Rescue
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Chapter 3
Rescue
Emma woke up to a door slamming. Squinting her eyes at the bright light that suddenly turned on. She went to brush her hand against her face and realized her hands were tied behind her back and she was sitting in a very uncomfortable hard chair. Her feet were tied to the posts of the chair as well.
“Oh good you are awake. I was hoping that we could chat a little bit before some testing.” A voice spoke out. Emma quickly glanced up at at the man standing before her. He was an average looking man in black clothing and a white lab coat over everything. He held a silver case with him that he walked over and sat on the table near the wall.
“What kind of testing are we talking about here.” Emma asked while trying to wiggle her wrists around. She tried to activate her energy blasts in her hands but nothing was happening. She glance around and saw the same metal puck device that was still on and still seemed to be emitting a signal.
“Oh yes, your powers are still muted. Such a need invention right? We didnt want you to run away before some of the testing could start.” the man said with a smirk. “My name is Professor Alastor. Well retired professor. I was recruited be these fine gentlemen to better use my genetic knowledge.” He introduced himself as he turned to open the case up. ‘Great, Im in the hands of wacko who thinks himself a genius.’ Emma thought to herself.
When he turned back around he held a few empty blood tubes and a butterfly needle. Emma started to struggle knowing what was coming and Alastor just smiled. “Now before we gets started, i just need to get some blood samples that i can work with later.”
As he walked closer she noticed he had on a black glove that seemed to have blue glowing lines in it. He reached out and wrapped the gloved hand around Emma’s neck, and intense electrical current surged through her body and she gritted her teeth in order to keep herself from screaming.
The electrical current stopped and she sagged down in the chair out of breath when he spoke, “That is what will happen if you continue to wiggle and try to move away, so in order to make this easier, dont move.” He spoke out darkly and proceeded to prep Emma’s arm to draw the blood.
After the couple of vials were taken, Alastor sat the vials in a container and then pulled out some more items. Emma was still trying to recover from the electrical shock that she just went through. With her abilities muted, she wasnt able to recover like she was used to. She doesn’t remember a time that she had went this long without her powers. She has been in the training room before without them, but not for over a 24 hour period.
“Alright, now that the wake up call is over, what else you got?” She snarked out. She knows she probably shouldn’t try to anger the man, but she couldnt help it. She hoped that maybe if he got mad enough that he would slip somehow and allow her a chance to escape. She wasnt sure if her tracker was still active or not, though judging by the lack of pain in her lower back, she assumed that it wasnt discovered and it hadn’t been cut out yet.
“Well Sunshine, or should I call you Sapphire?” ‘Shit… how’d they know that code name? I’ve never heard of these people before?’ Emma thought to herself. She wasnt how involved or how much these people actually knew. He smirked, “We are going to test out some different items here over the next few days and see that even with your powers muted, how much of your mutation still protects your body.” I froze at this. That didnt sound good. “See how long you can withstand certain things. And depending on the results, with your blood here, we can replicate more soldiers like you. We can track down more with the mutation gene and create better soldiers than your countries Captain America back in the day.”
“Why me though?” She wasnt going to mention that Captain America was still alive. He just got out of the ice, he didnt need to be thrown into the frontline again. They would have to kill her before she leaked that bit of info.
“Well, Sunshine, because you are special. We hope that your mutated genes have a greater chance of accurizing the effects of the serum than other enhanced individuals that we have tried. With you having your mutation enhanced by the tesseract energy, you are different. And maybe we can find the key to why our serums haven’t worked on any of the other individuals we have tested on.”
“What do you mean other individuals? Have you been kidnapping enhanced?” She asked loudly. “We have not been kidnapping! They volunteered!” Alastor shouted and grabbed Emma again on the shoulder and sent an electrical current through her again. She gritted her teeth and grunted, waiting for it be over. He pulled his hand away and she let out a breath and sagged down again. “Lets not yell at me next time, yeah?”
