o5.| THERE'S NO ONE THERE.

AFTER THE VARIOUS TESTS THAT HELEN CHO HAD INITIATED ON GRAYSON, THE WOMAN FOUND HERSELF STANDING BESIDE A COUNTER AS HELEN STOOD IN FRONT OF HER. Grayson had her arms folded across her chest as Helen began to read off all of the things that were wrong with her. To her, it was nothing new. Everything that HYDRA had ever done to her, she knew what they had done. But all of this was brand new to the Avengers. Human experimentation. They hadn't seen anything like it. But Grayson? She had been a witness, as well as a victim, to it first hand.

Her dark hair fell down her back in twisted ringlets, some of them were perfect, some of them were not. But that was what happened when you laid in a hospital bed after maneuvering through a frozen tundra. She glanced down at her fingertips to see that they had slowly begun to heal. She pressed her lips together as she listened to Dr. Cho read off the remainder of her problems.

"It's incredible what your DNA has been put through in the past few months, Ms. Steele," Helen explained to her, and Grayson nodded her head in agreement. She had gone through absolute hell, and there was no way for her to ever be healed. Grayson was never going to go back to being the S.H.I.E.L.D agent that she once was. "We're already attempting to piece together an algorithm in order to see if we can reverse the symptoms."

"Don't waste your materials," Grayson shook her head, which was a surprise to Helen. The woman stared at the S.H.I.E.L.D agent, and the two of them met each other's gaze. "There's no way to turn this back unless you have the weapon that was used to create me."

"Do you know what weapon that was?" Helen questioned her, and Grayson shook her head.

"No," Grayson replied.

It wasn't a complete lie. Grayson didn't know what it was that was used to experiment with her, as well as the Maximoff twins. The only thing she knew about it was that it was alien technology because there was no way that HYDRA had been able to conjure up something as horrible as that. S.H.I.E.L.D hadn't prepared Grayson for her capture as well as they should've. The agent knew as much about HYDRA as all of the others that she trained within the academy.

Helen Cho nodded her head as she scribbled down a few things on her clipboard, before resting it on the counter. She continued to lecture Grayson on a few things, including not to tap into her powers as much as HYDRA had. That was one thing that made Grayson relieved. She didn't want to have to use her powers. It was filled with excruciating pain whenever she used her abilities. She wasn't ready to tap into them on command and use them.

The power that surged through her veins? It wasn't something that she had ever asked for. She was happy to have her training as an agent, she never wanted to be as enhanced as Steve or have a super suit like Tony. For a split second, she began to know a little bit of how it felt to be like Bruce. Bruce was such a smart and amazing person, but all it took was one experiment gone wrong and he was transformed into the Hulk.

Once Helen was done talking with her, Grayson was cleared from the hospital wing of the facility. Grayson slipped her hands into her pockets as she walked through the corridors, her eyes wandering around herself as she made her way away from the hospital. She had no idea where she was going, she didn't even know how the new facility was set up. Grayson bit down on her lower lip as she stopped in front of a grand wall, which held images from the Battle of New York, as well as the Fall of Washington.

She narrowed her eyes at the wall, trying to figure out what the third location was. The woman tilted her head to the side until she felt a hand rest on her shoulder. Grayson jumped, until she turned to meet the eyes of someone, that she had never thought she would ever meet. The girl in front of her was as tall as her with light brown hair and kind green eyes, even if they shouldn't have been that kind.

"Wanda," Grayson greeted her and she gave her a small smile. "How did you.."

"The Battle of Sokovia," Wanda answered her, which made Grayson furrow her brows together. Grayson snapped to face the images, before looking back to Wanda. "No one really explained to you, did they?" Grayson shook her head. "It is a rather long story."

"I have time," Grayson answered her, and Wanda nodded her head.

"Well, your friend Tony had been the one to try and find a way to have the Avengers not have to work any longer," Wanda started, and Grayson let out a small laugh. Of course, he was. "He and Dr. Banner were working with the scepter of Loki, and then they had created Ultron. He was... Intelligent. Incredibly. But he was very naive. He wanted to destroy the world, not protect it. My brother, Pietro, and I, we had sided with him. But as everything went on, Pietro and I decided to side with your friends. Sokovia was in ruins by the end of the battle."

"What about me?" Grayson questioned. "I was in the same facility as you and your brother."

"They moved you last minute," Wanda revealed. "von Strucker did not want to lose you. He had believed that you were his better experiment, so he wanted to make you stronger. The Avengers found his files, he had begun to extract the energy from the scepter, and that--"

"--That was what he had used on me to turn me into his little weapon," Grayson pieced together. "Great."