ALIEN ↠ b. barnes [I]

sixteen

"YOU GOT US LOST. AGAIN." The Alien complained, turning to the right and following what she thought was correct. The Winter Soldier groaned, pulling her arm and pointing at a cave, a fire burning inside. "Oh."

The two chuckled, their wiping being erased with every word and gesture exchanged, the two soldiers still holding a coldness to them but not as clear as in the beginning. The Winter Soldier looked at the woman, his eyes squinting as he tried to figure out where he had met her before.

"Eyes forward, Soldat." She said with a smirk, the man rolling his eyes and obeying, their walking synchronized as they headed to the same target, entering the cave bluntly and hearing the screams of fear.

"Please, don't hurt us!" The woman pleaded, holding her daughter with one arm and her son while the father held the baby girl in his arms. Allura looked at the woman with pity, shaking her head and approaching her.

"We need one question answered."

"Well give you whatever you need, just please." She said, tears falling from her eyes as she shook from the cold outside, the Winter Soldier looking at his partner for instructions since she was the one that decided not to kill them.

The strawberry blonde nodded at him, the man turning his cold blue eyes to the family and placing his arms across his chest, the girl's eyes landing on his metal extremity curiously. "Why does HYDRA want you?" The father looked hesitant to answer, but the mother immediately opened her mouth to give them the information they needed.

"We have information on them." She said, her brown eyes going from her to him with pursed lips and a wrinkled nose. "On you." The two assets looked at each other, more curious than anything as they listened to the information. "We know who you are, about your arm. We know about your powers, your brother. The year right now is 1972."

Allura heard the number and gaped, not even remembering the time or the date she was living in. The soldier spoke first. "Tell me about my arm."

"First you promise that you won't kill us?" The man demanded, getting closer to his family as the two HYDRA weapons sighed and sat down in front of the fire, relief being clear in the other couple's eyes.

The strawberry blonde looked at the young boy, sending a small smile his way when she noticed he had been staring at her. She felt familiar with the kid for some reason, her mind immediately going back to a promise she had not managed to uphold to another little kid.

She felt so strange with all these people, and by the look on the Winter Soldier's face she could tel he did too, their horrid past not coming up in their heads but the assets knowing it was there. But these people were most likely clean of all sin, though had accidentally come up with the wrong files.

"We promise." The soldier replied, his gaze cold as he stared at his mission. Normally, he would've just gone along with whatever HYDRA ordered, but having the Alien with him on missions made him insufferably compassionate— something not even she was when it came to orders.

But she was inevitably smart. She knew how to move around a situation and how to handle it properly. She treated the missions like lemons, squeezing them like juice for information and then deciding whether to told them to the bin or remove the seeds and attempt to plant them.

"Your name is James Buchanan Barnes. But you went with Bucky because that's what your best friend called you." The man explained, the Winter Soldier instinctively looking at his metal arm as a small voice was heard in his head.