#hydra rogues

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Rogues Headcanon

If they get really, really annoyed with Steve for pulling some stupidly life-endangering shit (again), Strike Team Alpha will start humming he USO song about the “Star spangled man with a plan”.

More often than not, Sam and Bucky will join in.

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HYDRA Rogues’ verse - first scene

I have this picture in my head, of STRIKE team stepping back to reveal the Winter Soldier standing at the end of the corridor in front of Steve’s apartment, and Steve going “Bucky?” in that horribly broken voice....and the Soldier replying “Who the hell is Bucky?”.....and then the whole STRIKE Team going in unison “You are!” while Steve is still speechles.

And then the Team ushering the Soldier into Steve’s appartment with remarks like “You got maybe 10 minutes to explain to him, Rogers. We’ll help, but after that they’re going to come after us.”

It takes Steve 7 of those 10 minutes to ask Rumlow WHO is going to come after them.

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STRIKE Team Alpha AU plotbunny

The doorbell rings.

Steve wasn't expecting visitors.

Hell, he usually never even GETS visitors. The last people to ring his doorbell were Jehova's Witnesses and he offered them a glass of water to keep them from dehydrating in the sweltering summer heat, before kindly declining the brochures they offered and sending them back on their way. That was three weeks ago.

He's been doing the dishes (no point in using the dishwasher for one plate and one cup....and that's all he usually uses) and his hands are wet, so he takes a moment to dry them off before heading for the door.

Whoever is on the other side has NOT been blessed with a surplus of patience, since the doorbell rings two more times in the half-minute it takes him to get there.

His eyebrows shoot up to his hairline once he looks out the door viewer, because squeezing themselves into the corridor is what looks to be the entire Strike Team Alpha, all geared up and kitted out for at least a minor war, all of them looking kinda nervous.

Hell, Rollins is bringing up the rear and he has taken up position at the back, canvassing the stairs as if he expects enemy fire to start pelting them any given second.

He opens up the door, already setting up a mental checklist of situations that might require such a set-up, thinking about what kind of gear he might require and going through the last-known locations for the other Avengers, because whatever is going on, it's NOT coming through the usual, official channels which makes the whole thing more than fishy....and also possibly of a bigger scope than the stuff he and his STRIKE team usually handle on their own.  

Rumlow, who's at the front, almost flinches as the door opens.

The eyes of STRIKE's team-leader are puffy and have dark rings underneath that make him look like he hasn't slept in a week. He's sporting a bruise on his cheek the size of a goose-egg and his usually cocky lop-sided grin seems ready to collapse in on itself like a burnt out ruin.

Steve steels himself for some bad news.

His curt "Report." makes Brock's grin spread out and steady though, into Rumlow's copyrighted Sitrep?-FUBAR-and-I'm-loving-it smile and he clears his throat to speak.

"Well Cap, looks like we haven't been quite honest with you. And this? This is us coming clean. Because we're going to need each other if we all want to make it out of this alive."

Point is, I seriously need a fic where, shortly before Project Insight launches

Rumlow learns that his little niece, whom he loves to bits, won a state-wide contest with an essay on how being an american means being ready to stand  up and question the status quo. The moment he read it, he realised that this unabashed criticism of "the System" .....this incendiary piece of writing, will put her on the list for Project Insight. If not now, then a few years down the road. And he's killed a lot of people whose death he felt were a necessary sacrifice in order to give Hydra a chance at building a world that was safe and secure for everybody...but this? This is the line he can't cross. Or something else along those lines.

other STRIKE Team Alpha members finds out e,.g. that their boyfriend / girlfriend / significant other passes his free time, when they're away,     arguing with strangers on the internet about how people need to speak up and if necessary boycott shops and companies or take to the streets in order to strengthen civil and human rights and similar stuff

Maybe Rollins, by chance, comes across a newspaper article, with a pic of the ONE teacher who really encouraged and helped him in school, a nice, elderly little lady, being arrested at a civil rights rally.

and they realize that once those Helicarriers start shooting, they will lose people who they love (or, in Rollins' case, like and owe a lot to).....and they kinda get thinking: "Fuck it all, the world needs more order, but maybe this isn't the right way to go after all?!?!!".

Then, there's a lot of heartbreaking and desperate "Shit, I can't let my team realize I've changed my mind.....they'll KILL me....but how can I stop this without them? Help!!!"  plus some really awkward scheming and maneouvering, and then they get their shit together (AND convince the rest of the Team....which is chancy, because who knows if they can trust each other?)

and then STRIKE Team Alpha drafts a completely unsuspecting Captain America into their plans.

