Steve flew the Quinjet toward mountains. Bucky, Delia, Jamie and Nia sat behind him.
"What's gonna happen to your friends?" Bucky asked.
Steve stared ahead, heavyhearted. He sighed and shook his head before saying, "Whatever it is... I'll deal with it."
Bucky looked thoughtful before saying, "I don't know if I'm worth all this, Steve, Delia."
Delia glanced at Bucky. "You absolutely are. HYDRA stole us, and Steve's and my kids, and made weapons out of good people."
Steve glanced around at Bucky. "What you did all those years... it wasn't you. You didn't have a choice. Goes for you as well, Dedi." He glanced to his kids. "And you two as well."
Jamie looked down and scoffed lightly. "If only you all knew."
"But I did it," Bucky said.
HOSPITAL
Rhodey laid inside an CT-scanner. He was in a blue gown covering his body. Tony paced up to Vision who watched Rhodey grave-faced.
"How did this happen?" Tony asked.
"I became distracted," Vision replied.
"I didn't think that was possible."
"Neither did I. "
Tony left Vision looking in on Rhodey. Along the corridor, Tony spotted an equally concerned Natasha.
Tony and Natasha stood on a balcony looking towards a row of trees.
"The doctors say he shattered L4 through S1," Tony said. "Extreme laceration in the spinal cord. Probably looking at some form of paralysis."
"Steve and Delia aren't gonna stop," Natasha told him. "Neither are Jamie and Nia. If you don't either, Rhodey's gonna be the best case scenario."
"You let them go, Nat."
"We played this wrong."
"'We'? Boy, it must be hard to shake the whole double agent thing, huh? It sticks in the DNA."
"Are you incapable of letting go of your ego for one goddamn second?"
"T'Challa told Ross what you did, so... they're coming for you."
"I'm not the one that needs to watch their back." She walked away.
Tony activated holographic images appearing on his wrist device and asked, "What am I looking at, F.R.I.D.A.Y.?"
"Priority upload from Berlin police," F.R.I.D.A.Y. replied.
"Fire up the chopper." Tony flew over a stormy sea in the chopper. He looked surveillance images on a tablet computer.
"The Task Force called for a psychiatrist as soon as Barnes was captured. The UN dispatched Dr. Theo Broussard from Geneva within the hour. He was met by this man."
"Did you run facial recognition yet?"
"What do I look like?"
"Uh, I don't know. I've been picturing a redhead."
"You must be thinking of someone else."
"Must be."
"The fake doctor is actually Colonel Helmut Zemo, Sokovian Intelligence." Tony projected the image. "Zemo ran Echo Skorpion, a Sokovian covert kill squad."
"So, what happened to the real Broussard?"
"He was found dead in a Berlin hotel room. Where police also found a wig and facial prosthesis approximating the appearance of one James Buchanan Barnes."
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Resounding Grace
ActionAn AI meant to better the world decides destruction is a much better plan and rebels against his creator. A list of Accords is drafted and given to the Avengers and sides are chosen. On top of all that, truth is spilled though not in the most gentl...
