The first one to break the silence was surprisingly The God of Thunder himself
"So... he is here... does that mean our search is over?"
This snaps everybody back to reality
Stark is unarmed and has a very conflicted expression on his face. There he was, his parents murderer, right in front of him, and he cant do a damn thing. He was hoping to find him, and kill him using of 'protecting' civilians as an excuse, civilians that would definitely be around the Winter Solider when they find him.
Steve Rogers on the other hand has never been so happy. He rushed towards him "Bucky! Bucky!! Its me Steve, do you remember me!"
"Why does he have a pink ribbon on his head?" Rodhes asks the question everybody is thinking about
"It appears that our wizard friend likes to joke" Thor
Read the note again" Rodhes asks Banner who was holding the note
[One 'Bucky on Ice' for a 'Mr. Flying TinCan and a Mr. Capsickle' and their Merry Gang, found him in a Hydra Prison with gay inmates, don't believe a word he says, whatever sanity he had was lost in the prison bathrooms
P.S. Here he is, you owe me again, and we will set off for Asgard at the arranged time
P.P.S. Someone buy Thor a phone and teach him how to use it.]
"Do you think he was serious about the gay stuff?"
The rest give the look on Rodhes, you can tell by their faces that they are asking: 'Are you serious right now?'
"What... It was solid question" Rodhes shrugs his shoulders
"Why would i need a cell phone?" Thor asks confused
" " "Sighhh" " " the whole group sighed, while Thor and Sif were confused
"We will explain later, now lets focus on him. Hey, Barnes, if you don't answer you will be put in an extremely bad situation. Hey, anybody in there. Why isn't he talking?" Rodhes snaps his fingers a few times in front of his face
"It's no use, his mind is gone, he won't respond to you the way he is now" Sif stops him
"There must be a way to reverse this, the notes they have the phrases to command him. Aren't there any phrases that can turn him back. And it said that he is capable of communication, but he clearly isn't talking. Why?" Steve asks
"I have looked through the notes, and there are only commands that order him to do something, there isn't anything written on how to get him back to the way he was. I need him in the medical room to do some scans on him, hopefully they will show more information about his.. 'condition'" Banner says solemnly
"Okay then, you will brake him out of the ice while Sif and I restrain him " Thor goes to the block of Ice, and shoves his arm in grabbing his right arm. Sif does the same and grabs his cybernetic arm.
Only to have it shatter in her hand, the cybernetic arm was completely frozen to the core.
She quickly pulls her hand back, and looks at the rest "His arm is completely frozen, he won't be able to move it anyway" she proceeds to break the rest of the cube while Thor holds him, once free Bucky still didn't even try to move
"Why isn't he moving" Steve asks
Banner goes closer to check on him " He has severe Hypothermia! But his face didn't show any of the signs, which should be impossible. Get him in the med bay before he dies"
Steve grabs him and carries him to the med bay. Stark looks at them leaving and goes to his office to think.
A few minutes later after Banner managed to warm him up, did the medical scan, and started telling everyone about the results
"Okay the results are very weird" Banner scratches his head, clearly irritated
"Weird How?"
"He had severe Hypothermia from the ice, but i can fix that, the problem is his thoughts are frozen, that's impossible, but the brain scan doesn't lie."
"Are you saying the wizard froze his brain?" Steve gets a little aggressive
"No that's just it, his brain is fine, the head wasn't frozen at all, but his thoughts somehow are, he might have used some sort of spell to accomplish this, but i have no idea how it would work, i have absolutely no knowledge about magic" Banner says while shaking his head
The group turns to Thor and Sif, Thor raises his arms "Don't look at me, i didn't study magic, that was Loki's specialty, ask Sif she studied some magic"
Sif just sighs " There are spells that can accomplish this, but this is the first time i have seen it done this way, he used Ice Magic to do this. How? I have no idea, we would have to go and ask him that question"
"That should be pretty simple, he is currently destroying Hydra Bases we can either keep an eye our for any sightings of him and go there, or just go to a Hydra base and wait for him to show up there" Steve 'the ever optimist' gives some suggestions
" Steve if you want to do it than go ahead, but I'm done here. There is nothing left for me to do, the fight is over, I'm going to take Nat's advice and go somewhere to relax and calm down. I wish the rest of you good luck in your future endeavors" Banner drops the mic and starts leaving
" You're going to leave.. just like that" Steve asks him
"Just like that, I think I deserve this much" Banner asks looking over his shoulder
"... Then I hope you find happiness, its been an honor fighting with you, we may need you when Thanos eventually attack's, but until then, have a good time, i guess.."
"..Yeah thanks" then he says goodbye to everyone, and leaves Avenger tower
Word Count 997
A/N The Hulk is retiring to go and relax on a tropical island, leaving a ticking time bomb (Cap and Stark) for the rest to handle