Kill Shot | Bucky Barnes
They told the world Lucille Stark was dead at five years old.
A tragic loss. A stolen child. The reason Howard Stark spent the rest of his life trying to destroy HYDRA.
But HYDRA did not destroy her.
They remade her.
Her memories were stripped away, her past erased before it could take root. In its place, they gave her something new-something simpler.
A father.
Red Skull.
He raised her in the shadows, shaped her into something precise, obedient, and deadly. Not through force, not through endless rewrites of her mind-but through something far more permanent.
Belief.
Lucille does not fight her orders.
She understands them. She believes in them. She carries them out willingly.
Because this is what she was made for.
Because this is what her father taught her.
And within HYDRA, she was not alone.
There was another.
The Asset. The weapon. The ghost they called the Winter Soldier-Bucky Barnes.
He was everything she was not.
Wiped. Reset. Empty.
And yet, somehow... he stayed.
Years later, the world begins to remember the name Stark.
So does he.
But Lucille does not remember the girl she used to be.
And when the truth begins to surface-when the lines between loyalty and lies start to blur-Lucille is left with a choice she was never meant to make:
The man who is learning how to be free.
Or the man she was raised to call father.