Welcome to Earth 2456, this dimension is super special though as not only did Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff survive and not have to be sacrificed, its a universe where superhero's and pokemon have learnt to live together. After Scarlett Witch fixed the soul stone Steve Rogers returned it to Red Skull. He also kept on working with his pokemon partner Squirtle until they both went missing a few months ago.
16th July 2024, Ryme City
Ever since Bucky Barnes was brought back from the snap, he decided to live in Ryme City and help injured wild pokemon. He misses Steve tough and regrets abandoning him alot. On the brightside he's bonded with Harry Goodman and they've become quite close but not as close as he was with Steve.
It was an average afternoon and Bucky was in his apartment tending to a wounded Charmander when all of a sudden the phone began to ring. He threw a blanket on the almost healed Charmander, then reluctantly picked up the drum banging phone.
"Hello?"
"Ah you must be Mr James Barnes."
"Yes Mam but I prefer Bucky, now please tell me whats going on?"
"Your best friend Steve Rogers has been missing for nearly over two months and we closed the case as footage showed your pals car crashing."
Bucky froze feeling tears of guilt that couldn't be healed, not only did he still feel the horrors from being with Hydra he was now responsible for the death of his bestest friend in the whole wide world.
"So what do you want me to do about it?"
"Bucky please come to New York police station for further details."
The soldier reluctantly agreed he wanted to find out more about the circumstanse of Steves death as surely a crash, couldn't kill the most noble superhero on the planet, or could it? Bucky packed his things, freed the wild Charmander and headed straight for the trainstation to travel to New York.
16th July 2024, Middle Of Nowhere
A Squirtle layed unconscious on a rock, with a blanket of grass on him to keep him walm. What awoke it was the sound of a pokemon trainer hiding in the bushes. Squirtle stood up confused and very dazed at first not knowing what to do. The poor creature had lost his memory.
Squirtle broke out of his daydream, pannicking realasing that the human girl was getting closer. The water pokemon made a run for it dodging all the pokeballs with great ease. Once the trainer was out of sight he took off the helmet on his head and realised that it had an address inside it.
"Belongs to Captain Steven Rogers Address: 1614 Connecticut Ave NW"
Squirtles mind sparked as he repeated the address over and over again. He walked over to a sign and realised that he was one mile out from the city. The pokemon groaned stretching his legs, ready for the long and intense journey ahead.
"I hate long trecks there the worst, oh well my energy is worth the sacrifice!"
Squirtle walked far until he reached the apartment. This was it he'd finally be able to find clues to his past.
16th July 2024, New York Police Station
Bucky opened the door to a friendly officer
Lara sitting in her chair whilst her Arcanine was perching itself on the desk glaring at Bucky as if he was a predator ready to pounce.
Lara handed a cup of coffee to Bucky who sat down in silence still mourning Steve.
"Bucky, i'm so glad you could make it."
The chief officer handed Bucky the missing file case for Steve Rodgers. She then pulled a picture of a car wrecked to pieces.
"This is a snap shot from the footage we found and all we no is that someone attacked his car, I'm sorry pal we think Steve and his squirtle where killed by the impact of the crash."
"Officer Lara, Steve Rogers had the super soldier serum in him so scientifically he could have survived."
Lara sighed and put an arm around Bucky, who had tears streaming down his face.
"Bucky he's gone and this time he can't come back trust me it's gonna be fine."
She sighed handing him a key, Bucky clutched it as tight as he could.
"Hey here's a key so you can get some of the stuff from his flat and also why don't you become a pokemon."
Bucky rolled his eyes, shutting the door behind him.
16th July 2024, Connecticut Ave Apartments
Natasha carried her Sneasel in her backpack desperate to head to Steve Rogers flat. Shield had tasked her to do a full pledged investigation on the supposed death of Steve Rogers. She was desperate to know too as she refused to believe a man who was like an older brother to her was dead. Natasha glared as she sore her former team mate slowly head towards Steves flat.
She let her Sneasel climb out of her backpack and she gestured the Sneasel to block Bucky from walking into the flat.
Bucky groaned yelling at the Sneasel to get out of the way. Natasha walked over hugging her friend who she hadn't seen for ages.
"Nat, What do you and your pet Sneasel want?"
"Answers Bucky, Shield want to everything about Steve's death."
"Look all I know is that Steve died in a very brutal car crash and if you think i'm gonna help you think again. I'm gonna grab some of his things and head back to Ryme city alone."
"Buck you need a pokemon partner to help you as when you find the perfect partner you develop a unbreakable bond with them that helps you get threw the most terribleof times"
Bucky picked up Sneasel and moved him to the side. He was about open the door and slam it behind.
"Oh for goodness sake I don't need a partner and you should be to Nat as we have each other and our other friends."
Natasha grabbed her Sneasel and placed it in her backpack and walked away from the apartment giving Bucky a firm glare of shame.
16th July 2024, Steve Rogers ApartmentBucky looked around the house and couldn't help smile at how organised the flat was. He sighed walking into his friends investigation office full of abandoned work, Bucky picked up this weird bottle of purple mixture. The soldier accidentally dropped the bottle out of his metal arm. He strugged simply walking to Steves old bedroom.
