The Stark curse

.2

Three months after the attack by Ultron

"OH SHIT!" After being thrown onto a table, the shock and pain wash over her body, and the agent above her punches her straight in the face multiple times. As every strike was laid upon her, The misery grew stronger as she grew weaker. Finally, she musters up enough strength, then strikes back her hit, knocking the man back a couple of feet. She gets up, turns to see a wall then runs toward the brick foundation. Cass whips out a hand grenade and throws it at the wall with a big explosion. She jumps threw the smoke, lands rolling, and gets back on her feet, looking to see where she can escape.

Cassidy was now running away from some soldiers whose base she just blew up in Romania and stole what looked like junk for Hydra. They were gaining up on her and a she only had a couple of bullets left. She was shooting back at them, and one of the hot bullets penetrated an agent's shoulder. As Cass runs, she can feel her body giving up, but she pushes herself to move faster. Finally, she cuts down through an ally when Soldat comes around the corner on a bike; she hops on then they speed off toward the base.

"Holy shit! Where were you, having tea with the Queen!?" Cassidy asked sarcastically. Soldat shakes his head, "Saving your ass like usual. What went through your head blowing up the building that wasn't the plan!" "No, you had a plan. My plan seemed more exciting. You know your metal arm could have proved useful when I was getting..." "You talk too much! let us focus on getting out of here and back to base."  Cassidy laughs breathlessly, rolling her eyes.

Halfway there, Soldat comes to a screeching halt. In front of them stood the one and only Iron Man. "Right, I would like my daughter back now. I won't ask twice." Iron Man says, unenthused. Cassidy pops up from behind Soldat and shoots at him; Tony stares right at her, sighs, comes right at her, picks her up, and takes off. Soldat looks up as they leave out of sight while trying to find a perfect aim to shoot but misses,  "SHIT!" He gets on coms, "They got her; she's gone." he heads back to base with the product.  They get up to the quinjet, the door opens, they get in, and she shoves herself off, Tony. "What the hell do you think you're doing!? I'm not some damsel in distress; it's too late for you to save me now, FATHER!"  Bruce, Natasha, and Barton stare at them. "that's your daughter Stark?" Clint asked. "I mean, she does sound like you." "Just get us back, Barton," Stark said sternly.

   Cassidy sits down, knowing she can't shoot her way out of this, and stares at Natasha; she looks back at her. "So... you and I are very similar, you know, growing up training to be assassins and getting on shields radar," Cass said sarcastically. "I guess you can say that. I mean, the only difference is I was trained in the red room and you by Hydra." Natasha says back calmly. Nat looks up and over to Tony. He walked over to Cass and sat in front of her, pulling up all her past missions. She stares at the footage somewhat amused with herself. She then looks at Tony, "You have made a name for yourself; I mean, look at this, you took down fifteen agents in less than seven minutes; that's impressive... for a newb." He says, looking at the footage. "We are going to take you into some testing, and then we can get you settled into your room at the compound, " he says as he quickly cuffs her.

She looks down, trying to break them off. With no use, she gives up and looks at Tony. "What? Are you scared of your daughter Stark?" she asked with a smirk. "Not me, but for the people who might see you as a potential threat. You know, give them some peace of mind." She shrugs and leans her head back, waiting for all this to end.

The flight to the compound was long but also very uncomfortable for Cassidy. She was surrounded by what she was told were horrible people who had no respect for others but themselves. So how did she manage to get herself captured by the Avengers? Cass knew she was better than this, but she knew deep down she would probably be better off with them now rather than Hydra, for they were no better.

After the long awkward flight, they finally land at the compound; Steve Rogers is waiting by the doors. They all walk off the jet, Cass looks up, and her eyes widen when she sees Steve. Her heart sank; how Hdra talked about him made a shiver go down her spine. They continued walking to the laboratory while Steve walked beside her. "I saw you've been working with the winter soldier, does he.." he pauses for a second. "Does he remember me?" Cass looks at him, confused; why would Soldat remember him? "He's never mentioned you, of course; he's had so many brain wipes, so who knows what he does and doesn't remember." She says back bluntly with a shrug. She could see the pain in his eyes but tried not to pay attention.

They make it to the laboratory, and they all step inside. Banner showed her over to the table; she hopped up on it and stared at everyone, uncomfortable, like she was a tiger at a circus getting shown off to do tricks for them. "Alright, everyone who is not me, my daughter, or Banner out, so this will get done faster," Tony states. They all look at each other and then back to Tony, who shoos them out the door. He turns back to Banner and nods to proceed with testing. Cassidy looks over at him and sees he's holding a syringe with a long needle. "Oh hell no, you are not touching me with that big ass needle!" Banner stops and looks down at the hand. He lets out a small laugh. "Cassidy, I need to take some blood. You'll feel a small pinch. It'll just take a few minutes, I promise." Cass stares at Banner for a few seconds, then nods in agreement. Tony walks over and takes off the cuffs.

They run a couple of tests in what felt like hours. They finally got some of the results and looked up at her. "where did they get the super soldier serum?" Tony asked, "And exactly how long have they been using you as their weapon?" "They injected me when I was eleven, and let's see, I'm twenty-three now, so I've been what you're calling a weapon for twelve years," Cassidy said, annoyed. Tony's heart sinks. Has it been that long since she has been missing? It's taken this long to find his daughter. All those years that he can't take back. He shakes his head a looks back at her, "Let me show you to your room. It's going to take a while to find what we're looking for." She shrugs and follows him.

They make it to a door, and Tony opens it and walks inside, and she follows suit. It's a pretty big room with a queen size bed and windows that go from ceiling to floor, her own bathroom, and what looks like a big tv in the corner of the room. "I can have some people come in and design it however you want if that's cool?" Cass shrugs and shakes her head. "but for now, how about you just settle in and get some rest," Tony says while looking at his daughter with sorrowful eyes. "Okay, thanks. I guess good night." Tony nodes and leaves. Cassidy looks around the room. She was a product from Hydra, and he stuck her in this room like she wasn't a prisoner, like she was one of them. She takes off her clothes and folds them neatly on the bed, then goes to the bathroom and takes a hot shower, something she hasn't had for a while. When the hot water hits her back, she winces in pain. She forgot about all the fresh and old scars on her body and nasty bruises from punishment on falling missions. She pushes through and finishes her shower. She gets out and puts on some sweatpants and one of Tony's shirts he left for her cause she doesn't have any clothes.

She goes and sits on the edge of her bed and turns on the tv. She's flipping through channels when she hears a knock at the door. Cass opens it thinking it's either Tony again or Steve wanting to ask more questions about Soldat, but when she swings the door open, she is taken back by an unfamiliar face.