This did not sound good. “You know, testing out to enhance abilities has not worked so well recently for people.” Emma said, trying to stall any way she could. Alastor ignored her and proceeded to set up things on the table that she couldn’t see. She leaned her head back and let out a sigh. Closing her eyes, wondering what Steve was doing right now. Was he down in his gym, killing the punching bags like always? Had shield told him that she was captured? Did shield even know she was captured yet? She would always check in with Steve right when she got back, so he has to know something went wrong. Nat and Clint definitely have to know, because they always had code they would text each other that a mission was over and they were back.
She hoped she could see her super soldier again soon. “Ready to get started?” Alastor spoke, like it was just a normal procedure. “Fuck you.” Emma spat back. If she was going to get tortured, might as well go out swinging. She knows it was probably the wrong thing to say, but she tended to get a bit snarky when she was mad. She glared at the creepy guy and then glared at the super puck that was muting her powers. She tried to see if she could create a shield around it to block the signal. She was willing to try anything at this point.
Alastor started to chuckle, “thats not going to work my dear. There is a mutant that we were able to duplicated their power and that power happens to mute the mutation gene.”
“Damn”, she muttered. Eyeing him as he walked closer, he started placing adhesive pads that had a small metal ball on them on different points of her body. Similar pads that you would hook up an EKG to. She didnt like where that idea was going.
After he placed one last pad on her temple, matching one that she had on the other side, he turned and knocked once on the door. It opened and two big guys, heavily armed, pulled in a cart that had some sort of machine on it. She gulped and tried to wiggle free again.
“Now, Miss Sapphire, I am going to ask you to hold still and allow these gentlemen to hook up the wires and let the machine start to work.” Emma scowled. The guys pulled the cart in front of her, blocking her view of anything else. They started to hook up the wires to the pads on her and as they left, Alastor turned on the machine. Emma winced at the loud noise and humming it made, trying one last time to see if she could wiggle free when a sudden intense pain pulsed through her. Her eyes started to water from being squeezed so tightly and she fought against the blackness that was threatening to engulf her. She was vaguely aware of Alastor . She tried to scream but nothing would come out.
As quickly has the pain started it was gone and she sagged in the chair. Breathing hard her body trembling. She opened her eyes to look at the guy and gave him a death glare. “What the hell was that?” She breathed out.
Alastor let out a laugh, “ Well that was fascinating, your powers are still muted, but your body is still functioning. The amount of electrical current that just ran through your body would have killed a normal human. Your genetic makeup is quite remarkable.”
This went on for a another hour. Emma was slumped down completely in the chair, her head hanging down, chin touching her chest almost. Her breathing was labored. Alastor said he was going to step out for a moment, but would be back to continue more testing. “Oh Fury, I hope to god your ass knows i am missing and have someone to help me out here soon.” She gritted out.
A few hours later, as Alastor was coming through the door, there was a huge explosion and the building rumbled under their feet. Her head was still down, but she smirked to herself. She knew what was coming. “What was that?” She heard Alastor ask through the radio. “We are not sure sir, our cameras are down and nothing registered on the radar.”
Looking up, “Is there a problem professor?” Emma asked him. He turned and glared at her. He rushed over to her and grabbed her neck. “Who is out there?” He gritted out to her. Emma just smiled at him. “I have no idea who they sent, but whoever it is, i would be worried if I were you.” Alastor growled out and turned to the machine she was still hook up to and turned the dial and flipped the switch on. It must have been amped up more or she was just too tired, but this time a scream was released out. She didnt know how long it was on but out of no where, all the lights went out and she felt a pulse ripple through the air. With the pulse, the machine died. She sagged into the chair, breathing hard, tears running down her face from the exertion. She could hear the professor, “NO! What the hell?” He tried to turn the machine on again and tried to use the glove again as well. The power was killed, but Emma realized more importantly, Emma could feel her powers stirring again.
