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[The video feed clicks on, except at first, the image is upside down and you're getting a pretty decent view of a blue jacket before the camera's righted and held back at an angle where you can actually see who's holding the thing.

Bucky's still wearing his Howling Commandos uniform and looks a little worse for wear, if only because he was just in a firefight that went badly after you know. He fell off of a very fast moving train and into a frozen river, but the Barge has healed any injuries and he's just ready to get going on this. He can worry about the rest of it (being dead) later. So he just smiles at the camera, and there's a touch of the familiar cockiness in the expression, even if he's more or less trying to be professional. This is a job, after all.]

This is Sergeant James Barnes, formerly with the 107th Infantry. U.S. Army. Most people call me Bucky. I've been on assignment with the Howling Commandos for the last couple months, but I guess someone decided I'd be better off transferring here for as long as this Admiral guy thinks I'll be useful. [It's a joke, see? Also Bucky really, really does not know what to think of him or this place in general, because this is really not what he thought the afterlife would look like at all.]

So if anyone's got some advice on what to expect for the new guy, I'd appreciate it. [Really, he's got a lot of questions he wants to ask, but he'll leave it at that for now.]

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[Bucky barks out an incredulous laugh.]

You did what?

Well, he had a bomb headed for New York. I couldn't let him set it off. So he...grabbed the tesseract and disappeared, and then I crashed the plane.

[Well, that's getting you a weird look, because Bucky never really got the memo on what the cube was capable of, let alone what it was actually called. Or, you know, that it was even a cube in the first place, it wasn't like Howard had known all that much about how HYDRA weapons were being powered.] The what?

[Well, neither did Steve until very recently. So he shrugs a bit and gives Bucky an awkward smile.]

The ...thing that powered their weapons. The blue stuff? It was powered by a thing called a tesseract.

Oh. [Weird. :|] Why'd you have to crash the plane?

It was on autopilot set for New York. Couldn't do anything else.

So, they dug you out, and then what?

Well, see, they dug me out seventy years later.

[Alright, Bucky's just going to stop walking and stare, because today is just. Officially the strangest day ever.]

You're kidding.

God's honest truth, Buck.

How'd you stay alive that long? I mean, not that I'm complaining at all, but seventy years is a long time. I didn't realize it came along with the whole super soldier thing.

I -- uh. Got frozen, I guess? I got knocked out when the plane crashed, I don't exactly remember much of anything until I woke up.

[That sounds sort of too familiar for right now, and he doesn't really want to start thinking about what had happened, so he starts walking again, still not pulling away from Steve.]

What's it like? The future, I mean.

[That gets a bit of an exasperated groan out of him, and a sideways grin to Bucky.]

Confusing as all get out, for the most part. People keep telephones in their pockets and Stark's kid invented a flying metal suit.

Stark's kid? [That had to be weird. Really, the whole thing had to be, but that kind of went without saying.]

Yeah, his name's Tony. He's an alright guy if you can get past the...being a billionaire thing. He....really reminds me of Howard, sometimes, but don't tell him that.

Not sure how I'm gonna, unless he's here too.

Oh, he's here. You'll probably see him, he looks a good deal like his dad.

And how many other new friends do you have wandering around?

From home, or people I've met on board here?

[He shrugs a little.] Either, I guess.

Well -- there's a girl from home here, aside from Peggy. Her name's Natalie. She's pretty swell.

--Oh, and a fella called Loki. Don't trust a thing he says, he's -- the second time I had to save the world? It was his fault.

[He wants to ask more about Natalie, but that next part's kinda distracting.]

What'd he get up to?

Well -- tried to take over the world with an army of things from outer space. Starting with New York City. [...It's a little weird, how matter-of-fact he is about something that sounds like it's out of a film serial.]

Stark and -- some others and I, we all stopped it.

[... That is exactly what Bucky's thinking not even going to lie.]

Since when did your life turn into some movie?

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