When the big dog had vanished with the girl that saying the winter soldier was unhappy was an understatement. But he needed to finish his mission and tried to kill the guy in front of him, of which was difficult to do, before he could have done anything to about the girl. He had hoped that the girl had joined in the fighting when he saw her coming towards them but the guy had stopped her. He paid no heed to what the guy was saying to the ear piece, as the ships started to fire on each other that he had broke some of the glass as he was hitting the guy after the helmet had fell off. But he had to admit that this guy seem familiar to him but he has no idea of why that was, for he was sure that he never meet this guy before. But with every hit that he was becoming less sure of that, that he knows him from somewhere. As he hit the guy that the guy had spoke.
"You're my friend!"
"You're my mission..."
"Then finish it..." The winter soldier had stopped and looked at the guy, he wasn't what it was but he couldn't shake the feeling that he knows this guy. "'Cause I'm with you till the end of the line.'" Somehow he couldn't find it in him to hit he guy again or even harm him, not only that but that sounded familiar to him almost like it had been said before. But he wasn't sure of who had said it though, as he tried to think but all he got was a blur. Than the guy fell from his grip and from the Helicarrier, he had watched for a moment as the guy had fell before he had jumped from the Helicarrier and into the river. When he grab the guy that he pulled up to the surface and than to the edge of the shore. When he got to the shore that the girl that was in the Helicarrier had ran over to the guy. Than she did something, she healed some of his wounds before looking up at him. As he looked at her that he realize that somehow he knows this girl, than she had stood up and walked over to him. When she was in front of him that he knelt down to her eye level and looked at her carefully.
As he looked at her that she placed her hand on his forehead and whispered something in Ancient Greek or what he thought might be Ancient Greek. He felt something enter him, he couldn't place the feeling at first, but as it went deeper that he realized what it was. It was hope, than there other feelings, guilt, pain, suffering, the loss of close friends and family, more suffering, pain and guilt. Than the girl had took her hand away from his forehead and he looked at he confused before he got up and walked away only looking back to see her standing looking at him with an expression that he couldn't place. As he looked a the expression that he felt love, a familial love, something that he had known before by he couldn't remember. Who was she and who was the guy that was laying behind her and who were they to him. He turned his head back and went into the forest without glancing back again.
Two days later
He had entered a museum that had the Captain America area, he walked around the museum and he had stopped in front of an wall that had a picture of a guy with writing next to the picture. He had looked at the picture, shocked, for staring back at him was his own face, as he looked at the pictures that memories had hit him. The memories were not clear or even full memories but the memories that were there were enough to tell him that he knew who those two were on the Helicarrier. That they were part of the howling commandos, he wasn't sure of who they were still but he knew that he knows them now. When the museum was closing that he had to leave and he walked out of the museum and he looked in the direction of New York City. He had closed his eyes and he had spoke softly to himself.
"I am still not sure of who you two are but I know that I did know who you two are and that I am indeed of who you said I was. I had suffered and I had brought pain and suffering to others and I want to make amends. But first I need to find you two to figure out more of who I was." He opened his eyes and walked down the rest of the steps hoping to find one of the two he had met on the Helicarriers to get answers from him.
A week later
More memories had come, his guilt had become heavier as he remembered exactly of who the two were. He couldn't believe that he was giving the assignment of killing his best friend, he had thought it was best to find Elizabeth first before he goes and find Steve. As he bought back to when he had knelt in front of her trying to figure out of how he knows her that Bucky had saw changes in her. Elizabeth walked with a grace that he never seen before and she and she had a nimble figure as well as her athletic build. Her blond hair was still the same color as well as her eyes but her hair was braided and there was a silver circlet on top of her head. There was a silver glow around her, besides the clothes she was went that Elizabeth had looked like a princess. Despite those changes that he was sure that was Elizabeth for he had remembering looking into her eyes when he glanced back and saw eyes of sadness that once showed eyes of happiness and joy.
