Chapter 2
"Celaena, I'm pretty sure you know Steve, this is Wanda," beckoning to the girl dressed in mostly red, who flashed him a grin, "and this is Sam."
"Sup." Sam looked at Celaena and winked. Steve sighed, clearly annoyed by Sam's flirting. Celaena blushed, turning away.
"So," Bucky asked, "What are you guys doing here?" Directing the question towards Wanda, but Steve was the one to answer.
"We wanted to check on you Buck." Steve smiled and put his hand on his shoulder. His real shoulder, and not the metal one. Bucky smiled back. Wanda seemed very happy at this and asked Bucky if Celaena had met Natasha yet. Celaena replied, saying she had at the museum.
"So really though," he looked at Steve. "Why are you here?" Steve sighed.
"We need to track down a friend who has gone missing. We've tried for too long and we can't find him." Steve looked at the ground. "You were a last resort."
"You earlier did track us down really easily." The attention was brought to Sam now, and him referencing the battle with the Winter Soldier, earning a glare from Wanda and Steve. Bucky looked at the ground.
"Who else is coming?" Bucky shook himself from what he was thinking of. "Wanda, Sam, Natasha, you, Ca-e? I'm sorry what's your name again?" Steve looked at Celaena.
"Celaena. It's Celaena."she told Steve. "Yeah. Wanda, Sam, Natasha, you, and Celaena." Bucky looked at Steve.
"You've got to be kidding. Why is Celaena coming?" Celaena sighed muttering about how he read her file.
"We think she could be of use, according to what Natasha told us about her." Sam spoke up, leaning on the doorframe of the 'safe house'.
"Wow." Celaena rolled her eyes at Bucky and sighed. "I have to say I'm not surprised" Bucky looked away.
Bucky slid his gaze to Steve. "Who exactly are we trying to find?"
Steve pulled something out of his jacket, a file.
Something about that jacket triggered memories. He had a flashback of Steve standing on a highway, shoving Natasha away from him, as he pulled the trigger....
He brought his attention to the present, where Steve was holding out the file to him. On the front said Dr. Bruce Banner. Bucky set the file aside for later reading.
"We're also going to need you at headquarters. Both you and Celaena." Wanda said. He thought her accent was strange, slightly familiar.
"Are you Sokovian? The accent-." He asked, slightly curious.
"Yeah" Wanda looked into his eyes, the red of her clothes giving a slight red hue to the brown in them. "My parents were Sokovian."
"Oh." Bucky said, nodding.
"We also have new suits for you guys. Celaena, you are gonna love yours." Sam looked at Celaena. Wanda gave Sam a little nudge with her foot.
"What! I looked at her old suit and thought she would love the new one! It's got all your knives and stuff too!" Celaena looked happy enough that her knives were not destroyed, and settled back a little.
"We got you a new suit too." Sam looked over to him. "Pretty much the same."
"We should get going. We are wasting our time." Bucky looked at Celaena, then to Steve. He went to the door, paused and turned around, tucking the file into his jacket.
-•SHIELD headquarters•-
They walked in through the front door, which was pretty unusual, considering most of them used to be wanted throughout the whole world.
The Triskelion had been rebuilt, because the last time he had seen it, there had been half a helicarrier crashing into the left side of the glass building.
Some people looked at them, others didn't. The ones who did either narrowed their eyes or walked away as briskly as possible. He was used to it though. He spotted Natasha walking towards them in a hallway, going the opposite direction.
"Джеймс" she said in Russian to Bucky.
"Наталия" he replied back, and continued walking. Steve looked at Bucky and raised an eyebrow, but he didn't ask questions. They entered a room that was full of lockers and suits. Wanda went over to a rack of black leather suits and pulled one, tossing it at Celaena.
"Try this on." She then went over to a pile of red suits for her, deciding on which one to use. Bucky called to Sam asking where his suit was and Sam pointed to a cabinet. "All your stuff is there."
Bucky nodded and proceeded to the cabinet, where he found his suit, his knives, which were probably his best and most reliable weapon other than his arm, his guns, and in the back was a mask.
He remembered the mask like a second skin, every mission, every kill, he wore that mask. He went to ask Steve about the mask but he was gone, probably changing, so he grabbed a backpack and tucked the file and the mask into it and changed.