Amanda Smith (The Avengers ff) #English

4.

I'm looking for Tony or an Avenger who can help me. The heat becomes more unbearable with each step.
I keep walking until I collapse in front of someone.

The darkness envelops me, I can't find a way out.
I feel nothing. No pain. No nothing.
I can't open my eyes.
Am I dead?
Was I poisoned?
What's wrong with me?

I don't know how much time has passed. I think about an old song from my childhood. I need to do something here in order not to freak out.

Suddenly I hear voices. That's it, I'm not dead. The pain comes back, in stronger waves. I would writhe in pain if I could. With each of these waves the pain gets worse.
Is that stone around me?
Strange!

After a felt eternity, it suddenly starts to crumble and then breaks, causing me to fall to the ground.
I open my eyes. I'm in a cell. How did I get in here?
I look around, they're all staring at me. Why are they all staring?
I get up slowly and go to the glass.
"Why am I in here?
Let me out!", I look at Tony angrily.
"It's just an experiment, a successful one", he says.
"What kind of experiment?", I ask.
"The Terrigen Crystal you took with you activated your abilities", he explains. I don't get it, what is he talkingabout?
"What does that mean?", I ask perplexed.
"You know what your parents were, right?", he looks at me as if I'm a stupid kid, which makes me angry.
"And you also have these genes, you are an inhuman, just as your brother is one too".
I just shake my head again and again. Am I really like my parents?
"Are you really sure?", I just ask.
"It's obvious", he says, looking at the others.
Now I realize what he means with that.
I'm shining.

But that is -
Wait, he just said my brother's like me.
"What does Blake have an ability for?", I ask.
Almost three years ago, he had managed to become a shield agent. That was always his dream.
I haven't seen him since then.
"He can disguise himself in any terrain and is very strong", he says casually.
That means, he can make himself invisible and is much stronger as it looks like.
And then what can I do except shining?
So I would be a much easier target.

I turn away and go to the other side of the cell. But I move too fast and run against the glass. Roughly I land on the floor.
What was that now?
Before I can realize what has just happened, two agents come and drag me out of the cell.
To my surprise, they put me back on my feet in front of a treadmill. I look around. The other Avengers are standing there watching me. I know what they're expecting from me and go on the treadmill. My current speed is far above that of a normal person. So Tony's right.
"What now?", I ask after I stop running.
"We should bring you to Shield, there you'll be trained", Vision says, which I've just noticed.
But I have no intention of doing that.
At the next best opportunity, I'll leave. But where?
To Grandma?
No way!
That's just putting her in danger.
What do I do now?

After a while I'm brought to my room by Natasha and two guards. We walk after them.
"When I say 'now', you run out as fast as you can", she whispers to me.
She probably thought the same as me.

Just before we arrive in front of my room, the time has come. She goes to one of the guards and makes him unable to fight. I run outside and hide. I don't know if this helps, because of all the cameras.

Slowly I'm worried.
Before I can walk back, Natasha meets me on a motorcycle. I jump on and the ride starts.
I just want to know where to go.