[Comprehensive British and American] The life of the villain and the body of the hero

"I'm sorry." He watched the light in the other person's eyes slowly dim.

Ouroboros was silent for a moment and then said, "I plan to go back to the Avengers. What are you going to do after that?"

"Got it?" Bucky raised an eyebrow.

What he knew about the Winchester brothers touched Xiao Snake, who began to relearn to trust others.Intellectually, this is a good start.Ouroboros might have a chance to become a normal person, a good person.

But he couldn't, his whole life was completely destroyed, leaving no room for it.

Following Ouroboros will only make the other party fall into pain again. In the bloody endless cycle, he will drag the little snake down, and he will destroy the normal future that the other party has finally had in an instant.

No, no, Ouroboros...Jim deserves better.

"I want you to join the Avengers too. You know, that's the best way to deal with Hydra. The Avengers have the intel, logistics, and Hydra's focus. Even if we don't go to them , Those damned guys will jump out by themselves." The little snake curled up and smiled, "Waiting for the prey to come, how about it?"

Ouroboros' offer is tempting, but it won't work.Barnes might have been able to join the Avengers without hesitation, but the Winter Soldier couldn't.Not to mention how he should treat Steve, just the fact that he killed Iron Man's parents...Once it is exposed, Stark will not let it go, and this will only make it harder for Steve and the snake. Do.

Bucky shook his head, he changed the subject and said, "The milk pudding you promised?"

"Oh, that's right, Coulson promised to lend me the kitchen of the base." Ouroboros sensed Bucky's resistance, and changed the subject graciously.His tone was relaxed, and he couldn't tell that he was rejected just now.

He hasn't despaired yet, after all, Bucky doesn't love the US team, which at least shows that he still has a chance.If Bucky really loves Captain America wholeheartedly, then there's really nothing he can do.

That night, it wasn't just Bucky who ate the milk pudding he had been longing for.Everyone in S.H.I.E.L.D. New S.H.I.E.L.D. was given two slippery, watery milky white gels - rich in milky flavor, cool and palatable.

"You have a talent for making desserts." After eating, Coulson licked his spoon and said, "If you don't plan to be a superhero sometime, you can open a dessert shop."

"When I graduated from college, I came here with this idea. I bought a store in New York, and I even looked for a house and asked the price of the equipment. I earned part of it when I was working in college, and my adoptive father was also willing. Part of the investment... I plan to keep two cats in it." Ouroboros said softly, his emerald green eyes seem to have the shadow of that store.

"But then I went to join the army, and I happened to pass by the conscription office that day, and someone stopped me—and gave me a leaflet." He remembered every detail of that day, including the angle at which the sun was shining on the ground, and just now The whitewashed recruiting station smelled of paint, and there was the sound of handing out leaflets, the cry of babies and the comfort of women.

What he heard most clearly was the conversation between the veteran and a young man, the boy dressed in punk asked nonchalantly: How do you feel about going to the battlefield?Cool or not?The old soldier rolled his eyes and said swearing: Cool you bastard!That's bloody bad, and the worst things of my life caught up there.

Then the veteran said, "But one thing's for sure, you're going to be different when you come back. I don't know if it's better or worse. I'm just saying... if you're lucky, boy, if you So lucky that even God favors you... Maybe you will find the rest of your life there, and you will see what you really want."

It's hard to say if that sentence touched him, or if he longed for adventure and to be a hero.Become a war hero without being a superhero.

So, he called the landlord and returned the store he was looking for before, he deleted all the equipment in the shopping basket of the online store, he returned the money to Bruce and Clark, and he filled out the registration form——

The old soldier was right, he came back in a completely different form, but his soul, the part that belonged to James Layton, was lost forever on the battlefields of the Middle East.

Sometimes, such as at this moment, he would also wonder if he hadn't passed by the conscription office, heard that sentence, and signed up to join the army... Would he have opened a family in New York and raised two children? The cat's dessert shop, the customers who are familiar with him will call him "Mr. Leighton", and one day the person he likes will push the door of the dessert shop.

Like every ordinary New Yorker, he would follow the people to escape in the ruins of New York when the Chitauri army invaded the earth.Sparks with the smell of gunpowder exploded above his head, and screams of panic were everywhere.

Perhaps he will also meet the Avengers, not as comrades in arms, but as protected masses.

No longer will someone say firmly in the communicator, "Little snake, do you still have the strength? I will cover you!", but someone will stand in front of him and say politely and formally: "Sir, how are you? Get out of here!"

He would learn on TV that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been infiltrated by Hydra, and he'd just lazily woke up, making sweet strawberry jam, thinking about the old school reunion next week, thinking What is the Hydra?

When the various casualties caused by the apocalypse came, he would just shrug his shoulders and lament the impermanence of fate and the hardships of life.

He married, he had children, he settled in New York, drove to work, sent the kids to school, went to summer camp, barbecued and fished with his co-workers.He would go back to visit Bruce and Clark from time to time, until one day Bruce died of old age...

No one knew that the old man lying on the bed without making a sound was Batman, and no one knew that the grieving man holding his hand tightly by the bed and crumpling the dead body in his arms was Superman.

