A Frozen Heart

Chapter 5: Hail Hydra!

My ears were ringing when I finally got up off my knees. The kitchen looked like a bomb had hit it. My father had run over to me to help me up, cursing in Norwegian under his breath. In the lounge room my brother had his arms wrapped around my mother and Pa was standing at the back door looking out.

"What the hell happened," my brother yelled as he helped our mother to her feet. 

She was shaking from fear and had blood running down the side over her face from a cut on her scalp. As the two debated what had happened from a gas explosion to a random earthquake, my moved closer to me so that he could whisper something to me without worrying the rest of the family. 

"If anything happens to me look after the family, get in the car and just drive. You can't let anyone get hold of you. You can't let them capture you so that they can use your powers." 

I couldn't reply to him, I was frozen in fear. Surely no one could have found out about my powers. I had only just discovered the truth myself. All the colour had faded from Pa's face as he continued to look out the back door. Then I heard it, the sound of people running towards the house.

 As the people came in to view my Pa whispered one word, "Hydra". The next thing I knew the house was being stormed by men in black uniforms. I acted on instinct when I saw one of the men hold a strange gun to my mother's head. I took off out of the kitchen into the lounge room as my hands became ice cold. The next thing I knew I was throwing an icicle at the man hitting him in the shoulder causing him to cry out in pain and drop my mother.

Another man then took aim at my mother and as he fired, I jumped over the back of the couch landing in front of my mother and creating an ice shield. It caused the blast to bounce back at the man and instead of falling to the ground, the blast caused him to vanish with the same blue light that I saw in the field.

Breathing heavily, my mother and I got to our feet at the man that I had hit with the icicle cried out, "Cut off one head and two more will appear!". 

I grabbed my mother's hand and ran with her outside to where the rest of the family had been forced to go. It was there I saw a man in what looked like a Nazi uniform holding my father by the throat. He laughed as my father struggled to get out of his grasp. "So, the rumor's were true, you gave up your powers, Erickson. I have traveled a long way for the use of your gift and will not leave empty handed," he snarled looking over at me. 

Before I knew what I was doing, I threw another icicle, hitting the man that was holding in the hand that he was using to hold my father.

As soon as my father had the chance, he broke free of the man's grasp and ran over to the rest of us. Grabbing out he led us out to the garage to the car.

"I always knew there was something special about you Kimberly. I just always thought it came through my side of the family," My mother said as we continued to run as fast as we could

"Is this really the time mum," my brother laughed sarcastically. 

We finally made it to the car but unfortunately the men were close behind us. My father gasped just before he opened the driver's side door. I looked over to see the man in the Nazi uniform pulling a large dagger out of my father's back. My mother screamed as he fell to the floor in a pool of blood. The whole world seemed to slow down around me and I seemed to see everything that was happening around me. My brother and Pa ran to my mothers and father side as he took his last breath, the man in the uniform was laughing at the sight before him and backed out of the garage and taunted for me to follow him.

I ran after him in to the fields, throwing icicle after icicle trying to stop him. My brother followed calling out for me to stop but I couldn't. My father had just been murdered in front of me and I wasn't letting this man get away with it. "You don't know what power you're messing with fraulein" he called out to me as he pulled out a small clear case holding a glowing cube. I could feel an ice cold breeze blow threw my hair as I looked him. "No, you don't know who you are messin' with".

I let the ice-cold blast go, knocking him off his feet and sending the glowing cube flying. We both took off towards the cube, I didn't know what it was but there was no way that I was going to let him get hold of it again. Whatever it was, it was clearly powerful and guessing from the way glowed,  it also powered the weird guns that they all had.

We both grappled for the cube when it fell out of its case. As I grabbed the cube, the man grabbed hold of my arm. The next thing I knew the whole world turned bright blue and I felt like I was falling. At some point the man let go over my arm, taking the blue cube with him. Then I hit the ground hard, looking up I saw I was in the middle of a road and there an old looking taxi was headed straight at me.

I braced myself for the taxi but I was hit from a completely different direction and pulled on to the side walk. I turned to look what had hit me to see a slim man with blonde hair breathing heavily. As he stood up, he held his hand out to me to help me up.

"Are you ok miss, what's your name."

"Thank you for saving me, I'm Kimberly Odinson."

"Well Kimberly, it was my pleasure. I'm Steve, Steve Rogers".