Divided We Fall (Bucky Barnes)

Siberia Pt. 1

Steve flies the jet through the mountains, Bucky and Anne sit behind him. Anne's head is sitting on his shoulder.

"What's gonna happen to your friends?" Bucky asks them.

Steve stares ahead, heavyhearted and sighs.

"Whatever it is... We'll deal with it." Steve says.

" I don't know if I'm worth all this." Bucky says, looking thoughtful.

Anne raises her head and looks at him.

"What you did all those years, it wasn't you. You didn't have a choice." She says.

" I know. But I did it." 

Anne lies her head on his shoulder again. Bucky decides to change the subject. He looks at her and notices the dog tags again.

"What's this?" He says and points to them.

"Oh, um. These are actually your dog tags. Peggy gave them to me after the train incident and I've worn them ever since." She replies "They made me feel closer to you."

She looks down at them before reaching to take them off.

"But now that you're here and alive... I don't need them anymore." 

She hands them to Bucky who just stares at them.

"Anne-"

Steve lands the quinjet beside a caterpillar truck on the icy mountain top. The jets wings fold up beside the fuselage.

"Get ready. He's here." Anne says.

Bucky pulls out a rack of guns labeled 'Romanoff'. He takes a light machine gun. The three of them stand together, waiting for the ramp to descend.

"You guys remember that time we had to ride back from Rockaway Beach in the back of that freezer truck?" Steve asks them.

"Was that the time we used our train money to buy hot dogs?" Anne asks.

"He blew three bucks trying to win a stuffed bear for a redhead."

"What was her name again?" Bucky asks.

"Dolores. You called her Doll." Anne says

"She's gotta be a hundred years old right now."

"So are we." Steve says

They walks towards the entrance, set in rock. The door is open and the control panel is wrecked. 

"He can't have been here more than a few hours." Anne states.

"Long enough to wake them up." Bucky says.

Steve leads them into the cast bunker. They travel down into the depths inside a caged elevator. it stops in the bowls of the bunker, doors slide open. Steve nods to Anne and Bucky and heaves up the cage door. Bucky readies his heavy duty machine gun as Anne activates her powers, her hands glowing that icy blue.  They walk along a corridor, keeping close to a wall. Bucky looks into an alcove full of junk then the three of them move on up some stairs. At the sound of a loud thud they spin around, aiming down the corridor.

"You ready?" Steve asks them.

Anne nods her head.

"Yeah." Bucky states.

The double doors are forced apart by Tony, in his Iron Man suit. 

"You seem a little defensive." Tony says to the three of them.

Anne deactivates her powers. 

"It's been a long day." Steve say walking to him.

Tony notices Bucky, who hasn't let his guard down yet.

"At ease, Soldier. I'm not currently after you." He says to him.

"Then why are you here?" Anne asks.

" Could be your story's not so crazy. Maybe. Ross has no idea I'm here. I'd like to keep it that way. Otherwise, I gotta arrest myself." 

"Well, that sounds like a lot of paperwork." Steve says and lowers his shield "It's good to see you, Tony."

"You too, Cap." Tony says and focuses on Bucky "Hey, Manchurian Candidate, you're killing me. There's a truce here. You can drop . . ."

Anne signals him to lower his gun and he does.

The four of them cautiously walk along a corridor. T'Challa in his Black Panther Suit is hiding around a corner, watching them. With his helmet and face plate reengaged Tony leads Anne, Steve, and Bucky towards the enormous chamber with the capsules standing in it.

" I got heat signatures." Tony states.

"How many?" Anne asks.

"Uh, one." 

As they enter the vast chamber the lights come on. Hazy, yellow mist descends within the capsules. Dead soldiers lay in the capsules. Steve and the others look around, bewildered. The therapist from Berlin, now identified as Colonel Helmut Zemo, comes over the speakers. 

"If it's any comfort, they died in their sleep." He says "Did you really think I wanted more of you?"

"What the hell?" Bucky says.

Anne grabs his hand and they stick together.

"I'm grateful to them, though. They brought you here." Zemo says and he appears in the control room.

Steve hurls his shield but it flies back.

"Please, Captain. The Soviets built this chamber to withstand the launch blast of UR-100 rockets." 

"I'm betting I could beat that." Tony says. 

"Oh, I'm sure you could, Mr. Stark. Given time. But then you'd never know why you came." 

"You killed innocent people in Vienna just to bring us here?" Anne asks him.

Black Panther watches from the shadows. Steve looks at Zemo through a window.

" I thought about nothing else for over a year. I studied you. I followed you. But now that you're standing here, I just realized . . . there's a bit of green in the blue of your eyes. How nice to find a flaw."

"You're Sokovian. Is that what this is about?" Steve asks.

" Sokovia was a failed state long before you blew it to hell. No. I'm here because I made a promise." Zemo states.

"You lost someone?" 

Zemo looks grave and clicks his tounge. 

"I lost everyone. And so will you." He says. "An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumples from within? That's dead . . . forever."

He plays surveillance footage from December 16th, 1991. Anne, Steve, and Tony step over to the screen.

"I know that road." Tony says and looks up at Zemo " What is this?" 

The video plays. That car that the Winter Soldier forced off the road crashes into a tree. Tony watches intently as the Winter Soldier rides up and gets off his motorbike. Steve watches Tony's increasing unease. The driver lies on the ground beside the car. It's Tony's father, Howard.

"Help my wife. Please. Help." Howard begs.

The Winter Soldier walks over and hoists him up by his hair. He stares at Howard's bloody face. Howard stares back pleadingly.

"Sergeant Barnes?" 

"Howard!" Maria Stark cries from the passengers seat.

Tony glares at Bucky. In the video the Winter Soldier pounds Howard hard in the face with his metal fist. In grief Tony closes his eyes for a moment. On screen his father slumps dead. The Winter Soldier puts him in the driver's seat with his face against the steering wheel. Anne stares in horror. Maria's in the passenger seat with blood streaked down her face. The Winter Soldier walks around and grips her throat. Expressionless he strangles Maria. Tony watches the screen stunned. The Winter Soldier walks up and aims a gun at the surveillance camera.

a/n: I am 100% finishing this today lol