Jyn flicked her fingers over the screen in front of her; she still wasn't sure if what she had heard in this interview was in any way accurate. Pulling up some of the background information, she set to work on attempting to corroborate some of the claims that Designation: Hawkeye had set forward. If there was one thing that Jyn shared with Dacia, it was a belief that it was good to try and scare up more than one source. She thought, in the case of Dacia, that it was a byproduct of her Jedi training, then later from some of her studying while she was masquerading as Darcy Lewis.
Entering into a bit of a fugue state while she tried her hardest to get answers for some of the things that were bothering her. There were some things she felt weren't sticking well with her, but she couldn't even say that she knew what it was that was bothering her, all she knew was that there was something there that was giving her pause. Frowning when she found some areas that looked as if there were going to take a longer time for her to confirm, in saying so, she jumped a little when Cassian and Dacia made their way into the room.
"So did that make either of you two want to scream? Some of what that guy was saying was borderline hard to believe, why would he would he even believe some of those things?" Cassian grumpily asked storming into the room.
"Yeah, he seems more than a little confused about some of the things he was saying. What I'm struggling with is the idea that he signed up for something that he wasn't completely clear on what he agreed to, it boggles my mind. It's doesn't seem like the smartest thing to do, certainly not when signing up for a new phone contract, never mind going out to fight in a situation that you don't understand very much about what you are potentially signing your life and soul away for. Is there any way that this would make any sense?" Dacia nodded her head in assent to what the man was saying.
"That it doesn't sound like it would make a lot of sense. But some of what the guy was saying didn't make a lot of sense to me, so I emailed Ms Hill, I wanted to try and see if there was anything in the guy's background that would make his actions any more explicable and while I wasn't able to find anything. At least nothing that immediately jumps out, but Ms Hill was able to give us a small bit of something. She told us that the guy was not known for his intellectual abilities. I wasn't able to work out if the woman felt bitter over a slight, but it seems to check out, what she is saying I mean." Jyn answered the two, gesturing at the computer screen.
"Okay, well based on that I can't see that as having changed. It doesn't seem like something that has changed greatly over the years. It doesn't seem to have gotten into the man's head to start trying to think things through. We might end up having to put a pin in these thoughts, not while we have to start interviewing Designation: Scarlet Witch. Is there anything that they wanted us to bring up in regards to this situation? The last thing we need is to go into an interview with her and not have some form of questioning that we want to begin softening our way." Dacia allowed the two in front of her.
"That is fair enough, but for now we need to know if there was something that we should be aware of, Jyn did they at least give you some questions that they could initially ask, even some way in which we should point our questions? Cassian asked the two, running a hand through his hair.
"Yeah, they wanted to know if we could scare up some information on how the woman got her powers, or even some of her background before she decided that joining with HYDRA was a splendid idea. Though something tells me that it will be difficult for us to get any and everything we need from the woman, or at least it would be easier getting blood from a stone than it would be getting answers." Jyn spoke confidently, having looked down at some of the notes she had had open on the screen in front of her.
"For right now, we need to more concerned with who goes in to talk with her. We need to be smart about this." Cassian sighed.
"Right, I've been thinking about that, and it would make more sense if Jyn were to talk to her. We should send in Jyn to ask questions because maybe she will be able to get past the woman's guard. I am happy to stand at the back; I am sorry Cassian, but I don't trust that the woman wouldn't try to reach for her powers. From what we have seen, I would be the only one that can take her down, even temporarily, without causing lasting harm to her." Dacia told the two.
Cassian could only nod his head at the woman, briefly shaking his head to show that he wasn't offended.
"That's fine; we don't need to start begging for trouble before we are ready to deal with it. Is there any point where we can begin asking questions." Cassian calmly told the woman.
"Right you are, we need to ask the obvious questions, such as does she understand the predicament that she has found herself in. We should try and get further on her background because even if we can't find an answer, we might be able to gather more hints, maybe something she accidentally lets slip." Dacia spoke, grumpy with some of the things that she had been told.
