Arabella awoke on what felt like some sort of pod, there were lights inside it and pads over her breasts and arms. She opened her eyes and looked around, she was slightly disoriented. Her hands and feet were held down by the metal bands and she was hooked up to a heart monitor. The heart monitor sped up.
"Careful Ms. Stark, you'll cause yourself more pain by doing that." Alexander said as he appeared in surgeons clothes and a mask over his mouth.
"What more can you do to make my life worse?" Arabella spat.
"Tsk tsk Ms. Stark, I expected some manners. No problem, I think a little discipline is in order." Alexander said picking up a syringe filled with a strange purple liquid. He approached her and jabbed the needle into her neck. All Arabella could feel was fire, burning from within her veins, it was pure agony. She wanted to cry. Alexander smiled.
"How about being a test subject? Would you like that?" He said. Arabella continues to scream. Alexander grabbed a syringe, this one was full of blue liquid.
"This is my attempt at the super solider serum. I'm hoping it will work." He said injecting the screaming girl with the liquid. Arabella just felt even more pain, she couldn't breathe. She felt the world becoming fuzzy and then she felt the darkness carry her away.
Tony was a bit cranky to be called down to Nate/Arabella's lab at two in the morning.
"This better be good." He grumbled as Bruce handed him a cup of coffee.
"We might have found a way to find her." Bruce said. Tony perked up.
"How?" He asked.
"She was working on it right before she gave herself up. Arabella realized that the serum gave off an energy reading, by tracing the energy reading we should be able to find her." Bruce explained.
"Dad!" Nathan yelled. Bruce and Tony rushed over to the hologram of the map of the world.
"I found her, but something is happening to her, the energy readings are growing stronger, much stronger. I don't know how." Nathan said as he began to panic.
"Calm down." Bruce said.
"She's in Russia?" Tony asked.
"Minor thing." Bruce replied.
"I don't know what this guy is doing to her, but seriously we need to go." Nathan said.
"Not a chance, we need string back up and they are all asleep, I suggest we do the same." Tony said.
"Fine, but promise me we will leave tomorrow." Nathan said.
"I promise, goodnight." Tony said leaving. Bruce was on his way out when he noticed Nathan was not leaving. He reached into a nearby drawer and pulled out a sedative and hid it up his sleeve.
"Come on, time for bed." Bruce said.
"No, you go, I'm gonna stay behind just incase." Nathan said.
"Nathan Isaac Banner, bed, now." Bruce ordered.
"Make me." He replied.
"Fine." Bruce replied as he injected his son with the needle.
"Seriously?" He groaned as Bruce picked him up and carried him to his room.
"You had it coming." Bruce said.
"Goodnight." He whispered kissing him on the forehead. Once Nathan was asleep in bed he went back upstairs to his room.
"Hey sweetie." Darcy mumbled.
"That's the third time this year I've had to knock him out, we need to get that kid a sleeping pattern." Bruce mumbled crawling into bed.
"Well, I'm sure we'll figure it out." Darcy mumbled.
Arabella became aware of a bright light. She opened her eyes and gassed at her body. She now had incredibly noticeable muscles.
"See, my experiment was a success." Alexander said. She looked around the room, other than the operating light above her the room appeared dark.
"What's in store for today?" she croaked.
"I'm think my men need to test their skills." He said as Jake and some other bulky men came in.
"If you're going to rape me at least use protection." Arabella grumbled.
"I see you remember." Alexander laughed.
"We'll be saving that for later, now let the fun begin." Alexander said. Jake picked up a nasty looking knife and threw it at her, it landed in her thigh causing a searing pain. Next some other guys practiced their knife throwing and punching. Arabella was in pure agony.
"Now, it's time for a little more intimate approach." Jake said. Arabella felt the blood drain from her face, Jake hungrily approached her as once again he unzipped his pants. Arabella screamed.
The next morning Steve went downstairs to find everyone else awake.
"The great Capsicle lives!" Tony shouted.
"I'm surprised you're in such a good mood." Steve said.
"Well, we found my baby and in a few hours I will be giving Alexander hell." Tony said happily.
