p class="MsoSubtitle" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"The Winter Soldier scrambled back up and grabbed one of his guns, aiming up at Captain America before taking the shot. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"I missed the kill shot. I don't miss. I need to complete my mission. I have to./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"He aimed again. Another miss on the kill shot. The captain is almost there. If the captain succeeds in his plan, then HYDRA's plan fails and his mission is failed…. He took another shot and the captain fell. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Gotcha./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"He watched the captain struggle and manage to get the chip in, telling his friend to go through with the plan. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"You just don't know when to give up, do you?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"A small part of him, deep inside his mind rang out in a tiny Brooklyn accent. 'emNope./em'/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"He went to take the kill shot when a beam fell on him as the chaos began. He groaned and yelled in pain, unable to move, very aware that his human arm was most likely broken in multiple places. He watched as the captain made his way down and began to lift the beam off of him. He stood up and faced the captain, confused as to why he would help him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""You know me," the captain told him, his face kind and tired. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"No. No! strongNo! I don't know you. /strongI don't. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""Your name is James Buchanan Barnes."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"More lies, you have no name. Weapons don't have a name. They are just a tool to be used. That's what you are, a weapon to be used./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""Shut up!" He yelled, striking the shield with his metal arm, the force of the blow making him stumble backwards a little. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""I'm not going to fight you," the captain replied, dropping his shield into the river below. "You're my friend."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"The soldier flung himself at him, hitting him repeatedly. "You're my mission!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"I don't know you. strongI don't know you. I don't know you!/strong/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""Then finish it. 'Cause I'm with you, till the end of the line."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Something about the captain's words forced the soldier to stop. That phrase…. He knew it. Some part of him deep down knew it. Had he said them once? They seemed to alien to him, but yet so familiar…. He heard the helicarrier begin to give underneath them and he quickly grabbed for something, watching the captain fall into the river below. He kept thinking back to what the captain said as he held on the best he could./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"I knew him. I don't know how, but…. I knew him. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"He cursed at himself silently before releasing his grasp on the helicarrier and falling into the river. He swam until he found the captain, grabbing his uniform and swimming them back to shore. He dragged the captain onto the shore and watched him to make sure that he was still alive. When he coughed up some of the water, he turned away from him, relaxing. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"I'm sorry punk, but I can't stay here. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Why did I just call him punk?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Why does it matter that he lives? He's my target. My mission. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"What's happening to me?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Who am I?/span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"He walked around D.C. for hours before realizing that HYDRA was gone and it would be best if he went into hiding until his handlers came to get him. He hid himself the best he could, just outside of town in a forest. He woke up one morning, a week later, to see a black man standing over him with a bag./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;""About damn time you woke up soldier."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"He sat up and stared at the other man. "Who are you?" He asked, his voice gravelly from disuse./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;""Let's just say we have a mutual friend whether you remember it or not."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"He just nodded, something about the man demanding respect from him. The man tossed the bag at him and he caught it, opening it to find clothes. He looked back up at the man confused./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;""If you're going to try to hide in plain sight, you should look normal," the man explained. He tossed him down a brochure and he picked it up, looking at it. "You can find some answers about who you are there."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"He looked down at the clothes and brochure for a long time. When he looked back up to thank the man, he was gone. He looked back down at the brochure, staring at the face of the captain he was supposed to kill. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"I hope the man is right about this. I need answers./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"But first, I have to change./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky changed into the clothes and headed to the Smithsonian. He stood outside for hours and watched the security, devising a plan on how to get past the metal detectors. An old guard noticed him and came up to him, leaning against the wall. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""You know son, it's not the White House. It won't kill you to go in," the man said to him, pulling out a chocolate bar and offering a piece of it to Bucky. Bucky shook his head and stared at the man, didn't he know who Bucky is? The man looked at him weird before shrugging and eating the chocolate. He fixed his hat. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Were you in the Army? You have the look of someone who has seen unspeakable things that are only seen in war." