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[frostythehitman]

JAMES (BUCKY) BARNES

Hey, this is James. Text me if you need me. Or leave me a message if you want, but I'm probably not going to listen to it because, seriously, this is 2017 and no one uses voicemail any more.

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[frostythehitman]

What have you heard

[ He thought that when he snuck out of the house to get help, he had dodged any prying eyes. He certainly hadn't noticed any suspicious glances. But apparently there's been some gossip anyway. ]

[usurpers]

that you casually became an amputee
look I just want to make sure you're alright

[frostythehitman]

[ Ah, so someone on Officer's Row must've overheard the commotion at the Barnes home last night and spilled the beans. Great.

Not like he would've been able to keep it secret for long anyway. ]

I lost an arm overnight how do you think I am

[usurpers]

wanting to kick rectrospec through the teeth

[frostythehitman]

That's not enough for them
I want to rip their arms right off their bodies see how they feel about it

[usurpers]

[ if there was one thing eren hated doing, it was saying "i'm sorry". not because of his heart of stone, everyone knew that eren was more emotionally directed than anything. it was because sorry didn't change anything, sorry didn't make people feel better, and pity was less than the last thing some people needed. sorry felt like something you'd use to clog up empty space. ]

i told someone this last month and i still believe it
if they have the power to give, then they can take back what they did
we just need to figure out how

[frostythehitman]

What makes you think we can make them do anything
The b******* can just rip our bodies apart the second we get too uppity
Are you willing to lose an arm too

[usurpers]

im willing to fight, and I know what that means
if you don’t fight, you’ll never win

[frostythehitman]

[ Spoken like a true military man. Of course. James knows he's right, and he feels ashamed for ever saying otherwise. He knows that under normal circumstances, he would be saying the same thing too. He's certainly been doing so nonstop ever since he joined the app.

But these aren't normal circumstances, and right now the loss of his arm has him feeling completely powerless. ]

What's the point in fighting when you know there's no chance of winning

[usurpers]

[ it’s something he can’t quite explain— but it’s the strongest sense of self he’s ever gotten when faced with questions like these. it bubbles up inside him, and it gives him power. he feels like he can do anything. he can lose an arm, and a leg, and he could still point up to the sky and say i’m not stopping here. ]

the only time you lose is when you accept it, james
as long as you’re still on your feet, there’s still a chance
so get up

[frostythehitman]

[ God damn it, Eren. How much of a motivational speaker can you possibly BE? ]

Alright fine
How do you plan on fighting it then

[usurpers]

[ ]

[usurpers]

learning everything we can about retrospec first
that hq is completely rigged but there’s no such thing as a perfect defense

[frostythehitman]

It's getting inside that's the hard part
I know my way around the inside once I'm in it's just getting through the doors that's like impossible

[usurpers]

how much have you seen of the inside?
even if you do get in all the rooms are locked
i took titan with me in there last month for days and he didn't pick up a thing

[frostythehitman]

Yeah everything's usually locked in there
But I spent all of August running around their basement
I know basically all the rooms and equipment down there

[usurpers]

what kind of equipment? does anyone have blueprints?

[frostythehitman]

No blueprints no maps
I have photos of a bunch of the basement rooms and crap but nothing more than that

[usurpers]

that’s enough
if you can send them to me later i’d appreciate it
plus that new album you’re working on

[ you thought he forgot, son

he did not ]

1/2

[frostythehitman]

Oh the album's already done
Or it'll have to be now since I can't finish it with one arm

Hang on I'll send you the photos

[frostythehitman]

[ and after a few minutes of double, triple checking his photos... ]

Damn it
They f****** changed all my photos
All the timestamps are still there but now they're just selfies
I don't even take that many selfies

[usurpers]

what do you mean you cant finish it with one arm

[ HES HOLDING YOU TO THAT SIR but after james gets back to him . . . gd it ]

god damn it
they hack our phones now too?

[frostythehitman]

You may not have realized this but you need two hands to play guitar
And in case you forgot I only have one


Yeah they hack us
We already knew they were monitoring everything we say on our phones even outside the app
So I guess it's no big surprise they can alter anything we have on them too

[usurpers]

great

[ he’ll figure this . . . retrospec shit out. time to do some digging later. ]

so that’s it
dude don’t give me that
the biggest fuck you you can give is playing anyway
there are people that lose both arms and play with their feet better than some people do with hands and you’re saying you can’t do it with one?
bullshit

[frostythehitman]

F*** you

*fuck you
what do you know about what i can or can't do
you've still got both arms
you have no idea what this is like