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COMPLICATIONS

"You can disagree with my methods,
but never question my intentions."
—Unknown
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Location: Washington, D.C.

April 1, 2014

ACTIVATING... Communications... Encryption... Protocol...

"Open secure line zero-four-zero-five." Director Nick Fury stated, driving incognito towards the Washington Union Station. Awaiting for Deputy Director Maria Hill to answer. The Director wanted confirmation on HYDRA's involvement with SHIELD secretly. Especially, after the 'incident' of the murder of Senator Brooks, is what started the speculation.

"Confirmed." An automatic voice replied. On his rearview; an image of Maria Hill appeared thus she's online.

"This is Hill," Maria answered through the microphone.

"I need you here in D.C. Deep shadow conditions." Fury decodes the encryption, a way to communicate with Hill discreetly.

"Give me four hours." Hill understood replying to her boss, yet Fury interjected, "You have three. Over."

Fury slowed down at the red traffic light, he felt eyes flickering at his direction. Thus, caused him to turn to his right and noticed a police vehicle. The two policemen looked directly at Nick, with a look of suspicion at him, "Want to see my lease?"

They said nothing, just turned on the police siren and slowly drove away. Fury did as well, when a vehicle collided with his, knocking him to the side. The police car that drove ahead, pedaled full reverse thus trapping the SHIELD Director. Soon after, many police cars surrounded him, not wanting him to escape.

"Fracture detected," Showing a full-body CT scan, indicating his left wrist. "Recommend anesthetic injection."

Fury reached out to grab the injection as a SWAT team truck pulls up. It opened its doors that caused many armed men surrounded the vehicle. Nick Fury stabbed himself with the injection, as his A.I. called out, "D.C. Metro Police dispatch shows no unit in this area."

Fury quickly realized that they were disguised mercenaries, as they all took out their weapons all pointing at the SHIELD Director. "Get me out of here," Fury ordered, just as bullets ricocheted all around trying their hardest to penetrate the glass windows and steel doors.

"Propulsion systems offline." Fury's car commented.

"Then reboot, damn it!" He shouted, with the bullets still trying to penetrate the vehicle. This caused Fury's vehicle to become weaker, thus the mercenaries brought out a battering ram to break in.

"Warning! Window integrity compromised." The car A.I. warned.

"You think?" Fury retorted before asking swiftly, "How long to propulsion?"

"Calculating," As the battering ram became active, Fury's car swayed from side to side from the impact. "Window Integrity thirty-one percent. Deploying countermeasures."

"Hold that order!" He declared. The car continued to rock from side to side, "Window Integrity nineteen percent. Offensive measures advised."

"Wait!" As he calculated the right time to deploy the countermeasures. One more hit and the glass will soon shatter. "Window integrity one percent."

"Now!" Fury shouted, therefore a mini-gun pulls up from the car. As Fury uses it to return the bullets on the mercenaries, thus causing the SWAT truck and some disguised police cars to explode.

"Propulsion systems now online."

"Full acceleration! Now!" Fury continues to fire at all of them, Nick's car automatically backs up from the mercenaries and drives away from them. "Initiate vertical takeoff!"

"Flight systems damaged."

"Then activate guidance cameras!" Fury moved from the passenger to the driver seat. He accidentally got hit from his shoulder, as he groaned in pain softly. "Give me the wheel!"

Fury started to weave between the cars, trying to escape from the mercenaries. However, even with high speed, the mercenaries chased after him.

"Get me, Agent Hill," Fury commanded as he concentrated on the car chase beforehand.

"Communications array damaged."

"Well, what's not damaged?" He retorted in frustration.

"Air conditioning is fully operational."

Aurora and the Winter Soldier were at the relocation route, waiting for the SHIELD Director to come to their direction. The teenager huffed in annoyance that it was taking a while for the Director to arrive. Yet, what distracted her was that Fury's car was bugged, thus granting access to Aurora to listen to everything he's saying.

"готовы?" Aurora asked the assassin, her tracker letting her know that Fury is near their location. The assassin placed the disk onto the gun before cocking it secure.

He turned to her, nodding causing his shaggy brunette hair to move along with his gesture, "готовы."

"Now, all we have to do is wait," Aurora mumbled into her brunette hair, her hazel-green eyes speculating the road up ahead, "Simple enough."

"Give me an alternate route." Fury stated through the microphone, shifting gears to outrun the police cars.

