The Death Of Captain America by Larry Hama (epub)
Author:Larry Hama (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-09T04:00:00+00:00
TWENTY-TWO
SOMETIMES you are fully aware you are having a dream, but the wonder of it—or even the sheer terror of it—is so entrancing, you will yourself to keep dreaming and not wake up.
James Buchanan Barnes is having one of those dreams. The years he spent as Winter Soldier have been stripped away, and he is a teenage Bucky again. The blue-and-red uniform feels comfortably familiar on his skin. He is on a mission deep within the Third Reich’s “Fortress Europe” with his best friend, Captain America. They are trudging across a smoking gray landscape of urban rubble that at times looks like St. Lo on D-day, London during the Blitz, and the World Trade Center site after 9/11.
In the dark sky, two fighter planes with swastikas on their tails bank to begin a strafing run. Cap and Bucky dive for cover as streams of bullets plow parallel furrows in the debris-strewn cobbles. In the lee of a shattered church wall, they observe the planes turn to set up for another pass. There are bombs attached to the belly racks. The next attack will be more deadly than a hail of lead.
Captain America points to an opening in the church floor where stairs lead down into darkness. Do they descend to vaulted catacombs? Is this the gate to Hades? Or the beginning of a fantastical trip down the rabbit hole?
Bucky takes the lead, plunging into the unknown. He’s the one carrying the Tommy gun, after all. The dark coalesces into a mine tunnel with rough-hewn timbers. Voices up ahead argue in German. Two soldiers in field gray with coal-scuttle helmets and stamped-metal submachine guns. Silent signals pass between the two heroes. A brief scuffle in the dark, and two Wermacht troopers lie in twisted heaps. The mine walls have somehow morphed to an open leaden sky. Artillery flashes on the horizon. Red tracer rounds flit across a blasted terrain. Bucky follows the glowing bullet stream to a mud-filled crater where a German machine gun stutters prolonged bursts of full-metal death. Captain America leaps into the crater in a red-white-and-blue blur, hammering the machine-gun crew with his shield.
Bucky watches in horror as his friend and mentor lifts the heavy belt-fed weapon from its tripod and turns it on the troops advancing through the haze. Troops wearing olive drab, carrying M1 Garand rifles.
American troops.
“Steve! What are you doing? Those are our guys!”
The face that turns to answer Bucky is distorted with unfamiliar hatred.
“Make way for the master race.”
The muzzle of the machine gun turns toward Bucky, and the tracer rounds seem to float like expanding red balloons before the searing pain of their impact unleashes a scream that goes on and on.
When the screaming stops, the gray sky, the rubble, and the mud-filled crater are gone. Bucky is sagging in the restraints of the containment device. Doctor Faustus is stroking his beard with one hand and fiddling with his monocle with the other. A blonde nurse in green hospital scrubs hovers at his elbow.
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