How did it come to this? A few days ago she was an agent for the Red Room, "agent" no, that word didn't sound right she thought bitterly more like soldier, spy, assassin, a lab rat for them to experiment on but that did not matter anymore now she was free.
For as long as she could remember she had been a part of the Red Room, she had been loyal never questioned anything they told her, after all, there was nothing to question they always knew better, they always did what was best for everyone or so they told them. All the girls including herself always followed the orders they were given, they killed, tortured, steal, they didn't care they followed their orders because they knew better and it they told them to kill someone it had to be for a good reason. So what changed? Why did she stop following the orders? Why did she run away?
Well, she had been on a mission she was supposed to assassinate some businessman why she did not know nor did she care, being on missions was the only time she was allowed outside without anyone watching, so she always liked to spend a little bit of extra time in the real world watching people wondering what their lives were like.
She was sitting in a small café that was a favourite of her target's when the TV at the corner played the latest news story, normally she would not care about the news but something about this headline caught her attention, CAPTAIN AMERICA REFUSES TO SIGN THE ACCORDS, apparently most of the world wanted to put the Avengers in check but why would he refuse? She did not know a lot about Captain America only that he worked for the enemy and that he was a soldier like she was, and soldiers were not supposed to question the authority, they couldn't refuse orders. She did not understand why or how he could refuse he is a soldier he is supposed to follow orders and not question them but he didn't.
Something inside of her stirred, something she did not understand, could she start asking questions? Could she refuse to follow orders, no she couldn't she knew what the Red Room did to the ones that did not listen, she went through it herself once when she was younger and did not listen, but she swore she would never go through something like that again which is why she always did as she was told and never questioned anything. Later that evening back in the hotel room she was staying in she turned on the TV, and what she saw shocked her which is not an easy thing to do it seems that the Captain did not only refuse to sign the accords but now he was also arrested for helping non other than the Winter Soldier escape from police, she found something amusing in Winter needing help disappear but as it turns out they were both really bad at it considering they had been caught.
She finished her mission like she was supposed to and then returned to the Red Room like she always did, but this time it was different she tried to put the things that she had seen behind her, but there was something about this that she couldn't forget and to be honest she did not want to.
She was their top agent; she had heard them saying that she was considered for Project Phoenix, that was no small feat only one other person had ever been considered she would have been great if she hadn't left and started working for the enemies.
Project Phoenix began in 1943 but they still had not found an agent perfect enough for it, everyone knows about Project Rebirth it was what made Captain America well… Captain America, not just a regular soldier but a super soldier, but there is something that they don't know. See Dr. Erskine was a brilliant, man but all men no matter how brilliant have their weaknesses, his happened to be blondes. Hydra had tried to steal some of the serum but they failed and killed the doctor in the processes… Idiots! The Red Room though is smarter, they took advantage of the fact that in those days women were practically invisible and were not considered a threat so they planted an agent in the enemy's camp and well some flirting and a bottle of snaps later it wasn't that hard to get the doctor to show the agent the serum and given the skill of the agent it wasn't that hard for her to steal it under their noses.
This has been the Red Room's most prized possession for 72 years, you may wonder why had they not created a myriad of super soldiers by now, well as it turns out just because the agent was skilled in stealing it that didn't mean the scientists were capable of recreating it, no matter how much they tried they just couldn't do it, they came close and created enhancers that every agent was injected with if they survived the training but the people in charge thought that instead of wasting the serum while trying to recreate it they should save it for that one special agent, they had found her a few years ago,
Natasha Romanoff, she was the best agent the Red Room had ever had and she was going to be the next super soldier, although she didn't really need it considering she could hold her own against two of them without it. Natasha had been her mentor, she trained her and helped her survive all the procedures, but a few days before they were going to inject her with the serum something snapped inside of her and she left, Natasha had wanted her to go with her but she refused, she knew what happened if you went against them, she knew what they would do to them if, when, they caught them so she stayed, she felt betrayed by Natasha when she left without her but it seems that they both had made their choices, and Natasha went from being a mentor, a sister, to being the enemy.
So now she was the one considered for Project Phoenix, she had been pleased when they told, there was no greater honour in the Red Room but after what she had seen when she was on her mission her mind begun to wonder, she tried to forget about it, but couldn't if Captain America was supposed to be a soldier, a weapon just like her and he could say no to the ones in charge why couldn't she?
She was training with her sister's when Madam Anna came into the room, looking very happy for some reason it was odd to see this woman who never showed any emotion look happy. Once she got their attention she shared the news that had made her so happy with them, Captain America was dead. It appears that helping the Winter Soldier had caused a divide in the Avengers and while they were busy fighting the government decided to take action, they say they were aiming for the Winter Soldier and that the Captain jumped in front of the bullet to save him. The Winter Soldier and the rest of people that had helped him were captured and got locked away.
