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“Hey look, it’s Spiderman.” Peter was once again swinging through the street to catch any bad guys he could find, but tonight was peaceful. In fact, he didn’t catch anyone, so he decided to rest a little because although there weren’t any bad guys, he’d been swinging for 3 hours straight. There was a little alleyway he used multiple times for this sort of stuff, but this time was different. Someone was waiting for him. It was the Winter Soldier himself!
Peter landed on the ground, a couple of meters in front of Bucky, ready to banter a bit. I mean, it wasn’t like there was much to do, anyway.
“Hey man, ready for a rematch?”
Bucky didn’t answer. His eyes were stone cold, no reaction. He was fully equipped, ready to battle. Two guns, both sides, couple of pocketknives, even a machine gun on his back. Peter got a bit uneasy. He knew something was up. Bucky wasn’t himself. It was like, he was brainwashed again. Peter knew what was coming. Bucky’s mind was set on it, so he prepared himself to fight.
“I’ll take that as a yes.”
**
Bucky Immediately took his machine gun and started blazing. Pete only had a fraction of a second to react, jumped up high in the sky and dodged every bullet.
The gun was empty, needed reloading, but Pete was quick. He webbed the gun and threw it into the wall, smashed it to pieces before Buck could use it again. Peter landed in front of him and threw a few punches.
Left, right, kick!
Bucky was kicked into the wall, landed on his feet. It was a nasty blow, but he didn’t show any emotion. No reaction, whatsoever. He just grabbed his knife and charged Peter again.
Bucky threw a punch with his metal arm, but Pete blocked it, just in time, however the knife got really close. It sliced him in his cheek. Pete backflipped, kicking the knife simultaneously out of Buck’s hand.
Buck drew both of his pistols, but Pete was quick. He webbed them shut before Bucky could shoot. The guns were useless, threw them away and picked up his second knife. His last.
Bucky came charging again. He was like a machine, no fear in his eyes. Just this expression of cold bloodedness of a killer.
Peter was ready. He saw that Buck had his knife in the right hand and would probably try the same move as he did before. The older man threw a punch with the right hand, knife forward but Pete had anticipated this, dodged it, and punched the knife out of his hand. He used his webs to web Bucky’s feet. The older man had nowhere to go, and Pete made good use of this. He punched him a couple of times. Left, right, left again, right in the face, in his stomach. Yet weirdly enough, it seemed as Buck wasn’t fazed by it at all! His nerves were made of steel, and it was like he didn’t feel a thing.
Peter was still punching and kicking Buck as hard as he could. It seemed like the only thing to do; cause Bucky wasn’t fazed by any of it. This guy was a machine and the only way to stop him, was to beat him unconscious, which is difficult when you’re battling a super soldier. But the older man had enough.
He wasn’t just a soldier nor a super soldier. He has been all these years known as the Winter Soldier. He could read someone’s fighting style, and he knew what Peter’s was.
Bucky saw his opportunity and right when peter wanted to punch him, he stopped the punch with his metal arm. Time stood still. Peter knew he messed up.
He got to see every side of the alley. Buck, blocked his punch, took his arm, and threw him over his head, onto to the ground. Peter had nowhere to go. The older man punched him right in the face, more than once. Pete’s face was bleeding, and he was barely conscious. After that many punches from a super soldier with a metal arm, he was lucky to be alive.
Right before he passed out, he aimed his webshooters behind him, hoping they would attach to something to get him out of that position. Luckily, it did. It attached himself to the wall, used all his strength to pull and launched himself away from Buck.
The older man picked up his second knife that was near him on the ground, cut himself loose from the ground and walked to Peter. Pete was beaten up badly. He used all his energy to even stand up. His vision was blurry, like there were two Winter Soldiers.
It was hard to see for Pete, but it was enough to see that Bucky charged him again with his knife. Peter immediately used all his energy to block the mighty throw Buck charged at him with both his hands!
…
Time stood still again. The knife was in his metal hand and Peter used all his strength to block it, but he couldn’t do anything about the older man’s right arm. Bucky dropped the knife but caught it in his right hand.
Stab!
Before Peter could do something, he felt a sting right in his liver and his whole body just shut down.
He fell to the ground and after a couple of seconds, he lost consciousness and fell face first on the ground, blood flowing all around him.
.
.
.
Suddenly a strange, deep voice was howling in the air.
“Fatality, Winter Soldier wins!”
**
“Oh, come on Buck! What is that move?! Are you hacking or something?”
“Pete, you know this is your game, right?
Peter was frustrated but happy and Buck was just laughing all the time. The older man won the match, although he never played it before. This was Pete’s favorite game and he got beaten by someone who never even played a game.
“Okay, so you’re telling me you never played this game before. Nor any game?”
“Yep, that’s exactly what I’m telling you.”
“Wow, I still can’t believe what happened. You know, in a real fight, I would win, easily” Peter said sarcastically proud.
“HA, we’ll see about that one. But I could tell you, if you fought me back then, this game, would probably become reality.”
Bucky learned to cope with his past, due to lots of therapy and to use it as a sense of humor. Peter and Sam help him a lot with that.
Suddenly, Sam walked in the room. “What’s up, guys? Everything alright?”
Buck immediately turned around and started laughing and explaining what happened. “Oh, hey Sam. Yeah, everything is good here. I just beat this Spider-ling in his own videogame!”
Peter immediately intervened, trying to save his ass from this situation “Hey, that’s not true! Sam, he was cheating, you must believe me.”
A three second pause of silence hang in the air, but suddenly all three of them started laughing.
“Pete, nice try! I know you by now.”
“Yeah, apparently my expertise in the field can even help me with videogames,” Bucky laughed.
“Oh, we’ll see about that. I want a rematch!” Peter said ready to beat Bucky once and for all.
Sam was very intrigued and interested to see what would happen.
“I need to see this!”
They both chose their characters again. Bucky as the winter soldier and Peter as Spider-man.
“Sam, be honest with me, look at my character. Do I still look like a mechanical zombie when I fight?”
“Nah man, now you look like a guy who doesn’t know, what the hell is going on.” Sam told him sarcastically and laughing hysterically.
“Well, wouldn’t you do the same if you were fighting alien wild-dogs with just a gun?” Buck responded laughing the same way as Sam. They were both having the time of their lives.
“Well Buck, are you ready to play again?” Peter asked excitingly.
Bucky looked up at Peter and back at Sam, surprised and full of admiration. He thought back about his past and compared it to what he has now. A family. A safe place. He felt happy, knowing that he made it.
“Are you sure you want me to beat your ass again?” he said to Peter sarcastically.
Peter looked back and started laughing.
“HA, just click ready, ‘old man’.”
“Ha-ha, okay, you wanted this.” Buck responded and they played for the rest of the afternoon, knowing this was a special moment, for both of them.