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3rd Person POV
Sokovia, January 22, 2008
It was a normal day, well as normal day as it can be for a HYDRA soldier. This particular soldier had been walking through the streets of Sokovia when he had heard what seemed to be a baby’s cry coming out of a stack of crates in an empty alleyway.
Slowly, the soldier made his way down the dark alley and tore off a thin sheet of fabric from one of the crates, only to reveal a small baby boy. The soldier was momentarially shocked, the baby couldn’t be more than a month old.
The soldier picked up the child and quickly examined it, thankfully the boy had no injuries and had stopped crying once the soldier picked him up. Suddenly the soldier remembered talk of finding new ‘volunteers’ for HYDRA’s latest experiments.
The baby boy sneezed, breaking the soldier's concentration. The soldier quickly wrapped the sheet of fabric around the baby and made his way back to the closest HYDRA facility, trying not to think about how the baby in his arms could possibly die from what HYDRA could put him through.
Shaking his head, he continued on his way. He glanced down at the boy who had fallen asleep, He believes he just found the newest ‘volunteer’ for Project Dark Rune.
HYDRA Facility, 2009
Loud footsteps pounded through the halls as Strucker walked down to the holding chambers.
“Sir, are you sure? I mean the subject is only a boy, and all the other subjects have died.” A soldier explained, just behind Strucker.
“There is a new serum, and based off the other experiments they’ve discovered, Rune needs a growing organism to survive.” Strucker assured, opening a door and turning a corner, stopping at a door.
Strucker opened the door and walked into the room, that only had a small crib and changing table, and went up to a sleeping boy that seemed only about one year old. The baron picked up the boy, properly holding him in his arms and walking out of the room, heading towards the lab.
“If you’re really so concerned, we have planned to inject the serum diluted, to keep the child alive as long as possible. If these experiments work, this boy will be very very useful.” Strucker explained, glanced at the sleeping boy in his arms.
HYDRA Facility, 2009
A young brunette’s attention was broken as the door opened revealing a soldier holding a crying child. The girl jumped to her feet, confused as to why a child was in the facility.
“Maximoff, we need you to calm the child, he won’t cooperate.” A soldier explained in english, placing the still crying boy in the young girl's arms.
Momentarily shocked, the girl asked if they tried feeding or changing him, the soldier confirmed they did and the boy still proceeded to shriek, then the soldier left the room hoping the Maximoff girl would calm the boy. The girl, Wanda Maximoff, bounced the baby up and down, shushing him gently.
Wanda took a moment to look at the boy, being honest he looked rather odd. The boy had blonde hair that seemed to be turning black at the roots, and the veins on his right arm looked slightly popped. The baby had seemed to spot Wanda’s long hair and grabbed a chunk of it, bringing it closer to his face.
The mesmerized look on his face made Wanda slightly chuckle, and continued to bounce him with a smile, glad that he had stopped crying. The boy gurgled a bit and looked up at Wanda’s face and let out a laugh, as he grabbed at her face. Wanda leaned in closer and the boy put a hand on each cheek and smiled up at her.
“Hi! Hi baby, what's your name?” Wanda asked in a classic baby voice, looking at his clothes.
Wanda and her brother Pietro’s uniforms had tags saying their names and statuses, this baby’s uniform had “Subject A7, Dark Rune Project”
“You,” The brunette paused, “You don't have a name, Do you?” Wanda asked with sympathy in her accented voice.
The baby only let out a laugh in response, oblivious to what she asked, only enjoying her presence. Wanda was both shocked and saddened, Who were his parents? What was he doing here? How was he a part of Project Dark Rune?
The girl had used her powers to speak to her brother before, and quickly explained to him what had happened. After a moment, Wanda had come up with the idea of making the child their baby brother. Pietro thought about it for a moment, and agreed. They had known what it was like to not have anything. The two promised each other that they would always try to protect their new brother, no matter the cost.
“Well if he is our new baby brother, He needs a name don't you think?” Peitro asked with a chuckle at the end.
Wanda slightly laughed, then took a good look at the boy in her arms, who was now watching the sitcom playing on her TV, and decided.
“Flynn. Flynn Maximoff.” Wanda said with a smile.
The baby- Flynn looked up at his new sister with a toothy grin, before trying to repeat her. Soon a soldier, a different one than before, came into the room and saw the boy was no longer crying and took him from Wanda. Only for the boy to start crying the moment Wanda let go of him.
Flynn started squirming in the soldiers arms, then proceeded to hit him over and over trying to get back to his new sister. Wanda noticed this and went to go pick him up again before the soldier told her to stand down.
