Robin Hitzig had her life torn apart in 1966. No one could have prepared her or the Winter Soldier for what could come from sharing a cell wall in the depths of a hydra base for a few decades. Robin, turned Stygian Soldier, works alongside her infamous partner, the honorable James Barnes until they are possibly given the chance to live for themselves, free of the organization that destroyed them. And maybe, just maybe along the way they will realize how important their partner in crime has become.

"We're not who you think we are. We're helping you." "I don't care." She turned the gun from Shuri and pressed the barrel beneath her chin and fired. To her, he was a ghost; to him, she was a stranger. There were no more super soldiers. It was a well known fact. But when Bucky retrieves a woman in cryostasis in an abandoned Hydra facility, he begins to wonder otherwise. She has a Vibranium spine, her history with Howard Stark and an oddly vague couple decades she refuses to depict. Kate Alden was a scientist, engineer, and the next protégé of the 1950s until HYDRA deemed her necessary for their work. Being forced into Hydra's game, she is tasked with a nearly impossible mission: creating the Winter Soldier. After thirty years in cryostasis, the one person that Kate thought she'd never see again was the one who pulled her out. Bucky Barnes. The person she thought she'd loved. Except, he had no memory of her her existence. He had no idea that she'd brainwashed, tortured and manipulated him for decades. He'd changed, he was good, and he had absolutely no idea what she had done to him. And it had to stay that way.

In a world where power is both a blessing and a curse, Newly 20-year-old Madeline Kensington is caught between her own explosive abilities. As she navigates her covert missions, clashing with the Avengers on occasion, and grappling with her need to balance a normal life and that of Solaris, Madeline's journey becomes a race against time-not just to escape Hydra's grasp, but to understand her true potential before it consumes her. Will she remain a pawn, or will she rise as the hero she was never allowed to be?