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Chapter 7: Super-Something

Two Days Later

OK Rhea, this is gonna be fine, you can do this, Rhea told herself as Bruce got her to sit down on a chair. Rhea felt her heart rate getting faster. She looked over as Bruce was getting the serum ready, she gulped. Rhea shifted in her seat, she was about to do something that was irreversible. The injection was going to turn her into a super-soldier, or super-whatever, I'm no soldier, she thought. She tensed her jaw and looked over as Tony was doing some final calculations.

Bucky leant against the table opposite Rhea, he knew what was going to happen to her, he had been through it, the pain, God the pain, Bucky thought to himself, flashing back to the first time that he got the injection from Doctor Zola before Steve got him out of the Hydra base, he past out with the pain. Now Rhea was being sat down on a chair and about to go through the same thing, he wasn't happy, he glared at Stark, who was hauntingly like his father.

Fury walked over beside Rhea, "Ok kid, you ready for this?"

Rhea looked up at him, "I think so," She coughed.

Fury put his hand on her shoulder, "You'll do great." Then he turned to Bruce, "Have we got everything ready Doctor?"

Bruce looked up and nodded, "Pretty much, we're set to go."

"Ok Rhea," Bruce said to her, "I'm going to inject this into your arm, we'll be monitoring your heart and breathing for the whole thing."

Rhea nodded, her mouth going dry, "Will it last long?" She asked quietly.

"It shouldn't," Bruce tried to sooth her.

Rhea nodded then sat back in the chair, crossing her ankles with nerves. Bruce picked up the serum from the tray and flicked the needle with his fingers to make sure that all was ready. He looked at Rhea and nodded, she heard the beep as her heart rate went up. She gasped as Bruce put the needle into her arm, suddenly it felt as though her blood was burning. She let out a banshee like scream and went to move.

"Don't let her move!" Bruce said, but as he and Tony tried to hold her down she practically threw them to the other side of the room.

Bucky looked on in horror as he saw Rhea's blue eyes go ice blue, the bluest he had ever seen, like crystal. He jumped forward and wrapped his left arm around around her, "Easy Rhea, breathe, I know," He said into her ear. He held her close to him as she writhed in pain as the serum coursed through her body. She screamed and shouted, kicking out but Bucky didn't let go, he locked his arm around her hearing the metal clink into place like a vice. Bruce and Tony picked themselves off the ground and just stared.

Tony turned to Bruce, "If you have created another Hulk, I am going to end you." Bruce gulped.

Bucky felt Rhea calm slightly, she was moving less in his grip, but he still held her just incase. Rhea gave a whimper and went quiet. Bucky lessened his grip and tried to look around, Rhea's eyes were closed. "What happened?" He demanded.

Bruce looked at the monitors, "Her heart beat is coming back on track, and her breathing is returning to normal. But she's passed out with the pain."

"Barnes, bring her over to the hospital bed," Fury said to Bucky.

Bucky scooped Rhea up in his arms, she felt cold on his normal arm. He lay her down on the bed and stepped back, "What do we do?"

"We wait until she wakes up kid, we won't know anything until then," Fury said to him.

Where am I? Rhea thought, Ugh, my head, it kills. She went to open her eyes, but shut them quickly again, the light was too bright. Great, I knew this serum was a bad idea, what am I meant to do now, go around for the rest of my life with my eyes closed?

"Any change Bruce?" A familiar voice asked.

"Nothing, she has to wake up soon," Bruce answered.

I'm awake you dumbasses, just having technical difficulties, Rhea said in her mind.

Bucky looked down at Rhea, she was still out cold, no sign of life bar a faint heart beat. He glared over at Fury, why did Rhea agree to this?

Suddenly all of the men jumped as a gasp like someone was coming up for air after being underwater filled the silent room. Rhea sat up like something out of the exorcist.

"Jesus kid, my heart," Tony said and leant against a table. Bucky noticed a green glint die down in Bruce Banners eyes.

"Rhea?" Fury asked gently.

Rhea turned to look at them all and blinked a couple of times, then sat forward and held her head, "Ow! Feels like the worst hang over ever!"

"She's fine," Tony waved his hand.

Fury ignored Tony and walked in front of Rhea, "Who am I?" He asked her.

Rhea looked at him for a second, "You're Nick Fury, a lying asshole that kept the fact that I am a Hydra weapons from me for the last 25 years. Sound right?"

"She has ya there Nick," Tony nodded.

"Shut up Stark," Fury glared at him. "And do you know these people," He pointed around the room.

