Marvel Oneshots - Book 5

Bucky - The Infected

(I dreamt all this last night, it was cool) 

It happened so fast, the world wasn't a stranger to invasions.

But, this one was different.

You were out with some friends at a lunch event, you stood outside and your eyes glanced up to see an object in the sky.

"What the hell?" You muttered as your friend glanced up, quickly getting her phone out to film.

It was a big silver ball that seemed to defy all laws of psychics.

"Surely it's just Shield or Avengers or something..." You mumbled, chewing the inside of your lip in thought.

"Yeah... Anyway, can we go inside, I'm hungry?" Your friend asked as you shook yourself of your thoughts and nodded.

You went inside the restaurant and tried to forget about what you'd seen, living in this world you saw strange things, especially with the Avengers.

You sat with your friends having a good time, the strange flying object at the back of your mind.

You excused yourself and went to the bathroom. You stood washing your hands when you suddenly heard screaming, you paled and ran out to see absolute chaos.

(Idk your besties name but it's Grace now)

"Grace! Grace!" You shouted out running through the crowd, you saw people with strange markings on their foreheads. Odd partials came from their heads and into the heads of others, the markings burning into their skin as they were possessed with God knows what.

You looked around in fear, pushing people out of the way and trying to find your friend. You saw her across the room screaming as one of the beings grabbed her, the markings burning onto her head as you went pale.

"Oh god... What the hell is happening?" You muttered before you were grabbed, the man pressed his hand to your forehead and you saw your life flash before your eyes before he tried to do the same to you but screamed in pain and fell to his knees.

You gasped and ran as fast as you could back to the bathroom, locking the door.

You heard banging and opened it, four people rushed inside and you locked the door again.

A few were screaming and others just seemed to be in shock.

"It's fine... The avengers will come and save us, right?" A woman said as you took a breath and nodded.

"Yeah... Yeah, they'll come here. I'm sure they already know." You muttered, trying to convince yourself more than anything.

"There's no service." A man said with his phone out. You heard a knocking at the door and cautiously opened it.

A man and his pregnant wife walked in and you locked the door again. You looked at the both of them and had an odd feeling.

"Move your hair." You grumbled as she looked at you in confusion. You reached foward pulled her fringe back to reveal the markings.

"Shit!" You swore before she began infecting everyone else. You ran out of the bathroom and back out into the chaos outside.

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You sat in an old dwelling where a house had been half built, staring down at your notebook.

"Five months today." You muttered to yourself.

You had been alone since the start, surviving on rations and avoiding capture where you could. Being immune to being infected definitely had its perks. You sighed and opened up a can of soup, groaning a little before you began to drink the contents.

It tastes like shit but you knew it would keep your body going. You froze when you heard a noise, you had a marking drawn on your head incase the infected found you, at least you could try to pretend to be one of them. You stood up, putting your hood over your head and grabbing your blade.

Suddenly someone tackled you to the ground, pulling your hood back.

"We have an infected!" He shouted before you grabbed his hair and yanked it.

"I'm not infected!" You shouted as he looked at you and narrowed his eyes.

You groaned and licked your thumb before rubbing the markings away.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed by survivors!" He shouted before getting off you.

"No... I was trying to blend in with them." You replied as he helped you off the floor.

"Yeah, good idea in theory until you meet a survivor." He grumbled before you looked at his arm and your eyes widened.

"You're Bucky... Bucky Barnes." You muttered in shock as his eyes narrowed.

"Yeah, what about it?" He grumbled.

"Nothing... I just didn't know if any of the avengers made it. I heard even Thor didn't take his chances and shut Asgard off to earth." You said crossing your arms as he looked you up and down.

Another man came out and you pointed your blade at him.

"Woah, easy there, lady." He said as you sighed.

If you weren't in the middle of an alien invasion you would've been fangirling about meeting Bucky and Sam Wilson.

"You guys are the only ones of the team who lived?" You asked as Bucky sighed.

"As far as we know..." He muttered, sadness in his eyes.

"Is it just you? No one else with you?" Sam asked in surprise as you nodded.

"Yeah... Just me. Oh and this." You say pulling out a rock with a little face drawn on it.

"Gary." You said holding it out as Sam and Bucky shared a glance. You quickly put the rock away.

"Whatever... I've been alone for five months okay?" You grumbled as the chuckled softly.

"I'm surprised you lasted this long." Sam mumbled as you narrowed your eyes.

"Well, you're out in the open, you only have a blade, how have you managed to not get infected?" He asked as you looked away.

You didn't know if you could trust them.

"Guess I'm smarter then I look..." You muttered.

"I'm making my way out to the country. The infected stay to the populated cities, I thought it'd be safer to get out into the country. Maybe take over an empty house." You explained as they looked at you, Sam crossed his arms. 

"So, you're just going to give up and make sure you're safe? What about everyone else?" Sam asked as you rolled your eyes.

"Who cares about everyone else? I survived and they didn't." You grumbled as Sam scoffed.

"Yeah, well I'm glad YOU survived." He grumbled before Bucky nudged him.

"Have some empathy, man. She's been alone this whole time. It can make a person...odd." Bucky said looking you up and down.

"Whatever." You grumbled before you heard a noise and your eyes widened.

You grabbed your blade and headed towards the sound before Bucky grabbed your arm.

"Are you that stupid? We need to run." He whispered as you ripped your arm away and went towards the sound.

You saw an infected coming towards the house.

"Just...watch." You grumbled before making a noise.

The infected ran towards you and grabbed your head, Bucky and Sam almost having a heart attack before it screamed and fell to the ground, dead.

You glanced at them both to see their wide eyes.

"So, that's how an idiot like you has survived so long."

(to be continued)