Darkness...
Is what he woke up to.

Emptiness...
Is all he felt.

Hopeless...
Is how he felt.

Freak...
Is what he is.

Hail HYDRA...
He lives to serve his master.

{•••}

The screen went black. Most of the avengers were pacing or had sat down to calm themselves after what they had just saw.

But Tony, he had collapsed to his knees in shock, with his sons final words ringing through his head.
'DAAAAAAD!'

HYDRA had his boy. They were hurting and torturing him. It wasn't fair. Why did the bad things always happen to Peter?

"Guys... we need... to do something... anything." Steve said with actual tears in his eyes.

"Bucky... I hate to do this to you, but, what are they gonna do to Pete?" Natasha asked.

Bucky looked at his anxious teammates. Of course he knew what would happen to Peter, but what he didn't know, was if they could handle the cold hard truth of it.

"W-Well, he's already done the first experiment, which was to be tortured to the bodies max limit." Bucky started.

"Okay what happens now?" Clint asked.
"Well, next they are going to begin the process of wiping his identity. They will take away everything that makes Peter who his is... his memories... his personality... his heart..." Bucky said with tears starting to form.

"A-and th-then?" Tony barely said.
"And then, once that process is over, he will be a mindless HYDRA assassin, just like I was..." Bucky said as he hung his head low.

Tony burst into tears. Yes, the Tony Stark was crying in front of people. But he had just lost his son, and he had no intention on keeping these emotions inside. He wasn't the only one crying either.

Even Natasha, was showing sadness. Clint had slow tears going down his cheeks, and Steve was doing his best to console Tony, while still crying himself.

Bucky was crying too. He didn't want Peter to become a heartless killer like he was. Even if you get your mind back, the guilt of what you had done tears you apart. Peter didn't deserve this. No one deserved it, but especially not Peter.

"What can we do to get him back?" Nat asked.
"The same thing we did to get Bucky back..." Steve started, "we just have to... wait."

{•••}

The helmet lifted off of the Dark Slingers head. His curly brown hair was pressed to his forehead with sweat. The chair was not an easy process.

"Attention!" Zola called from the doorway. Dark Slingers eyes shot open. The sparkle his big brown eyes used to have was gone. Now, they were just dark brown pits of emptiness.  Zola walked over to him. "Who are you?" Zola asked.

Dark Slinger made no hesitation before he answered.
"I am The Dark Slinger, I do as HYDRA requires, no matter the cost."

Zola smirked. It was harder to break him than James, but eventually they succeeded. It was time for the third experiment. To see if his past could be triggered in his mind or not. They needed the latter.

"Avengers." Zola said. Dark Slinger made no reaction.

"Uncle Clint and Uncle Steve."
No reaction.

"Aunt Tasha."
No reaction.

"Uncle Bucky."
D.S squinted his eyes and glared. "Traitor."
Zola smirked.

"Tony Stark."
Peter's eyes shone again. He was about to speak when a big helmet was forced over his head. A gas filled the helmet as he screamed.

When the helmet lifted, Zola continued asking about the name Tony Stark. Peter kept coming back every time so they had to use the gas every time they saw that glimmer return to his eyes.

They were now on their 14th attempt. The helmet lifted and Zola spoke with frustration in his voice.

"Tony Stark."
D.S had no reaction. His eyes remained dark pits of coldness. Zola nodded. He turned to another HYDRA agent beside him.

"Third experiment complete. Prepare him for training." Zola said. He turned back around to face D.S.
"Hail HYDRA!" He shouted.
"Hail HYDRA!" D.S shouted back.

D.S was led out of the room, and into a small cell, with an old bed pushed into the corner. The guard spoke to him.
"This is your living quarters, change into your uniform and meet Dr. Zola at the training room down the hall. Hail HYDRA!"

"Hail HYDRA!" D.S replied. The guard left and shut the door. D.S picked up the uniform and began to put it on.

The uniform was plain black pants and a plain black T-Shirt with the HYDRA logo on the chest. These were his training clothes.

Once he was finished, he walked to the training room where he was instructed to go. The door opened and he walked over to Zola.

"You will train for 10 hours a day when you do not have a mission. You fight in the ring to the death once a day." Zola explained.

D.S nodded and stepped into the ring. In the other corner, stood a man that was taller than him with lots of scars on his arms. For some reason he felt a strong urge to make a comment about it, but he kept that thought to himself.

"Fight!" Zola shouted. The man charged at D.S, who used his sixth sense to dodge it. He grabbed the man with a web and pulled him towards him.

The man struggled to break free of the web, so D.S grabbed his neck and snapped it. The man was dead. D.S let him drop to the floor as he stepped out of the ring.

"Well done. Next time, make it quicker." Zola ordered. "Follow me to boss' office for your first assignment."

They walked down a long grey hall and passed several agents who all looked robotic. They stopped in front of a big black door with the red HYDRA symbol on it.

When Zola ushered him in the room, D.S saw a tall man with a red skull instead of a face. He wore a trench coat and was standing at his desk.

"Dark Slinger, your first assignment is Thomas Holland." Red Skull said.
D.S nodded and saluted.
"Hail HYDRA!"
Red skull responded with the same salute.
"Hail HYDRA!"

D.S returned to his quarters to see a mission uniform laid out for him. It came with a pair of black combat boots, black cargo pants with weapons already in them, a black tank top, a black jacket with the HYDRA crest embedded on the chest and a sliver mask to cover his mouth with a black spider on it.

He left to go complete his mission. Of course it was a success. The target was dead and the Dark Slinger had begun his career as a HYDRA assassin.

{•••}

The avengers were all in their own space, thinking about what they could do to get Peter back. Tony was in his lab furiously welding improvements to his suit as a coping mechanism, while Steve was in his room sketching sadly.

Natasha was in the training room, taking out her anger on the punching bags and Clint was at the archery range hitting bullseye after bullseye trying to keep his mind off of the missing teen.

Bucky sat in the living room, remembering all the horrible things that happened to him while he was under HYDRA's control. He knew that they had to get Peter back, but the question was how they would do that, and how Peter would cope with all the guilt of what he's done.

He decided to watch the news, when he saw a headline that really freaked him out.
"Friday! Get everyone down here now!" Bucky shouted.

Everyone came running down shortly after.
"What is it Buck?" Steve asked.
"Look..." Bucky said sadly as he pointed to the TV.

A reporter was explaining the story of how a man was murdered in his home by a masked man who calls himself The Dark Slinger. Everyone gasped when a picture of Peter, all decked out in HYDRA gear came up on the screen.

"No, it can't be..." Natasha shook her head. Clint looked down at the ground while Tony grew furious.

"Those idiots! Look what they did to my son! They tortured him and made him into this heartless killer! What did Peter do to deserve this!?" He yelled as he collapsed to the floor crying his eyes out while his team attempted to comfort him.

2 years later

Dark Slinger had now been on countless missions. He was climbing the ranks in HYDRA. The agents respected, no, feared him, and that was how he liked it.

He was making his way over to Red Skulls office for another mission. When he entered, he nodded to Red Skull who nodded back.

"Your next mission has been a target of HYDRA for a long time." Red Skull explained. "He is a traitor and needs to be eliminated."

D.S nodded as he waited for a name.

"You need to kill, James Buchanan Barnes."

To be continued...

Woahhh. Things are heating up! Sorry this chapter was slow without much action. The next part will be the end and it's gonna be a dousey. Anyways, thanks for reading!
~Taco