A/N – Thankyou to my very first reviewer for reviewing! I don't bite! So please have more reviews, I like to know what you like and dislike and this story won't stay dark for much longer…
Brazilwolf: I feel bad for Lanie too! She's already pretty strong, she just hasn't realised it yet. She has the potential to be as strong as Charles Xavier (from X-Men) if she had the proper training. But she will learn proper control eventually…

Chapter 10 – Escape (2012)
I woke up again with Pierce in front of me. I'd suffered his lessons after every mission was completed and I'd also have a beating from the Winter Soldier if I fought back. I was a mess and I wanted out of the base, I didn't care if it was with Bucky or without. I wasn't staying any longer. I hadn't been able to escape any earlier because they had ordered the Winter Soldier to knock me out if I tried and as soon as I'd return from any mission, I was injected with some serum that would block my abilities. I was trapped but I had a window, as soon as I was unfrozen, I had two minutes to clear Pierce's mind and knock him out.
"Good morning little girl" he said his usual greeting.
"You want to go to sleep on the floor" I said, pushing my way into his mind. He collapsed in a heap and I ran to the door, glancing over my shoulder to see Bucky's form in the chamber beside mine. I hesitated and then decided against it. I would come back for him with help, surely the government would shut this place down. "I'm sorry Bucky" I whispered before running out the door.
"Hey" a guard called out when he saw me. I threw a wave of confusion at him and then ran in the opposite direction, trying to recall where the lab lady had led me previously. I made my way down what felt like a million hallways before I saw light underneath a door. I smiled in relief and pushed the doors open but a metal hand grabbed the door. Damn it! The guard must have released him to stop me. I looked to the Winter Soldier and shook my head.
"You should be on my side, we can leave" I half-begged. He grabbed my arm and started to drag me back inside.
"Back inside" he said. I stomped on his foot and kicked him in the groin, wincing as he fell to his knees.
"I'm sorry Buck, but I can't stay" I told him. He looked up at me with confusion. "Sputnik" I said and watched as he fell to the ground before running out into the cold daylight of Siberia.

I got on a flight to New York after hearing about the 'Battle of New York' where the Avengers had fought against aliens. Steve Rogers was there, and I knew he could help me with Bucky. The lady at the airport had been quite rude when I didn't have a passport but when I messed with her brain a little, she had booked me a free flight to America. I was nearly in tears when I saw the Statue of Liberty and when I got to New York, I convinced a taxi driver to drive me to the Avengers tower for free. I was so in awe of the city, the last time I'd been anywhere outside the HYDRA base, I'd been in Brooklyn in 1945. I caught the elevator up to the main room and when the door opened, I was met by six pairs of eyes.
"Who are you?"
"Security breach."
"Maddie?" So many people talking all at once. I looked to Steve who looked a mix of confused and surprised.
"Steve" I breathed. I smile formed on my face as I ran into his arms for a hug. He held me tightly against him and then pulled away to look at my face.
"Maddie, how are you alive?" he asked.
"I assume you two know each other." Steve and I looked over.
"Tony, this is…" Steve stopped and looked to me. I was a Stark, just like –wait- Tony?
"Wow, you've grown so much since the last time I saw you" I noted.
"When did you last see me?" he was confused.
"You were 21, just after your parents died" I said. "I saw you through a window."
"That's creepy, stalker stuff right there" Tony said matter-of-factly.
"Not if she's your family" Steve told him. Everyone was watching us and they all wanted to know who I was.
"My name is Madeline Stark and I was born in 1919" I told the room. "I'm Howard Stark's little sister." I heard a few gasps and one of the two women walked over to Tony and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Isn't she the sister that went missing in 1945?" she asked him.
"My father never spoke about her, he said it hurt too much" Tony said and shrugged the woman's hand off, walking over to a bar and pouring himself a scotch, I could feel his resentment as he stared at me.
"Zola offered me the chance to see Bucky again and I took it" I said.
"Bucky is dead, I saw him die" Steve told me. I debated arguing with him, but I didn't want him to know the pain I knew. I could let him believe Zola lied to me and tricked me into being their little experimental rat, or I could tell him the truth and put him through the pain of knowing his friend was replaced by a mindless killing machine.
"I know, it was a trick. He just wanted a test dummy to see what would happen if he used the serum on the brain instead of the body" I said, telling only half a lie.
"What did it do?" another man asked. He had curly hair and glasses.
"Gave me powers over the mind; telepathy and empathy. A good combination for escaping" I shrugged sadly.
"Interesting." My response seemed to be accepted by the man with glasses.
"Sorry" Steve said quickly. "This is Natasha, Clint, Bruce, Pepper and you already know Tony" he introduced.
"Hi, I'm Maddie" I waved awkwardly. Tony ignored me and walked out of the room where a suit was placed on him by some kind of machine and then he flew away as I watched on.
"He never got to know his father well, Howard was always so focussed on the past that he never paid any attention to his son" Pepper told me. I looked to where Tony had disappeared from and finally allowed the tears to form.