Chapter 1

Bucky stumbled out of the river, after he had left the man with the star on his chest on the bank of the river. Glancing back one last time, Bucky ran away from the battle and to the outskirts of the city. He knew he had to get away before the authorities found him. He didn't know where he would go or how he would get there, but he had to try.

One week later

After finding some baggy clothes to go over his body armor and a glove for his metal hand, tossing any communications devices that he had, and finding (pickpocketing) some cash, Bucky started walking. He had been walking for a week now and still didn't know what he was going to do. All he knew how to do was fight and kill.

Bucky walked in the day and tried to sleep in the night, but nightmares plagued his mind, except they weren't nightmares, they were his memories. While he slept Bucky would see all of the faces of people he had killed for HYDRA. They never left him alone.

Bucky was walking past a gas station when a sound of what sounded like thunder stopped him. He continued walking while looking up at the sky, but didn't see anything, not even the portal that was on the ground below him. Until he fell into it.

After falling for what felt like a full minute, Bucky landed on something soft? Opening his eyes, Bucky came face to face of one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. She had red hair and shining green and are those angel wings? His mind didn't have time to process the information as the woman yelled and pushed him off before swinging her leg and kicking him right in between his legs.

Bucky grunted and bent his knees but didn't fall. Looking back up he saw that he was in a metal room with a long table and chairs on both sides. Looking more closely he noticed all the people in costume around him. 'What is this? Who are these people? Are they here to take me back to HYDRA?' were his thoughts as he tried to get his bearings.

Bucky came back into focus when he saw the same woman that kicked him swing a metal mace that sparked with electricity. Years of training experience came back to his mind and he took action. Bucky leaned back and let the mace pass by his face before grabbing the handle with his metal hand and pulling the weapon from her grip. Raising his arm, Bucky threw the weapon back at her and watched as it hit her in the stomach and send her flying a few feet and slid a few more before coming to a stop.

This seemed to send everyone else into action as they tried to help their friend. Bucky saw a man red with a yellow lightning bolt on his chest run at superfast speeds towards him and punch him in the jaw making his face turn to the left, but again he didn't fall. He looked at the fast man, that had a shocked look on his face, and that second of hesitation was all that Bucky needed to raise his own fist and punch the man in red and knock him out.

Next was a woman that was dressed in what looked like an American flag, which brought a picture of Steve to his mind but he pushed it back down. She FLEW at him and punched him in the chest with her super strength which made him fly and hit the wall and leave an indention in it before he fell to the floor.

The Justice League breathed a sigh of relief as the stooped the threat. They didn't know who this guy was or where he came from, but they were going to find out. "So" Green lantern started as he looked at the batman, "What do we do with him?"

"Put him in one of the cells." Batman growled out.

Green Lantern was about to walk to the prisoner when a groan made him stop. The league looked to the mysterious person and was shocked to see him getting back up, not even Batman could take a punch From Wonder Woman when she used her full strength.

Bucky groaned as he stood back up. Glaring at woman that hit him, Bucky cracked his neck before running full speed towards her. Wonder Woman glared right back at him but instead of rushing at him she moved out of the way and let Green Lantern use his ring to restrain him.

Bucky stopped as he looked around and saw that he was in a bright green box. He turned and glared at the man who was aiming a fist at him that had a the same color of ring on his finger. Bucky raised his still metal fist and punched at the green construct making a very large crack in it.

Green Lanterns eyes widened as he saw his construct cracking and on the verge of breaking. "Bats this isn't going to hold him!" John cried as he used all of his will power to try and contain the man.

Batman's eyes narrowed as he turned to a green man also known as the Martian Manhunter. "Knock him out." He told him.

Martian Manhunters eyes glowed red as he used his powers to put the man into a deep sleep.

Bucky groaned as he felt his body grow tired and slumped to the ground as his world went black.

Bucky moaned as he awoke and tried to remember where he was. Opening his eyes, he saw that he was strapped to a chair and his baggy clothes were gone, making his body armor and metal arm on full display.

Bucky was cut from his thoughts when the door opened and Batman and Superman walked in. All three of them stared at each other for about five minutes before Batman started asking questions. "Who are you?" he asked with a growl and narrowed eyes.

Bucky continued to stare at them but didn't say anything. He remembered that he had been tortured by HYDRA lots of times to become the bets weapon they ever had, so no mattered what these people did to him, he wouldn't break.