Still struggling to get the baby to calm down, Flynn called out ¨Wada! Wada!¨ catching both Wanda and the soldier off guard. In the shock, the soldier found himself unable to move while Flynn wiggled his way out of the guards arms and dropped to the floor. After a moment of struggle the boy made his way to Wanda's feet before falling over and pushing himself up, and made grabby hands at the girl.
Wanda quickly picked him up and said in a baby talk voice, “Wanda! That’s right, I’m Wanda!”
The soldier finally got a grip of himself and called, “Alright, that’s enough Ms. Maximoff.” and grabbed the boy again.
All of a sudden Flynn started screaming, and the room got darker. The soldier found himself unable to move again. Wanda looked around the room startled and noticed all the shadows in the room had gotten darker, especially the soldier’s. Flynn once again dropped to the floor and made his way to Wanda.
Having had enough, the soldier managed to call for backup, and multiple soldiers burst into Wanda’s room and aimed their guns at the brunette and her new brother. Wanda quickly pushed Flynn into her chest, wanting to protect him.
“Ms. Maximoff put the subject down.” One of the many soldiers said, his gun still aimed at her.
“Don’t call him that, his name is Flynn.” Wanda informed back.
“He doesn’t have a name, Maximoff. He’s an orphan, now an experiment. A very important experiment. Just hand him over and we won’t shoot.” The same soldier explained to the frightened girl.
After a moment, Wanda became more focused and belted, “I won’t let you hurt him.”
The girl heard an order to shoot at her and try not to hit ‘The Subject’, just before she heard gunshots. Wanda quickly spun around, pushing Flynn even further in her chest waiting for the bullets to land, but they never did.
Noticing no pain and pure silence, the Maximoff girl looked behind her and saw the bullets that were fired at her, floating in the air. She then looked around the room and noticed the room was darker again, especially the shadows of the bullets.
Then the bullets dropped to the floor and a laugh filled the room, the soldiers and Wanda looked over at the doe eyed boy. The veins on his right arm were more noticeable, almost black, and his eyes looked black for a moment, before turning back to their natural color.
Flynn then looked up at Wanda and laughed before clapping his hands, when the soldiers were launched out of the room.
At this point, the main person looking over Project Dark Rune, Strucker, was at the door and saw the group of soldiers get thrown out of the room, quickly making his way inside. He saw two of his projects laughing with each other. The Baron thought about it for a moment before coming to a decision.
Having this boy grow and learn with the Maximoff Twins, would be beneficial...
HYDRA Facility, 2012
Years later, Flynn was now four turning five. Since he was two HYDRA had been injecting the full serum into his blood. After the first couple injections, the scientists learned they had to restrain the boy to get him not to run away or attack the doctors. Even though Flynn had cried and shrieked that it hurt, they didn’t stop.
Luckily the injections happened once every two weeks, so in between that time Flynn would either train with his newly found powers, or in hand to hand combat. Despite being only four years old, Flynn was mature for his age. At this point in his life, his chance at a proper childhood had been ripped from him.
His older siblings often felt pity for their brother, at least they had managed to have ten years with a proper family. Flynn only had them in his life. Today HYDRA was taking the boy to a different facility, to meet someone. The twins protested but HYDRA ignored them and took Flynn to the facility.
The now black haired boy followed Strucker to a dark room. Over the years both Flynn and HYDRA learned that if Flynn was to use his powers in a dark room, Rune would take over the boy's body. The first time this happened, Flynn almost died from a seizure, so HYDRA decided to hold off those type experiments, until now.
Flynn was pushed into the room before he could protest, and heard the door locked with a ‘clunk!’. The small boy slumped into a corner, then looked around the room noticing a large figure in the corner. With a small gasp Flynn hid his face into his arms, determined not to use his powers.
“Soldat. Ready to comply?” A voice came from a speaker in the room.
Flynn looked back up and saw the ‘soldat’ stand up straight, before he heard, “Attack.”
The Soldat lunged at Flynn, almost grabbing him but Flynn jumped out of the way. Silently the soldat stood back up and went to grab the boy again and succeeded. Being picked up by the back of his shirt, Flynn noticed the soldat’s left arm was made of metal.
The soldat seemed hesitant for a moment before punching the boy in the stomach. Flynn yelped in pain before trying to squirm out of the soldats grasp, and suffered from another punch. The soldat then threw him into the wall and made his way to the injured boy again. All of a sudden the soldat couldn’t move, and to his surprise the dark room somehow got darker.
Looking back at the boy, he saw Flynn standing with his right arm stretched out at the soldier. The veins on his arms had turned black, and most unsettlingly his eyes were pitch black. The soldat found himself somehow floating in the air before getting thrown through the two way mirror at the side of the room, successfully knocking out the Soldat.
