My heart was racing. I didn't know what to think. Sitting across from me was the director of Hydra.

Red Skull.

The Johann Schmidt sat right across from me. How he got out from the Tesseract? Hell if I know. All I knew was that something bad was going to happen sooner or later.

His baby blue eyes stared me down as I raised my arm to brush my hair back. His red skull had the most amazing bone structure. The jaw line and cheek bones were outlined in such a way that it was impossible to believe the human skull could be so beautiful. He rubbed the non-existing stubble on his chin with his black gloves and creased his forehead. "Zee most beautiful sings come out of dark places, Ms. Bithry. Hydra is my most precious gift to zee world. If only zey vould understand. I'm not here to destroy or take over zee planet. I need someone who vill stand vis me in zis company vis pure loyalty. I need an apprentice." He cocked his head slightly, making sure I was still paying attention. Of course I was. One of the most hated men on the planet was sitting right in front of me. How could I not? "It seems like you are zee perfect kandidate, don't you sink?"

I smiled shyly and crossed my legs. "You flatter me, really. I am very loyal to you, my leader, but why not other agents?" I glanced at the dead agent on the floor. A bullet was lodged in his brain. A sad death for someone who didn't follow simple orders. Or should that be a warning with big red arrows pointing at the body? Would he kill me?

"Vye? You're zee most loyal agent here. Vich shtrikes me as odd because of your background." His blue eyes hardened and inspected my reaction.

I raised an eyebrow and asked, "Excuse me?"

He studied me before continuing. His eyes glimpsed over me and tried to arise another reaction out of me, maybe hesitation or a sense of lying. "You vere teshted on by someone wis zee same intentions as Hydra. Vye vould you possibly vork for us?"

I knit my eyebrows together and looked at him curiously. He was trying to crawl under my skin. I could not let him succeed. "Change of heart. He made me what I am today and I'm proud of the things we could achieve together if I just collaborate."

The room fell silent and the tension thickened. He leaned back against the chair and a grin played on his lips. "Or vork secretly for zee Avengers."

I sat up and almost pointed my finger at him. Throwing accusations around would get him nowhere. I knew how to lie. I just had to keep it together. "Why in the hell would I do that?"

He ticked his tongue against the roof of his mouth and his eyes lit up instantly. Something clicked in his head, and I was afraid to know what. He rubbed his hands together and smoothed out his black leather jacket. I noticed the red Hydra symbol on the sleeves, like when the Nazis put the swastikas there. "Vord got around zat you vere at Captain America's place ven it blew up."

"Sir, I think that's just a rumor. I'm going to let you in on something." I leaned in closer and stated, "Other agents want me out of here because of how good I am at my job. Some may call it jealousy, others will call it selfishness. They can call me or say what they want. I call it a bunch of impulsive slander."

"Such shtrong vords koming from a fellow agent," Schmidt responded shortly. He licked his teeth and held back a smile. There was no fury in his eyes, which was almost worse than when there was. He had a trick up his sleeve.

I almost dug my nails into the arm of the chair. This is bad...This is bad... I kept repeating in my head. All I could think about was that I could be part of the cause of the apocalypse. This guy was all business, and not the good kind. The feeling vibrated off of his aura and struck me. "I was at my apartment at the time. How could they know I was there?"

He flipped over the papers on his desk to reveal pictures of my apartment. "Zese heat signatures from your apartment show zat you aren't inside."

A chill crawled up my spine. I had to keep cool. It was not a problem. I could find another lie. "Alright...I went without orders to kill Cap and Spiderman myself. I heard the other agents planning it, and I knew them. They were too dumb to do things right. A bomb? Come on. You're trying to kill Captain America and Spiderman. I could easily get up close and personal. I have my ways of seducing people." I adjusted myself in my seat. "I didn't want to say anything because I could get in serious trouble."

Johann tore his gaze off of me and looked around the room. "You vould do zat?" I nodded, knowing it would be simple from here on out. A small hint of laughter was detected in his voice as he asked, "Zen vat vere you doing killing my men at zee scene? Vee scanned zee prints and zey are klearly yours."

Yet another lie I had to tell. Then again, my life was full of lies. I cleared my throat and didn't hesitate to answer. "They turned on me. Said it was their mission, not mine. He was right. But he tried ending my life. It was self defense. As you say, chop one head off and two more will grow in its place. Right?"

Red Skull sighed and his blue eyes stuck onto me like glue. "Oh, Lilly Parker, if only you knew vat potential you had."

I smirked a little bit to cover up the tension knotting in my stomach. "You must be mistaken. I'm Hannah Bithry."

He slammed a file on the desk in front of me and laughed. "No, no you're not."

