The Future Ahead (Is Broken & Red)

It starts with a ghost.

The past has a nasty habit of biting Natasha Romanov in the ass. In the aftermath of the civil war, with everything she had gained scattered on an airport runway, she does the only thing she can think to do and disappears. She needs time to process the fact that her family has torn itself apart - time to process the fact that her ghost is back in her life.

Across the water, under the protection of the Wakandan king, Bucky Barnes learns that recovery is a long and painstaking process, but his friends are stubborn people. They won't let him give up on himself without a flight, even when the past comes knocking. Natasha isn't the only one haunted by a ghost, after all.

They knew each other once. They'd both been punished for it.

It ends with a war.

Thanos is coming, and the earth has lost its best defenders. Natasha can't sit by; she has long been a creature of shadow, and so through the shadows she moves. Protecting. Avenging. She's got a new home, a new family, to look after now.

Thanos is coming and Wakanda is the best place in the world for a last stand. Bucky hasn't fought a battle since that day in Germany. He hadn't planned on picking up the gun again, but there are people in his life worth protecting. There are things in his life worth fighting for.

They've lost so much already, but there's always more to loose.