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

"Fuck!...fuck you!"

Rumlow let out a low growl, and saw that Steve was only shot in the side through the binoculars.

The bullets did penetrate the armor smoothly, and the potassium-sodium bombs also exploded perfectly when they contacted the body///ye.But he clearly saw Steve in that position for a long time, he was talking to Stark, and the Winter Soldier could aim at his head and kill him with one shot.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Rumlow slapped the Winter Soldier on the back of the head.

The force was so heavy that the Winter Soldier knocked forward.But he immediately resumed his aiming action, staring at everything behind the crosshair without blinking.

The glass window was shattered, and Stark glanced in their direction.Of course, it is impossible for him to know where the ambush is. He can only see a dark scene. It is 02:30 in the morning, the quietest time in the city.The buildings around the Stark Building were awakened by the previous shooting, and several lights were turned on one after another, and then turned off one after another after a while.

The Winter Soldier continued to stare at the two behind the glasses, ignoring Wishbone's cursing in his ears.He knew what the other party would scold, scolded him for being merciful, scolded him for deliberately missing his shot, scolded him for being a waste, and couldn't hit Steve when it came to the crisis.

The Winter Soldier is not, but he has no way to argue.He can fire the first shot, and he can fire the second.He could lay still for dozens of hours, and he couldn't believe that Steve wouldn't come out of that room the next morning.It's just that he still firmly believed that the previous injury was not caused by Steve, so he intentionally hit the opponent's waist and abdomen, hoping to see how the situation would change.

And he did see it.

The moment Stark turned his head, some blue light flashed past again.Based on what was captured on television earlier, the Winter Soldier believes that the light is Iron Man's eyes.

Blue, very light blue, almost white blue, metallic blue.

Steve probably yelled "Get down" to Tony, and Iron Man staggered from the crosshairs.He lowered his body and approached Steve bit by bit.His back arch was exposed a little by the window, and he could track his movement, but it was difficult to aim and it was not convenient to shoot.

"One more time." Wishbone's voice rang in his ears, he temporarily suppressed his anger, and set up the binoculars again.

There was no wind tonight, and the air was almost stagnant, so it was difficult for the smoke from Zemo's army to dissipate, but now it gave them a good sniper environment. Bing looked intently into the distance.

"I said, do it again." Wishbone repeated coldly.

Now Steve is also arched, the blood on his armor doesn't know if it's his, it's everywhere.Potassium-sodium bullets are indeed powerful enough to cause piercing damage to the target. Even if Steve didn't die, he must have been seriously injured.

But the Winter Soldier didn't pull the trigger—"Wait."

"Waiting for what? Waiting for Stark to drag him into the bedroom?" Rumlow's tone became harsh again.

Once Stark had dragged Steve into the bedroom, they had no chance of targeting.The former must close the bedroom door, and the heat source detector cannot detect that far.

"No, I... I seem to have seen something." The Winter Soldier responded hesitantly.He didn't dare to be distracted, he felt that he was only a little bit away from the truth.Although he didn't know what the difference was, a voice told him - just hold on for a while, and he would find the real culprit.

Now that Stark has moved to Steve's position, they don't know what they are doing, and there is no movement for a while.Both backbows showed a little bit, and then Steve fell first, and Stark started moving again.

Yep, he's dragging Steve now.He moved backward step by step, at a speed two or three times slower than when he passed.But within two steps, he was pushed away by Steve, and the two had a disagreement again, and stopped in place.

"You're not going to do it, are you?" Wishbone urged again.

The Winter Soldier's attention was almost entirely on what he saw, and he vaguely told Wishbone to wait.

But Rumlow wouldn't wait any longer. He stood up from the balcony and turned to look for the weapon bag.

Also in the weapons bag are two ///guns and several ///mines.Maybe it was because he secretly felt that things would not go so smoothly before he set off. After all, the Winter Soldier still has a fucking part in Bucky, so Rumlow made more preparations, intending to do things to the end by himself when the opponent was unable to attack.

The Winter Soldier is ignorant.

