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· 。ﾟ୧ ⋆. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗢𝗡𝗘? 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗘. ₊˚.༄
ACT TWO ━━━ CHAPTER NINE,
❝ your pal, your buddy, your bucky ❞

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          𝓦anda Maximoff poured sugar into her cup of coffee as she sat at a table with her sister across from her. The scarlet witch stirred the liquid with a spoon before drinking it.

"Alright, what do you see?" Steve Rogers' voice asked through the earpiece.

"Standard beat cops," Wanda replied.

Lucrecia Maximoff, who took a bite out of her muffin, added to her sister's observation; "Small station. Quiet street. It's a good target."

"There's an ATM on the south corner, which means?"

"Cameras."

"Both cross streets are one-way," Steve said as Wanda offered her coffee to her sister who shook her head no.

"So, compromised escape routes."

Lucrecia and Wanda looked at the newspapers on the table, listening to what Steve was saying. "Means our guy doesn't care about being seen. He isn't afraid to make a mess on the way out."

"Or he's done with his life and wants to get caught so he can rot in jail and do no work for anyone," Lucrecia said bluntly. Wanda's lips formed into an amused smile as she shook her head playfully.

Steve nodded from where he was in an apartment, "That could be another reason. Still, we have to catch him. You see that Range Rover halfway up the block?"

"Yeah, the red one? It's cute."

"Eh, it's alright," Lucrecia commented on Wanda's reply. The older Maximoff chuckled softly as did Lucrecia. "Pietro might like it, he would've taken it for a ride if he was here."

"Mm, he would, wouldn't he?" Wanda scrunched up her nose and smiled.

Pietro was in the new Avengers facility, he decided to stay home and not participate in this mission. Besides, he needed to go back into his old ways ever since he came back to life.

"It's also bulletproof," Natasha cut the siblings' conversation short, she sat a table away from the Maximoff girls. "which means private security . . . which means more guns . . . which means more headaches for somebody. Probably us."

"You guys know that my sister and I can move things with our minds, right?" Lucrecia reminded the team as Wanda nodded in agreement.

"Looking over your shoulder needs to become second nature," Natasha replied, making the two of them look over their shoulder and at her.

"Anybody ever tell you you're a little paranoid?" Sam Wilson questioned as he was walking on the roof of a building.

"Not to my face. Why? Did you hear something?"

"Well, someone should. Besides, I have a force field around all of you, you're safe . . . for now." Lucrecia interjected, reminding them that she had placed an invisible border on all four of them — herself included.

"Eyes on target, folks." Steve interjected, "And yes, thank you for the extra protection, Lu."

"Of course."

Sam rolled his eyes, "Yes, yes. Thank you so much, Lu." He said sarcastically which made Lucrecia scoff.

"I still have that video, Samuel."

No response.

"What video? Nevermind. This is the best lead we've had on Rumlow in six months. I don't want to lose him." Steve said which made Sam scoff out a chuckle.

"If he sees us coming, that won't be a problem. He kind of hates us."

Lucrecia and Wanda shared a glance before they both pulled the tips of their mouth down, like a sad face smile but it meant more like they were agreeing on something, trying not to say something in the lines of 'Of course, everyone hates you. You fuck up their shit and go home, calling yourself a hero'. Neither of them would actually say it out loud, though.

The next thing they know, Steve started to order them. "Go now."

Wanda and Lucrecia looked at eachother with alarming looks, not exactly ready to fight now. "What?"

"He's not hitting the police."

The Maximoff's stood up and started to head in the direction of the IFID headquarters where the fight was at.

Wanda floated up in the air with her powers and went past Sam as she landed on the ground, Lucrecia appeared out of thin air and landed beside the dark-skinned Avenger.

Someone started to shoot at Wanda but a violet barrier appeared infront of her and she shot her scarlet red mists at the man. "Sam," Wanda said as she made the man float to where Sam flew down and hit him which made the man fall on the ground.

Sam nodded to Lucrecia, she nodded back and went up to the man on the ground and crouched beside him.

