Joanna groaned and opened her eyes, seeing a dark room around her. There was a one way window on one of the walls, and a camera in the corner. She feebly lifted herself onto her paws. Jo was about to walk forward when she was restrained. They put a collar on her! How dare they!

"You won't be going anywhere," said a man.

He stepped out from the shadows. The man wore an eyepatch over his right eye. He was dark skinned and wore a black suit with a leather jacket. It had the SHIELD logo on the shoulder. Something about the man wanted to make Joanna cower away from him but she held her ground. What did he want? She was already chained to a wall.

"We need to talk," said the man.

Joanna could only stare at him. If she was going to be caught in a net, tranquilized and chained to a wall, she was going to make this as difficult as possible. So she stayed quiet. And it wasn't as if she could talk anyway. 1) she was in her wolf form. 2) she was a mute. Joanna couldn't speak even if she wanted to. Sure she could growl, snarl, whine and make sounds, but the one thing she couldn't do, was speak. If someone came up to her in her wolf form and told her to speak, she was sure she'd rip their arms off and leave them for the birds.

"My name's Director Nick Fury. I'm the head of SHIELD," said the eyepatch man, Fury. Joanna only sighed and laid down, uninterested. "You know, this would be a lot easier if you were human."

Joanna glared at him and grabbed the chains in her jaws. If he wanted her human, then she wouldn't be restrained. Fury seemed to understand and motioned for a guard to get the collar off Jo. The guard did so and Joanne stood up again. She shifted back into her human self and stretched. Jo took her brown hair out of her ponytail and looked back at Fury. Her grey eyes watched him intensely. She nodded at him to go on.

"I want to learn more about you."

Like that's going to happen, Jo thought to herself and scoffed. You government facilities and your promises. You say you don't mean any harm and as soon as a person drops their defenses, you straight up experiment with them. Fury must've taken her silence as a refusal to speak.

Fury stood up. "We'll talk later."

With that he left the room. Joanna only stayed in her place and sat down, leaning against the wall. She closed her eyes and let sleep take her.

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"Mommy? Why am I different?" Jo's younger self asked.

"You're not different, you're just special," her mother said, hugging Joanna.

Jo was eight at the time. She never knew what was to come. How her difference in the world would change her and make her have to run for her life. Never did she know that she would come home from school and find her mother gone. Forcing Joanna have to live with her forgetful grandmother.

"Mom?" Jo asked.

"Yes?" she answered.

"How about we play a game? You always loved Twister."

My mother smiled, "We'll play a game of Twister."

It was the day Jo's grandma came over and saw the two tangled up on the Twister board laughing.

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Jo's eyes snapped open and they traveled to a figure sitting at a table in the center of the room. It was the agent from earlier. Coulson, was it? She eyed him warily. What do they want now?

"Good evening," said Coulson, smiling. Joanna rolled her eyes and stared at the wall across from her. "I understand that you may not like us-" Coulson began.

That's the understatement of the year, Jo snorted.

"-but you need to trust us," the man continued.

Jo shook her head. Not going to happen. I will not like you in a box, I will not like you with a fox. I will not like you here or there, I will not like you anywhere. She hummed to herself, obviously liking her rhyme.

"I don't see why not." Coulson gave a small smile. It made Jo raise an eyebrow as he did. He was about to say something else when an alarm went off. "Wait here," he said, and rushed out of the room.

Jo smiled, by then I'll be long gone.

As soon as Coulson had gone Joanna took the bobby pin from her hair and strode over to the door. With a few twists she heard a soft click, and she was out. Sirens blared and agents rushed about. Each not even noticing the non agent going down the halls. All she could catch as they went by was, 'Tesseract' and 'Fury said'. Although the sirens were deafening against her ears Jo still continued on. She searched around every bend till she finally found the exit. It was almost too easy.

Joanna followed the road leading out, unfazed as cars kept passing her. Gunshots sounded and she immediately transformed into a wolf. Survival instinct you could say. Taking off running, she noticed a black truck gaining on her. Another jeep following it.

She glanced behind herself and noticed that they weren't shooting at her, but at each other! In fact, they didn't even seem to acknowledge her presence. Rumbling and cracking could be heard above her. She looked up as a large rock fell in front of her. Jo jumped over it and the large rock grazed her stomach. The night sky was viewable as she neared the outside. More rocks and boulders fell, one hitting her shoulder, and another, her paw. Suddenly the black truck passed Joanna and out into the night. In the back was a man wearing strange, green and gold clothing. Jo didn't notice that he also seemed to have been carrying a spear type thing. What she also didn't notice was that the man in green and gold had noticed her. And he was very curious as to why there had been a wolf - of all things - inside a government facility.

Joanna shook her head and continued to run, ground falling beneath her. As soon as she reached the outdoors, Jo jumped as far as she could out of the way of the blast. She shook the dirt off herself. Jo had landed hard on the ground. A loud pew was heard and her gaze snapped to a helicopter falling from the sky. A man jumped from it before the helicopters hit the ground. Just as the truck that had passed her, which she hadn't noticed leave the road, drive back onto it. Where was the jeep?

Jo cursed and she growled. She would have to go back in there. First she looked back at the man who had jumped from the helicopter, he was fine. In fact, she thought it was the Director. She rolled her eyes and looked back to the exit she had come out of. Most of it was blocked off but Jo would bet she could squeeze through. It was tight fit but she managed. So Joanna padded back down into the place she had come. Soon she was next to another wall of boulders. But this was on top of a jeep hood.

Worry flooded through her. What if that person is hurt? Yeah I know. Ten years of escaping them and now I'm helping them. Typical of her. She always just had to be the good citizen. She gave a small sigh and looked for a way around.

"Yes sir," a voice said. It was female.

It came from the other side of the boulders. Wait, she must be talking to someone. Maybe she can get help on her own. Well, maybe I should stay... Joanna shook her head. Fear of the agents and what they may do when they find out that she was gone scared her. Joanna immediately bolted back out of the tunnel. Heroic right? Goes in to save someone but runs back out due to fear.

Jo ran for three and a half days before she finally collapsed from exhaustion. The last sign she saw was, something Falls, South Dakota. The ground beneath her was hard, yet still felt amazing to her sore muscles. Joanna's eyes trailed around and noticed a hen house. Wait a second... The cocking of a gun sounded behind her. Rising to her legs Joanna turned around and faced down the barrel of a gun. A shotgun to be exact. She slowly backed away and before long Jo was running again. Lungs burned like fire and legs tired beyond use. Jo barely made it another fifty miles before she blacked out.

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Edited 7/19/2018