portland ♔it's only a little broken

[manchuriancandidate]

WHO || Steve Rogers, James Barnes, lurking SHIELD... [closed]
WHAT || A newly-arrived Shadowkind is definitely resisting capture.
WHERE || Portland
WHEN || June, 2018
HOW || Action Spam

[ It wasn't often that a newly-arrived Shadowkind made national news. Then again, most newly-arrived Shadowkind didn't leave half a block of destruction in their wake before vanishing like they'd never been there.

...To be fair, the enforcement trying to round up this particular arrival had shot first when it was clear the man had no intention of cooperating and coming with them. The armed man reacted accordingly, but it seemed that no matter what they threw at him - which had been a squadron of enforcement officers, a veritable arsenal of containment weapons, and two armored vehicles - he wasn't going to change his mind. Staying only long enough to make sure nothing was in decent enough shape to continue pursuit, the man then vanished into the depths of the city and was still supposedly holed up somewhere within its borders.

Which is why SHIELD is here now, before anyone else could make a bigger mess of things. ]

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[captain_america]

[ Steve knows it’s not what Bucky wants to hear, just from how he responds. He wants to reach out but he’s not sure if it will be welcome. This isn’t the Bucky he remembers, he’s older, he’s harder in a way Steve doesn’t understand even with everything he’s been through.

Bucky clearly has seen Steve since the train. What has this place made him forget? ]

Ultron? [ He’s not sure how much Bucky knows. ] The Avengers were fighting Ultron in Sokovia.

[ He looks at his friend. His eyes flash desperately. ]

Buck, what don’t I remember?

[manchuriancandidate]

[ That does make Bucky pause, because if Steve remember Ultron...

He looks back at his friend again, his expression confused. ]

You remember Sokovia. But you don't remember what went down in DC?

[ He's still trying to decide if that's a good thing, or very very bad. ]

[captain_america]

[ Now Steve is the one confused. ]

The fall of Shield?

[ He remembers that. Taking down the hellicarriers, falling into the Potomac...fighting...someone? ]

I remember waking up in 2011, fighting with the Avengers in New York, fighting for Shield and then against Shield, fighting Hydra, fighting Ultron and then I ended up here.

[ If that puts his timeline in order for Bucky. ]

[manchuriancandidate]

[ He falls silent, unsure of how much he wants to actually tell Steve, if he doesn't remember the circumstances of how they'd met in DC. Of everything that had gone down with Hydra. With them.

Swallowing hard, he instead lets his hands fall to his sides, inclining his head. ]

Well.... that's a bit of a gap, then. You... our paths crossed, in DC. It wasn't pretty, though.