I wake up, grumbling, and get ready, throwing on a dressy shirt, and black slacks. I add my gun holsters to the outfit, put my guns in the holsters, then hide a couple of my small knives in my outfit before grabbing my messenger bag. I leave the room. Bucky's up. Whether he was up all night or woke up early, I don't know.
"Hey, Bucky. I'm off to work." I call.
He looks up. "Steve is staying at the place you work, right?"
"Yeah. You want to come along, right? Still have alot to talk about."
He nods. "Yes."
"Alright. Come along then. If you run into my boss, though... He'll probably want to examine it and all that fun stuff."
He hesitates when I say that.
"Don't worry too much. Steve and I can keep an eye on him.... Alright! Let's go!"
I lead the way down the stairs and through the crowded streets, making it to the tower without too much trouble, Bucky keeping up with me the whole time. I go past the reception desk, getting a look form the guy at the desk. I enter the elevator and I am joined by Bucky. I go up to the floor I was on yesterday. I look back at him.
"Some might be wary of you. Don't worry too much. I can keep an eye on them."
"Thanks."
I nod as the elevator door opens and I lead him down the hallway, past the lab and into the recreation room. Clint, Natasha, Steve, and Bruce are in there when I arrive. Steve is instantly up and heading over towards me.
"Why is he here?" he whispers.
"He wanted to talk some more."
He nods and takes Bucky by the arm and leads him to a room a couple doors down. Natasha is tense and rather irritated.
"What were you doing with him?" she demands.
"He's my assignment. I'm in charge of him."
"Why is he here?"
"He wanted to talk to Steve some more. Both of them were at my apartment talking up a storm. I'm in charge of helping him to get his memories back and helping him to adjust."
She sighs. "Why didn't you tell me before?"
"It was not necessary information."
"Idiot."
"Thank you." I reply sarcastically.
"Uh, who is that guy, exactly?" Bruce asks timidly.
"James Buchanan Barnes, otherwise known as Bucky. Steve's best friend from before he got the super serum." I say, glancing over at him. He nods in understanding, and the look in Clint's eyes go from confused to understanding.
I nod and go over to the window, noticing an odd aircraft out there, not marked as the others were. Not marked like SHIELD air craft either.
"Get down." I growl, hands hovering over my guns.
"What, why?" Clint asks, looking over at me.
"Cause I say so. Now. Do it." The helicopter turns towards the building, an dis obviously aiming for something. Guns on the sides. Hydra. I wrap my hands around my guns.
"Tasha." I glance back. "Clear out."
She goes right up next to me to see what I'm looking at. Seeing the helicopter, sher reaches for her guns, too. I turn back to Clint and Bruce, clapping my hands together.
"Alright! Now, if you two wouldn't mind leavi-" I start, but gun fire goes off behind me and a bullet pierces my back. I fall with the shattered glass, in major pain as rage builds up inside me. Painfully, I move around so I'm right side up and I feel something taking over me. I look down seeing my hands a blue-purple color. The pain fades and I stand up, hands beginning to glow. I lift one up and release a giant ball of energy at the copter as someone jumps off of it and climbs up the building. I continue blasting energy at the vehicle until it crashes. The jumper climbs up onto the floor and faces me, armed to attack and her eyes blank. I gather the energy up in my hands again, but before I can shoot, a gunshot goes off behind me and a bullet pierces the woman's leg. She collapses.
I turn around, facing Natasha, the one who shot the other woman, fists clenched and anger still surging through me. She looks rather terrified, not that one could tell unless you know her really well.
"....Kodiak... Calm down. Take deep breaths. Calming thoughts." I hear Bruce's soft and gentle voice, his skin slightly tinted green.
The energy fades as I do as he says, taking deep breaths and thinking soothing thoughts. I close my eyes for a moment, and when I open them, my skin is still purple, but its darker now. What is this..? What has happened to me..? I blink a couple times, breathing rather ragged. Well, I'm going to be in trouble for this.
Steve, Bucky, Thor, Stark, with Loki trailing behind, all enter the room and look around, their gazes eventually stopping on me.
"Come on! I just got those cleaned!" Stark whines, motioning to the shattered windows.
Loki has a thoughtful and curious expression on his face. Steve is rather shocked, as is everyone, excluding Loki and Thor.
"Well, you guys are a little late for the party." I say dryly, voice sounding off.
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Ha. Ha ha. So. What do you guys think happened to Kodiak?
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