35. Prototype - Sophie
"You've reached your limit, Doctor."
"What are you talking about?" The Doctor shakes in disbelief holding his wounded shoulder.
"The device that you've just used. It's not the real RgX. That was a prototype, the very first version. And it's a failure."
"I-Impossible! My limbs, they have been restored. I'm immortal, I cannot die."
"You misunderstand how the RgX functions." I walk toward him
"No mutation can produce matter, Doctor, you should know that. The RgX does not protect you from death. The RgX accelerates cell regeneration, which has a lifetime limit. And after a point, the body will reach its limit and from there on cannot regenerate any further. It accelerates your death after that point. The prototype you have has a glitch. And that's why it can never be a weapon of war."
"What are you talking about?!"
"The prototype has a knack for trying to heal every injury your body sustains and cause chromosomal aberrations. Not only have you relied on it to repair complete limb regrowth, but you've allowed yourself to be shot in vital organs assuming that they will regenerate indefinitely."
"Then how are you still alive, Carson?"
"Because I used the real RgX. The one you've all been after, is the wrong one. You've reached your limit, you're no more immortal than anyone else."
"Where is it, Carson?!" The Doctor screeches running at me, a gun in hand
"I destroyed it."
Captain America and Stark take over, James pulls me to him holding Lucy and we run for the doors.
"You have ten minutes!" I hear James yell behind us.
I gasp. Something hits my stomach.
We close the doors behind us, James lays me down and tears bandage from his jacket to pressurise my stomach. I had been shot.
"You will survive." He mumbles frantically trying to wrap the material over me, my hand reaches out to stop his.
"This is a major injury. My body will heal it. I have the Rg gene." I murmur.
Though it still hurts me, my body manages to expel the blunt metal bullet. James' arms wrap around me, pulling my frame into his. I reach out, my hands on either side of his face. His blue eyes are stormy. He pulls away and stands.
"They blanked you again. Why do you remember?" I ask behind him, a few seconds passing before he answers.
"They're not easy to forget anymore. The crimes."
"You saved us."
"I'm the reason this all happened." His sad eyes turn away from mine
Before I can respond, he lifts me into his arms with Lucy and begins running.
"James, where are we going?!"
"I'm getting you out of here. I planted ten C4 bombs around Hydra's base before they blanked me. I've rebuilt my bike, we have eight more minutes." He pulls his mask over his face, leaving only his eyes visible.
"You did this…" I mumble, he had done this for us?
We reach the main entrance to the base, the cold hits me hard, chilling me to the core. James helps me onto the bike and lays Lucy on my lap, he gets on behind me and starts the ignition. I am taken further and further from the now exploding laboratory on the quadbike by the very man that had brought me to Hydra.
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