Enough is Never Enough

Mini shorts Pt. 2

July 13, 2024

      "Sooo...what did you think?" They walked out of the theater. Bucky shrugged.

"Ehhh...wasn't my favorite. The details were a bit inaccurate as well. Like Steve wasn't as nerdy as they made him in that, they over exaggerated too much. And some of the stuff never even happened. Like Ant-man wasn't even a thing in 2012. And during the airport song, they acted like Sam and I got creamed by the Spider-kid, which is not true. And why is the guy who plays me look so uptight. He has to relax more."

"I don't know. I thought the songs were catchy, and the person who played me seemed pretty good. And the puppet they used for me was cool as well." Bucky wasn't listening to Clara though, he just kept on ranting.

"And why we're all my songs ballads? My life wasn't always sad. I had some good parts too. Like they could've had a great number for me and Steve rocking out, but noooo, it's always us singing a depressing song."

Later that night, while Clara was watching TV, she heard a faint humming. She lowered the volume on the TV and got up to investigate. The humming was coming from the bathroom. Bucky was humming the songs. Clara pressed her ear up against the door and smiled. "And he said he didn't like it," Clara whispered to herself.

Bucky was a decent singer. Not the best, but still soothing to listen to. So hearing him hum the ballads that he said he "hated" was actually quite refreshing. Maybe I should bring him to more musicals.

Clara was debating it, but she decided to keep quiet about overhearing him humming, but she would plan int he future to just play some of the songs from Rogers: The Musical.

August 24, 2024

"Bucky! Look at the news!" Clara was eating some ramen on the couch, flipping through channels, when she caught a quickly glimpse of breaking news. Bucky had just gotten back from a walk, and was taking off his shoes.

"What is it?" He put his motorcycle keys on the counter and walked over to the couch. Clara reminded the TV and played it.

        "Look at what's happening in Europe." They watched the news play a series of clips, a bunch of elemental giants or something like that. There was a lava guy and a sand guy and a water guy.  "What are those?"

           "Are we really surprised by that? Think of all the other stuff we've seen." Bucky sat down next to Clara and continued to watch. The news stated that these creatures had started popping up out of no where, but this new hero had popped up as well. The next clip showed a flying person in a green outfit, a purple cape, and a fishbowl on his head, so we couldn't see his face. The news called him "Mysterio".  Then another clip popped up. It was Peter. But he wasn't in his iron spider suit that he would do his little campaigns in for the homeless shelter (Clara would see signs around the city sometimes with Peter in his Spiderman costume on it). Instead he was wearing this new black suit. The news called him "Night Monkey: Europe's own Spiderman".

       "I mean, I guess if Spiderman was in Europe, that would be a little weird, huh?" Clara and Bucky continued to watch. Apparently this "Mysterio" and Peter were working together to defeat these elementals or something like that. It was definitely something new and exciting to see after a long time. If anything, it was a reminder that their lives were normal lives.
   
         "Well, those creatures are in Europe, and it doesn't seem to be an 'Avenger's level threat' since they have night monkey and mysterio there, so I don't see how this affects us." Bucky finally got up, and Clara agreed.

            "I just hope Peter is okay. I'm sure it's still hard for him after losing Tony. It's been a while since then, but still not too long ago." Bucky couldn"t argue with that. It was also still pretty recent after losing Steve. It isn't often they think about Steve, but he still comes into conversation once in a while. They both knew what it was like.