Janet did not know how long she was in that room for if she trusted Anax saying he would arrive each day she would have been in there for two weeks. Two weeks of daily torture pain and suffering from a man who did not show remorse he just did his job as simply as one would punch into a clock for work. The only other face she saw was that of a female who never spoke to her. The woman would come in head down and remove any of the devices left in Janet's body then wash Janet down. She would then feed Janet from a plastic tube that was green, orange or grey. The woman would then inject her with a needle and a minute later she passed out only to wake up free of the chair and on the ground curled up in a ball like a child scared of the dark.

Those were the moments Janet waited for lived for as if they were a break from all that was happening to her. She did not recognize her own hands the nails black and yellow leaking puss and blood each time she moved them. She would force herself to stand and walk the room trying to keep her muscle mass up. Everything they gave her was rationed even her water it came in small plastic bottles that were taken away when she passed out from a gas entering the room. She would wake up after that in the chair Anax looking over her and then going to his dam tray of tools for a new torture. She had felt pain beyond imagine yet had no scars to speak of he was the cruelest man she met. He would tell her each day how many people she had killed with the information she gave up and that total was 4671 and rising.

Janet now found herself back in the corner of the stone room the heat lamps were off and she was freezing. She would crawl towards the center of the room slowly turning her face from the chair she sat in each day. She curled up tighter her gown had been replaced today and was no longer stained with her blood, sweat and tears. She could use it for warmth as well as the light from the constantly lit lamp in the ceiling. It was another constant in her life a light that kept her up never letting her rest fully unless she was put under. She began to cry again though it should no longer hurt her body screamed in pain at random moments as if it remembered what she went through like it was feeling all the pain again. She covered her head with her hands to make her ball tighter as if the pain was coming from outside her body.

Then she was out nothing mattered her mind black until she was hit with a blast of water to her face and standing there was Anax. No she thought another day has passed already she began to tear up again how many lives were added this time all she did was mention the shoes oh god the shoes.

Anax looked down at her, "6298."

Janet let out a painful howl, "No but I gave you nothing."

"You gave us plenty to go off of now I am glad to say we make our own shoes." He picked up a remote from his tray, "I have something new for you today." He pushed a button and in front of Janet appeared a screen with three different images on it. The first was of Lyrica her head inside a helmet that seemed to be stopping the sound from her nose. On her neck were two black circles with wires that ran down her back her body covered by tightly bound cloth. Lyrica was hung upside down her arms encased in steel to keep her from opening the bone shields. Anax pressed a button and a red light turned on in the room.

Lyrica's voice came out, "No please no!" Her whole body twisted and turned as she screamed before falling limp.

"That was about the same amount of electricity one would find from a cattle prod it is increased every so often just to make her jump. If you're wondering how you can hear her voice with that helmet on we have a throat mike on her neck so we can get all the info we need. Now this is one of my favorites." He pressed a button this time a green light turned on and a man walked in holding a hose he twisted it onto a small inlet and a second later Lyrica was crying shaking her head the man simply slapped the helmet to make her stop. "We are filling her helmet with that simple mixture we used on you your first day here. Once it hits her nasal passage it burns bad it is so very sensitive for her."

Janet began to pull on her restraints, "Stop it!"

Anax nodded and the green light turned off in Lyrica's room the hose being pulled away from her helmet, "Then look at the second image."

Standing in a metal cage that was chained to the ceiling was Aoife her forearms and shins wrapped in leather which was wrapped in metal straps. Her eyes were shut as if she was sleep, "Looks like you haven't broken her."

Anax laughed, "She was tougher than the others no matter what pain we gave her she took it and kept fighting back. It took us a lot longer to find her weakness but we did and here it is." He pressed button on his remote and the ground opened up under the cage lights began to flash and the cage dropped with a thick splash.

Aoife began to struggle suddenly trying to climb up to the top of her cage, "I thought I gave you what you needed! Not again please!" The cage was slowly sinking into a white liquid Aoife suddenly stopping as she vomited and fell down into the liquid at the base of her cage unable to move only get sucked down.

Anax looked at Janet, "You see she has a fear a simple one of not being able to move no matter what. She is being sucked into the same material as the masks the Royals wear it is too thick to move and cut so she will simply be pulled down until her mouth begins to take in the liquid and then she slowly begins to drown only to be lifted out of it and dropped in over and over."

"Why did she vomit?"

Anax smiled, "A mix of fear, putrid stenches and a chemical we made that floats on the air that we release into the room it is a good way to make her let go. Now here comes the good part."

Janet watched as Aoife was slowly vanishing into the liquid the woman unable to move and pull her feet free. Aoife soon lost her knees sinking faster with each inch she went under trying to grab the bars only to yell and let go as they sparked with electricity. Her waist was gone then her stomach her hands now sucked into the white syrup as it rose to her neck touching her chin, "Not again!"

Janet yelled, "Stop!"

