Massacre at the Hotel Inessa

The Massacre at the Hotel Inessa was a mission in which Winter Soldier was dispatched to Hotel Inessa to eliminate a target.
==Background==
Bucky Barnes was a member of the Howling Commandos, a special military team led by Captain America during World War II, until he was injured and presumed dead during a mission in 1945. Arnim Zola, leading the terrorist organization HYDRA, recovered Barnes as they began infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. and brainwashed him. Barnes was transformed into the master assassin known as the Winter Soldier, with HYDRA using him to further their agenda. For decades, Barnes would be frozen in cryostasis, being thawed out to complete HYDRA missions.Captain America: The Winter Soldier One such mission that he was assigned was to sneak into Hotel Inessa and assassinate a target, as well as any witnesses to the murder.The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: 1.01: New World Order
==Massacre==
Winter Soldier snuck into the hotel, which was being surveilled by numerous guards. Barnes used his titanium arm to grab a guard through a wall, pulling him into the wall and alerting everyone to his presence. Winter Soldier then jumped through the wall, kicking another guard, and throwing a knife at a third, which killed him. Two more guards shot at Winter Soldier from the stairs, but he avoided the shots and killed them with his own gun, spraying them with bullets. Barnes leapt down onto the stairs, landing on one guard and shooting another with his pistol.
Winter Soldier used a throwing knife to kill the final guard, before grabbing his target by the neck and forcing him through a door into another room, strangling him. Winter Soldier spoke the HYDRA motto, "Hail HYDRA", before crushing the man's neck with his prosthetic arm. Winter Soldier became aware of a man, RJ Nakajima, who had witnessed the attack and was trying to use his key to escape the locked room, though his hands were trembling so much that he could not get the key in the lock. Winter Soldier walked up to the man, who pleaded he be spared, promising not to speak of the incident. Despite his pleas, Winter Soldier mercilessly shot the man in the head to eliminate witnesses, before escaping the hotel.
==Aftermath==
RJ Nakajima's father, Yori Nakajima, was heartbroken by his son's death, never truly recovering from the incident. When he asked the police how it happened, they could not tell him, as Barnes had killed any witnesses to the murder. The police said that RJ was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, though Nakajima did not believe that was the case. Leah, a waitress at a restaurant Nakajima frequented, believed that the hardest part of the loss for Nakajima was not knowing how it happened. 
Years later in 2024, Barnes, in an attempt to make amends for his acts as the Winter Soldier, later befriended Yori Nakajima, intending to one day reveal the truth to him. However, he hesitated at Yori's doorstep, choosing not to reveal the truth upon seeing a memorial to RJ inside Yori's apartment. Following Sam Wilson's advice, Barnes later sat down with Nakajima and told him what happened. This upset Nakajima, although he was able to get closure. Barnes used this as his way of making amends with the rest of the people on his list of people he needed to make amends with.
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