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Prologue:
An Unknown Hydra base - somewhere in Russia
Darkness. Then, bright, blinding lights as someone pulls you harshly from where you’re curled up into the fetal position in the corner of your dark and dingy cell. They dragged you along the dark and dirty hallway, You were too weak to walk. They took you down several flights of steps, and more halls and corridors before You finally reach the last hallway, which seemed almost darker and more sinister than the rest if that was even possible. At the very end, was a large door, metal and barricaded. One of the men holding you knocked and the door was opened slowly, and You were pulled in and the door shut behind you.
Fear seized you as they pushed you into an examination chair. Metal restraints that were connected to the chair clicked on your arms, holding you down as You began to struggle, crying out for help. A bright light was clicked on above you and you squinted to see in the brightness.
“My, my, what a fighter she is, she’s just what we need for the new project” a man’s voice said. He approached you, a large syringe in his hand. Your eyes widen in fear, and You struggled against your restraints with no avail.
“Struggling will do you no good darling” He said as he approached you slowly, “Just relax” He said before plunging the needle into your arm and You cry out in pain and shock before the world goes dark, the last thing you see is the man grinning at you.
The next several times you woke up you were injected with lots of different drugs, and every once and awhile they took you upstairs and wiped you, and put you in cyro for a while. But then they brought you out of it and You went under more drugs and experiments. Little did you know that soon you be saved
and a certain super soldier/assassin would steal your heart, healing what’d been broken in the process.
Your P.O.V.
You opened your eyes to find yourself alone in the same dark and dingy room they’d brought you in the first place, only this time the metal restraints that were usually on your arms were undone, the door was left partially open, and you were alone. They NEVER left you alone, there was always someone there, guarding and watching you. You slowly pushed yourself up and stood on weak legs, clumsily taking a step forward and almost falling, catching yourself on the chair. Your foot hit something metal and you found needles, scalpels and other medical tools strewn on the floor. You sat down on your knees, looking around dazed at the room, there was only one light, flickering and flashing, setting your nerves on edge.
“What’s going on? Where is everyone? Is this a trap? Okay, okay, breathe... just. Breathe.” Your thoughts raced through your mind, what could’ve happened that you were left alone, abandoned, not that you weren’t already alone… But from what you could remember, you’d always been closely and heavily guarded. Lost in thought, You almost don’t hear footsteps, quiet and almost non-existent in the empty hallway. Your head snaps up, thoughts racing.
“Were they coming back for you? Were they coming to put you through hell again?” You slowly reach for something to defend yourself, coming up with a glass syringe and You want to grab something else but there’s no time and you quickly hide it behind your person. A man in a red uniform with a weird-looking metal helmet entered.
“Everything’s all clear down here” He said before his eyes settled on you, half hidden in the darkness. “Wait, I found a test subject, female, do not engage” You slowly stand, your faded cloth gown you were given when you’d first arrived here falling past your knees, the sleeves baggy and drooping past your hands. You shiver, only now realizing how thin the material was and how cold you were. The man slowly approached you, holding out his hands as if to show he wasn’t a threat, but you knew better.
“Hey, it’s okay… I’m not going to hurt you” He said, taking off his helmet, still slowly edging towards you. He reached for your arm and You shriek, startling him and throw the syringe at him, which smashes over his head and one of the pieces cuts his cheek. You quickly make a run for it as he cries out in pain. Your bare feet echo along the damp, empty, graphited walls, the lights still flashing erratically. Your eyes are everywhere, scanning for an exit, anything for you to escape. You glance back to find the man had disappeared, he wasn’t even following you. You frown, this seemed odd to you, but you ignored it and kept going.
You turn and there’s a dead end, only a barred window with all the glass punched out. You turn to go back and stop suddenly when a woman in red, with long brown hair appears before you, her eyes glowing red along with red wisps dancing across her fingertips. You stop, startled and back away slowly, now how were you going to escape?
“It’s okay… We’re not going to hurt, we are here to help” She said, her accent thick and unfamiliar. She approached, the red wisps swirling and dancing madly across her fingers, it was a bit unnerving. You slowly backed away until you hit the wall, the cold stone making you shiver in your thin gown.
“No… please no” You whisper, frightened beyond belief as she neared, the man from before magically appearing behind her and approaching you as well.
“If you just-” She started to speak, but was cut off as the red from her eyes disappeared and she slumped to the ground, holding a hand to her head, the other reaching for the wall to steady herself. “Oh…” She whispered, breathing heavily, closing her eyes as if she was trying to block out some unknown pain.
“Scarlet…” the man from before said, rushing forward, but she waved him off, refusing to be touched.
“Guys, Scarlet Witch is down, I’m going to need backup” He said to the air and you frown, what on earth? In a desperate attempt to save yourself or get help, you turn and scream through the smashed window, gripping the metal bars.
“Help! Someone help me please!” You scream, turning and looking at the man who was still slowly approaching you. You push your body into the corner as close as possible to it, as if you were trying to blend in with the wall. Sliding to the floor you curl into the fetal position,
“If you just-” The man said reaching for you and you pull back away even more, if that was even possible.
“Nononono, please no, do-don’t touch me PLEASE… don’t” You whisper, gripping the cloth of your thin gown in your hands, trembling in fear. You couldn’t handle being touched right now, you just couldn’t. The man stopped and pulled away, kneeling on the floor, still looking at you. He started talking to the air again.
“Guys, she’s pretty freaked out, she won’t let me touch her and I think she’d still under some heavy drugs” He said looking closely at you. Suddenly, a red, green, and yellow thing with a cape appeared next to the red woman, kneeling beside her.
“Wanda, what happened?” He asked, with an accent as well, but different than the girl, more crisp and clear than hers.
“I-I saw, I looked into her mind” She said and You frown, what was going on? The weird looking man glanced at you before getting up and approaching you. You tense and pull back, making yourself as small as possible.
“Vision, don’t…” the other man said
“But how else are we supposed to sedate her?” He replied and You froze.
“Sedate? Nononononono…. Not again” you refused to be put under drugs again, you wanted to know what was going on. You freak out and surge forward, avoiding the two men’s grasps as they’re cut off from their discussion. You begin to run down the hallway, ignoring the yelling and the pounding footsteps. You stop in the middle of a hallway with four different ways to go, You were lost. You turned and found the weird colored man following you, carrying the woman calmly with almost no emotion.
You can hear pounding footsteps in the distance and you tense, You couldn’t be taken again, you refused to be put under and their empty promises to not hurt you were just lies to get you to go with them quietly and without a fuss. You turn away from both of the approaching parties and run down a hallway with a lone light fixture. You could hear the pounding behind you getting closer and closer, and You try to run faster and faster but it seems like You weren’t getting anywhere.
Suddenly, someone grabbed your arm and you scream, trying to escape their grip, crying out and putting up a fight, which was getting you nowhere. A needle came into your line of vision and You scream again, and then you’re back in the dark metal room with the evil doctor and his many needles and drugs, you’re caught between reality and the horrors of your past and you can’t make out which is which.
“NO! No, no please… nononono no needles, no more please… don’t touch me please” You plead, fighting them, desperately trying to get away as a sharp pain pierces your skin and the world spins, different faces and flashes of distant memories mixing together until darkness consumes you and then there’s nothing.