Her eyes glowed a bright violet as she lifted her hand up to his face. Violet mists formed on her fingertips, it traveled from her fingers to his temple, his started to close and then he passed out.

"Four."

Sam's little robot pet thing started to scan the third floor of the building, "Rumlow's on the third floor."

Steve came up to them and pointed at Lucrecia, "Lu, just like we practiced."

"What about the gas?" The youngest triplet asked.

"Get it out." The American hero replied. Violet mists started to form on Lucrecia's hands as the mist formed around Steve's body, he floated up in the air and going inside the building as the glass window broke.

Lucrecia looked at Wanda and gestured for her to be the one who will get rid of the gas. The older Maximoff nodded and held her hand out, glowing red mists forming on her hands as the fog started to come out of the building, her red mist mixing with the deadly fog.

She had a force field around her to protect her, courtesy of Lucrecia, so the bullets that were shot in her direction would just hit the barrier and not hurt Wanda. Sam was shooting at the people and Lucrecia was blasting them with her violet orbs.

Most of them were hard to hit since they were hiding behind the car so the girl floated up in the air, glowing mists surrounding her legs. She could see all of them clearly from up in the air. Lucrecia positioned her left hand infront of her, her palm facing the ground while her right hand was placed below the left one, the palm of her hands facing eachother.

She flexed her fingers and produced a large violet orb, she lifted it higher in the sky before she moved her hands below to where the bad people were. The large orbs broke into little parts, all of them heading towards each of the people. All of them dropped to the ground when her magic hit them, dead.

Just as she did that, Wanda had gathered up all of the gas as she moved them up to the sky.

Lucrecia landed on the ground with a thud, her knees bent a little and her arms spread with her palms facing the ground, her violet mist surrounding her legs still.

"I've got four, they're splitting up," Sam said through the earpiece. Lucrecia nodded to Wanda who smiled in response, the youngest Maximoff then teleported beside Natasha who was walking on cars.

Lucrecia didn't want to damage the poor cars so she floated in the air with her violet mists surrounding her legs and glowing mists forming in her hands.

"Lu and I got the two on the left," Natasha replied as she and Lucrecia headed to the two people on the left.

"They ditched their gear. It's a shell game now. One of them has the payload." Steve informed the team before a bomb attached to his shield, he acted quickly and threw it in the air as it exploded.

Someone punched him from the back which made him fly forward and break through a wooden case. "There you are, you son of a bitch." It was Rumlow. "I've been waiting for this."

Natasha and Lucrecia were running, chasing after one of the guys. "Out of the way!" The two women jumped and flipped through things that were in their way, panicked screams were heard from the people.

Natasha caught up to him as she tackled him to the ground. The two of them stood back up, the man took out a gun as people started to run away, screaming in fear.

Lucrecia held her hands up in the air and stretched them, a medium-sized force field was placed around the fight so that the citizens wouldn't get hurt.

Natasha and the first guy started fighting, the other one tried to sneak behind her but Lucrecia blasted him which caused him to fall back as he grunted.

Natasha nodded at Lucrecia, silently thanking her. As Nat was fighting the two men, Lucrecia used her mind compulsion to compel the people that were nearby to go head away from the fight.

She only got a few of them to leave since she turned her attention to Natasha and the man since she heard screams. They both pointed a gun at eachother while the other guy held the small container in his hand.

"Drop it. Or I'll drop this." He threatened. When Nat didn't drop the gun, he got angry. "Drop it!"

"He'll do it!"

Sam's little pet robot flew behind the guy who was holding the small container and shot him, Natasha immediately shot the guy infront of her. The container dropped to the ground, a violet mist surrounded it just as it was about to touch the sand.

Lucrecia lifted it up in the air and Natasha took it, the two of them looked at Sam's robot.

Nat nodded in thanks, "Payload secure. Thanks, Sam."

"Don't thank me," Sam replied in a teasing tone, Lucrecia could practically hear him smirking.

"I'm not thanking that thing," Nat shook her head as Lucrecia chuckled and stepped closer to it.

"His name is Redwing."

"We're still not thanking it."

Who's "we"?

