Chapter 11

Nobody's POV

Nothing could be seen except the darkness. Nothing could be heard other than the sound of leaves scuttling along the ground as the wind blew slightly. Footsteps echoed along the pavement as three boys dressed in all black walked towards a building.

The building was run down. No one would expect an organisation called there broken would ever be in that place. That was the best cover up, hidden in plain sight. It might have been the fear that kept people from investigating or just plain stupidity. But people would walk by it going on with their daily lives not noticing the things that take place in that building. The torturing, the murders, the science experiments, and the human testing.

The screams that fill the air at night. Locals stories are based around that building. It's the stories that you tell your children at night, people say that it is filled with lonely souls from the dead. People say a ghost of a serial killer haunts it and you hear the screams of all the people he murdered. Either way each story told was not nearly as horrifying as the truth.

"How much time do we have left?" Brendan asked breaking the eerie silence.

"Five minutes." Nathan replied.

They stood just before the door. Neither one of them knew what to do next. Harry plucked up the courage and places his hand on the rusted handle. A hand grabbed his just before he could open it.

"Don't! We don't know whether it is a trap." Nathan said

"Either way we are going to have to go in there. And like he said before, he will know when we arrive. There is no point in trying to hide it." Harry reasoned

Nathan sighed and let go of his hand. Harry slowly pulled down the handle and wrenched the door open. The door made a deafening squeal as the rusty hinges swung open slowly. Brendan winced at the sound. How did he know that was going to happen?

More Darkness greeted them. Nathan gulped and took a step in slowly making sure he listened closely in case they were ambushed. Nothing happened so he stepped all the way in. Harry and Brendan carefully followed trying to make out the silhouettes in the room.

"Hello. We did what you ordered and we are here now alone." Brendan called.

A dark chuckle answered them. A lamp flickered on and they were greeted to a man sitting in an armchair. One leg was crossed over the other and his elbow rested on the arm of the chair and his face rested on the palm of his hand. He looked incredibly bored and when they looked into his dark eyes they saw the pain and hatred in his eyes. Not exactly directed at them.

"I didn't actually think you would come. I guess I was correct, you are just plain stupid. And you didn't bring any SHIELD back up either." He quirked an eyebrow in amusement. "My name is Ivan and I am the leader of the Broken.

"Leader of what? I don't see any other people here except you." Brendan said

As if on cue a group of men came out of a door that none of the boys had noticed before. Each of the men had a tattoo on their arm of a skull that looked like it was screaming. They surrounded Harry, Nathan and Brendan. Nathan quickly analysed there situations, counting each men and looking at their physical strength. About twenty or so men now surrounded he guessed.

"You see, all these people bare a grudge against the Avengers. That is why it was easy to persuade them into joining me. Now that you boys have just waltzed in here without any back up and you expect me to let you go. No, that is bull shit." Ivan's eyes danced with excitement but as quickly as that came his face went back to bored. "Lock them up. Rough 'em up if you have to."

They didn't have time to react, the men jumped them and pinned them to the ground tying their hands behind their backs. "Take them away."

The men lifted them up and carried them away and down the corridor. As they were led down they heard a shrill scream pierced the silence.

"Carmen?" Nathan said in disbelief. He had never heard Carmen scream and this had him unsettled. Nathan began to struggle; he didn't like hearing Carmen scream like that because Carmen was pretty much his sister. The man behind him hit him in the back of the neck hard causing him to black out. Nathan slumped forward as he lost consciousness. Harry rolled his eyes as he was led down the corridor. They stopped in front of a door and one of the guys brought out a key and unlocked it. They pushed them in Nathan crashing into Brendan who caught him.

The door slammed shut and a click sounded as the man locked the door. As soon as the footsteps retreated away and they were out of ear shot Brendan smiled at Harry. "Mission infiltration is a success."

They heard a groan as Nathan regained consciousness. "We have to save them quickly. It must be bad for Carmen to scream like that." He mumbled.

"God Nathan there is no need to play the hero. Remember we have a mission to complete. But we need to act fast. If Carmen can't handle it neither can the others" Harry said. He brought out a small black thing looked like a small tablet or smart phone. The screen came to life and he started tapping in some codes. The object started beeping.