Dacia ran a hand through her hair, still finding the situation going forward to be remarkably challenging to deal with. Peering down at her hands momentarily and wondering what she would like to tackle next. Jyn broke the silence for the trio and began to speak.
"While I was waiting for you guys to show up, I was able to look further into the current situation in the State Department, would you like to know what I found out?" Jyn spoke, while the other two to nod their head in assent.
"I was able to find that the former security of State was called Elizabeth McCord, I already told you that, yes? She worked at the CIA, and I haven't been able to find a lot of details on her earlier career, but that is a power of the course for a spy agency like the Central Intelligence Bureau, so I'm not too concerned. At least not with my inability to find anything, I'm reluctant to try a deep dive into the agency, my theory was that I don't want to attract undue attention towards us and our motives. I was able to find that McCord worked with President Dalton, while the two still worked at the CIA. He brought McCord in to replace the previous Secretary of State when he mysteriously died."
"When McCord first started working at the State Department, some of the other senior Staffers weren't sure if they could trust her. I'm not 100% sure of what exactly happened there, but after a while, the woman was able to gain their trust. Her Chief of Staff then was called Nadine Tolliver, who has since left the Department for different pastures. Her most recent Chief of Staff was called Jay Whitman, some of the staffers who worked under the woman. As far as I can tell Whitman still works at the department, but as I'm sure you can guess, the guy is under near-constant scrutiny."
"Right, but that doesn't mean anything for us. Yeah, it sounds strange, and it's something that we would want to investigate, but we can't spare any extra time on it, at least not when we have other things we need to focus on. Does this lead anywhere Jyn? Dacia prompted, wanting to get her friend back on track.
"See, I thought so too, and I spent a little more time on it, simply because I wasn't sure where it would ultimately lead. I mean we do have bigger concerns, but as always something was drawing me in, and I couldn't put my finger on it. At least not until I came across this." Jyn tried to explain.
Pinching her two fingers together, she enlarged on the files in front of her and flicked it up to display on the big screen in front of her. Looking briefly at her friend's faces, she huffed when she could see that the two weren't getting as excited as she would like. Deciding that it would perhaps be better if she could explain to the two of them what exactly had attracted her attention.
Certainly less time-consuming.
"You see what I found was that President Dalton was diagnosed as having lived with Meningioma, a brain tumour that was pressing on the frontal lobe of his brain. These types of tumours can impair the executive function of the brain, affecting things such as the judgement, decision-making abilities and lowering inhibitions while they are dealt with."
"Right, but what's that got to do anything we're dealing with?" Cassian asked, already becoming impatient to get the answers that he wanted.
"I'm getting to that; it doesn't seem like it would affect us on the surface, but I looked even closer. Dalton recently threatened war against Russia, something which could be indicative of the type of significant personality change, with typically excessive displays of emotions." Jyn continued to explain, looking even more animated in what she was saying.
"The point Jyn, THE POINT WOMAN!" Cassian roared, already becoming fed up with the woman's waffling.
"Right, I have one of those. The point is that the cabinet invoked the 25th Amendment, and President Dalton was left with a choice of either stepping aside to have his issue, at this point they didn't know about a tumour, or to see his name being dragged through the courts. It was up to his Vice President Theresa Hurst to effectively hold down the fort while the guy was medically treated. From here it gets a bit murky, but what I have been able to piece together is that Hurst was thinking (and making definite motions) towards making a run for the presidency when Dalton's time is up. What I've been able to work out is that while the man wasn't there, Hurst was able to outmanoeuvre McCord, and oust her from the State Department. This served two purposes; she was able to weaken the other's woman's position, don't forget that McCord was in no way a politician, a bit of fools mission personally speaking. And it was suspected that McCord was looking at making a run for the presidency, Hurst didn't want to have to fight off the woman that was polling a lot better than she was. She was able to get into the now vacant position a face from her past, General Ross. I can't work out why she wanted Ross, in particular; maybe it was an old debt or something?" Jyn got more and more animated as she told her story.
