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chapter five

"Its all lies,

darling"

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Suiting up never took long for Penelope, on a good day, it could take her three minutes, on a bad one maybe four.

Her suit was simply looking, it was a dark navy blue that faded into a more bright blue around the legs and arms. She had a mask that covered her whole face, it is a mix of navy blue and black, somewhat resembling Ironman's but without the iron parts. The inside of her suit was a different story, the intricate programming leads to it being very complex, and with her AI, it is probably on the level of Tony's suit easily.

"Heads up Cap, German special forces approaching from the south," Sam said over the earpieces, Penny looked down onto the building and saw the Germans heading into the building.

Penny looked over the design of the building and then jumped onto the ledge and then bent down. "Careful Pen," Sam said to the young girl

"Relax, relax, I won't hurt myself." She sassed back and then looked into the window Penny reached to her ear and then stated "We are compromised, they are on the roof."

Penny looked back at Sam real quick and sent him a small head nod as she jumped off of the roof using the flight rockets she had engaged in her boots to make her fly steadily under the window. Her thoughts pacing with what to do, a smirk grew on her face as she saw men bursting into the windows where she knew Steve and Bucky were, about fifteen seconds later she saw a backpack fly out of the window and onto the building across from her.

Rolling her eyes, the girl jumped onto the other roof landing not far from the backpack. The brown-haired girl hearing crashing and gunshots coming from inside the building. About to use her powers to get her up into the building to help the Bucky and Steve get out of there easier, she saw a man jump out of the window. He landed on the edge almost falling off. He ran past the girl paying her no attention as he grabbed his backpack. Taking a moment to register what just happened Penny smirked and then started to run after the man she put together was the Winter Soldier.

But before she could get too close someone flew over her and landed on bucky. The men both quickly got up. The one who Penny did not know took a fighting pose than the two started to fight.

Penny who was still standing off to the side trying to figure out who this other figure was, quickly jumped into action when she saw Bucky get cornered into wall type thing. She quickly ran over there and grabbed his arm pulling it from Buckys head

"Not today Kitty Cat," Penny smirked under her mask, distracting the strange man long enough for Bucky to get back on his feet. The other man quickly pushed Penny out of the way and onto the ground, Bucky and him continued to fight, Bucky even flipping the man as Penny quickly brought her hand up to her ear "Could use some help on the southwest rooftop."

Penny was paying attention to the fight and used her powers to quickly move a metal pole into the grasp of Bucky in order to not her clawed in the face.

"Who the hell is the other guy?" Sam asked over the earpiece

"I'm about to find out," Steve said, Penny looked over just in time to see Steve jump over to them. A helicopter started to shot at them, Steve quickly asked Sam to take care of that for them which he quickly did for them. Bucky and the cat man both jumped off of the side of the building

"You have got to be kidding me" Penny quickly grumbled as she saw Steve jump after them. Penny quickly ran up to the edge of the building and stood on the edge "What's the worst that could happen." she sighed and then jumped to the small part below.

After jumping to the ground about 20 seconds after Steve did and with one cut to her arm she ran into the oncoming traffic following the men in front of her. She started running as fast as she could and was able to meet up with Steve as soon as he pulled a man out of a car. She quickly ran to the other side and climbed in, Steve seconds behind her. "Sure you don't want me to drive?" she joked to tell him of her presence

Steve quickly looked over at her and shook his head "I may have been trapped in the ice for a while but I know that you are too young to drive" Penny shrugged and then smirked

"Drive faster we need to catch up to them." Steve took her advice and started to weave through the cars, the strange man quickly took notice of who we were and jumped onto the car. Steve started to swerve to get him off.

"We can't shake this guy Sam." Penny quickly said over the earpiece. Police cars following hot after the bunch. Steve who was following Bucky quickly turned into cans and knocked them out causing dust to go everywhere.

The two in the car followed Bucky weaving through cars. As soon as Penny saw that the man who was still handing onto their car had flown towards Bucky her window went down and she started to climb out. In a matter of seconds, Penny was flying out of the car and over to Bucky, Steve, and an explosion following not long after.

Sirens started to approach the group from both sides leaving no way out.

"Crap" Penny muttered as she stood next to Steve. Taking a moment to finally look at the man she had grown up hearing so much about. The winter soldier looked a lot like the pictures she had seen. Yet completely different, but she didn't have much time to look at him before Rhody wearing his war machine outfit zoomed down and landed in front of them "Stand down, now" commanded, guns being pointed at them from all different directions.

"Congratulations Cap, your a criminal," Rhody stated. Men started to come from every direction, Penny slowly put her arms up in surrender, her arm stinging from the cut that she knows didn't penetrate her suit but sure as heck penetrated her skin.

A man quickly came behind her and put her hands in cuffs, along with everyone around her except the strange man that she did not know. He brought his hand up to his mask and took it off. Reveling a man that looked familiar but the brown-haired girl could not put her finger on it.

"Your highness." Rhody quickly said, Penny, let out a sigh as the men started to load everyone in a van. Penny ended up sitting next to Sam towards the back,

The ride was quiet most of the ride back. The only sound was the car driving them,

"Do you like cats?" Sam asked the man earning a kick from Penny. "What? A man shows up in a cat costume, and you don't wanna know more?"

Everyone ignored his statement "So your suit, it's vibranium?"

The man then chose to respond "The black panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations. A mantel passed from warrior to warrior... and now, because your friend has murdered my father I also wear the mantel of the king.... So I ask you as both warrior and king... how long do you think you can keep your friend safe from me?"

The rest of the ride was silent. It wasn't until the car was fully to a stop and they all started piling out Penny finally said

"Tony is going to kill me"