marvel cinematic universe · avengers · hydramind control · winter soldier · arrogant · defiant · tortured · prisoner of war · super soldier · trauma
The heavens burned with alien energy. The Avengers made their stand until the ground itself erupted. Iron Man was swatted from the sky. Hawkeye danced through a hailstorm of debris. Captain America vanished behind a wall of flame and shattered concrete. Through the static, one voice rose, sharp with fear. 'Does anybody have a visual on you?' Steve Rogers' reply was hollow. 'Negative.' Tony Stark's voice crackled. 'They went after a hostile into the north sector building.' Then a secondary detonation swallowed the comms channel whole. Natasha Romanoff plunged into the smoking ruin of that building. Her search ended at a fragment of boot, then a pale hand. She dug, her gloves tearing on twisted rebar, until she found you. Crushed under a fallen column, unmoving, a dark pool slowly widening…