Something inside of her snapped in that moment, she was never phased by death she had been taught not to but there was a voice inside of her that was telling that this was wrong and that she had to fix it, her mind immediately went to the serum, if it could help him survive being frozen for 70 years then maybe it could help him survive death. She knew what she had to do and she knew that she couldn't fail and most importantly she knew that she would never be able to come back.
She already had a plan… well half a plan Natasha had shared with her a way out of the Red Room all those years ago, she had never mentioned it to anyone but if it worked for Natasha it should work for her, now for the rest of the plan steal the serum, the serum was not guarded placing it in the middle of a house filled with the most loyal and deadliest people was enough protection, see the Red Room believed that they only needed to protect it from outsiders they never thought that one of their own would steal it.
When night fell everyone went sleep, except from a few which were standing guard that night she wasn't to concerned she could take a few guards down in no time the problem was that the serum had an alarm attached to it and when it was removed that alarm would go off and everyone would be awake and ready to kill her, she was confident in her abilities but not that confident not that she would ever admit that.
She took the guards out without making a sound and then proceeded to the room that the serum was being held she took a deep breath and removed it from the case it was in and then the alarms went off considering the guards had been taken out it would a few seconds for the rest of them to come to the room and a few seconds after that for them to look at the footage and realize it was her, her face had not been captured by any of the cameras she was trained better than that.
She managed to slip out of the room when some of the other came, she pretended that she had been up and had heard something and came to check it out, they believed her they had no reason not to. She had hidden the serum in one of the many pockets of her suit no one could see, the others checked the room and when they saw no one decided to spread out and look for the intruder.
She took that opportunity to go the secret exit that Natasha had shown her, she was almost there when the voice of Madam Anna came through the speaker telling everyone that she was a traitor and that she was the one that stole the serum and giving them one order… kill her. The shooting started shortly after but she managed to come on top of anyone who tried to fight her. She managed to make it out of the compound she stole a car on her way out too, but she knew the Red Room and she knew they were not going to give up that easily, they started chasing and now she had to find a way out of Russia and into Germany, the Captain was still in Berlin.
She managed to get to a nearby by town, there she dumped the car, changed her clothes and blended into the crowd this is what she was good at and this is where they lost her. She found someone who was willing to drive her to Moscow it was a couple of hours drive, the idiot probably thought that he was going to get lucky, when they arrived to Moscow he tried to put his on her, wrong move considering she broke them, could have killed him but that would draw too much attention so she gave him some money and told him to never touch a girl without her permission.
She quickly made her way to the airport and got tickets for the next flight to Berlin which luckily for her was in 30 minutes. While on the plane she had nearly 3 hours to come with a plan to get to the Captain's body which just happened to be located in one of the most secured buildings in the world. It would be impossible to get in there on a good day and this was not a good day it was a very very bad day. She was not deterred though, she got out of the Red Room she could this to, for a minute she thought about contacting Natasha and letting her know, but she quickly got rid of that thought, Natasha wouldn't believe her and even if she did the others wouldn't they would probably lock her up, and she refused to be a prisoner, she had been one all her life and now that she was free she wasn't going get locked up again.
She made it Berlin and it seems that luck was on her side, someone named Baron Zemo wanted the Avengers dead and had somehow managed to get control of some of Hydra's other super soldiers and decided it to let them loose in Berlin, which meant that half of the Avengers were going to be busy for quite a while and the other half was locked up so they shouldn't be a problem.
The agents of the Anti-Terrorism task force were very well trained but they were not as good as her, she waited for night fall and while the Avengers were still busy she broke into the building and managed to take them out without any alarms going off, she then made her way to the morgue she had managed to disable the generators and the back generator did not provide as much light, she was walking down the dimly lit hallway she knew she had found the right place when she noticed a bunch of high-security locks outside a door, there was no reason to have that kind of security in a morgue, unless someone important was in there.
She had managed to take a few gadgets from the Red Room with her on her way out, and fortunately, one of them was good at opening doors, the locks did provide some challenge but she eventually got in. She found were he was being kept Steve Rogers it said on the outside and she opened the small door and pulled out the small bed that he was on, he had a sheet over his head, she hesitated for a moment before she pulled down the sheet, she took a look at his face he looked young and healthy… for a dead person, he looked peaceful as if he was sleeping.
She had seen many dead people most of who she had killed but none of them looked peaceful not like he did. She took the vial with the serum out of her pocket, she placed it in a special syringe, she took a deep breath and jammed the needle in his chest administering the serum straight into his heart. It seemed that in that moment the world stopped and time stood still, there were many thoughts running through her mind at that moment, what if it didn't work? What if all of this had been for nothing? What would she do if this didn't work? She could never go back, but the thought that scared her the most was what if it did work? What would she do then? After a few painfully quiet minutes she heard something that would change everything the Captain had gasped for air and had opened his eyes.
Captain America was alive!