THE OLDER WOMAN sat on her sofa within the dimly lit room as the three men walked in. She also had a few gunmen posted against each side of the room.

"You should know, Baron." Selby began, "People don't just come into my bar and make demands."

"Not a demand. An offer." Zemo replied.

"A lot has changed since you were here last. By the way, I thought you were rotting away in a German prison. How did you escape?"

"People like us always find a way, don't we? I'm sure you've already figured out what I'm here for."

Selby pointed at Sam, "You're taller than I'd heard, Smiling Tiger."

Sam just nodded, not wanting to respond.

Selby continued, "What's the offer?"

"Tell us what you know about the super-soldier serum." Zemo got up and stood beside Bucky, "And I give you him, along with the code words to control him of course. He will do anything you want."

Selby smiled, "Now that's the Zemo I remember. I'm glad I decided not to kill you immediately. Yeah, you were right to come to me. Arrogant, but right."

Zemo nodded and walked back towards his seat as Selby explained.

"The super-soldier serum is here in Madripoor. Dr. Wilfred Nagel is the man you wanna thank. Or...condemn, depending on what side of this you're on. The Power Broker had him working on the serum, but things didn't go as planned."

"Is Nagel still in Madripoor?" Zemo asked.

"Oh. The bread crumbs you can have for free but the bakery is gonna cost you, Baron." Selby got up from the sofa, "And before you can get all cute don't think you can find Nagel without me."

She walked up beside Y/N, looking him up and down before speaking, "It's been quite some time, Patch. Maybe I can share some more details if you agree to be of service to me."

Before he can even figure out a response, Sam's phone vibrated. It got the attention of every person in the room, and Zemo shook his head in disappointment.

Sam pulled it out of his pocket and saw that it was his sister, Sarah. Selby took notice of his expression.

"Answer it. On speaker." She demanded as a gunman got behind Sam.

Sam took a moment before answering the call, "Hello?"

"Hey, um, we need to talk about this situation. It's been driving me nuts." Sarah spoke.

"What situation exactly are you talking about?"

"Are you high? You know the situation is the only situation we have right now."

"What situation, Sarah? Say it."

"The damn boat. And watch your tone. Okay? I let you slide at the bank."

Sam scoffed, "The bank. Yeah. Laundered so much...they'll come around."

Y/N looked down and shook his head lightly. Sam was a terrible liar.

"If that was the case, then why'd they dog you out. Big Time?" Sarah replied.

"Yeah, you damn right I'm Big Time. You'll see when I have that banker killed."

Sarah didn't seem to have heard that last line as she began to shout at somebody on the other end.

"Cass! What'd I tell you about the Cheerios? I don't have time for this! Sam, I'm sorry, I'll call you back."

She hung up the call, but Selby caught the name.

"Sam? Who's Sam?" She darted her eyes at them, then shouted at her men, "Kill them!"

Suddenly, a bullet shot through the window and pierced Selby's chest. She fell to the ground, dead.

Sam took it as a chance to disarm the distracted guard and hit him in the chest. Y/N elbowed the gunman beside him then dodged his swing before uppercutting him against the wall. One guard shot at Bucky, but he grabbed the nozzle of the gun to move it out of the way then hit him across the face.

"They're going to pin this on us." Sam breathed out as the three walked towards the door.

Zemo sighed, "We have a real problem now, so leave your weapons and follow my lead."

"So far, following your lead led us here." Y/N remarked.

Bucky, Zemo, Y/N, and Sam walked through the market as the phones of Madripoor residents chimed.

"This isn't good." Zemo said.

Suddenly, a man on a motorcycle shot from his sub-machine gun, barely missing them.

"Shit!" Y/N exclaimed.

"Come on!" Bucky shouted and started to run. They followed.

"I can't run in these heels!" Sam yelled.

They made a right and ran through a dark alleyway with the motorcyclists still on their tail. Fortunately, they were quickly shot down from a mysterious gunman at a window.

"What the—?" Y/N breathed out.

"You seem to have a guardian angel." Zemo remarked.

"Well, this is too perfect." A voice spoke from within the shadows.

They turned around to see a woman come out, taking off her hood. She held her pistol towards Zemo.

It was Sharon Carter.

"Drop it, Zemo."

"Sharon?" Bucky asked.

She ignored him and walked closer to the Sokovian criminal, "You cost me everything."

"Sharon, wait." Sam pleaded and got in front of her, "Someone recreated the super-soldier serum and Zemo had a lead."

"That explains why you guys are here. And Selby's dead." She replied.

"So what are you doing here?" Bucky asked.

"I stole Steve's shield, remember? I also took the wings for your ass so that you could save his ass from his ass." She answered while pointing at Sam, then Bucky, then finally Zemo.

She lowered her gun and continued, "I didn't have the Avengers to back me up. So I'm off the grid in Madripoor."