He had no other distractions, his eyes fixed on him for a moment.He probably guessed why the two had a dispute, because there was a small corner from the corridor to the bedroom, and this corner was made of floor-to-ceiling glass.When turning a corner, Stark will inevitably be exposed to the detection range of the sniper, and the sniper's prediction will make him die immediately under the precise bullet.

If the Winter Soldier and Wishbone had been in the same situation, the same disagreement would have occurred.Wishbone will definitely tell the Winter Soldier to go, and the Winter Soldier will definitely not go.

But Stark is not like the Winter Soldier, he will not blindly drag the opponent into the room, and will not be exposed to the enemy's vision rashly.He always has to take some precautions, no matter whether the defense works or not.

It is precisely because of this that the Winter Soldier finally sees the complete truth.

I saw a dense white substance slowly oozing out from Stark's clothes, covering his whole body bit by bit.It flows on the surface of the body like water, but under the light of the corridor, it shines with a strange metallic luster.

After a while, it formed a thinner but complete armor that tightly wrapped Stark's body.Then it continued to secrete, slowly overflowing the head, and then carefully wrapped the neck and the back of the head.

In the end, Stark's face flickered, as if something had applied a protective film to his face, but it was a completely transparent film. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to notice that Iron Man's cheeks were also heavy. under protection.

This is it!

The Winter Soldier was too shocked to speak, but screamed in his chest.

It was as lubricated as running water but hard as metal, and it shone with silver light but was as cold as ice. He could even recall the touch when it imprisoned him, as well as the bone-piercing pain of piercing into his body and then rubbing and pulling away.

It really wasn't Steve Rogers who raped him, but Tony Stark, a monster who could release special liquid metal from his body!

No wonder the other party can come and go quietly.No wonder the other party didn't want to touch him personally, but he wanted to use metal to penetrate his lower body.No wonder the opponent was able to subdue him with ease, but prevented the Winter Soldier from looking up and seeing his face.

Because he is Tony Stark, known as Iron Man.

"Captain, look! It's this...it's this thing!" The Winter Soldier shouted eagerly, planning to report what he saw to Rumlow.

But when he turned his head, he saw that Rumlow was already carrying the weapon bag and walking towards the door of the rooftop.

The Winter Soldier immediately got up from the terrace, rushed up and grabbed Rumlow's arm, and said incoherently—"It's not Steve, the person who did that to me wasn't Steve! You go and see...you go Look, it's Tony Stark, he...he has something strange inside him, and he's made of that thing!"

At that moment, Wishbone still believed in the Winter Soldier. Although it was only a little bit of luck, he still picked up the binoculars as the other party wished.But he didn't see anything, he only saw the bedroom door being closed, and the bloodstains on the bedroom door.

There was a helpless and mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, and then he slammed the telescope on the ground.Horrified, the Winter Soldier tried to explain, but was interrupted by Wishbone's raucous laugh.

"There's something strange in your body? Huh?" Rumlow smiled and shook his head, he didn't even bother to blame the Winter Soldier for giving up the last chance to snipe—"You really want to spare Steve's life, you can say anything exit."

After speaking, he broke free from the Winter Soldier and walked towards the door without hesitation.

But the Winter Soldier grabbed him again, shaking his head flustered and helpless, unable to speak clearly—"No... Captain, you believe me. I saw it... I just saw it! Liquid metal Coming out of Stark's body... that day was what bound me up, trust me!—"

But Wishbone didn't believe him.Wishbone looked at him coldly, and he wanted to listen patiently, but he still couldn't control himself.Every word of the Winter Soldier seemed to pour oil on his anger, so that without even thinking about it, he slapped the Winter Soldier hard.

He's disappointed in the Winter Soldier, the disappointment almost seeping through his gut.He really doesn't know what he has been doing all these years. He has gone through life and death for the brainwashed and stupid people in front of him countless times, but what did the other party give back.

He couldn't bear to kill the Winter Soldier.But he also didn't want to see this person again, because he couldn't bear it.It's just that the former can't bear it for the Winter Soldier, and the latter can't bear it for himself.

