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What if it wasn't Bucky that fell from the Hydra train that fateful day?
The body those Russian scientists find in the ice is instead America's hero, its fallen son: Steve Rogers. What is required to mold him into their weapon, their cruel joke on the Americans, means breaking him open. They cut and warp and twist and scar his mind beyond recovery, until the creature that is left is a savage assassin to rival the world's best.
What lives inside that body now isn't Steve Rogers and never was.
All that remains is the perfect killing machine, infamous throughout the world: The Winter Soldier.
The body those Russian scientists find in the ice is instead America's hero, its fallen son: Steve Rogers. What is required to mold him into their weapon, their cruel joke on the Americans, means breaking him open. They cut and warp and twist and scar his mind beyond recovery, until the creature that is left is a savage assassin to rival the world's best.
What lives inside that body now isn't Steve Rogers and never was.
All that remains is the perfect killing machine, infamous throughout the world: The Winter Soldier.