And they jailbreak the Winter Soldier too (maybe get sent on a mission with him and go on a detour instead....one that leads them right to Steve’s door, wll knowing that within the next 5 minutes the higher-ups will notice that something is off and that they are NOT where they’re supposed to be).

Thing is, they need one James Buchanan Barnes as evidence to convince Steve that they haven't gone completely bonkers....imagine Rollins motioning somebody else forward into the corridor, and the guy turns, eyes narrowed and a frown on his face, and voilà! Bucky.

Plus, added bonus for complicating factors, like

there actually having been a couple of Hydra Trash Parties and Steve finding out mid-action (with the Team not exactly participating....they weren’t high enough up the food-chain to get invited to that....but they knew or maybe even had to stand guard).

the Winter Soldier realizing that the STRIKE Team is defecting from Hydra and him, as the Fist of  Hydra, being trained to take out traitors on the spot...and him almost acting on that according to his conditioning, with maybe Steve holding him back (and maybe internally debating wether he really should).

Rumlow having done the frick-fack with both Cap and the Asset

the Team having to scramble to save their loved ones, because once Hydra realizes they've defected and betrayed Hydra's plans to Cap/SHIELD/the Avengers, their loved ones are  going to become prime targets

Sitwell catching wind of this and deciding to throw his lot in with the defectors, but having a hard time getting the team to trust him, since he's very high up in Hydra's hierarchy (extra added bonus if there's an understandable, relatable and, above all, redeemable, motif for being Hydra in the first place....maybe something along these lines.).

The Winter Soldier thinking of Strike Team Alpha as HIS team. As in “personal property” HIS.

Remembering that he is Bucky too making the Winter Soldier re-evalutate how HIS Team helped keep him captive and in slavery and he’s royally pissed at them. And if there’s an opportunity to do so without endangering  the mission, he’s not above getting a little (or a lot) of payback. Steve always was the nice one. Thanks to Hydra, HE hasn’t been on the side of light and righteousness in a good long while, and this time at least, he knows his wrath will hit the right people.

They all really DO need each other to survive and pull this off, and innocent lives are at stake, so for the moment, taking STRIKE Team Alpha to task and treating them like the Hydra trash that they are is completely off the table. But everybody knows that once this is over, there will be some kind of reckoning….which, everybody knows, the STRIKE team will try to weasel out of.

Lots of mistrust and hard feelings from Steve’s side (plus from any other loyal SHIELD agents/  affiliates they manage to rope into the mess).

The STRIKE team thinkingf that all they’d do would be keeping their loved ones safe and then making a get-away and finding a more palatable way of bringing the world to heel.

BUT to their NEVER-ENDING HORROR, caught between Cap and a furious Sergeant Barnes, BOTH of which the Team has learned to recognize as their CO, and BOTH of which are giving them grief with a myriad little digs questioning their lives’ choices, the team discovers they’re actually starting to feel guilty about what they’ve done in the name of Hydra.

As a result, they get defensive and sullen, but neither Cap nor the Winter Soldier is letting up on them, all the while they’re sleep deprived, worn out, worn down, and STILL jumping from one hair-raising, nick-of-time mission goal to the next, getting injured and almost killed more times than they can count, only to receive much needed assistance and on rare occasion even a kindly word from people they’ve betrayed….and as a result, they’re breaking down

I want Rumlow trying to hide his tears when some SHIELD medics, who KNOW the Team is a bunch of backstabbing Hydra defectors, to swoop in under fire to stabilize Rollins, who has taken a bad hit and is bleeding out on the floor, even though the medics could have left them high and dry and just protected their own asses.

I want some other STRIKE Team member, who only went along with the rest of the Team because his loyalty to them slightly outweighs his loyalty to Hydra, start shaking like a tree leaf when they dig up the files that Hydra kept on them, and he realizes that his mom didn’t abandon him when he was 5, but that his estranged dad, who was Hydra, simply didn’t want her to have him and saw to it that he was whisked away by CPS under some phony pre-text and then shuffled from one (deliberately) shitty foster family to the next, so his mom, who never stopped looking for him, wouldn’t be able to find him.

I want another STRIKE Team member, sitting in a corner, crying her heart out, because when they got to their boyfriends’ / girlfriend's / significant other's house, the doors’ had been broken down and there is blood all over the place, but then a call comes in and it turns out that a team of retired SHIELD agents who got re-activated for this, got his/her sweetheart out in time and he has a few scrapes and got banged up a bit, but (s)he’s ALIVE.

Fury getting a migraine while  de-briefing the STRIKE Team on their Hydra activities in all the past  years and realizing just how deep the rot goes

ETA: Anybody wants to write a fic or a ficlet in this universe, go ahead and tag it

#Hydra Rogues

That way, other people will be more likely to find it.  ^_^