The Winter Soldier was a little dazed by the slap, covered his ears and took two steps back.

Rumlow also just got the chance and quickly disappeared into the corridor.

In fact, Rumlow is also afraid. He is afraid that the Winter Soldier will really admit that he can't do it, so what should he do.He didn't want to hear the answer, not even at this moment.

He wanted to ask the Winter Soldier countless times why he couldn’t be more pure. Now that he has overcome so many difficulties, be more pure and stay by his side. Don’t pretend to be the past in your heart. Don’t think about the 20 years that should have been buried long ago. , The most useless 20 years at the beginning of life... Is it really difficult?

Rumlow doesn't think it's difficult. His life is so long, he has forgotten many, many years.He doesn't care about those things, so he doesn't even know when he forgot them.

But the Winter Soldier can't forget, no matter what.

Then there's only one reason, and that's really important.

It is so important that even if it is to let go and say goodbye, you have to be ruthless and risk everything.

"You have to go, now, right now!" ordered Steve, who entered the room under the protection of Tony with liquid metal.Blood gushed out of his abdomen continuously, and he couldn't cover it no matter how he covered it.He simply didn't cover it, took off the armor, and put it on Tony's shoulders who were still trying to seal the wound with liquid metal.

Tony was taken aback, but did not refuse.But he didn't leave either, but kept busy with the work at hand.This metal helps the body repair itself. Tony used it to heal broken bones and torn wounds. He can now use this method to plug Steve's gunshot wound.

But Steve didn't want him to do that, he squeezed Tony's hand tightly, and ordered again sternly—"I told you to leave now, this is your only chance, if you don't leave, I will Will torture you as much as possible, hear?"

Tony heard.He didn't know what he was doing, but his throat was burning and he couldn't make a sound smoothly.Steve's strength was still strong, forcing his hands out of reach of the opponent's body.Steve also bent his legs, while preventing the liquid metal from approaching the wound.

Two strange forces confront each other, one red and one blue.Neither of them was willing to give in, but the time passed by every minute.

"Yes, I'm leaving." Finally, Tony gave up first.

He put the metal back and left Steve's side.He woke up and realized that everything he had planned had finally come true.Even though some strange emotions have been thoroughly fermented, he will leave eventually.

It's just that he didn't expect that in Steve's eyes, there are really some things that are more important than the desire to control.

Tony doesn't understand the person in front of him. This warrior affected by the original power of Hydra should try his best to satisfy his desire. Even if he can't even survive in the end, he should drag Tony to die together. .

But Steve didn't. Steve's eyes were very blue, with a dark red light around the blue.He is still the person filled with desire, but at this moment, he seems to be controlling desire.

"Take that secret path, it's too late." Steve urged, seeing Tony standing in front of him blankly.

--Secret passages?

A trace of suspicion flashed across Tony's eyes, and he asked probingly—"...you...you know?"

"I know, I've known since the first time you went out." Steve smiled sadly, but suddenly reached out his hand///pointed the gun at Tony, and his face suddenly turned cold again, "Don't Talk to me, go now, or I will take you to hell."

Tony's eyes changed from shock to bewilderment, and then from bewilderment to melancholy.He was shocked that Steve knew of the existence of that secret passage, and he was surprised that he could never reveal it.

That's right, how could Steve tell the truth? If he tells the truth, he can't lie to himself.This poor guy has no way to choose between stubborn values ​​​​and violent emotional tendencies, so he can only pretend that he doesn't know anything, and pretends that he doesn't have to choose at all.

Tony smiled wryly, laughing at Steve's ignorance and his own self-righteousness.

Is this what Steve said one hundredth, one thousandth, or one ten thousandth?Tony didn't understand, there was no such ridiculous forbearance in his dictionary.What did such persistence leave for Steve?Is it a big hole that can't stop the blood, or the pitiful appearance of a person dying in this room.

Tony didn't stay any longer, he was afraid that if he stayed longer, he would laugh out his tears.

