Chapter 1
Bucky, after having turned himself in to SHIELD looking for answers, had been cordially invited to stay in a nice apartment with the strong suggestion of not going out too much... "for his own safety" of course. Turned out not too much was actually not at all, he was basically a canary in a golden cage. He got a new companion in sequestration, his name was Loki, the reasons for his captivity were a bit shady and the man himself was far from sane, kept mumbling about spells and something called Yggdrasil. It was tense at first but by now they had come to a silent agreement, they had basic interactions with each other but otherwise kept to them selves.
The floor they were on was made up of three large rooms with connecting bathrooms, one of which stayed unoccupied, a kitchen, a living room, a library, a gym and a few other things. All in all the settings were quite nice but they grew boring after a few months. The view they had through the windows showed them a beautiful skyline, informing them they were pretty high up as far as buildings went but didn't give them much information as to their location.
What the scavenger team found in the cavern was very far from what they were expecting. They had been looking for ancient scrolls that might have had something to do with the tesseract and they were using a network of tunnels and caves to access the ancient tomb in which they were supposedly kept, what they found was pretty different from paper: after drilling through a pile of ruble that obstructed their passage, they came into a relatively small cavern judging from the echoes. It was pitch black unlike the rest of their previous path due to the lack of phosphorus mushrooms that had lit their way. Once they had fumbled their lights on the five men almost wet their pants in surprise and fear when they saw the scene in front of them (and we're talking about grown men used to wading through waist deep through decomposing bodies in search of a holy relic).
The first thing they noticed was the indigo haired body splayed out over a stone slab, it was restrained a the wrists and ankles with chains anchored to the ground, the whole chest had been ripped open with the skin flaps pinned to the surrounding flesh to allow easy access to the interior and the entire lower abdomen had been butchered beyond recognition so it was impossible to determine the body's gender. The rest of the body was covered in cuts, bruises, burns and lacerations. They then noticed smaller details like the quantity of undisturbed dust on the floor and the lack of decomposition of the body, also the lack of dust on the body and the apparent freshness of the wounds. Further inspection revealed that the walls were covered with tools that seemed like they were out of a nightmare (or a murderous psychopath's wet dream, your choice). The floors on the other hand were caked with about an inch of dried blood under the dust. After about 0 seconds of deliberation the scavenger team unanimously decided to deliver this matter to higher ranks and never step foot in these caves again.
SHIELD then proceeded to send in the hole paraphernalia and teams necessary for such an odd discovery, Black widow leading the teams for security reasons (could be a trap). She was the first and only to have the guts to step into the cavern and inspect the corpse. The team had already put some spot lights up and taken pictures (from as far away as possible) of the hole scene so when Natasha moved forward carefully as not to trip any mechanisms, she was free to alter the scene without any risks of lost visual evidence. She started by removing the pins that surrounded the gapping hole, feeling a bit queasy no matter how many times she had had to deal with death and no matter how gruesome. When she took the last pin out, she almost pissed herself when the body was wracked by a wave of violent shudders. Under her bewildered eyes, the body came to life, eyes slowly opening, taking a shaky breath... and then the previously dead person started screaming so loudly that even the teams charged with communication a few hundred feat away heard it. Natasha watched fascinated as the shredded skin on the person's torso started knitting back together. The process seemed rather painful as the person hadn't stopped screeching and sobbing, their back arching of the slab in spasms. After few minutes the cuts were healed enough to reveal the person was a woman, the only way Natasha could tell was because the woman was rather well endowed in the chest area, otherwise the healing process seemed to do just that, heal, but it left the scars of the things it healed so the woman's cunt was basically a canvas of scars and her chest had a rather ugly one running down the middle of it. Now that Natasha looked a bit closer she could see her body was riddled with the things, some blotchy or butchered, some surgically precise, all looked to be quite painful.
The widow did quick work of the chains, the seemingly young woman had fallen back into a comatose state after the healing process so Natasha took the decision of transporting her out of the cave and made plans for her to be sent back to SHIELD's headquarters, she set her down wrapped in a blanket near some supplies as she didn't seem like she was going to wake up any time soon. The different operating teams were now swarming the small cave, the lack of a gory body spilling its entrails making less daunting. They were analyzing everything from the dust to the blood coating the entire floor to the different devices hung on the walls.
She let them be, it was their job not hers. She returned to the indigo toped bundle. That was one strange shade of hair for a revived corpse with healing abilities that's been plowed through and locked in a cave for who knows how long. The more she thought about it the odder it seemed to Natasha, judging by the dust and the rust covering the blades that cave had not been accessed for a long time, long enough that a body would have started decomposing. However the healing ability suggested that she was a little more then human. But then came the question of why hadn't she healed before then, then she thought about the pins, she only woke up after all the pins were out of her, they must have either kept her unconscious and her ability to heal was voluntary so could only occur when she was conscious either they kept her from healing and the wounds had kept her unconscious. And also the question of HOW THE FUCK DID SHE GET THERE?! The rubble that had been in the way was at least a few centuries old and there was only enough dust for a few decades, also the electric fixtures she had seen couldn't be that old.
The two men she had asked for to carry the woman all the way to next place where she could drive something had arrived. Her body may have been light but Natasha would have had a hard time carrying it for a few miles. She then made it her personal business to get her as fast as possible to SHIELD headquarters because something like this was on the priority list of things to directly inform director Fury of. She gave him a call to explain the situation rapidly and left the details for debriefing.
Hey guys, first fanfic here, I'd love some critical feedback so I know what's good or not but please don't kill me I'm a newbie in writing here.