Alastor whirled around and tried to get someone on the radio, but that was not working either. An EMP she assumes. “Well, would you look at that.” She spoke out with a darkness to her voice. The professor turned around slowly to look at Emma and saw a blue glow coming from behind her. She looked up at him, looking through her eyelashes, and he could see a crystal blue hue in Emma’s eyes.
Emma started to burn the ropes that were tied around her wrists, and when those dropped she brought her hands forward and sent a energy beam to the ropes on her ankles. With her freedom from the chair, she set her sights on the professor. Peeling off the sticky pads along her arms and face as she took a few steps closer to the professor. Alastor took a step back as she brought her hands up, palms facing him but before she could send out a energy blast at him another huge explosion rocked the building even more.
She fell to the ground as she was still a little weakened from the electrical fun that she went through. Just getting her powers back, she still hadn’t recovered fully. When she went down she had hit her head on the side of the wall pretty hard. She raised her hand up to feel for any blood and was still in so much of a daze that she didnt notice the professor aiming a gun at her.
The door burst open right before he could pull the trigger and an object was thrown into the room, hitting Alastor in the back and knocking him into the wall. She watched him slump to the ground and then let out a breath of relief. Trying to get herself up, someone ran into the room and kneeled by her, “Agent Warner.” Her head snapped up at that voice. “Steve?!” She exclaimed in confusion. “What the hell are you doing here?” She asked him.
“Rescuing you of course. Now come on, lets get out of here.” He smirked back at her, though he was just happy that she was safe and seemed to be okay. Sliding an arm around her waist, lifting her up. After he got her up and leaning on the door frame, he went to retrieve his shield that had been laying beside her when they heard a gun click from behind them. “Well Well Captain, We had no idea that you were still alive.” Alastor smirked. Out of the two of you, lets see, who is going to survive the bullet?” They both froze and turned slowly to look at Alastor leaning against the wall, gun aimed at Steve. Emma looked over at Steve, and saw his shield was still laying on the ground at his feet where he had been getting ready to grab it.
She smiled at him then turned back to Alastor, “I dont know, lets see shall we.” Trying to get the focus on her. “No! Don’t!” Steve exclaimed. He felt dread in the pit of his stomach at seeing a gun aimed at Emma. He didnt know if her powers were back to working or not or how weakened she was. As Steve was looking at Emma, she was looking at Alastor again. “I dont think either of you are fast enough to dodge a bullet, and I dont think you are strong enough yet my dear to shield the both of you.” He laughed out.
Steve was looking back and forth between the guy and Emma, knowing he was too far away to even step in front of a bullet. He went to take a step towards her when Alastor yelled to not move. He locked eyes with Emma though, and saw her give a subtle smirk and a wink. He gave her a small look of confusion, but was willing to trust her, though he was still worried that if she over exerted herself then she could black out. He remembered her telling him the story of when she realized she could heal people and what happened with that.
“Well, come on asshole!” Emma yelled at him. Trying to goad him. Alastor smiled evilly at her, and watched as he reached behind him and grabbed a second gun. He aimed the second gun at Steve and pulled the trigger on both weapons. Steve flinched back, eyes closed, but when he didnt feel anything, he realized that Emma was shielding both him and herself. Alastor yelled out, “NO!” And then continued to fire both guns at Emma and Steve. Hoping maybe she would falter on the shield.
Steve was watching Emma closely and saw her wince just a little bit, but otherwise she still looked like she was doing okay. Alastor ran out of bullets, and dropped the guns. Emma dropped the focefields and then held up her hands at him, “My turn. Go to hell asshole.” And she released a blast of energy from her hands that went though the chest of Professor Alastor. Steve quickly grabbed his shield and ran over to Emma, and caught her, just as she started to slump to the ground again from using too much power to soon.
