11 Hydra

Screams could be heard from Aj's room, the walls weren't super thick meaning everyone who was on that floor heard her. Bucky was the first he jumped up and ran to her bedroom. 

"Aj wake up. It's only a dream." He shook her gently trying to wake her up. Her screams stopped and she sat up breathing heavily. She started to cry. Bucky took her in his arms and whispered a lullaby in Russian. 

"Тили-тили-бом" Bucky started he waited a minute before Aj joined in.

"Закрой глаза скорее, Кто-то ходит за окном." She almost whispered. She tried to steady her breathing.

"И стучится в двери." They continued singing in a soft almost whisper until Aj pulled away from Bucky and looked into his blue eyes, her's looking back at him.

"Do they ever stop?" She asked.

"Eventually," Bucky started.

"It takes time," Sam said making them look at the doorway where he was standing. "Okay, but, what was that lullaby, that was terrifying." Bucky and Aj laughed. 

"It's honestly super creepy but, we sang it a lot in our cell at Hydra. Since you know we couldn't remember English we couldn't sing twinkle twinkle." She joked.

"What's the translation anyways?" Sam asked now curious.

"Tilli tilli bom, close your eyes quickly, someone walking outside the window, and knocking on the doors." She laughed seeing Sam's shocked face.

"They sing that to children?" He laughed. "I would be constantly terrified as a kid."

"Well, it's meant for babies who don't speak yet." Bucky laughed. "That's what a lullaby is. Plus some of the English lullabies are pretty freaking." Sam nodded in agreement. They both then turned to Aj remembering why they were here.

"You gonna be alright?" Bucky asked softly.

"Yeah, plus Friday has the sound thingy to wake me up if you guys aren't here." She gave them a sad smile.

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Bucky, Sam, and Aj went down to the kitchen and they would have made it if Friday hadn't stopped them.

"Ms.Barnes, Mr.Barnes, and Mr.Wilson, Mr.Stark would like you all in the briefing room." 

"Thank you Friday, we'll be there in a minute," Sam responded. 

"Where is the briefing room anyways?" Aj asked 

"Follow us." Bucky said as they led Aj down the hall to the elevator.

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"Yo Stark, you wanted to see us?" Sam asked as they all sat down around a big curved table, that could fir at least 20 other people.

"Yes, we found another Hydra base." Tony looked over at Aj to see her reaction but she looked very composed. "Uh, and we're going tonight to take it down. We also have intel that there is a USB with information on every other test subject for the serums they tried."

"Who else is coming?" Bucky asked.

"Rogers, me, and Nat," Tony told them "We would have brought Hope and Scott, we needed their good tinyness, but they're off helping Hank." He sighed.

"Do we have a game plan?" Steve asked coming into the room with Nat close behind him.

"No, not yet, that's why I called you all here." Tony said grabbing some papers from behind him. "This is what we have on the Hydra base." He handed Steve the sheets of paper. 

"Okay, well it seems to be very heavily guarded," Steve remarked.

"Exactly, which is why we're bringing her." Tony pointed at Aj.

"Me?" She raised an eyebrow.

"No the other person I'm pointing at, yes you! Look I was hoping you could use your powers."

"Uh sure, I mean I hardly use them but sure." She said shrugging her shoulders.

"Tony, I didn't go back into the field till almost a year after T'Challa and Shuri helped me. Its hardly been 4 months and we're putting her back in. I won't allow it, she could get hurt or worse! Bucky raised his voice.

"Bucky it's gonna be fine, plus I will have you and Steve, Tony and Nat and Sam." Bucky lowered his head. "Bucky please trust me, I can do this."

"I just wouldn't be able to live with myself if you got hurt." Bucky sighed.

"Buck, we'll keep her safe, plus you'll be with us." Steve reassured him.

"Okay, but if anything happens to her you are all dead." he warned the group.

"Bucky, nothings going to happen, promise."

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Tony and Sam flew ahead for recon, while Nat, Steve, Bucky, And Aj waited in the quinjet.

"There are 3 guards on the east entrance and 4 at the north entrance," Tony said over the coms.

"There is 2 on the west and 4 on the south," Sam said. 

"Aj, Steve you go through the west entrance, Barnes and Nat, you take out the guards. Aj, once Nat has given you the opening do the thing we talked about then head in with Steve to retrieve the USB." Tony ordered.

"Okay Barnes and I are heading to the south and north first." Nat explained as she and Bucky left the quinjet into the pitch-black night.

Aj sat uncomfortably while she waited for Nat to tell them it was alright to head in. Steve took notice of her behavior and sat down next to her.

"Bucky will be alright, he's done this like a million times," 

"I know, but what if I'm not good enough? If I get hurt Bucky won't be able to live with himself." She pouted.

"You were trained by the one and only Winter soldier, you are The Winter shadow. You were trained to be exactly like him, except you know with powers." Steve gave a reassuring smile as Aj sighed.

"you're right. Thanks Steve." 

"Anytime," A blush started creeping up on Steve but Nat quickly whispered over the coms.

"West is clear." 

"Don't worry me and Wilson are right above just in case," Tony spoke over the coms.

"We're heading out." Aj said opening the door of the quinjet and walking into pitch blackness. 

