Second Sphere

Fall into form

Bucky grabs the hand, twisting hard forcing him to back up. Shooting a last look at Zemo before twisting the man around and clotheslining him to the ground.

"You too, angel of carnage." Zemo tells me and I step into the fray.

Bucky and I end up back to back and deal with the onslaught. Playing off of each other. If he has too many, he kicks one towards me and I do the rest. We work efficiently. Snapping bones, and doing what we have to. Zemo continues to throw more people towards us, to take down.

I can hear Zemo behind us, "Didn't take much for them to fall back into form. Impressive isn't it? A perfect pair, designed for destruction."

Bucky pins a man by the throat onto the counter when the sound of guns cocking can be heard all around us. I spread my wings out to cover Zemo, protecting him.

Sam puts a hand on Bucky but Zemo warns him, "Stay in character or the whole bar turns on us." He turns to Bucky in Russian , "Well done, soldier."

"Selby will see you now." The bartender says.

"Thank you." Zemo says.

Bucky let's go of the mans throat and he slides to the ground, groaning.

I kick him to the side as we walk past.

"You good?" Sam asks Bucky.

Bucky exhales sharply and gives a brief nod.

"You should know Baron. People don't just come into my bar and make demands." Selby calls out as we walk in.

"Not a demand. An offer." Zemo corrects sitting down.

"A lot has changed since you were here last." She eyes Bucky and myself who stand side by side. "By the way, I thought you were rotting away in a German prison. How did you escape?"

"People like us always find a way, don't we?" Zemo says smoothly. "I'm sure you've already figured out what I'm here for."

"You're taller than id heard smiling tiger." Selby points to Sam. She purrs at him, "tell us what you know about the super-soldier serum. And I give you him and her." Zemo walks up to Bucky. "Along with the code words to control them, of course." Zemo stokes Bucky's chin. "He will do anything you want. And she." Zemo moves onto me his hands sliding down the back and sides of my wings before resting on my cheek tilting my head up to look at him. Uncomfortably close. "She is not only lovely but wonderfully obedient. Just as skilled as him. They are truly the perfect pair." His hands go back to playing with the feathers on the edge of my wing, "Designed for one another. It would be a shame to separate the set."

Internally I am seething, and I know Bucky is the same. I would love nothing more than to break each one of Zemo's fingers one at a time.

"Now that's the Zemo I remember. I'm glad I decided not to kill you immediately." Selby says clearly enchanted by the offer. Zemo sits back down as Selby continues. "Yeah, you were right to come to me. Arrogant, but right. The super soldier serum is here in Madripoor. Dr. Wilfred Nagel is the man you wanna thank. Or condemn, depending on what side of this you're on. The power broker had him working on the serum but things didn't go as planned."

"Is Nagel still in Madripoor?" Zemo asks.

"Oh. The bread crumbs you can have for free but the bakery is gonna cost you, Baron. And before you get all cute, don't think you can find Nagel without me." Selby starts to walk around as Sam's phone vibrates.

"Answer it." Selby commands. "On speaker."