An Adventure Paved In Silver
Talking away
I don't know what I'm to say
I'll say it anyway
Today's another day to find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your love, OK?
Take on me (take on me),
Take me on (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two
So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
But I'm me stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK.
Say after me,
"It's no better to be safe than sorry."
Take on me (take on me),
Take me on (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two
Oh, things that you say, yeah—
Is it life or just to play my worries away?
You're all the things I've got to remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you anyway
Take on me (take on me),
Take me on (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day
Take on me (take on me),
Take me on (take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day
The first thing I notice after waking up again is that music. It was a struggle again but I slowly opened my eyes, my vision was so blurry I could barely make out the shapes of the different objects. I still couldn't move my arms and legs as I looked to my right in the direction of where the music was coming from after a while of focusing on the object my vision was clearing up revealing a CD player.
I looked ahead to see the same woman from earlier standing in front of me this time in a lab coat looking down and writing on a clipboard in her hand humming along with the music not noticing that I was awake. I tried to say something to get her attention but my throat was so dry the only sound I could make was a hoarse cry but she couldn't hear it over the music and her own humming, I tried again even louder, this time she heard, glancing at me seeing my eyes are open her eyes widened as she put the clipboard down and rushed to my side taking out a small light from her pocket, gently cupping the side of my head and shined the light into my left eye for a moment and then my right before she turned the light off and put it away.
"Stay here not that you can... I mean just wait here, I'll be right back." blurted the woman as she rushed away leaving me alone as I laid back looking up at the celing.
Some time later the woman in the lab coat returned with the man with the silver-grey hair from before and another man walked in after him who was a lot bigger with very short brown hair who leaned back against the wall by the door as the middle aged man stood over me with his hands behind his back, he was about to say something to me but then looked at the woman who stood to his left, my right with an eyebrow raised.
"Oh, right sorry." said the woman who turned around and scrambled to turn the music off.
"Right, if you can hear me young sir then please nod your head." said the man as I weakly used my neck muscles to make a weak nod of my head.
"Excellent, can you speak?" asked the man as I tried to speak but no words came out just a hoarse noise similar to the one I made to get the womans attention, my throat was so dry as the woman came up next to my head with a cup of liquid.
"It's just water." said the woman as she reached over with her free hand and carefully cupped my chin to steadily open my mouth as she gently poured the water into my mouth, when it was all gone she gently rubbed away any droplets that slipped down my face with her thumb before stepping back putting the cup down on the desk next to me as I tried again to speak.
"Yes I, I understand you" I manage.
"Excellent, can you recall your name?, or your date of birth?" asked the man. I tried to think what they were but just kept drawing a blank apart from before when this man called me Maximoff.
"I don't know, I can't remember I just can't remember."
"I see, please try to relax, there is plenty of time so please try not to panic. It appears you are suffering from Retrograde amnesia, a form of amnesia that is generally caused by head trauma. Memories lost due to Retrograde Amnesia can be recovered spontaneously over time so no need to panic about that for the moment." said the man wandering back and forth as he spoke then nodding at the woman when he finished who stepped forward with a tablet in hand.
"Okay, so with the basics your full name is Pietro Maximoff, you are 24 years of age, born on March 4th 1991 in Novi Grad, Sokovia." said the woman whilst tapping the tablet a few times looking back to the middle aged man when she finished.
"Now that thats out of the way, you have been in that bed for quite some time Mr Maximoff so lets try getting you up and moving around. Miss Bellman?" said the man as the woman came to my side and started unshackling the restraints on my arms and legs then gently helped me to sit up. A groan escaped my mouth, everything felt so stiff.
Third Person P.O.V
"You've lost some strength and mass in your muscles but they should get back to normal in time the more you excercise them, we'll help you with that." said Miss Bellman as she helped Pietro swing his legs around to the edge of the bed supporting his weight as he stepped off the bed but Pietro's legs couldn't take all of his weight as he leaned onto Miss Bellman
"It's okay just stand here like this for a moment, let your legs get used to it." said Miss Bellman as they stood there before eventually started to walk slowly. They were moving at a slow but steady pace.
Pietro kept his eyes on the man as he started walking ahead of them whilst Miss Bellman started walking with Pietro to follow him as they moved out into a hallway passing a few other people in lab coats with the bigger man following behind them. They were walking at a slow but steady pace, but Pietro was getting frustrated, he felt he could go faster, he needed to go faster feeling an urge to move faster as he looked around the hallway around him before noticing Miss Bellman slowing down now moving very slowly whilst looking at the man's direction.
