[Shield Winter] Meeting upside down

"Seriously?" Bucky raised his eyebrows and picked up a pure white T-shirt with a roaring lion's head printed on it, "Is this the new clothes you picked up from the mall? Around "The Lion King?"

"Obviously, adult men's clothing doesn't have my current size." Frowning, Steve snatched the clothes over, carefully folded them and put them in the suitcase spread out on the floor, "I'm really thankful that the children's clothing store didn't kick me out."

Bucky smiled and tidied up the daily necessities of the two, his neat movements could not hide his excitement.Come on, he and Steve have both been working for S.H.I.E.L.D. for two years after Endgame, and the holidays haven’t even reached ten days—he means the kind of vacation where you can stay in bed from morning to night, go out and go shopping The overtime work that the park also met with robbers does not count.

He stuffed two new toothbrushes in his side pocket: "Remember when you were 15 and we escaped boring summer camp and went to the Grand Canyon?"

"Unforgettable, bad student James, and then Miss Betty punished you to clean the library for a semester."

"She has always favored good students, such as little Stevie who got excellent grades, and only got two verbal criticisms." Bucky pouted, "Just say something happy, I think it was the best vacation in my life. The beach, the roller coaster, the sweet Sweet orange soda...and babes in bikinis."

"I just remember a guy who forcibly dragged me onto the roller coaster. After I got off, I only fainted for a dozen seconds and he vomited in the trash can for 3 minutes. The girl selling ice cream next to me was terrified."

A top full of straps was thrown on Steve's head, and the pain of the rivets hitting the brow bone made Steve shut up.Well, in all fairness, he admits that was embarrassing enough, and Bucky didn't pounce on him to silence them even if they have a deep friendship.

Bucky was actually going to pounce on him, like he always did when he was a kid, covering Steve with his clothes and rubbing his hair so hard that he'd get a fried blond idiot.

It's a pity that an uninvited guest interrupted their nostalgic little game, Bucky opened the door, and the corner of his lips froze with a smile that hadn't recovered.

"Uh, hi Rogers."

Rogers stared at the corners of his lips and the corners of his eyes for a few seconds.

"Furry asked me to tell you that the Quin-jet fighter is ready, pack up and leave as soon as possible, so as to prevent the experimental subject from mutating out of the control range again."

"Understood, we'll be right away."

Bucky nods and backs away, while Rogers kneels against the door, counteracting Bucky's push against it.

"Bucky, you're smart, you know what I mean." The eyes that should be the same color as the blue sky were now dark, and he glanced at Steve through the crack of the door, then looked directly into Bucky's eyes, "I don't Will give up."

Bucky held the doorknob and didn't know what to say. The two of them were in a stalemate for almost half a minute. Suddenly, a dull "boom" came from the room accompanied by Steve's painful cry. Bucky turned around and left, leaving only A hurried back to Rogers.

"What's the matter... oh fuck, is this a funny show?"

Bucky rushed back to the bedroom, leaning against the door frame and laughing.The poor little Bean Sprout fell headfirst into the pile of clothes in the large suitcase, with two thin legs kicking around in the air, and the bandage-covered dress was still covering her head.The other party's voice was buried in the fabric and couldn't be heard clearly, Bucky clutched his stomach and took him out of the suitcase, peeled off the clothes——

Well, he still got a golden-haired idiot with fried fur.Although this image hadn't been seen for decades, Bucky still couldn't help laughing.

"I've only been away for a few minutes? God, what did you do?"

Steve balled up the dress angrily.

"It's not my fault! Damn it, the serum restored my balance to what it used to be, these broken straps got me in, I called you by the bedside but you weren't there, my center of gravity was off... "

"You're like Sandy who always plays with balls of yarn at Grandma Susan's next door."

Bucky rubbed a red mark on his forehead, and he bet the guy bumped his head against the corner of his laptop.

"Look, the poor King of Beasts has been turned back into a sick cat by the witch's bad magic, all because of his stupid devotion, and he thinks he's the Little Mermaid."

