Ive just had the stupidest crossover au idea known to man.
So we know the winter soldier was sent into various wars over the years. Stupid stupid stupid au where he gets injured on the front line in Korea and by some slip up confusion in the chaos he ends up taken by helicopter to the nearest medical unit. The 4077th.
Halfway through Hawkeye prying out shrapnel, the man's wounds start to heal on their own, and fuck, maybe Hawkeyes a little too drunk to operate right now because he must be seeing things. A man's chest doesnt just stitch itself up on the operating table. What the fuck.
So of course they keep him for observation. Frank most definitely has a shitfit about it when he finds out, and absolutely doesnt believe Hawkeye that the guy just healed on his own. Frank demanding x-rays for the mistery patient, because surely there has to be an injury somewhere. The man came to the table more shrapnel than human.
The images are....confusing, at best. The soldiers body was a myriad of injuries and trauma, bones broken and healed over, bullets permanently healed between muscles. Each abuse taken and healed over and never once questioned. The worst of all is the mass of scar tissue on the soldiers shoulder, and the mechanical weapon attached to it, drilled into the mans very bones and twisting his spine under the weight. No one knows what to make of this mystery soldier but they know they can't send him back where he came.
Even Hawkeye finds it hard to joke about the situation. Hes seen shell shock, and this is something else entirely. There's something empty in the soldiers gaze, like hes been carved open and dumped out. The only time the soldier seems to relax is, strangely enough, around Radar, of all people.
Frank tries to get information out of him. To understand who he was or who he worked for, who hurt him and who built that arm of his, but he never answers.
Radar is the one who realizes. Of course he is. He takes one good look at the winter soldiers face and- yeah, he knows that face. Thats Captain America's buddy. Radar offhandedly mentioning this to Henry who goes "yeah yeah caps buddy's on our operating table ok" before he thinks about it for a moment longer and OH Fuck thats Sergeant James Goddamn Barnes.
The first question is, of course, how the fuck is he alive didnt he die in the war, and the second is, naturally What Do We Do With Him.
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