Red Room - Marvel Studios [1]

twenty-nine.

+ underground +

"Ow" I said quietly, as Ahren and I made it through a door frame, my arm being slightly hit against the cold metal, causing my to clench my jaw. "There's no chance that could of hurt you" Ahren scoffed, leading me towards an empty room where a doctor would patch me up.

"Yeah, it's not like a hole in my arm or anything" I replied sarcastically, rolling my eyes, Ahren doing the exact same as he watched me roll mines first. "You've been shot before, there wounds all over your body" he said, clearly losing interest in my attempts of making him feel as bad as possible, milking out my injury.

"Good to know you've been checking me out" I said naturally, raising my eyebrows at him as he helped my walk down the long hall towards the medical rooms. "I never said I've checked you out" he flustered, stumbling on his words, his cheeks flushing pink as he diverted eye contact with me. "How have you seen all the scars then?" I whispered to him, causing him to clear his throat, sniffling afterwards. "Shut up" he simply said, smacking his lips off of each other.

"I will if you will" I replied with a wink.

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I was in a steel bed with a paper thin mattress underneath me, the bullet had been taken out of my arm, the hole being stitched tight, now hoping my healing abilities took over, quick. Ahren said he'd write the mission report, and that's the least he owed me, after not helping me from being shot or falling out of a tree.

"You fell out a tree? You really have lost your touch" I heard a familiar voice say, his shoes clicking on the cold flooring, walking towards me. "I haven't lost my touch, my partner was below average skill, I would of had to fight him if he could fire a gun" I snapped, turning to see Matthias from my position in the bed.

"Janssens is the best at this compound" he said walking closer to my bed, out voices bouncing off of the walls. "Well you need to raise your standards if he is considered the best" I said, placing my good hand on my stomach as i let out a small breath. "Schmidt is close to dead, Captain America isn't one to give up" Matthias said to me, taking a seat in the stool next to my bed. I scoffed, if I even remotely knew Steve I know he wasn't doing to stop until Red Skull was dead, I would expect any less than him.

"We are going underground before they wipe out the whole of HYDRA, we are transferring you and the rest of the good soldiers and Agents down to Austria" he said to me, crossing one of his legs over the other. "We are just keeping the one base in operation?" I questioned with furrowed brows, sure it kept HYDRA operating but if that one goes under we have practically nothing left of the organisation. "It's easier if there's a single base, the Austrian one where you were recovered is the perfect one, no one knows of it" he said looking at my down my pointy nose, his glasses siting at the end of it.

"How is HYDRA supposed to go underground, there's thousands of soldiers and agents we can't just let them all go" I stated, knowing that the thousands of people who worked for us couldn't just be laid off, one of them would be bound to talk about it. "We will sort them out" he said simply, with pursed lips. To anyone who doesn't know Matthias might not want to be acquainted with him, but once you were, you regret it. He was annoying, annoying enough to drive me up the wall sometimes, always silently judging you. And the worse thing was his one word vague answers.

"I guess missions will be scarce" I said quietly, turning my head to stare up at the blank roof, not wanting to talk to Matthias anymore. "They want to give you the new serum" he started, his voice shaky as I looked back over at him.  "They have an idea that when it mixes with the serum you have, you will be 10 times stronger" he added, my brow furrowing for what seemed like the hundredth time today.

"That can't be how it works" I said, spectacle about the whole idea, not entirely knowing the science behind it but knowing it can't be as easy as that. "Well they are saying it is, so you will abide" he snapped, letting his foot fall to the ground with a thump. "Is this new Agent 1 getting serum as well?" I questioned, a lump in my throat which wouldn't seem to go down. "Yes" he said bluntly, standing up, the chair squeaking along the floor. "Why won't you tell me who he is?" I asked, turning my head to finally look at him.

"The Winter Soldier, you may never have a mission with him" he told me, knowing that I wouldn't react well to that. "Actually correction, you will never have a mission with him" he corrected himself. And he was right, I definitely wasn't going to take that well.
I scoffed quietly, how good could this person even be? It's impossible for him to be better than me, I have the black widow serum pumping through my veins but this guy waltzes in and steals all my upcoming missions apparently.

"Right, well if that's all you care to tell me" I said, turning my face away from him. I could hear his shoes clap against the floor as he left, not even closing the door when he did. I didn't know how long I laid there, the roof going in and out of focus every so often. I could of stayed as Allison Cooper, I mean sure it wasn't my exact idea of life, but it sure as hell would be better than how it was going now.

Live it out with Steve and Peggy, sure I wouldn't be able to forget about HYDRA, but I liked having friends for once. Maybe I could of saved Bucky, if I hadn't of gotten in the way of that shot, I could of easily gotten him back into the train, and maybe I would of been happy with him. But here I was, lying in a bed in a mouldy room, a healing bullet wound in my shoulder. Ready to completely erase from the map, not that I was ever on it.

The life of Allison Cooper seemed miles away.

Plus she was dead anyway.

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A/N: lol another average filler chapter, not a big fan of this one and I was going through some serious writers block recently but hey ho I guess.
hope y'all enjoy this chapter and please vote and comment and i'll see y'all soon.