AU Meme - Day 14 - Allegiance Swap
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redfiona99The original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa. I have decided to have fun. You will be able to guess where this goes AU.
Fandom: Marvelverse
Characters: Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, background SHIELD characters
Rating/Warnings: Gen fic, spoilers for Captain America: First Avenger and Captain America: Winter Soldier
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They all said finding him was a miracle. The only reason he was found was because of a glacier retreating because of global warming.
Of course, the actual miracle was that he was alive, and that he'd only lost one arm to hypothermia.
But hey, they're in the future now and they can give him a replacement, and Bucky still has enough of his wits about him, recovering from 60 years in the deep freeze though they are, to say yes and not ask too many questions.
Fury's docs had no idea how he survived so they handed him over to the scientists, who also have no idea and seem to take great delight in taking lots of blood from Bucky while still having no idea. Anyone's best guess is that something Schmidt's men did to him while he was held captive saved him, but no-one has any idea what, how or how to replicate it.
Bucky is choosing not to worry about the how. Partly because he was alive, and planned on staying that way, and partly because he had bigger things to worry about. Like aliens.
Aliens were new. Luckily, unlike everything else about the 21st century, aliens were new to everyone. Apparently some of the aliens were on our side and some of them were enemies, and one of them is Thor the Thunder God.
Bucky thinks he's doing quite well with coping with everything at this point. Gods, monsters, aliens, superheroes.
Coulson, sad eyes and a manila folder of evidence in hand, filled him in one what had happened to everyone else. Peggy Carter had gone from being a dame to being a Dame, and had been a mucky-muck in SHIELD until a couple of years ago. Everyone else was dead, even Howard, who Bucky expected to be the one to come up with a way of being immortal.
And Bucky is coping with that, because what else can you do, even the knowledge that they never found Steve's body. That was why Steve had come after him, a shared agreement, if anything happened to either of them, they'd make sure they were buried in the parish graveyard.
He's learning to live with the fact that they'll never find the body, because if Howard Carter couldn't find it, then it can't be found, not with all of Fury's nous and Tony's money.
Or rather, he was learning to live with it, until he sees Steve's face under the mask of the assassin trying to kill them all. And it is Steve, not a clone or an alien or anything like that, because he recognises that movement, that sort of ducking back shuffle at the start of a fight that not even growing into All-Might Captain America broke him of.
It's Steve. And Steve's working for the bad guys. But Bucky knows there's more to it than that, because whatever happened to Steve, Steve doesn't recognise him, and Steve recognises his friends - Steve Rogers went through a war to rescue Bucky because Steve recognises his friends. There's no force on Earth, no force outside of Earth, that's going to stop Bucky returning the favour.
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End notes: Okay, so I have included a piece of personal fanon, which is that Bucky was experimented on while originally captured.
And yes, in the AU version of Civil War that follows, the arm becomes a plot point.
Day 1 - Hogwarts - Meta
Day 2 - Zombies
Day 3 - Medieval
Day 4 - Spies
Day 5 - School
Day 6 - Mythical Creature
Day 7 - Fairy Tale
Day 8 - Futuristic
Day 9 - Aliens
Day 10 - Fusion with another fandom
Day 11 - Slice-of-life
Day 12 - Deserted Island
Day 13 - Buddy Cops/Detective
Day 14 - Allegiance-Swap Original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa
Day 15 - Sex-Swap
Day 16 - Superheroes
Day 17 - Animal Transformation
Day 18 - Wild West
Day 19 - Idols/Bands
Day 20 - Trading Places
Day 21 - Fantasy
Day 22 - Horror
Day 23 - Pre-21st Century
Day 24 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
Day 25 - Time travel
Day 26 - Dopplegangers
Day 27 - Twins
Day 28 - Cross Over
Day 29 - Pirates A bit more of the Jericho/Regal with Barrett lurking fic for Opera
Day 30 - Crossover
Fandom: Marvelverse
Characters: Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, background SHIELD characters
Rating/Warnings: Gen fic, spoilers for Captain America: First Avenger and Captain America: Winter Soldier
~~~~
They all said finding him was a miracle. The only reason he was found was because of a glacier retreating because of global warming.
Of course, the actual miracle was that he was alive, and that he'd only lost one arm to hypothermia.
But hey, they're in the future now and they can give him a replacement, and Bucky still has enough of his wits about him, recovering from 60 years in the deep freeze though they are, to say yes and not ask too many questions.
Fury's docs had no idea how he survived so they handed him over to the scientists, who also have no idea and seem to take great delight in taking lots of blood from Bucky while still having no idea. Anyone's best guess is that something Schmidt's men did to him while he was held captive saved him, but no-one has any idea what, how or how to replicate it.
Bucky is choosing not to worry about the how. Partly because he was alive, and planned on staying that way, and partly because he had bigger things to worry about. Like aliens.
Aliens were new. Luckily, unlike everything else about the 21st century, aliens were new to everyone. Apparently some of the aliens were on our side and some of them were enemies, and one of them is Thor the Thunder God.
Bucky thinks he's doing quite well with coping with everything at this point. Gods, monsters, aliens, superheroes.
Coulson, sad eyes and a manila folder of evidence in hand, filled him in one what had happened to everyone else. Peggy Carter had gone from being a dame to being a Dame, and had been a mucky-muck in SHIELD until a couple of years ago. Everyone else was dead, even Howard, who Bucky expected to be the one to come up with a way of being immortal.
And Bucky is coping with that, because what else can you do, even the knowledge that they never found Steve's body. That was why Steve had come after him, a shared agreement, if anything happened to either of them, they'd make sure they were buried in the parish graveyard.
He's learning to live with the fact that they'll never find the body, because if Howard Carter couldn't find it, then it can't be found, not with all of Fury's nous and Tony's money.
Or rather, he was learning to live with it, until he sees Steve's face under the mask of the assassin trying to kill them all. And it is Steve, not a clone or an alien or anything like that, because he recognises that movement, that sort of ducking back shuffle at the start of a fight that not even growing into All-Might Captain America broke him of.
It's Steve. And Steve's working for the bad guys. But Bucky knows there's more to it than that, because whatever happened to Steve, Steve doesn't recognise him, and Steve recognises his friends - Steve Rogers went through a war to rescue Bucky because Steve recognises his friends. There's no force on Earth, no force outside of Earth, that's going to stop Bucky returning the favour.
~~~~
End notes: Okay, so I have included a piece of personal fanon, which is that Bucky was experimented on while originally captured.
And yes, in the AU version of Civil War that follows, the arm becomes a plot point.
Day 1 - Hogwarts - Meta
Day 2 - Zombies
Day 3 - Medieval
Day 4 - Spies
Day 5 - School
Day 6 - Mythical Creature
Day 7 - Fairy Tale
Day 8 - Futuristic
Day 9 - Aliens
Day 10 - Fusion with another fandom
Day 11 - Slice-of-life
Day 12 - Deserted Island
Day 13 - Buddy Cops/Detective
Day 14 - Allegiance-Swap Original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa
Day 15 - Sex-Swap
Day 16 - Superheroes
Day 17 - Animal Transformation
Day 18 - Wild West
Day 19 - Idols/Bands
Day 20 - Trading Places
Day 21 - Fantasy
Day 22 - Horror
Day 23 - Pre-21st Century
Day 24 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
Day 25 - Time travel
Day 26 - Dopplegangers
Day 27 - Twins
Day 28 - Cross Over
Day 29 - Pirates A bit more of the Jericho/Regal with Barrett lurking fic for Opera
Day 30 - Crossover