He put on the armor he made and opened the door. He fantasized that it would be much more comfortable if he wore this armor to pass through the hole in time and space. He planned how to explain everything to the people around him when he returned to his own world.

He has a lot on his mind, he's busy, he'll forget about Steve soon enough, who is Captain Hydra?His world never appeared.

But he walked out of the bedroom a few steps, and then slowly backed away.A gun was pressed against his forehead, forcing him to retreat to the position just now.

Then the gun turned around and met Steve's eyebrows.A badly burned face with a nearly blind eye emerged from behind the door.

The moment he pointed the gun at Rogers, Rumlow quickly drew out another gun and pointed it at Stark.

Steve could hardly believe that it was Rumlow who finally appeared in front of him. He thought he was merciful enough to the two of them. Was killed, but did not pursue Rumlow's crimes afterwards.

He was really out of breath the day he came back through the time hole, but he already had Tony Stark, and that contentment made him let Wishbone and the Winter Soldier go.

And he never expected that these two guys who are not afraid of death would come to his door automatically, insisting on putting him to death.

But soon, he will hear another more incredible thing from Rumlow.

I saw Rumlow clenched the handle of the gun, pressed the muzzle to the skin of Steve's forehead, and asked lightly—"You did it, didn't you?"

"What to do?" Steve had no strength left, he thought for a while, but didn't know what Rumlow was referring to.

But Rumlow suddenly became angry, his eyes instantly became terrified, and his teeth were clenched, as if Steve's answer had ignited the explosives.

He was about to growl at Steve when the bedroom door was pushed open for the second time, and the Winter Soldier rushed after Rumlow, who resisted the urge to growl and pull the trigger directly, Forcibly suppressing the anger that was about to reach Steve's blond hair, he let out a sneer.

"Just right." Rumlow stepped back a little, grabbed the Winter Soldier by the hair, and threw him forward.

The Winter Soldier staggered, almost falling on top of Steve.He hurriedly supported the wall to stabilize himself, got up from the ground, looked at Rumlow hurriedly, then at Stark, and finally at Steve.

Rumlow warned him not to speak with a stern look, turned his gaze back to Steve, and asked sharply-"Okay, now your good comrades in arms are in front of you, let us listen to the great Captain America's own answer , Did you do that to him in Manzanillo?"

At this point in the conversation, Steve has a rough idea of ​​what happened.His gaze stayed on Stark's face for a moment, then dropped to the stained floor.

The reason why Rumlow is so angry must be that someone has done unforgivable evil to the Winter Soldier.Steve could imagine what that was, and he would naturally understand who had the opportunity and motivation to do it.

Put the blame on him, and then use the hands of others to kill him.On the other hand, he cleaned up his hands and feet, and all the crimes were shirked away.

Tony Stark.

Only Tony Stark could have laid the thread so long and so carefully.

He was also the only one who sneaked out once during that time.

Of course he was the only one who wanted to kill the Hydra captain the most, but the last thing he wanted was to get blood on his hands.

But why is it Tony? Why, it is Tony.

Steve raised his head again, this time not looking at Stark, but directly at the wishbone.He showed that disgusting gentle smile again, and said lightly——

"So what?"

——So what.

"See you in hell then, bastard." Wishbone didn't hesitate any longer, and simply pulled the trigger.

Rumlow is a beast, the beast of Hydra, the beast of the captain of Hydra.But now that the beast bit people, he finally killed his master.He felt that this was the salvation of the beasts from heaven.

But he was still not rescued, and at the moment when the bullet flew out of the gun, a silver barrier suddenly pulled in front of Steve.The barrier was hit by the impact of the bullet, and it was slightly dented inward.Then the bullet exhausted its kinetic energy and landed at his feet with a jingle.

Rumlow was dumbfounded.

He looked along one end of the barrier, and something that looked like metal and liquid grew out of Tony's palm.

As the Winter Soldier said, he is a monster with liquid metal flowing through his body.

"it's me."

Stark's voice seemed to come from another dimension, far away, very soft, but very clear.

