Phoenixfire

Phoenix rising

Phoenix shakes her head once and mouths "I am sorry", then jumps the railing and runs off as she had been instructed. Once more she is vaulted back into a younger self. Part of her is chiding herself for it. It is the part, that had suffered and fought for her moments and life with Natasha. She is running through the city streets. Turning on her com she asks Nix to prepare a message to be send to Nat, as soon as she is in range. "Hi Nat, I promise I make it me if I can. When we see each other again, we will have words about keeping me out the loop, but now.... I'll do my best to hold on. I don't know what he wants with me, so.... in case I return and am not on your side.... Make me ashes on the wind. I leave the com on, maybe you get info you need for picking me up." As she closes in on the specified coordinates, she finds herself in a parking lot next to a very busy mall. She steps up to her nightmare and feels herself fall into her meek demeanor. "Sir?" "Phoenix, what am I to do with you? I told you to remember. And what did you do? Do you need a reminder?" He raises his hand slowly to his holster with the same old gun. "No sir", Phoenix replies. He looks at her, considering. "Just to make things clear, I have a team of your brothers and sisters throughout this mall. If you don't come to heel, I will have them give you a reminder, you will never be able to live down." He sees in her eyes the moment she gives up. Inside, her Phoenix wants to be released and try to burn that grin of his face. We can't, we have to wait until we are away from people. We can't have him make any more reminders for me. Her Phoenix concedes reluctantly... She suddenly hears Wanda's voice through her com. "I am on the way back to the compound. I will try to track you. I told Vision to make the others not enter the Hydra facility in the ice. Just stay strong. If you get the chance, kill him or run!" While she listens intently, trying to not show any reaction, though the relieve is huge, Phoenix holds still as he injects her with whatever they did in the past to hold her Phoenix captive inside. She remembers it will ware off eventually. And if she plays her cards right, they will not know her Phoenix is back under her control... That will be her chance. Six to eight hours. She has lived through Christobal's torture... She can do six to eight hours. As instructed, she takes seat in the blacked out back of the Van and lets herself be cuffed to the bench. Inside her head "please, please find me" runs on repeat, remembering how it felt when she had sent her Phoenix to Wanda and connected like that. For a moment, she had been able to feel what Wanda felt. She so wanted to try that with Natasha. Nat.... for a selfish minute Phoenix loses herself in the memory of the Redhead. Then the Van starts to move.

They keep on driving for quite a while. She doesn't know the city enough to even have an inkling where they are, but her sense of time says it has been around an hour and some change. Her Body is starting to go numb from not being able to move. When the Van doors finally open back up, she blinks into bright lights. "You will now go to sleep for a while – you do remember the shadow-grave-drug, don't you? You were part in the development after all... And after, you will be my burning blade again." Roth states, as he steps up and sticks another needle into her. She plummets to the ground as she is seizing up. Her heart is racing, and the world starts spinning. Suddenly she has no longer air in her lungs, and everything goes dark. Roth has one of his goons pick her up and rest in a coffin. Easier to transport a deceased loved one out of New York than a hostage in cuffs.

After paying Wanda rushes to the car and has Friday direct her to the compound, after tracking Nix remotely doesn't work. "I am sorry Miss Maximoff, but I can only establish the commlink-connection." "Yes, yes, yes, do that." Moments later, she hears Phoenix voice talking to Roth, or rather him to her. Back in the compound she hurries to the lab. "Friday, do whatever Stark would do to find Nix." It is a long shot, but one can hope right? Of course, Friday answers "I am sorry Miss Maximoff, I cannot work along these parameters." So, she opens to Vision again. "Vision, I need Stark now. He needs to tell me how to work his things, so I can find Nix. I need help, please, Vis." "Calm down, Wanda. We cannot get any satellite connection to you, so I will just be your proxy. First Stark asks you tell Friday 'Start Lost Robot Program' and we should be back tomorrow." Wanda repeats "Friday, start lost robot program". Friday replies "Protocol enacted, Quinjet started, Locating lost robot." "The Quinjet is on its way. What am I going to do for Phoenix?" Wanda says quietly to Vision. "Okay, here's what you need to do. First you need..." It takes a while, but she finally succeeds and has the Tracking set up. It pings at the airport, steady, a steady red dot blinking. Simultaneously all the while she listens to what happens on the other end of the com. She hears Roth say "You will now go to sleep for a while – you do remember the shadow-grave-drug, don't you? You were part in the development after all... And after, you will be my burning blade again.", followed by the sound of a body hitting the floor hard. It sounds like Phoenix is fighting for her life on the other end. Wanda is debating blowing caution to the wind, but is sure, she'll never make it to the airport in time. She paces and keeps watch over the red dot blinking.