Lynn doesn't speak

"That's all."

He leaned against a rusty iron door, listening attentively, as if he was quietly waiting for something.

The drops of water dripping from the connection of the pipes hit the ground, accompanied by the echo of the beating of the heels, which was infinitely magnified by this completely enclosed space, making the noise just like the little man’s alarm clock at the head of the bed when he was a child and would start beating drums at dawn. .

Ten seconds left.

Counting the steps in my heart, I stopped unexpectedly after 25 sounds.He was still sitting in the shadow of the light, neither moving nor looking up.

"Lynn Morris"

Someone stood in front of the iron fence and called, with obvious regret and pity in his voice.As if the aloof ruler was looking at a dog that was about to drown, the ending sound drew a mocking arc in the air.

"Since you joined, I seem to have been emphasizing a problem with you."

The visitor smiled lightly: "Loyalty."

"My loyalty has always been there."

The surroundings became quiet, and in this silence, every change in the sound of breathing became clearly audible.He moved his fingers slightly, and after a long silence, he finally spoke, but he was so weak that he seemed to die in the next second: "Never...never changed."

— but not to you.

"Then, now is the time to verify it."

It's never possible to know what he added in his heart, the visitor was very satisfied with Lynn's uttered answer:

"If you make it to the end, I'll let you see the Winter Soldier one last time."

The sound of the iron door being pushed open was deafening, and the cold metal pierced into the skin, as if even the blood was frozen for a moment.

"Chop off one head, and two will grow back. I hope you can be as tenacious, Lynn—"

Those were the last words he heard before his consciousness faded.

"—hailhydra"

# # #

"... Lynn? Lynn Morris?"

The shout from the clouds was like sunlight, waking him up from his deep sleep.Lynn opened his eyes suddenly, and the damp prison with the smell of moss quietly faded away from his eyes, replaced by a pair of blue eyes full of worry and concern.

Well, he is quite familiar with this person.

"cap?"

The voice still sounded a little fuzzy.Lynn shook his shield and found that he was now paralyzed on Steve's knees, looking up at Captain America's long-lost face from the bottom up, as well as the steel behind the sofa who was looking towards this side with his feet on his feet. Xia: "Did I fall asleep again?"

He remembered that Tony called Steve to Stark Tower early this morning, and had an in-depth discussion on the recent new discoveries. The president's father also played the captain the video of them going to the abandoned factory that night.And Lynn himself has been very tired since he returned to the shield, so he endured sleepiness on the sofa and listened to him for a while, and even took the initiative to stuff himself into Steve's arms in order not to fall asleep halfway, hoping Use external forces to wake up a little bit.

...However, it seems that he still underestimated the comfort level of the captain's chest muscles in the end.

Really, more hypnotic than Tony's rambling.

"God, I woke you up just before the cap came, and it turned out like this in the blink of an eye."

Waving his hand, Jarvis tuned out Lynn's brainwave real-time monitoring. Tony's eyes kept cruising on the line of wavelengths, and his brows frowned involuntarily: "Aside from being sleepy, can I feel anything else? Headache? Dizziness? Nausea? Vomiting?"

"...Do you expect me to spit something out, Zhenjin?"

Feeling Steve gently tapping the five-pointed star on the shield, as gentle as stroking a milk cat that hasn't grown up, Lynn couldn't help but yawned again: "Seriously, don't try to rescue it again." If so, I feel like I can sleep until the next century."

"That's not a pleasant experience, believe me." The expression became more and more worried, Steve stood up from the sofa, looked at President Stark, who was still in a bad mood, and shook Lynn: "He Has it been like this lately?"

"Most of the time." Tony took the shield from the captain: "I think it should be the sequelae after using the ability, and the spirit is recovering by itself, but this is too outrageous...Can you believe it, cap, I have God, even if Xiao Dai is tossing him around the house like a Frisbee, he won’t even know!!”

Lynn: ...

Steve:  …

Tony: ...shit, I slipped my tongue.

The scene was once very embarrassing, and it was about to lose control.

"Thank you so much." Lin En's sinister voice was like a ghost crawling out of hell: "I know now."

——So, why did you say it so loudly when you did something bad.

Wiping his face very sadly, Steve took a silent step back.

And in the next second, the shield Tony was carrying suddenly flew out of his hand, and pia hard on the handsome face of the president's father. There was a sound of 'dong', which sounded like pain.

Can't see, can't see.

It's really miserable.

"So, there's really nothing we can do, is there?"

Ten minutes later, Steve is sitting on the couch, risking his life holding his still-imposing shield while Tony slumps across from them clutching an ice pack.Behind him was a little robot who was diligently cleaning up the mess, but was threatened by the president's father to donate it to the university.

