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Washington, D.C.
Bucky was put in a special containment cell, strapped to a chair as they escorted him in an armored van, while Steve, Logan, Steele and Sam faced T'Challa.
"So, dressed like a cat, huh?" Logan joked.
"Logan…" Steve shot him a look.
"Come on, dude shows up dressed like a cat, you don't wanna know more?" Sam pointed out.
"Your suit, it's vibranium?" Steve realized.
"The Black Panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations." T'Challa explained. "A mantle, passed from warrior to warrior. And now, because your friend murdered my father, I also wear the mantle of a king. So, I ask you, as both warrior and king, how long do you think you can keep your friend safe from me?" He asked Steve with a pointed look, leaving him to wonder how dangerous T'Challa can be.
"What's gonna happen to him?" Steve asked, while facing the man, who was accompanied by Sharon and more soldiers.
"Psychological evaluation. Then trial. Worst case scenario, extradition to Wakanda, given the circumstances." The man said.
"Who are you?" Oliver asked.
"Everett Ross." Everett introduced himself. "Listen, the Winter Soldier is an international criminal and I'm doing my best to make sure no one tries to get through A.R.G.U.S. or anyone else to get to him."
"Something's not adding up." Oliver said as he, Sara, Lyla, Steve, Steele, Logan, Flag, Matt and Barry were examining the footage, with Sharon as they turned to another monitor to see the interrogation of Bucky.
"Do you know where you are, James? I can't help you if you don't talk to me, James."
"My name is Bucky."
Outside, a man was delivering a package, as the worker signed off the receipt.
"Why would the Task Force release the photo to begin with?" Steve questioned, examining Bucky's photo after the bombing.
"Get the word out, involve as many eyes as we can?" Sharon tried.
"To flush him out of hiding." Oliver nodded. "Set off the bomb. Get a photo taken."
"And suddenly seven billion people are looking for the Winter Soldier." Barry added. "But he's a master assassin, who had been a ghost for seventy years, he wouldn't be so sloppy to get caught on a camera."
"You're saying someone framed him trying to find him?" Sharon questioned.
"Steve, we looked for the guy for two years and found nothing." Sam nodded.
"What if the bombing was just a way to make sure we'd find Barnes?" Oliver realized.
"To get him here." Matt nodded.
Suddenly, the lights went out and red alarms blared.
"What the hell?" Tony wondered.
"Where's Bucky?" Steve asked Sharon.
"What the hell is this?" Bucky demanded.
"Why don't we discuss your home?" Zemo said. "Not Romania. Certainly not Brooklyn, no. I mean your real home."
Zemo pulled out a red book that Bucky recognized and paled, when Zemo lighted on it with a flashlight, reading it. "Longing. Rusted."
Bucky's lips quivered as he was terrified, realizing what was he doing. "Stop."
"Seventeen." Zemo continued.
"Stop!" Bucky glared before he roared, trying to free himself from the restraints.
"Daybreak."
Bucky freed himself and tried to punch his way out from his cell as he punched the door with his metal arm as Zemo circled around him, continuing saying the trigger words.
"Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight Car." Zemo finished as Bucky punched the door out but as Bucky got out and got up on his feet, it was no longer Bucky. It was the Winter Soldier as Zemo eyed him. "Soldier?" Zemo asked.
"Ready to comply." The Winter Soldier said.
"Mission report. December 16, 1991." Zemo requested.
Steve, Sam, Steele, Logan, Oliver and Matt entered Bucky's cell, seeing the knocked out guards as they saw Zemo on the floor. "Help me. Help."
"Get up." Steve said before pinning Zemo to the wall. "Who are you? What do you want?"
"To see an empire fall." Zemo said.
Suddenly, Sam dodged as the Soldier tried to punch him but broke through the wall. Oliver and Sam engaged the Soldier but the Soldier threw them both across the room. Matt and Logan dodged as Steve and Steele engaged the Soldier. The Soldier pushed Steve back and blocked Steele's blows.
"Don't move." Logan ordered but Zemo dropped a grenade that exploded with a high-pitch sound, stunning them all as Zemo ran off.
The Soldier pushed Steve into the elevator shaft, while slamming Steele against a wall.
Barry sped in, but Zemo had managed to run.
"Where the hell did he go?" Barry demanded.
In the upper level, the Soldier knocked out more guards, when Tony fired at him a pulse from his gauntlet, stunning him with a sonic wave.
Tony engaged the Soldier and blocked the bullet from the Soldier's gun with his gauntlet before breaking the gun. The Soldier punched Tony in the abdomen as Tony fell against a chair.
Sharon, Natasha, Colleen and Sara engaged Bucky. Sharon landed a kick at the Soldier's chest but the Soldier grabbed her and slammed her to the table. The Soldier blocked Colleen's and Sara's blows before throwing them both against a wall as the women realized that he was faster and stronger than them and more skilled. Natasha wrapped her legs around the Soldier, hitting him in the head but the Soldier slammed her to another table and grabbed her by her throat.
"You could at least recognize me." Natasha choked out.
T'Challa entered, kicking the Soldier but the Soldier blocked. They both exchanged a few blows before the Soldier knocked T'Challa down and went up. T'Challa jumped on the stairs and the Soldier blocked his kicks. They both again traded blows before T'Challa grabbed the Soldier's metal arm, restraining them. The Soldier and T'Challa fell down the stairs before getting up. They resumed their fight before T'Challa kicked the Soldier as he fell into the lower level. T'Challa jumped down but the Soldier had managed to escape.
The Soldier was on the rooftop on a heliport, trying to fly away in a helicopter but Steve grabbed onto the helicopter and the edge of the heliport, holding the helicopter. Steve dodged, when the Soldier turned the helicopter to the side, the blades tearing up the heliport were ripped apart.
Steve pulled Bucky out, who was unconscious as he sighed, wondering what to do.
Zemo drove to another part of the city, where he met a young man with short hair.. "Glad you got my call."
"Obliged. What's the job?" The man asked, speaking with an Australian accent.
"Stall the Avengers and this… Team Arrow. They'll be coming for me certainly." Zemo said.
"Do you want me to kill them?" The man asked.
"No. I don't want them dead. I want Mr. Stark and Mr. Rogers and Barnes to find me in Siberia. But I need time to be ready." Zemo said. "Can your Jackals do that? I have other partners that will help you, too, who have unfinished business with one of them."
"Don't worry." The man said before he put on the Deathstroke mask. "I'll make sure Oliver Queen pays for what he did to my father."
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