cryptid /cryp·​tid/ noun an animal that has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist ----------- The investigation of cryptid creatures from the general public sparked interest within SHIELD's Enhanced Division and, subsequently, HYDRA's Weapons Division. A race to find the creatures of cryptids commenced as myth merged with reality. Thus began decades of an underwhelming chase that proved nearly pointless. Nearly. PROJECT: CRYPTID emerges, and three year old 017 finds herself introduced to a tall, towering and scary looking weapon, the Winter Soldier. Quiet and recluse, Solveig doesn't mind being called 017. She doesn't remember her home or her family, but she does know the only family she has now- HYDRA. She knows nobody else has the glassy wings on her back, and she knows she's all sorts of wrong. The agents say so. But, maybe, just maybe, the man- Bucky- would think of her different, and maybe, the Winter Soldier would too. ----------- "Only the best dads let their children fly. Only the most loved children will soar." ----------- in which the Winter Soldier adopts an Asgardian child. ----------- CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (minimally/references) BLACK WIDOW PRE-AVENGERS: ASSEMBLE AVENGERS: ASSEMBLE POST-AVENGERS: ASSEMBLE WARNINGS: child abuse, non-consensual body modification, torture, etc (the usual HYDRA violence)

Irena Ivanakof grew up in the red room. She was raised to fight, hunt, assassinate, and kill anyone whom she was told to. When she somehow broke free of the mind manipulation she was fed up, she attempted to escape and was caught. As punishment, she was sent to kill 2 Avengers, Natasha Romanoff, and Steve Rodgers. When she refused to kill them Natasha made sure she'll never have to go back there again. {winter soldier- endgame} started writing: 10/28/23 published: 12/01/23 ended: check out my tik tok for edits of this fanfic :) @starfliestories.wp most impressive ratings: #1 in raffey cassidy 1/9/24 #1 in action packed 2/26/24 #1 in yelena belova 6/14/24 ©starfliestories2023

In the spring of 2014, HYDRA-occupied SHIELD is in full swing, working underground to power the monster that is the Winter Soldier. Following in his shadow is their latest creation. Immortal, obedient and a murder machine, the child known simply as 'The Faceless Girl' cleans up any loose threads the Winter Soldier may have missed. She is a ghost story inside of a ghost story. With the fall of SHIELD, however, The Winter Soldier and The Faceless Girl run from HYDRA. They are now defectors of everything they know. It is simply James and Isabell on the road, now. James and Isabell, and the many, many ghosts that haunt them.

Natasha Romanoff is a monster. She doesn't love, she doesn't care. She doesn't let herself feel anything. She simply avoids mirrors like the plague to avoid seeing a plain reflection of the awfulness of her past. Because that's who she's become. Redemption is just a cover. All she can do is manipulate her own feelings to feel like, maybe, she might belong here in S.H.I.E.L.D.. And as she struggles to make sense of her own twisted life and actions, Natasha would be damned to meet someone whose entire being reflects her own. Except that someone is a seven year old girl, and she's so much worse than anything she could have imagined.

❝Zariah Petrova wasn't like the others.❞ ❝She was different.❞ Following the defection of Natasha Romanoff, the Red Room conspired a way to create a new top student. A perfect weapon in the form of a little red-headed girl. But Natasha had thought she'd wiped out the Red Room, erased it from existence when she'd converted to SHEILD. Yet now her replacement emerges and she's forced to confront a past she'd long since tried to bury. Zariah is a machine, a heartless killer without remorse. Natasha is simply trying to do better in this world, make up for all of the lives she's taken. How will the two hold up when their conflicting interests are forced to collide? Will they make it out to the light on the other end? Or both fall victim to the nightmares that plague their mind, of a place long hidden in the shadows? Welcome to the panic room.

"𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵.... 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵.. 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺." Verinah was just a girl when HYDRA took her. Born in Russia and stolen from everything she knew, she was experimented on, trained in both HYDRA and the Red Room to become a perfect assassin-silent, deadly, and obedient. For years, she knew nothing but pain, orders, and blood-soaked missions. Her only constant was another ghost like her: the infamous Winter Soldier.

James Barnes was sixteen years old when his baby sister came into the world, pink and wrinkly and screaming her little head off. And James? James was unimpressed. She was tiny-too tiny. Her hands were no bigger than his thumb, her head barely covered in a fuzz of dark hair. She cried constantly, made Ma exhausted, and stole all the attention in the apartment. And worse? She was completely useless. Couldn't walk, couldn't talk, couldn't even hold her own head up or go get groceries. He had brothers. Brothers he could roughhouse with and throw punches at. This? This little thing wasn't a sibling-she was a baby. And yet, despite all his grumbling, he still found himself staring at her when nobody was looking.

Seven-year-old Aurora has spent most of her life in the foster care system, bouncing from home to home, leaving behind a trail of anger and broken furniture. She fights everyone - other kids, foster parents, even the social workers. But when she's placed for adoption, it's not with another ordinary family. S.H.I.E.L.D. has made their decision: Aurora is now the legal responsibility of Captain America himself. Neither of them wants this. Steve, forced into the situation by S.H.I.E.L.D., is furious about being saddled with a kid he never asked for. Aurora, convinced that no one ever truly stays, refuses to trust him - or anyone. Their first meeting ends in a screaming match, and things only go downhill from there. But as much as they push each other away, neither one is allowed to leave. And when Steve gets a visit from a friend from his past, stuck together, they'll have to figure out if family is something you're born into-or something you fight for. Cover by the amazing @greatwritesharkk

Anya Volkova was trained to survive, not to live. Raised in the Red Room and broken by Hydra, she's only thirteen when the Avengers find her in a forgotten lab. Silent. Dangerous. Unwilling to trust. Tony wants to fix what Hydra did. Pepper just wants her to feel safe. But Anya knows better-kindness is a weapon, and family is a weakness. She's not one of them. Not yet. But when Hydra comes to take her back, Anya has to decide: keep running, or stand and fight for the first people who didn't try to use her.