Seeing Gracie’s broadcast is what propels Steve towards the Commissary that night. He isn’t anywhere near the Commissary, so he misses a lot — including who dealt the first blow. But given what he’d seen on video, Steve doesn’t suspect that it was a Special.
When he gets to the Wagon Wheel, the elevators are slowed to a crawl as Alpha citizens are desperately trying to leave the 15th floor. Stairs. But there’s plenty of people in the stairwells too, all filing down and Steve can barely make any headway pushing against the human tide. At one point, he gives up taking the actual stairs and launches himself into the empty space between the railings and looks up. The crowd is thinner at the top. There’s a moment where he considers the consequences of what he’s about to do, but at the same time, Steve knows that showing this kind of physical capability could be chalked up to discipline and training — and not that he has his strength back.
Alright. With one more glance upwards, Steve positions his feet in sturdy nooks before he swings his arms back for momentum and jumps up to the next floor, hands gripping the metal bars tight as he pulls himself upward. One down, fourteen more floors to go. Around when he gets to floor eight however, he doesn’t have to jump anymore. Most of the Alphas are on the lower floors and whoever is still coming down from the Commissary doesn’t block his way up the stairs.
It’s when he finally pushes open the door to Floor 15 however, that Steve really takes in the chaos that’s erupted here. There are more Specials than he’d hoped, but each one is fighting his or her own battle — and winning, more often than not, against the masked A.S.S. members with pipes in their hands. Immediately, he begins to escort what remaining civilians are still around off the floor, protecting who he can in the process.
Only half a minute goes by before he spots Tony in the distance, suit-less, looking like he just landed a punch on someone and has taken a few of his own. It’s not that Steve expects Tony to have re-built one of his suits here — he knows that’s not possible in the short term — but seeing Tony fight without one worries him in a way that Steve couldn’t have predicted. Maybe it’s because of what’s going on between them now, but his heart suddenly feels so-
He doesn’t have time to figure the rest of it out. Whoever Tony just punched has a pipe around his neck and is using it to choke him.
When Steve survey’s his surroundings, it’s done quickly and with tactical precision. He sees a glass bottle one table down from him just as he sees an incoming plastic try aimed straight for his head. So Steve ducks, jumps and tumbles, all in one continuous motion to avoid the pipe, to grab the bottle, and to roll himself back up into standing position on top of the table so he can get a clearer shot.
The force at which he throws the bottle — straight for the head of Tony’s captor — is controlled, but just barely. In the end, despite how much he wants to hurt someone for hurting Tony, Steve is still only willing to injure, not kill.
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When he gets to the Wagon Wheel, the elevators are slowed to a crawl as Alpha citizens are desperately trying to leave the 15th floor. Stairs. But there’s plenty of people in the stairwells too, all filing down and Steve can barely make any headway pushing against the human tide. At one point, he gives up taking the actual stairs and launches himself into the empty space between the railings and looks up. The crowd is thinner at the top. There’s a moment where he considers the consequences of what he’s about to do, but at the same time, Steve knows that showing this kind of physical capability could be chalked up to discipline and training — and not that he has his strength back.
Alright. With one more glance upwards, Steve positions his feet in sturdy nooks before he swings his arms back for momentum and jumps up to the next floor, hands gripping the metal bars tight as he pulls himself upward. One down, fourteen more floors to go. Around when he gets to floor eight however, he doesn’t have to jump anymore. Most of the Alphas are on the lower floors and whoever is still coming down from the Commissary doesn’t block his way up the stairs.
It’s when he finally pushes open the door to Floor 15 however, that Steve really takes in the chaos that’s erupted here. There are more Specials than he’d hoped, but each one is fighting his or her own battle — and winning, more often than not, against the masked A.S.S. members with pipes in their hands. Immediately, he begins to escort what remaining civilians are still around off the floor, protecting who he can in the process.
Only half a minute goes by before he spots Tony in the distance, suit-less, looking like he just landed a punch on someone and has taken a few of his own. It’s not that Steve expects Tony to have re-built one of his suits here — he knows that’s not possible in the short term — but seeing Tony fight without one worries him in a way that Steve couldn’t have predicted. Maybe it’s because of what’s going on between them now, but his heart suddenly feels so-
He doesn’t have time to figure the rest of it out. Whoever Tony just punched has a pipe around his neck and is using it to choke him.
When Steve survey’s his surroundings, it’s done quickly and with tactical precision. He sees a glass bottle one table down from him just as he sees an incoming plastic try aimed straight for his head. So Steve ducks, jumps and tumbles, all in one continuous motion to avoid the pipe, to grab the bottle, and to roll himself back up into standing position on top of the table so he can get a clearer shot.
The force at which he throws the bottle — straight for the head of Tony’s captor — is controlled, but just barely. In the end, despite how much he wants to hurt someone for hurting Tony, Steve is still only willing to injure, not kill.