GENTRIFY (✚) OPEN

[buckingham barnes]

Bucky should listened to his gut. He should have kept his mouth shut and waited for someone else to awkwardly volunteer themselves. As the moment Venus spoke up again, the maine coon was instantly regretting his decision. Apparently, he was wrong about assuming Venus wouldn't inject a syringe into him, especially without 'permission'. Bucky thought the Solbinder would double check to make sure it was okay to do, but then it dawned on him. When he volunteered, he gave the okay to Venus to go through with the demonstration. "It'll just be a little sting, doubt you'll even notice it." Venus's words reached his ears, the maine coon not even noticing the nervous energy radiating off of the kitsune. Bucky was too focused on his mistake, and how this is a horrible idea to convince himself that Venus isn't Angeldust. The last thing he should have done was volunteer in a session where he's suppose to imagine he's actually getting injected with poison. It will only make him think of Angeldust, he's such an idiot! "Wait, actually I'm backing out of this-" He tried to desperately tell Venus, but his words met deaf ears, getting cut off half way through it.

"Smile for the audience."

Bucky wasn't smiling, not one bit. If anything, he looked even more alarmed than he did a moment ago. He was beginning to back up, hoping to scramble away from the kitsune before Venus could reach him. Unfortunately, Venus was quick with the empty syringe. Bucky's eyes widened as he felt the needle pierce his right shoulder, freezing up. Venus mentioned they doubted Bucky would even notice it go in, meaning he shouldn't feel a thing. Hell, they are so wrong, so so wrong. Not only did Bucky feel the needle dig into his fur, he made the mistake to look over at it. His eyes glued onto the syringe, and after a few mere seconds of staring at it, pain flared up in large amounts.

The syringe was empty from the start. Everyone in the crowd could see that Venus isn't injecting anything into him. Venus even mentioned injecting air was dangerous, the Solbinder didn't do anything after piercing him. But despite all of that, the pain he felt seemed so, so real. Suddenly without a warning, the maine coon stumbled back from Venus, the syringe still in his shoulder. What Bucky was feeling was phantom pain- despite how vivid it feels, the symptoms of belladonna weren't actually there. He squeezed his eyes shut as the sunlight suddenly felt sensitive to his eyes, feeling as if he was going to loose balance. As his eyes were closed, it felt like his head was pounding- glimpses of his past flashing before him.

"Everyone knows you did it and that you enjoyed it."
"Bet it was the only thing you knew how to do correctly- eat, sleep, shit, kill, repeat."
A silver kitsune stood before him, syringe in their paw as they jabbed it into his veins. The smile they wore as they injected the poison was malicious- his claws digging into the sand as he began to gasp from the pain. He was told the dosage was small enough that'd he'd survive, and remember not to tell a soul.
And finally, a somali feline with a petrified gaze met his eyes, trying to call out to a brainwashed soldier, and their appearance morphed into the kitsune with the poison filled syringe.

As Bucky opened his eyes, his vision began to get blurry- and this time, that's not the phantom pain. His heart was racing and racing, the male stumbling back as his mind desperately shifted gears. When his vision became clear, his pupils became slits and his expression dropped to nothing. He was no longer thinking like Bucky Barnes- it was almost like someone else was wearing the Warden's face. But the scary part of this, is that it's the same person- but just in a different mode. This side of him, the part that only Levi and Marina know of, is barely a person at all. It's a living breathing machine, or weapon. It's sole purpose is to kill, eat, sleep, and repeat. It doesn't get to make it's own decisions, it doesn't have rights, and if it ever thinks it does- that's a malfunction. The Soldier doesn't even know who Bucky is, it's like Buckingham is forgotten until he's pulled out of this dark, deep hole.

The Asset only looked at Venus for a split of a second, light blue eyes widening at the recognition. The Soldier knows this kitsune, it's seen it before. The Soldier remembered them being a somali cat the first time it went after them, but in other memories, they're that kitsune. They changed bodies, and the Asset is sure it isn't wrong. The somali, it's first target, and the kitsune are the same. Little did the Soldier know, that it's actually mistaking the Solbinder for another kitsune. The Solbinder isn't it's first target, but it didn't stop to think about that. It looked over at the syringe, and without a second going by, ripped it out and shattered it on the ground, eyes locking back on Venus.

That little shit, they dared to harm the Soldier, even after the threats it made to it months ago? Even if the syringe was empty, it knew injecting air was just as dangerous. The Soldier was lucky it managed to back away before Venus could inject the air. It's lips began to curl into a dangerous snarl, ears flattening to it's skull. The Asset knew it has a new handler in this clan, but it couldn't wait for them to order the Asset. This is a former target, who just proved to them that they are just as disloyal here. It can at least, at least jump them, have them ready for death and face any punishments it'll receive for its malfunctions.

Without another thought, the Winter Soldier lunged forward, barreling into the kitsune, pinning them down in the process. The Soldier held one of their paws down with it's flesh right paw, and put it's left metal paw onto their neck- ready to dig it's metal claws into their throat. "Try one more stunt like that and I will override orders to keep you alive," The Soldier hissed menacingly, shutting out the screams from the crowd, tail lashing. The Soldier itched to dig it's metal claws in, his claws twitching against the kitsune's silver fur. "Am I clear?" It questioned as it's eyes narrowed, waiting for Venus's answer that would either keep the Solbinder alive or dead under the Asset's claws.

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