Marvel:Cyber punk

The little girl pulled up the sleeve on her arm.

Bucky then saw the bruises on her slender little arm.

Not only were they purplish-blue, but there were also some that were fading, and some that were pale yellow.

Clearly, the girl's ordeal had not been for just a day or two.

The foster family that took her in obviously didn't genuinely want to care for her; instead, they treated it as a business, taking government subsidies while exploiting and neglecting the children they took in.

That alone would have been tolerable, at least they were keeping people alive, and the adopted children had no choice.

But not only that, they also abused her. Are they even human!?

Waves of anger kept surging into Bucky's head, making him want to rush directly into the girl's foster home and deal with the people who 'cared' for her the same way he dealt with HYDRA soldiers before.

Evil doesn't require superpowers; the girl's experience, such a crime, is not much lighter than a supervillain causing havoc in the streets.

"Let's go, follow me."

"...Hey, you're not trying to take me in, are you?"

The girl actually had a glimmer of hope in her heart. Although this kind person was a bit eccentric and spoke a bit harshly, in her mind, compared to her current situation, how much worse could it get?

"No, actually I'm here to harvest kidneys. I'm going to take you to see goldfish."

Still naive to the world, Bucky felt that the girl was too innocent. Compared to this terrible reality, her little experience was nothing.

"You, can't you speak properly?"

The girl's small face puffed up with anger, but actually, besides the anticipation, she was also a little scared. Not afraid of Bucky; she could feel that this handsome uncle only had goodwill towards her.

She was just afraid of the unknown future.

"How about I give you some money, and you feed the rats yourself?"

"...Alright, I'll trust you this once. You don't look like a bad person either."

"At such a young age, do you want to be a 'face-dog'? Don't you know that faces are the most deceptive? Be careful not to be deceived by scumbags in the future."

Just like that, the big and small bickered their way out of the alley.

"Oh right, I still don't know your name."

"Skye, my name is Skye. What about you, Uncle?"

"Johnny, your name... What did you say your name was?"

Bucky was about to say, your name is a bit strange, when he suddenly froze.

"Skye! Uncle, you need to listen carefully!"

"What's your surname?"

"It's just Skye. I chose it myself. I don't need the name they used to insult me."

"...I see."

Bucky gently stroked the poor little kid's head, but his heart exploded.

Just casually strolling down the street, and he picked up the future Quake, pseudo-World Destroyer, and Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (in some versions). What kind of divine luck did he have?

If only there was an orange legendary chest, opening it now might even yield a golden legend!

"Cool, Uncle, your car is so cool!" The little girl looked at the silver-gray Ford Mustang that Howard had provided for Bucky and couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's alright."

Bucky spent half a day as a street wanderer, taking the little girl Skye to find the car, and along the way, he also processed the fact that he might, perhaps, probably was a lucky emperor.

"Uncle, where is your home?"

"Brooklyn."

"But you're driving towards Manhattan. Where are we going?"

"Hospital."

Bucky had been thinking, and couldn't help but fall silent.

"Why are we going to the hospital?"

"To harvest kidneys."

"Can't you say something nice? Don't you feel bad treating a child like this?"

"I have no conscience. Conscience only hinders my kidney harvesting speed."

"Do you believe me if I jump out of the car?"

"Alright, we're going to the hospital to see a doctor, of course."

"Are you sick?"

"Uh-huh, my brain has been stimulated recently, and I just suffered from amnesia."

Bickering with the little girl along the way, he also learned a bit about her situation.

Skye is only 7 years old this year and has been transferred from the orphanage to a foster home for a year.

However, if we consider the MCU, Skye's first appearance was after "Iron Man 3," at which point she should have been in her twenties?

This current Skye would be in her early thirties by that time.

But the world he traversed into wouldn't be a perfectly standard MCU timeline; at least, Skye never appeared in the movies.

Sharon Carter, whom he had met before, is 15 this year, but by "Captain America 2," she would be 39. Of course, with good upkeep and natural beauty, she wouldn't look much different from the one in the movie.

In short, a slight discrepancy isn't that strange.

However, if this little girl really is Skye, the super hacker who hacked S.H.I.E.L.D.'s servers with a laptop, the Inhuman Quake...

In his memory, Skye was originally named Daisy Johnson. Her father was the supervillain Dr. Hyde, and her mother was Jessica, the leader of the Inhumans on Earth. The family lived in a small town in the East.

Not long after Jessica gave birth to Skye, she was captured by HYDRA, subjected to cruel experiments, and then her body was discarded.

But her Inhuman ability was to absorb life force. Her father, Dr. Hyde, couldn't bear for his wife to die like that, so he actually let Jessica absorb the villagers' life force. Jessica was thus resurrected, and her powers went out of control. Dr. Hyde had no choice but to inject a special serum, turning into a muscular brute, subduing Jessica, and taking Skye away.

Then, for her own good, her father entrusted her to a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, who then sent Skye to an orphanage and continued to monitor her until an unfortunate accident during a mission.

Originally, for this little girl with a tragic past, Bucky's planned placement method was to hand her over to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Let S.H.I.E.L.D. take her in, enroll her in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, and then become an agent, since that's what she would have been anyway.

Although it's a bit strange that the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is not paying attention to Skye now, it's probably a timeline issue.

In short, entrusting Skye to S.H.I.E.L.D., allowing a powerful organization like S.H.I.E.L.D. to deal with that foster family, would also ensure Skye's proper placement, which is not a bad idea.

But since he now knew this was Skye.

Bucky had some new ideas.

Manhattan.

Hospital.

Of course, it was still the same one where he last saw the doctor and met his sisters-in-law.

And it was still the same corridor, Bucky and little girl Skye sat on chairs.

He had already spoken with Howard on the phone and was now waiting for the assigned S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to arrive.

Skye and Bucky had grown accustomed to bickering along the way. Looking at this place, which was different from a regular hospital, she couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, where is this? You're not really going to harvest my kidneys, are you?"

"Yes, go buy some snacks to replenish yourself beforehand. Oh, don't buy the D-3 ones, they tend to get stuck."

Bucky handed Skye a few coins, and the little girl scurried off to buy snacks.

He could tell that the little girl was still very uneasy. In truth, children just don't think too much, otherwise, she wouldn't have followed him so easily, but she definitely still lacked a sense of security.

But this couldn't be changed in a short while. An abused puppy takes time to let down its guard after being brought home, let alone a human.

Click, click, click...

Just as Bucky was thinking about how to make the little girl further lower her guard, the hurried sound of high heels approached.

The cold, Asian face Bucky had seen before came into view...

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