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- "The timetable has moved. Our window is limited. Two targets, level six. They already cost me Zola. I want confirmed death in ten hours."
- ―Alexander Pierce to Winter Soldier[src]
The Battle of Washington, D.C. was a clash between Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson against Winter Soldier and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s STRIKE team who were loyal to HYDRA.
Background[]
Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff speaking to Arnim Zola
- "Zola's algorithm evaluates peoples' past to predict their future."
"And what then?"
"Oh, my god. Pierce is gonna kill me."
"What then?!"
"Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few million at a time." - ―Jasper Sitwell and Steve Rogers[src]
Arnim Zola revealed that HYDRA, despite the defeat of Red Skull, had been growing inside S.H.I.E.L.D. for the past seventy years, to Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff, only to result in HYDRA ordering an airstrike on their location, killing Zola.
Rogers and Romanoff laid low in Sam Wilson's apartment, a friend whom Rogers met previously during a morning run. Wilson revealed his past as a parajumper and equipment that he had used during his career in the military. Rogers and Romanoff figured that Jasper Sitwell knew information regarding Zola's algorithm. The trio went to Fort Meade to retrieve the EXO-7 Falcon wings. Wilson brought Sitwell to the top of a building in downtown Washington, D.C. and the team forced him to reveal the true intentions of Project Insight.[1]
Battle[]
Winter Soldier after killing Jasper Sitwell
- "Она моя. Найдите его.[3]"
- ―Winter Soldier[src]
On a freeway, the trio took Jasper Sitwell to use him to prevent Project Insight and arrest Alexander Pierce, but was disrupted when Winter Soldier leaped onto their car and attacked them. The masked assassin grabbed Sitwell and threw him into traffic, but Captain America slammed the emergency brake, throwing the Winter Soldier off the car. A jeep with HYDRA mercenaries rammed the car, causing it to struggle across the pavement and tumble. Despite this, Rogers, Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson survived the crash.
Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff fight Winter Soldier
A shootout occurred on the freeway and the trio separated. Rogers defended himself against a rocket launcher using his vibranium shield, but the blast caused Rogers to fly off the bridge into a transit bus, which later crashed on the street below. Romanoff fought Winter Soldier and the HYDRA mercenaries but was forced to swing off and underneath the bridge when she was nearly caught in the explosion of a nearby car. Wilson held his ground on the bridge and fought the remaining HYDRA mercenaries with a knife and a stolen rifle. While Winter Soldier was searching for Romanoff, she revealed herself and shot his eyeglasses.
Winter Soldier attempts to kill Natasha Romanoff
Four mercenaries rappelled down to kill Rogers, but he managed to avoid being hit and grab hold of his shield. Wilson began to aid Rogers in killing the mercenaries. While searching for Romanoff, Winter Soldier was tricked when hearing her voice behind a nearby car, only for Romanoff to tackle him from behind. After a short fight, Winter Soldier wounded her in the shoulder when she attempted to evacuate civilians and herself; Rogers attacked him, saving Romanoff from the throes of death.
Steve Rogers fighting against Winter Soldier
Winter Soldier and Rogers engaged in a fierce fight on the streets until Rogers forced Winter Soldier's mask to come off. It was then revealed to him that Winter Soldier was in fact Bucky Barnes, Rogers' long-lost friend during World War II. However, he was clueless as to who he was, as well as his past friendship with Rogers in the 1940s. Now distracted and confused, Wilson and Romanoff attacked Winter Soldier. However, when Romanoff chucked a grenade at the assassin, Barnes mysteriously vanished.
STRIKE apprehends Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson
Moments later, the STRIKE team led by Brock Rumlow arrived and surrounded the trio. They were about to execute the three, but Rumlow ordered his men to stand down and merely arrest Rogers, Romanoff and Wilson, as news helicopters were filming them. They were then driven away by armored vehicles in heavy restraints to be executed away from public view.[1]
Aftermath[]
Nick Fury and the others discuss their plan
- "It was him. He looked right at me and he didn't even know me."
"How's that even possible? It was like seventy years ago."
"Zola. Bucky's whole unit was captured in '43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did, it helped Bucky survive the fall." - ―Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson[src]
Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson, with the help of Maria Hill, escaped from STRIKE and Hill took them to a hidden facility. While the doctors inside began to treat Romanoff for her gunshot wounds, the three of them were taken to Nick Fury's presence, who was still alive. Fury revealed that he took Tetrodotoxin B, a drug developed as a heart-rate suppressant by Bruce Banner, and they began their plan to take down Project Insight.
As they were preparing, Rogers spoke to Wilson about how Barnes had not recognized him. When Wilson inquired as to how it could have Barnes when he supposedly died around seventy years ago, Rogers theorized that Zola's experiments on him caused him to survive and that HYDRA must have found him after.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- ↑ Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline
- ↑ Translates to: "I'll take care of her. Find him."