"Traffic alert on Roosevelt Bridge. All vehicles stopped. 17th Avenue clear in three blocks, directly ahead." Nick's A.I. spoke.

Now was the time to have M.A.T.T.H.E.W change the relocation route. Aurora clicked the button from her sunglasses, "Matt, can you hack through the A.I. to relocate the vehicle."

"On it, Miss Hunter," M.A.T.T.H.E.W announced, Aurora hacking to the mainframes of the vehicle. Once connected and online, Fury's A.I. became offline for a moment and started to reboot the system. However, instead of the vehicle's A.I., it was M.A.T.T.H.E.W that now had control of the black truck.

"Warning, approaching intersection." M.A.T.T.H.E.W declared. Nick approached the intersection, as he managed to shake the last two police cars, instantly killing the mercenaries.

"Get me off the grid!" Nick remarked wanting to get the hell away from Washington right about now.

"Calculating the route to a secure location." Aurora listened as she smirked lightly.

'Excellent,' She thought, causing her to nod towards the soldier in mutual agreement. They both stood in the middle of the road, both staring intensely at the moving car coming towards them. Aurora was calculating the right moment to hit the vehicle, even if there were civilians around them.

Fury continued to drive, as he glanced at two mysterious figures from the broken glass. They stood right in front of him, not making any indication that they were moving.

"Сейчас!" Aurora shouted when suddenly the Winter Soldier shoots a bomb towards that attaches itself to Fury's vehicle.

Producing an explosion and it flips over; when it flipped both of the mysterious figures moved to the side, not wanting to be injured. Civilians around them gasped in horror of what just occurred, yet Aurora simply focused on the mission beforehand.

The flipped vehicle continued to slide as they both were approaching the fallen SHIELD Director. Fury was trapped inside his car, struggling to get out but watches intensely as the two figures walk over to the car.

Aurora watched the destruction in amusement, wanting to finally be finished with the two-month assignment. The fog blocked the assassins' vision, nonetheless, they strolled down to capture their enemy.

When they were near enough, Aurora noticed a faint bluish light inside, causing the Winter Soldier to use his left vibranium arm to tear the damaged door right off. They both peek inside, but Nick Fury managed to escape thus failing the mission so far.

Aurora cursed profoundly and vividly in different languages, frustrated that now there are complications. She snarled wanting to look at the inside of the car again. Aurora leaned closer noticing the burn marks from the ground as Aurora concluded that he used some type of laser weapon to dig his way out.

Now, they have less than seven hours to kill the SHIELD Director, before they will be tasked with another assignment. Aurora gripped her sunglasses tightly as she scanned the burned hole. It was about six meters deep, that was heading towards the direction of the subway.

The teenager nudged her friend as she tightly held onto his flesh wrist, an azure mist appeared engulfing the two assassins. Leaving the site teleporting them to another location. Aurora continued to track down Nick Fury, finally realizing that he was headed towards Steve Rogers apartment. The time was 5:52 p.m. and she had to report to Rumlow at 11 p.m.

They both reloaded with different types of weapons as Aurora grabbed a dagger, and the Winter Soldier switched the bomb gun to a sniper rifle. The young HYDRA agent estimated that Rogers will arrive in about 5 minutes.

Both assassins went to the subway, not wanting to be seen during the day. Aurora made sure no one else was around them during the way. Once they arrived they decided to go up to a nearby building near Steve's apartment. So that they could set up the sniper, ready to kill Nick Fury. Now, all they had to do was wait for the exact moment to ambush the men. The apartment itself was quite dark, but that didn't fool the assassins that they were inside. With the help of Aurora's tracker, she found that he was inside as she listened to the conversation.

Steve was a bit confused by the confession of his pretty neighbor next door, that his music was softly playing. Curious himself, he turned over his shoulder suspicious of what might be happening soon. Many thoughts wandered wildly in his mind, many leading with a potential threat in the end.

Steve gently pressed his left ear against the wooden door, and there it was. Music softly orchestrating in the background faintly behind the door. Rather than entering the front door; that can potentially alert the intruder, Steve cautiously enters from his window. Knowing his shield would be in the other room closer to the window, he slowly crouched down to retrieve his vibranium shield. Steve wisely placed his shield in front of his fit figure, for protection purposes.