"Don't blow smoke. We were on the run, too." Sam cut in.

"Was. Is. Big difference. I don't speak to my family anymore. I can't. My own father doesn't even know where I am."

Bucky got straight to the point, "Sharon, we need your help. Please."

Sharon chuckled, looking at the four of them. She finally gave in.

"This isn't over. I have a place in High Town. You'll be safe there."

• • •

AT SHARON'S PLACE, Y/N changed into clothes stored within the closet. It felt nice to finally get out of his disguise.

Bucky sat on the couch while Zemo poured himself a drink at the bar. Sam was a few feet away from Y/N also changing into different clothes.

Y/N held the black t-shirt he was going to put on when Sharon walked back into the room.

"I had a feeling it was you, Y/N. I thought I'd seen a ghost." She remarked as she put a jacket on a seat nearby.

"That's why I get my name." He jested.

"Should I even ask how you're standing here now?"

"I reckon it's a mystery...along with why the Specter is now powerless." Zemo chimed in with a drink in hand.

Y/N shrugged and put on the shirt. Nobody, aside from Doctor Strange, understood how he was brought back to life. The only other person who knew some of it was Sam, just knowing the fact that Wanda had something to do with it.

Sam grabbed a turtleneck from the closet and looked at Sharon, "What's going on, Sharon? You don't ever wanna come back home?"

"They'll lock me up if I step foot back in the States. Madripoor doesn't allow extradition."

"I'm sorry I didn't call, but after the Blip and the chaos, I just..."

"Look, you know the whole hero thing is a joke, right? The way you gave up that shield, deep down, you must know it's all hypocrisy."

"He knows." Zemo chimed in, "And not so deep down."

Y/N huffed as he walked over to seat and sat down. Sharon took notice.

"You have something to say?" She asked.

"No." He replied.

"People play hero...and the ones in charge still don't appreciate it. You did what you thought was right eight years ago, and where did that lead you? In hiding, like I am." She said.

"Even on the run, we did what we had to do. Help people." Y/N shot back, thinking back at how they still did work as the Secret Avengers while on the run.

Sharon chuckled, then faced Sam. "By the way, how is the new Cap?"

"Don't get me started." Bucky cut in.

"Please." She scoffed, "You buy into all that stars and stripes bullshit. Before you were Zemo's pet psychopath you were Mr. America! Cap's best friend."

Bucky shook his head before looking at Y/N, "Wow. She's kind of awful now".

Sam sat near them and got straight to business, "Karli Morgenthau and at least seven others have taken the serum."

"You guys really should steer clear of all of this for your own safety." She responded.

"We know it's a risk, but we're not gonna leave until we find the one who cracked the code." Sam said.

"We got name back at the saloon. Wilfred Nagel." Y/N added.

Sharon got up from her seat to pour herself a drink, "Nagel works for the Power Broker."

"We need your help, Sharon. I can get your name cleared." Sam offered.

"You haggling with me life?"

"Not like that."

"I don't buy that. You pretending like you can clear my name."

"Okay, maybe it is hypocrisy. Maybe you're right. What happened to you." Sam got up and walked up to her, "But I'm willing to try if you are."

Sharon listened as Sam continued.

"They cleared the bionic staring machine and he killed almost everybody he's met."

"I heard that." Bucky said annoyingly.

"I don't trust charity." Sharon said.

"All right, a deal then." Sam extended his hand, "You help us out, and we get your name cleared."

After a long pause, Sharon agreed and shook his hand. She drank the liquid from her glass before walking off.

"Well, I sell to some pretty connected people. Lay low, blend in, enjoy the party. Try to stay out of trouble. I'll see what I can do."

Zemo smirked as he held his glass. He was looking forward to the event.

"Trouble."

• • •

IT WAS EARLY in the day and the group walked through the Madripoor docks. It was the supposed location of Wilfred Nagel.

"Madripoor could give New York a run for its money." Sam remarked.

"They know how to party." Zemo replied, remembering how he spent his time a mere hour ago.

"With that bounty on your head the longer you're in Madripoor the less likely you're ever leaving." Sharon said, then looked at her phone to double check the location, "All right. He's in there. Container four-two-six-one."

Y/N looked around, "I'll help Sharon keep on eye out while you three go inside."

"But hurry. We're on borrowed time." She added then gave everybody but Zemo earpieces.

They went their separate ways with Sam, Bucky, and Zemo going into the container and Sharon and Y/N walking through the docks.

"I didn't need a watch partner." She remarked as he walked alongside her.

"I know you don't, Agent 13. I'm just reliving the S.H.I.E.L.D days." He replied.

"You mean HYDRA?" Sharon mentioned. She had a point, the both of them had been working for them unknowingly before the Triskelion incident.

Y/N shook his head, then was suddenly pulled back by Sharon who took cover behind a container. Y/N took a peek and saw three men walking.

"Guys, we got company." Sharon informed the rest through the comms.

