Graveyard Memories (Avengers)

In Avengers (Earth's Mightiest Heroes): "Graveyard Memories" we see the roleplayed debut of the Winter-Soldier aka. Bucky Barnes, the villainous Demolition-Man, and Bruce Banner's new love interest Monica Rappaccini. Set on July Sixth, 1983, the Avengers had returned home from their mission at the Raft and continued their regular-day activities. Captain-America encounters the soviet sniper Winter-Soldier who apparently is out to kill him, Iron Man helps Bruce Banner by playing wingman while also dealing with Demolition Man and his crew, Donald Blake (Thor) deals with Damage Control, and Black-Widow pays a visit to an old pal. Held and written by Stavroforos and Moldust, logged by Moldust.

The Story
Logged by Moldust (Captain America) and Stavroforos (Iron-Man)

While out on patrol stopping petty crimes, Captain America takes a break on a rooftop to view the scenery. He's still fairly new to this new world and is still finding out new things daily. He begins sketching what he sees in his notebook. He gets done drawing, and as soon as he turns around he sees a gun aimed at him. He pulls his shield up just in time to block the shot. It appears that an assassin has been hired to kill him.

The two get into a brawl, and Cap soon realizes that this isn't any ordinary assassin. He's got a bionic arm with a soviet star on it, is highly skilled in combat, probably enough to match his own skill, and is anticipating Cap's movements before he's even doing it, similar to Taskmaster in a way. While the assassin is knocked on the ground, Cap takes the opportunity to hurl his shield directly at him. However, with insane speed, the assassin catches the shield with his bionic arm, the first time Cap's ever seen this happen. The two continue fighting, however the assassin soon realizes he isn't going to win this brawl and he ditches the fight by jumping off of the roof and completely vanishing out of sight. We switch focus over to Stark Tower where Tony Stark currently resides day-drinking with his pal / pet-project Dr. Bruce Banner. Falcon enters after a rough patrol and Tony, drunk off his ass, leaves the room to go pass out on his front balcony. Bruce and Sam talk a bit regarding Tony's 'well-being' as this is a typical day for him. Back with Steve; Steve returns to the mansion and begins doing some thinking. Hank comes up to him and Steve tells him about his encounter and the assassin. Hank tells Steve that he should try luring him in later that night and that Hank would watch on a surveillance ant to investigate more. Steve is doubtful that this trained assassin would strike twice, however he goes along with it. Soon that night, Tony is woken by Bruce who informs Tony he has to run out. Due to his bad lying skills, Tony is quick to get to the truth. Bruce has a dinner-date at Red Lobster. Tony is excited to hear the news and is quick to help his nerdy-friend by first taking him to his private laboratory we've seen in the previous roleplays in his office. While going there, Tony is stopped by his Chief Secretary Pepper Potts who's mad at him for missing a press-conference revolving the new StarkTech power-grid they are donating to the city. While the two bicker, Pepper overhears the news about Bruce's date and informs him to just be himself and not like Tony. At all. She emphasizes how important it is to not be like Tony.

After Pepper leaves, Tony and Bruce enter his private lab where Tony helps Bruce dress-up for his date with a fine suit. Since Bruce and Tony share a similar height, it roughly fits. After some talking and some advice, Tony suggests that the date is important for Bruce believing that Hulk has been coming out more recently due to his lack of sexual-interactions leading to some pent-up frustration. Bruce is quick to deny this claim but agrees with Tony deep-down. The two then go to the basement where Bruce goes to get in his volvo, Tony takes this as offense and forces Bruce to drive his Ferrari to the date being the typical show-off Tony is. Arriving to the date, Tony takes an unreserved seat meeting with a fine model last-minute. His seat is near Bruce's so he can play wingman and listen-in; ontop of this, Tony and Bruce share earbuds to talk to eachother. Bruce's date shows to Tony's amazement, the beautiful Monica Rappaccini. Bruce and the girl begin to hit it off with Tony's advice, Bruce begins to cheer up as he had been sad lately as he had feelings towards his team-mate Black Widow.

Speaking of Black-Widow, earlier in the day we find Hawkeye patrolling the streets of Queens. Unlike Natasha, he decided to remain a freelance mercenary / vigilante rather then joining S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers. Widow hops in last-minute to Clint's fight lending him a hand, the two then talk. Clint is reluctant to her and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s offer of joining 'the big-leagues' as his focus was on the little guy and he believed he could handle things better alone. Widow then lends a hand interrogating the last conscious thug and the scene ends. Now swapping back over to the date, a few cars are heard zooming by on the street catching the two's attention. Tony eases Bruce telling him he can handle it alone and to focus on his date, and Tony then takes his date to the bathroom only to knock her out and leave through the back-door in his Iron Man armor he kept in his suitcase.

In the same night, Cap is leaping across the rooftops of New York City, anxiously waiting for the assassin to Strike. However, while waiting, he sees Stark Tower (which is down the street from his location) suddenly explode (on one of their floors not the entire building of course). As soon as this happens, Cap notices a red laser being pointed at his head, and quickly brings his shield up to barely avoid the sniper's shot. Without a doubt, it's the assassin again and Cap then sees him down the street on another rooftop.

Attempting to close the distance, Cap begins rushing towards his location, and surprisingly to Cap, the assassin does the same. They meet on the same building as the assassin grapples down to him with a dropkick. Cap blocks the hit but is knocked down. The two then begin fighting again and Cap still can't seem to get any answers out of him. During the fight, the assassin takes off his eye mask as it was getting in the way. Suddenly, something feels off to Cap, almost like he was forgetting something but couldn't put his finger on it. The two continue fighting and the assassin gets the upper hand, pinning Cap down on the roof, attempting to stab him. Coming to the rescue, Hank increases his size and tackles the assassin off of him, but in doing so, is knocked off the roof. As Cap rushes to the edge of the roof, worried about Hank, he turns back to see the man taking off the mask covering the majority of his face. As soon as the mask drops, so does Steve's jaw. The thing that he couldn't remember finally clicked. "Bucky?" Cap says, seeing his World War II sidekick in front of him, in complete disbelief. "Who the hell is Bucky?" Is the only response he gets, coldly. As he is frozen in shock, a helicopter flies over to the building they are on and without warning, Bucky leaps off the roof and into the helicopter. The helicopter then flies away before he has time to react.

As they fly away, Bucky gets a message on his communication systems.

Aftermath
"Did you get him?"

"No, but they'll be paranoid from now on."

"Good work."

"Thank you, Zemo."