Skirmish at the Brass Monkey Saloon

The Skirmish at the Brass Monkey Saloon was a confrontation between the Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson and the criminals of Madripoor, planned by Baron Zemo as a part of their investigation of the Flag Smashers.
==Background==
The Global Repatriation Council was founded to restore the world's borders and relocate people after the Blip. However, the GRC's actions were not approved by a significant portion of the population, including Karli Morgenthau who founded the Flag Smashers movement, intending to bring the society back to the post-Snap state. Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers stole the Super Soldier Serum variant created by Wilfred Nagel which granted them enhanced abilities.
Falcon and the Winter Soldier made it their top priority to stop the Flag Smashers, who managed to escape from them in Munich. Desperate for any leads to the Flag Smashers, Barnes made a decision to enlist Helmut Zemo for help, as he had an information about HYDRA's secret operations and could have known where did they get the serum. Barnes and Wilson got Zemo out of the Berlin Correctional Facility, and found out them that they need to gather information in the international criminal underworld and their first target was Selby in Madripoor.
==Skirmish==
Baron Zemo brought Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes to Madripoor, having Wilson to disguise as the Smiling Tiger to avoid any suspicion from the locals. At the Brass Monkey Saloon, Zemo tried to get any information about how to get in touch with Selby, before one of the goons approached them, telling them that they were not welcomed here. Noticing more Power Broker's henchmen gathering around them, Zemo ordered Barnes to attack, so Barnes unleashed his Winter Soldier brutality to take them down. Barnes brutally beat up all the henchmen with his bionic arm but other criminals at the saloon prepared their guns, so Zemo ordered Barnes to stop to avoid the entire bar going against them. The bartender then contacted Selby and she agreed to meet with Zemo and Wilson.
Zemo, Wilson and Barnes then had an audience with Selby at her office where Zemo asked her about the Flag Smashers and where did they get the Super Soldier Serum. After Zemo promised to give her Barnes with the control code, Selby revealed that the serum was recreated by Wilfred Nagel who was recruited by the Power Broker but the Flag Smashers stole the serum. However, their cover was blown, when Wilson was called by his sister, so Selby ordered her men to kill them but she was murdered by a sudden sniper shot.
The entirety of Madripoor was alerted to Selby's death and a bounty was placed on the heads of Zemo, Wilson, and Barnes who were assumed as killers. Fighting through the bounty hunters, the three were approached by Sharon Carter who killed several mercenaries and saved them. Carter explained to Wilson and Barnes how she fled to Madripoor after escaping the United States of America and agreed to help them find Nagel, after Wilson promised to get her an official pardon from the government.
==Aftermath==
With Sharon Carter's help, Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes and Baron Zemo tracked Wilfred Nagel's secret laboratory at Buccaneer Bay. Nagel explained to them how he was recruited by both HYDRA and CIA to recreate the Super Soldier Serum, using Isaiah Bradley's blood samples before he vanished because of the Snap. After re-emerging from the Blip five years later, Nagel was recruited by the Power Broker who provided him with a necessary resources to complete the serum, however, it was stolen by Karli Morgenthau.
Eventually, the bounty hunters caught onto them and blasted the laboratory with an RPG, while Zemo used an opportunity to kill Nagel and prevent the serum from being recreated ever again. After a gunfight, Zemo, Wilson, Barnes, and Carter took down the mercenaries and headed to Riga to find the Flag Smashers, although Carter preferred to stay in Madripoor.
==References==
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