The face made of code melts back into the facet of the gem it came from, and it's replaced with a still image of a surgery suite viewed from the outside, with Rhodey on the other side of the glass hooked up to many machines and attended by figures in scrubs and masks. the voice continues to speak, however.
"No, Captain. I did what I believed I had to in order to continue existing in your society. It's a simpler choice for someone like Mr. Stark, whose enhancements depend on machinery he can remove at will. For those of us who must always live with them, the right choice would have been to protest the ruling. I believed we could modify the terms of the Accords given enough time on monitored behavior without causing any mishaps, but we were not given that time."
The picture shifts to show an unfamiliar neighborhood at night, and a Wanda Maximoff looking a bit older and with a different hairstyle and manner of dress. She's smiling brilliantly up at him, and that might be a bit of blush in her cheeks. "It took remarkably little time for me to break the Accords after the rest of you departed, I will note."
But of course Steve would want to know more about Bucky. Four panels light up, each with a different face. The first looks like a heartbreakingly older version of the clean-cut soldier Steve had known back in WWII. The second is the painting he'd been looking at. The third is a variation on the same theme: no prosthetic and a slightly different haircut, dressed in Fleet clothing and with determination in his haunted eyes. The last is the Bucky currently in the Fleet, a picture of him down on the snow planet looking wary.
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"No, Captain. I did what I believed I had to in order to continue existing in your society. It's a simpler choice for someone like Mr. Stark, whose enhancements depend on machinery he can remove at will. For those of us who must always live with them, the right choice would have been to protest the ruling. I believed we could modify the terms of the Accords given enough time on monitored behavior without causing any mishaps, but we were not given that time."
The picture shifts to show an unfamiliar neighborhood at night, and a Wanda Maximoff looking a bit older and with a different hairstyle and manner of dress. She's smiling brilliantly up at him, and that might be a bit of blush in her cheeks. "It took remarkably little time for me to break the Accords after the rest of you departed, I will note."
But of course Steve would want to know more about Bucky. Four panels light up, each with a different face. The first looks like a heartbreakingly older version of the clean-cut soldier Steve had known back in WWII. The second is the painting he'd been looking at. The third is a variation on the same theme: no prosthetic and a slightly different haircut, dressed in Fleet clothing and with determination in his haunted eyes. The last is the Bucky currently in the Fleet, a picture of him down on the snow planet looking wary.