Shadow

Code Name Shadow

POV: Shadow

I slowly opened my eyes. Ice crystals still clung to my eyelashes and eyebrows. I got main feeling back in my chest, stomach and head. As the smoke of the ice dispersed from the opening of my tiny cyrostasis cell, the warmth began to move back into my body. The tingles began and feeling slowly moved back into my legs, my face and down my arms. The feeling then moved into my feet and toes, all the way from my ears to my toes

Three men stood in front of me as my body gave out. Two of them rushed forward and caught me by my arms to keep me from falling. After coming out of cyro, I was beyond weak. I couldn't even move on my own. The men helped me to a chair, where I sat down before the remaining man walked forward.

I felt a growl leave my lips. "What year is it?" I asked, looking around the rows of cyro chambers, seeing my own cell and a few others that were empty. I'm sure that at some time my masters intended on making more things like me.

The man who now controlled me, stepped forward to call attention to himself. "It's 2017, Shadow. We need your help." 

I sent a glare to him and rolled my eyes, which sent a series of black dots going across my vision, which I ignored. "We had a deal. You only call me out every six years. I do believe the last time you unfroze me, it was 2015 when I took out that little city in the Amazons. Which, let me remind you, wasn't a picnic." I snapped at him.

The man nodded. "We are aware of the deal that Red Skull made with you for your loyalty, but our first Winter Soldier has turned on us and we need him taken out. His humanity got the better of him and because of him, another man killed our elite death squad. We need your skills to go out and kill him."

My eyebrows shot up at the mention of the first Winter Soldier. He'd been brought in soon after me. I'd never met him, but I did know that he was nothing compared to what I could do. I had the elements running through my veins. 

"I suppose it's a good thing the fire in my veins burning out whatever feelings I had for that man before, is a good thing." I said and stood slowly, surprised that my knees didn't give out on me. "Give me thirty minutes. I'll have my gear packed and I can leave tomorrow to start my research. While I'm out, get me a better cyro cell. I keep coming to at random times before drifting back out."

The man nodded quickly as I used the wall to move to the weapon room, grabbing a few things before shoving them in a bag and walking back out to my handler. "File?" I asked, holding out my hand

The short man put a small file in my hands. I opened it quickly, my eyes scanning over it. 

Name: Sergeant James Barnes

Code Name: Winter Soldier

Attributes: Meal left arm, replaced after arm was amputated from a fall. 

Weaknesses: Steven Rogers, July Fourth, Brooklyn, Lilian Green

That's where I stopped. My eyes went to the last name on the weaknesses category before looking back at the name. I felt a strange tightness in my chest as if that should mean something, but nothing came to me. I knew HYDRA had reset my mind a couple times in the beginning to make me obey, but I should have recovered most of them by now.

I read the name Barnes one more time and in bold letters in my mind, I saw the  word Bucky.

The cell had been cold and damp. The things they were doing to me made me feel like I was dying from the inside out. Bucky would come for me, I knew he would. They never found a body at the crash sight. They couldn't possibly think I had died. Bucky would come for me.

A man opened the cell door. He was tall with blonde hair and cloudy blue eyes. He seemed almost sympathetic towards me in a strange way. This guard would bring me extra food and tell me jokes, even though I never laughed or answered him. 

Another man walked in behind him and the kindness from the blonde was instantly gone. The newcomer had darker brown hair and harsh, grey eyes. 

The brunette was the first to speak. "Do you still believe your Barnes is coming to get you? You are nothing to him. He has forgotten all about you by now Miss Green."The harsh one said, throwing a letter at my feet. "Call for me when you've decided. Either you can give in and open yourself to our ways, or stay in this cell waiting for a man that doesn't care about you." He snapped and walked out, the blonde man following him.

I sat in silence for a few minutes before I had the courage to pick up the papers, my hands shaking. 

Regarding Nurse Green,

Henry: Barnes, do you believe Miss Green is alive?

Barnes: Yes. I do. 

Henry: That was true. Do you wish to be with Miss Green?

Barnes: No.

Henry: True. Do you want to save Nurse Green?

Barnes: No.

Henry: Also true. Do you believe Nurse Green is a traitor to America?

Barnes: Yes.

Henry: True again. Sir, I don't think Sergeant Barnes is lying to us. One more? Yes sir. Sergeant Barnes, what would you say to Lilian Green if she were here?

Barnes: I would tell her she is a traitor to my country and to my family. I would tell here there is nothing I want from her. I don't want to see her and I don't want to ever touch her again. Being involved with Nurse Green was the worst mistake I've ever made. I hope she burns in hell and never darkens my door again. Nurse Green can burn in hell for all I care. I was simply trying to sleep with her.

At the bottom of the paper laid Bucky's sloppy signature, stating everything typed from the lie detector test had been the truth and what he had said. In his own writing at the bottom were two words that had broken me. Goodbye Doll.

I felt my blood turn cold and for once, I stopped shivering. Every sense of feeling left my body and I looked up, yelling at no one in particular. "Hey stone eyes! Get me the hell out of this cell and train me." I growled.