Pictures scattered out of the fresh, crisp file. Pictures of me with Peter when we were little, of me with the X-Men, of me with Peter and Rogers right before the explosion, and so many more. A thick tension settled in the room, making it hard for me to breathe. At any second, I had to be ready for whatever he was going to throw at me. My eyes flickered up to his as my body tensed up. "What do you plan on doing?"

"I'm not going to take over zee vorld. Someone else vants to do zat. I vant to make the Captain America to suffer. He's zee one zat made me go into zee Tesseract. I vant to be zee kause of his death. Zat's all I vant. Vell, zat and maybe some kasualties zat are needed. And if anyone vants to get in my vay, zen zey'll be taken out vizout hesitation." His blue eyes wouldn't look away. An evil grin set across his lips and his white teeth began to show. He put his hand in the air and slowly closed it into a clenched fist. "If you plan on protecting him, zen I kan't vait to feel you squirm underneas my grasp as you take your dying breath."

"In your dreams," I shot back daringly. I narrowed my eyes and watched his every move carefully.

The smile didn't leave his face, which irked me a bit. He carefully moved his arm underneath his desk, "Well, Ms. Parker, it looks like my dreams are about to come true." He brought up a pistol and shot at me, but I turned my skin into diamond so it would reflect off of me. The grin transformed into a tight lip formation and he raised his brow. His eyes peered at me curiously, looking straight into my soul. I turned back and reached for something to throw at him, which ended up being a miniature bust of himself. He deflected the bust with his arm and I kicked the gun out of his hand. He quickly punched me in the gut and made me double over in pain. Schmidt elbowed me in the face, but I quickly retaliated and took the knife that I had in my pocket and aimed for his heart. It would have worked if he hadn't moved. The knife penetrated his collar bone and he cried out in pain. I set my hand on his other shoulder and attempted to trap him in ice. When Johann realized what I was doing, he threw me across the room and threw the knife into my leg.

I took a second to take things in as I took the knife out of my leg. I could taste the iron in my blood that ran from my nose as it poured out like a water fall. My nose adjusted itself and healed, but the blood was still coming out. My leg healed instantly, which gave me the strength to get up again. I formed my hands into a circle and created a flame. I proceeded to throw fire at Red Skull, setting the whole office ablaze, until the door barged open behind me. The next thing I knew, I was being tazed. Electricity ran through my body, half energizing me and half destroying my consciousness. I threw fire at the first guard. He was set on fire, but kept holding the tazer up. Another guard came up behind him and tazed me with his tazer. I screamed out of sheer pain as my skin started turning red. I got down on one knee and froze one of the tazers, making the electricity stop flowing from it. But it was already too late.

The next second I was enveloped in darkness.

The noise of someone coming into the room rang in my ears. "All I need is a sample of her skin tissue and some blood in order to find out what she is. From there, it shouldn't be very difficult," A woman stated. She set her utensils down on the table beside me and took one. "I heard what the director said. Her powers seem...incredible. We've never seen someone with multiple powers like that before." The utensil grazed my skin and made my body shake from how cold it felt. A shield formed around me and threw the doctor to the wall behind her. "What the-"

I woke up to find my powers protecting me. I grinned slightly and used my powers to bend the cuffs around my wrists. "Watch out Doc. This is gonna hurt like hell." I iced her feet to the ground to trap her and knocked her out with a punch to the face. I winced and held my hand as pain surged through it. Now all I have to do is get out of here. The alarm started to go off and the building turned red in the flashing lights. Great. That's going to help a lot.

Over the intercom, a man declared, "Someone has entered the building without consent. Kill them."

It's only such a high punishment because the director is in the building. But wait...who else is here? It better not be Peter. I thought to myself. I sighed and walked through the door. A man came up and threw me against the wall. I quickly reacted and grabbed his pistol that was on his hip and shot him with it. I grabbed the extra clip off of his vest and shot at the other two men rushing down the hall. They fell backwards and to the floor, leaking pools of blood everywhere. I stepped around them and heard a guy coming from around the corner. I leaned against the wall quietly. When he came around the corner, I smashed his face in with the pistol I held in my hand. I snatched his rifle as he fell and took advantage of my situation.

My legs carried me down two hallways as I searched the place. I couldn't find any files or any security passes to get back up to the director's office. But then again, Red Skull probably wasn't there anymore. Gunfire came at me from down the hallway and I dashed behind the wall next to me. I felt some bullets graze my arms and ears and noticed my heart rate had accelerated. The fun was just beginning. I grabbed a tight hold on my rifle and sprayed bullets toward the enemy. There wasn't much in the clip that I had, so I chucked the gun down there too, hitting one guy in the face. I laughed to myself and reloaded my pistol before doing anything stupid. That's when I realized that I was missing something. I'm so stupid! I could just do this... I put the pistol in my pants and started a flame in my hands. I spread a fire in the middle of the hall and aimed fireballs at the guards. Some retreated at the sight and others caught on fire because they wouldn't back down.

