When you're a young woman in Sokovia, there are only a few things you are expected to be. For me, I was raised to become a wife and a mother to whichever man my family married me off to, and to pop out a bunch of little babies that would give me enough things to do until I eventually died one day. And I was okay with that. Well, until I turned seven. That's when I was taken.
I don't remember much about that night. My mother tucked me in that night and then I woke up, drugged and in a jail cell. I didn't see anyone for three days, or at least I think it was three days. That's what they told me. After that, a tall, bald man came in and took me to take a test. It was simple, like a school test, but a guess it really wasn't.
I guess I passed, because after that, they began my training. I became a weapon. A tiny child solider. They trained me how to fight…..to defend myself…to kill. It was a lot for a seven year old to handle, but over time, it just became life. Well, it was life, until the experiments began.
I was sixteen when they began. Strucker, as I had learned to call him, told me that I would become the first of many soldiers with special abilities that would help HYDRA take over the world, and make it the world it was destined to be. I didn't hesitate, I wanted to do them. I wanted to serve HYDRA. But the experiments were painful. I distinctly remember multiple times when I almost died, flat lining before they quickly revived me.
It worked, but at a price. Strucker gave me, what he called, energy blasts and energy conversion. Whenever I fought, it was like a golden light exploded out of me, killing everything in its path. That was the bad part. I was killing too many HYRDA agents, and not enough of the enemy. So Strucker decided to terminate my powers, giving me a serum to keep them at bay. I thought that they would stop after that. They didn't.
Soon they brought in the Winter Solider, a super soldier that they found frozen back in World War II days. And then they brought the twins in and began more experiments. I tried to get them to stop, knowing that these daily injections would someday be theirs, but Strucker didn't listen. He would always tell me, "Hush, little viper. We will not make the same mistakes we made with you." And so they continued.
I saw the twins daily, assigned in watching them, monitoring their behavior as they became more powerful, tasked to kill them if they became too reckless. I grew close to them. I thought that HYDRA had fully changed me, made me into a shell of who I once was. But meeting the Maximoff twins changed everything. I began to try to use my powers, taking less and less of my injections every day. Wanda had a similar power, and so we learned together. They became my family in this place that others would call hell. But it was home. I went on missions, but always came back to them. Nothing really changed that…..until a certain file appeared on my bed one day, changing my life and my position in HYDRA forever.
A file…about the Winter Soldier.
This is a prologue/background info chapter for a story I would be interested in writing. It will start out as a Captain America/Winter Solider story, but it put it as Avengers because if I get enough response, it will eventually be an Avengers story. I hope this sounds interested to you all. Let me know if you would like more! :)