#god why didn’t they use the whole. cybernetic super soldiers

[the-faultofdaedalus]

mcu if they had used the “incentives program” from aos in aou to explain why the fuck wanda and peitro were working with hydra >>>>>>>>>>>>

[frasier-crane-style]

Terminator: Dark Fate

I have no idea how TSCC came up with two seasons’ worth of innovative scenarios about Terminators and these cinematic universe motherfuckers can only redo T2 with more CGI.

This movie is plotless. It has no real plot. It’s like Now That’s What I Call A Terminator Movie! There are so many callbacks and borrowings from all the other Terminator movies that it passes the point of homage and just becomes plagiarism. The bad Terminator is the same as the T-X, metal endoskeleton with a T-1000 shell. They kill him with a Terminator power core. They say Come With Me If You Want To Live and I’ll Be Back (twice! It’s the first thing Sarah Connor says and it makes no sense in context, it’s just something people say in Terminator movies). In fact, it has anti-plot, since it undoes a lot of the story developments in Terminator and T2.

The premise is basically just we’re going to remake Terminator 1, but people don’t like reboots, so we’re going to bring back Linda Hamilton and make it a technically kinda sorta sequel (sure, Skynet was wiped from existence, but another, completely different, yet exactly the same AI called Legion was created and did the exact same thing. Which also happened in T3, but they had the decency to still call it Skynet). But otherwise, it’s entirely people being chased by an evil robot from the future and trying to destroy it. 

That’s it. That’s all there is to it. T2 had the whole thing about preventing Judgment Day before it happened. T3 had Judgment Day actually happen. This one, nothing. There is nothing going on under the surface other than a bunch of action sequences and explosions. Even T3 got some mileage out of the idea that Judgment Day was inevitable. Here, our cast learns that Judgment Day was already ‘averted’ once slash that it’s destined to be repeated and they basically go “Eh. Figures.” I’m not kidding.

Wait, that’s not fair. Let’s count out the TWEEESTS.

1. In a very contrived way, the script waits an hour and a half to actually explain why heroine Dani has been targeted for termination--you know, the thing Kyle Reese explained to Sarah Connor the moment they were out of danger--all to set up this big ‘reveal’ that Dani isn’t the NuSarah, she’s the NuJohn (yes, they actually say this aloud, just so you soup sandwich motherfuckers in the audience get it). Hear that, neckbeards, John Connor is now a woman! And Mexican! And she’s got a bit of a gay vibe, because it’s 2019 and God forbid we have a heroine that isn’t a bit bicurious. If she has a cock and balls, my bingo card will be a winner.

2. Months after killing John Connor and thus completing his mission, an Arnold-model Terminator started a family (wow, that was quick) and learned the value of human life and eventually switched sides. This is a crazy new idea that also happened in Terminator: Genebissss, so it’s done and dusted in ten minutes, even though Arnold is the most engaging character. (He’s saddled with a lot of yuk lines about how he’s a comically serious Terminator, yet (teehee) works as an interior decorator, but at least he has a personality.)

3. The other good Terminator is Grace, who needs meds to keep up her cyborg strength or she’ll crash (this never affects the plot) (it’s like they read something about Rey Palpatine having no flaws and so they decided to give Grace the ‘flaw’ of literally having her own Kryptonite). She’s not a Terminator, she’s an augmented human, which means she can make MCU-style wisecracks every five minutes. (”I didn’t hear anything.” “That’s because you’re not a cybernetic super soldier from the future.” Actual dialogue.)

4. Linda Hamilton is back, baby! Yes, that’s right, they dragged her away from doing guest spots on Lost Girl! Can you believe???? She’s become a Terminator hunter that ambushes Terminators as they come back from the future and destroys them, because Skynet was both able to send back an infinite number of Terminators AND because now they can easily be destroyed by one five-hundred-year-old woman. 

This makes it a bit confusing why they have so much trouble taking out Ghost Rider, given that he’s a T-1000 skin with a creamy T-800 center. It seems like if you hammer him enough, he’s got no endoskeleton, and that’s all she wrote. That’s what happened to the T-X. Can his liquid metal skin just walk around without the other half of him? If so, what’s the point of the endoskeleton? The T-1000 managed without it and that seemed a lot harder to kill. At one point, Sarah hits the bare endoskeleton with a bazooka, which seems like it should’ve been a mortal blow, but it’s the first act, so I guess not.

