Make You Feel My Love
~Book III~

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All I do own are my own characters and their stories.

~Chapter 4~
Jedi Tricks

2 hours away from Hydra science base in Germany

There was a pleasant silence hanging over the Avengers as they all patiently waited for the Quinjet to arrive at the destination. Earlier, Maria had been worried about it all. After all, this was the day she had never thought would happen. The day she was going to meet her father again.

She was sat on one side of the Quinjet with Steve, Thor and Clint. Both Thor and Clint were talking quietly with each other as were Natasha and Bruce on the other side of the Quinjet. Tony himself was sitting in the front, working on something on his PAD while Jarvis flew the jet. Steve and Maria were sat with their shoulders pressed against each other, leaning slightly on the other. Steve had his head resting against the metal wall behind him, his eyes closed while Maria was listening to music through Bruce's headphones. She couldn't hear what anyone was saying, though it was the way she wanted it to be. Her heart was beating fast because of where they were going and she just wanted to cope with it herself. The music calmed her down, making her daydream and forget about the things that were about to happen.

It wasn't until Steve nudged her slightly that Maria paused the music, removing the headset for the first time since they had boarded the Quinjet, which was four hours ago.

"Let's go through the plan," said Steve a little louder so that everyone on board could hear him.

He stood up, the warmth of his body disappearing from next to Maria which made her pout slightly. Thor and Tony both stood up as well while Clint simply shifted to sit next to Maria, Bruce and Natasha staying seated as well.

In the middle of the jet, there was a screen hanging from the ceiling on which Tony showed the map of the facility they were about to storm.

"From what Jarvis managed to gather, the main computer is here," said Tony, a red dot appearing in the middle of the map. "We assume Dalton has stored all the information we don't have on Hydra yet on this computer. But to get to it, we will have to get the shields surrounding it, down."

"The generator is located here," continued Steve, a green dot appearing at the bottom of the map. "It's basically at the back door of the facility. So, I'm going to need two to get the back door along with the shields. I need two at the main entrance and the rest of you will be keeping the guards outside busy."

"Sounds like a plan," said Maria.

"Maria, Tony, take the back door. Barton, you're with me at the entrance. I want Thor and Natasha to keep the fight going outside and if it's necessary, use code green," said Steve, glancing at Bruce who nodded his head.

Maria stood up from her seat next to Clint and pressed herself in between Thor and Steve, causing the two men to side step slightly. "And the four of us inside… what do we do?"

"We get to the main computer," said Steve, glancing at Tony as a blue dot appeared in the middle of the map, close to the red dot. "We'll meet halfway five minutes after we've entered, together we'll get to the computer and take what we need."

"I highly doubt we're going to need to be four that go to the computer. Stark will do just fine," said Natasha.

"I know. But there's always something that goes wrong. We'll aim for all four of us to be at the rendezvous spot in time. If not, Tony, you know what to do," said Steve, earning a strict nod from said man. "All good?"

"Yes, sir," replied Maria, to which Steve smirked.

"Use these to keep in contact with the rest and to get a look on the map if you get lost," said Tony, handing out bracelets to each and every Avenger, each bracelet a different size depending on who it was for.

"I took the liberty of painting yours blue, cap," said Tony with an amused tone to his voice as he handed Steve his bracelet.

"Thanks," replied Steve sarcastically while putting on said bracelet.

"Don't worry, it matches your eyes," said Maria, nudging Steve with her arm while Clint laughed loudly from behind them.

"Uh… Where's the building?"

The six heroes halted upon seeing where the Quinjet had taken them. They were stood in the middle of a forest, green leaves surrounding them and a mushy moss giving of strange sounds underneath of their feet.

In front of them, a small cabin was placed. It looked as abandoned as a cabin could look, the windows only being holes in the cabin and the door having fallen off its hinges, laying on the ground and covered in a green layer of moss.

"Stark?" asked Steve.

"These are the coordinates," said Tony from underneath his Iron Man mask.

"Maybe the coordinates weren't up to date?" asked Maria.

"Even if they weren't, there should be something here," replied Natasha from next to her.

A sudden war cry was heard from behind them, causing all six Avengers to turn around. Bruce was stood in the opening of the Quinjet, his eyes wide as men rounded the Quinjet, running towards the six heroes who all prepared themselves. Steve readied his shield; Natasha turned on her electric gloves; Tony started hovering in the air; Thor gripped Mjölnir; Clint readied an arrow in his bow and Maria turned on her new sword.

"Wait for it…" said Steve quietly as the men all neared them.

They were most certainly Hydra soldiers, a red mark on their chest indicating just that. Though only a hand full had guns. Most of them were carrying escrima sticks, the ends of these sticks illuminating with electricity. They all wore masks reminding Maria a lot of gas masks while their suits were the same color as the green forest around them.

"Now!" exclaimed Steve, Clint letting his arrow fly off, an explosion following as it landed before a couple of goons' feet.

Thor and Tony both made their way towards the men, beginning the fight there while Steve, Clint, Nat and Maria waited for those soldiers who managed to get past Thor and Tony, taking them out with ease.

"Guys!" called Maria as she hit another goon on the head with her sword, the hologram keeping her from slicing through any flesh, to which she was grateful for. "There's more coming!"

She pointed towards the right, where a large tank followed by even more thugs, was making its way towards them. Steve sighed before glancing over at Tony.

"Stark! Scan the area!"

"Already done, cap. I can see an entrance," said Tony through the comlink. "It's underneath the ground, the facility."

"Take Maria and go inside," said Steve, glancing at Maria who nodded her head, assuring Steve that she would be alright. "Go!"

Tony flew away from the goons while Clint placed himself in front of Maria, covering her as she followed Tony towards where the said entrance was supposed to be.

