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revivalproject2019-09-13 11:38 pm
stillgotmyleftarm) wrote in revivalproject2019-09-13 11:38 pm
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WHO: Agra 10 gets another Captain America, and this one is Bucky Barnes!
WHERE: Starting in the square, then pretty much anywhere you want to run into him around town/the forest
WHAT: Arrival and exploring (NOTE: If you'd like to continue/assume our TDM thread as canon, just go ahead and I'll roll with it!)
WHEN: Bucky's arrival, a few weeks into the first event
WARNINGS: Will mark if any appear!
The last thing Bucky remembers is being on the Bishop with Steve. Then, suddenly - he's in the middle of a run-down square in a run-down city and there's a glowing... thing downloading information into his head.
All in all, it's kinda like any Tuesday in the Fleet. Almost. Except not. Especially not since after things changed.
He's alone - at least, he is at first. Which means he goes looking for Steve, once he realizes he's got no communicator and, honestly, pretty much nothing else, either, except for the plain coveralls he's wearing and the red, white, and blue shield that might be familiar to some.
He eventually finds his way into places like the hotel, the hospital, and the power plant. He's not afraid to poke around, and anyone he spots that doesn't look like a threat will be approached without hesitation.
At first, he's looking for Steve - or for acquaintances from the Fleet. But that doesn't mean unfamiliar people get the brush-off. He'll come right up, ask if you know what's going on, and probably offer help if it looks like you need it.
It's pretty much part of the job, after all.
WHERE: Starting in the square, then pretty much anywhere you want to run into him around town/the forest
WHAT: Arrival and exploring (NOTE: If you'd like to continue/assume our TDM thread as canon, just go ahead and I'll roll with it!)
WHEN: Bucky's arrival, a few weeks into the first event
WARNINGS: Will mark if any appear!
The last thing Bucky remembers is being on the Bishop with Steve. Then, suddenly - he's in the middle of a run-down square in a run-down city and there's a glowing... thing downloading information into his head.
All in all, it's kinda like any Tuesday in the Fleet. Almost. Except not. Especially not since after things changed.
He's alone - at least, he is at first. Which means he goes looking for Steve, once he realizes he's got no communicator and, honestly, pretty much nothing else, either, except for the plain coveralls he's wearing and the red, white, and blue shield that might be familiar to some.
He eventually finds his way into places like the hotel, the hospital, and the power plant. He's not afraid to poke around, and anyone he spots that doesn't look like a threat will be approached without hesitation.
At first, he's looking for Steve - or for acquaintances from the Fleet. But that doesn't mean unfamiliar people get the brush-off. He'll come right up, ask if you know what's going on, and probably offer help if it looks like you need it.
It's pretty much part of the job, after all.
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But ultimately, all that happens is Carol pulling her hand back a moment later, looking around the place like she's seeing it for the first time, and -
Oh. Well. Huh. "Wait - you got all that from this thing?" he chucks a thumb at the orb, still watching her admittedly a bit critically, like he's expecting her to break out in a rash or start babbling nonsense. He's... not, exactly, but he's still a little skeptical of things just being that easy. He's always skeptical when things are easy, okay.
Even still, his eyes flick back to the orb. Because, if it is that easy - if, and he isn't sold quite yet - then it seems like information worth knowing, for the both of them.
"How are you feeling?"
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Carol pauses mid-step and considers the answer to that question for a moment, doing a self-analysis that she hadn't actually bothered doing right after getting all that knowledge shoved into her head. "A little dizzy, but it'll even out," she admits, with a dismissive wave of her hand. "Not any worse than when I first got here," she clarifies, in case he's actually concerned, and not just trying to figure out what the orb does. "The download's a little aggressive, but I'm still me. It's just information. And I don't think they took anything out, either. I'd know."
