AN: This is a series of snippets that follows The Asset in the same world as Smoke On The Water. Each can be read separately FOR NOW, but the timelines will eventually synch up.
Now as a warning, this is not going to be a happy fic. It's going to explore some/all of the methods Hydra used to control The Asset, and none of them are pleasant. I don't know what kind of understanding of neuroscience they had back in the 1950s so some things may be a bit historically inaccurate.
It's also going to be gruesome. May contain non-con depending on where the story takes us.
Final warning: each chapter is going to be short. I'm a vet student. My time is not my own. The only way I get to write is in brief bursts of 5-10 minute breaks in studying/walking dog/feeding horses.
Disclaimer:
I own nothing you recognise. This is all completely un-beta'd and totally fresh off the top of my brain!
They learn, very early on, not to activate The Asset on the Fourth of July. They learn just as quickly to never allow it to be activated on the Fourth of July. Or allow any mention of the Fourth of July to enter its periphery.
It is early, oh so early, in the Winter Soldier Program. They are still opening its skull to poke at its hippocampus, knife at its amygdala, and admire as they reform. It is on this day, the Fourth of July, that they have its skull open. They poke the hippocampus. They knife the amygdala.
It hears the date. One of the guards is chatty. It does not react until the surgical implements are out of its brain and then it destroys them all, gunpowder settling upon its cerebrum as each person attempts to fend it off.
It is only thanks to an electrified door that they manage to contain it. The skull is closed up. Scalp slapped back into place and stapled together. It is thrown back onto the ice.
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