"What is that?" Brendan asked.

Harry grinned. "I would never come into the enemy base without letting someone know where we are. After all we may need back up."

Brendan smiled. "So you are saying SHIELD knows where we are?"

"Yep, and our parents. I am assuming they are on their way. We just need to stay put so that the first chance we get of escape, we can seize it." Nathan said

"So now we wait." Brendan said

"Now we wait." Harry confirmed. "Well I say it's a great time to get some sleep. We will need all the energy to get out of this place. The girls will be weak and they will need our strength to escape."

At that Harry leant against the wall and closed his eyes. His breathing began to slow down and his face went slack as sleep overcame him.

"It still amazes me as to how he can just fall asleep anywhere." Brendan said

"And so damn quickly, I am jealous." Nathan sighed "I would kill to be able to just sleep and not worry about all my problems."
"I agree."

They heard another scream but this time it was Athena. Nathan and Brendan flinched. "I just wish we could do something sooner. It will only be a matter of time before we can't fix them." Nathan said though gritted teeth.

"And the worse thing is we don't know what they are doing to them. But I gotta say I feel sorry for this Ivan guy. Just imagine what Loki and Thor will do to him, even captain America." Brendan said

Nathan chuckled. This Ivan guy is going to go through so much pain.

Stella's POV

I woke up with a start just before I was about to hit the water. I was strapped to an examining table with metal hand cuffs. The metal was cold against my skin and a shiver ran up my spine.

I don't understand, I was just in a deserted area, but now I am strapped to a table in what looked like a science lab.

"So you lasted the survival training. Most people don't survive and just turn mad." I couldn't respond. I tried to talk but my mouth was dry and my throat was parched. "Don't even try talking. The chemicals they injected in you shuts down parts of your brain. You may have a few side effects for a while. But that aside, how will you handle the pain this time?"

My eyes widened when a man in a lab coat came into the room with a massive needle filled with a greeny, blue liquid. I started thrashing against the metal hand cuffs binding me to the table. I don't like being examined like this. He stepped closer his face concealed with a dentist mask.

"Now this may hurt a little bit." He said in a silky smooth voice. If I could see his face clearly I wouldn't be surprised if he was grinning evilly.

The needle punctured my skin and I felt the cold liquid fill my veins. Even though the liquid was cold it burnt my veins and I could feel the liquid move around my body as my heart pumped the liquid around my body. My body was burning, it felt like I was being burnt inside out, and the pain was travelling up to my headache.

I closed my eyes and gave into the liquid as I see no point in trying to resist this torture. The burning finally reached my head and I heard something that completely shattered my ear drums. At that moment I realised it was my voice, my voice screaming. I was finally able to find my voice. My eyesight went blurry as I lost consciousness.

Nobody's POV

It never ended. The screams, the blood, and the crying.

Carmen tried not to watch as the scenes replayed over and over again while not being able to help. The scenes became more detailed as the torturing went on. She felt disgusting, as the warm, sticky blood that now coated her arms. She sat there crouched in a ball in the corner, rocking backwards and forwards while she tried to will the images in her head away. Tears slid down her face as she watched the scenes replayed over and over again.

"Just kill me now." She said over and over again, creating a little chant.

Carmen didn't have many weaknesses, but her friends were her greatest weakness. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying for hours. She had never cried so much in her life, in fact she doesn't even remember the last time she did. She had a searing headache from crying for so long. She flinched when she heard Stella scream, she turned so she didn't have to watch the scene over again. But the sound was just as bad. It was like being in a cinema, as much as you want to turn away, you can still hear it crystal clear.

Carmen hadn't slept for ages, it felt like days, weeks but she was sure it was only a few hours. She would do anything to get out of this torture, anything. She shut her eyes trying to get asleep, trying to get away from the screams. The screams, the shouts, the calling of her name echoed around her head, mingling into one sound.

Finally after what seemed like hours she fell asleep, allowing her to succumb to the darkness she now felt inside her. Her only wish is that someone would save her. Save her and her friends…

Little does she know that, being saved could result to more bloodshed.