At The Speed Of A Heart Beat

Prologue

"Let's race!", said the silvered - haired boy jumping around the two girls.
"No, it's not fair...", Pouts his twin letting her dark hair fall on her face.
"You know you're a lot faster than us...", Said the dark blonde girl nudging the boy lightly.
"That's exactly why I want to do it.", Laughed the boy making the two girls laugh as well.

Good moments go by fast and disaster hit the small town of Sokovia. Diana Petrov was only 17 when the bombs fell from the sky. Her mother and father had tried to protect her and shield her - Katrina and Michael Petrov ended up dying on top of their daughter protecting her from the shrapnel and blast of the bombs, as heroes.
"You are stronger than you know, Diana, remember that...", Mother had said to the now orphan child but it was hard to fulfill hearing the screams and cries around her.
Diana held her parents bodies crying and rocking back and forth until the heavily - armed soldiers broke through the door.
"Found another one!", Shouted the closer one to the rest of the squad upon laying eyes on Diana. The young girl looked at the man with a glimmer of hope in her eyes behind the tears - "Maybe things would turn out for the best...", she thought.
It was only when the rest of the soldiers came in and shackled her that she understood that hope could not be found with them. She gave a last look to the lifeless bodies of her parents - they had been good parents but nothing could prepare her for what would happen. She screamed and kicked and called out to everyone she knew - no one came, they were all dead, or worse...they were like her...

The soldiers had a strange symbol on their arms. Some sort of black octopus in a red background. The masks covered their faces and she couldn't recognize man from woman. They wore all black and heavy machinery. As she was being dragged out of the destroyed building, she looked around calling for whoever was listening - everywhere she looked there was destruction, blood, bodies and toys that would never be played with again.

Outside, the sunlight hurt her eyes and she frowned wanting to gaze upon her hometown. An inactive bomb caught the attention of her brown eyes - 'Stark Industries' it read on the side. She was quickly put inside the black truck and she felt the presence of other children inside, the sobs of the orphans filling the silence - "If any of you raises your voice, you'll be knocked unconscious", the soldiers threatened. The children kept silent, controlling their sobs but Diana couldn't. That was against the way she was raised so she screamed - "Maximoff!", hoping they would be there and listened to her. A hit to her head made her fall unconscious inside the truck before she could get an answer.

Diana screamed - a nightmare - the 8 year-old had dreamt about terrorizing black and red animals eating her family and friends.
Upon her scream, Katrina hurried to the room holding Diana close to her chest.
"It's alright, маленький ангел [little angel], mother is here...", Whispered the woman to her crying daughter as she caressed and kissed her head.
"You were gone, mother...you, father, the twins, everyone...", The child whispered back holding onto her mother sobbing.
"We are all here, маленький ангел, we will always be..."
Katrina started singing a lullaby - that she always sang for her - and Diana relaxed. The singing turned into humming and the song seemed to have changed...
The humming turned into a whistle and a sudden blast of water jerked her awake.

"I'm glad you could join us, Ms. Petrov.", Said the grinning man in a white coat. He had a clipboard in his hands and a group of similarly dressed people behind him; they were all wilding some sort of medical equipment.
"Who are you? Where am I?", Asked the confused and scared Diana, her eyes still adjusting to the laboratory lights. She noticed she was laying in an hospital bed with her feet and hands trapped - she started to panic looking around for a helpful soul.
"My name is Dr. Hummel but you, like the other ones, will call me Father.", Said the strange man looking back at his clipboard.

'Father?', Diana thought confused. The doctor was nothing like her father. Michael had short dark blonde hair, just like hers, that was always perfectly groomed while the doctor's ebony hair was long and irregular like he had given up. Michael was a construction worker so his body had been built through the years but she remembered how safe and warm she felt in his arms while the doctor, although having a built body, it looked dangerous able to harm you just by touching him. But the major difference were the eyes, Michael's blue eyes showed love and affection everytime he looked at you, they always made Diana feel safe with him while the doctor's eyes were dark and cold, they seemed to look through you and destroy any goodness inside you.

Dr. Hummel chuckled, the sound hurt Diana 's ears. He lifted his eyes from the clipboard looking amused at the restrained girl.
"Congratulations, your little stunt in the truck won you a special place in my experiment. Not everyone gets to do it, you should feel honored.", Said the grinning man looking at her and walking closer to her with a syringe in his hand.
"No...! Don't touch me!", Shouted the girl in panic trying to free herself from the restraints.
The syringe stung her skin and the clear liquid entered her system making her screams quiet down until she stopped unconscious.
"This is the start of your new life...", She heard the doctor say before everything went black.

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