Anax nodded and pressed a button on his remote the cage began to rise and lift Aoife up out of the liquid. "Now then let's look at your last girl." The third picture lit up to show Sayuki in a solid white her entire body encased in a white box her mouth was covered in a white strap. "She is encased in Borosilicate glass so she cannot get out." He pressed his remote the entire room became bright white as loud noises were pumped into the room. "I had to create a very special torture for her that blood of hers would kill all my tools and they are my life line." He smirks a bit as he pressed another button two holes opened on the ball, "I am adding nitrogen to the room we are taking away her ability to breathe slowly. It is quite entertaining to watch it happen the more she struggles the faster the oxygen in the room is removed."

Sayuki began to shake her head back and forth the white strap over her mouth keeping her from gasping she had to rely on getting air through her nose. Her ears were splitting from the noise never sure how long it would last. Then she felt it the chamber she was in was pressing hard on her chest to make her fight for air more.

Anax smiled, "Now for another fun bit of torture." He pressed a button on his remote as he did a powder fell down over Sayuki who began to scream. "that is a special powder it goes into the body and cuts up the throat and lungs before being forced out by the body through violent coughs and vomiting, just wait for it." A few seconds later white foam would pour out of sides of the strap covering her mouth. "With her special blood system it takes longer for her to repair her lungs she will feel like she is choking on air for about 30 minutes." He turned off the screen when Janet looked away, "Now then it is time for them to see what I do to you."

Janet shook her head, "Please don't let them watch."

"It is only fair that they see you too." Anak picked up a scalpel and a metal tube with a funnel he would look her over with and leaned in sliding up her gown a bit. "Now then what shall I ask today?" He touched the scalpel to her leg and made a quick cut only a few inches long. Janet simply winced and gritted her teeth. She was watching closely to what he was doing if she looked away or closed her eyes they would be held open for her and attacked at the end. "You seem to be trained well." He took the tube and pushed it into the slit it would move between her skin and muscle tissue making Janet yell as he began to work the tube back and forth to make a pocket. He would put the scalpel back on his tray and pick up four metal vials and a blue container with a curved end on it, "First is salt." He opened a metal vial and poured it into the funnel on the tube coming from Janet's leg tapping it so it shook down into her wound filling up the pocket.

Janet screamed closing her eyes when he stopped pouring only to be slapped hard so she would open them to him pushing down on the pocket he had created to work the salt in, "What is the question!"

Anax smiled, "What color are your eyes?"

"Blue my eyes are blue!" He was doing it again those dam questions that meant nothing he always asked them why the hell did he ask them.

Anax put the tip of the curved end of the blue device into the center of the funnel and squeezed it seconds later red liquid rushed out of the cut taking the salt with it and relieving Janet of the pain. "Very good Janet," He opened another vial, "Now for some capsaicin, well to be specific the liquid around the seed." He began to pour the liquid into the funnel letting the thick slime make its way into the wound and spread out as he gently rubbed the skin above the wound to make sure she would feel it at all through the cut. Janet was watching gritting her teeth from the powerful burn not wanting to yell out. Anax asked his next question, "How did you and shield track and seal off our funds in Germany?"

Janet shook her head fighting this question, "I don't know!"

Anax sighed and picked up a scalpel again moving to her left leg he made a cut into her thigh before picking up another metal tube with a funnel and pushing it into the slit. He looked up to make sure Janet was paying attention and so he could see her face soaked in tears. He wiggled the tube around to create a pocket between her flesh and muscles. He picked up another vial and began to pour it into the funnel tapping the tube to work the contents down. A bit of liquid pour out of the slit as Janet's face barely changed. "This one is a bit different than the rest." He pressed a thumb down on the pocket he created in her body and when he did Janet let out a scream, "Sand and 98 proof spirits a good mixture."

Janet gripped the chair, "We tracked it through a buyer and followed the amount through accounts until it stopped."

Anax sighed and picked up the blue container putting it in the first funnel and squeezed it a white and red slime poured out of the wound the entire time he kept drilling a thumb into the other pocket just to keep her yelling. He then removed his thumb and put the end of the blue container into the other funnel and a white and red mixture of sand spilled out.

Janet dropped her head breathing heavily realizing he was using milk to rinse her wounds he really did know how to fix a human body. "I am going to get free one day and hunt you down!"

Anax sighed, "I know you think that but each time you see me your body will be reminded of this time and I am sure all the pain will return." He picked up the final vial, "How did you track ground shipments across Russia, china and morocco?"

Janet shook her head, "I am not going to say a thing."

Anax opened up a vial, "You can thank Sayuki for this one." He began to pour a red liquid into the funnel on her right leg then the rest through the one on her left.

Janet began to scream as the liquid began to eat through her flesh from the inside eating muscle, fat and flesh. "We tagged a shipment of devices you got from aim we followed them with gps."

Anax punched Janet, "You are lying we change boxes in a warehouse and send it the opposite way after we scan the machine." He picked up a metal spike and slammed it between the bones of Janet's hand just behind the knuckles of her middle and index finger. He then began to tap it in deeper, "Try again!"

Jane looked at her right hand which was now stuck on the chair and she shook her head it was a shield secret she needed to protect.

Anax picked up another spike and jammed it between the bones between Janet's ring and middle finger, "how did you track the deliveries?"

"I am not telling you!"

