Sorry for this short chapter! Also, I won't be writing very much for a while since I have a big dance show in three weeks! Love y'all!
The Avengers were "suiting up" in the meeting room. Steve pulled his mask over his eyes. Clint and Natasha polished their weapons, already in their disguises as FDA agents. Tony was busy making a few last minute adjustments to his helmet. Bruce and Thor, already wearing and holding what was necessary, wandered around offering help to the others.
Everyone was about to board the jet when someone began scrambling S.H.I.E.L.D.'s communications system.
"What's going on?!" Fury shouted as he ran over to Agent Hill, who was frantically pressing buttons and entering in codes.
"Sir! Whoever they are, they're breaching our security measures! It appears that they are trying to send a video!" she replied.
Suddenly, a window popped up on the giant hologram screen. It was static for a few moments, and then an image began coming into focus.
"It can't be..." Thor exhaled, nearly dropping Mjolnir in surprise. Everyone else was silent and still.
Beth and Joseph were in the bottom corner of the screen. They were holding hands and waving continuously. Behind them, the words "S.H.I.E.L.D. WILL PAY." were burning on a wall. Suddenly, the video shakily zoomed in on their faces. Beth and Joseph's eyes were a solid yellow color.
After about a minute of capturing the teenager's sadistic grins, the video turned to static before disappearing from the screen.
Agent Hill choked back a sob. Clint grabbed a chair and threw it into the wall. Nobody bothered to stop him.
"Can we trace the video's location?" came Bruce's soft voice. "It appears that their kidnappers aren't worried about staying hidden."
"Already on it." Tony replied as he furiously typed on the keyboard. The only sound in the room was the patter of the keys. "And...Done."
A map of the US appeared on the screen, and crosshairs pinpointed to Ohio. The map zeroed in on an area right outside of Cleveland.
"At least we know for sure that they're at Medicorp's headquarters..." Steve commented.
"All right. Since we don't know exactly what has been done to Beth and Joseph, we need to proceed with extreme caution. They're under their kidnapper's influence, so I am sure they will try to attack you. Continue with the plan as normal. Good luck." Fury instructed.
After the man filmed us, he sent us back to our dungeon. He had told us to stay put, because the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. will be here "at any moment". My legs took me back to my cell. We sat back to back again, but this time, it didn't feel right to my inner consciousness. Joseph held my hand through the bars, and my soul hated it. It wasn't right. The man had said to "remain close" to each other.
We remained in that position for hours. My inner consciousness nearly broke. I was screaming and screaming for by body to stand up, to let go of Joseph, to escape using my new powers, but I remained motionless.
It was an eternity before I heard alarms go off in the building above us.