HBWnovel Chapter 208: Winter Has Come
Chapter 208: Winter Has Come
Chapter 208: Winter Has Come
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13th March 2012, New York City
(Jasmine Sayre POV)
And I was right, the damn meeting took hours. No wonder she didn't to do it at home; Wanda and Rose would have distracted me halfway through. Still, Selene seemed to have things in hand while I was gone. This chapter is updated by eanwhile, I was driving into the usual parking place where the portal was, so that I could teleport home. Suddenly, I felt the car being destroyed by a bomb. I had teleported out easily enough, the explosion didn't even do anything more than surprise me. Someone had tried to kill me, or at least, someone had tried to kill Morgan Evanshade. I watched hidden as a man walked towards my destroyed car I had arrived in Selene's car and chose to return using one of the company cars which wasn't enchanted in any way. He was holding a machine gun in his hand, but what was more noticeable was his mask and his metal arm.
Huh, seems like Hydra is making moves again. I was curious why they would send the Winter Soldier against me. There were two possibilities, it's either, that they knew that I was the Morrigan and were stupid enough to think that the Winter Soldier would be enough to kill me, somehow, or the most likely explanation, they wanted to assassinate Morgan Evanshade. In this identity, I was barely more than a writer. I made a point of not involving myself in my company, preferring to make up stories and publish them. I didn't pose a danger to their plans, meaning that they wanted the company, or more accurately, they wanted my shares of the company. Truth be told, barely twenty percent of the company existed outside mine or Selene's control. I, as Morgan Evanshade, possessed around 60% of the company, Selene had around 20% and the rest were spread out across dozens if not hundreds of investors.
Hydra was obviously trying to buy my shares, to have the biggest media company, which is notorious for being impartial, in their pocket, meaning that they would have influence over millions, if not billions of people.
Selene had mentioned that Hydra has been trying to pressure her into buying her shares, but since 'Morgan Evanshade' refused to let up control over the company, they were obviously trying desperate measures, especially because the general opinion was negative towards SHIELD which is really bad for the organization hiding inside of it.
However, this is just a theory and I'll need to see Selene to confirm everything. I wasn't going to get much out of Barnes after I knock him out. However, this gives me an opportunity. I could see multiple plans against Hydra using him. He could be the ideal soldier. Turning Hydra's own boogeyman against them would be very poetic. Once I fix up the mess that his mind probably is, he'll want revenge for the years of torture and brainwashing. Considering that they even made him kill the Starks, people that he saw as his friends.
I watched as the Winter Soldier slowly walked towards the car, probably to confirm the kill. He had his weapon out and pointed at the vehicle. He looked confident, until he found no one inside the car, and he stiffened.
I spoke that word in Russian and Barnes seemed to understand exactly what I was doing. These were his trigger words. I could feel his mind blanking slowly, his neurons firing thoughts left and right. The Winter Soldier seemed to be frantic and started running towards me, I dodged a punch to the left and kicked him in the knees making him kneel, "Rusted"
Barnes seemed to struggle even more, and he tried to flip himself up. I let him and he didn't expect the lack of resistance, which unbalanced him. I kicked him in the stomach, "Furnace."
I could feel his mind slowly being squeezed shut. His connections to any memories were severed from his core personality. With every word, any memories, any thoughts he had were removed, leaving only a shell that would await orders.
He got up, ready to fight me once more, "Daybreak".
The man seemed to run desperately at me, tried to punch me again. I stepped to the side, dodging, "Seventeen"
He tried to punch me with his metal arm, but I grabbed his arm, "Benign."
I flipped him onto his back, "Nine."
I could feel his mind closing. He was nothing more than the weapon now. He forgot about his current orders, about Hydra. He was barely more than a rabid dog; at the end of the sequence of words, he knew that he should expect pain and that he would lose something fundamental inside him. I pitied him, truly, but this was necessary for me to see the exact patterns the brainwashing takes for me to dismantle the triggers entirely.
There was barely any fighting style left in him. He was barely more than a savage beast. It reminded me of how Logan usually fought. The Winter Soldier struggled back and leapt at me. I grabbed him from the air and slammed him down, "Homecoming"
I held him down as he kept struggling, "One"
He was able to escape my hold by kicking my hand. He looked at me, with a savage glare, with his adamantium arm up in the air, ready to punch me, "Freight car."
This was it; I could feel whatever humanity in him disappear, leaving only Hydra's asset. I could feel him shut down completely. The man stayed frozen, with his arm raised before standing down and giving me a blank look, "Ready to comply."
"Remove your telepathic protections and kneel down."
The man did as I asked without even questioning me. He removed a small metal object from behind his ear and knelt down before me.
I gave him a pitying look, "I'm sorry James, but this is going to hurt."
I grabbed his head and entered his mind properly.