A Heart Break In Time

Turns Out, Resentment Is Corrosive And I Hate It.

I walked in to see Monica on a bed surrounded by a doctor and Tyler Hayward and Jimmy. Hayward was talking when I approached. "What's the first thing you do remember?"

"Pain. And then, Wanda's voice in my head." Monica answered.

"Did you try to resist?"

"There was this feeling keeping me down. This hopeless feeling. Like drowning. It was grief." My heart sank. Poor Wanda...

"You can sit up now." The doctor told Monica and she did.

"Wait, what happened?" I looked at them and they ignored me.

Monica spoke to the doctor. "Great." She sighed. "So am I cleared?"

The doctor nodded. "Once I get a look at these."

"Where's my uniform?"

"In analysis."

Jimmy walked near her. "Mighty glad to have you back, Captain. How you feeling?"

"Like myself."

"Well, thank heavens for that."

I approached her. "Yeah, that's great. What the hell did I miss?"

Monica looked to Jimmy, who nodded, then she answered. "I went in."

"Excuse me?"

"I'm fine. So uh, what's the latest?"

Darcy came towards us and cleared her throat. "There's a briefing in ten. Pants are encouraged."

Monica rolled her eyes. "Thank you."

The doctor walked back in. "We're gonna need to take these again. There's something wrong with the machine."

Darcy looked at the paperwork the doctor held, with a confused look on her face. "Those are blank."

"Like I said."

"Well, what about her labs?"

"I need another blood draw."

"No, no, no. We're done here." Monica have a sarcastic chuckle and walked out.

Tyler Hayward started the briefing. "Morning. We are now assessing a clearer picture of this crisis. And thanks to Captain Rambeau, we now have first-person intel from inside the Westview Anomaly. Our initial theory had Wanda Maximoff as one of many victims. We now know she is the principal victimizer. Jimmy."

Jimmy stood and nodded. "Quick history on our subject. Born in Sokovia in 1989 to Irina and Oleg Maximoff, both killed during an air raid when Maximoff and her twin brother, Pietro, were ten."

Tyler continued. "The twins were subsequently radicalized, volunteering at HYDRA." I rolled my eyes.

Jimmy noticed. "It's an oversimplification of events, but, yes. After unspecified experimentation with the Mind Stone, Maximoff gained telekinetic and telepathic abilities."

"Back up, Jimmy. Does Maximoff have an alias?"

"No, sir."

"No funny nickname?"

"Not a one."

"And earliest tracking had her using her powers against the Avengers. Is that correct?"

I spoke then. "She didn't know what she was doing. She earned our trust and became one herself."

Hayward rolled his eyes. "Lagos and Germany, we all know how that turned out. Thanks, Jimmy. Now that we have the lay of the land, let's talk about strategy. It is the policy..." I clenched my fists. This is not what I came here for.