"Right, that's interesting but does McCord have many supporters left the State Department? Because that's where it would start to concern us right?" Dacia tried to hurry up the woman, still not sure if she was amused by how Jyn was getting on.
"I knew you were going to ask that, so I did a little digging. When McCord was still there, she was surrounded by staffers; Daisy Grant, Matt Mahoney, Kat Sandoval and her assistant Blake Moran along with Jay Whitman. Those staffers are all still there, but in a diminished capacity, I suppose it was recognised that General Ross might not have been able to function – it would probably have been something completely different from what he was used to doing. From what I have been able to tell, those people have been working from within to bring down General Ross. As soon as Dr Stark wakes up, he might be able to put the final nail in the man's coffin so to speak. Have we heard anything more about the guy? What's is his prognosis?" Jyn finished by peering over at Dacia.
"I have been listening to some of what they're comfortable telling us, which understandably isn't a lot. It's easier to say now that it looks as if the guy's vitals are starting to level out. It just concerns me that so far, he hasn't woken up. Jyn is there anything that you could think of which might impact this might have on his physical health." Dacia explained, crossing her arms over her chest as she thought through some of the issues that they were likely to face.
"I'm not a licenced medical practitioner, at least not in this universe. So all I can say is that you should trust the doctors and medical staff surrounding him. You can bet that the Stark money would open up the doors to the best of the best. For now, though, that's all I feel comfortable speculating, at least not before I can look at his medical notes." Jyn explained.
"Okay, that's fascinating, truly that's fascinating, but we need to get moving with some of the rest of the interviews." Cassian tried to hide a yawn before he continued, "I can see why you may begin to become even slightly fascinated with the whole mess back in Washington DC, but that doesn't completely affect us. At least not now, can we focus on some of the questions we need to think about asking the questions that we need to be answered!"
"Right, you are, before we get started, do you guys have any questions that you definitively want to be answered? I don't need to point out to you guys that we only have one first interview at the woman; it's more likely that we will be able to shock something out of the woman on the first time around." Dacia pointed at the man, acknowledging Cassian's point.
"No, I think that we are honestly better just going in and seeing what comes to mind. If she manages to bring up something that we aren't expecting, then surely it would be better than we don't feel constrained by questions. At least, not when we could be faced with a sudden windfall regarding unexplained and questions that we aren't even aware that we should be thinking off." Jyn thoughtfully told the two what was going through her head.
"Okay, Cassian, would you mind keeping an eye on us through the CCTV, we don't want to miss anything, just in case we should miss anything?" Dacia spoke, looking over at Cassian.
She stood off slightly to the side and looked over at Jyn, waiting for the woman to follow her lead and make for the door. Holding up her left arm briefly, she joking held it pointed towards, she carefully bowed in the direction of the woman. Hearing Jyn laugh was all that she needed
"Come on, then joker, we need to talk to these people!" Jyn laughed, before skipping from the room.
Cassian looked up at the two women and shook his head briefly before returning his focus to the screens directly in front of him. At least, some things would never change, and the two would always be inevitably laughing and joking with one another, at least when it wasn't something more serious.
WHOOSH
Jyn made her way from the room and briefly slowed in her steps long enough for the Jedi to catch up to her. She suddenly paused in her steps and peered back down the corridor for the woman to catch up with her, tapping her foot up and down impatiently. Not wanting to deal with any hurt feelings, Jyn smiled at the woman while she rolled her eyes at the woman. Reaching up with one of her hands, she absently began to itch at one of her arms while she waited for the woman.
