[Black shield and white tank] A line of sea and sky

Compared with Wishbone, Winter Soldier is much quieter.

When he was arrested and returned, he also struggled hard.But Steve quickly subdued him after he came out, and quickly found a suitable place to hold him.

Steve didn't want to torture this person too much. Captain Hydra remembered everything about Steve Rogers, but for some reason, the raw power he touched suddenly cut off many parts of his soul.It's like drawing a circle in his heart, inside the circle there are only two or three things, and outside the circle is everything except these few things.

The center of the circle is Tony Dark, even though the man by that name is now dead.

As Bucky's personality takes over the Winter Soldier's mind, he meets Steve's confused eyes.He sat on the edge of the crude frame bed, turned his head and looked at Steve for a moment.

It was the same with Steve, he was eager to find something that would touch his heart from Bucky's eyes, but unfortunately, the staring at each other lasted for more than ten seconds, and neither of them found anything.

So when they visited Bucky Barnes for the first time, they didn't communicate in words.Language is not so important since he was Captain America and the other party was Sergeant Barnes. There is a tacit understanding between them. This tacit understanding was cultivated by growing up and going through hardships together.Now the tacit understanding is still there, but it has been covered with a layer of strange dust.

After he informed Rumlow of the Winter Soldier's situation and received Rumlow's violent reaction, he met the Winter Soldier for the second time.This time he planned to say something to Bucky, such as empathizing, and telling Bucky the information he wanted to know the most—"Crossbones isn't dead, don't worry."

The Winter Soldier's eyes lit up suddenly, but soon froze suspiciously.Maybe he can't understand how Steve came to deliver the wishbone news, or maybe he doubts the truth of the statement itself.It's just that he didn't ask any further questions. After staring at it for a while, he made exactly the same request as Wishbone—"I want to see him."

"You can't see him, you're just a prisoner, and technically so is he." Steve replied, his tone calm.He was more curious about the Winter Soldier. In the heart of this confused person, what power made him imprint the idea of ​​looking for him.

Just as why the circle changed from white to black, the logo changed from a star emblem to a skull, and the center of the circle was still the Iron Man in the iron suit, which confused Captain Hydra to the extreme.

Years of companionship?He doesn't believe it.

He didn't think those things were that important, but he still asked—"This is the reason why you insisted on coming back even though you knew that you would end up like this when you came back? You are because of your feelings for him—"

"What's going on..." The Winter Soldier interrupted him, no, Bucky should have interrupted him.Bucky stood up from the bed and slowly approached the iron gate, less than one meter away from Steve, "...what are you? Why did you become like this?"

--why?

Steve didn't know either.He also thought about this question for a long time. From the day he started to track down the truth behind Iron Man's death, he seemed to be infected by this virus-like question.

He clearly remembered the scene when Tony collapsed at the bar of the Stark Building, but the change didn't start at that moment.That's when he struggled with the intense grief inside him, examining Tony's body carefully.

Tony didn't have any obvious signs of fighting, but it was incredible that he didn't even have time to put on his steel suit.He was wearing his usual vest, and it looked like he just wanted to get out and get a cup of coffee.The cup was still safely placed on the table, but he fell down on the spot like a sudden death.

His reactor was pulled out in its entirety, tauntingly at hand.Although it looked like his heart couldn't bear the load and died—and the outside world thought so—Steve could guess at a glance that it was impossible for Tony to not make any resistance and let the reactor be taken out and sit there waiting to die.

There is still a period of time between taking out the reactor and actually dying. During this period, if there is no enemy to fight with him, then he will have time to save himself.

What's more, what kind of person, or what, can be so fast that even the steel suit can't be put on in time.

——Tony was restrained, and he couldn't resist at all.It's like controlling his consciousness, making him unable to even move his fingers against instructions.

Steve doesn't understand.

He carefully recalled the meeting with Tony in the last few days, recalling every word they had said.But he didn't notice Tony's abnormality, so he ruled out the possibility of suicide.

At that moment Steve had a list in his head, not a list of suspects, but a list of people who might know.Like Bruce Banner, like James Rowdy, like... Nick Fury or Peter Parker.

Of course, there are more than these people on the list, but he has no memory of who else he listed.The last memory is that after he questioned the above four people one by one, he found another person.Then, like a film burnt, the memory short circuited.

Something important must have happened during this period, or he did ask the right person.But that person erased his memory of meeting him and made him what he is now.

Yes, since he woke up in an alley in the Bronx, he could feel that he had changed.The kind of energy and fighting spirit that comes from the inside out has never been experienced when injecting Captain America serum.

He can still think of Tony, he can still feel the tearing grief of losing Tony, and he can still clearly understand that everything he did was to track down the real culprit who killed Tony.But in front of all the above is another idea——

— Back to Hydra.

back.Yep, not to Hydra, but back.

It felt like he originally belonged to Hydra, but he had strayed too far and said goodbye for too long before, and now he woke up from a dream and should return home.The speed of his brain has not kept up, but his footsteps are walking all the way to Hydra's secret base.

This is not the route he learned after he passed out, but the clue he asked from Bucky before that.So he didn't get any more information from the coma, the only thing he got was a sudden but extremely firm belief.

Then he came to the door of the organization.He used his vocal cords to say things that did not belong to him, and he used his hands and feet to do things that did not belong to him.But after everything, he didn't have the same confusion and self-blame as the Winter Soldier, as if everything was set up.

His old system was breaking down and a new one was being built within him.The data in the brain is being sorted out during the return journey, and the upgrade has been completed the moment it arrives.

