It was raining; thick cold drops of water were painful on Brooklyn's back. They felt like bullets, then again anything cold hurt her. Her showers were always on the highest setting and it felt medium one, she could only drink hot drinks in even the hottest weather. She never sweated in the highest temperatures. When she was 16, her boyfriend got angry at her and took the metal teaspoon from the cup of boiling water and pressed it against her wrist, it barely left a mark and felt normal, but when he pressed the ice cube against her neck she howled in pain and it left a deep red mark and was sizzling when it was removed.
She cursed the sky for this, taking a turn down a dark street that had no lampposts and the clouds covered the moon. She'd been running since 1:00 pm, it was at least 2:00 am now. As she walked, she realised she was close to a forest, and she turned around but saw a man in the darkness right behind her, she would have screamed in surprise if he hadn't clamped his cold hand over her mouth, hearing footsteps towards her from behind and her arms were grabbed, she was blindfolded and she was too shocked to move.
When she regained her senses she screamed and immediately was gagged, something on the gag was forced into her mouth and kept her tongue pushed forcefully down. Struggling as she was being dragged, then the breathed knocked out of her when she was tossed into a van, someone quickly restraining her arms and legs.
"Wha' d'ya think the boss wants 'er for?" A man spoke, probably to his partner.
"Dunno mate, but she must be special for the big guy to want 'er. Mind, I wouldn't mind a go at 'er, what a looker"
"Aye mate, thing I could do to 'er"
Brooklyn wanted to vomit.
Brooklyn woke up on a table in a dim room, she gag and blindfold gone; the ceiling was covered in... Was that dry blood?!
"Ah, the fire starter awakens" she heard a mans voice, she slowly sat up and saw a man with brown hair, he looked to be in his thirties, he wore a black suit and on the jacket was a silver pin, a circle with a skull and snakes inside it. He looked vaguely familiar, where has she seen him before...
"Where am I?"
"Always the same questions," he said, looking fairly amused "always 'where am I?' Or 'Who are you?' Even the occasional 'Where is my friend?' I expected something more original... But still an interesting question... Where am I?"
Brooklyn just stared at him like he was crazy, he shook his head.
"Your in a Hydra base in New York" he said, her eyes widened, she knew just who he was now. Remembering all her history lessons on WW2 with Mrs Carlisle… He was Johann Schmidt, leader of Hydra... How was he still alive?
"You see, Miss Brooklyn, I had a report from the daughter of one of my agents, Maria George, she attended the high school you left last year. She filmed what you did to that poor miss Lane, then the fire you started that caused miss Lane's death. Then the news; the house fire that killed your parents. It was no accident, everything exploding" Johann said casually, she started at him in shock. Max and Sara were dead?! It was Hydra… wasn't it?
"No... You're lying! There not dead-"
"Miss Brooklyn," he interrupted her "Do not shout at me, it's rude." He said, then a click was heard and Brooklyn noticed the guards with guns. "I was saying, I had you brought here for your safety, no doubt you would be imprisoned or killed for three accounts of murder" he said, Brooklyn knew he didn't care about her safety... She noticed his hands, they were gold metal...
"Miss Brooklyn, I see you've noticed my work" he smirked, taking off his jacket and rolling up his sleeves both hands were gold metal, it stopped at his elbows, his left arm bore an expensive silver watch. "You may of heard how I died on the plane in 1943, well I was far from dead. I went to a place of true power... I sent to earth many spies, one of them being my daughter" Brooklyn was at first confused, then she remembered what Max told her... Corina Schmidt died in the fire... Corina Schmidt was her mother, which means...
"Finally caught on, have you?" He held a smug smile "I didn't know my daughter would betray me for SHIELD, and then betray SHIELD for a 'wanna be' villain who was killed only two days later, but here you are... And you will do what she couldn't"
"No, I refuse to help you" Brooklyn said, and she meant it. She would never help him, a man who tried to destroy the world because he was - probably still is - mad enough to think he had the power of the Gods! He smirked
"I thought you would say that, and I don't want to force you... But I will anyway, girl"
"What are you going to do?" She asked, curious and scared, ready to fight him.
"I'm going to change you like a remix," he said "then raise you like a phoenix" he said, Brooklyn was confused of how he even knew about Fall Out Boy…
"Your friend, Carly, called, your ring tone was interesting, yet inspiring" and before she made any kind of protest his right fist collided with the side of her head, knocking her unconscious.