"Ready?" asks Tony, Loki and the others nodding in agreement, "All right. We'll meet back here, okay?"
"Yes" Loki says, putting on his quantum suit, as do Catherine and Monica.
"Into the quantum in three two one," Tony presses the button and the group disappears into the quantum portal. The three are teleported through the quantum before everyone appears in the other timeline, the suits disappearing.
"Is everyone okay? Survived the trip to Disneyland?" asks Tony through the small radio in his ear. Loki looked around at Catherine and Monica.
"We're all fine," Loki answered. He looked around at his surroundings. They had ended up in an alley in New York, "So where's Bucky?"
"Wait..." said Tony, there was a brief murmur, "Well he seems to be in an office building, a block away, around the corner."
"Okay, thanks. We'll be in touch when we find Barnes," Catherine said and left the narrow alley. Loki and Monica followed her to the building.
"We can't let Barnes notice us. The whole mission could be jeopardized if we do. He's dangerous." explained Monica as they stood in front of the building.
"He's one of the good guys, and he's my friend," Loki contradicts Monica.
"Loki.", Catherine says and touched his shoulder, Loki looked at her, "We all know that, but he has no memories of us or our timeline, because in this timeline he is a Hydra soldier. A dangerous one at that. We need to remind him of us."
The three entered the building, a handful of employees walking through the lobby, all engrossed in documents and phone calls.
"I've located Barnes on the second floor," Tony informed them through the radio.
The three looked up to the second floor. The team headed for the stairs and elevators.
"I'm going to take the stairs and try to grab Bucky...," Loki said before turning to Monica and Catherine, "One of you take the elevator and one of you have to stay here and make sure Bucky doesn't try to escape."
"Catherine takes the elevator, I'll stay here and watch Barnes so he doesn't escape," Monica splits up and Catherine nods in agreement. Loki ran to the stairs and ran up them. In a few seconds, Loki was on the second floor. He snuck through the hallways of the floor before spotting Bucky as he opened the door of a room and disappeared into the room. Loki ran to the room and entered it as well. However, when he looked around the room it was empty. Bucky swings his fist, which smashes through the wall as Loki ducks. Bucky grabs him by the jaw and throws him at the open hole. Loki quickly recovers from the unexpected blow and also lands a punch that barely knocks Bucky off his feet. Bucky kicks and punches Loki out of the room down the hall. A shot from a protoneblaster, Bucky ducks for the blast. Catherine lunges at Bucky. Both land kicks and punches, then Bucky flips Catherine over head first. She smashes a table, then jumps on Bucky with her legs around his neck. He slams her down on another table and grabs her by the neck.
"Bucky!" she says with a gasp. Loki comes out of nowhere and kicks Bucky off Catherine. He struggles with Bucky and lands lightning fast kicks and some punches. Bucky rushes down some steps. Loki jumps down the levels, jumps down a railing and lands in front of Bucky. Loki grabs Bucky's metal arm, which he tries to twist. He realizes it's not going to work. Loki throws Bucky backwards and holds on as they both tumble down the stairs. They continue to struggle on the small landing and a leg swing sends Bucky over the railing. Bucky pulls a knife from the side of his pants. Loki lands behind Bucky. Bucky turns to Loki in one swift motion and tries to hit him with the knife. Loki catches his right arm and turns his arm around. Meanwhile, Bucky has drawn another knife in his other hand and tries to hit Loki again. Loki drew his daggers and both tried to hit the other. Finally, the two disarmed each other. Bucky kicked him right in the middle of his chest and left him on the floor against the wall.
"Bucky, you know me. We're friends." said Loki, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"I don't know you and we're clearly not friends.", Bucky lifted the knife from the floor and ran towards Loki. When he was after enough on Loki, Loki pulled his along under Bucky and dropped Barnes to the ground. However, Bucky quickly got back up with his fists ready to fight. Loki mirrored Bucky's stance and raised his fists as well. As so often in their training, Bucky attacked first. Loki dodged Bucky's punch and twisted Bucky's arm behind his back. Bucky stepped backward, flinging Loki backward and changing positions. Bucky cut off Loki's air. Loki touched Bucky's forehead in a flash and recalled the memories from him. As if Bucky had been struck, he staggered back and braced himself against his knees.
"My God, Loki, what have you done?" asked Bucky, who now seemed to remember.
"Remembered you again." explained Loki calmly, shrugging his shoulders. Bucky pulled Loki into a hug.
"Thanks," Bucky says, patting him on the back.
"Good to have you back," Loki declares, pulling out of Bucky's embrace, "Enough already."
"What happened? I don't remember anything after I passed out," he says, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Guys, can we sort this out later? We have spectators." explained Monica, Catherine stepping to her side. Loki and Bucky looked around, a group had gathered around them in a circle.
"I'll tell you later, here...", Loki gave Bucky a time GPS and got ready to travel back.
"Shouldn't we do this somewhere where we won't be seen?", Monica asked, looking around.
"It's too late for that now," Loki said mischievously. Monica looked at Catherine and Bucky, who just shrugged before disappearing and returning to their timeline.
A/N: Tell me in the comments what you think of the chapter, pls!
