Survivors

Prologue

HYDRA base

2008

5:34 AM

Screams echoed throughout the entire HYDRA base. Two eight year old girls only known as subject twelve and subject thirteen were playing a game of cards silently with each other when they both looked up hearing the screams.
They both had short brown hair and on their wrists were tattoos that said 012 and 013 as well as metal bracelets that lit up green to keep them from using any of their powers, it was the last success Arnim Zola created before he disappeared. Subject thirteen had dark green eyes with little black glasses sitting on top of her nose, even with all of the testing and changing of their forms, the little girl still couldn't lose her bad eyesight or her old, smudged glasses they had given her years ago.
Twelve had violet eyes and freckles that covered her cheeks. She has a small scar in the back of her left ear due to one of the extensive tests that were tried on her when she was 4, causing her to have impaired hearing. Fortunately she had complete vision of both eyes, and didn’t have bad eyesight like her sister.
She had no problem looking at the cards in front of her or the cards her sister was holding, which Thirteen snatched away from her eyes immediately once she saw her sister glance over her cards. The two girls had been here their entire lives, their only happiness was held in each other and the small amount of books and cards they were given. Ever since birth the two were inseparable, no matter how hard the HYDRA agents tried, they could never separate the two.

The cell door beeped and opened as a familiar man stepped through, Alexander Pierce, although they only knew him as The man with a fake smile, once Thirteen had seen in Pierces mind during her training with the bracelet off, and after sharing it with her sister they agreed to never trust Pierce. He was a demon hidden behind a smile and they could tell that since the day he stepped through the call door.
He looked at the two girls who were sitting across from each other, and he smiled, “Zwölfer, steh auf, du bist der Nächste.”  ‘Subject Twelve, get up, you're up next.’

When Twelve simply looked up at him, unmoving, he grabbed her by the arm and yanked her up.
Thirteen grabbed Twelves other arm pulling her back away from Pierce, knowing where he was planning on taking her sister. Pierce was unfortunately much stronger and he pushed the other girl to the ground.
“Deine Zeit wird kommen.” ‘Your time will come’ He assured Thirteen, she shivered in response.
Twelve looked back at Thirteen, giving her a small smile of assurance that she was going to be fine before leaving with Pierce voluntarily.
Thirteen sat herself back down on the ground and buried her face in her hands apprehensively.