Fly- Rune made eye contact with Strucker before smiling and running for the door. The possessed boy stopped before the door before spreading his arms, the tips of his fingers turned black and that inky black made its way up his arms as the room loosed its shadows. After a moment Rune aimed his arms at the door before all the pent up energy was released blowing the door off its hinges.
Stepping out of the room with a smile, Rune turned to find a way out of the facility, before collapsing with a painful shout. HYDRA soldiers surrounded the boy with bright lights, in attempts to burn the entity back into submission. During this the boy was screaming in pain, his voice seemed to have separate octaves, a deeper voice and one of a regular child.
After a few minutes, silence came from the boy. The soldier looked at the boy to see him passed out on the broken door, some black substance dripping from his nose. By this point the soldat awoke and was ordered to pick up the boy and bring him to his quarters.
Hours later Flynn woke up in a small dark room. He started to sit up before his shoulder was grabbed from behind. He spun around and looked up only to make eye contact with the soldat. The small boy quickly jumped from the soldat’s grasp before almost passing out again.
The soldat went to hold the boy to prevent him from falling, but Flynn pushed the man's hands away, looking up at him with fear. Flynn looked at the soldat’s face and saw that he looked sad, almost lost. The soldat sat down on the bed Flynn had just been laying on and stared at the floor.
“I-Is your room?” Flynn asked, quietly.
The soldat glanced at the boy, and said nothing.
After a moment the boy introduced himself, “I’m Flynn…your name?”
Silence.
“I don’t know…”
Flynn looked up with a confused face that the soldier saw.
“I don't remember. They call me S-Soldat or The Winter Soldier…” The soldier explained to the boy.
Flynn walked up to the soldier and pulled himself onto the bed before asking, “Bad people?”
“Yeah, the bad people.”
“It okay, Wanda said it okay to forget.” Flynn said with a small smile.
“Wanda?” The soldier questioned
“Oh, sister, Wanda,” The small boy explained.
After a few moments of comfortable silence, Flynn spoke up, “What if give you special name til you ‘member!”
“What’s a special name?” The soldier asked, confused.
“Cute name that is not yours. Brother calls me Temnota.” The Sokovian boy tried to explain.
“Darkness?” The older man mumbled.
The soldier was silent for a moment then said, “Okay then, what's my special name?”
“Winter?” Flynn asked after a few seconds.
For a few seconds Flynn thought he saw a faint smile make its way on the soldier's face.
“Winter it is.”
HYDRA Facility, December 21, 2012
Weeks had gone by where Flynn had stayed with ‘Winter’ and trained with him. Once Winter had realized that he had hurt the small boy as the soldier he promised he’d make it up to the boy one day. The pair had gotten close, with Flynn making sure Winter was okay after one of his ‘missions’ and Winter making sure that the guards wouldn't hurt the boy. Winter had been helping Flynn with some hand to hand combat when the older man had beat the boy.
“Dang it!” Flynn muttered, on the floor.
“Language.” Winter responded, picking up the boy with a small smile.
“Sorry…” The smaller boy mumbled with a sad look. He often made that face when he lost to Winter.
Luckily Winter knew how to cheer the boy up and ruffled Flynn’s hair with his flesh hand. Flynn let out a small giggle and gently pushed Winter’s hand away, looking up at him with a smile.
“You're getting better, malysh.” Winter admitted.
“Really?”
“Definitely.”
Suddenly HYDRA guards entered the room and made their way towards Flynn and Winter, one half pinning Winter and the other half picking up Flynn. The small boy immediately knew what this meant and started kicking and screaming for Winter, and Winter quickly called back.
“Let him go! What are you doing, he's just a baby! Stop!” The soldier belted thrashing around, trying to get the guards to let him go.
“Get off of me! Malysh! Malysh!” The soldier shouted even more once he lost sight of the boy.
Flynn by now was crying, it was time for his injections. He kept shaking and crying hearing Winter’s cries from a distance. The soldier entered a room and placed Flynn into a steel chair and locked his wrists and ankles to the chair. Protests and Shouts left Flynn’s mouth but the doctors in the room ignored him.
One guard then locked a clasp, locking Flynn’s head in place. A doctor pushed up the boys right sleeve, exposing his gray veins, while Flynn’s eyes started filling up with tears again. The doctors assembled multiple syringes of a black substance, The Rune Serum. The doctor closest to Flynn picked up a syringe and inserted it into the boy's arm and slowly pushed the serum in.
The boy immediately started crying and screaming, feeling the inky black liquid burn through his veins. Strucker smiled seeing the veins on the boy’s right arm turn black, as the doctor injected more serum. The Sokovian boy's agonizing screams got louder as he started shaking, feeling the veins in his right leg started to burn as well. The black had gone up to the right side of the boy's neck and face as the tears that fell slowly turned black.
