Homelander looked at Steve's disappearing figure and looked at the camera with a compassionate expression.
"Did everyone see it?"
"This is the cruelty of war. It turns friends against each other and makes brothers enemies."
"But please believe Vought, believe us."
"We will bring the lost sheep home."
"Ashley!" Homelander suddenly remembered something, turned around and shouted to Ashley who was still directing the scene.
"Arrange the drone to follow me and then issue a press release!"
"Let's just say... Captain America, with the help of Vought, is reforming a World War II veteran who has gone astray!"
"The title should be sensational! It should be tear-jerking! It should reflect the kind of... brotherhood that spans centuries!"
"It better make all the housewives across America cry!"
"Do you understand?!"
"Understood! Boss!" Ashley responded loudly.
Potomac River, downstream dam.
This is the end of the hydropower station. The rushing river water pours down from the dam, making a deafening roar.
Bucky·Barnes stopped.
There is no way.
Ahead is a drop of tens of meters high and rolling Riptide.
He turned around, raised his mechanical arm slightly, and his eyes flashed with a dangerous cold light.
"Bucky!!"
Steve chased after him.
He threw away his shield and took off his helmet, revealing a face full of sincerity and sadness.
"Bucky... It's me."
"Look at me! I'm Steve!"
"You know me."
Bucky looked at Steve.
Deep in my mind, a layer of fog seemed to be loosening.
That name...Steve.
There is also a thin figure...Brooklyn's alley...
"No!!"
Bucky held his head in pain, and the mechanical arm hit the railing hard, deforming the iron railing.
"I don't know you!!"
He roared angrily and rushed towards Steve.
Steve opened his arms and his chest was defenselessly exposed in front of Bucky.
"I won't fight you."
"Because... you are my friend."
"You are my mission!"
However, Steve responded with heavy blows from Red Star's iron arm, until Steve collapsed to the ground.
"You are my mission!"
Bucky pulled out the dagger, pointed the tip at Steve, and repeated the words over and over again.
"Then you finish it."
Steve responded with a weak voice.
"Pfft!"
The dagger pierced Steve's shoulder.
Bucky's hands trembled.
He looked at the blood flowing from Steve's shoulder, and a certain fragment in his memory was awakened.
"Steve..."
Bucky murmured to himself.
The dagger in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
"You..." Bucky's eyes began to regain clarity, "Are you...Steve?"
"It's me, Bucky." Steve smiled, tears filling his eyes, "I'm here."
"I will accompany you until... the end."
It was in this deeply touching moment.
"Pah! Pah! Pah!"
A sudden burst of applause came from above.
The two men raised their heads suddenly.
I saw Homelander floating above the dam, holding a bucket of popcorn in his arm and eating it with relish.
Behind him, several drones were filming this scene from all directions.
"Oh! Wonderful! So wonderful!"
Homelander commented while chewing popcorn.
"This line, this emotional explosion... you must give me the authorization, I will edit it into my new movie!"
"Especially the phrase 'I will accompany you to the end'... tsk tsk tsk, it's too disgusting, but I like it."
Homelander landed and walked between the two of them.
"Well, the brothers are reunited. It's worth celebrating. I will hold a cocktail party for you at the base in the evening."
He looked at Bucky with satisfaction in his eyes.
"Welcome back, Sergeant Barnes."
"Introduce yourself, I am your new boss, Homelander."
Homelander smiled like a devil.
Bucky stared blankly at the blond man who exuded a sense of oppression, and then looked at Steve.
Steve smiled helplessly.
"Ignore him, Bucky. That's how he behaves."
"But... he is one of his own."
"Go home."
The sun sets in the west.
Homelander looked at the backs of the two people supporting each other as they left, feeling very good.
Triskelion.
Nick Fury was wearing an ordinary maintenance worker's uniform, with his hat brim lowered, pushing a small cart filled with Cleaner tools.
Clint·Barton huddled in the narrow ventilation duct, like a crawling mouse.
"Turn left, boss. There is a camera in front of me. I have three seconds to block it." Barton's voice sounded in the headphones.
"Received."
Fury lowered his head and passed quickly under the camera.
His goal was to get to the communications center room located in the middle of the building.
There is the mouthpiece of S.H.I.E.L.D..
"Stop."
Two guards stopped Fury.
"That area is closed to traffic. Where is your badge?"
Fury stopped and slowly raised his head.
He took off his hat, revealing his iconic eyepatch.
The two guards were stunned.
"Fury... Director?"
"It seems someone still remembers me." Fury said coldly.
The two guards looked at each other and reached for the guns on their waists. The order they received was: If you see Nick Fury, shoot him without mercy.
"I don't recommend you do that." Fury pointed to the top of his head.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Two electric shock arrows were shot from the vents, accurately piercing the shoulders of the two men.
The two guards twitched and fell to the ground.
Fury stepped over their bodies and pushed open the computer room door.
When several technicians inside saw Fury, they were so frightened that they almost spilled their coffee on the keyboard.
"Don't move." Fury took out his pistol and swiped it left and right, "I want to use the radio. Who has any opinions?"
No one dares to have an opinion.
Three minutes later.
Triskelion That familiar and majestic voice came from all the speakers at the same time.
"I'm Nick Fury."
As soon as this sound came out, the whole building fell silent instantly.
The agent who was eating put down his spoon, the soldier who was training stopped, and even Pierce, who was tasting wine in the office, shook his hands.
"I know what you heard."
Fury's voice echoed in every corridor.
"Some people say that I am a traitor, that I am Hydra. Very good, this is a very wonderful story."
"But now, I want to tell you another story."
"Alexander·Pierce, he is Hydra."
"Some of your colleagues and some of your superiors are also Hydra."
"They have been lurking among us for decades, sucking the blood of S.H.I.E.L.D. like parasites."
"Today, they are going to activate Project Insight. That is not to protect the world, it is to point the gun at everyone who dares to oppose them."
"Once the three Helicarriers take off, millions of people will die."
In the computer room, Fury looked at the shocked and confused agents on the surveillance screen and adjusted his tone.
"I don't need you to believe in me. I just need you to believe in your own eyes."
"Look at those so-called 'orders' and think about the people who are going to be purged."
"S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents."
"If you still remember the oath you took when you joined the company, if you still remember who we are trying to protect."
"Then take up arms."
"Even if there is only one person left, we must protect the future of the world!"
"This is... the final order."