AN: Tumblr prompt: Void!Danny
Drabble 28-The Kid Void
"So what are we going up against?" Captain America asked Bucky as he pulled his mask over his head.
"I don't know, but whatever it is it's valuable to Skull," Bucky replied, pinning himself against the wall and listening intently.
"Intel says its a he, not an it, so there's that," Black Widow whispered, signaling that the coast was clear.
Red Skull's base was heavily armed and guarded, but with the security cameras on a loop and lots of places to hide, they got through the hallways with almost no problem. And with the key card that Widow stole, they had clearance to almost everything.
Including the lab, where the boy was being held.
"Possibly a meta-human," Cap said as he swiped the card and unlocked the heavy double doors, "So be careful." The other spies nodded and flanked Cap on his left and right, Widow going to one wall and Cap and Bucky going to the other as they watched from a distance.
Intel wasn't wrong, that's for sure. There was a boy, no older than maybe fourteen or fifteen, being held in a bulletproof, meta-proof glass box. He sat in the middle of it, cross legged and looking…Scared? No, that wasn't it. But he was definitely concerned with what the scientists were going to do next.
He had black and purple marking along his body, making a substitution for the clothes he didn't have. It almost looked like space was just sitting there in various swirls across the boy's skin. His black eyes were covered with his shock of black hair, but they still had so much emotion that Steve immediately became infuriated by what Skull was doing to this-this child. It was beyond wrong.
"Okay," one of the Lab Coats said, "You can turn off the power-repression."
A second scientist pressed a few buttons, and the humming they hadn't noticed before became silent.
It was an instant reaction. Shadows tried breaking the glass, but to know avail. They had come from the boy, but he hadn't moved an inch. He kept trying, and Widow noticed how he was aiming for various scientists across the dim room. He wanted out.
They used sign language to formulate a plan to take out the guards and open the glass (or break it, whichever works). Without killing them. Critically injuring them, however, was okay, which made Bucky and Widow both smirk.
Cap motioned for them to go.
They stayed closer to the walls to avoid being seen, until Widow sent the first shot, injuring one of the scientists. He rasped his thigh and hit the ground, and a part of Steve wished that his pain would be everlasting.
He threw his shield, and it flew with deadly precision as Bucky took out his knife and started going to town. It only took a few short minutes for all of the scientists to get beaten. They didn't even get a chance to hit the alarms, which gave the trio an extra five minutes at the most, before they realized that the camera were still on a loop. After all, HYDRA members weren't exactly the brightest.
"Who are you?"
They all turned to the boy in the glass box, who stood and backed away a few feet. Steve put his hands up to show that he wasn't going to hurt him. But the voice…It sent chills down his spine. It was cold and echoed slightly.
"It's okay, we're here to help you. We're going to get you out of here," he said calmly, praying that Natasha's hacking skills had improved since the last time she did this.
Thankfully, they had, and within just under a minute the glass case around the boy sunk slowly into the ground, but he used his powers to jump over it before it even got half way there.
"What's your name, kid?" Bucky asked, looking around for the quickest escape. He had memorized the blueprints of the building before they came, so he might just need to blow that south wall over there and break through another three rooms before they were free.
"My name is Danny," the kid said. "Who are you?"
"No time for chit-chat," Natasha spoke. "They're onto us, we gotta hurry up and get out of here." Her voice left no room for discussion. "Barnes, what's the quickest way out of here?"
"Through this wall. I have some grenades-shouldn't be a prob-"
Before he could finish speaking, they were all engulfed in black. It was terrifying and thrilling all at the same time, and only lasted for a second before he was blinking in the brightness of the Avenger's Tower.
But they were just? What?
A sharp thud brought his attention back to Danny, who dropped a thick stack of notebooks and files on the coffee table in front of Clint, who was trying to play video games.
"What the hell?" he asked, placing his controller back down and backing away towards Steve and Natasha. "Who is he?"
"Danny. We'll explain later," Natasha replied. "Right now, we need to get Danny some food. Are you hungry?" Danny nodded, and followed Natasha to the kitchen.
"So…Seriously," Clint said, turning to the two overgrown fossils, "What the hell happened?"