Follow You

05

BUCHAREST

Bucky was in civvies at a fruit store. He bought some plums and spoke in Romanian.

(assumed translation: How are they? Are they good? Give me six, thank you.)

In a black cap and casual jacket, Bucky walked along, scanning around. Across the street, he spotted a twenty-something vendor at a news-stand watching him. Bucky glanced away, then looked back at the vendor who was still watching him. The vendor ran from his kiosk. Bucky went over and picked up a paper. On the front page there were surveillance-photos of a man and the headline: 'Winter Soldier cautat pentru Bombardmentul din Viena'. Bucky glanced around tensely.

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In his dark blue armored suit with his shield on his arm, Steve was in a small apartment. He looked around. There was a mattress with disheveled covers and various bits of cheap looking furniture. The kitchen and bedroom were in the same room. Steve found a notebook on top of the fridge. He picked it up and opened it. There were tabs of varying colors sticking out from amongst the pages.

Sam over the radio said, "Heads up, Cap. German Special Forces, approaching from the south."

"Understood," Steve replied. Bucky was standing behind him. Steve slowly turned around to face him. "Do you know me?"

Bucky stared at him and replied, "You're Steve. I read about you in a museum."

"They've set the perimeter," Sam warned.

"I know you're nervous," Steve said. "And you have plenty of reason to be. But you're lying."

"I wasn't in Vienna," Bucky told him. "I don't do that anymore."

"They're entering the building," Sam informed.

"Well, the people who think you did are coming here now," Steve stated. "And they're not planning on taking you alive."

"That's smart," Bucky commented. "Good strategy."

"They're on the roof," Sam said. "I'm compromised."

Armed cops ran upstairs.

Steve shook his head and said, "This doesn't have end in a fight, Buck."

Outside the door, a cop readied a battering ram.

"It always ends in a fight," Bucky replied.

"Five seconds," Sam warned.

"You pulled me from the river. Why?" Steve asked.

"I don't know," Bucky answered.

"Three seconds!" Sam cried.

"Yes, you do," Steve said.

"Breach! Breach! Breach!"

A grenade crashed through the window. Bucky kicked it to Steve who smothered it with his shield.

A GSG-9 Soldier yelled, "Schieß die Tür auf!"

(Shoot the door!)

The cop slammed the battering ram against the door. Bucky shielded himself with the mattress against an attack that came from the window. He blocked the door with a table as cops swung in on cables. Steve pulled the rug from under a policeman, sending him flying. Bucky slammed another policeman into the wall.

"Buck, stop!" Steve said. "You're gonna kill someone."

Bucky slammed Steve down and punched a hole in the floor before replying, "I'm not gonna kill anyone."

Bucky grabbed a backpack from under the floorboards and threw it out the window. Bucky and Steve got behind Steve's shield to avoid gunfire. Bucky shoved Steve and knocked a cop over. Bucky held up his metal hand and repelled bullets, then slammed a cop into shelves. Bucky picked up a large cement brick and slammed it into a cop. He kicked another cop back. Steve fought a cop on the balcony. A cop shot around the door outside. Bucky punched through the wall beside the door. He laid into the cops. A cop descended through a sky-light on a zip wire. Bucky grabbed the cop's gun and slammed him into the wall. Bucky bashed a couple of cops with the battering rams. More of the police team hurried up the stairwell. Bucky jumped on the zip-line-guy and swung down a level.