the process.

The Winter Solider pulled off his mask.

Bree stood.

The Winter Solider and Dark Shadow looked at them.

They were Bucky Barnes and Alec Anders.

Bree was in shock, breathing heavily. "Bucky?"

"Who the hell is Bucky?" Bucky asked.

Alec drew a gun.

"Alec, don't," Steve told him.

Alec tried to shoot Steve and Bree.

Sam flew closer, kicking both Alec and Bucky back across the pavement, making them flip over the ground.

Alec stood, trying to shoot Bree.

Steve used his shield to protect them both.

Natasha, Tatiana and Ana arrived.

Ana used the explosion gun that Alec had dropped to shoot toward them, hitting a car nearby Bucky and Alec, making it explode and throwing them back in the air, making them fall.

Hydra cars raced closer.

All of the agents got out of the cars, aiming their guns at Steve, Bree, Natasha, Tatiana, Ana and Sam.

"Drop the shield, Cap," an agent told him.

"Bree, drop the staff!" Brock told her. "Get on your knees!" Bree and Steve put down the staff and shield. "Get on your knees!" The agents surrounded them. "Get down, get down! Get on hour knees!" Steve and Bree held their hands up in surrender, kneeling to the ground, breathing heavily, still in shock and reeling. "Don't move." Agents handcuffed Steve and Bree. A helicopter flew overhead. Two agents were aiming guns at the back of Bree and Steve's heads. "Put the guns down. Not here. Not here!"

Those two agents lowered their guns.

Other Hydra agents arrested Sam, Natasha, Tatiana and Ana.

Bree was still reeling in shock with having see Bucky and Alec alive.