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Hello friends, and welcome to your weekly Sunday discussion post! Just a reminder, first, that we have a separate thread here for discussion of Captain Marvel. I haven't seen it yet because of a stupid back injury, so this week's topic will be CM-free.

In Avengers: Infinity War, Rocket offers to buy Bucky's metal arm. When Bucky says it's not for sale, Rocket swears to himself, "Oh, I'll get that arm."

If Bucky hadn't been "snapped" at the end of the movie, would Rocket have gotten the arm? How would he have done it? Do you think Bucky will come back in Avengers: End Game? And if he does, will Rocket get the arm then?

Discuss!

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"Oh for fuck's SAKE!" echoed down the corridors from the lockers level of the Avengers' upstate headquarters. A moment later Bucky marched into the lounge, dripping and wearing nothing but a towel.

Natasha looked up from pouring cereal and raised an eyebrow. "You know, you're --"

"Wet," Gamora supplied, not looking particularly upset about it.

"Disarmed," Steve said with a perfectly straight face, and Bucky gave him a look that could have stripped paint off the wall.

"Where is that fucking trash panda?" This was leveled at Gamora in particular; she just shrugged. "Okay, you know what? Never mind. Three times is three times too many, and this time Stark got back to me on the useful little modification I asked for. Let's see if it works."

He flexed the fingers of his other hand and stood staring at the wall for a minute, during which time nothing appeared to change (aside from a slowly spreading pool of water from the wet hair straggling over his shoulders and dripping down his back).

"Uh, Buck --" Steve began.

"Shut up, I'm focusing."

There was a series of distant thumps and yelps, getting louder. Gamora touched a hand to Godslayer's hilt. Natasha poured milk into her cereal in perfect unconcern.

A moment later, Rocket was dragged into the lounge, thrashing and yelling. Bucky's metal arm had its thumb hooked through his belt and was dragging him along the floor with the other four fingers, while Rocket yelped curses in twelve languages in between yelling variations on "What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck?"

In the middle of this, Okoye walked into the lounge with T'Challa at her heels, stopped, took this in, then turned around and pushed her king back into the hallway ahead of her. "We are having breakfast elsewhere this morning, your highness," her firm voice trailed back.

The arm came to a stop at Bucky's bare feet. He bent down to retrieve it with a polite, "Thank you."

"What," Rocket gasped, flat on his back on the floor, "the actual fuck."

"I thought about putting glue in your shampoo," Bucky remarked, rotating the arm and stretching out his fingers. "But this was more fun."

Edited 2019-03-10 21:05 (UTC)

LOOOOOL I am delighted. I guess next time Rocket will try to de-activate the thing first; I wonder if he'll succeed. I have to say, though, glue in Rocket's shampoo would be a special kind of torment...

Haha, thank you. :D Yeah, this may only cause things to escalate; I'm sure Rocket is even more interested to get a look at the inner workings of the thing now.