"We have a medical team who will be coming with us, the extraction team will be right outside." Bruce said.
"Can we get a few good swings at Alexander before we hand him over to Tony?" Emily asked.
"I'm sure we can arrange something." Clint said.
"The Lady Lily will not be coming with us?" Thor asked.
"Thor, she is still recovering." Jane said.
"You know, I always thought that gods would be all knowing." Darcy said. Jane face-palmed.
"I am confused Lady Darcy." Thor said.
"Ignore her." Jane said.
"I am so ready to see Ara." James said.
"Me too." Nathan said.
"I wish we could go already!" Ben said.
"Not so fast." Fury said standing in the doorway.
Arabella pretty sure that her life did not understand the term rhetorical question. She was tired and in pain, her muscles pulsed. All she wanted was sleep. The door opened once again. She prepared for the worst, if there was any worse.
"Hello, my men were very pleased with you, as aide from the strings of expletives, I think we need a punishment, don't you?" Alexander asked smiling. Arabella gritted her teeth as her pulled out a dagger. He dragged it down her arm.
"Where's your precious father now?" He laughed.
"Probably on his way to kick your fucking ass!" Arabella spat. He just shook his head, he pulled out a new knife, this one had a carving of the S.H.I.E.L.D. symbol on it.
"I want you to fear this emblem, fear the pain it can bring. This was taken from S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters. Are you scared yet?" He purred into her ear. Arabella closed her eyes as once again the pain overtook her, hands forced her up, she kept her eyes closed. She felt the hands bury her head in more icy water. She fought this time, fought so hard. But only a second of air brought a minute of the water. She was cold and shaky.
"So, have you considered my request?" Alexander.
"I will never make that weapon, no one should have it, not even the good people. That's what weapons do, corrupt good people." She whispered.
"Little, snotty bitch." Alexander snarled.
"Fury, what do mean 'not so fast'?" Clint asked.
"It meant sit your asses down and shut up." Fury said.
"This is my daughter's life." Tony said, he wanted to go so badly.
"Well, we have deemed the area not safe." Fury said.
"No, there's something more. Because the Avengers and their children are here for that reason, to do dangerous shit." James said.
"My boy speaks the truth." Thor said.
"Yeah, you took my shit and now you won't earths mightiest heroes go save a girl's life?" Jane said angrily.
"We don't know shit about this guy!" Fury argued.
"SO WHAT? We went in and now Arabella is gone, so we will be going to save her." Nathan said angrily.
"Dr. Banner, I think you should go with your son and-" Fury was cut off.
"And what? Sedate him? No. He is a human, a concept you failed to grasp at." Bruce said.
"Look, just let me explain." Fury found himself on the ground with a very angry Black Widow standing over him.
"Spill it." She said.
"We think he might have the Jericho missile with him." Fury said. Tony's eyes grew wide.
"How?" He whispered.
"We don't know, but until we can get that as well as Arabella we could be putting thousands of lives in danger." Fury said.
"I can disarm it, so can Arabella." Tony said.
"Give it twelve hours." Fury said.
"Fine." Tony snarled.
"But mark my words, if she is not alive when we get there, you will be so sorry you won't know what you were thinking." Tiny growled.
'That went well." Fury muttered.
Darcy walked into Nathan's room. Nathan sat on his bed reading.
"Hey." She said.
"Hey." Nathan replied.
"I need to talk to you." Darcy said bitting her lip. Nathan lowered his book.
"I know that you've had a rough past few weeks, but we need to talk about your sleeping and eating patterns." Darcy said. Nathan looked down, he hand't wanted to talk about this.
"I know that I haven't been sleeping and Dad has had to knock me out a few times, but I promise I'll get better." Nathan said.
"Nathan, it's been three times now that your father has had to knock you out. You aren't eating properly, I don't know what to do." Darcy said as she barely held back tears.
"I promise that I'll work harder to eat and sleep on a schedule." Nathan said.
"We'll hold you to that." Bruce said walking in.
"Okay." Nathan said with a smile.