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    With a snap of his fingers, Thanos eliminates half of the universe's population. Steve Rogers is among one of the many that disappears into dust, and with it, Bucky Barnes loses the only bit of family he has left in the modern world. Dealing with the aftermath, Bucky struggles to make amends for his sins as the Winter Soldier and find a will to live in a world that wants nothing to do with him.

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    After more than two months of unimaginable torment, Bucky doesn’t know if he will be able to go through this again. He doesn’t know if he can heal from it. He doesn’t know how to find his way back to the person he loves, or how to stop feeling like he’s failing the people who never gave up on him.

    But one thing Bucky knows with certainty: this time, he won’t let Hydra get away with what they did. This time, they will pay.

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    They've faced enemies, betrayal, and the ghosts of who they used to be. Together, Bucky Barnes and Natasha Romanoff have always found a way to survive.

    But survival looks different this time.

    What starts as a simple mission ends with Bucky collapsing and a diagnosis no one can explain. He's stable-until he's not. The man who's fought through decades of pain is suddenly trapped in a hospital bed with no clear way out. And Natasha? She's forced to watch the strongest person she knows fade, piece by piece.

    Bruce searches for causes. Natasha searches for answers. And Bucky drifts between memories and reality, between fighting and surrendering.

    This isn't a battle of bullets or blades. It's the slow unraveling of control-and the quiet, terrifying wait to see what's left when everything else is stripped away.

    But if there's one truth they've never let go of, it's this: they don't leave each other behind.

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    13 Feb 2026

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    Hydra’s assets are not meant to survive failure. They were trained to obey. To endure. To complete the mission.
    For Hydra’s STRIKE teams, that’s supposed to be enough−until a Siberian operation goes catastrophically wrong. Two Winter Soldiers flee into the cold, and conditioning begins to unravel.
    As programming decays and withdrawal sets in, obedience begins to feel wrong−and survival starts to look like defection.

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    Two Winter Soldiers escape a failed mission in Siberia and discover that freedom hurts more than obedience ever did.

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    05 Jan 2026

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    You had been Nick Fury's right hand for your whole life, and you were fine with that. Your duty was to help people- one mission at a time.

    Then everything went to shit. After an encounter with a masked soldier with a metal arm leaving you barely breathing, you left. Ready to put the violence, the pain, and the unrequited justice- all behind you.

    But things never could be normal again... guilt and grief around every corner, and the worst part was that you had no purpose now. Nothing to make all the pain worth it.

    That was until Steve Rogers showed up at your door, asking for your help with one more mission. What he failed to mention was the reason why you left in the first place, The Winter Soldier, was a part of it, too.

    CURRENT TIMELINE:
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    CATWS: 2-11
    BETWEEN CATWS AND CIVIL WAR: 11-30
    CIVIL WAR: 31-40
    BETWEEN CIVIL WAR AND INFINITY WAR: 41-60
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    BETWEEN CIVIL WAR AND INFINITY WAR: you are here

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