Dreaded Father

“He’s only a child,” I heard a voice come from behind me.
“But He is the son of Thanos,” another voice said and it sounded like Thor. More movement was heard and suddenly there was a hand on my shoulder.
“You need to come with us, son.” I opened my eyes and saw the blonde man with a beard kneeling next to me. I was in shock of what happened and just nodded at the man. He pulled me up and I couldn’t take my eyes off Father. We finally walked far enough away that I couldn’t see him and my mask went back on. We walked to a field where most of father’s army was dead.
A ship flew in the force field and landed a little ways in front of us. The door to it opened and the people from titan came out. After they were all out Nebula walked out. Her eyes immediately landed on me and walked forth. She got to me within seconds and had her hand on my throat. She lifted me in the air but I didn’t fight.
“Where is Father?” She asked angrily. I didn’t answer just stared at her. “Mask off.” My mask came off once again and I saw everyone’s reaction. They were all surprised and disgusted.
“He’s dead,” I said through gritted teeth.
“Good! Now where is Gamora?!” I turned my head so I didn’t have to look in her eyes. “Where is she?!”
“He sacrificed her on Volmir,” I answered quietly. “It was her for the soul stone.”
“Why didn’t you save her?!” The leader man from nowhere yelled at me.
“No one told me to do it and I can’t defy him.”
“Couldn’t. He is Now dead,” nebula said and dropped me on the ground. “Why couldn’t you just rebel from father once in your life, spider?”
“Because all I ever wanted was to have his pride and love. I lost everything when I was only three and he gave me some of it back,” I said and stood up. Anger was starting to course through me and I wanted more than anything to kill these people.
“Then why don’t you?” The red headed witch said. Did she just read my mind? “Yes I did. Now why don’t you kill them?”
“I can’t do anything without being told to do so first,” I answered in a monotone.
“If one of us were to tell you to kill someone would?” The red metal man asked.
“Yes, it would be my honor to kill for such powerful warriors.”
“That is a terrible thing to do,” a new man in a black cat armor said walking up.
“It is how I am programmed,” I said taking a step towards Nebula. “It hurt more than anything to watch you get tortured and I wanted nothing more than to save Gamora. But I can’t defy him. I have rules put in place in my life so I can be perfect.”
“Yeah Well Thanos is dead. How are your rules going to go now?” Nebula asked looking upset.
“I don’t know but I’ll figure it out.” I then turned away from her and walked back a ways. “By the way you know nothing about me so don’t act like you do. All you ever saw me as was someone you could beat unlike Gamora.”
“Let us go inside the palace and figure out all that has happened,” the cat man said and everyone agreed. We all walked to the largest building and went inside. There was a girl about my age standing in front of us.
“Why don’t you put some more comfortable clothes on. You look like the battle isn’t over yet,” she said with a smile and an accent like the cat man. I didn’t have any other clothes so I stayed with the others from space. When everyone came back in the room we moved to a larger one with enough seats for all of us. Everyone went to an open seat and seemed to sit in groups. I went to the one next to the witch and stood behind it. Everyone sat down and looked at me. I stared ahead and waited for the command.
“Spider, sit down,” Nebula ordered and I nodded my head sitting down. I could see that I made the people around me uncomfortable by the way they shifted and gave me small glances. They were all talking about a multitude of different things and I didn’t bother listening. I could tell that the man and woman from nowhere were also not listening.
“Spider, pay attention!” Nebula yelled at me. I immediately sat straight up and looked around. Everyone seemed to be watching me so looked straight forward.
“Back to what I was saying about ‘spider’ there. He fought along side with Thanos and tried to kill a lot of us,” the red metal man said.
“He also seems to have killed many, my brother included,” Thor said.
“But He also said that he was just doing what Thanos said and he didn’t want to do it,” a blonde haired woman said defending me.
“He could have rebelled if he really wanted to. His sisters did,” leader man from nowhere said. “Nebula even said that.”
“I know what I said and I was angry but he has a point about his programming. He was taken from his home at a younger age than me and Gamora. He also lost more than both of us,” Nebula said defending me. I really didn’t want to hear them argue about me but I could not leave. No one had told me to do anything but sit here and listen.
“What do you mean by programming?” The girl that met us inside asked.
“Why doesn’t he answer that. Spider, what happened when you didn’t do what Thanos said?” I looked up and they could read the terror that came across my face.
“I I would b be punished,” I answered quietly not meeting anyone’s eyes.
“What would happen if you didn’t please Thanos?”
“I would get more punishments.”
“See He didn’t have a choice in the matter,” Nebula said angrily.
“What were the punishments exactly? ‘Cause for all we know he just got a timeout,” red metal man spoke up again. Nebula looked at me and nodded her head. I hit the button on my chest and my armor folded into a small box. I was now in my stretchy black skintight suit. I then stood up and turned around unzipping the suit halfway down my back. Everyone could now see the four limbs protruding from my back and my skinny body from starvation.
I heard quite a few gasps come from the seats. I then turned back around the looks of sympathy I knew were going to be there. I sat back down and looked down at my hands.
“Spider, when did you first start getting punishments?” Nebula asked me and I swallowed hard.
“When I was six I didn’t get up to his standards so he had a surgeon add my metal limbs. Issues happened with that and he never added anything else. But he does enhance my senses as a punishment and took away food rights,” I said quietly not looking from my hands.
“There you have it his punishments weren’t easy.”
“He is But only a child. He should not have to go through this,” Thor said angrily.
“How old even is the kid?” The winged suit man asked. All eyes then turned to me and I had to think about it.
“I think I’m sixteen?” I asked more then said. Everyone either had angry look or and sympathetic one. I could not look these people in the eyes so they stayed trained on my hands.
“I don’t think we should turn him into shield,” The red headed witch said and most people agreed. I sat completely still as they talked about where I would be staying. They then started talking about other things and I stopped listening. After what felt like forever the others started getting up and heading out of the room. I stayed in the seat waiting for someone to tell me what to do but no one did. Almost everyone was out of the room until someone realized I was still in my seat.
“I know what it feels like to be used as a weapon,” The man with long dark hair said walking to my seat. I said nothing and the man just sighed at me. “It’s alright to be scared and sad. You are allowed to feel emotions.”
I looked up at him and he seemed to be serious. “I’ve never been allowed to show emotions without getting in trouble,” I said honestly.
“Come with me and I’ll show you to your room.” I got up and we started walking down the halls. Soon enough we got to one of what looked like many bedrooms. We went inside and the room was huge it had a ginormous bed in the center and wardrobes on the walls. “I’m in the room right next door if you need anything.”
“Thank you, sir,” I said as he was about to exit the room. He then stopped and turned to me.
“Call me Bucky. Sir makes me feel old.” He then left the room and I went to the bed. I just lost the only man I ever knew as my family for over a century. I do hope that I can find another one and I hope it includes Bucky. With that final thought I closed my eyes and fell asleep.