“Emma… Hey you good? Come on. I gotcha…” Steve said as he swooped down and picked her up bridle style. “I got Agent Warner, making our way out to extraction point.” Emma heard him speaking into the coms. She saw him nod back to what ever was said. “Who’s with you?” She asked Steve, still fighting to keep her eyes open. “Agent Romanoff and Agent Barton. They said that both the first a second floor are on fire, and we may have to go through a window to get to the ground.” He spoke softely to her. “We have the place rigged with explosives for when we are cleared, this place is disappearing.” She sighed, of course they would be here. She knew they would be the first to come and get her, but it surprises her that Steve was here.
“Why are you here? Not that i am not happy to see you and be out of that damn room.” She muttered at the end. “I thought you weren’t ready to jump back into the field yet.” She questioned with curiosity.
“I wasnt going to. I was already handing back the file, until Agent Hill told me it was you that was in trouble. You cant think that I would turn down helping rescue my best girl now could you?” Emma blushed at that last comment. “Plus, i was getting ready to agree to some field missions, i was just waiting for you to come back from this mission so i could tell you first.” He smiled. Steve was still trying to navigate through the building, trying to find a window that led to outside.
“Well, sorry that i was late getting home. But, glad you were the one to rescue me. ” Emma said and reached up and lightly kissed Steves cheek. She noticed that he blushed at that act. Clearing his throat, “Alright, lets get out of here shall we?” He asked. She nodded to him, “Let me down. I think i can walk now. My strength is slowly returning. I was without my powers for so long that its taking them a bit to fully come back all the way.” Steve eased her down and when she didn’t immediately sway, he let her go.
Steve grabbed her hand and started to pull her through the building. Checking corners to see if any stragglers were lurking around. He didnt think so with Agent Romanoff and Barton tasked with clearing the way, but never know who could be hiding out waiting for them.
They finally get to a window and looked out and saw that they were about 6-7 stories up in the air. Steve knew that he could jump and would be fine with that, but he wasnt so sure about Emma. She looked at him, “So are we jumping?” She laughed at his expression of shock at her question. “Are you able to jump that?” He asked with some skepticism. She rolled her eyes and took a few steps back from the window and then launched herself out the window. “Emma! Wait!!” Steve yelled out. He watched her gracefully fall and right before Emma hit the ground, he saw a bluish bubble form around her and then it was gone. Steve just shook his head with a laugh.. “This dame is gonna kill me.” He muttered. He backed up a few steps and leaped out of the window as well.
Landing next to Emma in a kneeling position, he stood up straight and they both took of in a sprint. Steve slightly in front leading as Emma wasnt sure where their pick up point was at. “On the ground, on our way.” Steve muttered into the com.
Running through the woods, Emma noticed the quinjet up ahead and saw two figures standing at the ramp. “Nat! Clint!” She yelled and sprinted to them a little quicker. They all three embraced each other. Then as Emma stepped back she was slapped on each arm at the same time. “Ouch! What the hell?” She jumped. “Dont scare us like that!” Clint said crossing his arms. “Oh sorry, my bad. I’ll make sure to plan my captures a little better in the future.” Emma snarked back rolling her eyes, but still had a smile on her face.
“Shall we get out of here now?” Nat spoke. Emma nodded and turned to look at Steve. He had a smile on his face. He was so relieved that she was okay and safe. She reached out her hand to him, “Come on Captain. Lets head out. I need food and shower. Not necessarily in that order.” He laughed at that. Grabbing her hand, he followed her in and they strapped in while the other two spies got ready to takeoff.
As they just raised up to take off, Emma leaned her head on Steves shoulder. “Thanks again for coming to rescue me.” She whispered. He threw his arm over her shoulders and pulled her in closer. Placing a small light kiss on her head, “you’re welcome.” She smiled softly at the gesture.
Closing her eyes, and finally able to rest. Steve spoke again softly at her, “I cant lose you too Emma. Don’t do that to me again.” And she felt him tighten his grip on her shoulders. Without another word, she stayed leaned up against him until they reached NYC.