Tony kept telling himself in his heart that this was his last move.His chess is so well laid out that at this moment, he still has the wishbone and the winter soldier.Captain Hydra will surely die in Iron Man's snare, no matter which world he goes to.

But what if Iron Man didn't let Steve take the last step.

What if he sprinted down the trial road and took Steve off the guards in his limo.

What if he called Steve one more time and told Steve not to go, not to listen to anyone who asked him to do things in the name of "Stark".

What if he hadn't been drunk the night before and Steve had been by his side the whole time, never out of his sight.

Then his Steve will not die, but will live well.He may still be bored with Steve, treat him as a burden, and think about breaking up every day but can't get rid of him, but he won't become what he is now.

If he didn't want Steve to die, he certainly could.Because he is Iron Man, Iron Man is omnipotent.

There is a one percent, one thousandth, one ten thousandth chance that he doesn't want the other party to die, and the probability is so low that it can be ignored.

But what if it really happened.

Let it happen, Tony doesn't want to think about the future.Even if they still come to this point in the future, everything they have experienced has really existed.One more minute is one minute, one more second is one second.

If you know the ending and don't continue, then life probably won't be interesting.Besides, the ending can be changed, can't it?

Stark didn't want to hesitate anymore. If he still had the possibility of self-denial for everything that happened before, then when Captain Hydra took the blame for him without hesitation, those self-anesthetized indifferences were shattered.

But the truth is, if Steve Rogers doesn't die, then Tony Stark will die.Iron Man and Captain America don't end well together, just like Wishbone and Winter Soldier don't end well together.

They are people from two worlds, they are people from two camps.They cut through the waves for the emotion that has been sung thousands of times, but the sky is the sky, and the sea is the sea.Even if there seems to be a line of connection, in fact, there is always a line between them.

Rumlow snatched the sniper///strike///gun from the Winter Soldier, and before the Winter Soldier and Steve could react, he shot two potassium-sodium bullets at Tony at close range.

The warhead painted with the humanoid body///ye penetrated the armor on the body, and a second explosion occurred in the body, one shot hit Iron Man's left chest, and the other shot hit his right rib.

The Winter Soldier wanted to stop Steve from attacking the wishbone, but saw the red light in the eyes of the other party when the iron hand swept over Steve's chest.

The red light flashed on again, and Steve would once again be controlled by the primal force.

The Winter Soldier had heard about the horror of this kind of power. It had nothing to do with whether Steve was dying or not. It was a lethal force that could wake up the dead and make the corpses carry their guns.

So the Winter Soldier immediately turned around and rushed towards Rumlow.

Steve's punch hit the Winter Soldier right on the shoulder.

The Winter Soldier heard the sound of bones shattering, but thankfully, he blocked the punch that should have killed the wishbone.

"Go, Captain..." The Winter Soldier pushed the wishbone away, ripped off the hand///Ray from the opponent's waist, pulled out the latch, and threw it to the corner of the room with all his strength.

He knew that no matter what, as long as Steve lived, he would always live in Bucky's shadow.No matter how he proves himself, Rumlow has a hard time with what he says.Every day they are together, they torture each other for a day.

He has no good choices, only bad choices, and worse choices.

Alive, he can't leave each other.

It is possible to do it only after death.

And the gap between life and death can make Rumlow reborn.

The Winter Soldier has always known this, always has.

He knew it from the moment Rumlow tore up Steve's newspaper clippings in pain and anger in the warehouse, and he knew it from the moment he lost the puppet in the hotel in Manzanillo, and he knew it when he took the humanoid body in place of the other party/ //ye At that moment, he still knew, he knew that the other party didn't believe him, wanted to love him, but couldn't.

They really didn't have a good result, so it's better to die in exchange for an impossible good result.

At the moment of the explosion, the Winter Soldier seemed to say a very familiar word.He pushed Rumlow out with his X-sprayed left hand, and the dust and flames quickly engulfed the three of them.

The building collapses before Rumlow even touches the Winter Soldier's fingers.But obviously he was the one who let go first, right? On the balcony where the sniper///strike///gun was erected, he threw off the Winter Soldier and all the burdens.

TBC