Sometimes Bucky wondered why he didn’t tell Fury to ‘stick it’, when he dragged him out of HYDRA’s hands and into the newly-reborn SHIELD’S service. The Winter Soldier had been active for twenty years by the time Nick Fury had become director in 1972 and had almost immediately cottoned on to his agency’s poisonous parasite. SHIELD had subdued all HYDRA operatives within their walls and had acquired all HYDRA’s stolen data; The Winter Soldier being a bonus.
Now, forty years later, Bucky is on a mission with the Avengers, raiding what their Intel said was the last remaining HYDRA base on earth. Just one more, and Bucky would leave that part of his past behind him.
“Winter, I’ve cleared level 5, Widow has cleared two, and Hawkeye pretty much decimated four and three with his new arrows. How’s it going on your end?”
“Almost done, Shellhead,” Bucky grunted, throwing his knife at the throat of the last goon. “Just gonna check in the lab, make sure there’s nothin’ dangerous.”
“Copy that, we’ll be waiting in the quin jet, Iron Man, out.”
Bucky walking into the lab, his gun at the ready, just in case of surprises. Scouting the room, there was nobody in there but him. The room looked like it had been through a windstorm, papers everywhere and scattered equipment and tools littered the ground. The silence was almost eery, and Bucky found his grip on his gun tighten, his knuckles white.
“…” Bucky would have jumped at the small sound, if he wasn’t a highly-trained ex assassin. He absolutely did not squeak either, no siree.
“The hell…?” Bucky muttered, his eyes darting around, trying to find where the sound came from.
“-eb,” Bucky swung his gun around, looking with wide eyes, trying to find the owner of the high-pitched sound.
“Whose there? Come out where I can see you,” Bucky growled. He heard a little ‘ting’ sound over in the left-hand corner of the room and slowly crept over.
“-eb,” the sound had come from a sheet that looked like it was draped over a small box, and Bucky carefully reached a hand out and grasped the sheet, whipping it off.
Bucky stared in disbelief at the sight that met him.
“‘Eeeb!” the little chibi-like creature chirped at him, little tiny hands grasping at the bars of the small boxed cage. “‘Eeb, eeb!”
Bucky just about died of cute, but first;
“What the hell is this?” He muttered.
“‘Eeb!” the tiny thing chirped, smiling at him with tiny rosy cheeks.
“Awww,” was all Bucky could say.
Part 2
Pocket!Steeb AU (Part 1)
Published
Toad's Cave 