In the burning Hydra factory, Bucky Barnes steps onto the creaking girder, flames roaring far below. Steve Rogers waits, steadying himself, as Bucky navigates the unstable beam. At the midpoint, the truss buckles, sagging dangerously. Bucky sprints, reaching the far side just as the girder collapses into the fiery chasm, leaving Steve stranded.

Bucky scans the surroundings, desperate. “Gotta be a rope or something!”

“Just go! Get out of here!” Steve shouts, his voice firm.

“No! Not without you!” Bucky yells back.

Steve grips the catwalk railing, bending it aside with his enhanced strength. He backs against the far wall, takes a deep breath, and charges forward, launching himself across the fiery gap in an impossible leap. A burst of flames engulfs the scene as he soars toward Bucky.

Colonel Phillips’ is now in his command tent back in Italy, where he hunches over a typewriter, his face grim. “Senator Brandt, I regret to report that Captain Steven G. Rogers went missing behind enemy lines on the third. Aerial reconnaissance…”