Datura - Bucky Barnes

Hermetic

Hermetic ~ To be sealed in so that no air can get in

I wake up sealed in a glass cage, which was in a different room. I hear a click come from the door in the room outside the cage as Rumlow walks through, "Datura."

"Thea," I glare at him.

"Oh Datura. They ruined you," he sighs.

"No. No they didn't. You ruined me," I get up and bang on the glass.

"We improved you. We taught you so much," he replies.

"What was on that tape?" I ask him.

"Tape?"

"The one we got from SHIELD. Back in 2005. That was my father's."

He sighs, "Unfortunately nothing. Your father stole a weapon from HYDRA right before he died. He hid it somewhere and made that tape for his infantry to find. It is believed to have the whereabouts to where he hid the weapon but there was an alphabetical lock on the tape. Any idea what it is?"

"Even if I knew I wouldn't tell you assholes."

"I know. But Datura..."

"Thea," I correct him once again.

He just grins, "Mach sie bereit für den proze."

Get her ready for the process. What process?

Rumlow nears the glass once again, "We are going to do a little experiment. We have created a serum. A better version of the stuff we gave your brother. But I am afraid that unfortunately, this serum needs to be activated. We have to try to kill you without actually killing you. It's a very painful process. You get to be our very first human test subject."

Two men enter the glass room and I punch one of them. The other one tasers me and I fall to the floor. He picks me up and drags me to a room with a chair, similar to the one they put me in when they scrambled my brain 70 years ago.

Rumlow inserts a dark red liquid into a syringe, which he stabbed into my arm. I scream as I feel the liquid flowing through my blood, contaminating it. It was unbearably painful, worse than anything I've ever felt. Rumlow shoves a piece of plastic in my mouth, muffling my cries.

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"Test 1," Rumlow writes something down on a notepad, "We take out almost all the air in your glass box. When you're on the verge of death, we'll increase it. When you are just able to breathe, we'll decrease it."

He twists a large wheel and I feel the literal wind knocked out of me. I try hard to breathe but there was no air. I felt myself go dizzy.

"Increase the oxygen."

I manage to take a deep breath.

"Decrease it."

I lost the air again. It didn't sound that painful but it was actually excruciating. They kept repeating the process until I eventually had passed out.

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"Test 2," Rumlow said, "Blood loss. We make multiple tiny cuts and slow blood to fall."

Metal cuffs click around my wrists and ankles, strapping me in. One of the HYDRA scientists neared me with a medical scalpel.

He cut through my skin and went deep, the knife slicing. Blood started to stream out of the cut as I grit my teeth.

He kept cutting me at different places. My back, my cheek, my arms, my legs, my stomach, even my neck. The way he did it was scary. It was so painful but he didn't hit any veins or important nerves, which is the only thing that kept me awake through the pain, even though I wanted to tap out so bad.