Rhea looked, "Ego-centric billionaire that doesn't play well with others aka Tony Stark. Bruce Banner, a genius with serious anger issues. And Bucky Barnes, ex assassin and currently the only person in this room that know how much my head hurts right now! Good enough?!" She asked.

Fury nodded, "Right on the money."

Rhea lifted her legs that seemed to be made of lead, and put them over the edge of the bed then let them fall so she could stand. Her legs crumpled beneath her weight.

"Whoa," Bucky said and caught her, "If I remember they're gonna be a bit like jelly for a few hours."

Rhea nodded, "So, did it work?"

Bruce walked forward, "It'll take a few days to see if it's really kicked in. Then we can runs tests."

Rhea rolled her eyes, "More tests, I feel like a damn lab rat."

"You need to go and get some rest and we'll call you tomorrow," Fury told her. "Barnes will go with you."

"I'll do what?" Bucky questioned, putting his hands up.

"You'll stay with her," Fury told him as if it was nothing, "You know what she's going through and for the whole procedure you haven't left her, so unless you have other plans tonight, then you're going with her."

Rhea saw Bucky bristle, he hated being given orders. Rhea out her hand on Bucky's good shoulder, "Only if you want to." She smiled gently, trying to take a different approach to Fury.

Bucky looked down at her, "Ok," he nodded.

Rhea breathed a small sigh of relief, "Ok so can I try that standing thing again?"

Fury led both Bucky and Rhea into a room in the Stark Industries building. Rhea looked around, there were two single beds at opposite ends of the room, the walls were white and clean and in the corner was a dresser with some books. She walked stiffly over to one of the beds and sat down, then looked over at Fury as a wave of tiredness swept through her.

"You both can rest here tonight and we can start seeing what changes have occurred tomorrow with you Rhea," Fury said to her, watching as Bucky walked over to the other bed and sat down. Fury walked over to Rhea and bent to her ear, "I am very proud of you." He patted her shoulder and walked out of the room.

Rhea watched him leave and closed the door, she looked over at Bucky then spoke, "JARVIS, are you listening in on us?"

"Of course, and Mr. Stark has eyes on you as well," JARVIS answered back. Rhea rolled her eyes, she should have known they wouldn't leave her alone, especially with Bucky and his record.

"How did you know to ask that?" Bucky asked, sitting up and putting his hands together.

Rhea shrugged, "Just figured they wouldn't want their latest experiment going AWOL or otherwise." Bucky grinned, it was the first time that Rhea has seen him smile, he's whole face lit up with a cheeky grin, she couldn't help but grin back at him. "Well and plus you're here too."

"What about me?" Bucky asked innocently.

Rhea raised her eye brows, "You can practically cut the tension with an ice pick anytime any of them step near you, they're freaked."

"Really? Well I suppose," He said thoughtfully, then shrugged some thought off, "So how do you feel?"

Rhea rubbed her head, "Well my head feels like its going to explode, every joint kills and it feels like I've run about five marathons in a row."

Bucky nodded, "Sounds about right."

"So this is what you went through?" Rhea asked him.

Bucky narrowed his eyes trying to remember, "Everything is still hazy, I can't remember much, but I do remember pain and a lot of it, and when they did my arm I think I passed out."

Rhea looked at the sadness in Bucky's eyes and the fear behind that, "So they wiped your brain or something?"

He nodded, "Every time I finished a…. mission, they would wipe my memory and put me in a cryogenic freezer until the next time."

Rhea shivered, "Jesus…. So you're used to all this." She gestured around the room, "Labs, white walls, needles, white coats?"

Bucky sighed, "Pretty much all I've known since 1944."

"I keep forgetting that," Rhea shook her head, "So when were you born?"

Bucky thought, trying to remember what he read in the exhibition, "I think 1917."

Rhea pointed her finger in the air and made some shapes, muttering to herself, "So that makes you 96, holy crap. Well you're looking pretty good for 96."

Bucky gave her a lopsided smile, "Thanks."

Rhea lay back in the bed and stared up ay the white ceiling, she felt the pain ease slightly in her body for the first time in a few hours. She thought about what might happen, she knew that no one forced her into this, but what if she didn't want to be a super-soldier or a super anything, would they let her just walk away knowing everything that she would have the power to do?

"Rhea?" Bucky called quietly from the other side of the room, "I just wanna say thanks. You're the first person I've met thats made me feel, well, human again. I'm slowly starting to regain memories and I think it's because of you."

Rhea smiled to herself, "Мы в этом вместе" She replied, 'we're in this together'.