1991.12.16

The time shown on the video immediately evokes memories buried deep in Tony's heart.

This memory, once conceived by [Bill Seifer] in the world of thought, now appears in the video screen.

Looking at the familiar road in the video, the expression on Tony's face suddenly became a little serious.

His gaze swept over the names on the folders, and his otherwise calm breathing became rapid.

I vaguely understood in my heart that this might be the 'answer' I had been looking for.

Due to the age of the filming, the entire video is a little blurry and black-and-white, but Tony doesn't care about this at all, and his full attention is drawn to the content of the video.

In the video, a familiar car crashes into a dimly lit intersection.

With the impact of the car, Tony felt as if his heart had been hit hard as well.

He has already understood that the people who were riding in this car accident should be his parents.

Putting down the sadness in his heart, Tony continued to look at the footage in the video.

As the video played, the figure who was supposed to be driving a motorcycle also appeared next to the car that had been hit.

"It's him!"

Looking at this figure, Tony finally couldn't suppress his excitement and blurted out.

This picture of [Bill Sever] that was once suspended in his mental consciousness has finally ushered in the follow-up part.

It's just that this time, Tony can't stop it like he did in the world of thought, and can only watch the past in the video continue.

Getting off the motorcycle, Tony finally saw the man's true face.

In the blurred frame, the other party reveals his silver-white metal arms and a grim face that is all too familiar to Tony.

The Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes.

Witnessing the scene, Bucky coldly kills his father, and at the same time kills the surviving mother in the car.

Tony's emotions reached an extreme at once.

"Mr. Stark, I'm sorry......"

Feeling Tony's emotions, Ultron said in a reassuring tone.

"Tell me, Bucky's location."

"Sir, according to the presumption of the time of the crime, the Winter Soldier did not have a personal will at that time, he was just a killing tool under the brainwashing of Hydra."

"Tell me, Bucky's location, Ultron!"

Pressing the arc reactor on his chest, the nanobot hidden in it instantly transformed into a nanosuit Mark54 on Tony's body, and Tony's tone had become excited.

“……”

Sensing Tony's excitement at this moment, the artificial intelligence quickly calculated, and in the end, it was the creator's order that overrode Ultron's idea.

"The Winter Soldier is currently inside the Avengers Tower."

Looking at the target location shown by Ultron, Tony immediately controlled the nano suit to turn into a red afterimage and fly away.

……

"I mean, you're really close to a hundred years old like Captain America, so how do you manage to stay young, I've been feeling a little inadequate lately, I mean ...... in terms of combat effectiveness."

Inside the Avengers Building, Falcon Sam looked at the Winter Soldier with a cold expression in front of him, but he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked him in a slightly familiar tone.

"Frozen."

In the face of Sam's obviously ridiculous words, Bucky also gave a very humorous answer.

"If you've been frozen for more than two-thirds of your life, and you're only allowed to act when you have a command, then you can do the same with me."

"Okay, good advice, but I've tasted it before."

In response, the falcon couldn't help but shrug its shoulders.

The tasting in my mouth refers to the frozen experience I had when I was in Canada when I faced the SCP Foundation.

"I've always wondered if if you still have a little impression of your memories if you've been brainwashed all along."

Looking at the Winter Soldier with an indifferent face, Banner couldn't help but show a curious expression.

"Hydra will brainwash me again every time he arranges for me to carry out a mission, and I don't know how many times I've been brainwashed in seventy years, so even if I have a memory, it has become very blurry, and if I don't even encounter an impressive scene, maybe I won't have a memory."

"But if you've been brainwashed all along, your brain should have become resistant to it, or you wouldn't remember Steve."

Banner offered a slightly different view of Bucky's answer.

"Perhaps, the more things you come into contact with, the more memories you've lost, the more memories you've lost."

"If I could, I'd rather that day never happen."

The Winter Soldier was not very happy about this.

"I'm well aware that those aren't memories worth remembering."

"Sorry......"

Hearing Bucky's answer, Banner also reacted that the Winter Soldier had been brainwashed by Hydra to do all kinds of evil deeds, even if not of his will, but after all, he did it, so Bucky recalled that those pasts did not do him any good except to hate his past even more.

"Perhaps, the situation like this is more suitable for me, a guy who has no past."

Restrained the expression on his face, still maintaining a cold appearance.

Bucky looked at Banner in front of him and spoke silently.

Boom –

However, just as the Winter Soldier's words fell, a sudden explosion suddenly sounded on the ground of the Avengers Mansion beneath everyone's feet.

"Be careful!"

In the face of the sudden explosion, Sam the Falcon instinctively threw himself towards his wings, while Banner lost control of his body in the explosion, fell backwards to the ground, a large amount of rubble brushed his body and fell to the ground, Banner reached out to block his face, trying to suppress the emotions surging in his heart, and did not release the Hulk in his body at the first time.

"If you don't want to remember the past, then I'll help you remember."

In the explosion, Tony controlled Mark 54 to appear in the broken hole to block it, grabbing Bucky's neck with one hand, and his face under the nanosuit helmet was full of anger.

"Tony, what the hell is going on!"

Seeing that it was Tony who was responsible for the attack, Banner had a surprised look on his face.

"Stop, Tony, he's Bucky, not the enemy."

The metal wings behind the control flapped the explosion smoke around it, and the falcon looked at the Winter Soldier who was tightly grasped by Tony, and immediately spoke.

"To me, he's the enemy."

However, it is clear that Tony at this moment is not something that Falcon and Banner can convince.

The strength of the palm on Bucky's hand continued to increase, and under the stimulation of pain, the mechanical arm of the Winter Slayer's left hand began to counterattack, quickly transforming into a thorn cone and attacking Tony.