Little did Bucky know was that the chemical he had just dropped was called R, a drug invented to confuse and agitate pokemon. The chemical had spilled out of the window and since a flawk of pidgeys where near by it effected them.
Bucky sat on the bed smiling at the many pictures in his room of him and Steve's lover Peggy. He cried when he opened the draw to see a picture of Steve being tackled by a ton of wild pokemon who he'd helped. He then sore a birthday card that Steve was gonna send with a ticket to see a pokemon battle attached inside. Bucky was interupted by a strange noise. The soldier grabbed a gun from his belt ready to deal with whoever was in the apartment.
He opened the door but to his suprise it was a Squirtle with a Captain America helmet on, rummaging a pile of papers.
The squirtle stood up on the table and sighed in deep fustration.
"Ok I know you can't understand me but put the gun down soldier or I'll blast you with water."
Bucky froze dropping his gun in absolute shock.
"Y-Y-You can talk?"
"You can understand me?"
The soldier held his head trying to process what was going on.
"No,No,No Stop!"
"Oh my gosh you can understand me, i've been so lonley pal."
Bucky fainted.
Squirtle dragged the heavy body to the couch to let the human rest. The water pokemon then
"Seriously why do I cause so much trouble."
2 Hours Later
Squirtle sighed in relief as the soldier had finally woken up. However Bucky pulled the wet cloth off his head and started panicking in fear, he still couldn't believe he was hearing a Squirtle speak fluent english.
"Calm down Soldier, i'm not gonna kill you."
"First of all this Soldier has a name and secondly what are you doing here?"
"I'll tell you everything Soldier but if you have a name what is it?"
"My names Bucky Barnes."
Before Squirtle had the chance to speak a group of wild pidgeys came flying in trying to attack the pair, Bucky pulled his guns out quickly.
"Are you insane you can't shoot pokemon that's just Poka-Abuse."
"What else do you expect me to do when we're being attacked by a flock of wild pidgeys!"
The two ran as fast as they could into town but they just couldn't lose the flock no matter how hard they tried.
"Hey Bucky I would feel alot better if you switched the guns mode to stun."
"Fine i'll try slow them down."
Bucky only manged to stun four of the pidgeys and it made the others tick even more. Squirtle opened the entrance to the sewers and jumped down.
"Bucky we can avoid them if we're on even
lower ground."
Bucky jumped into the sewers instantly regretting it was he was covered in polluted water and had muck on his face.
Squirtle chuckled at his new friend.
"Ha come on Bucky I think I know a short cut back to the apartment."
"No your not coming with me."
"Please I need to find Steve Rogers!"
"He's dead Squirtle I only came to the apartment to get some of my best friends stuff."
"Please he might not be a true soldier would have hope, so what do you say wanna be partners?"
"No I don't need a pokemon."
"Then how about a top notch agent because if you wanna find your pal, i'm your best bet."
Buckys body froze waiting for a reply from his brain. Maybe Squirtles, right maybe Steve could have survived the car crash. He also felt like he could naturally trust the water pokemon but he didn't find out why until much later, much later.
"A-A-Alright you can help me but when we get back i'm showering, washing my clothes and heading straight to bed."
"I'm fine with that as you do deserve a nice long rest after what's happened today."
The Very Next Morning
Bucky groaned walking down stairs in his black and silver pyjamas. To his horror he opened the door of Steve's office to find Squirtle drinking tons of hot coco. The office had been turned into an absoulte disaster as papers were scattered eveywhere.
"What the heck is all of this?"
Squirtle chugged a cup of hot coco and threw it on the ground.
"Research? Steve seemed like a nice guy and I wanna find out what happened to my memories and him. Theres no rest for a soldier when he needs answers."
Bucky grabbed his coat and rutsack.
"Squirtle stop trashing my pals office and lets go to the cafe to discuss what we both know so far about what happened."
"Sure but your being the gentleman and buying the coco for me pal."
Bucky rolled his eyes,
"I don't like being called that either I prefer Bucky or the White Wolf my superhero name."
Squirtle ignored him as he was dying for another cup of coco.
Coco Cafe,
Bucky enjoyed having breakfast with Squirtle but he got a bit out of hand with the Coco, the pokemon had drunken five cups already. Bucky still was trying to process the information Squirtle had given him
"So as I was saying I woke up on a rock in the middle of knowhere, with a major serious case of Amnesia with the only clue being Steve's name and address inside this helmet."
"So your a talking Squirtle with no memory whos addicted to hot coco."
"Hey these are choices i'm aloud to make, another coco with extra cream and marshmellows, thanks sweetie."
The Luddico handed Squirtle his 11th cup of coco and continued serving as the waiter.
Bucky was lost in his own mind until Squirtle shook his body back to reality.
"Yo White Wolf, are you still with me?"
"Yeah and I know just the friend who can help us!"
Bucky pressed call on his phone, the person he was calling was none other than Harry Goodman.
To Be Continued...If some of you have bothered to read, thanks for reading this poorly punctated story by a dyslexic girl.This was so fun to write and I hope you all enjoy this eight chapter crossover story.Bye.