And is it supposed to be funny that the opening takes place in a car factory where (in 2019!) the human workers are losing their assembly line jobs to machines? Because they’re all Mexicans? None of them ever look at a Terminator and go THEY TOOK OUR JOBS, but man, that one is all teed up for the Rifftrax boys.

For a movie with, as I said, no plot, it’s very rushed. They seem to be saying “yeah, it’s a dumb Terminator movie, you know the score,” (even tho it’s halfway aimed at people who aren’t Terminator fans; more on that in a minute) because it seems to take all of ten minutes for both good guys and bad guys to find Dani and start getting into CGI stunt double fights, which means the story has very little time to breathe and we have very little time to get to know any of the characters. The bad guy spawns practically at Dani’s front door! And pretty much does everything by massacring a bunch of people and then hacking a computer. The T-1000 had some intelligence, some charisma. This guy’s a big nothing.

And the Dani character is useless. She starts the story already super assertive, is barely traumatized at all by her loved ones being killed and her own life being endangered. There’s none of that relatable feel of an everyman suddenly being told they have a grand destiny and an incredible responsibility, because right from the start she’s standing up to her mean boss and doing the Nevertheless She Persisted thing. And all this while being literally five feet tall and looking all of twelve years old. 

I love these Spy Kids movies.

And at least the original two movies were smart enough to leave the future John Connor mostly to the imagination. This one actually shows us Dani as grizzled military badass, beating up guys and delivering inspiring speeches (would it surprise you to know that humans fighting among each other “is exactly what Legion wants”?), and it’s just--oh man. If ever a political leader is enough to make people think back to the good old days of Trump and Biden...

And if we’re going to talk shit (rightfully) about Jai Courtney’s Kyle Reese not being at all scruffy or traumatized or feral, it should be noted that Grace seems pretty well-adjusted for a post-apocalyptic guerrilla fighter (who all wear Starship Trooper uniforms). Aside from a tendency to smash the face in of everyone she comes across, whether they’ve done anything to deserve it or not (Sample dialogue, to a doctor who is looking at her X-rays after performing life-saving surgery on her: “Did I give you permission to look at my private parts?” SMASH. No, really!)

They really go all in on this cringey, woke af “You’re not the mother of some MAN, Dani. YOU ARE THE FUTURE!” And yet, there’s a hilarious amount of toxic masculinity in this movie, just without the dongs. About every other line Sarah and Grace have is generic tough guy bullshit about how they’re going to kick someone’s ass, how they’re suspicious of someone, how they’re hostile towards someone. If they had dongs, you would think they were the smallest dongs possible, because they are compensating for something, BIG TIME. Between the T-800 and Sarah and Grace, everyone in this movie seems to outright hate each other, to the point that Arnold’s killer cyborg is one of the more pleasant characters. It gets to where you just want someone to order a fucking decaf. Does the fact that Sarah Connor has a vagina keep it from being ridiculously over the top how she spends all her time either blowing up robots or drinking herself into a stupor? C’mon. You can’t complain about male characters having ‘man-pain’ then give Bad Grandma a pass over her ovaries.

And that’s it. It’s a Brundlefly shit between yet another dumb girlpower reboot for the people who’ve never seen a Terminator movie and a sequel with Sarah and Uncle Bob to try and get that last drop of blood outta this stone. They’re trying to make something that appeals to both people for whom this is their first Terminator and people for whom this is their latest Terminator and it just doesn’t work. The newbies don’t have any emotional investment in these characters and the Terminator fans don’t like it that all the old movies were rendered meaningless to prop up Grace and Dani.

Hilariously enough, I actually played Terminator: Resistance recently, which is a fun little mid-tier shooter that was meant to tie in to this movie... and it completely ignores all the Dani/Grace/Legion BS to take place in John Connor’s future war and tie in to the first two movies. That’s how forgettable this movie is. Its own damn video game adaptation pretends it doesn’t exist. Fuuuck.

Oh! Oh! Oh! And in that big, bad, sexist original Terminator, which was so unwoke and problematic, Sarah saved herself and finished off the Terminator herself. Here, Dani has to be saved by Arnold at the climax. The 35-year-old movie is more feminist than this one. Fuck you very much.