Bang dang!

Raising his arm to grasp Bucky's deformed thorn awl in his hand, Tony looked directly at the Winter Soldier in his hand and asked, "Tell me, did you ever regret what you did?!" ”

"If I remember it, I might regret it."

The Winter Soldier replied in a still-indifferent voice to Tony's questioning, and at the same time, his arm morphed into a thorn cone broke free from Tony's palm and wrapped around his arm around my neck.

As the strength of the mechanical arm increases, the nanobots on Tony's arm begin to deteriorate, and the force transmitted from them weakens.

"If I were a 'good guy' like the captain, I might have let it go, but unfortunately, I wasn't."

The Winter Soldier's answer didn't make too many waves in Tony's heart.

The nanobots replaced the damaged parts, grabbed Bucky's palms and transformed into huge claw hooks to grab them.

Bang –

However, just when Tony holds the Winter Soldier in his hands and wants to avenge his dead parents.

From behind him, in a rapid whistling, a shield struck Tony's arm that was clutching Bucky's neck.

Under the impact of the shield, Tony's body couldn't help but stumble slightly, and at this moment, the Winter Soldier seized the opportunity to turn his mechanical arm into an iron frame to stretch the claw hook around his neck, and at the same time rolled and escaped from Tony's face.

"What the hell is going on, Tony?"

Raising his hand to catch the shield again, Captain America Steve couldn't help frowning as he watched the battle in front of him.

"What misunderstanding happened between you and Bucky?"

After receiving the Falcon notification, Stephen did not hesitate to rush to the place where the battle had taken place.

However, apparently, even after seeing the scene of the two fighting, Stephen still couldn't understand why the two were fighting together.

Not to mention Stephen, even the falcon who informed him was also ignorant of the whole situation.

Leaving the most dangerous place in front of Tony, the Winter Soldier got up and touched the paw prints on his neck, the expression on his face changing slightly.

"Looks like you've remembered why."

Tony's eyes have always been on Bucky's body, even if Captain America, and later the Avengers members, Natasha and Vision appeared, they still didn't take their eyes off.

Noticing the change in the expression on Bucky's face, he spoke.

“……”

Tony's questioning was met with a grimace on the face of the Winter Soldier.

He was well aware that in such a situation, any explanation would pale in comparison.

"Can anyone tell me what happened?"

Natasha's eyes flickered as she looked at Tony and the Winter Soldier's sharp and silent attitudes in front of her, while Sam the Falcon asked with a frown.

The development of the whole process, from Tony's shot, he is not clear.

"Mr. Stark, perhaps you should calm your emotions."

The forehead gem flickered, and with the power of the mind gem, Vision was able to sense the turbulent emotions in Tony's heart at the moment.

"I may be calm, but not now."

In the face of persuasion, Tony replied with a resolute face.

"I used to think that we were friends, captains, even though there was such a long time between you and me, but as a member of the Avengers, we used to fight side by side, not only me, but also my father, and I heard your name from his mouth more than once."

Turning his head to look at Captain America with a frowning brow, the look in Tony's eyes became extremely complicated.

"So, I wish you could tell me ......"

As he spoke, Tony raised his arm and pressed the device on his wrist, and then a projection screen instantly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

"This is?!"

“……”

Looking at what I was showing, everyone present fell silent.

Their eyes fell on the Winter Soldier not far away, and they began to understand why Tony had attacked Bucky so carelessly.

"Captain, do you know all this?"

"I didn't know it was Bucky who attacked."

In the face of Tony's questioning, Steve was silent.

"I want answers, Captain!"

"I'm sorry, Tony."

Steve's answer undoubtedly indirectly told Tony the answer.

Inside the nano suit, he silently bowed his head and was silent for a moment, and then with the flicker of the arc reactor on his chest, a violent shock wave was launched from the palm of his hand and bombarded Captain America in front of him.

Boom!

Faced with the shockwave launched by Tony, Steve subconsciously raised the shield in his hand to block it.

"This shield is not yours, my father made it, and you don't deserve it."

Looking at the shield in Steve's hand, the face under Tony Nam's suit became even angrier.

"You can't change the past, Tony, Bucky is also a victim of Hydra."

In response to Tony's words, Steve glanced down at the shield in his hand, and then looked up and said.

"You always speak on the side of what you think is 'good,' or we weren't in the same group from the beginning."

The enemy who killed his parents was in front of him, and Steve's persuasion sounded more like a harsh mockery to Tony's ears.

Taking control of the nanobot behind him and transforming into a cannon muzzle, Tony did not hesitate to attack Bucky.

"Bucky!"

Looking at the Winter Soldier, who was locked by a large number of cannons, the expression on Steve's face changed suddenly.

"Hold on to me!"

And in an instant, Sam the Falcon controlled the wings behind his back and smashed through the glass of the Avengers Mansion as soon as he grabbed Bucky's body.

After watching the content of the video, he already knew that there was no possibility of peace between Bucky and Tony at the moment.

As a supporter of Captain America, it is naturally impossible for him to watch the conflict unfold.

Witnessing the Falcon flying away with the Winter Soldier, Tony unexpectedly did not make a pursuit.

He suppressed his emotions and turned his head to look at Captain America.

"If you choose to help him, then from the moment you turn around, we are no longer friends and we are no longer the Avengers."

Steve could feel the decisiveness in Tony's words.

However, his eyes fell on the glass that the Falcon had broken with the Winter Soldier, and he tightened the shield in his hand, but he still made his own decision.

"I'm sorry Tony about your parents, but Bucky is the only surviving comrade in this world."

Given his own answer, Steve resolutely turned around.

“……”

"It turns out that we are not friends......"