Welcome to hell

Millie opened her eyes slowly. She was sore. She tried to move but she couldn't. It was like she was in a cocoon. She looked around trying to distinguish her surroundings through the dark. There was a beam of light coming from the back. It was really small and didn't help much but she could tell she was in a cell. She was tied against a chair in the middle of it.

Her head was pounding and she could barely feel her legs. What had happened? They had been kidnap that was for sure. She had been with the pilot maneuvering the plane to avoid the missiles when they saw the explosion on the back. She had ran to the cabin to help Pepper when someone hit her on the head. She remembered nothing from there. Were Pepper and the kids alive? She hadn't seen them in the cabin but she guessed the same people who took her must have taken them as well. So what they wanted from them?

She took a deep breath trying to make the pain go away. She tried to figure the ropes with her fingers and smirked.

"Amateurs" she whispered and realized how dry her throat was. She had to be out for quite long. Quickly she untied the ropes in her hand, waist and legs. Instantly a rush of blood went down her veins and made her want to scream. It was like a thousand needles were going under her skin. She tried to stretch and waited for a few minutes before the pain was over. She tried to get up and found she was still unsteady. She made an effort and reached the wall before collapsing.

She straggled to get up on her feet again and touched the wall. It was made of stone, cold and wet. They had to be underground. She made a few steps to the right and found a metal door. She kept walking trying to find a weak spot or listen something that could get her out of there. She reached the back wall finding that the beam of light was coming from a small whole on the top of it. She reached the last wall and her legs betrayed her again. She fell down and tried to catch her breath. She was really weak. She felt her body shake and tried to warm up. She put her head on the side, against the wall and closed her eyes.

If only her head stopped pounding. If only she could stop shaking, then she could come up with an idea and get the hell out of there finding Pepper and the children.

Suddenly she heard a door open and a light came from a whole on the base of the wall. Someone had entered the other room. She heard a baby cry and a woman trying to calm it down.

"Shut him up!" a man commanded.

"Maybe I'll do it if you stop yelling." A woman said. It was a familiar voice, it was Pepper! Her voice was a bit weak but it was still sharp and serious like non other than Pepper Stark Potts.

Millie smiled a little and pressed her ear against the wall to hear more.

"If you can't do it then I will." The man said. For a moment all she could hear was Logan's cry but eventually she heard Pepper sing a lullaby to make him sleep.

"You better teach him to be more quite or he won't live long." The man said.

"Where are Edward and Marie? Where have you taken them?" She asked him.

The man laughed in cruelty.

"Oh, they'll come back to you, for now." He said and left. The door was locked again and the light was lost. Pepper began singing again, her voice full of tears.

"Pepper? Pepper?" Mildred said hoping her weak voice could pass the wall. Pepper stopped for a moment but then kept on. Millie lied down bring her eyes to the whole. Unfortunately she could see nothing due to the lack of light but she hopped Pepper could hear her through it.

"Pepper!" she yelled but the door opened again covering her voice. She heard two kids yelling before the door closed again.

"Oh my God, you're back!" Pepper said sounding relieved. "Are you ok?" she asked them and they answered.

"We're ok, they are good to us." Edward said not sounding happy at all.

"What do you do?" Pepper asked them.

"They take us to a big room and we watch TV, play videogames and stuff. They feed us too." Marie said.

"Really?" Pepper said surprised.

"They call us Justin and Wendy." Edward said pissed off. "I don't answer when they call me Justin." He added. There was a big pause after that and Millie assumed there were hugs and kisses going on.

Time passed how much time nobody knew. It was like everything stood still in there. Darkness and nightmares were all one had. Millie sighed and let herself sleep. She was so tired and hungry and thirsty. At least she knew everyone was alive.

When Millie opened her eyes again she was not in her cell. She was in some kind of infirmary, hands and legs tied against the bed with an IV attached to her. She straggled to escape but it was in vane. It didn't take long before someone entered the room. It was a man, tall with broad shoulders; he wore military clothes and looked filthy. He looked at her and left returning with another man and a woman. The woman tried to check on her but Millie resisted.

"You may want to let her do her job, Ms. Stark if you don't want to die." The other man said. He was short; he must be shorter than her father, not very athletic with a military suit as well.

"Who the hell are you?" she barked.

"Did Tony Stark teach you no manners?" he said smirking at her. The woman told him something in a foreign language she didn't understand and he nodded.

"You may want to calm down or Dr. Ferreira will not be able to examine you. You know while you were "asleep" you got bit by a rat and you may want to listen to her if you want to stay alive." The man said. Millie stopped and looked at her leg. There was a big nasty bit on it. The doctor examined her for a few minutes and then took the IV out.

That hurt.

She left as soon as she finished and let her alone with the two men.

"So what do you want from us?" she asked him.

"The access codes to the company for one." He said and made her burst into laughter.

"That's not going to happen." She said but he didn't find it very funny.

"Well, let's not make big statements, shall we? How about discussing something else for now, ha? I've heard you are quite smart." He said. She snorted.

"Lies, my IQ is lower than that of a cockroach." She said and he smiled.

"Oh, then I'm afraid that your little brother is of no use to us." He said and her eyes went wide open. What was going on?

"Don't you dare touch a hair on their heads." She threatened him.

"Right, I don't want to raise the wrath of the Stark. Oh, wait, he thinks you're dead. Hm, now that's a bit disappointing." He said.

Millie was taken aback. Tony thought they were dead? Oh, God, what would they do? Why would they do that? What did they want?

"What is it that you want? Guns? You don't want money that much is obvious." She said.

"Oh, it's much more complicated than that. Maybe you would understand it if I explained it to you but I won't. What I want right now is this." He said showing her a picture.

"Where the hell did you find that?" she asked him not believing her eyes. It was a prototype Tony had built but never sent to production. It was a space weapon, meant to kill every satellite that was targeted. It had never get out of the workshop, Millie herself knew it only because she had come across it in the museum of junk, Tony called storage. How had he found a picture of it? Had he hacked into Jarvis system?

"I didn't hack into your special computer, I'm not that smart. Let's say I got friends that talk, a lot." He said.

"I can't build it. Even if I wanted I couldn't. I don't know how it works, I've never seen the plans of it, all I have is a picture just like you." She said and the man hit the wall.

"Don't mess with me, girl. You are very smart to build this think and I know it. If you don't we'll send your brothers and sister back to daddy in pieces. Do you think he'll find a way to glue them back together?" he said smiling evilly.

Mildred wanted to smack his face right then and there. Had he no soul?

"I didn't think so. So you better get this figured out and soon." He said and turned his back on her. "Oh, and don't play any tricks on me, if you build anything else rather than said weapon I'll kill them all." He said and left.