He sharply looked at his surroundings before heading to the next room. Steve felt an individual lurking in the shadows, not wanting to be found or seen. The soldier leaned against the wall, barely peeking through the living room. However, instead of an intruder, Steve finds Nick Fury sitting on his couch in the dark. Fury breathing lightly with his hand over his chest, covering the wounds from spilling blood.

"I don't remember giving you a key," Steve stated as he relaxed his stance, still leaning against the wall. Nick grunted softly from the ambush earlier, wanting to sit up tall, "You really think I'd need one? My wife kicked me out."

Steve quickly responded suspiciously, "I didn't know you were married."

"A lot of things you don't know about me," Nick respond calmly staring at the Captain. Steve sighed softly not liking one bit about that answer.

"I know, Nick. That's the problem." Steve then turned on the light, as he notices Fury's injuries for the first time. Steve finally understood why he was covering his chest, blood was sweeping down as he stained his hands.

Fury quickly indicates for Steve to be silent, having the SHIELD Director to turn off the light. He swiftly writes something on his phone before showing it to Steve, saying 'Ears Everywhere.'

Steve concluded that they were being watched by someone.

"I'm sorry to have to do this, but I had no place else to crash." Nick announced causing him to write another text, 'SHIELD compromised.'

"Who else knows about your wife?" Steve continued along the conversation, acting like nothing was being involved. Fury wrote; 'You and me.'

"Just... my friends." Nick hesitantly answered as he stood up walking closer to Steve. They both looked around their surroundings, wanting to know who was out there.

"Is that what we are?" Steve asked seriously.

"That's up to you." Nick declared when a bullet flew through the wall targeting Nick. Another two bullets went onto Fury's body as he collapsed down, as a result of the new injuries.

Steve looks out the window for the shooter then he quickly drags Fury to the next room. Before he was about to leave Fury hands him a flash drive, choking out every word. "Don't... trust... anyone...."

Fury passes out from exhaustion, as Steve hears someone breaking into his apartment. He quickly grabbed his shield, but instead, it was someone he wasn't expecting.

"Captain Rogers?" Sharon Carter called out, as Steve sees her walking in with her gun pointed. Carter continued, "Captain, I'm Agent 13 of SHIELD Special Service."

"Kate?" Steve asked confused, although he didn't saw it from the facial expression he felt betrayed as well.

"I'm assigned to protect you." She simply said as she walked closer towards him.

"On whose order?" Steve ordered calmly, but Sharon noticed Fury lying injured on the ground and passed out.

"His." She pointed as she swiftly contacts SHIELD through her radio. "Foxtrot is down, he's unresponsive. I need EMTs."

"Do you have a twenty on the shooter?" A SHIELD Agent asked through the radio. Steve stared at the window, noticing the shooter and an accomplice together.

"Tell him I'm in pursuit," Steve stated. Aurora noticed the Captain America was coming after them as they both started to run away from his apartment. As Steve smashed through his window and runs after the two assassins.

The said assassins sprinted along with the building, nonetheless, Aurora smirked that they finally killed the Director. Steve landed to a window of an office building, smashing through the walls not wanting to lose sight of them. He then finally catches up with them on the roof, where he throws his shield at the male assassin.

But instead, he catches it with one swift move using his metal arm, as Steve huffed loudly. Now, stunned that someone caught his shield. Aurora used this as a distaction, as the young teenager blasted a few energy spheres at the Captain. Steve in the nick of time, rolled away from the blast as he stared at the two of them.

The male assassin throws back the shield to Steve, with an inhuman force that had Steve dragged back from it. At that moment, the Winter Soldier jumped off the building and left Aurora behind.

"Fucking Asshole!" Aurora growled softly staring at the male assassin leaving her behind. Steve looked up, seeing only the young teenager there.

"Who are you?" Steve gingerly asked, analyzing the teenager.

"Let's just say that I'm the Phantom," Aurora stated, deciding to look behind her towards the brightly-lit city.

"Hey! Wait!" Yet, Aurora instead jumped down the building as she landed roughly on the concrete. "Shit!" Aurora screeched, feeling the tenderness from her muscles, but pushed the pain aside wanting to run away from there.

Steve was still above as he saw the petite figure running— or limping— away from where he stood. He observed that no pedestrians were nearby. He walked backward before jumping off the building; Steve used his shield to lessen the impact. He grunted softly, but swiftly got up and ran after the girl.

Aurora maneuvered along the streets, turning around every once in a while. He was catching up to her, so Aurora swiftly created bright energy beams, yet he lifted his shield. The energy collided with his shield as they both struggled to gain the upper hand.