"Bucky! Stop watching Disney animated movies with Wanda. You are over 100 years old, and Lego has closed the door to you."

Steve called him helplessly, but the serum also changed the vocal cords to some extent, and the complaint sounded childish.Bucky recalled that they had a quarrel about joining the army at the night of the World Expo. At that time, this guy also called him that, and then said with a sullen face, "Bucky, please, everyone is desperately fighting on the battlefield. I can't hide behind."

Bucky was a little distracted, those old days that smelled like newspaper ink surged up from his brain, his eyes became soft, and even the skin touched by his fingertips became hot.

He put his hand down resentfully, licking his mouth and thinking about what to say.There was another knock on the door—Rodgers just now had disappeared, and it was Sam, the old rescuer who came in this time.

"Haven't the old hen and the chicks finished packing yet?" Sam put on his flight jacket on his hips, "I'll go on my own if I wait any longer. It's the latest model of the Quin-style. I was so excited that I didn't sleep all night."

The flight went smoothly. The only minor accident was that Steve was so thin that the innermost end of the seat belt could not be fastened tightly. He could only fall loosely on the boundary between his chest and lower abdomen, which was almost useless.However, during the flight, there were several turbulent air currents, and the most intense one was that Steve almost jumped out of the chair, and Bucky, who was sitting next to him, had to stretch out his arms around his chest to fix his thin body. .

——This posture is really strange.Steve looked down at Bucky's strong arms resting on his chest.Like a hug, like Bucky hugging me and the chair hard.

"Sam Wilson!" Bucky shouted to the cockpit dissatisfied, "were you really a pilot before you got the falcon wings? I doubt your skills!"

Sam took the question with a swear word.

Fortunately, after five hours of flying, the unskilled pilot successfully landed the Quinjet in Wakanda.Two field personnel and Sam pushed the cage with the test subject out of the cage with guns in hand.The poor man named David has only one arm and head, and the other parts have been completely mutated into aliens.

Bucky glanced at the label paper. The two-meter-high giant hydroponic dish contained a very high concentration of tranquilizers, but this guy was still smashing the glass with his teeth and claws, his face was ferocious, and the whites of his eyes turned dark green.

"Hey White Wolf!" Su Rui and T'Challa were waiting in front, and the lively girl waved to him on tiptoe, "This is... the captain?"

Steve waved his hand awkwardly. He is now a few centimeters shorter than Su Rui, which is really shocking.

"This is really amazing." Su Rui nodded, "No wonder Captain America's experience is a heroic story."

"Please girl." Steve shrugged at her, "I hope to pin on you, please let me continue this heroic story."

T'Challa walked around the hydroponic dish, and Sam handed him all the current research materials.

"We will overcome these two problems as soon as possible." T'Challa nodded, "Not only for our friends, but also for the safety of the whole world."

Sam saluted him, turned around and waved coolly at Steve and Bucky, and re-entered the Quinjet to take off back to New York.

"Are you going to start now or rest first?"

"Let's start now." Bucky replied to Su Rui, "I bet Steve doesn't want to wait a second."

The research and transformation of organisms is not an easy task, even if they decide to start immediately, what they can do is very limited.Su Rui led Steve and Bucky to the brand-new laboratory, dismantled Bucky's vibrating gold arm with a few simple operations, and put it into a container beside it.

"Don't tell me it's formalin in there."

"No, but it's not that bad. Don't worry, your precious arm will be fine, at worst, I'll make another one for you."

Su Rui took out the needle from the glass cabinet beside him and rubbed alcohol on the inside of Steve's elbow.

"You are so skinny, the blood vessels are so obvious that you don't need to take pictures. It hurts a bit, bear with it."

Steve's expression was helpless: "Suri, although my body is very thin, my soul is still... Ohch!!"

"Aha, the soul is still strong? This is the needle needed to separate the serum alone, and it's much thicker than ordinary needles." Su Rui couldn't help but taunt him, "By the way, Barnes, where do you plan to live when you come back this time? You know , there will never be a shortage of rooms in the palace."

