ever marching as to war

The last place Bucky wants to be right now is in public, but heading home isn't much of an option, either, not when he's likely to get cornered with a million questions; he's too raw for human consumption, wearied by the force of his fury he's working hard to contain, but Steve suggested they get a drink, and so here they are, Captain America and Bucky, all grown up, and sitting in the darkest corner of the Hub they can manage on a Friday night. The white noise of the other patrons is enough to drown out the racing thoughts in Bucky's head; the three shots he downed upon sitting gets rid of the taste of his own vomit from before. He asks the bartender to leave the bottle. Nothing, though, seems to stops the itch that nags at him from underneath his skin, the need to hit something until it breaks.

Instead he sits, body so tense it's only a matter of time before he snaps entirely; despite this, his gaze stays leveled on Steve, his own wish for retribution taking a backseat to making sure his friend isn't about to lose it again. Bucky's a force to be reckoned with on his own, certainly, but between the two of them, they could leave the whole of the island in ruins by morning, and whatever reservations Bucky has about this piece of hell, he won't be the one who lets Steve jump off the deep end.

7 May 1945
A Military Base in Moscow...
Yet again.

Comrade Karpov's package arrived two days ago, though the doctors do not yet know whether they will be able to get anything useful from it. The physician aboard Karpov's submarine speculated that the subject's immersion in freezing water may have preserved him, as it prevented his wounds -- consisting of several severe lacerations on the left side of his body and the loss of his left arm at the shoulder -- from bleeding out. Since they had not the facilities to test this theory on-board, he was kept in cold storage until he could be transported here, to Moscow.

Yesterday, they began the process the process of allowing the subject's body to regain its heat, in the hope that his blood would still be usable for testing. They used an approach for this one of their spies had smuggled out of Hitler's most secret laboratories. There are documented cases where a body that is flash-frozen has been completely revived. There's little hope that that will be the case here, but Comrade Karpov and his superiors are more interested in the analysis of his vital fluids than in his revivification. Apparently the Comrade once saw the subject in action, and believes it probable that he, like his partner Captain America, has the much-rumored Super-Soldier Formula flowing through -- or rather, frozen inside -- his veins.

The subject's body temperature was increased over the course of several hours, and his wounds were dealt with to prevent bleeding. When his temperature was enough to normal, it was as the doctors thought: his tissue and blood were still viable, even if he was deceased, as predicted. However, since the subject had been frozen so soon after his demise, one of the doctors suggests they try to revive him as if he were only recently deceased. They administer electricity, Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation, and adrenaline directly into the heart.

Unbeknown to the doctors in the room, however, there are more Americans in their presence than the one on the table; the patriot known as Bucky Barnes is dead for the fourth time, but he won't be for long, and he won't be alone.

Text courtesy of Captain America #11.

7 May 1945
A Military Base in Moscow

Comrade Karpov's package arrived two days ago, though the doctors do not yet know whether they will be able to get anything useful from it. The physician aboard Karpov's submarine speculated that the subject's immersion in freezing water may have preserved him, as it prevented his wounds -- consisting of several severe lacerations on the left side of his body and the loss of his left arm at the shoulder -- from bleeding out. Since they had not the facilities to test this theory on-board, he was kept in cold storage until he could be transported here, to Moscow.

Yesterday, they began the process the process of allowing the subject's body to regain its heat, in the hope that his blood would still be usable for testing. They used an approach for this one of their spies had smuggled out of Hitler's most secret laboratories. There are documented cases where a body that is flash-frozen has been completely revived. There's little hope that that will be the case here, but Comrade Karpov and his superiors are more interested in the analysis of his vital fluids than in his revivification. Apparently the Comrade once saw the subject in action, and believes it probable that he, like his partner Captain America, has the much-rumored Super-Soldier Formula flowing through -- or rather, frozen inside -- his veins.

The subject's body temperature was increased over the course of several hours, and his wounds were dealt with to prevent bleeding. When his temperature was enough to normal, it was as the doctors thought: his tissue and blood were still viable, even if he was deceased, as predicted. However, since the subject had been frozen so soon after his demise, one of the doctors suggests they try to revive him as if he were only recently deceased. They administer electricity, Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation, and adrenaline directly into the heart.

The American known as Bucky Barnes is dead, but he won't be for long.

Text courtesy of Captain America #11.