I ran down the next hall and immediately got pulled into a room. A hand clung to my mouth as someone pressed me against the wall roughly. Her emerald green eyes stared into my soul as she flicked back her short, red, wavy hair out of her face. She pursed her lips and didn't make a sound, not even take a breath. Guards ran by the door, not even bothering to check the rooms. She whispered, "Well, I found you faster than I thought I would." Natasha Romanova let go of me and got out her pistol. She reloaded and gave me a sideways glance, "Let's go."

"There's a bunch of guards on the ground floor. That was the back up plan Hydra always had," I informed her. I put my brown hair up into a ponytail to keep it out of my face. My hazel eyes glanced her over. Definitely the person I thought she would be.

"Who said we were going to the ground floor?" She purred as she smirked deviously.

I didn't like where this was going. I cocked my head and raised an eyebrow. "What is that supposed to mean?"

She walked out of the room, so I reluctantly followed. Gunfire came from every direction as we stepped out into the hall. She took one side, shooting at the guards. I took the other and built a thick wall of ice between me and them. I then turned around and stopped all of the bullets with my magnetic powers. The guard's eyes widened and one of them said, "That's some matrix shit right there." I merely laughed before I sent the bullets flying backwards, straight into the guards. They all fell to the ground instantly.

Natasha's eyes widened. "Clint wasn't kidding when he said you had powers."

"He doesn't know half of the things I can do," I chuckled.

The ice shattered behind us and I ducked. The ice fell like sharp icicles and broke into tiny pieces on the ground. Black Widow cried out in pain and shot at the men behind the ice. I put up thicker walls of ice before pushing her into another room. I shut the door behind us and melted the door handle to the door and the wall. That way, it would seem harder to open than a lock. I checked her wound, which was a bullet wound to the shoulder, and put pressure on the massively bleeding catastrophe. "The bullet passed through, but I need to cauterize the wound before you bleed out too much..." I searched for something metal. I ran my fingers across some of the cabinets and its contents before finding a small silver plate. "This is going to hurt." I heated up the metal.

"Bring it on." I pushed the hot metal against her skin and she gritted her teeth. Small cries of pain escaped through the tiny crevices of her white teeth, but she remained strong. I used the metal on her shoulder blade where the bullet left her body. Her black clothes were drenched in blood, but it wasn't that noticeable. When I was finished, she went to the window and pointed, "Where does this way lead?"

I set the metal down and thought for a second. I scratched my head and squinted my eyes. "Uh...the backup helicopter platforms."

Banging erupted from the door. Our heads snapped to the door and then we glanced at each other. Either we fought our way out or...

Natasha broke the window; the glass fell down to the concrete at the bottom. She brushed off her leather jacket. "Come on," she held out her hand to me as she stepped halfway outside of the window.

My stomach flopped. Heights? Not my thing. "Are you crazy? That's a twenty story fall!"

She gave me a bitch face and grunted, "You've got powers, right?"

"Yeah, but..."

The door broke behind us. Guards started to fill the room, pointing their weapons at us and calling out orders. Natasha pulled us out of the window and we started falling. My heart was beating a million times per second. I never thought I'd be free falling out of a building without a parachute. A helicopter was rising from the backup platform, right where we were supposed to land. The blades were rotating so fast, that it scared the crap out of me. "Oh, shit," she claimed and ducked her hands to cover her face. I created a portal and another one that was horizontal to the ground before we fell into it. Once we were out, I iced the sharp corner of the building. We rolled straight into it and didn't get as hurt as we would have if I hadn't. We got up slowly and groaned. She composed herself and smirked, "That was awesome."

"Where's your car?" I questioned, starting to feel a little antsy about things. I just had to get out of here. I needed to know if everyone was alright. I needed to tell them everything.

She pointed to the side of the building as she started sprinting, "Over there." She quickly got into her car and started it. It was a sleek black Lamborghini with a beige interior on the inside. I got into the passenger seat right as she took off. I leaned my head against the window and just breathed for a second. Everything had moved so fast that I hadn't had time to wrap my head around it. I killed people. Of all the things I did, I didn't kill Red Skull. How stupid was that? She spun the car onto the street with a sharp turn and focused on getting away. When the silence thickened, she tensed up. "So are those glasses a cover up, or are they real?"

I glanced up at her and almost laughed. "They're real. I'd be pretty blind without them." I took off my glasses and rubbed my eyes. My body still felt a tiny bit numb from when I was tazed, which didn't leave a good feeling. It felt kind of tingly, and that was certainly unpleasant.

"Ever think about getting contacts?"

I scoffed, "Yeah, I have some. Just don't use them a lot."

Her lips curled up into a sly smile and her jade eyes flickered towards me. "Where do you live?"