Bucky shrugged at her, the empty sleeve of his left arm piercing Steve's eye.It's still hard for him to accept that, he'll always feel like it's his fault, and Bucky will always know him so well.

"Of course not. There are too many people in the palace, which is not suitable for us two centenarians." He pressed his right hand on Steve's shoulder, "I think the small grass house in the south of the grassland is good enough."

Su Rui nodded with a clear face.

"That's right, it's still very close to Sharman, I guess you miss her very much."

Bucky raised his eyebrows: "Of course, I've been thinking about my girl in New York."

Compared with London, time in Wakanda is like maltose in a glass jar, slow, viscous and sweet.The busyness and anxiety in the big city disappeared completely here. Steve and Bucky walked slowly from the palace to the grassland. The warm wind blew their hair and the traditional Wakanda costumes that Shuri gave them. .

They look nothing like superheroes now, just a one-armed guy in a red robe and his malnourished best friend in a white robe.Bucky and Steve kept glancing at each other, a smile brewing on the corners of their lips.

Steve brushed off his robe, looking sideways at the escort of female soldiers walking past them.

"What do you think of... girls in Wakanda?"

"I can." Bucky clicked his tongue, "I can't beat Okoye with one arm."

"You have a good relationship with the guard?"

"Well, it turns out that I occasionally help recruits with some basic training. Although they look fierce like female leopards on the battlefield, they are actually gentle and lovely girls in life. Have you heard of Naomi Campbell?"

Steve looked puzzled, and Bucky sighed.

"Well, I knew you wouldn't pay attention to supermodels. Known as the Black Pearl, I heard that she has something to do with Wakanda."

Steve rubbed the hem of his shirt, the sackcloth crumpling between his fingers.

"Then... how about Sharman?"

"Sharman?" Bucky's voice rises. "Oh, she's perfect, cute and cuddly. I bet she's waiting for us in front of the hut right now."

Steve replies to Bucky with a single syllable, and can't help but slow down as if the walk could get longer.

——A cute and clingy Wakanda girl.It's okay, Bucky's always been the popular one.Whether it was in Brooklyn or here, growing up, the popularity of this guy was outrageous, and whether it was straight or gay, no one hated a handsome and humorous man.

"Will she not want to see me?" Steve endured the discomfort in his heart, "I've never heard you mention her, we don't know each other, will this make the scene a bit awkward?"

Bucky thought for a moment, then put his arm lazily around his shoulders.

"Dude, you've always been so gentle and thoughtful about everything. Don't worry, Sharman doesn't like dealing with strangers a little bit, but you're a little gentleman, you'll be fine."

The little gentleman felt a bit bitter in his mouth, and let out a long breath.

After dawdling for almost half an hour, Steve saw the thatched cottage.Compared with the last time I came here, the house seemed to have been renovated and strengthened once, and the wooden strips on it still smelled of paint.

There are no slim girls in front of the door, and a small group of sheep are leisurely flicking their ears a few steps away.

Bucky kicked the suitcases of the two of them into it, didn't rush to take them apart, dragged him with one hand and plunged into the pile of sheep like a charge. Steve closed his eyes and fell on the side of a lamb. The back is soft and warmed by the sun.

"Sharman - good girl, come and talk to Steve Sayhi."

Something softer came up and rubbed against Steve's cheek.He opened his eyes a little, and saw an enlarged lamb face drooling at him.

"...is this Sharman?"

"Yeah." Bucky fiddled with the others, "This is Oliver, and this is Janet, and this is Quick...you know, and there's a little lamb with golden hair on his head, and I call him Steve. Wei, it's a pity that Su Rui likes him very much now, so he took him to the palace."

—Oh, oh, it turned out that Sharman was just a lamb, and she was really the cutest little ewe in the world.

Bucky held Sharman with one arm, and asked suspiciously: "Dude, your smile is so nasty, it's like falling in love with Sharman at first sight. The invalidation of the serum made your love view cross species?"

Steve rubbed his face in confusion.

Fuck, it's true, his apple muscles are sore from laughing, but why?