The Hunt Continues
With a plan made up, Bucky and Darcy stayed at the hotel as everyone else went back to the property. Bucky had his arms wrapped around her as they watched everyone leave from their hotel window. Darcy said a silent prayer for them as she felt like something was going to happen.
As the team arrived back at the property, the air was full of tension after what they had found out what happened to Darcy. Once they had set up base, the team was put into groups before investigating. After saying a small speech, Tony sent the team off to go find Rumlow.
"This is Steve, entering the home. I am here with Natasha, Sam and Happy. After having a conversation with Darcy and Pierce, we are back", Steve said into a recorder as they entered the house. "I'm not getting a reading or sense of the spirit. Again", Natasha said as she looked around. Steve, Sam and Happy looked at each other, but didn't comment. They continued to walk along the ground floor to find anything, completely unaware of the pair of eyes following them before going to another part of the property.
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Jane, Thor, Clint and Rhodey were walking through the gardens. They were hoping that they could entice Rumlow to show himself out there. However, they were unaware of what Rumlow had in store for them.
"This is Jane with the guys. We are walking in the gardens, hoping that Rumlow will reveal himself to us", Jane said into a recorder. Rhodey panned his camera to show that no one else was around, but noted that there was a stump for chopping wood and an axe about twenty feet away. "Now I normally don't feel anything during investigations. However, I feel like something bad is about to happen", Thor said. Clint and Rhodey both nodded in agreement.
"Why are you so obsessed with Darcy? Why haven't you passed on? You're only hurting her, can't you see that?", Jane asked as she started the investigation. Clint panned into Jane as she asked her questions. But as he did that, he got a whistling sound in his hearing aid. As he went to smack his hearing aid, Thor caught a glimpse of metal flying towards Jane. "Jane!", Thor cried as he pushed her out of the way. He quickly moved his head to dodge the axe that was flying towards his head. Unfortunately the axe cut his upper cheek, eye and eyebrow.
"Thor! Oh my god, Thor!", Jane cried as she saw what happened to Thor. Clint and Rhodey immediately went to Thor as soon as he hit the ground. "Shit, shit, shit!", Rhodey mumbled as Clint ripped part of his shirt to put over Thor's eye to stop the bleeding. "Jane, Jane!", Rhodey yelled at her to get her attention. As soon as Jane looked over at him, Rhodey continued to talk. "I need you to radio everybody else, right now. We are going to take Thor to one of the vans and go to the hospital. Do you understand?", he said. Jane numbly nodded as she grabbed her radio.
As soon as Rhodey, Clint and Thor got to the van, the rest of the team was running up to them. They quickly got Thor situated and then pointed out who would go with him. Once the van left the property, Steve and Tony looked at each other realizing that this case is a completely different level that they were use to. They could only hope that Thor would be okay and that they could stop Rumlow.
"One down... Ten to go", Rumlow said from his view as he watched the van leave.