Officially, Pietro and Wanda were the only two people that survived Strucker's experiments. However, there was a young woman who had survived but her information was never put into the computer. The scientists expected someone to come and destroy the base at some point so they made another, completely off the charts laboratory. Nothing was ever put into a computer, everything was hand written and so nobody knew about Violet. She was an American who was traveling through Europe when she was kidnapped and labeled for experimentation.
Violet didn't have any family left so there was never anyone to worry about whether or not she came home. The experiments were horrible, painful, and beyond what most people could handle. Violet didn't give in to the pain; instead she embraced it and withdrew into herself. She stopped talking, she stopped showing emotion, and eventually she stopped feeling anything. Months after the experiments had stopped and her new enhancements had been tested, Violet was still being held under lock and key. Well lock and drug was more accurate. Before she was taken, Violet had a knack for fixing things. She could fix anything, all she had to do was get her hands on it and she knew what to do. With her enhancement, all she had to do was touch something and it was fixed. However, now she could also break anything just by touching it as well.
When she touched the locks on the doors, they broke. She tried to escape many times and they discovered that she could break people too. Sometimes it was their minds, sometimes it was their bodies. Brutal but magnificent was how the scientists described it. They didn't want her escaping though, so they kept her constantly drugged with heavy sleeping medicine.
Once Strucker's base was taken down and Strucker was captured, there was no longer anyone to sign paychecks and everyone including the guards left the building. They didn't even bother destroying the papers as their names weren't in them and it wasn't their job anymore. They took many machines that were worth money on the market, along with anything else of value. Violet however, they left locked in a room.
When she finally woke up, it was to a searing headache and an empty room. Usually there were guards and scientists around to check her brain function or other important things. But now there was nothing and nobody around. Time for another escape attempt. The door was locked but she quickly broke the lock, staring at the golden mist that covered her hands when she used her power. Shaking her head, the woman couldn't help but be constantly astounded by what the experiments did to her. I can't have a job now, heck I can't even touch someone without doing something to them! Moving quickly out the door and leaving those thoughts behind, Violet moved down the hallway swiftly. She stopped before she passed the lab; this is where she always got caught because someone saw her pass by the large glass window. Peeking around the corner, Violet stared in wonder as she saw there was nobody in the lab.
She moved into the lab cautiously, her eyes darting around for movement. She saw absolutely no one. Looking at the desk, she found a single monitor that had been left only because it was cracked. Violet touched it and immediately the screen fixed itself, turning on and powering up. Once it was ready she searched through it and found the only thing it contained was security footage. All the security footage was there, from the time she arrived until everyone left. They all just got up and left one day. How strange. Violet pulled the footage out, it was all stored on a simple CD, and took a quick look around the room. She gathered any papers she could find that had information about her experiment before running through the building and looking for anyone else that might have been experimented on and survived.
The building was absolutely empty and the only thing of use that Violet found was a stash of clothes and an old duffel bag in a closet. A green shirt and black pants but there weren't any shoes or even socks so she continued on barefoot. The woman shoved the CD and all the papers into the duffel before leaving the building and running as far away as possible, as quickly as she could.
Violet continued running for a few hours, until her tired muscles refused to go any further. She sat down and leaned against a tree, taking slow deep breaths as she listened to the sounds around her. It was nearly dark and Violet knew it probably wasn't safe to stay on the ground so she quickly scaled a tree. She went high enough up that she wouldn't be noticed but stayed low enough to sleep on a branch that was definitely strong enough to hold her weight. Without another thought, she closed her eyes and fell asleep almost immediately.
The sound of a car horn was eventually what woke her up, several hours later. The sun had barely risen but it had gotten extremely cold and the woman shivered violently, jumping out of the tree and jogging toward the sound of the horn. Violet blinked quickly as she emerged from the tree line, sighing in relief at the town stretched out in front of her. Now that she knew she wasn't in the middle of absolutely nowhere, she could breathe a little easier. The woman walked into the town slowly, her eyes searching constantly for anything that could be a threat. Violet could barely feel her feet right now but she wasn't going to let that stop her. She needed to know where she was.
Violet found herself walking slowly, shivering with her arms wrapped around her, behind a woman pushing a stroller. The baby in the stroller was extremely fussy and threw something out which the mother failed to notice. Violet picked it up and saw that it was a pacifier that looked hardly used. Running up to the woman, Violet tapped the woman on the arm and silently handed her object. "Oh! I didn't even see this fall out! Thank you so much!" Nodding quickly before turning to walk away, Violet froze as she felt the woman touch her arm. "My dear you don't have a coat or any shoes! Are you alright?" She nodded again before stepping away from the woman who stepped after her, pulling the stroller. Suddenly catching on a loose cobblestone, the wheel snapped off the stroller which caused the woman to turn around with a gasp.
Violet turned to leave while the woman was distracted when she caught sight of herself in a nearby window. Her red hair, always a nuisance to her, had somehow been tamed and was lying in gentle curls around her face. There wasn't a tangle in it despite having spent the night outside but her hair wasn't the thing that startled her. Violet used to have dull brown eyes that she never liked but now, after all the experiments and tests, her eyes were completely different. They were a striking silver color that she knew would scare most people and make them uncomfortable. Shivering again and looking back toward the broken stroller, Violet huffed softly. She tapped the woman's shoulder again before nudging her away from the stroller.
Reaching her hand out, Violet felt her power taking over and calculated it to fixing instead of breaking. The moment she touched the stroller, the wheel reattached itself and the child stopped crying. She stood up and looked right at the woman who seemed to flinch at the eye contact but didn't move her gaze away. "Thank you so much! I don't know how I would have fixed that on my own and I certainly don't have the money to replace it!" The woman reached into her coat pocket and pulled her wallet out, digging some money out before handing it to the girl in front of her. "Here, as a thank you for fixing it! That should buy you some shoes and maybe a coat if you find the right store!" Violet tried to refuse by pushing the money back at the woman but she simply turned around and pushed her stroller away.
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