Irene let out a shriek as she ducked her head down as close as she could to her shoulder as she heard the deafening 'Bang! Bang! Bang! But what she didn't expect to hear was a loud Tink! Tink! Tink! Shortly after that. She opened her eyes and looked up just to see a man punch Jared so hard that he nearly flew to the other side of the room. The man turned around and she stared into the gentle, blue eyes of Steve Rogers.

"Are you alright?" Steve asked as he bent down to her leave and examined the handcuffs.

"Steve" she let out breathlessly, "How did you find me? This place is off of the charts of any sort of map"

Irene looked up and gasped as she noticed that the girl was about to advance toward the couple with a knife in her hand. The doors suddenly banged open behind her, revealing Maria as she wasted no time in shooting down the mutant. The woman let out a few painful screams before dropping down to the ground, lifeless. Maria placed her gun back into her holster as she ran over to the couple and looked down at Irene's wrists.

"These handcuffs were stolen from SHIELD" Maria spoke up.

"How can you take them off?" Steve asked.

"Maria, get out of here!" Irene panicked, "He knows about you! He's already threatened about what he wants to do to you. You have to get out of here for me"

"I'm not doing that, Ren. You can even try to persuade me into leaving you but that won't help either" Maria took out her ID and placed it on the handcuffs, "I'm pretty damn sure you would've done the same for me. There's no way I'm going to leave you alone anymore"

The handcuffs made a slight click sound and released Irene from her prison hold, "I was afraid you were going to say something like that"

Irene got up and looked over to see that Jared was slowly getting up and getting his bearings in. She saw someone move from the corner of her eye and noticed that it was Nick Fury as he loaded his gun and shot a couple of rounds at the mutant. Irene looked back to Jared, expecting to see that he was groaning on the ground in pain, but he wasn't there anymore. Fury let out a scream as Irene noticed that his body was being flown over in their direction, colliding him into the other three.

"The traitor, the sister, the commander, and the fossil all in one room" Jared laughed in his stony figure, "I think I'm going to enjoy this. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity"

"Good job, everyone" Irene growled to her saviors.

Maria only gave her sister a glare as she took out her gun again and started firing rounds at Jared as she moved to the right. Nick Fury did the same thing but was moving toward the left, but none of the bullets were even making a dent on Jared in his statue form. Irene moved her hands up and slammed them down at the lights above brightened and started to shoot beams down onto Jared, only making him bend down slightly. She tried at least three times before she shot the beams of light out from the palms of her hands as Steve threw his shield, sending Jared into the wall.

"You can hit me all you want but you can't hurt me!" Jared yelled out as he got up.

"It doesn't matter! We have a counteractant that can strip away your power"

Jared slowly nodded as he looked at Nick Fury with some sort of understanding. He slowly reached into his pocket and took out a syringe. Irene gasped as she realized that that was the vaccine he was holding. Steve reached out and pulled Irene behind his back, making him her human shield.

A crinkling sound echoed in the factory room as the syringe exploded in his hands. Jared looked at his hand, expecting to see his hand turn back to its normal form but instead he shrugged and wiped his hand on his jacket.

A shudder went throughout her body as she gripped onto Steve's shoulder. He prepped his shield one more time, getting ready to throw at any minute.

"Some antidote" Jared let out.

Maria spoke up from her spot, "I should warn you that you should come quietly"

Irene looked over and Jared as he let out a wicked smile to everyone in the room. She knew that he would die rather die and kill everyone else in the room then being taken under by SHIELD in any sort of way.