[mobius-prime]

253. Sonic the Hedgehog #184

Chaos Angel

Writer: Ian Flynn Pencils: Tracy Yardley! Colors: Jason Jensen

As Enerjak and Super Sonic take off to begin their epic duel for the fate of the world, their clash causes an explosive beam of light to shine so brightly it's seen as far away as Albion (which, if you'll recall, is located somewhere around the area of modern-day England, whereas we're currently closer to New York), which Nicole barely raises the New Mobotropolis shield in time to deflect. Super Sonic snaps Enerjak's staff, and when Enerjak blasts him with a wave of deadly energy in response, he casually reminds him that in his Super form, he's totally invulnerable, making this essentially a stalemate battle between two living gods. Below, Julie-Su is shocked that Sonic survived the blast, but Locke is grumpy and hopeless, saying again that Sonic should have let him kill Enerjak with the Brotherhood's weapon while they had the chance.

It's amazing how clueless and callous Locke is here. I mean, I expected nothing more from him, really, especially given that he has yet to reach the point of redemption that he did in the M25YL timeline on his deathbed, but still, he doesn't even seem to show a single ounce of remorse that this is what his son has become. As the battle rages on, the Destructix watch from somewhere else on the island, and decide they definitely don't want to get caught up in it (which, really, I can't blame them).

Scourge reveals his supercharged warp ring, with enough energy to warp them to another zone entirely, and when Fiona expresses some doubt about leaving Mobius he merely reminds her that the ongoing battle is a battle for the fate of the world, and it's better for them to take their chances elsewhere. She decides to tag along for some "fun," which is after all the reason she left Sonic for Scourge, while Super Sonic continues to try to beat some sense into Enerjak above. He manages to get a yell of "crunch time" from him, giving him hope that his plan to bring Knuckles back is working, but it's not fast enough, making him worry. Julie-Su and Archimedes teleport to the Master Emerald's shrine, which has mysteriously been transported from the Chaos Chamber to become a small island floating in its own right at the edge of Angel Island (it's literally not explained at all how this happened, but I'm assuming it's Ian's creative license to once again make the world of the comics conform to that of the games a little more). They confront Finitevus, who merely states that even if he wanted to stop this, he couldn't by now, as the hex he put on the Master Emerald totally enslaved Knuckles' mind when he tried to tap into its power. He's uncertain about why the hex didn't affect Sonic when he transformed, but is mostly unconcerned, as his plans are proceeding regardless.

Finitevus, I don't think you understand one bit what actual heroes are like. Julie-Su and Archimedes immediately start arguing over which one of them will die in order to bring Knuckles back, with a baffled Finitevus looking on. Locke then rounds the corner, having arrived unseen, and announces that he, in fact, will sacrifice himself, finally regretting what he has brought on Knuckles with his actions in trying to protect him from the devastated future he foresaw. Finitevus, enraged, leaps forward to attack the three of them in an attempt to stop them, but Archimedes grabs onto him and poofs him away, leaving Julie-Su and Locke momentarily alone. Locke sadly looks down at Julie-Su, and explains that for all their extreme methods, in the end the Brotherhood really did love every single member, and only ever wanted the best for Knuckles. Julie-Su begins to cry as Locke takes his place atop the emerald, and begins reciting Tikal's prayer one last time.

Okay, I'm just gonna say it. As much as I genuinely liked Locke's deathbed scene in M25YL, I think this is a much better version of his death, narratively. It's also ten times more heartbreaking. The last time Knuckles ever spoke to his father, Locke hit him with a thinly-veiled threat to his family's safety, and Knuckles punched the screen and screamed at him in response. And now, without a chance to ever apologize or say goodbye, Locke is gone, having sacrificed his life to save his son. I have never doubted for a moment that Locke truly does love Knuckles and has always done everything with the best of intentions, which is precisely why I always felt he would make a better villain than a hero. The Sonic series, as much as I love it, is sorely lacking in three-dimensional villains, with most being either like Eggman - wanting to conquer the world - or Finitevus - wanting to watch it burn. Locke, as I've gone over before, would have been a fantastic antagonist. I think it very true that the best villains are the ones we can relate to in some way. Loving your child and wanting the best for them is very relatable to many people, and permanently messing up your child because of trying to do the best for them is a very real fear for the majority of parents. And Locke realizing this at the end of his life and then giving up said life for the sole purpose of undoing everything he helped to cause is the logical narrative conclusion of this character arc. Because of this, I think Ian ultimately writes Locke much better than did Kenders, despite Locke being based on Kenders' father (which is why I kind of feel bad even saying this, but eh, I've already made the argument that he should have been a villain, I don't think I can make it much worse from here). And as sad as this is, it just gets worse as Knuckles regains his right mind and returns to the ground, asking Julie-Su where his father is. Julie-Su merely starts sobbing and babbling incoherently about how she couldn't stop him, and just as horrible understanding begins to dawn on Knuckles, Finitevus returns through a warp ring, incensed that Locke stopped his plans after all. He yells that with his luck, Knuckles will even remember his time as Enerjak, to which Knuckles furiously replies that he remembers -

