Chapter 3: Are you OKAY Annie?
Authors Note: Sorry about not posting this sooner but its been hectic this week and its hard to find times other than 1 am before I sleep to write. I would love to hear some comments about what you guys like or don't like. Just know that I am not an English major and I'm sure there are scores of grammatical and formatting errors but whatever this is for fun! I do not own any marvel characters, only my oc Annie!
Pietro
The minute Stark dropped the security felid Pietro took off into the building. He checked corridor after corridor finding offices and dingy looking labs.
This place seems just like the compound where Wanda and I were…and if I'm right…and the layout is in anyway similar the cell should be right around this corner…
Pietro turned the corner and was faced with three black armor clad guards.
Cap did say not to engage…but…these guys are in the way…
With a quick shrug to no one in particular, Pietro sped towards the guards and took them out one by one. It wasn't too difficult seeing as they were in a panic anyway; they all had their weapons down and left themselves wide open to his attack. The first guard took a sucker punch to the gut and doubled over onto the floor. The second guard promptly had his face smashed against a door.
"Ah!" Came a voice seemingly from nowhere.
That wasn't one of the guards…
Pietro took out the last guards knees throwing him forcibly to the ground where he stayed.
That voice was to feminine to be a guard, it must be a prisoner!
Pietro turned towards the door and tugged on the handle. Locked. With a biometric fingerprint scanner and a metal deadbolt.
Hello?" Called Pietro through the door,
"YES!...Yes I'm…I'm in here, please!" A girls voice pleaded.
She sounded scared. Not like someone who had volunteered to be a lab rat…
"Hold on I'll get you out!"
Pietro grabbed one of the unconscious guards and hauled the mans body over to the biometric scanner. He thrust the mans finger against the pad and was granted with a loud beep from the machine, followed by a heavy clunk of the metal bolt sliding back. He opened the door and was a slender girl with long red hair and tear stained eyes.
She looked pitiful. Her hair was dull and frayed, her skin was washed out and pale, her eyes looked hollow and her cheekbones seemed to stand out more than was normal.
Pietro felt a surge of anger and now he was glad he had beat up those guards instead of letting them flee. She was shackled and chained to the far wall, and she sat on the floor looking up at hi, with a confused expression.
"Common," he said "We need to go. Now."
To that she simply raised her hands, where the shackles still hung keeping her bound to the wall.
Duh.
He walked over to her and kneeled beside her. He then moved his hands over the chains so fast that they snapped.
At least now I can move her. We can worry about the cuffs later.
Pietro wasted no more time; the com in his ear was a buzz with his teammates saying it was time to wrap things up. He scooped the girl up into his arms and she protested mildly.
God, she weighs almost nothing.
"Shut up and hold onto me, try to keep your head back so you don't get whiplash." He ordered. And like that he was running and the rest of her protests were lost in the wind.
He set her down a few yards away fro the Avenge-jet and proceeded to confer with the rest of the team. Iron man had taken out the field and was now doing some serious damage to the buildings infrastructure. Cap, Hawkeye and Wanda had secured the perimeter and the remaining hydra agents were surrendering.
"Civilian is clear." He sid into the com.
"Copy," Said Cap "Are there anymore in the building?"
"No I did a sweep and only found the one."
"Alright lets clean up. Pietro take the civilian to the jet and wait for us."
"Copy." Replied Pietro.
Hey I seem to be getting the hang of this whole following orders and saving people gig…
That's when the girl keeled over.
Ooops.
Annie
So tired. All I want to do is sleep for a few days.
Annie nuzzled into something fuzzy and warm.
Fuzzy…WAIT. What. Fuzzy? There's nothing fuzzy in my cell?
Annie forced herself to crack open one eye; She was wrapped in a fleece blanket. Annie definitely wasn't in her cell anymore (As if they would have given her a blanket!) But that deduction didn't help much when it came to finding out just where she was now. She was in a craft of some kind…
Like that weird jet in the woods that weird guy…OHHHHH.
It all came back to Annie in a rush. She scanned her surroundings looking for the boy who had freed her from the hydra compound. He wasn't there.
Wonder where he went…
Annie unwrapped the blanket from around her. She was no longer tired. There were to many questions to deal with right now to sleep. That could wait until latter. Her bare feet touched down onto the cold metal and she snatched the blanket back up and wrapped it around her shoulders.
The jet was fairly well sized and covered in high tech gadgets but nothing that seemed hostile. Annie approached the pilot's chair glancing out the front window. A breeze past behind her and Annie's hand shot out grabbing the first object she could. She spun around brandishing the tablet looking device like a weapon.
"Whoa, I would be careful with that! Tony doesn't like people touching his toys!"
It was the boy from before!
"Who are you and why did you help me?" Annie demanded still brandishing the tablet.
"Slow down, we're here to help!" said the boy raising his hands in front of him.
Annie slowly lowered her makeshift weapon and handed it to the boy. She hadn't noticed much about him before but he was a foot or so taller than her and had silver white hair.
"Whose we?" Annie asked raising an eyebrow.
"The Avengers," The boy said with a cocky half smile.
"The who?"
"Oh," he sounded a disappointed "Well we are earths mightiest heroes…" he trailed off, something about saying it out loud just didn't sound so…mighty.
"I'm sorry, but did you say Tony before?" asked Annie.
"Yeah that was his tablet you were threatening me with."
"Tony, as in Tony Stark?" she asked excitedly.
"Oh so you know Iron Man but not the Avengers?" He rolled his eyes "Typical."
Annie felt a spark of hope.
Tony could straighten all this out! Hell get me out of here and take me home to my parents.
"Call him."
"Excuse me?"
"Call him. Now." She said more forcibly.
"You've got this all wrong we rescued you. You don't give me orders!" the boy sneered.
"You heard me! Call him on your little ear thingy and let me talk to him, you'll be sorry of you don't!" Annie tried to stand up a little taller.
"No I'm not calling Stark just so some fan girl can gush to him!" The boy said with a grimace.
"Just tell him my name is Annie Onslinia!" and then a little more indignantly "And I am not a fan girl."
The silver haired buy rolled his eyes once more but put his hand to his ear and relayed her message through the com.
Authors note: Chapter 4 should be up by tomorrow night, Old friends are reunited, powers surface, and we find out just how long Annie was in the compound. Maybe Annie will figure out just who the Avengers are and how much the world has changed while she was away! Please comment!