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Bucky's still watching Carol curiously, eyes just the slightest bit married, but he's willing to believe her. (If Steve had said it, probably not, but that's a different story.) On top of it, she doesn't seem a whole lot worse off than she had been a minute ago, and he at least understands how a person could get new knowledge without losing a part of themselves. "The Atroma, who had us before, did something like that. They used implants." He waves a bit in the direction of his left ear. "I could pilot a spaceship, and I definitely didn't know how to do that before they snatched me."
Which is why, after a moment, he sighs. "Would it help if I knew what was going on, too?"
He has a feeling the answer is yes; he's already stepping closer to the orb. On the one hand, he abhors people - aliens, objects, whatever - messing with his head. Especially after meeting Soldat and Winter and... Steve - Grant. But on the other hand... this would be voluntary. And more information about their surroundings would be a benefit, not a detraction. He's already undergone one download from the thing in the town square. Two doesn't seem to do any more damage than one.
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"It's your call."
Carol's eyes flick to the place that Bucky points out as being the site of his implant; it seems harmless enough at first glance, but she knows a thing or two about the very specific ways that kind of tech can mess with a person. She hopes that these Atroma were being honest with him, and ... whoever else they "had." This is the first she's hearing of anything like that and he's acting like it's supposed to be common knowledge, so maybe she really did miss something somewhere along the line. "I wouldn't say no to the help, but it's not like it's hard to let you know what you need to do. Long as you're willing to do it." And he does seem that, at least, so she understands either decision he wants to make, here. "But then you're gonna tell me about the Atroma, because I've never heard of them before."
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Bucky sighs - yeah, it's his call, and he doesn't like it, but he can concede that they need more information. And the more people who have that information, the better. It isn't any worse than having the entirety of a spaceship pilot's manual dumped into his brain - and hey, this time, he gets to choose it for himself.
So he does, before he can back out - he steps up to the orb and touches it, and just like before, there's the torrent of information pouring in and spreading out in his brain, in a way more obvious and - yeah, aggressive - fashion than the implant ever did. Although, he's got to concede, that could be because he's aware of the process now, and wasn't before.
He comes back to himself a moment later, pulling his hand back and blinking a few times to clear the nonexistent spots from his vision. And - yeah. Yeah, now he can see the room for what it is, and everything in it for what it is, and - if this really is the only result, he isn't complaining. "Guess you've got your help," he says, with a tight, lopsided smile, before he adds, "I don't know that I can tell you a whole lot. I never met 'em face to face, but they're the ones that snatched me off Earth - out of whatever universe I was in, I guess - and dropped me into the middle of their intergalactic reality show. S'how I met Steve. The Steve here, I mean. We're not from the same place. My Steve is - " he pauses, expression shuttering just a little. "He goes by Grant, these days, but he's not here."
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Carol tries to keep her expression impassive as Bucky explains, but there's a slight hardening around her eyes, a shift in the set of her jaw. She already knows that snapping people up from their homeworlds isn't the exclusive province of the Kree - colonizers throughout the galaxy have a lot of fun with that particular habit - but it always pisses her off when she hears that there's yet another civilization getting their rocks off by exploiting other people in this very specific way. The fingers of one hand curl into a fist, almost reflexively, and she turns towards the door that leads to the generator. "What'd you do to them?" she asks, trying for conversational, or at least neutral, with her eyes trained on the path ahead of her and not on Bucky, who is hopefully following. "How'd you get out of there and wind up here?"
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"There was a group of... passengers, or whatever you want to call what we were. Sounded like they'd been there going on ten years - and that they'd been working on a way out most of that time. I guess they finally found it - they found a way to deplete the shields on the Atroma's ship, the Marsiva, and got most of the rest of us, in smaller ships, to help out once they were down.
"We never did quite find the Atroma, but we did find the way back. People who wanted it, took it. Steve and I stayed - along with a lot of other people."
He shakes his head. "I don't know how I got here, though. Or how I got here a whole fuckin' year before Steve did, when it was only a couple days for me."
That's what pisses him off the most, to be honest.