Chapter 5
Every single muscle in his body ached. His throat was raw and parched due to all the screams he had let out; he was sure if he was to scream one more time his throat will start bleeding from the inside. There were numerous cuts on his body, junctions between bones from where chunks of flesh were cut and taken as samples, skin cut raw due to the electric whiplashes. He was scared, he was so tired, he wanted this torture to end; one thing was sure he wasn’t going to give the code for Tony's armor and these scumbags should know it. He was so exhausted every single breath; his lungs were burning and his head was on the verge of exploding. He was trying to keep his eyes open because he was sure that if he passed out now, he wasn’t going to wake up soon.
The tower had this lingering tension and a haunting aura surrounding it. Everyone was quiet and refused to acknowledge that one of their members was missing and facing torture and they were impossible to even locate where he was taken. Steve was so much a part of their dysfunctional group of family, he was like a dad to all of them even though he refused to acknowledge how important he was. Tony and Natasha were sitting on the sofa while Bucky was pacing the length of the room and Clint sat cross-legged in Natasha’s feet. Thor was with Bruce who knows where. The hulk was surfacing and everyone trusted Thor to handle Bruce when he was this stressed. The last they had seen of Steve was when he lost consciousness and Tony was scared whether Steve will wake up again or not. JARVIS the forever savior spoke up before Tony could spiral into more evocative scenarios in his head.
“Sir I was able to trace the signals and hack into Captain Rogers’s kidnapper’s system. They're still rerouting their IP location but I'll be soon to pinpoint it, but right now there’s something you should see.”
Relief was evident on everyone’s face and a new live clip started to play on the T.V screen.
“We need to figure out what to do, he isn’t saying anything. It's unnerving honestly, who thought Captain America is so protective of Tony Stark, that arrogant jerk,” Mike said in a bored manner.
“No are you crazy he is on the brink of falling apart. His eyes are glossed over it’s as if he’s completely numb to the pain because he knows it’s worth protecting Ironman, plain stupidity,” replied Steffani in a nonchalant way.
“Ugh we still need to figure out how to get that code, we don’t exactly have a lot of time, we need to leave this warehouse as s soon as possible you know we have to move base before-”
“Sir, I have a location it’s a warehouse located in Russia, approx. 80km radius around the outer borders.”
Everyone stood up and started to suit up before JARVIS even completed his announcement.
“Everyone to the Quinjet in 10,” said Tony as his armor enveloped him. He has left Steve too long in the hands of those animals, and he needs to get to him, he has something very important to tell him and he sure as hell is not ready to let Steve go so easily and so soon.