Tony's Daughter

Fight

Val woke up with pain radiating from her arms and chest. She tried sitting up, but was met with resistance.

"Easy. You've been unconscious for a while. Try not to move to fast."

She looked around and saw that she wasn't in the humvee.

"Where am I? Who are you?"

"My name is Yinsen. You're in a cave, in Afghanistan."

"Where's my.....where's Tony?"

"Over here."

She looked to her left, to see Tony standing at a work station, fiddling with something.

"Tony, are you alright? Did they do anything to you?"

"Depends on your definition of, 'alright'."

She turned to Yinsen for answers.

"He's a little worse for wear. The impact of the bomb left shrapnel in his chest. I was able to retrieve most of the shrapnel pieces. He has an electromagnet hooked up to a car battery to prevent the remaining shrapnel from entering his heart."

"What about me? What's..."

"You had several lacerations, and a couple of small gashes. I cleaned your wounds as best as I could, while changing the bandages. Some healed fine, while some did not. You'll be left with some scaring."

Val looked at Tony again, before turning back to Yinsen. Before she could say anything, someone shouting and yelling alerted to us a person closing in on our....cell. Yinsen carefully pulled Val up, and had her stand between him and Tony. A man with dark hair, and dark brown skin came in. Followed by several men with guns. He started speaking in Hungarian, gesturing from Tony to Val, and back to Tony.

"What's he want?" Val asking.

"He saying that if Tony doesn't build the Jericho missile, he'll torture you. He'll make Tony watch."

"I've seen what that thing can do. It's not pretty. Besides, torturing me wouldn't make Tony build it any faster that his company does. I'm not that important."

Val stared at the man, with straight face.

"Menj a pokolba, te piszok szopni a disznót." (Go to hell, you scum sucking pig.)

The man let out a sharp laugh, before looking at Val.

"Meg kell tanulnod a helyed. Fogd meg!" (You will need to learn your place. Grab her!)

Two men with guns grabbed Val, and dragged her out of the cave. They strapped her to a board, put a piece of cloth over her face, and proceeded to pour water on her. Val choked, gagged on the water. This went on for a few minutes, before her captors let up.

........

Tony and Yinsen were discussing the best possible plan to get out, when an unconscious Val was brought back. They took her to the nearest cot, and helped her lay down. Her face was littered with bruises that looked horrible. Her bottom lip was split open, there was a decent sized cut on her right cheek, and her hair was soaking wet.

"What did they do to her?" Tony asked.

"From what I can tell," Yinsen said, looking her over. "They used the waterboarding technique. Pair of brass knuckles, to the face."

He then raised her shirt, looking for extra injuries, and grimmaced before putting her shirt back down.

"A good couple of kicks to the ribs as well. There's a few boot prints."

Val went in and out of consciousness for a while. Three days had passed before she finally woke up. Yinsen checked her over, and had her stay on the cot for the next few days. When she felt better, and Yinsen thought she was well enough, she was allowed to sit up. Even move about every so often.

"So, guys, how the hell are we gonna get out?"

"I have a plan. It's a bit unconventional."

"Tony....we're in a cave, thousands of miles away from home. I'll take anything you have at this point."

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AN: I am so sorry for taking this long. I hope to never take this long again.....