Lucrecia scoffed, "Speak for yourself, Romanoff." She looked at Redwing with a smile, "Thanks, Redwing."

"You're welcome."

Natasha gave her a look that meant "seriously?", Lucrecia just shrugged with an innocent smile on her pink lips.

"He's cute. Go ahead, pet him."

Lucrecia hummed in a disapproving way, "Nah, I'm good, thanks."

Natasha laughed and took a hold of the Maximoff girl's hand before heading towards where Steve was.

          𝓢teve was fighting with Rumlow, he had the man on his knees before him as he grabbed Rumlow's shirt. Steve looked at him and his lips parted at Rumlow's appearance. Rumlow was not okay, his face was fucked up.

"I think I look pretty good, all things considered." Rumlow joked.

Steve, on the other hand, wasn't in the mood for jokes. "Who's your buyer?"

By now, Lucrecia appeared beside Steve, ditching Natasha to walk to the place by herself.

Rumlow glanced at Lucrecia who had literally just appeared out of thin air, he looked her up and down before he smirked at her. Steve saw who he was looking at and let out a grunt. Rumlow chuckled at his reaction before looking back at him.

Steve glanced at Lucrecia to see if she was in any way bothered by him, she shook her head and he nodded before looking back at Rumlow.

"You know, he knew you. Your pal, your buddy, your Bucky."

The last part seemed to trigger Steve since he pulled Rumlow closer to him with a hard look. "What did you say?" Steve asked him through gritted teeth.

Lucrecia tilted her head at Steve, her eyebrows furrowed.

Who the hell is Bucky?

"He remembered you. I was there. He got all weepy about it. Till they put his brain back in a blender." Steve looked at him with his lips parted. "He wanted you to know something. He said to me . . . "Please tell Rogers. When you gotta go . . . you gotta go". . ."

Lucrecia saw that Steve's expression was no longer a hard and serious one but one that seemed like he was remembering someone and his memories with that person. Must be the Bucky guy, she thought.

Then, Rumlow's face morphed into a stern look. "And you're coming with me."

He pressed a button on the bomb that he held in his hand, Steve and Lucrecia only noticed it now. Lucrecia acted quickly placed a force field around Rumlow to prevent him from blowing up and killing hundreds of people.

People screamed and ran away from the scene, terrified for their lives.

Steve looked at her, as did everyone else. Glowing violet orbs with a glowing violet mist surrounding them formed on the palm of her hands, both she and Rumlow grunted. Lucrecia sent him floating in the air before she lost control.

Rumlow crashed into the building and set the place on fire, killing the people inside.

Lucrecia removed her arm from her face and looked at what she had done in horror, she gasped as she covered her mouth with her hand, staring at the building in shock.

"Oh, my . . ." Steve muttered, looking at the building with his lips parted in shock.

There was fire and smoke everywhere on the side of the building.

Tears started to form in Lucrecia's eyes, she fucked up real bad. She just killed hundreds of innocent people all because she couldn't focus and lost control of the magic she had on Rumlow.

"Oh, my God . . ." Lucrecia whispered to herself, slowly removing her hand from her mouth. Her lips quivered as a tear fell out of her eyes, "What have I done . . . ?"

Steve looked at her and turned the mic of his earpiece on, "Sam . . . we need- we need fire and rescue on the south side of the building." He stammered, glancing between the girl and the burning building.

"We gotta get up there."

Lucrecia's eyebrows pinched together, her eyes still glued to the building as she fell to the ground.

She was a murderer.

She killed hundreds of innocent men and women . . . children.

It was all her fault.

Lucrecia looked down to the ground with a guilty frown on her beautiful face. Her shock and guilt turned to anger, her jaw clenched as she gritted her teeth before she screamed in anger, a small wave of violet mist emerging from her body.

She gulped and placed her hands on the solid ground, her breathing going heavy.

"I'm a murderer. I just killed hundreds of people. I'm to blame, this is all my fault . . . and there's nothing I can do to fix it." Lucrecia muttered to herself, taking all of the blame.

But she didn't really have any control in the matter, did she?

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