Hey everyone! Here's the second chapter I said I'd post today! I hope you enjoy it!
(I don't own any of the characters or their stories.) (Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but I try to use 'the Witch' and 'the Soldier' when Wanda and Bucky are under HYDRA's influence. Now that they're not, I'm going to be using their actual names, although I might alternate between both names just so I'm not constantly repeating myself.)
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The room was silent as Wanda and Bucky held onto each other, trying to collect their thoughts. The night sky was turning purple with the imminent sunrise.
I can't believe he's gone through all that, she thought. Her heart broke for him.
"I'm going to kill him. I'm going to kill every person in this damned place," came Bucky's raspy voice from her shoulder.
Wanda stiffened and Bucky pulled back.
"I'm going to make them suffer for all they've done to me, to us," he said, grabbing Wanda's head between his hands.
"Bucky," she said, reaching up to grasp onto his wrists.
"Please, don't. We saw how dangerous they are and I'm pretty sure that wasn't all of it. Let's just leave, sneak out of here. You, me, and Pietro can leave and start a life outside of HYDRA," she whispered.
"I can't, Wanda. They've taken so much from me. I want them to burn to the ground," he said standing up.
"Bucky," Wanda tried again but stopped at the torn look on his face.
"Wanda, please. Don't you understand? Even if we escape, we'll always be running from them. Destroying them is the only solution," he told her.
She sighed and stood up to give him a long kiss. His arms automatically wrapped around her and her mind flashed back to the redhead in from his memories.
She pulled away.
"Of course. You can count on me," she said.
He smiled and leaned down to kiss her one more time before pulling back and going to the door. His hand paused on the handle.
"Go get Pietro, ask if he can help. Give him a brief summary of what happened. From there we can all leave together," he said, turning to look at her.
"Okay," she said with a small smile. His lips twitched and he was out the door.
"Dear God, please help us," she said, looking up to the ceiling.
Gathering her courage, she walked confidently out of the room and into her brother's room two doors down.
"Witch," he said, sitting up in his bed.
"It's Wanda," she said, shooting a red blast towards him. He fell back and she could see his eyes moving rapidly behind his eyelids.
Walking slowly towards him, she knelt down by his head and sent a continuous stream of power into his mind. She quickly let him know of the lies she had uncovered, told to them by all of HYDRA's men. She showed him the memory she had of his arrival after his first mission. She made him understand that they were more than who they thought they were and that to discover their past, they had to destroy HYDRA.
With a final flick of her wrist, Pietro opened his eyes and got up with a gasp.
"Wanda?" he asked, the name strangely familiar on his tongue.
"Pietro, we have to help Bucky," she said, helping him stand.
"Who?" he asked.
"Bucky, that's the Soldier's name. We uncovered it, along with other things HYDRA has done to him, to us," she said.
"So why are we fighting HYDRA? Why not just escape without them noticing?" he asked.
Alarms went off and the twins covered their ears at the ringing.
"If we don't stop them they'll always be after us," she yelled at him.
He nodded his head and both lowered their arms as their ears got used to the ringing.
"It'll be dangerous," she said.
"I'd be disappointed if it wasn't," he answered with a smirk.
With a roll of their shoulders, the twins walked out of the room into chaos.
"Scarlet Witch! Quicksilver! Quick, you're needed in Pierce's office! The Soldier has gone mad," one of the guards yelled as he came running towards them.
Wanda recognized him as one of the men who tied her down to the chair.
"Of course," she said with a smile. As if sensing his sister's plan, Pietro chuckled.
"Now if you'll excuse me, you're in my way," she said, wrapping her powers around the man and tearing his body right down the middle.
"You're awful," Pietro said, still chuckling next to her. All around them they heard screaming.
"Eh," was her reply as she formed a shield around them. Hundreds of bullets hit her powers and she blasted it away from her, effectively killing all the men in the room.
"Damn Wanda. Remind me never to get on your bad side ever again," her brother said.
"Shut up and let's go to the office," she said.
"Last one there is a rotten egg!" he said before disappearing.
Wanda groaned and ran in the direction of the office.
"'Ooh look at me I'm Pietro aka Quicksilver and I can run into battle in no time but I couldn't be bothered to take my sister with me cause I'm a lil shit,'" she muttered under her breath as she came to the office a minute later.
"Actually, it's because you're too heavy," Pietro said leaning against the door. "And because I have to conserve my energy for the fight. What took you so long?" he asked with a smirk.
"Stop messing around, we have to help the Soldier," she said.
"Alright, alright. Let's go help your precious Bucky," he teased before running into the room.
"Everybody stop," she said, stepping into the room with her glowing hands held in front of her.
Her brother was standing in the middle of the room and watched as Bucky struggled with a group of men and Pierce was standing smugly in front of him.
"Freight car," Pierce finished, smiling wickedly at her.
"Pietro," she said. He became a blur as he ran around the Soldier, knocking out all the guards. She gasped as the Soldier struck an arm out and knocked Pietro away.
"Pietro! Bucky, what the hell?" She yelled, using her powers to pull her brother away from the Soldier.
"Who the hell is Bucky?" he asked her with a blank stare.
Enraged, Wanda's powers slipped from her and wrapped around a laughing Alexander.
"What have you done to him?!" she yelled taking two steps in his direction.
"I've set him back straight," he said.
"Wanda!" yelled her brother.
Wanda felt a hand wrap around the back of her neck and throw her across the room.
Her grip on Pierce ceased and he got up to run.
Pietro quickly blocked his path and wrapped his hands around his arms and neck, effectively holding the older man in place.
The Soldier walked towards her and she stood up, wiping blood from a cut on her cheek.
"Bucky, listen to me, you have to-" but she was cut off as he threw a punch at her.
She ducked and knocked his feet from under him. He rolled and stood up just as fast. Before she knew what was happening, he turned around and ran towards Pietro, taking him from the arm and making him release Pierce.
Wanda wrapped her powers around the Soldier's arms to get him to release Pietro.
"Bucky, stop! Please!" she sobbed.
The Soldier used his metal arm to punch Pietro in the head, only knocking him unconscious since he was unable to use his full strength.
"Soldier, snap out of it!" she yelled. He turned and ran straight at her.
Angry and heartbroken, Wanda let him go and instead focused her powers on his mind. She used her hands to weave the truth into her powers and shot it directly into his head.
He groaned as his mind felt like it was fighting against itself. He raised his metal hand in an attempt to shield himself from the magic but it just went around.
"It's such a shame you decided to go against us," Pierce sighed from the corner of the room. She only then realized that the guards had left and he stayed to watch.
"I would never willingly work for a piece of shit like you," she growled.
"And yet you did. And you were so powerful. It was beautiful watching you team up with the Soldier to spread the work of HYDRA," he said.
Wanda sensed the Soldier getting near and focused on him again, using more force to not only clear his mind, but push him back.
"You're sick," she gasped out.
"And you're going to lose," Pierce said.
She knew he was right when she looked into the eyes of the Soldier and saw the blank stare still in place.
"Bucky," she whispered.
Recognition flashed in his eyes for a second before the Soldier took over again.
Wanda could do nothing but watch as his right arm came around her red mist and threw her world into darkness.