Bruce is dead, Clark will never be seen again, and no one knows where they went.In a few years, the little Leightons will grow up and have their own lives.And he will hand over the dessert shop to one of the children, and he will enjoy a leisurely retirement life.Until one night after drinking a glass of wine, he might think of the Northern Lights outside the Fortress of Solitude for a moment, the man with the mask and the metal arm, and another life he missed.

Full of pain and suffering, but so exciting, such a thrilling life...

"...I'm just saying...if you're lucky, boy, if you're lucky enough that even God favors you...maybe you'll find the rest of your life there, and you'll see what you really want." The old soldier's words echoed intermittently in his ears, and Ouroboros suddenly laughed, so much that Coulson couldn't figure it out.

Oh look at me, look at me!He smiled and realized something, something he had always ignored before.

He's the Avenger, he protects and saves the world, he's Ouroboros.Everything in the past made him, not a dessert shop owner, not a middle-class husband and father, but himself.

a hero.

"I'm planning to go back to the Avengers, I guess Tony hasn't packed up my things so quickly and threw them out." Ouroboros said lightly, and he waved his hands helplessly to Coulson.

Coulson took the pudding that Skye saved from his own share with a smile, and said calmly: "If Stark really kicks you out, you can come to my place. Just for this unique skill of making pudding, I must stay with you too."

Ouroboros stroked his chin and asked suddenly, "Did you know that Tony has a sweet tooth? If I make him a pudding, how likely is it that he decides to keep me, uh, as a cook?"

"Very likely." Coulson thought for a moment before nodding decisively.

Come on, that's Tony, I'm Wayward Stark!

Ouroboros called the friends of the Avengers to report.Firstly, he informed Tianqi that the matter had been resolved; secondly, he vaguely mentioned that he wanted to come back; thirdly, he decisively sold Coulson.

Regarding the first point, the answer given by Captain America is that they will continue to follow up on the follow-up matters, lest the angels and demons make any troubles, but they don't know anything about it.

On the second point, the whole Avengers expressed a warm welcome.Of course Tony muttered twice, but was immediately pushed away by the excited Hawkeye.

"Hey, little snake, don't pay attention to him. He lets the robot clean your floor every day!" Hawkeye said mercilessly.Tony's faint roar came from the phone: "Fat Chirp, you're dead! How dare you snatch my phone! Besides, I didn't leave a place for the snake. I cleaned it up and got ready for the next occupant." !"

Duplicity, typical Tony Stark.Or maybe every billionaire superhero is like that.

"Well, Hawkeye, there is one more thing..." Ouroboros rolled his eyes and said cautiously.

"Say something, little snake."

"Coulson is still alive, I saw him. He is now the director of the new S.H.I.E.L.D., hehe, yes, I support you to kill Fury. In fact, we dealt with the apocalypse together... Hey, there are still people in Do you listen?"

Well, that's the answer to the third point - Hawkeye came straight to the door.

Of course, Ouroboros didn't sell out the S.H.I.E.L.D. stronghold, after all, it was a secret.The less people know about this place, the safer Coulson and the others will be. He still has this point.He just found a reason to lure Coulson out, and then sent the address of the cafe to Hawkeye who came by plane.

Coulson froze when he saw Hawkeye approaching aggressively.

"James Layton!" Coulson rarely glared at someone so viciously, "I remember you!"

"You can't lie to us all the time, especially to Clinton, God knows how much he hurts for you. No, Chuck doesn't necessarily know... I'll give you the space." Ouroboros stepped aside kindly and left.

He didn't know what Hawkeye had talked to Coulson that day in the cafe.Ouroboros only knew that Fat Chirp came out with a red face, as if he had just seen the Virgin Mary appear in front of him, no, maybe it was better than that.

As a result of this incident, Hawkeye's identity has undergone a subtle change.

Once he and Natasha were both senior agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but S.H.I.E.L.D. was completely infiltrated by Hydra, and then Fury ran away, and S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed.So they joined the Avengers completely, and officially cut off contact with S.H.I.E.L.D.With Tony, a big capitalist, in charge, and a good enough reputation (they are heroes who saved New York City and drove away the aliens), those congressmen dare not come and make too much noise.

Now, Hawkeye volunteered to return to the new S.H.I.E.L.D.He was willing to work for Coulson and was determined to stand by him.

"You have to discuss this matter with the captain and Iron Man, no, you have to discuss it with the entire Avengers." After learning about it, Ouroboros frowned and said, "If they don't allow you..."

"I can't put Phil in danger, little snake. He's already died once, and I don't want to do it again, especially if it happens somewhere I can't see and I don't know." Hawkeye said firmly : "The new S.H.I.E.L.D. has a lot of enemies, and they have few hands. Phil needs me, more than the Avengers."

"If the captain does not allow me to stay in the Avengers League with such a standpoint, I... will leave by myself."

Fortunately, even though they knew that pro-S.H.I.E.L.D. would cause a lot of trouble, the Avengers still held a meeting and passed the Hawkeye matter.There was nothing they could do to stop Clinton from helping a close friend, which in fact was the right thing to do.They also couldn't give up comrades like Hawkeye, so they decided to make Hawkeye the same as before, while retaining two identities.

"They agreed because it was Coulson." Hawkeye laughed after hearing the news, "They believed in Coulson."