I don't Wanna Go Back
Laying on the torn seat inside the abandoned subway car you felt it shift just a hair, making your eyes shoot open. You lay still trying to get a feel for who was coming in the car, to see if the person was a threat, but they were being just as quite as you were. You had to be on your guard they always told you that if you had the chance, to make the first move, so that’s what you were going to.
Turning around you stare at the masked intruder your hands being engulfed by the black matter. The two of you just pausing for a moment staring at each other neither one making the first move. You were shocked when the masked person holds his hands up in a surrendering motion.
“Wait!” The obviously male voice exclaims. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“I don’t want to go back.” You say barely lowering your hands.
“Back?” He asks.
You nod at him. “Yes back.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll make sure you don’t have to go back. Why don’t you come with me and we can figure out what to do.” He says as he holds a hand out to you.
You pause for a moment thinking, why should you trust this man but sensing no ill will from him you decide to take a risk. The power emanating from your hands slowly dissipates as you lean forward reaching a hand out to him. The hood of your jacket sliding down revealing a collar with a red light blinking on it. The man focuses on the red light for just a moment. You pull back your hand and fix the hood of your jacket to cover the light. The masked man meets your eyes once more his hand still outstretched, while holding your hand on your jacket to keep the light covered you reach out and put your free hand in his outstretched one.
He turns and starts to walk out of the subway car letting go of your hand momentarily to jump down and help you down as well. You can’t help but think that he smiled at you from behind the mask, you hadn’t had someone who genuinely cared about your well being in a long time, heck now that you thought about it you hadn’t had anyone ever really care about you. However, you soon stop thinking of anything at all because as he was helping you down from the subway car you started to slip. The masked man is quick to react but in doing so he had grabbed onto your left wrist, catching yet another blinking red light this time connected to a band around your wrist. As he hits the band the only thing your brain registers is pain as an electric current rips through your body. You tense up the pain so intense it’s the only thing you can focus on before your body goes limp.
Third Point Of View
Suddenly as the girl fell and Peter went to catch her, her body goes stiff for a moment and then limp. Peter has a hold of her, so she doesn’t hit the ground. He slowly lowers her to the ground trying to figure out what had happened to make her react like that.
“Karen?” He says to the suits AI.
“Yes, how can I be of assistance?”
“Can you do a scan on her and make sure she’s ok?” He asks.
“Of course, one moment.” She responds before doing a quick scan over the unconscious girl. “Scan complete, she seems to be fine, simply unconscious, after suffering from a large electrical charge that seemed to emanate from the band around her left wrist.”
“The band on her wrist?” Peter looks closely at it barely touching the blinking red light. “Can you get a scan on it and see what made it go off?”
The suit AI zeros in on the band on her wrist, scanning it for any information it can read from it. “It seems to have a pressure sensor on it. Anytime it has any pressure pulling on it, it seems to send an electric shock throughout the body.”
“An electric shock?!” Peter asks surprised.
“Yes, an electric shock, and from the full scan I did it seems like the band on the other wrist and the one around her neck would also emit a shock if they were to be pulled on.” Karen responds. “And they also seemed to be locked on her electronically.”
“What the hell? Who would do that?” Peter shakes his head in disbelief. “This must be why she kept saying she didn’t want to go back.”
“Yes, it would make sense that one would not desire to go back to someone that puts locked electrical bands on them.” Karen answers him.
Peter paces back and forth in front of the mystery girl thinking to himself about what to do. He knows she needs help but he’s afraid that if he takes him to the tower Tony will immediately interrogate her or worse hand her over to S.H.I.E.L.D. immediately and then who knows what will happen to her once they get a hold of her. He suddenly stops knowing the only other course of action. Peter would have to bring you back to his apartment. But what would he tell Aunt May, he would have to figure something out, but for now he just wanted to get her back, so she would be safe and could hopefully feel better. And then once she woke up they could try to figure out what was going on with the bands.
“Alright.” Peter says to himself and he stops pacing and turns back to where the girl is laying on the ground. Peter picks her up and heads out of the tunnel before swinging back towards home, they had a lot to figure out.