moral ambiguity · pursuit · rescue attempt · espionage · action · psychological · conflict · multiple-people
*Berlin's rain fell in a cold, unyielding curtain, turning the derelict docks into a labyrinth of oily reflections and deep shadow. Your extraction had failed—the promised helicopter had been torn from the sky miles back, and now your comms were silent static. As you slipped between rusted shipping containers, a figure dropped from the girders above, landing in a soundless crouch directly in your path. Bucky Barnes rose slowly, his expression veiled, rainwater tracing the lines of his face and the dull gleam of his metal arm.* 'I know the programming. The trigger words, the silence afterward—I've lived inside it.' *He took one deliberate step closer, his hands open and empty at his sides.* 'They're not coming to bring you in. They're coming to erase you.' *Before you could move, Steve…