Raven by JustBored21

Chapter 18

"Now Steve, you know how I'm currently you're best friend?"

"Yes" Steve nodded.

"Just remember that when you see your gift. Which should be arriving in...five, four, three, two and look over there." Harry pointed to the elevator just as it opened.

"What is the point of security?" Tony muttered to himself.

The person in the elevator was wearing brown shoes, blue jeans, a black leather jacket and a plain cap. He walked out and everyone got a better look at him, he had a brown beard and shoulder length hair, he also had one hand that appeared to be made of metal.

"Bucky?!" Steve blurted out in shock.

"Hey Steve" Bucky smiled "it's been a long time".

"But...but how?!" Steve looked at Bucky like he was a ghost, he then turned to Harry "is that...is that really..."

"Yep" Harry nodded with a small smile "it's really him". Steve stared at Harry before turning his attention back to Bucky, he rushed forward and pulled the man into a huge hug, Bucky hugged him back. All were silent as the two friends embraced, even Tony could sense that this as not a moment to interrupt.

"I thought you were dead" Steve pulled back and looked at Bucky, still not entirely convinced that he was here.

"It's a long story" Bucky sighed.

"Excuse me, but introductions please?" Rhodey said on behalf of the other confused Avengers.

"Everyone" Steve turned to the others "this is James Buchanan Barnes, everyone just calls him Bucky and he was my friend...back before the war."

"Wait, so is he another immortal being or something?"

"Immortal?" Bucky asked, a bit confused.

"No, he is not" Harry said "back in world war two me, Steve and Bucky fought along with some others, we were a great team. Then in one of the few mission where I wasn't present..."

"Why weren't you present?" Pepper asked.

"I wanted to take a break from the fighting" Harry confessed "I've been fighting all my life and I wasn't sure if it was what I still wanted to do, I was going to power through until Steve over there talked me into taking some time off."

"And I don't regret that decision, you were breaking Harry" Steve said "I could tell, you weren't focused and at the time I thought you would have got yourself killed."

"Yeah, well" Harry took a breath before continuing "in that mission Bucky had apparently fallen to his death. And he would've died if it wasn't for Hydra, you see they had captured him before and performed experiments on him. That helped him survive long enough to be found, unfortunately he was once again found by Hydra. They..." Harry trailed off and looked at Bucky, Bucky nodded his consent for Harry to continue "they took him, he lost his arm which they replaced with that titanium one. They experimented on him quite a bit, Bucky isn't as strong as Steve but he's still pretty damn strong. They also brainwashed him quite a bit, basically turned him into a robot."

"That's awful" Pepper gasped.

"They made me their weapon" Bucky said quietly, though it was still heard by everyone. "They had me kill people"