An exit fitting for one such as Finitevus. Julie-Su tentatively says that they should head back down to New Mobotropolis to let everyone know that the day's been saved, but Knuckles curtly cuts him off, refusing and claiming that as the last living Guardian of Angel Island, he's never leaving this island again, and he'll guard the Master Emerald alone for the rest of his life. And thus, we've finally come full circle. Knuckles started out as the lone Guardian of the island with no one else to help him, and now he's become such once again. Come on though, man, for real - your father sacrificed himself so you could have your own life free of the destiny he's forced on you, don't immediately try to isolate yourself!

Anything

Writer: Ian Flynn Pencils: Tracy Yardley! Colors: Stingray Grafik Wurks

Well, there's still one loose end we have yet to tie up - namely, the fate of the Dark Legion. While those who were happy to be free of their cybernetic trappings were transported to Albion, those who regret losing them have remained with Lien-Da, who now seeks the help of a mysterious figure to get her people's way of life back. Her speech is actually quite fascinating, because for basically the first time we actually get to see what a lifelong member of the Legion thinks of their own history, without immediately being made out to be a cackling evildoer. Turns out… their position is kind of reasonable.

I mean, I did just go over why Locke, and thus by extension the Brotherhood, are not really good people. I don't think they're evil - misguided, more like - but it's clear that in the end, extremism was the name of the game on both sides of the technology debate, and if anything both sides have only gotten more extreme over the past several hundred years. Ultimately, while the Dark Legion has absolutely employed some really messed up methods in their pursuit of their goals, their actual ideology is not unreasonable at all. In the end, they really were just a group of people who didn't want to tacitly accept being thrown back to the stone age by their government, and rebelled when said government - a literal theocracy, if you'll recall - created an entire goddamn task force operating outside of the normal legal system to try to drag them all into a world without technology regardless. I mean, literally, think about it right now - if your government, after a bad incident with one scientist going nuts and trying to seize power, in response decided to ban all technology and mandate that everyone had to regress back to a medieval lifestyle, how many of you reading this, right now, would just accept it and give everything up? And how many more of you would say "No way in hell is this okay" and join a revolution? Use technology in secret, rebel, fight for your right to live life as a modern human being with modern comforts? The Legion was twisted over time into a force that fought for all the wrong reasons, looking for power instead of freedom, but in the end, they were more wronged than anyone else in this whole debate, and absolutely had a right to be angry over the way they were mistreated.

Lien-Da, treacherous nature aside, clearly does believe in her people's way of life, and so she crafts a deal with her mysterious contact - if he makes her the Grandmaster of the Legion, a title which she feels she deserves after watching her late brother and the decrepit Dimitri take the reins before her, she'll join his cause and have her soldiers act as his new ground forces since his were destroyed by Enerjak. Gee, I wonder who this mysterious figure could be? Ah, what the hell am I acting all coy for, it's Eggman, naturally, and he's more than happy to accept this deal. However, to Lien-Da's incredulous disappointment, the position of Grandmaster has already been filled - by none other than Dimitri! Yeah, Eggman's given him some upgrades, turning his dreadlocks into bizarre tentacle-like appendages sticking out from his head bubble. Aw, yeah, Eggman, no need to give him a proper body or anything like that, just give him hair tentacles, it'll be fiiine!