"Son, you are already in a lot of trouble, so it's probably best that you tell us what we want to know," Superman said as he tried to be kind. But again Bucky didn't say anything.

Both Superman and Batman walked out of the room and turned to face the two way mirror that allowed them to watch the mysterious man.

"What now?" Flash asked, after he had gained consciousness

"let me and Black Canary try?" Wonder Woman said as they turned to walk into the room.

"If he wouldn't talk to Clark and I, what makes you think that he will talk to you." Batman asked confused

"Because we are women and we are nicer," Black Canary said with a wink as they walked into the room.

Again all three of them stared at each other for about five minutes before Wonder Woman asked the first question. "May I ask who you are?" she asked kindly.

Bucky still didn't say anything but his hard stare lessened slightly.

Black Canary noticed his look had lost some of its intensity and decided to try as well. "How about this we tell you things about us, and you tell us things about you? Does that sound good?" Wonder Woman nodded beside her, letting him know that she would do this as well. Bucky ever so slightly shrugged his shoulders.

Black Canary and Wonder Woman nodded their heads and smiled. "Alright I will go first. My name is Dinah Lance otherwise known as the Black Canary." Dinah said with a smile. "And I am Diana Prince or Wonder Woman" Diana said also with a smile.

Bucky continued to look at them. Diana and Dinah sighed as they were about to walk back out of the room. but was stopped by a quite whisper. "-cky"

"What?" Dinah asked as they turned back around to the man in the chair.

Again the quite whisper retuned, but this time both women and the people in the other room heard it. "My name is Bucky." The man said after he had turned his gaze from them to the floor.

Diana and Dinah smiled as they walked a little closer, "Is that your real name?" They saw Bucky shake his head before glancing back at them. "No, He said my name was James Buchanan Barnes." Dinah and Diana shared a confused look with each other. "Who said?" Diana asked.

Bucky shook his head and looked back up at them, they could see confusion and pain in his dull blue eyes, that were probably bright at one time. "Why did you bring me here?" he asked, his voice laced with confusion and anger.

"We brought you to this room because you attacked our teammates." Diana said with a frown.

"NOT THIS ROOM! WHY DID YOU BRING ME HERE?! WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME?!" Bucky yelled, his patience running thin.

The two women in the room and the rest of the heroes were shocked by the anger, confusion, and just a tiny bit of fear in Bucky's voice.

"We didn't bring you here." Dinah said softly, trying to calm him down.

"DON'T LIE TO ME! YOUR WITH HYDRA AREN'T YOU?! YOUR HERE TO BRING ME BACK AND PUT ME BACK IN THE CHAIR!" Bucky said as thin trails of tears fell from his eyes.

What ever the two women were going to say was cut off by Batman and a bald green man with a red x on his chest and blue pants, the Martian Manhunter, walking into the room. "Leave" Batman commanded the two women.

"What, why?" Diana asked, her and Dinah looking at the two with wide eyes.

"We cant wait anymore. We need to know who he is and what he knows now." Batman said in an even tone.

"Batman, you cant be serious. This is a person" Dinah said, trying to make the dark knight change his mind, but was answered by a sharp glare. Sighing in defeat, Diana and Dinah walked out of the room, but not before giving the sad man a look that told him how sorry they were for what was about to happen.

Once they were gone Batman turned and nodded to the Martian. "I still highly disapprove of this Batman" J'onn told his friend and teammate.

"I know you do, J'onn, but we need to know how and why he is here. I wouldn't ask you if I knew of another way." Batman said.

J'onn nodded sadly before he walked to Bucky and stared at him. "I am truly sorry for what I am about to do. And I hope that one day you can forgive me." J'onn said before his eyes turned red and he looked through all of the Winter Soldiers memories. What J'onn didn't count on was all of the pain that this man had suffered was falling upon him at one time. Not being able to handle anymore J'onn cut the link and fell to his knees.

Batman ran and helped his friend up as he led him to the door. "Did you get everything?" he asked.

"Yes, but I need you to call an emergency meeting right now." J'onn commanded.

At the sound of metal creaking both turned and looked to Bucky who was pulling at his straps that connected him to his chair. Bucky could feel the green man digging through his head and he had flashbacks to his time in HYDRAS chair that erased his memories, when he came back to the present he saw the green man fall to his knees and he knew that green man had read his mind. And Bucky was angry.