Raising his hand to Lynn to signal a truce, Tony thought about it for a while, and said firmly: "Yes."

"...I don't want to hear this." Obviously choked, Steve frowned slightly, his face a little ugly.

"I don't want to either, but it's a thing."

Shrugging his shoulders, he felt that the pain on his face had almost completely disappeared.The president's father put down the ice pack in his hand and rolled his eyes toward the ceiling: "However, 'we' can't help it, it doesn't mean that others can't either-remember the professor that SHIELD told you about, Captain?"

"You mean, mutants?"

With a bit of a mouthful to say the new term, Steve sat up straight.At the same time, he tapped on the shield to remind Lynn not to fall asleep.

"...Thank you, I'm awake." Lin En was poked with a finger without warning, and almost slapped Steve's face directly, but soon realized that it was the captain's kindness, and he couldn't do it.

"So, has that professor returned to New York?" Ignoring him, the captain's attention has obviously been drawn by Iron Man: "Can you contact him?"

"You should call Coulson directly for this kind of thing, he will hug your thigh and cry and shout to get everything done."

Although he said so, his body was very honest and Jarvis called the agent.Tony crossed his legs, the old god was nestling into the sofa, and covered his ears with Steve's puzzled gaze.

Facts have proved that this is a very wise decision.

"Oh my God, Stark is you again!!!"

The moment the phone was connected, Coulson's roar of collapse instantly resounded throughout the living room.Shocked by this terrifying sound wave, Steve subconsciously squeezed Lynn tightly in his hands, and sat on the sofa with a dazed expression.

"What are you going to do this time!! And I have obviously changed the channel, why are you still able to dial in!!"

"Is it difficult to decipher the S.H.I.E.L.D. channel? I never think so." He spread his hands out of interest, and Tony rolled his eyes again: "Also, don't be so excited, or you'll regret it later."

"I will never regret it." He set a flag for himself casually, and Coulson answered firmly.Until he heard the voice of Captain America from the headset:

"...Uh, it's me." Steve is a little embarrassed now, especially when he finds that the other end of the communication is dead all of a sudden: "I asked Stark to contact you... Excuse me?"

"No...no, absolutely not."

After being silent for a long while, he finally recovered his voice. Coulson's tone was a little weak now: "Captain, what's the matter?"

"I want you to help me contact that professor." Steve replied, "Lynn's situation is very bad now, and I need his help."

"...I just slept a little bit more, captain." After An Jing put on the shield for a long time, Lynn finally couldn't help it: "Can you stop talking like I'm dying."

"If the situation continues to deteriorate, it will be no different from death."

Throwing the ice pack into the captain's arms, Tony snorted, "Press this on his head, cap...don't think I don't know you're sleepy again."

Coulson on the other end of the channel disappeared after the captain spoke, probably to ask SHIELD to transfer the call.The two waited idly for a while with a shield, until Tony couldn't help but want to pull Xiao Dai over to dismantle the motherboard to play with, the agent's voice finally sounded again.

"The professor is in New York, and he's happy to help you, Captain."

The tone was obviously a little confused, and Coulson paused: "However, he asked to talk to you in person."

Ok?

No one expected that Professor X would reply in this way. Lynn and the others were stunned for a while, and then they heard Jarvis's metallic voice resounding in the room: "A stranger's communication request, sir. Do you want me to answer it for you?"

"Come in." Tony waved his hand and let the AI ​​release the virtual screen: "By the way, hang up the one in front."

"..."

The poor agent was busy for a while, and was thrown in the face by the busy tone without even saying a word of thanks.At the same time, the image of Professor X slowly appeared on the screen displayed by Jarvis.

It was a person who, once met once, would never be forgotten again.

"Nice to meet you, Captain Rogers."

With a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, Professor X nodded slightly towards Steve.After receiving the same gift in return, his eyes fell on the shield in his hand that was as quiet as a chicken:

"Lynn Morris?"

"...It's me." For some reason, the shield began to tremble slightly.Lynn knew that he was not familiar with the famous mutant leader in front of him, but he did not reject it.

So, without waiting for Steve to introduce, he had already opened his mouth.

The corners of the mouth deepened a bit. Professor X looked at the shield that had been repainted in red, blue and white, and seemed to be able to see what kind of soul was inside it through the hard appearance.

"I'll have someone pick you up to my school. Everyone here is looking forward to meeting you."

Even the corners of his eyes seemed to be filled with smiles.Charles blinked with pleasure, like a child about to unwrap a long-awaited present:

"I have to say, even though you don't remember anything now, I'm still very happy—"

"Long time no see, Lynn."