CHAPTER 32
JACQUELINE POUNDED ON THE GLASS.
She was trapped in a small room. The walls were white, except one was entirely glass. Glass that she couldn't break no matter how hard she hit it.
When she woke up, she didn't know where she was. Or who she was.
They called her Jacqueline, but that's all she knew.
That, and that she wasn't the only mutant in the facility.
"I don't understand why you want to leave so bad." The girl with a thick Eastern European accent, stated from the room next to her, "They're helping you."
Jacqueline rolled her eyes, "I just don't want to be confined to my room."
"You're acting like a child." The boy commented from the other room,
"Like you're one to talk."
Each of the rooms were connected through vent, so they could speak to each other. But they could not see or touch one another unless they were in the training room together. But even that was rare.
Jacqueline was soon led out of her room and to the lab. She was strapped down and a needle was inserted into her vein.
Strucker walked over to her and brushed some hair from her face, "I'll make you the most powerful girl in the world."
Blue liquid began to fill her veins. Jacqueline gasped and her eyes rolled into the back of her head.
"Jacq... Jacqueline!" Her head shot up and her eyes met with a pair of sky blue ones, "We need to go!"
She furrowed her eyebrows, "Steve?" She whispered,
"Jacq!"
Jacqueline opened her eyes with a gasp. She was no longer in the lab. She was back in her bedroom. She sat up in her bed, looking around, "Steve?!"
"Who's Steve?" Pietro asked,
She stood there for a moment, just... thinking, "I don't know." Jacqueline whispered.
She stood from her bed and nearly collapsed. When her fists hit the floor, it turned completely to ice.
"I see you've awakened." She turned to see Strucker standing by her door, "Come."
Strucker led her to the training room. Across the room was Wanda, her arms crossed.
It was rare for them to actually see each other. Unless they were training or being tested on, they were confined to their rooms.
"Wait." Jacq paused, "You want us to fight each other?"
She's seen what Wanda could do, the damage she's done. Jacqueline didn't have a chance against her.
"Only to test out what my serum has done for you." Strucker told her,
Him and his doctors moved to the viewing room and Jacqueline gulped, looking over a the girl she's lived next to for the past few months, "Wanda-"
"Might as well get this over with." She sighed, raising her hand and red streaks of energy formed,
Jacqueline kneeled down and pressed her palms against the floor, creating a wall of ice to surround her.
The red energy broke the ice and Jacqueline used the shards to send towards Wanda. Wanda dodged them and Jacqueline used most of her energy to do something she hasn't done before.
Half a dozen ice soldiers formed and aimed ice guns at her. Jacqueline took a few steps back, watching them prepare to fight her,
"Do you always hide behind your powers?" Wanda asked, tilting her head slightly, "You can't win by hiding."
The ice soldiers fired and small bullets of ice were sent towards the other girl. Jacqueline stepped forward, ice forming around her hands.
Wanda's powers caught the bullets mid air and melted them. Two soldiers attacked and Jacqueline followed behind.
Wanda shattered them into pieces and Jacqueline threw the first punch.
"You might as well give up." Wanda stated, catching her arm and surrounding it with red, "Ice is delicate, you know."
Wanda threw her back and Jacqueline steadied herself. She stayed back as the remaining soldiers attacked the girl.
Jacqueline breathed heavily, pressing herself against the wall. She closed her eyes, trying to concentrate.
The doctors inside the viewing room stepped closer to the window. To their eye, it seemed like ice was forming over the girls body. But that wasn't the case.
She was turning into ice.
The entire room soon was covered in frost as she stepped forward. Wanda stared at her in wonder.
"Ice may be delicate," Jacq stated, "But it can also be deadly."
She sent a wave of icicles towards Wanda, who wasn't fast enough to dodge them. The brunette girl gasped as icicles pinned her to the wall,
With the rest of her strength, Wanda raised her hand and sent Jacqueline into the wall and she shattered into pieces.
Wanda gasped... did she just kill her?
The doctors filed into the room, staring at the remains of the ice girl. The icicles pinning Wanda to the wall melted and she held her side as she approached, "Did I...? Is she...?"
They watched as the ice began to reform. Once it showed her figure again, skin began to appear and Jacqueline gasped,
"That..." She panted, "... was cool."
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