Looking over at the woman rapidly gaining step with, Jyn turned away from the woman and began to walk in step with her. The two knew that what they were about to undertake was no doubt going to be very important. At least as far as being able to understand some of how they should begin to move forward about the woman. Hopefully, it would shine a light on the woman, and even though it was a remote possibility, it would shed more light on what kind of impact the woman was having on their emotions. At the very least they were aware that they might only be able to get from the woman her name.
At the very least Jyn was prepared to be disappointed with what the woman came out with during the interview, but she was always aware that it was better for to go in with an open mind. That way at least she wouldn't be too heinously disappointed with whatever it was that she learned. Because wasn't that the point of this whole shindig? To get answers to the some of the questions that plagued them? Or at the very least be able to fill in some of the blanks surrounding their questions? No matter which way Jyn shook it, she was stuck with someone who believed in asking questions, so for now, at least she could pretend to understand where the woman was coming from. She felt like it was a good thing to do a little digging and get the answers to some of the questions that she felt needed answering.
Taking a small breath in through her nose, Jyn peered at the woman beside her and opened her mouth to speak.
"Do you have any questions that you would like for me to press her on in there?"
"No, I honestly feel as if the woman might provide us with some answers if we don't prod her for answers, at least, not until we can start to limit our scope. In any case, I'm not sure if the woman won't give us something to go on, at least not without playing mind games on us." Dacia told the woman, walking alongside her.
"Ugh, when was the time when I thought it was only the Jedi who would be likely to play mind games with me again?"
"Yeah, there were some assholes in the Jedi Order, but I didn't think that you would have been likely to run into any Jedis?" Dacia teased the woman, suddenly concerned that the woman would have had a run in with Darth Vader.
"Don't worry I didn't come across Vader's radar, at least not beyond the whole Father connection. It doesn't strike me as something the guy would keep an eye on. No doubt he found it too important to keep the universe still living in fear. He had bigger things to be concerned about." Jyn reassured the other woman,
"Ugh, point. I came across the guy who I suspected later became Vader, well suspect is a weak term, I was able to work out that it was him. While I still knew him as a Jedi, he was a sweet guy, so I'm honestly unable to work out exactly what happened to make the Dark Side seem like a reasonable place any rational being would want to be. My point is that I don't think you should joke about that, because if Vader had it out for you, then it could be a bad thing." Dacia spilt in one of her trademarked spill of consciousness.
"Fair enough, but do you honestly think that anything could track us to this Universe?" Jyn worriedly asked as she stole a sidelong glance at her friend.
"No, I haven't come across any indication to even hint at anyone being able to track us here. I just wish that you wouldn't belittle the threats that we did end up facing. It makes them seems trite." Dacia sighed.
"Okay, well we need to go and get started on the rest of our day here. Ladies first, madame!" Jyn told the woman, laughing.
Jyn looked over at her friend Dacia and wondered if there was any particular reason that the woman had chosen to wear her robe today. Feeling as if the nerves were ready to crawl up her throat, was this some sign that the woman felt as if she needed some way or method with which to hide her face. It was times like this when Jyn wondered if the woman had some form of fore vision when it came to the future. Normally Jyn wouldn't even entertain the notion of anyone being privy to what could happen in the future. Though she privately felt as if she couldn't simply dismiss any of Dacia's abilities, she had seen too much to write them off.
The two woman simply looked at one another, before nodding and entering the room. As one they were able to peel off and start on their separate tasks, they had both worked on these tasks together and separately, at least to the point where they were both able to perform their tasks without having to rely on each other for help.
Dacia made her way towards the prison cell that contained Designation: Scarlet Witch, turning only briefly to peer back Jyn. Jyn was stood beside the central computer and was efficiently keying through a few of the features; she made sure to manipulate the keys to the rest of the cell doors. Jyn didn't want for even the slightest chance of the prisoners to be able to escape.
Not on her watch in any case.