After clearing away a soldier blocking the door, he stepped into the main building of Hydra.

At that moment, he had already gradually cleared his mind, and the desire that was swelling in his heart and the ultimate goal to be achieved became more and more clear.

He began to know what he was doing, and even the context of each step was clear at a speed visible to the naked eye.But what exactly is the force that drives these veins to form—he still doesn't know, although in the process of desperately recalling, he has captured some very vague impressions.

It was a meeting.A place in a castle or villa.He was talking to a tall man, but he couldn't remember the man's clothes clearly, nor could he see the other person's face clearly.

But what is certain is that the mysterious and erased meeting was a mechanism. He opened a door after touching the mechanism. I have been wandering in the dark.

So he wasn't panicked or scared, just a little confused, but this confusion was nothing to him at the moment.

"Because I was blind, and now I see the light," he replied, calmly.It seems that even these words have been prepared long ago, and after saying them, there will be a wonderful sense of comfort in the chest.

He did see the light, and that dazzling light appeared in the hands of the man at the meeting, just like God's blessing to him, which made him think clearly about many things before.

At that moment, he seemed to be out of the physical body, out of the world where Steve Rogers existed, standing shoulder to shoulder with the gods, overlooking every step he took.

So at that moment, he finally understood that it was precisely because he did not strongly control the development of the situation when he was the captain of the United States that caused too many tragedies, the split of the alliance, and the outbreak of the civil war. It also ended up causing him to lose Iron Man.

"...So you want to lock me up? Because the light in your heart ordered you to do so?" Bucky thumped the iron railing hard and questioned.

"That's right. You are a criminal, and I need to punish you for your crimes, so as to appease most people's emotions." Steve replied.

He is right, he needs to appease the people, but the concept of the people has changed from SHIELD to Avengers, and now it has become Hydra.

Bucky stared at him in disbelief, but immediately had a guess—"So you're Hydra now? That's really... are you brainwashed?"

brainwashing?no, no.Brainwashing makes people more confused than before, but he is more sober than before.

If Hydra is a force that S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers have been fighting against but have never been able to annihilate, then obviously the way they fought before is not advisable.

Although the bravery of head-to-head confrontation is commendable, the mutual loss is embarrassing.It is not a suitable path to hurt both sides, and this path has also been proved from World War II to the present that it cannot be followed at all.Then there is only one way to make the two forces twist into one ball - to bring them all under their command.

As long as they have only one ruler, there is only one speaking voice.Their power no longer weakens each other, but adds to each other.

The current S.H.I.E.L.D. has its own leader, and everything is more planned than Hydra.But on the contrary, the hydra is like a loose sand, and the dragons have no leader.

In this case, Hydra will use "destroying SHIELD and the Avengers' plan" as their plan. Without a big goal, they drag each other down and make each other stand still.

To this end, Steve decided to take the lead in gathering Hydra.That's what Steve came to Hydra for, simpler, more direct, and more powerful.

"A rusted iron plate is useless, but a sharpened spear is very lethal." Steve smiled--"Now I just want to sharpen this fine steel and use it as a weapon To take back what should belong to this world."

Peace in this world is what it is.

Bucky froze, gritted his teeth—"Steve, I know losing Stark is painful for you, but that doesn't mean you can use his ideas to impose on everyone. You know very well that he wants to control everyone, and our civil war started for freedom, why do you-"

"Because he's right." Steve cut him off, brow furrowed slightly.

Yes, Tony is right.

If Steve had done what Tony said in the first place, he wouldn't have broken up with Tony, wouldn't have left each other, and wouldn't have had Tony murdered in his mansion.

But at the same time, he doesn't want to lose his freedom, and he doesn't want to be controlled by the government or a higher authority, so he must become the highest authority-a leader who controls Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. at the same time, so that all disputes are under control Absolute authority in silence.

"The lost things can't come back, Steve..." Bucky held the iron fence with both hands, almost pleading, "but we can still grasp the things that haven't been lost."

"Did you mean crossbones?"

Steve snorted coldly and raised his eyebrows, "But unfortunately, he is very important to the organization and cannot be kept privately by you, so I'm sorry, Bucky," Steve shook his head indifferently— — "If you are as persistent as him, I will have to use a stronger method to cut off your ties."

Bucky looked at Steve quietly, his eyes full of puzzlement and astonishment.

But he didn't know that this was the last time he spoke to Steve with his full Bucky identity, because he was still persistent, and the consequence of his persistence was to make Steve completely smash "Bucky Barnes" , leaving only the Winter Soldier who exists only as a weapon.

"You are scary now." Bucky slowly walked back to the bed, sat down in his original position, and stopped looking at him.

Horrible, but Steve loves it.

The strange power injected into his body works anytime and anywhere, making him feel that he holds the supreme power.He can make any stubborn person give in at will, and even though he has never done it before, he has his own ideas.

So at the beginning, he really didn't want to torture this poor reformed soldier, he didn't want to torture that blind Steve's life-and-death acquaintance, and he didn't want to completely erase the past. Know how to cherish the present light.

But the role of Rumlow is only clear to him.

Rumlow can do that one thing, one thing that helps Steve regain what he lost.

Only Rumlow can find that person, and only that person has a key to go back to the past, and with that key, he can save Tony Darke.

So it is still necessary to kill chickens and monkeys.

Especially when Rumlow reacted so violently that the Winter Soldier thought he was threatening him by refusing to eat.Let one go, and the others will get worse.

So their great Hydra captain wants to let Rumlow see, and let everyone see that the end of having distracting thoughts and disobeying his orders is much more miserable than they imagined.

TBC