They all pause. I don't move. For some reason I'm not even trying to move. Everyone in the room looks at me. I notice Pietro had scattered over to his sister.
No ones moves because no one knows how my body's going to react.
"Get. Out. Of. My. Friend!" Clint suddenly shouts, jumping off the island and landing a firm punch to my face before landing on a knee.
I'm surprised that I felt no pain. I couldn't currently feel what my HYDRA body was experiencing. But I don't think it felt much either as the punch barley moved my head.
Clint looks up, his body tense. Still, nobody moves.
I wait with baited breath.
My body moves into action, grabbing Clint's neck and forcing him to dangle in the air. People finally moved into action as well. They can't trust me when I'm like this! Vision is the first to reach me. I quickly back kick him in the stomach before using Clint's body to throw at Steve. They both fell to the ground.
Tony stood back, holding out his arms to call his suit to him. Thor charged me. I tried using my hands- - most likely to kill him, but as each of my hands flew out, his hammer smacked them away. Realizing this tactic wasn't working, I tried kicking him, trying to render his legs useless. Suddenly I was flying.
Thor had smacked his hammer over my head... I crash into the fragile glass that Ultron had smashed through. I clutch onto the floor as I feel myself dangling from the edge of a very tall building!
Pietro runs forward, holding out his hand. I hear a grunt leave my body before I swing my right leg around the edge to kick him in the head. He slides backward, his sister rushing to his side before red energy flows from her fingers.
I feel my body smirk as her magic doesn't work on me anymore.
Just as I'm about to reach her, she's pushed to the side as I come face-to-face with Vision.
"You do not need to do this." He speaks lowly. I snarl and instantly try getting my hands on him, blocking and dodging other attacks from other avengers.
"Don't let her get her hands on you!" Steve yells as if that wasn't completely obvious before.
Out of the corner of my eye, I see Bruce step to the back of the kitchen and away from harm. I mentally sigh in relief. If I ever hurt Bruce... I don't know what I would do to myself.
I go back to paying attention to whatever my body's doing. I kick Clint away from me before I grip Thor's long hair and smash it against my knee.
I go to grab his hammer when it crashes onto the floor. I tug, trying to lift it. But it won't budge. I growl out in frustration before jumping off of it and onto a now completed iron man suit Tony's wearing.
He gets his blasters ready to fire when I grip his face mask in my hand and rip it off, making his rockets stumble himself backwards. With my legs wrapped around his waist, my hands let go of him, crushing his mask into a small metal ball. I head butt him and jump off, turning around to punch Pietro in the chest after noticing the beginning change of motion. I momentarily block air from entering his lungs.
"Hey!" Steve's voice yelled out in the room. Both me and my HYDRA counterpart become confused. Who would announce themselves before attacking? Intrigued, I feel myself turn around, seeing Steve's shield heading right towards us.
But it's too late to stop. The shield hits our face and our world goes dark.
I groan feeling a major headache come on; and not the headache I get from thinking... I start hearing rustling from all around me. I groan again and go to rub my hands against my closed eyes, I realize I can't move them. Confused, I open my eyes and instantly meet with rope across my hands and torso. Did someone tie me up?
I look up and my eyes instantly widen. In front of me stood all the avengers- - plus the maximoff's and Vision. All who had weapons, had them out and pointed at me. I look each of them in the eye.
"What's... going on?" I ask slowly, feeling disoriented and confused. About everything.
Suddenly voices above voices started talking all at once, adding to the incredibly painful headache.
"Enough!" I yell. They instantly shut up. Which only makes me more confused as they usually never listen to me without some kind of hesitation.
"How could you betray us like this?" Tony asks, seeming genuinely hurt.
"Hey, Hey. We don't know the full story, guys." Bruce comes to my defense.
Then, it hit me. The trigger words, Ultron, HYDRA and my childhood. Hurting all my friends...
I look back up at all of them with a pained look on my face. The guilt of hurting my friends- - my family, eating me up alive.
"I swear, I didn't know."
"How could you not know?!" Tony shouts. My gaze shoots to the floor, frantically looking around as if it held all the answers.
"I-I'm not sure. My- My dad helped me escape. He told me to find Iron Man... that he would help me. I ran for weeks, trying to get here. I collapsed in front of your building and when I woke... I didn't remember anything from my childhood. I don't know why." I say after finding the right words to explain to them what went on.
"You mean you remember?" Bruce asks looking very surprised and happy for me. Happy that my whole life wasn't some big enigma anymore.
I look over and see the twins looking very confused.
