Here We Go Again

chapter 3 - the new man with a plan

The day after making his first amends James woke in a cold sweat, turned on the TV where he saw that a new Captain America was being announced.

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SHIT? He screamed internally, his face frozen in disbelief, as he saw the live version of the old man from UP accept Steve's shield. Several questions quickly came to mind. Who is the man? How does he have Sam's shield? Wait, Sam didn't do what I think he did, did he? He shook his head at that thought, Sam wouldn't have done that, he knows how much the shield meant to him and how Steve had trusted him with it.

Just as quickly as those questions came to mind, his heart sank the corners of his mouth turning down slightly, knowing that Sam must have done that. There was no other way they could have gotten it. It wasn't necessarily the easiest thing to steal, sure Sharon had done it but that was pre-Blip. Surely security on something would be much harder to steal now.

He turned and with his metal arm punched the wall behind him and just stared at the spot. He was pissed that he had let his anger get the best of him and also that he needed to fix the hole in his apartment now. Maybe I'll just hang something in front of it he thought.

After awhile he turned the TV off and decided to find Sam. When he finally found him, he gave him a piece of his mind, letting him know how he felt

"Wow man, I had no idea you felt that way," Sam responded. "So what do you want to do?"

"I WANT US TO STEAL IT BACK!," James yelled at Sam.

"And do what exactly?," Sam asked with a quizzical look on his face?"

James started, "Well, in my attempt to make amends, I've heard murmurs of a group trying to take advantage of the Blip and using Hydra's old solider serum as a means of doing that.

Sam nodded, knowing exactly what James was talking about, not knowing how exactly he knew about it.

"Look, this is classified information and I'll deny telling you, but the new Captain America is working on this too. I've met with him a few times, haven't liked it, but have done it. And honestly, I don't trust him. There's something about his involvement in this that I don't like. He's too smooth and too eager to stop them. Plus, he's the living embodiment of the Sovokia accords, everything Cap was against. He's limited by what he can do."

Bucky nodded, "So if we're going to do this, we'll have to go off the grid and do this ourselves."

"That's what you took away?" Sam raised his eyebrows and crossed his arms.

"Yep, you know Cap would have done it for us. Plus, he would have wanted you to have it back. And you already know how I feel about Hydra and going off grid. We have to do this, Sam."

"Fine, let me get more intel and I'll get back to you when I can. On an unrelated noted, how's your mission from Steve going?"

"You know about that, Sam?"

"Yeah, Steve wrote me a letter too. He wanted me to look after you. Made sure you live up to your potential."

"Honestly, outside of my that date, I haven't thought about it."

"Well, we gotta change that then." Sam said with a smirk.