Nodding over at the other woman, Jyn silently watched as the woman stepped to the side and began to tap through the features on the wall mounted screen. Jyn focused her eyes back on the door to Designation: Scarlet Witch's cell, she wanted to make sure that that woman wouldn't take any opportunity to make a grand escape. Smirking a little, when she noted Dacia is making her way into the woman's cell quickly. Waiting for what she was sure was a split second, she saw the woman coming back out with her quarry safe in hand, she pressed a few of the buttons again and made sure that she locked the woman's cell behind the two women.
Silently following the two from the cells, Jyn wondered how the two were going to continue moving on. Finally, the odd grouping reached the small room where the interview room. Dacia proceeded to make sure that Designation: Scarlet Witch was securely lashed to the table in the middle of the room before she nodded to a wary Jyn. When Jyn saw that the woman had nodded at her, she carefully took an opposite seat to Designation: Scarlet Witch. Glancing over her shoulder carefully to check what Dacia was doing, she saw that the woman had carefully stepped back with her hands resting on either side of her hips.
"So hello, Ms Maximoff, now before we get started on this interview, I want to know if you at present are relatively comfortable." Jyn started with an easy question, knowing that her job was going to be much easy if they could at least pretend to be cordial at the beginning.
"Yes, I don't know why that would matter to you, but for all that it matters, for all that you care, then yes I am comfortable." Designation: Scarlet Witch looked slightly conflicted as she answers Jyn's simple question.
"That's good, now as to my second question, do you understand why you are here?" Jyn gently asked, not wanting to let her hand show this early.
"No doubt, it's got something to do with that monster Stark right? Everything wrong with this situation has got his disgusting fingerprints all over it." Designation: Scarlet Witch spat, the venom clear in her tone.
"Well, why would you say that? You broke the law, don't you think that you should have paid the price for breaking the law? You didn't have to come out to fight if you hadn't then you wouldn't have been in this situation at all. Can you explain to me why you got yourself involved?" Jyn tried to prod the situation back to the subject at hand.
"It is always Stark's fault; it is always that monster's fault. He took my parents and my brother from me; if it wasn't for him, then I might still have my family. WHAT POSSIBLE REASON WOULD YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT IT WOULD BE ANYONE ELSE'S FAULT!"
"I'm glad you started there because contrary to popular belief the weapons trade, on a small scale, share some similar attributes to trades that deal with designer goods. By this, I mean that as was part and parcel if a company wanted to make a quick buck, they could simply paint on the S.I logo on the side of any weapon and make their enemy shit their pants in fear. In the case of Sokovia, the weapon that killed your parents, it didn't have anything to do Dr Stark. Instead, it was sold by one Obadiah Stane, a partner in Stark Industries, who among a great many illegalities, sold weapons under the table. But I'm not completely sure if he even sold Stark Industries stock was fired at your family apartment, which claimed the lives of your parents. Do you want to know who Stane sold the weapon too?" Jyn started to explain, sounding as if she was about to start lecturing the woman.
"You dirty, dirty liar, it is always Stark he is a disgusting excuse for a human being. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the guy were to turn up dead suddenly. It would ahh serve him right after all!" Designation: Scarlet Witch couldn't possibly have looked even eviler if she had an evil moustache to twirl menacingly.
"Right, you've hinted at that, but that's not strictly true. Would you be interested in finding out whose name was on the order requisition form for that weapon? I dare say, you knew him quite well. After all, you fought under his command for a great many years. Do you want to know who you should have saved all your energy for?" Jyn lightly mocked the woman sitting across from her before continuing "It was one Wolfgang von Strucker. I can see that name means something to you, for the record would you mind telling me exactly who or what that is."
"No, you're lying, the man along with Doctor List was able to give us the powers to go after Stark. Without him, we might not have gotten as far as we might have hoped. Why would he try to harm our country? What possible reason would he have for those missiles?" Designation: Scarlet Witch started to plead.
