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For the second time in a short sequence, Bucky knew he had fucked up.
Their assault on the Sentry (or Bob) hadn’t been going well and he had decided to resort to desperate measures. Unfortunately for him, Sentry had deflected the rays of the shrink ray right back at him just as he had done with the bullets. And then it had been easy for their enemy to send Bucky flying into the air with just one flick of his finger. Luckily (or perhaps unluckily), just before he lost consciousness, someone on the team had managed to catch him in their hand.
“So I grabbed this.” Ava said once they had all retreated outside of the building. She was holding up Bucky’s now tiny metal arm. “Where’s the rest of him?”
As he blearily regained consciousness, Bucky realized that he was currently being held on to by Walker and the man didn’t seem keen on sharing that he had Bucky in his possession. This was evident in the fact that he had Bucky hidden behind his back and he was pretending to be oblivious about the other super soldiers' whereabouts. Bucky had a bad feeling about what was happening.
“Walker, anything you want to share?” It was lucky for him however that Yelena zeroed in on Walker.
“What are you looking at me for? I don’t know where he is.” Walker gestured with one hand.
He didn’t do a very good job of seeming convincing because Ava immediately ordered him to show both of his hands.
Walker gave an irritated sigh but complied, showing that he had had Bucky with him the entire time.
“And you were going to do what with him?” Yelena frowned.
“Pay back the favor he did earlier obviously.” John said, confirming Bucky’s suspicions.
“What if I wanted in on that action?” Ava demanded. “Why do you think you’re the only one pissed about that?”
“Well, he started with me, I think it’s only fair if I get dibs.” Walker retorted a little childishly.
Yelena watched them bicker back and forth with an incredulous look on her face. She pushed herself between them, saying: “Are you two crazy? We have bigger things to worry about! Just give him to me, Walker.” She held out her hand.
“No way!” His grip on Bucky tightened as he held the shrunken super soldier over her head. “Don’t even try it.” he cautioned Alexei who looked like he was going to intervene on behalf of his daughter.
“If you haven’t done it before, you’re just going to make yourself sick.” Bucky finally piped up. He wasn’t used to being in the position of prey before. He was always the predator and honestly it didn’t feel good to have people fighting over wanting to eat you.
“I’ll risk it.” Walker said dismissively, opening his mouth wide to drop Bucky in.
“Don’t you dare!” Yelena snapped.
“Asshole,” Ava muttered.
Walker was determined though, hurriedly jamming Bucky into his mouth. But as expected, he couldn’t get the very alive wriggling human down his throat. Or at least not at first. Bucky had expected (or had hoped) that Walker would come to his senses and spit him out. That didn’t happen though.
Only having one arm made it hard for him to try and grip anything, especially with how wet and slippery it was in John’s mouth, and Walker’s tongue was quick to push and shove him at every given opportunity. After what seemed like an agonizingly long time, Walker finally managed to swallow him.
The sensation was new to him, being squeezed in a tight tube, sliding down into a dark wet space. Now Bucky knew what it was like to be in his prey’s shoes. And he wasn’t sure he liked it.
“I- I did it.” Walker gasped, sounding like he couldn’t believe it.
“Dammit, Walker!” Yelena swore.
“So Bucky was lying when he said you’d make yourself sick?” Ava wondered curiously. “What does it feel like?”
Walker’s stomach clenched around Bucky tightly, a telltale sign that something wasn’t right. “Walker, you good out there?” he asked, just as he heard the others go “oh shit,”, “that isn’t good,” and “Walker, are you okay?”
Soon Bucky found himself back in the outside world, lying in a pile of bile while Walker hovered over him, looking poorly.
“I don’t know how you managed with all of us. That was awful.” Walker wheezed.
“You get used to it.” Bucky shrugged.
“Are you okay? Can you unshrink yourself?” Yelena crouched by the two of them.
Bucky nodded.
“I still can’t believe you ate him.” Yelena smacked Walker.
“Yeah, that was really stupid.” Ava mocked.
“Stupid? You were going to do it too!” Walker accused.
“But I didn’t.”
“You were going to!”
Bucky sighed. He needed a shower.