Aurora started to shake harshly, still, she kept on going with the attack. Steve slowly but surely walked forward even if the beam was on full blast. The teenager felt a twinkle of blood flowing down from her nose, as Steve was right in front of her.

He swung the shield towards her face, but she did a backflip expertly. Aurora tried to roundhouse the man, yet his shield blocked the hit. Steve wanted to apprehend the girl, so he gave her a blow in the gut. Aurora coughed violently, surprised by the amount of force that Captain America possess.

The assassin placed her hand onto the ground, as he came closer she shook the very core of the ground. Steve has trouble holding on from the earthquake set by the girl. Aurora then caused a shockwave that blasted Steve against the car, thus destroying it.

He jumped off the now destroyed car and advanced after her in full speed. Aurora pulled out her dagger as she twirled it between her fingers before attacking the blonde man. She ran towards him as she nicked his arm, cutting his jacket with a slit. He glanced at the cut before he threw his shield at her.

Aurora barely noticed the shield coming towards her as she gets hit by the back. She fell onto the ground, coughing out from lack of air. Now she was pissed at him, she growled furiously as his shield came around to hit her again. Aurora then stood up as she roundhouses the shield, and it redirected the shield towards Steve.

She then smirked as she lifted her right hand using telekinesis to make him collided onto a nearby wall. The impact made a large dent, yet Steve did everything he can to move but ultimately felt paralyzed under her control.

"Now, who's defenseless?" She smiled smugly when she noticed some police vehicles approaching her location. "Probably coming to his apartment," Aurora mumbled under her breathe looking back at the young-looking soldier.

"Will meet again, Captain." Aurora stated, "You can count on it." Aurora decided now was the time to run away, once no longer under her control he fell to the ground. He breathed heavily, before saying softly, "What in the world is going on?"

Aurora then ran into an abandoned alleyway, looking over her shoulder if he followed her. After a few moments, she concluded that he wasn't there as she created a portal. Aurora walked though as she walked down the corridors of the secret hideout of HYDRA. This was one of the few locations that were considered a haven for all HYDRA leaders, scientists, and agents.

Aurora knew that many agents were staring at the teenager, curious as to why she was here in Washington, D.C.? But, there stares meant nothing to her as she kept walking to find Rumlow.

After four minutes of walking and getting a lift from the elevator, Rumlow was there with a few male agents disguised at SHIELD's S.T.R.I.K.E. team. She stood a few feet away from him, waiting to be called over about her assignment. After, his brief conversation he noticed Agent Hunter waiting rather annoyed for him.

He heard that Nick Fury got away from the ambush she set up, so he'll have to get the information from the source itself. Rumlow strolled over at her, looking quite- well, perhaps overjoyed or disappointed- she couldn't tell yet.

"Well?" Rumlow asked rather snappy; in Aurora's opinion.

"Done, in a matter of hours he would no longer be alive," Aurora smirked softly, staring around the area.

A few agents here and there walked around them but paid no attention to their conversation. Rumlow stared at her face, wondering if she was telling the truth. She would only lie if her nose twitched at the slightest and she would clutch her necklace tightly. Unfortunately, for him; she wasn't lying so Rumlow took her word for it.

"Good, Pierce will want to meet with you tomorrow at 9 p.m. sharp. He has one last mission for you both."

"Both?" Aurora voiced her thoughts, yet by the look, she received she decided to bite her tongue tightly. She was still breathing heavily from the chase earlier today.

Rumlow then noticed at her current state, weary and exhausted; her braided hair disheveled in different directions and her clothes were dirtier than usual. One question popped into his mind; was she being chased by someone? That would answer some questions but others will remain a mystery. Yet, he had other matters to care than just a young teenage assassin. For example, trying to eliminate Captain America and Black Widow.

"Yes both, and then you will immediately report back to Sokovia for training." Aurora nodded, so wanting to say a remark at the man, but nonetheless, she was almost done.

"That's all agent, go back and get some rest. I'm sure... you'll need it tomorrow." Rumlow announced as he left her behind. Aurora saluted before leaving the secret base, wanting to know what does Alexander Pierce want from her?

More specifically, if she didn't piss off the Winter Soldier? Or if the Winter Soldier pissed her off?

And he sure as hell did.

Translations:

готовы? —Ready?

готовы. —Ready.

Сейчас! —Now!