Dacia looked at the woman with feeling revulsion beginning to crawl up her spine as she looked over at Designation: Scarlet Witch. She wondered why the woman continued to bleat on with the same thing over and over again. Smirking as she wondered how much fun Jyn was likely to have to pull her misguided beliefs down around her ears.
"I'd normally apologise, but I just don't feel sorry. Do you want to know why he bought those weapons? Or at least some of the things we suspect about the man's intentions because as you know, he is dead. You had a hand in his death didn't you?"
"I suppose that you are going to tell me, so go on tell me what exactly I am missing." Designation: Scarlet Witch tried to rally.
"I'm going to go on a bit of a tangent here, don't stop me if you have heard it already. But Strucker wanted a political landscape in Sokovia that was easy for him and HYDRA to take advantage of, the government in place could have defied them, but as with most good things, it comes to an end. Strucker, as I had mentioned earlier, want a softened government; they weren't receptive to bribes, something that Strucker would have likely fallen back on."
"Oh but Colonel Strucker was a patriot, why would he do anything to harm Sokovia! That doesn't even make any sense."
"And yet the guy was HYDRA; he was fairly high up in the organisation, one of the heads. He didn't like the idea that he couldn't mould the politics in the country to how he wanted it. And why would he? Wouldn't make a very good little terrorist if he wasn't trying to change things around in any case. But that's not where you come in, now is it?"
"No, but he allowed my brother and I to take part in the experimentation we used to take down Stark and the Avengers."
"No, you silly woman, he didn't pick you two for the experimentation because he liked you. He picked you because the two you already seemed like you good soldiers for the HYDRA cause, so why not throw the two little pawns to the experimentation. After all, it wasn't as if anyone was surviving it then what could it hurt him? Don't think too highly of yourself, nor of the man, you weren't intended to survive."
"You know that isn't true? WE WERE EXPERIMENTED UPON TO LEAD HYDRA's FORCES TO GREATNESS, WITH US AT THEIR HEAD, THEY COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT, AND THE WORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH GREATER PLACE!"
"Wow, that was a reach, does it hurt you stretching that far? I hope you didn't pull a muscle while making that frankly ridiculous assertion?"
"It wasn't a stretch, but I have seen the light, and if you knew what Stark had done, you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss my words. That guy is pure evil; I don't even know why we are discussing it, it is as certain as the sun will rise in the East and set in the West." Designation: Scarlet Witch tried to force out a laugh as she thought of the some of the more ludicrous things she felt like she had to set right.
"Right, no I heard that I understand that you feel that way, I'm just struggling with some of the concepts that you are coming out with. I am just trying to work out by which metric you are judging the supposed evilness of the guy. It can't possibly be about you, because sunshine, you joined a terrorist group, did it not possibly enter into your mind that was even a slightly questionable thing to do? And I have heard the idea that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. But I cant work out how you thought that it was a good idea. So let me in on some of your thinking here, because this is starting to confuse me."
"That guy got rich of the backs of other people. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Thanks to his Daddy, he never had to work a day in his life. Can you blame me for hating the guy?"
"Well, I'm going to stop you there, I don't like to be bored and you Miss are boring me. Don't take it personally it's just that I get bored listening to someone continue to go round and round in the same idea. As much as I can be held guilty of just such a thing, you understand that it bores me a little." Jyn pretended to yawn.
"Now, that wasn't very nice all I'm trying to do is tell you where I'm coming from, the guy is evil personified."
"We will have to agree to disagree there. You see, Dr Stark yeah had inherited a multi-million dollar weapons, yeah, he struggled with the sudden responsibility for a few years. But he also managed to take that company and diversify some of its interests, to the point where it became a multi-billion dollar, with a great many interests beyond simple weapons. He was later kidnapped in Afghanistan, and that woke him up to the downfalls of his weapons company. To cut a long story short, his company left the weapons trade behind, at what could be argued was a great personal cost to him. But that's something that I don't see you becoming too interested in. Something tells me that you don't see further than the end of your nose. I'm right about that, aren't I? Right now I want to know exactly what you decided to ditch ULTRON and join with the Avengers. Please don't give me the crocodile tears; I'm honestly not sure whether or not they would irritate me or inspire some form of rage in me."