3 more.
The piercing screams turned more high pitched and frantic when the burn continued in his left arm.
2.
Flynn’s hysterical shrieks didn’t stop, the burn going through his left leg.
1
His screams had turned hoarse but proceeded as the burn went through the boy's torso.
0…
The burns had not stopped, only muffled, leaving the boy gasping for air in relief. One doctor stood in front of the boy and shined a light in his eyes, his pupils didn’t dilate and when the light got closer the doctor could almost see the faintest bit a purple before continuing his examination. Another doctor removed the boys shirt and saw all the veins were still very black and very visible, before putting a new shirt on the boy.
After what seemed like forever, the restraints were lifted, and Flynn rubbed his already bruising wrists. Strucker stood in front of him and lifted the boy's face. The poor boy looked exhausted, he always did after his injections. The baron then picked up the boy and let Flynn rest his head on Strucker’s shoulder. Looking around the room and saw a camera, it was normal for his injections to be recorded, but he never had the courage to ask why, soon after he passed out.
When he woke up, he was in a car. He then realized he was most likely on his way ‘home’, Wanda always told him that home wasn’t the facility where he lived, it was where the people he cared for were. Flynn then sat up and remembered he didn't get a proper goodbye with Winter, hopefully he was okay. Looking around, the windows were blacked out, the boy had barely seen the outside world.
Flynn silently sat up and waited for the ride to be over. He then noticed that it was awfully cold, and started rubbing his sore arms to stay warm. After what felt like forever, in reality it was only 15 minutes, the car had stopped and Strucker opened the door. Stucker grabbed the small boy's arm and led him to his sister's room. Once the door was opened Flynn was engulfed in a hug from his brother and sister.
“Temnota, Are you alright?“ Pietro asked, examining the boy's body, spotting the bruises on his wrists and ankles.
“What happened? Do you know where they took you?“ Wanda questioned, frantically checking Flynn's face.
“We took him to meet the soldier, as well as his injection. Both tests were successful.“ Strucker answered.
The twins glared up at the man, before Pietro picked up his little brother and brought him to their sister's bed. Strucker went to stop him before Wanda stood in front of him.
“You know what day it is. You said he can stay with us.“ Wanda stated, her head slightly tilting, with that, Strucker left the family.
Wanda turned around and smiled at the adorable sight, her baby brother was snuggled up next to her twin. She quickly joined her siblings and started softly stroking Flynn’s head. If he had met the soldier and lived, then that meant Rune came out. The last time that happened Flynn nearly died, needless to say, Wanda wanted Strucker dead.
One day both she and Pietro were forced to watch one of their brother injection sessions, and oh god the screams. His screams absolutely broke the twins heart, their precious baby brother getting put through such pain.
“Guess what day it is Temnota?“ Pietro inquired, bending over Flynn making him laugh seeing his brother upside down.
“Wanda Birthday?“ Flynn guessed, gently pushing his brother's face away.
“No,“ Wanda giggled, messing with the boy's hands.
“Pietro's Birthday?“ The small boy joked.
“That's the same day, Temnota!“ Pietro exclaimed.
Flynn giggles as Wanda tickles his side saying, “No, It's your birthday silly!“
The boy's face lit up, and he quickly snuggled closer to his siblings. They had done the same thing every year since Flynn got his powers, Flynn covered the security cameras with his shadows, as Wanda made the shape of a cake with her powers.
The twins sang Happy Birthday to their brother, Flynn smiling brightly at his siblings. It was good to see a smile on the boys face every once in a while. They quickly kissed the top of his head before Flynn laid his head down on Wanda's lap, and his legs on Pietro's.
Wanda began softly stroking her younger brother's head, and started to sing.
♪'tie mi t͡ʃaˈjaɫəm♪
♪ˈʃiɪdeŋ ˈti e ˈʃte♪
♪ˈdrage wo t͡sto ˈmisliɫəm♪
Flynn’s eyes began to close as Pietro smiled, listening to the lyrics.
♪ˈdom naʃ ˈʃiɪdeŋ ˈgnieʒdo♪
Seeing the boy dozing off, Pietro joined his sister in the lullaby.
♪bez veˈdeɪ̆ doˈkude ˈjit͡ʃiʃ♪
♪ˈʃiʒa ˈsunt͡so nad tiˈe♪
The song came to an end as Flynn fell asleep. The twins moved the sleeping boy to lay down properly on the bed, laying down with him. The ravenette snuggled closer to his sister with a smile. The small family settled into bed, even though the testing had gotten worse, the twins knew they do whatever they had to, to escape.
*•~Emo-Space-Tea~•*