ᴘᴏᴋᴇʀ ғᴀᴄᴇ || ʙ. ʙᴀʀɴᴇs

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Walker meets Y/n, Sam, and Bucky in a warehouse, "Walker..." Sam moves closer to the man, John holds the shield up, "You guys should see a medic, you don't look so good," Sam stops in place, "Stop, Walker."

"What? You saw what happened. You know what I had to do. I killed him because I had to! He killed Lemar! Imagine if he killed Y/n or Bucky!"

"He didn't kill Lemar, John. Don't go down that road. Believe me, it doesn't end well."

"I'm not like you," John backs up, "Listen, it was the heat of the battle. Okay? If you explain what happened, they may consider your record. We don't want anyone else to get hurt."

Y/n steps forward, "John... I know how it is to lose a friend, but should've let us handle it. You have to hand over the shield," John steps back more, "Oh, so that's what this is. You almost got me."

"You made a mistake."

John laughed, "You don't wanna do this," Bucky lunges at John, "Yeah, we do."

Y/n, Sam, and Bucky circle John, John jumps at Y/n, but before he can reach her, she throws him backwards to her friends. John makes a quick recovery and attacks the men, " Why are you making me do this?" They each take their turns fighting John and trying to talk him down, Sam tried to grab the shield out of his hands, but John wouldn't let go, "This isn't you, John."

John brings the shield down on Sam's wings, breaking one of them off, "We could've been a team. I am Captain America!" Using the shield to his advantage, he is able to throw Bucky off of him and into a puddle of water, disabling the vibranium for a moment. Sam lunges at John, but John breaks off the other wing of the machinery and throws Sam back. Y/n is able to rip the shield away from John with her powers.

Bucky and Sam hold him down to keep him from attacking Y/n, John screams, "No! It's mine," Y/n holds the shield with one hand and holds John upside down in the air with her other hand, Bucky and Sam catch their breaths while Y/n walks up to the floating man, "It's over, John."

"It's mine," he breathes out, Y/n backs up and drops him onto the concrete, "It's over," she hands the shield over to Sam and the three walk out of the warehouse with many fewer injuries than John.

. . .

Sam, Y/n, and Bucky meet Torres in an abandoned camp, "The GRC is conducting raids to try and find Karli, but so far they've only found her followers. They've searched this camp, and just like the last camp, nothing. She's gone. We'll never find her."

Torres looks over to Bucky's jacket, noticing that both sleeves are attached, "Hey, you got your sleeve back," Y/n giggles and sighs looking at Torres, he smiles at her, "Are you off to take care of Zemo?"

"They are," Sam says, pointing in between Y/n and Bucky, "I've got some other things I have to take care of," Torres nods, "All right, good to know you survived," they both sigh, "What's our next steps, Torres?"

"Captain America killing a foreign national in public, it's kinda like a big deal. Like international incident big. Folks, uh, higher up on the payroll are all over it now. So, unfortunately... They're taking jurisdiction. Yeah," Torres looks into the bag Sam previously set on the table, "What happened to these?"

Sam looks down at the broken wings and grunts, ignoring the question, he moves on, "So is there anything we can do?"

"Not really. As you can see, they've cordoned off the whole camp, and Karli's a ghost. After what went down, she is laying extra low. Like, under-underground. And that's why it makes sense for us to get involved. The longer we let her regroup, the harder it's gonna be to find her. She's got people helping her from all over the world, on all platforms. She's really, really good at this thing,"