Second Sphere

Get out of my house

"Nice kid. How do you know this guy?" Sam asks.

"We used to. We had a skirmish during the Korean War." Bucky tells Sam.

"If you want to even call it that." I add but Bucky gives me a look that tells me to shut up about it.

The door opens again and the kid lets us in, "Today's tour lucky day. He said he wants to see for himself."

We all file in quietly.

"Isaiah." Bucky nods. And I do the same standing next to him.

"Look at you." Isaiah glances between us.

"This is, uh Sam. Sam, this is Isaiah. He was a hero. One of the ones that Hydra feared the most. Like Steve. We met in '51." Bucky explains.

"If by met, you mean I whupped your ass so she could drag you out, then, yeah. We heard whispers they were on the peninsula, but everyone they sent after the two of them, never came back. So the US military dropped me behind the line to go deal with him. I took half that metal arm in that fight in Goyang before she could drag his ass out. But I see he's managed to grow it back." Isaiah shakes his head. "I just wanted to see if he got the arm back. Or if they'd come to kill me."

"I'm not a killer anymore." Bucky says quietly.

"We're trying to do fix what we've done wrong." I add. I know this is just as hard for Bucky as it is for me. The weight and shame of what we've done under Hydra.

"You think you can wake up one day and decide who you wanna be? It doesn't work like that. Well, maybe it does for folks like you." Isaiah stares us down.

"Isaiah, the reason we're here is because there's more of you and me out there." Bucky tells him.

"You and me." Isaiah scoffs.

"And we need to know how." Bucky says.

"I'm not gonna talk about it anymore." Isaiah tells us through gritted teeth before throwing a metal case that lodges itself into a wall. He walks up to us, "You know what they did to me for being a hero? They put my ass in jail for 30 years. People running tests, taking my blood, coming into my cell. Even your people weren't done with me." Isaiah is nearly in tears.

"Isaiah." Sam says softly.

"Get out of my house!" He yells at us.

We all turn and walk out without another word.

"Sam." Bucky starts.

"Why didn't you tell me about Isaiah?" Sam asks "How could nobody bring him up?" When we don't answer he says, "I asked you both a question."

"I know." Bucky tells him.

"Steve didn't know about him?" Sam asks.

"He didn't. I didn't tell him." Bucky says.

Sam looks to me and I shake my head. "I didn't say anything either." I add softly.

"So you're telling me that there was a black super soldier decades ago and nobody knew about it?" Sam stops clearly upset.

Before we can say anything a siren goes off.

"Hey!" An officer steps out of the car.

"What's up man?" Sam asks the officers.

"Is there a problem here?" The first officer asks.

"No we're just talking." Sam says, his tone is still aggravated.

"We're fine." Bucky adds in.