Iron Man landed before her, leading her inside of the abandoned cabin. A lonely thug attacked Maria from behind, though she had heard him coming at her and managed to dodge the stick he was holding in his hands. Grabbing his outstretched arm with which he had tried to electrify her, she pushed him to the ground before thrusting her sword into the man's stomach, causing him to start coughing up blood form the impact. She kicked the escrima stick away from him before kicking him once in the head, rendering the man unconscious.

Tony had, in the meantime, opened a hatch Maria hadn't seen earlier. He jumped down it, followed by Maria.

They landed inside a hallway that was fairly lit and looked a lot like any other hallway. The walls were clad with a beige wallpaper and beautifully shaped lamps were hanging from the wall, illuminating the hallway. There were paintings hanging here and there, expensive looking paintings of various waterfalls and other nature scenes.

"This doesn't look like a science department," said Tony as they started to make their way through the facility, each hallway looking the same.

"It looks like someone's home," replied Maria.

"I'm detecting movement," said Jarvis through the comlink. "Several guards heading your way."

"Great," replied Maria with a sigh, grabbing her sword once again. "You keep going, I'll take them out."

"I can help-"

"Go. It'll save us time," said Maria, earning a nod from Tony who continued to walk while Maria stayed put where she was.

There were ten of them, all carrying guns to which Maria cursed. She quickly took cover around the corner, the thugs all beginning to shoot. She looked down at her utility belt, finding nothing she could use against them to make them stop shooting at her. She took a mental note to get herself some sort of grenade in case she would ever find herself in the same position again. Even though there was no way for her to get them to stop shooting at her, she did get a different idea.

Turning her sword off and placing it in her utility belt again, she turned her gloves on, placing them against the wall she had been taking cover behind before starting to climb up. As she reached the ceiling, she hoped that Tony had made the gloves strong enough for her to actually do what she had in mind. Luckily, she could, and before she knew it, she was hanging upside down from the ceiling, using her abs to keep her feet from dangling down. It wasn't easy, though, and her entire body was shaking from the effort. Though she quietly managed to make her way above the guards who all were wondering, in German, where she had gone.

As she found herself in the correct position, she turned her gloves off and as she fell down, she grabbed her sword and turned it on, the sound of it causing the ten thugs to look up. In the shock of what had just happened, the thugs staggered backwards as three of the men were now knocked out from Maria landing on them. She quickly stood up, using the time it took for the guards to realize what had just happened to take five more out with her sword.

The two remaining guards started to shoot at her again and out of pure luck, Maria managed to deflect one of the bullets with her sword, causing it to fly back towards one of the men's leg, making him fall to the ground in agony. The last man looked at the man, then down at his gun, thinking Maria could do the same thing again even though she knew it was just something that had accidentally happened, before he let the gun fall to the floor, raising his hands up in surrender.

Maria smirked, standing up straight and walking towards him, the fear in his eyes causing an adrenaline to fill her body, a familiar adrenaline which she wasn't too pleased about feeling again.

"Please," the man said, though Maria still knocked him out.

"Easy," said Maria, shrugging slightly. "Good thing Hydra thugs can't aim."

Lifting her right arm up slightly, she pressed the button on the bracelet to show her the map of the facility. However, it didn't work. Sometime during her fight with the ten guards, the bracelet had been hit and it wasn't working anymore. She pressed the second button for communications and found out it wasn't working either.

"Stark? Steve? Anyone? Ah, shit…"

Sighing loudly, Maria started to walk in one direction, holding her sword up in front of her and hoping she would at some point meet up with Stark again or find an exit out of the facility.

The only thing she didn't know was the fact that she was walking the exact opposite way of where she was supposed to go. She wasn't going towards any exit nor was she going towards the middle where the main computer was. She was walking towards the labs.

After several minutes of wandering around, she came into a darker part of the facility. The wallpaper was gone, leaving only naked walls surrounding her and the lights were now simple LED lights hanging from the ceiling. There were doors leading somewhere ever so often, though she didn't enter those doors. Not until she reached the last one at the end of the hallway.

She knew she had to turn around and take a right instead of a left further back, though the door seemed different than the others. It seemed to call to her in a strange way and before she knew what she was doing, her hand was on the doorknob, opening the door.

Maria was surprised to find it unlocked and entered it without hesitating. She found herself in a lab filled with technology she recognized from Tony and Bruce's lab. Though there were machines she didn't recognize too. And there were glass tubes, large ones, placed here and there. They were taller and broader than Maria herself and they were filled with a strange, yellow fluid. The first ones she encountered were empty, though the other ones were not. She frowned at the disfigured thing floating in the tube, something that looked like an umbilical string hanging down towards the bottom of the tube. The others weren't empty either and as she continued to walk further down the lab, she could see the progress the scientists had made. For each tube she passed, the thing inside looked more and more human until it actually looked like a human baby. The next tubes coming after that one were filled with older and older humans. Until she reached one she recognized.

Stopping in her tracks, her entire body freezing as her eyes widened, she looked at the face of the human floating inside of the tube, seeing its peaceful face. It wasn't just a familiar face. It was hers.

Her heart started to beat fast and both her legs and arms started to shake as she watched herself, a perfect copy of herself, float inside of that tube, naked and unconscious. She started to back away from the thing, not believing her eyes. Each and every tube, all the children and babies, they were all her.

Suddenly, she backed into something and the surprise of it made her hand let go of her sword as she turned around. A man was standing there though that was all she managed to see before something was stabbed into her neck and darkness consumed her.

The last thing she heard before she was completely out of it were the words of the man as he caught her body in his arms.

"Ssch… It'll all be alright."

Oo! What do you all think this means? The tubes with copies of her inside? :D let me know! I love reading what you guys think is going to happen!