"We both know you will so just give tell me already." He picked up a few things from his tray and walked behind her. He would remove the back of the chair exposing her back to him. "How did you track the deliveries?" He put his arm around her chest and began to cut slit one inch long up along the side of her spine. He listened to Janet yell feeling her sweat more struggle only to realize she couldn't caught in his arm and her bindings. "Keep still this next part is tricky." He began to force curved and bent metal bars into the slits listening to Janet scream loudly for a few seconds before she closed her eyes.

Janet began to block out her pain now and simply sit there something had snapped and now she was just going through this she was not going to break. "I am not saying a word."

He sighed, "Very well then." He worked in the bars a bit further then smiled, "Remember our first day and my special needles. Meet their cousins." He took pushed the end of one and it inflated the balloon inflating hard and hitting Janet's liver hard before deflating back into the bar.

Janet coughed not making a noise beyond that it hurt like hell but she had been punched in that area before so she could take it. "Not enough!"

Anax hit another one a balloon inflating hard and hitting her stomach hard making her vomit instantly. There was not much in her stomach mostly water and the mush she got from the tube. "Still nothing," He struck two this time making Janet yell finally as they hit her kidneys.

Janet had been punched in the kidneys before but not like this nothing to dampen the hit she just took if she was not tied down like she was she would be on the ground doubled over in pain unable to move, "fuck you!"

"Such language Janet you know I can't have that," He tapped the fifth bar in her back this one inflated a balloon that struck her heart.

Janet froze for a split second nothing moved on or in her body everything was still no air came in or out until he heart beat once more. She was gasping for breath as if she had not breathed for 4 minutes, the pain in her body increased tenfold and she was screaming loudly unable to keep it in. "I am not going to speak!" Anax growled a bit and then hit all 5 bars all of the balloons inflating to make her feel all the pain at once. The one that struck her heart would halt everything then when it beat again all the pain hit her at once. It felt as if her entire body was being torn apart from the inside, "We use a gamma tracer!"

Anax smiled, "Tell me all about it."

Janet looked down, "It is chemical mixture created by Bruce Banner it is sprayed on injected in the device the mixture reacts with the air and releases a small amount of a specialized Gamma radiation that can be tracked with a program Hank Pym wrote."

Anax nodded, "And how do we get rid of it?"

Janet looked down, "I don't know shield hasn't given me that information."

Anax sighed, "I believe you," He began to remove the bars slowly before walking back in front of her he pulled he spikes from her hand and placed them on the tray. He picked up his blue bottle and used the milk mixture inside to flush that acid under the flesh in her legs. He took the tubes out of the slits. "Now then let's get you fixed up." He picked up a spray can with a hose on it one he knew Janet would recognize. It was sterilizing foam that created a healing agent inside the wound then glued it shut. It was painful but it also numbed the pain afterwards and removed any chance of a scar. "I will see you tomorrow with a new total."

Janet was curled in the corner of the room hiding her face as best she could from the light and protecting her body from the heat lights. Her breathing was heavy her face pale and thin her eyes had sunk in she was no longer in fighting mode now she just wanted to survive. Her lack of water and nutrition had taken her muscles and made her weak she barely had the energy to argue with Anax when he visited her. She had been in the room another two weeks since she saw her friends being tortured like her. She wondered what was coming next she had heard a bit of noise outside and that was never good. The she heard it gun shots not just one but many and she got scared again. Are they done with her and purging the place she was in Anax had threatened that before if people came for her 100 souls would be added to her total which had now reached 18923. She hated that number she had fought before always to prevent death and now she was the cause of so much. She tried to cry but had next to no tears her body holding onto all the liquid it could until she got her next bottle.

"Do we kill the bug?"

"No leave her we got what we needed plus it will send a better message to shield if we let them see what we can do while they panic."

"Alright I am burning the systems how much time do we got."

There was a gunshot, "we have none your job is done."

Janet listened to this moving a bit closer to the door what was this feeling building up inside her was it hope was it joy it had to be something good something she had not felt in so long. She heard the word shield were they coming was she going to be out of this place a smile formed on her lips then a squeak of a scream as she heard something hit her door rapidly.

Anax voice could be heard, "Well Janet it was fun getting to know you but I must leave just know your total is at 19345 now a shame we couldn't make it to 20000. Hopefully we can add to that total later."

"19345," Janet was back in her corner the hope gone replaced by dread and a sickness in her stomach how could she be happy when she caused the deaths of so many. She did not know how long she had been sitting there repeating that number under her breath but she heard the door open and a set of familiar voices rushed into it.

Black widow rushed in grabbing Janet's shoulders turning her around and looking over Janet and her blood stained robe. "It is okay Janet we are here now."

Janet kept saying the number looking up she shook her heard as Spiderwoman rushed in next Janet dropped her head a puddle forming beneath her. She was with people who would not hurt her she was safe and her body just gave way.

Spiderwoman caught her before she could fall into the ground, "We will get you out of here you're safe so is Sayuki Lyrica and Aoife."

Janet smiled then dropped her head passing out as Hawkeye entered the room with a blanket Captain America right behind him. "Let's get her to the helicarrier and get her some help."