As he walked though the forest in New York that he had notice a silver glow and he had went towards it. After a few minutes that he had stopped at the edge of a clearing, in the clearing there was several silver tents and there was a bunch of girls, around fifty, were walking around the campsite. There were falcons in the trees and white wolves walking around the campsite, but one among them was a silver wolf. Bucky took a sharp intake of breath as he looked at the wolf, for he knows that wolf, for it was Alexandria. The same wolf that Elizabeth had rescued and kept, Alexandria had become the mascot of the howling commandos and fought along with them. Every time the had went into battle that Alexandria had howled and that was the signal to attack as the mark of when the howling commandos attacked back in Germany.
However one of the girls had notice him standing there and pointed a bow at him and ask him of who he was. Suddenly the girls had looked at him while others had come over to watch, Bucky stood there looking at the girl hat had a bow in her hand. After who knows of how long that one of the girls had put their hand on the one girl's arm and the one girl had lowered her bow and looked at the other girl. Bucky had looked at the other girl and smiled, for it was Elizabeth and when a look of understanding between Elizabeth and the girl before Elizabeth had looked at him and took a couple of step forward. It was clear that neither one were what to say or do at first, Bucky didn't blame Elizabeth for not making the first move since she was unsure of what he might do if she did anything. So Bucky decided to make the first move.
"Elizabeth Rogers? Daughter of Demeter and champion of Hestia?" Bucky was pretty sure that it was Elizabeth but he has to know for sure that it was truly Elizabeth. Even though there had be changes that he wasn't totally sure if he was right, she looked like Elizabeth and acted similar to Elizabeth. Bucky hoped that he was right in thinking that this girl was really Elizabeth, a smile appeared on the girl's face. When he saw the smile and the joy in her eyes that he knew that it was Elizabeth before she had even spoke.
"You remembered!" Tears had started to come down her face as she ran over to him and hugged him. Bucky had went to her level and hugged her right back, he held her tight almost not believing that she was alive after all this time. Bucky knows he was in some sort of sleep for the last many years, from what he could figure out that it had be about seventy years since that fall. He remembered all to clearly that Elizabeth and Steve tried to help him, but it was clear Elizabeth hadn't strong enough to help him properly. For Elizabeth only had being using her demigod abilities for two years and he was sure she was weak from the attack in the train of which affect of how much of her powers she could use. Steve even tried to get to him before he had fell, Bucky couldn't blame them for that fall for they did what they could to save him. Bucky wasn't sure of how long they were like that but it was Elizabeth that had pulled away.
After a minute of questions that Emily had took her to her tent so that they could talk of what happened to each other since the fall. Or at least to the best that they were able to do, in Bucky's case it was difficult to reach the beast that they were able to. She had told him of the monsters she had hunted and growing close to one of her half brothers and the war that she was part of now. Bucky, in turn, told Elizabeth of what he could remember, the horror he had done and the damage he had done to people and their family. It was difficult for Bucky to talk about for he couldn't believe of what he had done and that his memory had been wiped many times. When he was finished that he had stood up and went to the back of the tent and knelt down. For he was unable to look at Elizabeth any more, than he felt a hand on his shoulder and he looked over to see Elizabeth standing there. Elizabeth had than knelt besides him before she had spoke.
"Bucky, I know you did a lot of horrors. But you were not the only one who did horrors, there many others, with with their memories, had done many worse things than what you have done. However there is a way for you to make it up by trying to help and protect the people and to protect the freedom that many people tried to destroy." Bucky smiled and shook his head before looking back at Elizabeth.
"In some ways you had changed, I guess sixty nine years would do that to someone. But in so many ways, you haven't changed." Elizabeth had smiled and world up before holding her hand out and he took it before standing up.
"Come on, let's go and talk to a group of basically men." Elizabeth had lead him out of her tent and into the forest, he quickly followed her. After a few minutes of silence that the entered another clearing and Bucky smiled as he looked at the men that had stopped and looked at the two of them. Bucky knows each of this men, for the men that were looking at them were from the howling commandos.