[blackmissfrizzle]

A Supernatural Endgame Part 3

Title: A Supernatural Endgame Part 3

Characters: Dean Winchester x black!reader, Bucky Barnes x black!reader, Avengers, Marcel Gerard

Summary: TFW has dinner with the avengers

Word Count: 1420

A/N: no tags this time. I’m too lazy to tag everyone,

Dinner was finally ready, and everyone was already sitting down when you entered the room, which left you with only one option. A seat between Dean and Bucky. You asked Wanda telepathically, “Switch seats with me please?”

Wanda just smirked and responded, “Why? You’re in the middle of a hunk sandwich, appreciate it.”

You stuck your tongue out at her and set down the dessert next to Sam and pleaded with him, “Parrot, switch seats with me please?”

Sam craned his head to see your open seat and shook his head no, “No can-do kid. First, why would I want to voluntarily sit next to Bucky and your friend, and second, why would I do anything for you after you just called me parrot?”

As you were about to respond, Dean cut you off, “Y/N, come sit down. You’ve been on your feet long enough sweetheart.” Dread filled you. You couldn’t switch seats after Dean called you out, so you made your way to Wanda’s so-called ‘hunk sandwich’. When you sat down, Dean immediately put his arm around your chair as a show of dominance.

Deciding to ignore Dean being immature, you turned your attention toward Bruce, “Are you comfortable, Bruce?” Since, Bruce was melded with the Hulk, you knew the bunker didn’t have a big enough chair for him, so you had to conjure up one for him with your powers.

“Its comfortable. Did you really make this with magic,” the giant genius asked. You shook your head yes as you took a bite of your burger. “Its impressive,” Bruce stated.

“It really is,” Dr. Strange interjected. “We should compare our magic later.”

“Really, wizard,” Tony questioned. “I didn’t think you could make magic nerdy, but here you go proving me wrong.” Soon, Tony and Strange began to argue, and everyone else just started their own side conversations. Peter and Jack were discussing their lives as powerful teenagers, Sam was fanboying over Steve, Bruce and Clint were talking about the amount of burgers Bruce had on his plate, Dean was listening to Rocket regale him over his crazy adventures, and Bucky was checking up on you.

“I don’t want to stick my nose in any of your business doll, but I heard you talking to your friend earlier,” Bucky admitted with an eye roll as he said friend. “but if you need someone to talk to, I’m here. I may know a little something about someone using you as a weapon against your will,” he whispered in your ear.

Sensing that something wasn’t right, Dean turned towards you and saw that Bucky was a little too close to you for his comfort. So being the immature asshole he could be, he pulled your chair towards him and stated, “Hey, babe, listen to this story about how Rocket stole someone’s cybernetic leg.” That move from Dean earned him a death stare from Bucky, which made you think the Winter Soldier in him was about to pop out. Thankfully, the saner Winchester, Sam pulled him into his conversation with Steve.

At one point during all the side conversations, you looked around the table at all the friends you helped bring back. But one face was missing. Natasha. Bruce must’ve sense that you were looking for Nat and his eyes met yours with sympathy. You both gave each other a nod in acknowledgement and went back to your own side conversations.

“I was reading some of your books in the library. Ummm, is it all that true? Vampires, werewolves, and witches?” Scott asked in child-like curiosity.

“Oh my,” Tony added, gripping the sides of his face.

“Yup, plus there’s wendigos, demons, and ghosts,” you replied.

“Then there’s ghouls, sirens, and angels,” Dean inputted.

“Gods, shapeshifters, and dragons,” Sam replied next.

“Oh, don’t forget about djinn, wraiths, and sirens.” Jack said.

Steve looked at you four in admiration. “And you guys just go across the country with no support and lie to local law enforcement to kill these things?”

Dean smiled at the Captain and took a big bite of his burger. “Pretty much, Cap,” he mumbled with a full mouth.

“I think I rather fight a giant purple alien any day than deal with that any day.” Rhodey retorted.

“I rather fight a whole vampire nest than fight a psychopathic purple alien,” you replied back,

After that, there was no more hiccups and conversations were flowing smoothly until Tony suddenly blurted out, “I’m not gonna have any weird sex dreams because of this vampire blood, am I?”

Leave it to Tony to ask the most inappropriate questions at the most inappropriate times. “No, Tony that won’t happen. This is not True Blood.”

“I just had to make sure. I would want to know why I would be having vivid sex dreams about some dude I’ve never met before. It is a dude, right?”

