A mission goes wrong and Bucky saves everyone, getting them out of danger and starting to fly them home, before he finally collapses, due to the severity of his injuries. When he wakes up in the Avengers medical unit, he's no longer the Bucky they all know. He has regressed to the Winter Soldier but with a caveat. The programming he remembers is that he protects the Avengers, and their families. Set several years after FATWS, this story uses MCU characters alongside original characters in an original plot. Marvel / Disney owns all MCU characters. Their use in this work is for entertainment purposes only and the author does not claim to own the characters. The author does claim ownership of the original characters and the plot. Please do not copy and paste into any other platform or run it through an AI story generator or translator.