Batman and Martian Manhunter saw that the straps were not going to hold Bucky and ran for the door. They barely got through when the straps finally snapped and the Winter Soldier was free. They saw him run to the two way mirror with an angry roar and use his metal arm and punch the mirror, but it did not break. When Bucky realized that the window wouldn't break and the door wouldn't open he paced in front of the mirror, like a wolf that would go in for the kill if it could, never taking his eyes off the people on the other side.

"WHAT WAS THAT!?" Flash yelled/asked to the two heroes.

"Meeting room" was all batman said as he started walking.

Everyone started following the stick in the mud hero, everyone except J'onn. Diana turned and realized that J'onn was not beside her and looked back to see him looking at Bucky with sad eyes. "Are you coming, J'onn?" she asked, getting his attention.

"Yes, Diana, I am." he told her as he started walking to the meeting room, but not before sending Bucky one last glance.

...

The meeting room was filled with all of the senior league members, including Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Hawkgirl, who didn't see Bucky because she was taking her anger out on a punching bag in the gym.

"So why are we here again?" Green Arrow asked, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest.

J'onn was about to answer but was cut off by Batman. "At exactly 10:46 this morning, a portal opened up in the watchtower and this man came through" he said as he took a remote and pressed a button, making a screen pop up with live footage of Bucky still pacing his cell, he looked less angry and more calm but he wasn't going to sit down and let them strap him down again. "We tried to question him but that proved to be unsuccessful, so I had J'onn look through his mind to find out what we need."

"Well I hope that you found something useful" Superman said bitterly, he wasn't happy with the fact that Batman had J'onn peel through this guys memories like he was an onion.

"J'onn, what did you find out about this guy?" Batman asked, bringing everyone's attention to the Martian. But J'onn wasn't paying any attention to the group. He was looking at Bucky on the monitor. 'how can one human being go through so much pain?' J'onn thought to himself.

"J'onn?" superman called to his friend as he laid a hand on his shoulder, bringing J'onn back to the matter at hand. "What can you tell us about him?"

J'onn cleared his throat and stood up before walking to the monitor in front of the group. "This man is from another universe." he started, but quickly raised his hand when Green Lantern was about to ask a question. " please save your questions for the end." he said, getting a nod from the Lantern.

"Anyway, in this mans universe, this man is 95 years old."

"How is that possible? no human can live that long and look that young and be that skilled?" Hawkgirl asked with a frown.

"he was fighting in world war 2 with his best friend, Steve Rogers, who was given a drug called the super soldier serum. It made him more muscular, stronger and faster. Bucky or James Buchanan Barnes was captured by enemy side, which was called HYDRA, who wanted to rule the world, and was experimented on and was given the same serum. Steve managed to save his friend but no one knew that Bucky was any different. Together they formed a group called the howling commandos, who was tasked with destroying high profile targets. On one mission Bucky fell from and train and fell what was believed to be his death from a cliff, but he survived. He lost his arm and was found by Hydra who replaced his arm with a metal one called adamantium. They erased his memory, quite painfully I might add, and trained and tortured him to become the greatest weapon and assassin that world has ever seen. every time his target was eliminated, HYDRA would erase his memories again and freeze him until the next time he was needed." J'onn said to the shocked faces of the league.

"How- how did he escape?" Flash asked with a small voice, there was no humor or fun in it.

"his last mission was to hunt down and kill the hero Captain America, who was his best friend Steve Rogers, who had also froze but was in the ocean until he was found. They fought and Steve was able to talk to him. Steve fell from a ship and was saved by Bucky, but he ran before anyone found him. Then he fell into the portal and was dropped here.

No one in the league new what to say to that story, what could they say.

"I wish we could help him." Diana said

What no one noticed was the three young Women, Supergirl, Batgirl, and Powergirl, who was listening in on the entire conversation. they each shared a look before nodding and running off for the cells so they could meet this man face to face.

Hey guys, this is my new story Winters Justice. I will be writing the first chapters of the new stories I want to write so I can get my ideas out there and you all can tell me if they sound good or not.

This is a rushed first chapter, the rest will be better!

Who do you guys think that Bucky should be paired up with?

Wonder Woman

Black Canary

Huntress

PowerGirl

Batgirl

Supergirl

Harley Quinn (when she becomes good in the story)

Poison ivy (when she becomes good in the story)

Or someone different? Or all of them?

Until next time!