Steve followed Aj to the door which she quietly opened. She closed it behind them. Steve had his shield ready just in case. Aj put her hands on the wall and closed her eyes. Ice-covered the walls and soon the floor and ceiling. The ice moved around the building completely covering it in a matter of minutes. 

"You're all good, I can see the ice up here." Tony said smiling.

"We're going in," Steve said.

They walked down the corridor like the ice wasn't even there. Hydra agents ran at them but clearly lost their footing. Aj quickly shot them with ice and knocked them into the ice-covered walls. She laughed that had an eery tone to it making Steve shudder.

"You good Aj?" 

"Yeah I'm great, come on." She practically ran to the computer room. 

"Aj! wait!" Steve ran after her. 

Steve caught up and they headed into the room, Steve grabbed the USB he had in his hand that was a replica of the one they were taking. 

"Steve? Is Aj okay?" Bucky said frantically over the coms. After not hearing back from them in a bit.

"Buck, I'm fine." Aj laughed. Suddenly there was banging on the door.

"Agents, Ill take care of them you get the USB," Aj said as she walked towards the door. She raised her hands to create a thick layer of ice covering the doors and windows for good measure.

"Found it, okay Aj lets-" Steve turned around to find Aj staring straight ahead looking terrified. Suddenly he noticed the man in the corner holding a gun to Aj.

"Tony, help. Now." Steve whispered into the coms.

"Got it Cap."

Aj whimpered making Steve look at Aj quickly to see if he was hurting her.

"Let her go. I've got the whole team coming so you might as well let her go now." Steve said hoping it would make the man scared enough to give her up.

"Oh Captain, it's not that simple. At least when you took солдат, we still had her. But then you took Тень." Steve looked at the man almost giving off he was confused.

"Тень, it means Shadow, ahh." Aj winced.

"No talking!" the man yelled pushing the gun into the back of her head. "Now Captain, hand me the USB."

"I'm sorry but I can't do that." 

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During this conversation Bucky was all over the coms trying to figure out what was going on but Steve or Aj never responded.

"Bucky, calm down." Nat said.

"I would be calmer if Steve would respond. Why can't we go in?" He yelled.

"For Aj's safety." Nat responded.

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There was a loud bang at the door. "Tony," Steve thought in relief

"Good thing Тень put up  that ice wall now isn't it." The man chuckled making Steve's anger boil. "How about we take a walk?" The man smiled quickly wrapping his arm around Aj putting a knife to her throat. She gasped but quickly regretted it. Blood trickled down her neck.

"Fine." Steve said defeated.

Tony and Sam quickly broke through the door to see what was going on.

"You better let her go." Tony said charging up his repulsers. The man just laughed making Tony turn to Steve.

"Stand down Tony. I'm going to talk with him." Tony looked confused but put his arm down and moved out of the way as the man led Steve and Aj out the door. 

"Sam, fly above us to keep watch," Steve whispered as they walked past him. Sam nodded. Sam waited till he knew they were out of the building before heading to the roof. Tony went back to the quinjet to tell them what was going on.

"Barnes, some man has Aj, and Steve is negotiating." Tony started.

"What? What did he look like?" Bucky's eyes widened and he stood up.

"Uh, I don't know,"

"Did he have a scar over his right eyebrow?"

"As a matter of fact, yeah."

"What's wrong Bucky?" Nat asked.

"That's Адриан Лебедев," he sat back down and placed his face in his hands.

"Adrian Lebedev? Who's that?" Nat asked confused by the name.

"He was our leader I guess. After our last instructor got killed or arrested or something, he was brought in. He was the leader of mine and Aj's experiments. He gave her those powers and the serum."

"So he was just in charge of you guys?" Tony asked.

"Yeah, he was in charge of everything, food, missions, torture, and experiments. He always talked about how if we ever left he would track us down and kill us." Bucky jumped up. "I'm going after them."

"Bucky, you're going to make it worse, please," Tony argued. That didn't stop Bucky from checking where Steve was and running out of the quinjet to find him.

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"What do you want?" Steve said as they walked farther into the forest crowding the barrier of the Hydra base.

"The USB, it had very valuable information." Steve pulled out the fake USB he had left in his pocket. He went to leave it back in the computer room but was stopped by the man. 

"Here," Steve handed him the fake.

"Steve no you ca- ahh." More blood trickled down Aj's neck as the man slide the knife farther across her neck.

"Aj, it's going to be fine." He reassured her. Steve reached to where the man was and handed him the fake. The man grabbed it and started releasing the pressure on her neck.

"Okay, you have what you want, let her go," Steve demanded. The man started to release Aj from his grasp but Bucky came running to where they were.

"Give her back!" He yelled stopping when the man regained his grasp on her.

"Oh солдат, look what you've done." The man snickered before a ladder fell behind him. "Come a step closer and I'll kill her." He pushed Aj up onto the ladder forcing her up. 

He quickly jumped onto the ladder as well. He turned to look at the concerned super soldiers. 

"If солдат had just stayed where he was maybe you would have her back." The man laughed. 

"It's not your fault Bucky," Aj yelled from the ladder. The man sliced the back of her calf making her cry out in pain. 

Bucky fell to his knees as they watched the helicopter fly away with Aj and the man.

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I hope you guy's liked this chapter. I had to search for a really creepy lullaby for that first scene xD Please leave any comments about suggestions or even just ideas you have for the next chapter.

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