"I can explain later..." I say, smiling softly at Pietro. He smiles back with a nod.
They all start talking over one another again and even for me it's hard to keep track of who's saying what.
"Well we cant trust her!" Tony shouts above them all. My face morphs into one of shock. He couldn't trust me? After all he's put me through i'm the one that can't be trusted?!
"Why not? She hasn't ever kept anything from us. She just remembered." Clint instantly comes to my defense. Tony turns to me, his gaze ice cold.
"So you're claiming you just magically remembered your whole life?" He questions. I shake my head carefully.
"No... When Ultron was saying the trigger words, I got short glimpses of my past. I don't know everything and I don't know why I forgot. But I had forgotten." I say with definition. I truly hadn't remembered a single thing from my first fifteen years of life until tonight.
"She's helped us, Tony. HYDRA has never known about our missions, none of them have ever been compromised. If she was a spy, if she did want to hurt us; don't you think she would've done it a long time ago?" Thor asks.
"She was just as confused, as scared, and as helpless as the rest of us were in that situation, Stark." Steve adds.
"I trust her. She's helped me through more stuff then anyone. She understood what it was like for me. For everything. She never seemed un-genuine or unkind. She's family Tony." Bruce also defends me, placing a hand on my shoulder. I smile up at him, I smile at all of them. My family.
"She's family." Clint repeats, a little more forcefully.
Tony sighs loudly and looks down at me with vulnerability shining in his eyes. We stare at each other. Unmoving, no one speaking. He shakes out of it and looks back up to Bruce.
"Well, she cant come with us. Ultron knows her trigger words and if we bring her, he'll just end up using her for his own cause." Tony shrugged, lips pursed.
"What?! I've been apart of this mission the whole time! Ultron hasn't tried to use it once before this, what makes you think he'll use it again?" I shout. I've worked just as hard as anybody on this, I am NOT missing out on the action. I look around for some support, only to see people's tense figures. "Are you kidding me?" I say plainly.
"He has a point, Case. I don't know if we can risk you not being on our side. Even if it is against your own will." Clint shrugs nervously.
Everyone stays silent as I look at them, pleading for them to understand that I can do this.
"Wait a minute." Bruce speaks up, holding his finger in the air.
"What now Banner? I can't think of one way Casey would be able to go." He argues.
"Yeah, because you don't want me to in the first place." I mutter under my breath.
"The coms. If we make a set of coms to put in each of her ear, blocking out all other noise...She wouldn't be able to hear Ultron speak her trigger words." Bruce proposes. A bright smile lits up my face.
"It could work! If all I can hear are whatever's coming through the coms, I would hear you guys while not hearing Ultron." I say happily.
Everyone's gazes turn to Tony, wondering his opinion. If it's a good idea, if it will work, if he can make it work. All the while Tony's looking down at me. Probably still wondering if he can trust me.
Eventually he nods. I think everyone sighs in relief.
"I can do it." He assures. Clint smiles widely before walking over and quickly ripping the rope from off my body with ease. I look at him in shock.
"You mean to tell me they weren't really tied?!" I ask in slight betrayal. I mean, I kinda get it. Clint shrugs.
"They were tied a little. If you really wanted to get out, you could've." He smirks before walking away.
Everyone starts to disperse, either hugging me, clapping me on the back, or saying words of encouragement. Or all three. I especially liked the sweet sweet kiss on the forehead I received from Pietro. The confused looks I got from the others were amusing to say the least. But I think they were kind of getting use to the idea.
Everyone had left. Except Tony. We stood in front of each other. Both of us too prideful to make the first move. So obviously, since I'm superior, I did it for him.
I leapt towards him, barreling into his arms. Feeling less like a super mega genius and more like a scared seventeen year old girl who just found out that most of her childhood was spent in suffering, agonizing, pain. I didn't really have to time to actually deal with all I saw and all I've gone through in the past few hours. So it was no surprise when I started crying into Tony's chest.
"I swear I'm not evil." I whimper out. I feel Tony nod against the top of my head.
"I know, kid. I know." He assures me successfully.
A/N: was that a surprise? Like did anyone expect this to be what was gonna happen? I tried to make it obvious but not too obvious. And you can bet yo ass that when Bucky went to get his trigger words removed, Casey went with him and they bonded over it and became like really good friends. That's lowkey my other Brotp.
I also really liked making her trigger words and adding memories onto them. What did you guys think of them? I know Bucky's tigger words, there are more and you don't really know what they mean for sure. But I like the ones I made in its own way. I don't know what way that is. But it's a way... Trust.