34. Three Bullets - Sophie
A gun shot sounds.
My squinted eyes open to see my best friend limp on my lap. A pool of blood soaks our clothes in a horrifically symmetrical pattern. I can't breathe. The air in my lungs couldn't nourish me, the beating of my heart could not convince me that I was alive. Lucy was dead. And I did not want to be alive.
"I have no further need of you or her or any of you SHIELD agents. The Winter Soldier is to be sent to cryo, he has become weak." The Doctor orders, but his eyes are fixated on the activated RgX. I'm still holding Lucy's lifeless body to me, my locket resting on her forehead, trying to wake up from this nightmare that I was living. I had failed. I had failed her and the world.
Click.
Invisible Ultraviolet light around the open vent of the laboratory bounces from the exposed reflective surface of the RgX onto the twisted wire in front of it.
A focussed beam of light pierces the Doctor's chest. A loud scream issues from him as the radiation perforates through each of his cells, inducing the Rg mutation in his genetic makeup. Every vein in the Doctor's body becomes illuminated in blinding light, through his blood red complexion.
The light is gone several seconds later, I look up in horror as the Doctor stumbles backward pulling at his bionic leg.
The metal leg is tossed to the side and the Doctor rips his cloak off. I hear a blood-curdling series of clicks and snaps: The formation of bone and muscle. Everyone in the room watches in horror as tumour-like growths on the Doctors arm socket and leg begin forming limbs. I had never seen the RgX work at injuries this severe. He falls over clutching at his newly made leg.
"Sophie!" James' voice rings out from behind me and I turn to see him standing beside a now free Captain America and Stark. James had taken the moment to disarm the agents and free them. He tosses me a gun and I pull back, taking Lucy with me. Pierce was nowhere in the area, a trail of blood led out of the laboratory in his wake. Rumlow had gone too.
"I feel new."
We all turn to see the Doctor standing before the huge glass windows.
"Now!" I yell
We shower the Doctor in a spray of bullets aiming for his vitals. A moment later, we cease fire. A loud almost hysterical laugh issues from the crouched figure before the windows.
"I am immortal at last! I do not feel your bullets… Carson, you have completed Hydra." The Doctor breathes as his body expels a dozen bullets onto the floor. I take one more shot, aiming at his head. I hit accurately and it takes several moments before the Doctor expels the bullet as if it's nothing.
"You cannot harm me." He smiles, I notice a bullet scrape on his shoulder, it was minor but it had not healed.
Could it be that my plan would still work?
"Shoot again!" I call at the incredulous James, "Trust me" I search for his eyes and he pulls the trigger.
He shoots once. The bullet is expelled.
He shoots again. The bullet is expelled.
He shoots a third time. The Doctor keels back. The bullet remains lodged in his shoulder.
This was it.
A/N: Is Sophie's plan going to work? What is her plan? :O :O Thanks for your support! I'm having so much fun writing and hearing back from you all. Even I don't know how this is going to end but here we go! :) x