Anna was a nervous wreck as she drove towards the rendezvous point. She knew what could happen, knew what was going to happen. But if it meant that Taylor would no longer be harmed, then Anna was willing to face whatever HYDRA would make her go through.

The woman from the video met Anna at the rendezvous point. "Anna. I'm glad that you decided to listen to reason."

"Quit with the niceties." Anna replied in a cold voice. "Taylor's safety is all that I care about."

'And her safety will be guaranteed. We won't be letting her go, not with the powers that she has, but the methods that we will use to study her will be far less painful." The woman walked towards Anna, holding out a pair of high-tech handcuffs. "These will dampen your powers. Unnecessary, I know, since you are coming with us voluntarily, but there are protocols that we must follow after all." She snapped the handcuffs to Anna's wrists, and Anna immediately felt drained, tired.

"Fatigue is normal." The woman assured her. "The power that you are used to feeling in your body has been put into a dormant state, which results in fatigue." She led Anna into a waiting SUV, and Anna couldn't help the yawn that escaped from her mouth. The woman chuckled softly as she got into the driver's seat. "Rest, it'll be a few hours before we get there."

Anna didn't exactly have a choice in the matter, her eyes were already starting to close and within moments, she had fallen into a deep sleep. The woman pulled out her phone and dialed a number, waiting a few moments as it rang. "This is Agent Valerian, the target has been acquired, commence Project Delta."

When Anna woke up again, she was in a cell. The cuffs had been taken off of her, but now she had shackles around her ankles.

"The sleeping beauty awakens." A man was standing in front of the cell door, his accent sounded German, or close to it anyways. "We have much to discuss, but first, I am sure that you want to make sure that your friend is alright." He snapped his fingers and two guards appeared. They opened the cell, going over to Anna and removing her shackles before escorting her out of the cell. The German man waved them away. "We needn't worry about you running off. You wouldn't get very far, not to mention that the Stark girl would pay dearly for your mistake."

They walked to a cell at the end of the hall, and Anna peered into it. Sure enough, there laid Taylor. She looked battered and bruised, but she was alive, and that was what mattered. And they wouldn't be hurting Taylor anymore either, not as long as Anna did everything that they asked her to. And she knew that there was something that they needed her to do, some mission that they wanted her for, she just didn't know what it was yet.

A few moments later, the man pulled her away from the cell. "Come, there is much to discuss and not a lot of time to do so." He led her into a meeting room, and had her sit down in one of the black chairs at the long, wooden table. Several others were there as well, including the woman who had brought Anna to the facility, and she introduced herself as Agent Valerian to the girl. "Now, I'm sure that you're wondering what you're doing here, so I'll get right to it. You are needed for an extremely important mission. We're going to have you infiltrate the White House."

Anna raised an eyebrow. "Come again?"

"You are going to use your shapeshifting abilities to change into President George Johnson, and HYDRA will have control of the American government."

"I hate to ask this, but what are you going to do to the actual President? I can't exactly take his place if he's roaming as free as a bird now, can I?"

"Don't worry about that." Valerian told her. "We'll take care of that, you just focus on changing into him. And make sure that you do everything that we tell you to do, you know what the consequences are if you don't." They knew that the way to hurt Anna, to truly hurt her, was to hurt the people around her, the people that she held close. Anna could handle any sort of physical pain that they threw at her, but the emotional pain, knowing that someone else had been hurt because of something that she had done, that was something that she wouldn't be able to handle. HYDRA had Anna in the palm of their hand, and they knew it.

Once the meeting was over with, Anna was escorted back to her cell. One of the hardest parts of the mission would be catching the President in a vulnerable enough position so that they could deal with him and replace him with Anna. There was going to be a gala in a week, a charity event that was supposed to aid homeless LGBTQ+ youth. That would be the best time to infiltrate the United States' inner government circle. Anna would only have a week to prepare. She would need to practice turning into the man, as well as memorize information regarding his family and other close relations. His wife had died three years ago due to cancer. He had two children, a twenty-eight-year-old and an eighteen-year-old.

The twenty-eight-year-old, Danielle Johnson, was an extremely accomplished physician, and was currently on a three year tour with Doctors Without Borders. The eighteen-year-old, Devon Johnson, was currently enrolled at Stanford University, and was the school's star fencing athlete. Not a lot of people seemed to be interested in the sport these days, but there was no denying that the kid had talent with a blade. Devon would be at the gala, but since Danielle was currently stationed in Haiti, she would be unable to attend. One thing that hYDRA had not told Anna was that Tony Stark was also going to be in attendance. It could complicate things if Anna knew ahead of time, and HYDRA needed to make sure that she was entirely focused on the mission at hand. They couldn't afford to have any slip-ups, not when they were this close to achieving their goal. Having control of the United States government would be a major accomplishment for them. They already had various Senators and Congressmen and women in their pockets, whether it was by bribing them or using other means, such as threatening their families. Anna would wear special contacts so that Valerian could see everything that Anna saw, hear everything that she heard. There wouldn't be away for Anna to intentionally mess things up, not without them knowing. HYDRA would soon be in complete control of the United States, and that could spell disaster for the rest of the world.