Chapter 13
Asset
Bucky?
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He doesn't have any weapon or communicator. He is trapped in a deserted island with no effective means of transport. Hydra will come looking due to radio silence. He will be punished. There is only order with hydra.
But right now what's bothering him is not his disadvantageous state.
The turmoil of his mind that started with the word told by the creature /man keeps getting worse. Every word that were told since then went across the head like electricity. Flashes that ran through his eyes are now tuning into images. Fragments with no clear connection.
Attacking the man was instinct. Suddenly there was a huge man following him and he immediately detected as a threat.
But the man only defended himself. Calling him a name.
Then he said a phrase…. A promise?
He has heard it before… or did he tell it?
That doesn't make sense.
Asset isn't supposed to make promises. He is a soldier. He takes orders. Gives mission reports.
Promises are invalid.
But it made him stop fighting. Something said not to hurt the man. The man is important. Not a threat.
There is an image of this particular man in human form shouting 'Bucky'. He looks scared. A train is running over a bridge. Asset is falling. He can feel the wind blowing with the free fall.
There are other images too.
An artist drawing.
A very old model of radio.
A little girl running ahead giggling.
Dressing a wound with outdated medical supplies…. No, not outdated..was he there that long ago?
These are memories. He can tell that much. But he can not find any connection between them. They are very old. Unnecessary memories are removed for better mission outcome. So he can't grasp them anymore.
There is an image of a Doctor /scientist too. He tells "sergeant barn..' asset has been so scared at that time even now he can recall it.
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Maybe 'Bucky' is a code name. It's familiar.
This man is the reason these memories are triggered. They are related to him. Is he another asset? He doesn't look like a handler.
He could make a very capable asset with the aquatic skill set. Asset will prefer his company any time rather than the ever changing useless set of faces that is the strike team.
Maybe other man was decommissioned following a mission went wrong.
Something like an instinct is telling that other man was very significant in a past that can't be recalled.
He should not be wasting time. He needs to devise a way to get back.
Still he needs to clarify things first, get more intel. Thought of demanding something makes him flinch. He is not supposed to. But there is nobody to punish him here.
So he is going to find the explanations first.
There is only one person who got the answers.