Forged in fear

Reemergence | 10

"Bucky I'd like you to meet Tony, Natasha, Clint, Rhodey and Sam. Everyone this is Bucky." Steve said introducing the now awoken team to their newest member. Bucky stayed silent but gave a slight nod to them all, they all didn't seem happy, more alert if anything.

"Why don't we take this to the netting room." Tony said as everyone silently, collectively agreed. They migrated themselves to the meeting room where a blank TV sat near the front, in view of all.

"So, who are you?" Tony said leaning forward, his elbows placed on the desk as he looked at him intimidatingly, but Bucky was unfazed.

"Well, my name is James Buchanan Barnes, but you guys can just call me Bucky. Myself and a friend escaped a HYDRA just a few hours ago, and form what I gathered, you guys were the ones who took it out. Steve is my old war pal, we both fought in World War Two together before I was kidnapped by HYDRA where they started doing all kinds of experiments on me, thankfully with Steve's he'll however, he got me out and in decent shape. But one day we went on a mission and I fell out of a train off a large cliff, there on the landing I lost my arm, that's when I was 'saved' by HYDRA. They pulled me from the snow saving my life, and giving me a bionic arm in the process. It wasn't until a bit ago when I met Peter, we started going on missions together down in Italy where we originally were, till that base was taken over. We relocated to the base you attacked last night. We managed to escape and when I went back to see the damage late at night I ran into Steve and he offered to help us." Bucky tried to explain to the best of his ability with the faint memories he had.

"Who's Peter?" Tony asked confused seeing as it was only Bucky there.

"That's the thing we were gonna get to." Steve said as he grabbed a remote off of the conference table, clicking a button and on flickered the screen showing the room where Peter sat on the bed hugging his legs to his chest as he rested his head on his knees tired. He didn't get any sleep aside from the two hours at the motel really, but he didn't want to fall asleep and have them do terrible things to him.

"God how old is he he looks like a little middle schooler." Natasha said sadness in her eyes as she stared up at the screen.

"I don't exactly know, I don't even think he knows. All I know is he's too young to go through something like that. He told me before that he doesn't remember anything and that the only thing he knew was HYDRA almost as if he could have just been born into it, not a single memory even after being out of control for at least ten hours and counting. When we were with them not too long ago, they tried to fixate the idea that you all were out targets, and we had to eliminate you if possible. He's been set on the idea since." Bucky said sadly.

"So why is he here if he's trying to kill us all?" Sam asked from the other side of the table as he leaned back in his chair, arms crossed.

"That's the thing, he's set on the idea right now but I know he's just scared, I mean they abused him, more than they ever did him, he made the slightest mistakes and he was beat and tortured, he wasn't in mind control all the time, mainly just missions and mornings but he still has moments where he feels emotions and he gets punished for it. I know he doesn't want to live like this, I know it, right now he's just scared to show his fear, his weakness, he's just afraid of what would happen if he didn't do it. He hasn't experienced anything real before, but when I told him we had to leave he didn't want to. He said he finally made The punisher proud and he didn't want to screw it up, I just want to help him." Bucky said trying his best at pleading.

"Who's the punisher?" Steve turned and asked Bucky.

"He's the guy who we've been under for years, I think Peter was with had been with him for quite a while. The name speaks for itself though, he was the disciplinarian of the place, but it was worse than punishment it was torture."