"We had learned, I had seen that Ultron's ultimate plans meant the annihilation of everyone on earth, we couldn't let that stand. So we joined up with Rogers and his merry band of thugs to protect this earth. It wouldn't be fair to any children growing up that they couldn't know what life on this planet could be." Designation: Scarlet Witch eyes' started to well up as she began to think of some of the things that were likely going through her head.
"Sweetcheeks I said to spare me the crocodile tears because they aren't going to work on me. But do you want to know what I think? It should have been clear from the get-go that the robot wasn't ready to wear daisy chains. Not in the very least. So I think you realised that if you supported the robot, it would mean the end of your brother. Your supposed heroic gesture was born out of nothing more than a desire to save your skin. How am I doing so far?" Jyn asked, folding her hand together.
"Sounds about right, but you are missing the best part of my plan. Would you like me to tell you what exactly you missed?"
"Yeah go for it, but if I could hazard a guess, I'm going to guess that you didn't get in on the Avengers by simply fluttering your eyes. Something tells me that you didn't spread your legs either. I am going to guess that you still have too much arrogance and that maybe you couldn't see yourself as too precious to do that. How am I doing so far?"
"Close but no cigar, I only had to enter into Rogers' head and see how I could manipulate him. He only wanted to see the best in everybody around him. All my brother and I had to do, was to spin him a sob story about how we had seen the light and wanted to fight alongside the Avengers. It made my spine crawl having even to say those things, let alone speak to him. I still maintain that we did nothing wrong." Designation: Scarlet Witch shrugged her shoulders as much as she could at least.
"Okay, I can see why you might think that. So tell me, did you perhaps keep any feelers in the team's mind? To continue to turn them against Dr Stark?"
"Oh, that? That was my finest piece of work; I didn't have to do much more than nudge them in the right direction. He turned them against him all on his own."
"Right but didn't you already have fingers in their minds? I'm going to guess that you planted something in their minds THEN, not that it would be too difficult for you to do. So am I going in the right direction."
"I might have implanted thoughts then, not that it was difficult. He lost any respect that they had for him when he created ULTRON; it's not my fault that the guy created a genocidal robot. I didn't do anything to him, nothing to make him think that such actions would go in the right direction for him. How stupid can you be to think that creating a large robot was the right course to take?"
"Oh, but don't you know that when you attacked him when you planted the thoughts in his head of those horrible nightmares. Is there any point to this or am I simply going round in circles? What part of it aren't you understanding?"
"That? I was told to do that, and let me tell you how delicious it was to me, more than I even have the ability put into words. The only way this could have been better was if I still had my brother at my side. At least I didn't have to put up with Stark too much. Thank goodness for small mercies rights? At least I didn't need to have him there still taunting me after everything I had lost."
"Changing topic again, I want to ask what exactly made you leave the Compound. I mean, sure you were already in a lot of legal trouble with regards to your actions in Lagos, but that could have been dealt with. No easily, I'll give you that one. Your VISA application was already in a bit of trouble. Turns out that Rogers and the US Immigration Department, differ on some things. Your previous membership to a terrorist organisation is one. In fact, I bet you don't know that it was only thanks to Dr Stark's access to incredibly efficient lawyers that Stark keeps on retainer fo people like you. As long as you did your part and kept yourself away from prying eyes, away from public notice, it could have all been fine," Jyn gave a short laugh before continuing "so it was really thanks to his breathtaking guilt complex that you were able to work with the Avengers. It was a lot of trouble just to get you onto a work VISA, but it didn't seem as if you were going to get a green card. Do you have anything to say for yourself here?"
