Avengers: New Blood (Peter Parker)/ A.M

36. A Guy and An Idea

After a couple of hours, they parked the car inside an abandoned area that reminded a warehouse.

Sam and Steve got Bucky out of the car and put him to sit, managing to trap his metal arm to stop him from attacking them in case he was still affected from whatever turned him into such a ruthless assassin.

They started taking turns watching him and not even an hour later, as Andria was standing, leaning with her back on a wall, Bucky started groaning and looking around, trying to understand where he was, before his eyes landed on his trapped hand.

"Sam," Andria said, poking her head into the other side of the warehouse where Sam was.

"Hmm?" He turned to her with a questioning look.
"He woke up."
"Hey, Cap!" Sam shouted immediately, pointing at the room where Bucky was.

They both got in and stood on either side of Andria, looking at Bucky who finally turned to them.

"Steve," he said.
"Which Bucky am I talking to?" Steve asked, but Andria was certain Bucky was himself again since the hatred was no longer in his eyes.

"Your mom's name was Sarah. You used to wear newspapers in your shoes," Bucky said slowly, not looking at them and kind of chuckling at the end, obviously reminiscing about his and Steve's past.

He seemed really lost and Andria felt bad for him.
"You can't read that in a museum," Steve said, before Sam spoke.
"Just like that we're supposed to be cool?"
"What did I do?" Bucky asked, guilt spreading across his features.
"Enough," Steve answered, but Sam spoke again.

"For example...that," he pointed at Andria's head where a big scratch covered the side of her forehead.

That made Bucky turn to look at her for the first time. At least the real Bucky and not the psycho assassin one.

"I...I'm sorry...I didn't--" he tried to apologize, without even making eye contact with her, clearly ashamed of his actions, but Andria cut him off.

"Hey, it's alright, don't worry about it!" She tried to make him feel better, but it didn't really work. The only thing she actually managed, was to make Sam roll his eyes, annoyed.

"God, I knew this would happen. Everything HYDRA put inside my head is still there. All he got to do was just say the damn words," Bucky said in despair.

"Who was he?" Steve asked him.
"I don't know."
"People are dead. The bombing, the set-up, the doctor did all that just to get ten minutes with you. I need you to do better than 'I don't know'," Steve said again.

"He wanted to know about Siberia. Where I was kept. He wanted to know exactly where," Bucky said after he thought for a minute.
"Why would he need to know that?" Steve asked.

"Because I'm not the only Winter Soldier," Bucky said and then started explaining them how in 1991 he was given a mission to get the last of the super soldier serum from Howard Stark, something that he managed to do by killing him and his wife Maria Stark in their car, while on the road. He then took the serum and made their deaths look like an accident. All these meant he was the one that murdered Tony's parents, while everyone, including Tony, thought their deaths were caused by a car accident. After that, HYDRA injected the serum into five assassins who became the five new Winter Soldiers and were unstoppable. However, they began a riot and so they were put into cryogenic stasis.

"Who were they?" Steve asked.
"Their most elite death squad. More kills than anyone in HYDRA history. And that was before the serum."
"They all turned out like you?" Sam asked.
"Worse."

"The doctor, could he control them?" Andria turned to him.
"Enough," Bucky answered.
"Said he wanted to see an empire fall," Steve said.

"With these guys he could do it. They speak thirty languages, can hide in plain sight, infiltrate, assassinate, destabilise. They can take a whole country down in one night, you'd never see them coming," Bucky explained.