Marvel Imagines

Two Brainwashed Soldiers | Bucky

"Don't lose your head, Bucky." Steve warned. He set the quinjet to autopilot and went to stand by his best friend. "We know she's in there, but we need to be careful." Bucky nodded absently, his mind clearly elsewhere.

"Yeah, Steve, I know." He answered. Steve sighed, putting his hand on Bucky's shoulder.

"Just don't freak out when you see her. It's going to be jarring... It sure was for me." With that, Steve walked back to the helm of the ship. Bucky stayed seated where he was, his hands clasped in front of his face and elbows resting on his knees. It had only been a few weeks since (Y/N) had been captured by HYDRA, but Bucky was worried. HYDRA can do a lot to someone in that span of time. 

"Alright, we're here." Steve landed the jet about three miles from the base and gathered the attention of everyone on board. He went fully into leader-mode, straight faced and commanding attention. "Clear out the base. We're here for one reason and one reason only. Don't kill unless you have to; subdue everyone you come across. Stay connected to your intercom at all times, do not disconnect under any circumstances. Find (Y/N), let everyone else know when you find her, and as soon as that happens, everyone gets out and we leave. Got it?" Bucky, Natasha, and Clint all nodded. Steve looked pointedly at all of them, his gaze lingering on Bucky. 

"Alright," He nodded. "Let's go."

They spent the next few minutes in silence, quickly covering the three miles it took to get to the base. Each of them went through a different entrance, covering as much ground as they could at once. Bucky, of course, was the most on edge. He was just shy of going stir-crazy; the base he was prowling through was almost as familiar as the Tower. Not only did that mess with his brain, but he knew somewhere in his conscience that he would be the one to find (Y/N), and it would not be pretty. 

He didn't prove himself right until he was two doors away from clearing out the third above-ground level of the compound.

Bucky pushed open a metal door that led to an all-too familiar room, one that he'd simply referred to as 'the wiping room' when Steve's delicate ears were around and he couldn't use the name that had every curse word in existence in it. It was big, much bigger than he recalled, and it had a large window overlooking miles of gnarled and dark trees. As soon as the door was pushed open, Bucky's eyes landed on a man standing a few feet away. He had a medical mask on and was fiddling with some buttons on a machine in front of him, but his eyes snapped in the direction of Bucky's when he heard the noise.

"Who are you?" The doctor asked, pulling out a gun and shooting. Bucky held up his metal arm in response, flinging the useless bullet off into a corner somewhere. His composure snapped as he ran at the doctor, batting the gun out of his hand as if it were a toy. Bucky grabbed him by his collar and held him a good two feet above the ground, shaking him around.

"Where is she?" He asked, aware of his rising voice level. "Where is (Y/N)?" The man didn't answer, on account of not being able to breathe properly, but Bucky wasn't having any of it. In a fit of sudden anger, he reeled back and threw the doctor across the room. He landed with a painful-sounding thud on the opposite side of the room. Bucky was next to him again in a second, pulling him off the ground by his collar again.

"Where is she?! " He asked, yelling. Bucky faintly heard someone calling his name through the com, but he ignored it in anger. When the doctor didn't respond, Bucky lost it. He looked at the nearest exit- the bay window- and decided that would do. He threw the man out of it with every bit of strength he had, ignoring his blood-curdling screams as he fell. 

Behind him, Bucky heard a faint clicking. He turned and walked over to the all-too-familiar machine, looking over all of the blinking lights. With a startling realization, he realized the machine was on- he only saw that pattern of lights flashing when he used to be strapped on that table. If it was on, that only meant one thing...