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky nodded, clearing his throat. He opened his mouth to say something when the man stopped him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""You don't have to say anything son. I know what that is like. I served in Korea myself, so I understand. Did you lose a limb and that's why you are scared to go in? You don't have to answer yes or no if you don't want to, a nod of the head will do." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky nodded, rubbing his metal arm subconsciously. The man watched him and nodded, staring off for a bit. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""You know what? Follow me. I'll let you in through the security entrance if it'll make you feel better."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky smiled weakly at the man and followed him. The guard led him to the Captain America exhibit and Bucky looked at him in shock. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I figured this is why you are here. As a soldier, sometimes it helps to know that even the best of us are human. Even good old Cap over there," he said pointing to the picture. "You know that he stole that uniform? I thought I was going to be fired, but he returned it shortly after and apologized for the new bullet holes in it. We have to get it fixed you know. Though he donated a lot of money for us to do so." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky nodded, silently thanking the man. The man smiled at him warmly. "If you ever need someone to talk to son, come here and ask for me. My name is Stan." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky looked around as the man walked away. He noticed a glass wall and walked towards it. The man etched into the glass seemed so familiar to him. He had seen him once, a long time ago. He read the time and his mouth fell open a little bit. That was the name that the Captain had called him. This couldn't be him, could it? According to this he was dead. He died in WWII, protecting the Captain who he also apparently grew up with. The man etched on the glass and the name though, they struck something deep within him. They were him. He didn't know how, but he knew that it was him and his name that he was looking at./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He memorized the information on the display before walking around, staring at the pictures of a smaller Captain America. He knew this man, he remembered parts of conversations, heightened emotions of worry, and brotherly love towards the man. He noticed a video running in another room and walked into it, sitting down in the back and watching the screen. He watched the movie about a half dozen times before silently leaving the way he came in./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky went back to the outskirts of town and found an abandoned building to hide out in. He curled up in a ball, trying to process everything he seen and heard in the museum. He had a whole other life that HYDRA had stolen from him. He closed his eyes and forced himself to be calm. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He tossed and turned in his corner, fragments of the exhibit and a life that was long lost haunting his dreams. He woke up only two hours later- screaming, an image of a train disappearing in the distance and a man screaming a foreign name, fading from his mind. He sat, leaning against the wall, panting for a while before dragging a hand over his face. He noticed that his hand felt wet from tears when he pulled it away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Why am I crying? Weapons aren't meant to have emotions. That's all you are. A weapon to be used./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"No you're not./span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Who are you?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"I'm you. Well, the you that you used to be before you fell off that train. Before HYDRA convinced you that we are nothing but a weapon./span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"I don't remember being anything but a weapon. I don't remember how to be you- me- us…. I don't know anymore./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Yes you do. I wouldn't be here in your mind if you didn't have at least some clue as to who I am- who you used to be. The man Steve once knew./span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"The Soldier had had enough of the second voice in his head. He grabbed a bottle from the ground and threw it at a wall. "strongGET OUT OF MY HEAD! YOU'RE NOT REAL. YOU'RE JUST A TRICK./strong"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"The voice inside him quieted down and he curled into himself. "You're just a trick. I'm just a weapon to be used. That's what they made me. I don't know how to be anything else. I just don't know anymore. I don't know what to do now. For the last seventy years of my life that has been my life. It's all I know. I can't be him anymore. They took that from me. Even with these fragments of who I used to be… I can't be him. Those fragments are like dreams. They fade as quickly as they come."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He closed his eyes, resting his metal hand on the back of his head. He knew now what had to be done. "I'm going to make them pay. Every last one of them will die by my hands and my hands alone. They wanted to create a monster. I'm going to show them that they succeeded."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"But first I have to find her. My best student and more. She'll know where they are hiding and get me what I need. Hopefully though she's not to mad at me for what I did to her./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Be prepared my little spider. I'm going to find you./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"I need your help./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"The soldier fell asleep again, this time dreaming of nothing in the cold night. When HYDRA agents scoured the building the next day, they found nothing but a broken bottle and piles of hair, a bloody piece of glass next to one of the piles. Bucky had noticed the agents and ran to a side of the building before they would notice him. Once they were inside, he set fire to the building, making sure they were trapped with no way out. He walked away, running a hand through his now short hair. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Cut off one head and two more shall take its place./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Well I guess I have a few more to find then./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"I missed the kill shot. I don't miss. I need to complete my mission. I have to./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"He aimed again. Another miss on the kill shot. The captain is almost there. If the captain succeeds in his plan, then HYDRA's plan fails and his mission is failed…. He took another shot and the captain fell. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Gotcha./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"He watched the captain struggle and manage to get the chip in, telling his friend to go through with the plan. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"You just don't know when to give up, do you?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"A small part of him, deep inside his mind rang out in a tiny Brooklyn accent. 'emNope./em'/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"He went to take the kill shot when a beam fell on him as the chaos began. He groaned and yelled in pain, unable to move, very aware that his human arm was most likely broken in multiple places. He watched as the captain made his way down and began to lift the beam off of him. He stood up and faced the captain, confused as to why he would help him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""You know me," the captain told him, his face kind and tired. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"No. No! strongNo! I don't know you. /strongI don't. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""Your name is James Buchanan Barnes."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"More lies, you have no name. Weapons don't have a name. They are just a tool to be used. That's what you are, a weapon to be used./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""Shut up!" He yelled, striking the shield with his metal arm, the force of the blow making him stumble backwards a little. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""I'm not going to fight you," the captain replied, dropping his shield into the river below. "You're my friend."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"The soldier flung himself at him, hitting him repeatedly. "You're my mission!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"I don't know you. strongI don't know you. I don't know you!/strong/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;""Then finish it. 'Cause I'm with you, till the end of the line."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Something about the captain's words forced the soldier to stop. That phrase…. He knew it. Some part of him deep down knew it. Had he said them once? They seemed to alien to him, but yet so familiar…. He heard the helicarrier begin to give underneath them and he quickly grabbed for something, watching the captain fall into the river below. He kept thinking back to what the captain said as he held on the best he could./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"I knew him. I don't know how, but…. I knew him. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"He cursed at himself silently before releasing his grasp on the helicarrier and falling into the river. He swam until he found the captain, grabbing his uniform and swimming them back to shore. He dragged the captain onto the shore and watched him to make sure that he was still alive. When he coughed up some of the water, he turned away from him, relaxing. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"I'm sorry punk, but I can't stay here. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Why did I just call him punk?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Why does it matter that he lives? He's my target. My mission. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"What's happening to me?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt;"Who am I?/span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"He walked around D.C. for hours before realizing that HYDRA was gone and it would be best if he went into hiding until his handlers came to get him. He hid himself the best he could, just outside of town in a forest. He woke up one morning, a week later, to see a black man standing over him with a bag./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;""About damn time you woke up soldier."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"He sat up and stared at the other man. "Who are you?" He asked, his voice gravelly from disuse./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;""Let's just say we have a mutual friend whether you remember it or not."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"He just nodded, something about the man demanding respect from him. The man tossed the bag at him and he caught it, opening it to find clothes. He looked back up at the man confused./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;""If you're going to try to hide in plain sight, you should look normal," the man explained. He tossed him down a brochure and he picked it up, looking at it. "You can find some answers about who you are there."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"He looked down at the clothes and brochure for a long time. When he looked back up to thank the man, he was gone. He looked back down at the brochure, staring at the face of the captain he was supposed to kill. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"I hope the man is right about this. I need answers./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"But first, I have to change./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky changed into the clothes and headed to the Smithsonian. He stood outside for hours and watched the security, devising a plan on how to get past the metal detectors. An old guard noticed him and came up to him, leaning against the wall. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""You know son, it's not the White House. It won't kill you to go in," the man said to him, pulling out a chocolate bar and offering a piece of it to Bucky. Bucky shook his head and stared at the man, didn't he know who Bucky is? The man looked at him weird before shrugging and eating the chocolate. He fixed his hat. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Were you in the Army? You have the look of someone who has seen unspeakable things that are only seen in war." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky nodded, clearing his throat. He opened his mouth to say something when the man stopped him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""You don't have to say anything son. I know what that is like. I served in Korea myself, so I understand. Did you lose a limb and that's why you are scared to go in? You don't have to answer yes or no if you don't want to, a nod of the head will do." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky nodded, rubbing his metal arm subconsciously. The man watched him and nodded, staring off for a bit. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""You know what? Follow me. I'll let you in through the security entrance if it'll make you feel better."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky smiled weakly at the man and followed him. The guard led him to the Captain America exhibit and Bucky looked at him in shock. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I figured this is why you are here. As a soldier, sometimes it helps to know that even the best of us are human. Even good old Cap over there," he said pointing to the picture. "You know that he stole that uniform? I thought I was going to be fired, but he returned it shortly after and apologized for the new bullet holes in it. We have to get it fixed you know. Though he donated a lot of money for us to do so." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky nodded, silently thanking the man. The man smiled at him warmly. "If you ever need someone to talk to son, come here and ask for me. My name is Stan." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky looked around as the man walked away. He noticed a glass wall and walked towards it. The man etched into the glass seemed so familiar to him. He had seen him once, a long time ago. He read the time and his mouth fell open a little bit. That was the name that the Captain had called him. This couldn't be him, could it? According to this he was dead. He died in WWII, protecting the Captain who he also apparently grew up with. The man etched on the glass and the name though, they struck something deep within him. They were him. He didn't know how, but he knew that it was him and his name that he was looking at./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He memorized the information on the display before walking around, staring at the pictures of a smaller Captain America. He knew this man, he remembered parts of conversations, heightened emotions of worry, and brotherly love towards the man. He noticed a video running in another room and walked into it, sitting down in the back and watching the screen. He watched the movie about a half dozen times before silently leaving the way he came in./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bucky went back to the outskirts of town and found an abandoned building to hide out in. He curled up in a ball, trying to process everything he seen and heard in the museum. He had a whole other life that HYDRA had stolen from him. He closed his eyes and forced himself to be calm. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He tossed and turned in his corner, fragments of the exhibit and a life that was long lost haunting his dreams. He woke up only two hours later- screaming, an image of a train disappearing in the distance and a man screaming a foreign name, fading from his mind. He sat, leaning against the wall, panting for a while before dragging a hand over his face. He noticed that his hand felt wet from tears when he pulled it away./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Why am I crying? Weapons aren't meant to have emotions. That's all you are. A weapon to be used./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"No you're not./span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Who are you?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"I'm you. Well, the you that you used to be before you fell off that train. Before HYDRA convinced you that we are nothing but a weapon./span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"I don't remember being anything but a weapon. I don't remember how to be you- me- us…. I don't know anymore./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Yes you do. I wouldn't be here in your mind if you didn't have at least some clue as to who I am- who you used to be. The man Steve once knew./span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"The Soldier had had enough of the second voice in his head. He grabbed a bottle from the ground and threw it at a wall. "strongGET OUT OF MY HEAD! YOU'RE NOT REAL. YOU'RE JUST A TRICK./strong"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"The voice inside him quieted down and he curled into himself. "You're just a trick. I'm just a weapon to be used. That's what they made me. I don't know how to be anything else. I just don't know anymore. I don't know what to do now. For the last seventy years of my life that has been my life. It's all I know. I can't be him anymore. They took that from me. Even with these fragments of who I used to be… I can't be him. Those fragments are like dreams. They fade as quickly as they come."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He closed his eyes, resting his metal hand on the back of his head. He knew now what had to be done. "I'm going to make them pay. Every last one of them will die by my hands and my hands alone. They wanted to create a monster. I'm going to show them that they succeeded."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"But first I have to find her. My best student and more. She'll know where they are hiding and get me what I need. Hopefully though she's not to mad at me for what I did to her./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Be prepared my little spider. I'm going to find you./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"I need your help./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"The soldier fell asleep again, this time dreaming of nothing in the cold night. When HYDRA agents scoured the building the next day, they found nothing but a broken bottle and piles of hair, a bloody piece of glass next to one of the piles. Bucky had noticed the agents and ran to a side of the building before they would notice him. Once they were inside, he set fire to the building, making sure they were trapped with no way out. He walked away, running a hand through his now short hair. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Cut off one head and two more shall take its place./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Well I guess I have a few more to find then./span/em/p