Izzy stormed out of the compound and walked to wherever she could get to quickly. She made it to the centre of the city and let her tears drip from her eyes. People stared but she didn't care, she had just ended what could've been the greatest thing in her life all because of her best friend. A man in a suit approached her, and no matter how much she ignored, he continued to talk, telling her how he can make her life so much better. After five minutes of talking, Izzy could no longer be found in the city.
Peter wanted to chase after Izzy but decided it was best to let her blow off some steam, which he needed to do aswell. He went down to the training room and punched a punching bag until his knuckles were bleeding. He couldn't stop himself, no matter how much pain ran through him he just imagined that the punching bag was anyone who got in the way of him and Izzy. Olivia, Natasha, Wanda, even Steve though he hadn't actually done anything wrong. He just hoped hoped that Izzy was going home to be comforted by her mum and dad.
Olivia went to Wanda's room to check on the pregnant woman, noticing how she wasn't there but actually in the bathroom throwing up again. Natasha was by her side, holding her hair back. Olivia got her a glass of water and made her bed for her to get in. The two girls had never handled children before, or a pregnant woman, so they took every precaution possible in order for this journey to be easy. Wanda thanked the two, got into bed and was knocked out the moment her head hit the pillow, leaving the Olivia and Nat to talk.
"Are you not going to go after her?" Natasha asked, stroking Wanda's stomach, looking to her girlfriend. Olivia shook her head, folding her arms. Stubbornness was one thing Natasha admired about Olivia, but not in this case. The redhead tutted and cocked her head to the side, but it didn't shake Olivia from her original answer. She threw her arms up in question and asked what the point of chasing Izzy was. Yes, she was angry at her, and she had every right to be. But Olivia wasn't going to let her friend make possibly one of her biggest mistakes.
"Peter should've gone after her, he's her fiancé or whatever." She grumbled, pouting slightly. Natasha took her hand off of Wanda and grasped Olivia, stroking her palm with her thumb. She explained how Peter should've gone after her, but because he hadn't Olivia should've gone to explain herself. Olivia refused, wasn't it obvious as to why Olivia didn't want the two to marry? Divorces are expensive, and frankly, she knew it was going to end in tears and she can't choose between the two people she loves the most. It would be going to be a disaster waiting to happen.
Izzy's eyes shot open and she breathed heavily, feeling as though she had been suffocated. She didn't recognise her surroundings, and she turned to get up from the surgical chair she was sitting on, but she was strapped down, metal clamped over her arms. There were men in lab coats with clipboards and holding bottles of liquid she didn't recognise. Tony has taught her every single thing in the natural world, every kind of mixture that is possible and Izzy had retained it all well, but none of them looked like the stuff these men were handling with great caution.
"W-What is this place?" She whispered to herself, looking to her right and seeing a man in a lab coat observing her. He pressed the tip of a felt tip pen to different points of her face, calculating something. He didn't speak English, some sort of Germanic...Russian, maybe? Panic grew within Izzy and she started breathing heavily. The man noticed, and yelled something harshly, making all the other men race over to the girl. A sort of mechanism clamped onto her head as syringes dug into both of her arms. She screeched out in pain, soon passing out.
Peter stopped punching the bag and dropped to the floor, running his fingers through his sweaty hair. He was tired now, just crying, almost sobbing. So loud even Natasha and Olivia could hear and they could only hope that it didn't wake Wanda up. Natasha shook her head sadly, she felt awful hearing his broken screams and she turned to Olivia. She shot a confused look over to the brunette. Olivia didn't notice for a while and Natasha couldn't yell out in fear of waking Wanda, but the glowing red that radiated off of Olivia's amethyst clump caused great concern.
"Kotenok, your necklace." Natasha said, grasping the purple stone. Olivia looked down, the red light beaming off of her chest. She grasped the amethyst and snapped it off of her neck. Her fingers began to tremble around the rock, staring at the red light in disbelief. Izzy said the red light would never be used, but put it into the amethyst as a just in case. Fear ridden, she ran out of the room and headed into the kitchen where everyone else was sitting and chatting. Natasha ran after her, noticing her girlfriends despair. All attention turned to them both.
"Tony, you need to see this." Olivia panted out. In a slow motion, the brunette tapped the crystal and expanded the image, a projection from Izzy's eye being displayed into the room. They couldn't see much, the majority of it blurred by Izzy's tears but they could all hear the painful screams and instructions spoken in the foreign language. Natasha gasped, covering her mouth as she watched her friend get tortured. Olivia couldn't look, so she let everyone else witness as she dropped her head onto Natasha's shoulder. Steve clenched his fists, and shook his head vigorously in great disgust.
The projection soon died, and Olivia looked up. Natasha began to cry, as did everyone else. Tony looked down, covering his face to hide his crying. Through her screams, Izzy could be heard yelling for her dad. It wasn't intentional, she just needed her dad to tell her what was going on. Olivia grabbed the amethyst off of the island and tried to get a projection back, but it didn't work, the amethyst was useless now. In one swift motion, she thrashed her arm and threw the crystal at the wall, having it lodge into their instead of breaking off.
"Where is she?" Olivia asked, gritting her teeth in anger. She had forgotten all about the previous arguments the two had, all she needed to know now was that her friend is okay. Olivia looked around at every emotionless face, apart from Natasha who was silently crying. Peter has entered the room from training and looked in confusion to everyone, even looking to Olivia for answers which she couldn't give. She doesn't know where Izzy is, or what's happening to her. But she needs saving. Everyone can try and fight it but Olivia knew she was the only one capable.