"All right, so how do we—?" Y/N was asking Sharon, but the former agent ran up to them and hit one on the head with her baton.

She moved on to the next and hit him too, then pinned the third man and kneed him in the abdomen, sending him to the floor.

"Maybe you didn't need my help after all." Y/N remarked as they continued walking.

"Every bounty hunter in city is here. We got to hurry."

Two more men appeared and were startled at the sight of Y/N and Sharon. She disarmed the first man and sent him to the floor while Y/N charged at the second one before he can reach for his gun.

Y/N grabbed his hand then hit him in the groin with his knee. He headbutted the bounty hunter after and flipped over onto the floor.

Sharon continued fighting a couple other goons when another ran towards Y/N. He unsheathed one of his karambit knives and attacked the goon, who dodged some of his thrusts but ultimately was stabbed in his side. The Specter finished him off with a roundhouse kick to his jaw.

He heard footsteps behind and immediately unsheathed his other karambit and swung. He pierced a bounty hunter in the thigh and stabbed him in the chest with his other knife. He kicked him to the floor afterwards.

Y/N turned around and saw Sharon pinning a man to the side of a container with his own rifle. He noticed another bounty hunter about to grab her from behind, but Y/N threw one of his knives and stabbed him in the shoulder.

Y/N ran up and engaged in a fight with him. He parried the man's punches and grabbed his arm on the last swing. While holding it, he took out the knife that was sticking out of his shoulder and stabbed him in the stomach with it.

Y/N still held him when he looked forward and saw two more bounty hunters coming. He took the man's own pistol from his holster and shot them down. The man he stabbed fell to the ground after Y/N pulled out the knife.

Him and Sharon looked around at the bodies of the men they took out.

"We have to get out of here." She breathed out with Y/N agreeing.

They ran to the Dr. Nagel's container and entered his lab, seeing Sam, Bucky, and Zemo interrogating him.

"Guys, we're seriously out of time here." Sharon told them.

Suddenly, Zemo pulled out a gun and shot Nagel in the chest.

"No!" Sam yelled.

With Y/N near, he pinned Zemo to the wall while Sharon grabbed his arm and took away the gun.

"What did you do?" Sharon asked with wide eyes.

Then there was an explosion as a bounty hunter outside shot at the container with a rocket launcher. The five of them fell to the floor as smoke and fire filled the lab.

Sam groaned as he looked around, "Anybody see Zemo?"

Y/N also opened his eyes and noticed he was gone, "Just great."

Bucky helped them up and ran out of the lab. Making it outside, Y/N grabbed the pistol from his waistband and held it.

"All right, wait for my signal!" Bucky exclaimed, but Sam moved on and began firing at the bounty hunters.

Bucky shook his head, "Damn it."

They moved along as well, firing at the men with their pistols as they took cover behind the remains of the blown up container.

"You like living here?" Y/N asked Sharon as he fired his gun at the goons.

Sharon fired twice, "It's not terrible."

Bucky shot his gun until he ran out of ammunition. He faced Sam, "I thought we were going left?"

"You went the wrong way!"

"I was clearing the way!"

"I came out first. You had to follow me."

"And where are we now?"

Y/N aimed his pistol and shot one man down before chiming in, "Can you save the arguing for later?"

"I'm covering you!" Sam ignored him and shouted at Bucky.

"This is a barricade!" He replied.

"It's in every action movie!" Sam exclaimed.

Suddenly, there was an explosion as a gas pipe-line was shot. Zemo, sporting a purple mask, dropped down from the container and started taking on the remaining bounty hunters. With his hand-to-hand combat and use of a single gun, he was able to do so effortlessly.

It looked like Zemo gave them an out.

"Come on, let's go." Y/N said.

They ran through the docks and entered a container. They exited through the other end with Bucky kicking open the doors. Soon after, a classic-looking sports car rolled up in front of them. Zemo was the driver.

"Supercharged." He spoke.

"You're going back to jail." Sam said with a serious tone.

"Do you want to find Karli or not?" He asked.

Bucky agreed, "He's right. We need him. And there's three of us, and at least 20 of them. Come on."

Bucky entered the passenger's side while Y/N hopped into the back behind Zemo. Sam glared at the Sokovian.

"Fine. But if you try that shit again..."

"I wouldn't dream of it." Zemo interjected.

"Well, that was one hell of a reunion." Sharon remarked.

"Come back to the States with us." Y/N offered, "Ross shouldn't be a problem."

"I could give two shits about that old man. Just get me that pardon you guys promised me." She replied before walking away.

"Thanks for everything." Sam called out and sat in the seat behind Bucky. He then rolled his eyes when he realized how much leg room he had.

"You're not gonna move your seat up, are you?"

Bucky stared ahead as he responded in a deadpanned manner, "No."

Zemo turned the engine back on and the four of them left the Madripoor docks.