Reinhardt was getting old. He was rotting in a cell at the Rat since Peggy Carter dropped him there at the end of the Second World War and it was now 1993. He was honestly surprised when Hauer and other Hydra agents brought him back to his fortress on Austria. The agent had told him he would find out soon enough why Pierce wanted him out of the Rat, so he waited patiently until the agent wheeled him into the room. Other Hydra agents came in through the other door with a group of people. "They are the elders of the village you have examined before," Hauer informed him. Reinhardt slowly got up from his wheelchair and walked up to the elders, eying every last one of them, until he recognized someone he had seen during WW2, she was exactly the same.
"How…" Reinhardt said, looking at her curiously. "I grew old living no life, she lives a full one and doesn't age a day."
"Sir, how is this possible," Hauer asked, confused.
"I don't know, but we'll learn. Discovery requires experimentation," Reinhardt told him, before turning to the Asian woman. "I think it's time we find out exactly what makes you so special," he told her, and then he turned to another of the agents. "Did you find anything in her home?"
"No, sir. I can bring a team to search her things to make sure," the agent said, and Reinhardt nodded, so a group of agents left the fortress to go back to the cages downstairs to check on the small amount of belongings the elders brought from their village in China.
"While we wait, I will prepare for experimentation," the scientist said, and Hauer nodded, as he and another agent grabbed the woman and they dragged her to the operation room, restraining her to the table so Reinhardt could operate safely.
About two hours later, Reinhardt got out of the room, still wearing his surgical outfit. When he got out, he saw the agent that he had sent to the woman's house, and gave him a look, demanding answers. "We have found something that you might be interested in," he said, showing a picture of the woman, a man and a baby.
"Who are the other two?" Reinhardt asked, pointing at the man and baby.
"From what we found, the man was her husband, though he did not seem to be home when we got there. The child seemed missing as well," the agent said, and Reinhardt nodded, and he looked back to the woman and smirked.
"We will discover what we can about the woman, and then we can find what we can on the child," the scientist said, before going back to the operation room. He bent down next to her ear, and whispered something. "What is your weakness? Hydra can always find anything."
"No… Daisy…" the woman whispered, in English. The last time he saw her, she only spoke Chinese, so that was an improvement.
"Discovery requires experimentation, and we will learn what we can about you, and your Daisy," he said, before he went back to his tools and continued his experiment.
For the next few days, he worked nonstop on her, removing organs, taking blood samples to see what made her special. It took more days for Reinhardt to figure out that the organs and blood would lead to nothing. The scientist grabbed the organs and placed them in jars for further analysis. However, due to the surgeries and torture sessions, the woman ended up dead on the table. "You can dump her body outside," he told his men, who nodded. For the next week or so, Reinhardt looked over the harvested organs to see if he could use the DNA to become young again. And he did. In the end, he looked like he was back in his early thirties.
"What did you take from the woman?" Hauer asked, as Reinhardt made sure his cufflinks were in place.
"Everything I possibly could," he said, turning to the younger man.
Reinhardt – now Daniel Whitehall, an American scientist – headed to the States, eager to thank Pierce, and join Hydra once again. The second he got to Washington, Whitehall got a phone and dialed Pierce's number he got from the other agents. "Pierce," Alexander Pierce said, answering his phone on the third ring.
"This is Reinhardt," Whitehall said, with his perfected American accent.
"You sound different," the secretary said, sounding cautious.
"I managed to find a way to return my body to its thirties."
"And why are you calling me now?"
"I wanted to thank you for your interference in me being out of the Rat. I also wanted to tell you that I am back within Hydra."
"You're welcome, doctor. I know that you can be a good asset to the new Hydra, now that you are back on your feet."
"I also had one more favor to ask of you," Whitehall said, and the line was silent, so he took it as an invitation to continue. "My men and I encountered a special woman, and we have found that she has a child. It has come to my attention that the child could be special like her mother. I was wondering if you could find her, with your resources."
"Alright. I can look around, see if the child will be spotted. Where is she now?"
"Probably still in the Hunan Province," Whitehall said, and Pierce hummed, before ending the call.
It was a few weeks later that Whitehall received a phone call back from Pierce. "Whitehall," he said, as he answered.
"I found files about the girl from the Hunan Province. SHIELD agents found her, but they were killed, so another one was dispatched and they brought her back to the States."
"Where is she now?" Whitehall asked, interested now by his discovery.
"St-Agnes orphanage. SHIELD has a redacted file on the mission, and is monitoring her safety, since now almost a third of the team has been killed off since they brought her there. The nuns gave her the name Mary Sue Poots. I would recommend using a fake identity if you plan on taking her in."
"Thank you for the intel, Pierce," Whitehall said, and the call ended.
"What do you want us to do, sir?" Hauer asked, as he and other agents awaited his order.
"I need you to go to New York City, St-Agnes Orphanage, and find the child, goes by the name Mary Sue Poots, but use a different name, so not to draw SHIELD's attention."
"Yes, sir," Hauer nodded, and he and another agent left the building to go to the airport. It was easy to find a plane to go to New York with two seats available, even though it had two stops to make. Since it was evening, they took an evening flight, and the next morning, they went back and took a car to St-Agnes.
"Hello, gentlemen, what can I do for you today," one of the nuns greeted them, as they entered the orphanage.
"We would like to adopt a baby," Hauer said, nodding to the woman.
"Come this way, then," the nun said, and she led them to the room with the youngest toddlers. "We have a few babies, depending on the age you were searching for."
"We wanted a baby around one to two years old," the other agent said, and Hauer nodded.
"We have three that fit this category, including one that was dropped off on our doorstep a few days ago," the nun said, and she went to the three baby beds. "Here is baby Thomas, two years old," she said, and the agents nodded. "Next is our newest addition, she didn't have a name, so we named her Mary Sue Poots." She showing them the baby girl, and she seemed to smile at Hauer.
"May I hold her?" he asked, and the nun nodded, and she took the baby in her arms before giving her to the agent. "She is adorable. Is it ok, if we talk about it for a moment, think about it?" the nun nodded, and she took Mary back into her arms.
"I will get paperwork in case you want to adopt her," the nun said and the men nodded, before walking away to an alley.
"This girl is exactly who Dr. Whitehall wants, the daughter of that woman he experimented on. We have to bring her back," Hauer told his colleague, who nodded.
"I will call Dr. Whitehall while you make the arrangements," he said, and Hauer nodded, going back to the room to find the nun.
"We made a decision. We want to adopt Mary out of the system," Hauer told her and she nodded handing him some paperwork and a pen to sign everything. He signed down under the name Mark Jackson and wrote down the same name the nuns gave the girl, so once they change her name, she will be under the radar.
A few minutes later, Hauer and the other Hydra agent left with the baby, and went back to the airport since their return flight was in a few hours. Luckily, since the baby was so young, she didn't need a ticket, and she would be sitting with Hauer. Their return flight was nonstop trip, so they would be there in less than three hours.
Once they made it back to Whitehall in Washington, Hauer handed the baby to the older man, who smiled at the girl, happy they found her.
"Daisy, we found you, finally," Whitehall smiled as the girl smiled at him as well. "You will become a great asset to Hydra. You will be one of the best."