A series of one shot chapters about Bucky Barnes mostly told in the first person by different people. Stories will reflect different times in the life of James Buchanan Barnes. This is PG rated and any sexual content will be kept to a minimum.
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The subtitle on From There to Here is Bucky Barnes One Shots. This part will not have Bucky actually in it, although he will be a topic of discussion. It mostly takes place about a year after the snap of Thanos' fingers, which turned half the universe's population into dust.. For the purposes of this story that tenure will be referred to as the Decimation. It is told from Steve Rogers point of view.
It had been almost a year since Thanos succeeded in dispensing with half the world's population. Six months of disbelief, raw grief, and anger, especially at the remnants of the Avengers for our failure to stop the alien mass murderer, psychopath, sociopath, narcissist and any number of descriptors ascribed to him by the survivors of his purge. It had been almost that long since I last spoke with Tony Stark, blamed by the latter for not being on the killer's home planet with him to deal with that evil presence, even though I was already leading the force against Thanos on Earth. It was unfair; I knew that objectively, but I still felt the guilt, still had nightmares of seeing Bucky, Wanda, T'Challa and so many others disappear in front of me.
One would think that with my early history of being a weakling that I would have adjusted better to losing that fight. As if adjusting to the deaths of billions was easy. It wasn't. Not since I lost Bucky after he fell from the train had I been so angry about not being able to get drunk. It would have been the bender of all time. At least there were still a few Avengers alive; specifically Natasha, Bruce, Thor, and Rhodey. We also had help from a couple of aliens; one of them a cyborg woman named Nebula who spent weeks alone on a space craft with Tony Stark, both of them trying to eke out their fuel and food to make it back to Earth. They were rescued by a human hybrid who apparently knew Nick Fury back in the 1990s. Captain Marvel is what we called her, but she started out as a fighter pilot on Earth by the name of Carol Danvers. She rubbed some people the wrong way with her manner, but Rhodey said if she had been a fighter pilot, she came by that attitude honestly. Her powers were incredible, and she confirmed the effect of the Snap and following decimation on planets outside of our solar system. There was also a talking raccoon named Rocket who came to Wakanda with a walking, talking tree person, Groot, who sadly didn't make it. Rocket and Nebula fixed their spacecraft, and we used it after we found Thanos hoping to take back the infinity gauntlet. But the bastard had destroyed the stones, stopping us from undoing his deadly snap. Thor lost it and killed Thanos outright. We were beaten and had to go back to Earth with our tails between our legs to tell them there was no hope, no chance of fixing it.
But losing the confidence of Tony Stark hurt the most. He'd had it, retreated from everything and everyone. Calls were not returned or even accepted; his email addresses were all erased. He became a ghost. Thor retreated to New Asgard, drinking and eating away the pain of not killing Thanos the first time, in Wakanda. Bruce retreated to Stark's remote lab in Mexico to find a way to combine the Hulk and himself but have them each in balance. I hadn't heard if he made progress. Clint went rogue after his family disappeared. We'd heard rumours that he'd gone on a killing spree of criminals who survived the Snap, but the rumours were hard to confirm. In Wakanda, both T'Challa and Shuri were lost. So much loss everywhere.
