Cap3: Civil War - canon divergence
Just a snippet, because daria234 asked that most dangerous of questions: What is this?
(There's nothing in here that could actually be considered directly spoilery for the movie. Location and characters and possibly situation, but otherwise, nope.)
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The image was grainy - an old camera that had reset after the blackout, barely used, connected to one of the oldest and most dilapidated tunnels in the complex.
It showed two sleek figures - female, both of them 5’10” in heels - leading Bucky out through an old doorway with a wheel-locked door. He went with them, meek as a lamb, no sign of either the soldier who’d fought or the man who’d run.
“Where is this?” Steve demanded, looking at Sharon for an answer. She shook her head.
“I don’t know where that is.”
When called in, a harried and annoyed building maintenance frowned as he surveyed the feed. “That exit? That’s way down the river.”
Agent Ross scowled. “And it’s not secured?”
“Nobody uses it. Can’t get the door open. It was rusted shut sometime during the Cold War.”
Except nobody had ever used the Winter Soldier as a key.
One of the two figures in black stepped back, and the other stepped up, placing her hands on the hinges of the door. One moment, two... Then she moved aside to let Bucky take his turn. Twenty seconds later, and a crack of daylight overwhelmed the video before the light meter adjusted. One minute later, and six-inch thick steel was tilting drunkenly out into daylight for them to get through.
Bucky stepped out into the sun, the light skittering down his arm in a violent gleam as he stepped away. A moment later the woman who’d touched the hinges walked out, long slender legs and slim figure that seemed vaguely familiar.
Stark leaned in towards the table, his expression oddly intent as the last woman pulled the balaclava off her head before she stepped out into the sunlight, and turned to look directly at the camera. Steve felt his heart stop as a brief smile touched her lips.
Then she walked out of the camera’s view.
“Shit,” said Sam, speaking for more than one person in the room.
Ross was nearly livid. “I want facial recognition on that woman - priority one.”
“Sir, that won’t-” Sharon began.
“We need to find her! Run our database-”
“It won’t do any good,” Natasha interrupted, cool and clipped and just as shocked as the rest of them, although her training hid it better. “You’re looking at Maria Hill, formerly of S.H.I.E.L.D, previously with the Avengers Initiative, in the company of Virginia Potts, CEO of Stark Industries, and James Barnes, the Winter Soldier.”
“And good luck finding them,” Sam remarked as Steve tried to make sense of the churning melee of his thoughts.
Maria had taken Bucky. Why?
(There's nothing in here that could actually be considered directly spoilery for the movie. Location and characters and possibly situation, but otherwise, nope.)
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The image was grainy - an old camera that had reset after the blackout, barely used, connected to one of the oldest and most dilapidated tunnels in the complex.
It showed two sleek figures - female, both of them 5’10” in heels - leading Bucky out through an old doorway with a wheel-locked door. He went with them, meek as a lamb, no sign of either the soldier who’d fought or the man who’d run.
“Where is this?” Steve demanded, looking at Sharon for an answer. She shook her head.
“I don’t know where that is.”
When called in, a harried and annoyed building maintenance frowned as he surveyed the feed. “That exit? That’s way down the river.”
Agent Ross scowled. “And it’s not secured?”
“Nobody uses it. Can’t get the door open. It was rusted shut sometime during the Cold War.”
Except nobody had ever used the Winter Soldier as a key.
One of the two figures in black stepped back, and the other stepped up, placing her hands on the hinges of the door. One moment, two... Then she moved aside to let Bucky take his turn. Twenty seconds later, and a crack of daylight overwhelmed the video before the light meter adjusted. One minute later, and six-inch thick steel was tilting drunkenly out into daylight for them to get through.
Bucky stepped out into the sun, the light skittering down his arm in a violent gleam as he stepped away. A moment later the woman who’d touched the hinges walked out, long slender legs and slim figure that seemed vaguely familiar.
Stark leaned in towards the table, his expression oddly intent as the last woman pulled the balaclava off her head before she stepped out into the sunlight, and turned to look directly at the camera. Steve felt his heart stop as a brief smile touched her lips.
Then she walked out of the camera’s view.
“Shit,” said Sam, speaking for more than one person in the room.
Ross was nearly livid. “I want facial recognition on that woman - priority one.”
“Sir, that won’t-” Sharon began.
“We need to find her! Run our database-”
“It won’t do any good,” Natasha interrupted, cool and clipped and just as shocked as the rest of them, although her training hid it better. “You’re looking at Maria Hill, formerly of S.H.I.E.L.D, previously with the Avengers Initiative, in the company of Virginia Potts, CEO of Stark Industries, and James Barnes, the Winter Soldier.”
“And good luck finding them,” Sam remarked as Steve tried to make sense of the churning melee of his thoughts.
Maria had taken Bucky. Why?