“Yeah, it’s my ex-boyfriend’s,” you confessed absentmindedly.

“Ex-boyfriend’s?” The Winchester brothers asked simultaneously.

“Hold up,” Tony interjected. “you had a whole Twilight situation going on?”

Instantly you regretted telling the truth about where you got the vampire blood, now you know you’re going to have to explain about Marcel and the Original vampires sooner rather than later. “Oh my god, no Tony,” you sighed disgustingly. “He was a friend of a friend, so I already knew he was a vampire and I was in my last year of college when it happened. And before you ask, no, he doesn’t sparkle in the sun.”

Tony looked disappointed when he heard that last little tidbit. “Ok, so you had more of a Buffy situation.”

“Yeah I guess so.”

“What happens to him if he gets in the sun,” Dean questioned.

You thought you could drop the subject til later, because everyone wouldn’t want to hear, but nope all they nosy asses looked interested in what you had to say. “Nothing,” you stated while making eye contact with everyone in the room. “Nothing happens, because he has a daylight ring made by a witch, that allows him to walk in the sun. If he didn’t then he would burst into flames and die.” You left out the fact that Marcel was a stronger hybrid than Klaus and didn’t need a daylight ring anymore, but you didn’t want to overwhelm Dean with that information. “And before you freak out Dean, not that many have daylight rings. Most witches hate vamps.”

“Oh well, that makes me feel so much better,” Dean commented snidely. “Is that the only way to kill them?”

You were about to tell Dean that you weren’t discussing that when Strange stated that he really wanted to hear too. So you proceeded to tell them all the ways to kill a vampire, “A wooden stake through the heart, which don’t do anything to our vamps; decapitation, my personal favorite; werewolf bite, their bite is poisonous to these types of vampires; and if you’re strong or fast enough, you can rip out their hearts.”

“Is there really that many ways to kill a vampire,” Clint wondered out loud.

“Well, I’m for one thankful. All we have is decapitation for our vamps,” Dean exhaled.

“I wouldn’t get too excited. They have that many weaknesses, because they’re harder to kill. They can compel, and have super strength, speed, and hearing” you explained.

“They sound like glorious opponents,” Thor exclaimed. “Where does your ex reside?”

The battle with Thanos must have cut off your brain to mouth filter, because without thinking you answered, “New Orleans.”

“I love New Orleans! We should go there, so I can thank that ex of yours,” Tony proclaimed.

“What, Tony? No. They’re exes for a reason,” Pepper tried to reason with Tony.

“We have nothing better to do,” Tony stated. “We’re stuck in this creepy place –”

“Hey,” you, Sam, and Dean called out in offense to your home.

Tony gave a crap apology, “Sorry, but its creepy, especially with all those books about monsters laying around. It would be nice to thank the guy, who helped save my life. Also, there’s amazing food and drinks in New Orleans.”

Everyone gave what Tony said a thought and most of their curiosities got the best of them, and they agreed with Tony. Reluctantly you gave in and told them you would take them. Your hope was that Marcel would be too busy being King of the Quarter to even take time for you. You stood up and clasped your hands together, “Well, everyone get ready, I guess we’ll be going to NOLA!”

[stealthstark]

Trying Too Hard (Part 4)

Summary: Things are definitely not going as planned. 

Warnings: Swearing, fighting

Ship: eventually bucky x reader

A/N: I hope you guys like this... I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to do. 

The first person you see is The Winter Solider, and your first thought is traitor. Immediately you’re attacking him. You swing your flesh hand at him, and just as you anticipated, he blocks it with his metal hand. This gives you room to punch him in the gut with your own metal arm. He grunts and goes flying backwards from the force of your punch. 

“How did this even happen?” Captain America yells as he runs towards you as a distraction. 

You easily land a hit on the super soldier. Metal connects with the flesh of his cheek. 

“The words being repeated inside her memory must have triggered her in the present as well!” The Scarlet Witch explains, using her magic to throw you backwards into the wall. 

Your body slides down the wall and you hit the floor ungracefully. Motion catches your eye to the right and you look to see the Iron Man suit connecting itself to Tony Stark. You jump up and run towards him, catching part of the suit midair and crushing it with your metal hand. Tony grabs your arm but he’s no match for you without the complete suit, you force him to the ground easily and turn to run out of the lab. 

