Chapter Eight
"Sir, I've found him."
Bucky jolted awake at Jarvis' triumphant announcement, staring at the ceiling blankly until the words registered in his mind. Once they did he grinned brightly and sat up.
"How? Where is he?"
"Sir implanted a tracking device in the reactor that activates once it is tampered with. Someone must have tampered with it because it just switched on."
"Have you alerted the others?"
"They are assembling in the lobby as we speak."
Nodding the super soldier hurriedly got dressed before heading to the elevator, vowing mentally to bring his husband home where he belonged.
When he reached the common floor he found the others waiting for him, suited up and determined to bring their teammate home.
"Jarvis said he found Tony."
"Yes Captain Rogers. Sir's reactor has a tracking device implanted in it that only activates if it is tampered with. The device came online this morning and I immediately tracked its location."
Steve frowned. "How do we know it's not a trap? They could've removed it."
"If it had been removed the device would've deactivated moments later. Sir has programmed the reactor's to self-destruct exactly 120 seconds after removal or Sir's death."
"Two minutes? Why so short?" Clint asked curiously.
"Sir will enter cardiac arrest exactly 3.4 minutes after the reactor's removal and will be die approximately 2.9 minutes later without aid."
Everyone froze at his words, Bucky's heart tightening in his chest at the thought of losing Toni so soon after regaining his memories of him.
"Where is he, Jarvis?" He choked out and the AI hesitated.
"The tracker puts him in eastern Siberia, Captain Barnes."
Silas smirked darkly as him and Jeice entered their quarters, his emerald eyes cold.
It was finally time to escape this place.
After twenty long years of being trapped inside his own mind, watching his body act without his consent he was finally able to fight the drug off completely. Finally able to control his own actions.
Beside him Jeice mirrored his smirk with one of his own, blue eyes dancing with a sort of malicious glee.
"It's my turn to guard Kael tonight." He rumbled and the former king nodded.
"Mine too. He's partnering us because the guards are too terrified to go near him."
Jeice frowned. "He's really changed, Sy."
Silas nodded. He hadn't seen much of his baby brother since his arrival but he'd heard about him. He'd heard of the haunting tunes he sang to taunt his guards, of the way he slaughtered the scientists during the experiments and off the small, off-kilter smile that always seemed to dance on his lips. It made him wonder just what had happened to his brother in their absence.
"We'll save him, Jay. Then we'll fix whatever these humans have done to him."
Kael Antonius Salenyme.
Monster.
Demon.
Project III.
Kael giggled softly as the names danced around in his mind, swaying slowly in his place cross-legged on the floor. His dark hair had been stripped of it's highlights and had grown longer, falling around him in a tangled mess of curls and his arms had been bound to him body, via a straitjacket after he'd attacked the scientists for the first time.
He didn't care.
He was all of these things and he would show them. He would show them his monster, his rage.
The Sanguis Ira sang in his blood, having long since become a permanent fixture in his mind after the first experiment but he kept it hidden playing off his rage with insanity, biding his time and building his strength.
It was time.
It was time to escape. Time to show them just what a monster he was.
His lips curled into a violent grin.
They would know. They would all know.
A malicious cackle rang through the room and he began to sing.
Sh, he's coming run as fast as you can
Sh, he knows you're hidden under the bed
He can hear you breathing
Did you honestly forget
About the monster you created
When you let me slip?
He paused eyes turning a deep solid black.
Sh, he's coming, run as fast as you can
Because when he's done
You will have nothing left
TBC...
A/N: Next chapter the rescue.