This part is more or less standard operating procedure. SOP is usually the trainee submits and/or loses consciousness. If they're valuable, if the Asset has standing orders not to kill, then this is the part where he drops them. If he doesn't, he keeps squeezing until life functions cease and he moves onto the next candidate worth his time.
Rogers is far too valuable for that.
His metal fingers suddenly release the man's abused throat, dropping him unceremoniously on the floor in a heap. It's a familiar position. Countless others have found themselves where Rogers is, coughing and wheezing, and the Winter Soldier towering over them in a tall, silent shadow who doesn't look pleased or pissed or anything in between. He stands there with a squared, unworried stance, arms loose at his sides, staring down at HYDRA's greatest enemy and maybe for a moment, for a split second, he wonders if he can do it. If the years of conditioning and programming are enough to break HYDRA's worst nightmare.
"Get up. You're a soldier, so stand at attention."
To further drive in the point, the Winter Soldier reaches down in an easy gesture, undoes the his thigh holster's release with a click of metal against the leather clasps. Rogers might find the idea of his advanced healing struggling around a bullet lodged in the meat of his thigh particularly motivating. He knows it was for him, in some distance fog without a time or date. The same might (should) apply to another super soldier.
There are definitely times where accelerated healing is more trouble than it's worth...especially when it's trying to repair muscle and knit skin over a bullet.
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Rogers is far too valuable for that.
His metal fingers suddenly release the man's abused throat, dropping him unceremoniously on the floor in a heap. It's a familiar position. Countless others have found themselves where Rogers is, coughing and wheezing, and the Winter Soldier towering over them in a tall, silent shadow who doesn't look pleased or pissed or anything in between. He stands there with a squared, unworried stance, arms loose at his sides, staring down at HYDRA's greatest enemy and maybe for a moment, for a split second, he wonders if he can do it. If the years of conditioning and programming are enough to break HYDRA's worst nightmare.
"Get up. You're a soldier, so stand at attention."
To further drive in the point, the Winter Soldier reaches down in an easy gesture, undoes the his thigh holster's release with a click of metal against the leather clasps. Rogers might find the idea of his advanced healing struggling around a bullet lodged in the meat of his thigh particularly motivating. He knows it was for him, in some distance fog without a time or date. The same might (should) apply to another super soldier.
There are definitely times where accelerated healing is more trouble than it's worth...especially when it's trying to repair muscle and knit skin over a bullet.