The Knights started moving back to their Quinjet. After a tense walk back, they managed to reach the Qunijet but as soon as they came closer, they noticed a man standing at the front of the Quinjet.
The man was tall, possibly 7 feet and he had enough muscles to create a terrifying atmosphere just by standing there. He was dressed from head to toe in black ops unit dress and attacked them without speaking anything.
His actions were ruthless and if the knights had not increased their training under Senior Bradley, they would have died in seconds. But still, 6 of them together could not even touch the shadow of this single attacker.
"Martha, report to the base. I need backup. Tell Fury this is a trap. We are being hunted down." Bucky crawled on the ground reducing his body height and gave instructions to Martha.
He heard the painful cries of his knights behind him and punched the ground in anger. This was the first time he felt caged like an animal.
Someone very dangerous was targeting him. All the shots were meant to kill, and the bullet was special. He knew the suit can prevent most of the damage, but he had no idea if the enemy has a rapid-fire gun.
Without any information on another team, all he could do is to send instructions to Martha to use the Flacon unit to hunt these bastards.
-----Steve Qunijet-----
Steve was on a different mission with his team. They were sent to investigate enemies in Singapore who used the alien attack and destroyed five SHIELD houses. Nothing was stolen so far but there were high casualties.
It seemed someone targeted SHIELD for something but didn't find it in these safe houses and the poor soldiers became their venting objects. However, before they could even enter Singapore airspace, Fury ordered them to move back and support Bucky's team.
"Knight Commander, winter soldier requests immediate support. I repeat winter soldier request immediate support." Fury's calm voice made Steve feel something was wrong, and he immediately asked the pilot to move toward the Bucky's location.
"This is Knight Commander Steve Rogers. I am heading there with my team. Is there any additional support?"
"Three units are already in the air." Fury replied and Steve feeling lit better, put the Quinjet at maximum speed and rushed towards Bucky.
-----Bucky's site-----
While Bucky was being shot repeatedly by snipers from different locations, his team was getting massacred by a tall man.
The man grabbed one knight by his throat and smashed him to the ground like a child. Then he shot him in the face while holding him down. The blood splattered across his face, but the man's expression didn't change at all.
He took another pistol from his holster and started firing from both hands.
One knight did a roll on the ground to escape and returned fire but the man standing straight ignore those attacks.
The bullets either bounced on him or simply were defected in a strange attack. Nothing came close to hitting him while he was reaping lives one after another. The intense shooting continued for some time until the last knight fell on the cold hard ground.
The man walked calmly to the last man and looked at the dying knight. The knight with all his remaining strength picked up a knife hidden behind his back and attacked the guy but that man simply caught his hand and broke his wrist.
The man removed his helmet and the knight saw the face of his attacker. However, he had no idea about his identity until the man whispered the sentence "Hail Hydra!" and then stabbed the knight with his own knife killing him.
Bucky could hear the reports from Martha and knew his team was dead. Now, he was the only one alive.
"Fuck!" Clenching his wrist, he activated the energy shield a second time and ran again towards the institute.
One sniper who took aim at him was suddenly blasted by the drone that attacked him at his location and the same thing happened at three different locations. The recon drones had no ammo to create a bigger explosion, but the self-destruct mode had enough power to divert the attacker's attention from Bucky and save his life.
"Bucky kept running faster and faster and saw the iron gate in front of him. He jumped directly on it, breaking the door, landing inside on one knee and keeping the shield in front. But the expected firepower was missing, and he found the whole building was dead silent.
There were researchers of course, but they were dead. The institute was already attacked and looking at the broken instruments and burning files, it was not long back. There was another team that attacked this place and then laid a trap for them.
"Martha send the visuals to the command room!" Bucky decided to pass on the present visuals to Fury for future use and hearing a sound coming from the back, he ran inside. As long as he can grab one vial of that serum, he can free those women and fulfil his mission.
Bucky moved faster and Martha kept instructing him about possible places and they avoided any detours. Finally, he reached the storage unit but the sight in front was a disheartening one.
The entire unit was empty. Completely empty.
"Fuck!" Cursing this operation, Bucky walked back to check the computers for any possible information about this red dust serum but suddenly the window on his left was broken and someone jumped on him.
"Smack!" Kicking directly on his stomach, the attacker managed to throw Bucky high up in the air and while Bucky was still falling down the attacker shot at him continuously.
Thankfully the vibranium suit managed to nullify the attacks but that kick still gave a lot of pain to Bucky.
However, he was not angry at this attack but rather thankful. After all, he can finally face his attacker.
"Good! But now you are dead!" Bucky activated the shield and ran toward his attacker.
The attacker shot back but Bucky deflected the shots and jumped higher in the air and using his super-soldier strength gave a direct kicked on the enemy's helmet. While the opponent was disoriented, he ducked down and grabbed his legs and pulled them hard.
"BOOM!" The enemy who was covered in a thick metallic suit like Fury's fell headfirst on the ground and Bucky got on top of him. Snatching the gun from the enemy's hands, Bucky fired multiple rounds directly at close range on the opponent's helmet cracking it. Then finding a rare chance, he punched hard and broke the helmet in one go.
However, he was taken back by the true face of the Taskmaster. It was a woman or a young girl to be exact. A girl with one real eye and had a strange metallic eye implanted in her another eye.
Bucky paused in his attack and that gave the taskmaster the chance she was waiting for all this time. She used her legs to choke Bucky from the back and pulled him down while pulling a long knife and hitting him directly at his knees.
The Knife got stuck at the joint of the armour and the woman smiled. She kicked Bucky back and ran behind creating some space between them.
Bucky could not even register the sudden change before the woman turned back and used her arm guards to shoot a metallic rope and it fixed itself at the knife.
Bucky realising the situation was dangerous tried to remove the knife, but the Taskmaster was more efficient.
The minute the metallic rope connected with the long knife, she activated high voltage with her armguard paralysis Bucky instantly.