The Avengers Are My Family

Saved At Last

This is it. It's finally Drew's last day at the Hydra base for a while! Drew wakes up mad at herself for falling asleep, but she doesn't show it. The Hydra guards walk into her room and drag her to the contraption for her last experiment. Before they start, Drew knows that this will be her worst experiment yet. They put in the needles and punch her repeatedly. She has a lot more bruises now. She thinks to herself, "I guess every time my bruises heal, new ones are made to take their place." A few extra painful punches hit Drew's face, and she winces and lets out a yelp of pain. "Extra punishment!" says one of the soldiers. The experiments finish at 11:45. Drew is unstrapped and pinned down as Hydra soldiers cut her arms with knives.

Drew is now on her knees in a mini pool of her blood when the intruder alarm goes off. Drew thinks to herself, "What on Earth is going on? The Red Room isn't expected until 1:00." Then suddenly, the wall of her cell has a hole blasted in it. The debris goes everywhere. The area of the wall with the hole has a reddish glow to it. A woman with flaming red hair and emerald green eyes and another woman with reddish-brown hair and the same emerald green eyes walk in through the hole in the wall. The one with flaming red hair takes down the Hydra soldiers in the room flawlessly using a few methods taught in the Red Room. All of the Hydra soldiers are now lying on the ground, unconscious.

Drew sees the woman with flaming red hair's face and instantly knows who she is. It's Natasha Romanoff, the famous Black Widow! Drew looks at the one with reddish-brown hair. Then she looks back to the reddish glow on the wall. The other woman must be Wanda Maximoff. Drew only knows her name because Hydra gave her Telekinesis and Telepathy and maybe a few others that Drew doesn't remember. But what she does know is that Hydra talks about Wanda and her twin brother Pietro a lot. Pietro died a few years ago, but Wanda is alive, considering she stands before Drew.

"Hi, sweetheart," says Wanda. "H-Hi," Drew stutters. "My name is Wanda. What's yours?" says Wanda. "I know who you two are! You're both Avengers! Oh, my name is Drew, by the way," says Drew. Then she claps a hand over her mouth. Then she thinks to herself, "I spoke too much. They're going to punish me." She sticks her arm out, looks away, and closes her eyes, waiting for them to strike. "What are you doing, Drew?" asks Wanda. Drew opens her eyes and looks at them. "Y-you aren't going to punish me for talking?" asks Drew. "What! No! We would never punish you for talking! Wait, how old are you?" says Natasha. "Six, almost seven," says Drew. Then she looks at the clock on the wall. It's 12:00. "Shoot! You two should get going. They're coming for me at 1:00. They'll take you too, Natasha," says Drew. "You can call me Nat. But wait, who's coming for you?" asks Natasha. "The Red Room," says Drew faintly from blood loss. Nat and Wanda look at each other in horror. "Well, you're coming with us instead," says Nat. "Wait, really?" asks Drew. "Yes! Can you stand?" asks Natasha. "I can but barely," says Drew. "Ok, I'm going to use my powers to carry you then. Ok?" says Wanda. "Ok! Wait! Can we take Bucky with us?" asks Drew. "Who's Bucky?" asks Natasha. "He took care of me while I was here," says Drew. "Yeah, we'll take him too. What does he look like?" asks Natasha. "He's tall with a metal arm. He's hard to miss," says Drew.

They both nod, and Wanda picks Drew up with her powers, and they leave through the hole in the wall. They walk down the hall, and sure enough, Drew spots Bucky, who appears to be holding two files. Bucky turns around, smiles a little, and comes running down the hall towards them. "Bucky!" says Drew. Then she falls unconscious. "Drew!" yells Bucky, Wanda, and Natasha in unison. "Too much blood loss," says Bucky instantly. This makes them pick up their pace on their way to the Quinjet.

They arrive, and Wanda carefully lowers Drew onto the medical table in the jet. Once Clint, Steve, Tony, Thor, and Bruce are onboard, the jet takes off full speed for New York. "Bucky?" says Steve recognizing his best friend. "Steve?" says Bucky. They both nod in response to the other's question. They hug, and Steve says, "I thought you died." "Hydra saved me but at a price. Long story short, a crazy thing happened involving Drew, but I'll let her decide what she says and doesn't say about that. I took care of Drew while at Hydra, and I was brainwashed while she was in the Red Room. I was always supposed to be brainwashed, but it wore off a few days before we kidnapped Drew from the Red Room a few months ago, and I've been pretending around everyone except Drew," says Bucky summing things up. Everyone's jaws drop. Well, everyone except Drew, who's still unconscious. Nat and Wanda start a conversation with Bucky. "I can't believe Drew has been in both the Red Room and Hydra," says Nat. "Yeah, I can say a somewhat short summary about that until Drew wakes up. I was the one who told her this since Hydra, and the Red Room never told her, and she needed to know why she was at both because, as you both know, that's not normal. But anyways, Drew is a mission. Meaning she was born as a mission. The Red Room picked a girl, and Hydra picked a boy for a particular mission. They were to have a child together that would become the next Black Widow or the next Winter Soldier, depending on the baby's gender. Long story for Drew to decide to keep to herself or elaborate short, the deal was changed because Hydra was unhappy. Oh, slight side note, Drew's parents died on a mission a few months after she was born. Now back to the big picture, she was at Hydra until she turned three. Then she went to the Red Room. Hydra kidnapped her from the Red Room 93 days ago. She's been through unimaginable things, partially because she went from one to the other and back again. Anyways, that's as much as I can say. I have both her Red Room and her Hydra file," says Bucky. Then he realizes that he basically said everything. Then he thinks to himself, "Drew probably won't mind. She doesn't like talking about her past." Wanda and Natasha have tears in their eyes. The rest of the plane ride is pin-drop silent. Wanda is holding one of Drew's hands, and Natasha is holding the other. Bucky is staring at Drew, relieved that she escaped to a new life. Tony has the Quinjet on autopilot while he tries to keep Drew alive. "What the heck happened to this kid?" wonders Tony in his mind. Nat and Wanda order some clothes and things for Drew's room at the compound. Those items should be there by the time that they land. The plane ride couldn't go any slower, in everyone's opinion.