Ira tapped her foot against the floor of the Quinjet. Pietro put his hand on her knee to stop her leg from bouncing. "Calm down," he whispered. "It's going to be fine." She nodded.

"I know, but there's a nagging voice in the back of my head that's saying that it won't be fine. That something like last time will happen again," Ira told him. "That one of us will get captured, but this time, maybe the others won't get there in time."

"It won't," Pietro assured her. "We'll be careful, and nothing will happen. We get in, get the information, and get out. It'll be okay." He put his arm around her, and pulled her close to comfort her.

"Guys," Natasha called from the front seat. "We're in sight of the base. Get ready to land." They nodded, and Pietro withdrew his arm from around Ira. They all stood up, and began prepping their gear for the mission.

Natasha landed nearby, and deployed the cloaking for the small jet. They left the jet, and made their way to the small base. It was half the size of many of the other bases,so only a small team was needed to infiltrate it.

Natasha crouched behind a tree near the entrance, which was surrounded by two guards carrying rifles. To draw out the guards and the soldiers inside, she threw a small grenade nearby. It created a small explosion, but it was enough for the guards to signal others and a significant force of soldiers to charge outside.

From there, Sam, Ira, and Wanda would hold them off, while Natasha and Pietro would go inside and get any and all stored information about the human experimentation. It was going all according to planned.

With most of the soldiers lured outside, Natasha and Pietro had no problem quietly slipping into the base. Then, Ira, Sam and Wanda made their presence known; appearing from the trees and launching into a fight with the guards.

Sam swooped through the air, effortlessly dodging the trees in his path as he shot at soldiers down below. Wanda rose off the ground, using her powers to propel herself to a vantage point from where she could attack the guards. Ira remained on the ground, using her powers to throw soldiers into each other, and hurl them into trees. The plan was for them to buy Natasha and Pietro enough time to get in and get the information.

Ira heard a thundering noise from the base, and turned her head to see another drove of soldiers swarming out. "Incoming," She said into comms. She quickly turned to face them, glowing blue energy seeping from her fingers. She swept her hands through the air, picking up a soldier and throwing him to the ground. She raised one in the air and crashed him into two more soldiers, causing them to fall to the ground.

Sam continued shooting at them, gliding through the air as he avoided their fire. He landed on the roof of the base, using his position to fire at the incoming soldiers. He struck two down, and shot a third coming for Ira. He continued to shoot them until he ran out of ammo, at which point he flew down from the roof and began kicking and punching them.

Wanda had lowered to the ground, and was now fighting alongside Sam and Ira. She enveloped a soldier in red energy, and bent over backwards, flinging him into a. Group of unsuspecting guards. Seeing a small rock on the ground, she raised it into the air and flung it at an incoming soldier. It struck him in the chest, and he fell.

"We have the information," Natasha informed them through comms. Out of the corner of her eye, Ira could see she and Pietro facing out of the base to join the fight.

"Took you long enough," Sam told them as he swung his fist at a soldier.

"We couldn't let you guys have all the fun," Natasha smirked. She ran at a soldier and leapt onto his soldiers, using her weight to throw him to the ground. "But you guys did seem to  have it under control."

Pietro sped past a soldier, delivering a swift punch to the stomach as he did. He sped throughout the forest, taking down soldiers on the edges of the base. He knocked down a soldier, and Wanda used her powers to throw him into the last one.

"Well," Pietro said, looking at all he unconscious or dead soldiers around them. "I think that went well."

They boarded the Quinjet, and began the flight back. "So what did you see inside the base?" Ira asked Pietro. "Were there any records of experimentation?"

Pietro nodded, and began describing the base. "It was set up like a standard HYDRA base. He lab was where we found most records of experimentation. They had operation tables and equipment set up, and I think they had actually tried to create more Enhanced. We found a computer, and downloaded all of the files onto a drive, and we're going to look at it when we get back."

Ira sighed. "So I guess they haven't given up human experimentation."

Pietro shook his head. "It didn't look that way."

Ira was worried of course, hearing this news. But she wondered. Could there have been a successful Enhanced? Could maybe, somewhere in the world, there be a person who shared what she had gone though? Could there be a person who was fighting for the side of evil, not realizing the fault in what they did? But maybe, this time, they wouldn't realize it before it was too late.
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Ira walked to the lab, coffee in hand, going to see Tony about the data they had taken from the HYDRA base. When she entered the lab, Tony was at a computer, typing away. "How are you holding up?" Ira asked him as she handed him the mug.

"Well, without Bruce here it's more difficult, but I'm getting by." He took a sip from the mug.

"Have you found anything on the file?" She asked, and Tony nodded.

"That base has definitely been used for experimentation. There are long records of experimentation, dating back to the nineties, even," Tony explained, showing Ira the lists.

"Has any of it been successful?" She questioned.

He sighed. "Yes actually. There are five people who have been successful, according to the files. Four of them, it says deceased next to their names. Most of them were pretty young, so I'm doing research on them in S.H.I.E.L.D's files. But the last one, the woman's name is Kora Thorne. It doesn't say her powers, but she was experimented on it nineteen ninety-seven, when she was eight. It doesn't say deceased next to her name, just whereabouts unknown. So we don't know where she's at, or if she's still alive."

Ira looked at him. "So she could still be working for HYDRA?"

Tony shrugged. "It's a possibility, but if they don't know where she is, I don't think so."

Ira's mind whirred with thoughts. What if there were other successful experiments? What if there were others out there, with powers give to him by HYDRA? What if people like Kora were out there, and working for HYDRA?
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A/N:

Hey loves. It's your resident procrastination queen here with another two a.m update.

I know this chapter ended off weirdly, and they're getting kind of bad, but on a positive note, we're halfway done with this book! *Bon Jovi plays in the distance

Then we can go through some major editing.

Also, remember the name Kora Thorne, because she's going to be important ;).

I love you three thousand,

-E l i z a b e t h