Three words keep echoing inside your head. Return to Hydra. 

You barely make it three steps before a red force is pinning you to the wall. You grunt at the force of your body hitting the concrete wall, air rushing out of you. Breathing in heavily, you struggle uselessly against The Scarlet Witch’s magic.

Everyone walks up to you, studying you carefully. With all of your strength, you try to lunge at the closest enemy, but you get nowhere. 

“Do you think there’s a way to get her back without knocking her out?” The Winter Soldier asks, staring into your cold eyes. The word traitor rushes through your head at the sight of him and the witch. 

“I don’t think we have time to figure that out.” Tony Stark replies, blaster aimed at you. 

The Winter Soldier sighs before reeling his metal arm back and connecting his fist with your head. 

You wake up pinned to a chair by metal cuffs in a room you’ve never seen before. The room is too clean, too white, and too quiet. Immediately your first thought is that you’re back with Hydra, so you scream bloody murder. Your body twists in a fit as you try to move your arms and legs. Realizing that your normal limbs are no match for metal, you focus on ripping off the metal straps with your cybernetic arm. 

Using all of your strength, you focus on trying to disconnect the cuffs that were bolted to the arm of the chair. Your screaming stops as you grunt with effort. 

The sound of rapid footsteps running down the hall startles you, causing another wave of adrenaline to rush over you. Hydra must have heard you screaming, and now that they realize you won’t be as compliant, you’ll end up just like Bucky. Motivated by the threat of being brainwashed, you growl with effort, trying to force to metal upwards with your arm. Suddenly the footsteps stop, and Bucky appears in the doorway. You immediately relax at the sight of him, realizing that you were still at the Avenger’s tower. 

“Oh my god.” You sigh, breathing heavily from the energy you had used. 

You close your eyes, trying to calm down. 

“It’s okay.” You hear Bucky soothe, and you nod to acknowledge him. 

Something softly brushes against your cheek and you flinch, eyes flying open. Bucky’s hand caresses your cheek, thumb soothing over your skin. You gulp, trying not to lean into his touch. Your eyes meet and you suck in a sharp breath, turning your gaze elsewhere. You pull your face away from his touch and squirm under the restraints. 

What the hell.

“Can you, uh, unlock me?” You ask, not looking at him. 

“Oh, yeah, sorry.” Bucky swallows, walking over to the chair’s control panel. With the push of a button the cuffs open and you stretch your limbs. 

“Why does my eye hurt so much?” You ask, fingers lightly ghosting over the corner of your right eye.

“Don’t touch it.” Bucky orders, grabbing your wrist to pull your hand away. “We had to reset your mind somehow... so I punched you.” 

“It’s okay.” You breathe out shakily as you push yourself up to stand. “Did I hurt anyone?”

“I mean, you landed a pretty good punch on me and Steve, but no one’s got any permanent battle scars so it’s all good.” Bucky smiles, trying to lighten the mood. 

“I’m sorry.” You whisper, staring at the ground. “I honestly thought I was outsmarting Hydra. I’m so stupid.” 

“No, you’re not.” Bucky objects, “You were just doing what you thought you had to in order to survive.” 

“I hate them.” You say quietly. Wanda forcing you to relieve every agonizing moment certainly didn’t help you trying to move on. “I’d kill all of them if I got the chance.” 

Your titanium hand balls into a fist as you brush by Bucky, only to be grabbed and pulled back. 

“Hey. I hate them, too. A lot of people do.” Bucky’s eyes never leave yours. “But you can’t let them get the best of you. If you go back there, they will capture you again. Don’t do anything stupid.” 

His words upset you, how dare he tell you what to do? You’d only known each other for a week, but that was before everything about you had been spilled on the table. You thought you were better than him because you still had a mind, a conscious. But it turns out that you were just as dangerous as him, even more so, and you never even knew. It was all Hydra’s fault. Who knows how many people you’ve actually killed. You weren’t going to let them get away with ruining your life. 

“You don’t get to tell me what to do.” You spit out, overcome by a blinding rage. A hurt look appears on his face but it barely even registers as you storm out of the room. 

Your whole life, before Hydra, with Hydra, and even in this short time after, you had never known who you truly were. You had no purpose. Now, you do. Hydra turned you into a monster. There was only one thing you could think about doing, and that was getting revenge. 

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