Chapter 105: The Winter Soldier
The video starts playing.
This is a surveillance type video.
The video's perspective is fixed on a street under a street lamp.
Tony began to feel something was wrong with the familiar scene.
He glanced at the label on the videotape.
【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】
That was the date their parents died in a car accident.
Tony realized something and frowned: "This road... I still remember it."
The tape continues to play.
An out-of-control car suddenly appeared and rushed into a lush tree on the side of the road.
The front of the car quickly caught fire.
A motorcycle also appeared at this time, turning around and stopping next to the car.
The person in the driver's seat of the car pushed the door weakly and climbed out.
It was the elderly Howard Stark, who was badly injured in the collision.
"Please help, save my wife and children, please, save them..."
He heard the sound of a motorcycle and hoped that the passerby who had stopped could help him, as he no longer had the strength to stand up.
However, after stopping the motorcycle, the man walked straight towards Howard and forcefully pulled his upper body up by his hair.
Howard saw the man's face and recognized him instantly.
"Sergeant Barnes!?"
The man on the motorcycle turned out to be James Bucky Barnes, who was supposed to have died during World War II.
The moment Howard recognized the other person, he was extremely shocked.
He seemed to think of a lot in an instant.
Perhaps he understood it very clearly.
Now that Bucky is here, there's no way he and his wife and children can survive.
So he gave up begging for mercy, and his desperate eyes gradually showed a bit of tranquility as if he was ready to face death.
Off-screen, anger was already beginning to spread across Tony's face.
And the video continues to play.
"Howard, Howard..." Maria, who was in the passenger seat, regained consciousness and subconsciously called her husband's name.
But Bucky also took action at this time.
He punched Howard in the face several times, knocking him unconscious before stuffing him back into the driver's seat.
Then he went around to the other side and grabbed Maria's neck through the car window.
Maria's throat made a crackling sound and she had difficulty breathing, but she still held up a baby wrapped in cloth and prayed.
"Please, cough, save him, cough cough..."
After more than ten seconds, Maria's eyes gradually lost their luster and her arms fell weakly.
The baby in her arms seemed to sense that the body of her loved one was gradually losing temperature and began to cry loudly.
Bucky's expression remained cold, like a knife that could only chop and kill people, there was nothing else he could do.
He grabbed the baby from Maria's lap, lifted it out of the window, took off the swaddling cloth, wrapped it around the delicate neck twice, and then exerted force with both hands.
The baby's crying stopped abruptly, his face gradually turned purple, and his exposed skin quickly lost its color.
A few seconds later, Bucky threw the stopped baby out of the car window on Maria's side.
What a perfect accident scene.
The Howards died when their car exploded following a car accident.
The only baby was thrown out of the car window at the critical moment, but was strangled to death by the wrapping cloth.
Even if there were a hundred trace inspectors, this would still be an accident.
Bucky faked the scene, walked under the camera, and shot to destroy the surveillance equipment.
The on-site surveillance records will be handled by Hydra people.
His only job is to kill people.
This is the end of the video.
Natasha turned off the screen, took out the videotape, pursed her lips and looked to her side worriedly.
One of the Stark brothers is now breathing heavily, and the other has bright red eyes and murderous intent.
Tony witnessed the murder of his parents with his own eyes, and his mind was filled with hatred, as if tangible anger was pouring out of his big eyes.
Although Leon was mentally prepared, he was also ready to avenge the Howards.
But when he saw his adoptive mother and himself being strangled to death by the Winter Soldier, the anger in his heart burned uncontrollably.
"Where is he?" Tony growled through his teeth.
Leon floated up directly, with his super vision and super hearing working to the limit at the same time.
Among billions of pieces of information from the outside world.
He accurately locked onto Bucky's position.
"He is at Hydra's African base, protecting a man named Baron Strucker."
There is no nonsense from Leon.
He grabbed Tony's arm and the bio-force field naturally covered it.
The two disappeared in Siberia in an instant.
Half a minute later, in Africa's golden city, a suburb of Johannesburg.
The Hydra's nuclear-proof base, whose gate alone was 2.8 meters thick, was suddenly broken open.
The iron gate weighing dozens of tons flew into the base, breaking into pieces in the air.
Leon and Tony, wearing armor, entered through the main gate.
The two people's movements were surprisingly consistent - first they took a step with their left foot at the same time, and then they took a step with their right foot at the same time.
A cloak fluttered in the smoke and dust, and the sound of steel falling to the ground echoed in the empty base.
The sunlight rushed in from behind them, like two angels of punishment pushing open the door to heaven.
Hydra has now developed PTSD from Superman's red and blue uniform.
The first time they saw Leon, they were so frightened that they ran away.
But the Stark brothers, the one on the left swept with heat rays, while the one on the right swept back and forth with a double-handed cluster gun like plowing the land.
Don't give the Hydra members any chance of survival.
It seemed as if the theme of their revenge today was that no one survived.
The base, which was not very big to begin with, was destroyed by the two men in just a few minutes.
Baron Stark came out with his hands raised high, his expression so moved that he was almost kowtowed three times and nine times on the spot.
Before the others arrived, the voice came first: "I surrender! Mr. Superman, I surrender! And Mr. Iron Man, I turn from darkness to light! Unconditionally surrender to the United Nations! Spare my life! Spare..."
Baron Stark surrendered faster than Tony's cluster gun.
But unfortunately it is still a little slower than heat rays.
He was halfway through his words when he was torn apart from top to bottom.
As the body fell, Leon and Tony walked right past him.
In the end, there were only three people left in the entire base.
One is the Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, sitting on a cold brainwashing machine with empty eyes.
The other two were Starks who came to seek revenge on him.
The Winter Soldier stared blankly at the ground.
He received no orders from the controller, so he would not move even if the sky fell.
The cluster cannon in Tony's right hand was charging in front of the Winter Soldier's head.
"it's him."
Tony said the question in a declarative tone.
"It's him." The heat in Leon's eyes was hotter than ever before.
Tony looked at the Winter Soldier, a hint of doubt flashing across his angry face: "But he is a brainwashed man who has lost his self-awareness."
"That's right," Leon nodded, "Legally speaking, he cannot bear criminal responsibility. Even if he killed someone, he can be acquitted in court."
Tony was stunned for a moment, pursed his lips, and the cluster cannon that was charging up energy dimmed a little. It was obvious that he was struggling inside.
But at this moment, two beams of blazing red light suddenly rushed out from Tony's side and directly blew up the Winter Soldier's head.
"But, morally speaking, he has an absolute blood feud with us."
Leon said indifferently and turned away.
"It has nothing to do with anything else. This is a personal grudge."
Behind him, the headless body lost its support and collapsed to the ground.
Tony Stark stared at the broken body for a long time in silence.
Finally, he sighed, charged the cluster cannons in both hands, and blasted it into pieces.
Tony knew this was revenge, but he didn't know if it was the right thing to do.
The only thing he was sure of was that he had to stay with Leon, even if the choice was wrong.
Because they always have to take sides.
"I'm going to start forming the Avengers when I get back, and you have to join!" He caught up with Leon.