"Why are we slowing down I can go faster." said Pietro as Miss Bellman started to turn her head to face Pietro albeit very slowly, Pietro looked ahead to the man who had his back to him was also moving very slowly barely moving along with everyone around them. Pietro looked behind him to see the large man staring straight at him but barely moving, it was as if everything and everyone suddenly went into slow motion and Pietro was the only one moving normally. Removing Miss Bellamans hands from his waist he tried stepping away but only managed a few steps before stumbling and falling over. Letting out a frustrated sigh before settling for sitting down with his back against the wall as Miss Bellman rushed to his side. Pietro looked around at everyone to see they were moving normally again.
"Whoa, hold on there cowboy." said Miss Bellman waving away the silver residue from Pietro's speed then checking over him making sure he didn't damage anything.
"What? what do you mean slow down? you all just slowed down, barely moving what happened?" asked Pietro as Miss Bellman looked to the middle aged man.
"Fascinating, to us it seemed you were using your superspeed but to your perspective everything else was moving in slow motion this is truly fascinating but I must ask you Mr Maximoff to please slow down until you are back to full strength." said the man as Miss Bellman helped him off the ground and held him steady until he was ready to start walking again.
"Now as I was about to say my name is Mr Harper and I own this facility, this is Miss Lucy Bellman she will oversee your rehabilitation during your stay with us and the gentleman behind you is Mr Connor Legano the chief of security in this facilty." said Mr Harper as they slowly continued down the hallway.
"Where is this facility?, What are you? Some kind of military or something and how did I get here?"
"We are LADON an organisation dedicated to boosting humanity's standing in the intergalactic community. Humanity is too poorly represented in the Galaxy and our place in the Galaxy is more fragile then most people realise due to the lack of technology that exists back on Earth. The human race may be the fastest growing species in the Galaxy but there are other species and civilisations that have been space faring long before mammals started taking their first steps on Earth. We believe the Human race has the potential to be equal to these races but as of now the people of Earth cannot space travel with the ease of lets say the Shi'ar or the Kree Empire, most people don't even know it can be done. Most had gotten lucky enough to find passage or stowaway on alien crafts hidden in secret on Earth and find their way in the Galaxy but most tend to represent us as a species... poorly. We aim to turn that tide for humanity, we believe that humans are capable of the most extraordinary things, you are living proof of that Mr Maximoff being capable to move at the most incredible speeds that is why we saved you and brought you here, we need your help to help us achieve this goal. We believe with your abilities you can drag humanity forward in mere months in what would normally take decades." said Mr Harper as he stopped and turned around to face Pietro.
"But what exactly are you asking of me? What am I to do?" asked Pietro trying to make sense of all this new information.
"For now get back to your full strength and we will help you get even stronger from there, we will provide the best training available that will help you in this endeavour. Before we let you rest there is something you must see." said Mr Harper as he turned around and started walking again as Pietro and Lucy followed him. They eventually turned around a corner into another hallway which was the same except for the window with the view of space as Pietro stared out at the vast emptiness of space speechless before Mr Harper pointed towards a large blue sphere.
"You see that there, that is what we are doing this for." said Mr Harper proudly as he gives Pietro a moment to take in the view.
"Miss Bellman please take Mr Maximoff back to his bed, lets leave him to take all this information on board and we'll start as soon as he is able." said Mr Harper as Lucy led Pietro away back in the direction they came leaving him with Legano who walked to stand next to him and joined him in staring out in space.
"Extraordinary, that tiny burst of speed was incredible imagine what he will be when he is back to full strength. That information we bartered from Wolfgang Von Strucker before his demise about the Twins has really done him no justice." said Mr Harper as he stared into space with his hands clasped behind his back.
"But what of his Sister Sir?" asked Legano in a heavy Cockney accent folding his arms across his chest.
"Leave her be for now, she has joined the Avengers and we are not ready to move against them yet but with our new asset and the help of our "Benefactor" we will eventually and we won't make the same mistakes as HYDRA."
"But what of our "Benefactor" Sir? aren't you worried that he'll want a return for his investment?"
"Not at all, if he expects a return in the sum of exclusive access to the asset then we shall oblige and by the time that happens we will have gained everything we need from Mr Maximoff or he will have provided us the means to gain everything we need. If by chance he regains any memories that will be a hindrance to our goals we shall simply subject him to readjustment again. Make the preperations for his training to begin as soon as he is ready, with his ability to recover quickly I imagine it wouldn't take very long." said Mr Harper.
"The Virtual Reality Program Sir?"
"Yes, prep it and put a priority on hand to hand combat and martial arts training then move on to weapons training. With his speed and the correct training I believe he will be near unbeatable".
"Right away Sir." replied Legano as he stepped away to carry out his orders leaving Mr Harper alone to stare out into space.
A:N: The Virtual Reality Program is basically like the X-Men's Danger Room in this story.