"Stark was locking me up, he had shoved me into that compound and told Vis to keep me locked up. He was breaking my human rights; I did the right thing when I ran away! I wouldn't even piss on that man if he was on fire"
"You say that, but I don't think that you know what a real prison is like. Because I have been in a few in my time. The Compound? That is like a 5 Star luxury resort; you had access to a private swimming pool, gym features, internet and constant access to cooks so that you could have three award-winning square meals a day. If you wanted to cook, then that option was there for you. If that place were a prison, you wouldn't even last two days. I have been places where I have been locked up in damp and squalor just waiting for the day when I could feel warm again. I have been locked up in places where the only thing I had left to myself was my body, the things I had to do to get by, would give you nightmares Princess. So don't even talk to me about prison. Not when I don't think you could understand what it is like. Sunshine you better hope that man wakes up soon or you will be for a world of trouble and I don't even think you completely understand."
"I don't believe you, that place was not pleasant, and I will thank you to not discount my experience." Designation: Scarlet Witch sniffed, sure that she was in the right.
"You make me sick, up you get, I can't even look at you anymore."
Jyn stood up from behind the tablet and began to cautiously stretch out her stiff limbs, while Dacia hauled the woman to her feet and locked her wrists together once again. Rubbing her dry palms together, as she thought once again that she should probably once again start thinking of using hand cream. It was beginning to become faintly ridiculous that her skin should always be dry.
Making a sudden motion, she hurried to catch up with Dacia and Designation: Scarlet Witch. Jyn cast her mind once again to some of the things that had come up during the interviews. Walking through the doors alongside the two women, Jyn wondered what Dacia had no doubt thought of the interview.
Still, her questions would soon (hopefully) be answered.
WHOOSH
Walking with her head held high, Wanda thought not for the first time, whether or not she it was worth her time attempting to reign in her temper. There was nothing to suggest to her that she would better try to hold it, nothing but the other Avengers. She looked over at Clint's cell and felt her lip beginning to curl; it was nothing but pointless to her, how could a monster like Stark ever betray them?
Wanda knew of course that she hadn't ever expected anything from the monster, so she couldn't have expected the guy to continue to support them? Not when she had already had her fingers in the guys head, and deliciously fractured she found the guy's psyche. Not that she wanted to be done with the guy, not yet, she still felt as if she had so much more damage to do to the guy. She might have found it a bit of struggle to ensure that the guy was kept well under her heel. The only thing that she could regret was that she hadn't the time to do anything more to him, if Rogers had damaged the man too badly, it would simply irk her not having that play thing around anymore, if she didn't have something to play with? Well, then Rogers might not like the thing that he had unleashed.
It was such a simple thing for Rogers to deal with – sentimentality, it was a wonder that the guy had managed to wake up in the morning. Sure, she might be locked up on this bizarre floating rust bucket, but she still had one going for her. She was at least locked up in proximity to her hero. The thing that had managed to instil so much fear in his enemies. Rogers could bleat all he wanted about the guy not being guilty because he preferred to spin a tale about the guy who wasn't in his right mind and Wanda found not caring too much about what had happened to the guy.
Pietro would be so jealous, if he could only see who she was psychically close to. Well, he might be a little frightened for his baby sister. Pietro also laboured under the delusion that Wanda needed to be protected. Something which Wanda found so funny, not when Wanda was always willing and able to play the long game, there was nothing better to her than being able to sow her seeds and watch them bloom. Pietro had been told the exact same stories as her, that the Winter Soldier would be the one to guide them back into a position of strength, with the man's help they might be able to run this World again. Wanda may have only seen the HYDRA as a means to an end, an end which included the downfall of Stark.
Never again would Wanda have to hold some assholes hand, because everything seemed to be coming up Wanda again. If only she could work out why she could access her magic, then nothing would be able to hold her back.
She would just have to wait and bid her time, because everything was going to turn in her favour soon.