Find Me / Save Me (Bucky x Reader)

Thirty-Two

My mind feels like it's pulling apart. I don't even understand what the people around me are saying. My mind is fighting for control. Get up. I do as I'm told. The pain numbs a little.

I can focus on the words people are saying.

"Ultron!" Bruce? He knows him? I'm so confused. I can't even control myself as I walk towards the source of the commotion.

"In the flesh. Or, no, not yet. Not this... chrysalis. But I'm ready. I'm on a mission." It speaks.

Before I know it, I am standing right in front of it and I hear words come out, but I can barely recognize them as my own. "What mission?"

It tilts his head at me, as if analyzing me. "Hmm. You and I are one in the same."

I can hear Nat repeat my question, "What mission?!"

"Peace in our time." At his words, the wall blasts beside us. I stand my ground in front of him, my glow slowly intensifying. I can hear the rest of the team battling, but my mind doesn't let me move from my spot.

"You. What are you?" I find myself asking the machine in front of me.

He lifts a broken arm to my face, flashes run through my brain. Power. Destruction. Pain. It hurts and I close my eyes from the images flashing before me. The Avengers. Dead. Scattered throughout rubble. Stones. Colors. Blinding lights.

I'm suddenly pulled back. The images gone.

"(Y/N)!" I hear Bucky yell my name, but I'm still hazy. I feel myself being pulled behind an overturned couch. "Doll snap out of it! Look at me!" I can hear the noise in the background calm and slowly fade.

"That was dramatic! I'm sorry, I know you mean well. You just didn't think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity saved if it's not allowed to...evolve? With these? These puppets? There's only one path to peace: The Avengers' extinction."

I hear a loud noise; I can't focus on what it is. Everything remains hazy. The last thing I hear is his voice, "I had strings, but now I'm free. There are no strings on me, no strings on me." And then I black out.

-.-.-.-

Bucky's POV

"What the fuck was that?!" My anger is out of control, the only thing tethering me to earth is (Y/N) in my arms.

We were all gathered in the mess that remained of Tony's lab. Trying to piece together everything that just happened.

"All our work is gone. Ultron cleared out, used the internet as an escape hatch. He even took (Y/N)'s brain scan..." Bruce said pacing the lab.

Natasha steps away from a computer and adds, "he's been in everything. Files, surveillance. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other."

"Why would he take (Y/N)'s brain scan?" I jumped in, holding her tightly against my body. Her light breathing was the only thing keeping me from falling apart, a sign that she was ok.

"I don't know. But did you see how he reacted to her? Something is there." Bruce said, constantly cleaning his glasses, trying to understand everything.

I was trying to understand everything too. One second my girl was writhing on the floor in pain, the next she was glowing standing in front of the murder bot like she didn't have a mind of her own.

Natasha's words bring me back from my thoughts. "He said he wanted us dead."

"He didn't say dead. He said extinct." Steve chimes in. His anger and worry clear on his face.