"How-how are you doing that?" Danny murmured, a look of total perplexion on his face.
"It's a long story," Monica replied, the yellow glow around her slowly dissipating
"Better question, how are you doing whatever that is?" She asked.
"It's an even longer story," He replied turning off his powers.
"I've got time, " Monica said, nodding in the direction of her desk.
"Touché," Danny responded
Just a few minutes later, the two super-powered individuals were sat opposite each other at Captain Rambeau's desk.
"Can we keep this off the records, for now. I'd rather not have this tied to me" He asked as Monica reached for her tablet.
"This better be one hell of a story," She said, moving her hand away from the tablet.
"Okay, well I guess it's best to start at the beginning. The thing you found in the forest is a base for an organisation called Hydra. I'm guessing that name means something to you since you were investigating it. I've been there for as long as I can remember. They trained me to be the best at everything, combat, intimidation and all the other tactical stuff. They tried turning me into the perfect soldier but that wasn't enough, so they injected me with this weird unstable serum. It made me even stronger, but it still wasn't enough. So they experimented on me, and that's how I got my powers. I'm not quite sure what the full extent of my powers are, but from what I can tell I've got super speed and super strength," He explained, trying to summarise the first how many years of his life.
"So you're telling me, you were groomed by hydra, and given superpowers for whatever reason," Monica said, backtracking what he just said.
"Yeah, I guess. But I wouldn't say I was groomed-."
"Don't go there," Monica interrupted.
"Why would hydra let you go?" She added a few moments later.
"They didn't, I broke out. I had a plan,"
Monica leaned back in her chair and let out a sigh. Danny's story seemed plausible and other than his alleged allegiance, he hadn't given his a reason yet to doubt his trustworthiness. However, she did seem skeptical about something. His mention of a serum that made his stronger before he was given his powers. It sounds like he's been given a version of the super soldier serum but the only supersoldiers Monica had heard of recently were the flag smashers and John Walker. She was sure it was something different, probably closer to the Patriot or Centipede serums that Shield tried to keep locked up. But then again if he was hydra's so-called perfect soldier, how did they allow him to escape?
"Could it be a trap?" she thought to herself. No. it wasn't possible. The kid seemed sheltered and a little naive. She could bring herself to see him as a spy and decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
"You mind if we give your some tests? Just to verify your story," Monica asked.
"I'm a human lab rat, you really think I'm scared of a few needles?"
"I guess not," Monica said, leading Danny out of her office. As they walked, she couldn't help but feel sympathy at his words. Although it seemed neither of them knew his age, he was very clearly just a teenager,"
Danny followed Monica through the corridors of the Sword base until they reached a laboratory. Inside were a few doctors working on something. Monica left Danny by the door while she spoke to one of the doctors. A few minutes later, the three of them walked in to an adjacent room where Danny was asked to sit on a medical bed while the doctor grabbed some equipment. Although previously stating that he wasn't scared of needles, Danny still tensed up when the doctor approached. He closed his eyes and inhaled before opening them again.
"I'm just gonna draw some blood okay?" The doctor said softly as she put on a fresh pair of gloves. She pushed up Danny's sleeve and tied an elastic strip right above Danny's elbow. She sanitised his inner elbow before using her thumb to search for a vain.once she found one, she grabbed her butterfly needle and pressed it against his skin. However, as she pressed with the usual amount of force, Danny's skin resisted. Only when she applied a little more force did the needle finally pierce through. The doctor then attached as testing tube to the needle's tube and the blood began to siphon into it. She removed it once it was full and repeated the process twice more before pulling the needle out and putting a bandaid on his arm.
"All done Captain," The doctor said as she remove her gloves.
"I was gonna have this but I think you might like it more than I will," She added, pulling a lollipop out of her pocket and holding it in front of Danny.
"Thanks," He replied, taking the candy from her. As the doctor carried the blood and equipment to the other room, Monica joined Danny, sitting on the other end of the medical bed.
"Can I ask how you got your powers?" Danny asked as he turned to face her. "I told you how I got mine after all,"
"Technically this is classified but what the hell. After Thanos, we caught a black market line of chitauri weapons. We had intel that the leading dealer made a superweapon, and when we went to investigate, it blew up in my face when I was trying to shut it off and ever since I have energy powers." She explained.
"6 years ago, a group of heroes called the avengers, tried to stop the mad titan Thanos, who wanted to erase half of existence. They failed and he did. Last year, they were able you return all of the sacrificed and defeated Thanos,"
"I don't remember anything like that, but I do remember that one day at the base, things did change. Everyone seemed more on edge, and a lot of the people I saw regularly looked a little older. When I asked they said I was probably just hallucinating," Danny explained
"It looks like they lied to you," Monica said
"They lied about a lot of things," he replied, taking the lollipop out of his pocket.
"What do you mean they lied about a lot of things?"
"They told me I was born with powers, then they stuck me in a test tube,"
A fairly loud growl erupted from Danny's stomach, so he unwrapped the lollipop and stuck it in his mouth.
"You sound pretty hungry," Monica said
"Yeah, I need to eat a lot cause of my powers, but I'm fine.
"Do you like Pizza? The ones on the cafeteria are addictive" Monica asked him
"What's a pizza?" He asked her completely normally."
At this point, she was beyond shocked.
"Something that's gonna make your stomach very happy," She said with a smile before the door to the room opened and the doctor from before called her over.
"Stay here for a sec," She ordered Danny, and he gave her a quick nod.
"What's wrong doc," Monica asked her as she walked into the other room.
"There's more to this kid than meets the eye, his blood sugar's a little high, but there's also something else in his blood. It looks almost identical to Erskine's serum, but there's a radiation signature that looks like the tesseract.," She explained
"So he is an actual super-soldier? " Monica asked.
"And somehow his powers are somehow connected to the tesseract," the nurse replied
"Just like Carol," Monica realised
"Should I trigger the emergency pager?' The doctor asked
"No!" Monica replied louder than she expected, startling the nurse and Danny who had accidentally been eavesdropping
"We just need to run a lot more tests," Monica said and looked over at Danny throwing the stick of his lollipop in the trash.
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Project Next-Gen (Being rewritten)
FanfictionEverybody hates Hydra. Especially the one's at its mercy. Subject 3 never wanted to be enhanced but he was. As Hydra put it, he was a one man army but he didn't plan on being their army. He planned to escape. ...
