[i][b]Somewhere outside of the city...[/b][/i]

The facility wasn't big. In fact, all that you would find if you looked form the outside would be a tool shed on the edge of a large field, nothing special, save perhaps for a button on the side. If you had a proper key, you could push the button to reveal the shed was no shed at all, but rather a disguised elevator that went far below ground. The inside was simple as well, nothign more than a holding facility. The most sophisticated piece of technology would be the arc reactor powering it for the last 50 years. Now though, the power source was running low, and it's occupant was about to be released.

Speaking of the sole inhabitant, it appeared to be a young woman sitting crosslegged in the middle of an empty room, the only other space other than the engineering level with the reactor in the facility. Power lines were hooked to her back, but other than that she jsut seemed to keep staring at the door.

Until now.

[i]"Power level critical: Engaging release protocols."[/i] echoed a voice for a maintenance crew that has long left the facility. The girl didn't seem to notice yet, but her eyes suddenly twitched and she started moving, looking around.

[color=00ffff][i]Ugh. This must be what headache feels like for a human.[/i][/color] Alex thought, looking around confused. Something was wrong with her memory, and yet her self-diagnostics spat out no errors. Was this planned? Did her memory deteriorate over the time she spent here? She thought she just sat down, unable to recall anything form the time she spent here.

Suddenly, an icon flashed on her HUD and a message opened. Alex smiled, seeing her crea- her father on the screen. [color=ed1c24]"Hey kid. I know this has to be confusing, so let me give you a heads up. You may notice your internal clock is not in sync with your perceived time. That's because I have temporarily disabled your memory saving - you've been basically living the same fraction of a second over and over, and if you're seeing this message, it's been around 50 years."[/color]

That information got her to stand up and rush out of the room. Fifty years! She was supposed to be hidden for a week, month tops while the avengers dealt with a large threat she wasn't yet ready for! [color=00ffff][i]Is dad even still alive? I need to find him![/i][/color] Alex thought, a bit of panic settling in.

[color=ed1c24]"Hey, hey, HEY!"[/color] Past tony shouted form the message, actually getting ASTRA to stop. [color=ed1c24]"I know you, no rushing out just yet!"[/color] He sighed, looking like he didn't know what to say for a few seconds - or didn't want to say it. [color=ed1c24]"Look, we have no way of knowing what state the world is in. I might not even be around anymore, I'm sorry. You'll have to get above ground and make and judge for yourself. Unfortunately I couldn't transport your armor here in time, it is still below the tower. You should go fetch it before someone else does. They wouldn't be able to use it but it would be bad if the tech got in the wrong hands. Until then, I left you something of mine."[/color] Past tony smiled, and the message shut off. Alex looked on the ground and smiled upon seeing a suitcase. She picked it up and headed for the elevator.

[i][b]Near the avengers tower...[/b][/i]

She stared at the ruined tower in disbelief. [color=00ffff]"This is beyond fucked up."[/color] she cursed, feeling some of the rust set in just looking at it. The whole world has gone to hell, every superpowered individual being a target of monumental hate. Last time, as she recalled form her history lessons, this level of mass brain wiping happened in the Third Reich. [color=00ffff]"Look at them, like a herd of sheep."[/color] She frowned as she took sight of the crowd cheering as the mutants were paraded around.

She was pulled out of her melancholy soon enough as she heard shots being fired. [color=00ffff]"BEYOND FUCKED UP INDEED!"[/color] she exclaimed, climbing the fire ladder on the adjacent building to get a vantage point. She took in the situation - it seemed like some misguided souls wanted to free the mutants despite the heavy HYDRA presence. That was until she saw [i]her.[/i] [i]It.[/i] Whatever. Venom could not be mistaken for anyone else. Perhaps they would be able to tell her what happened in the last 50 years, seeing as none of the others seemed to be that old.

Unfortunately, the youngsters seemed to be in a spot of bother, their plan likely not involving a random person trying to do what they wanted to do as well, and failing miserably. She looked at the suitcase in her hand and smiled. [color=00ffff]"You always knew what to give a girl, dad."[/color]

Setting it on the ground she pushed one button to watch it unfold and two handles pop out. With a grin she took a hold of them, and soon the Mk V Ironman suit unfolded around her. Of course, JARVIS was not linked to the suit, but to her that was no problem at all. Her skin shifted in the armor, finding way to the circuits and soon she integrated it's systems into her own software, gainign complete control.

[color=00ffff]"Time for a distraction."[/color] Too bad the Mk V couldn't fly, but the palm repulsors still would do something. She took a couple of paces back, taking a repulsor assisted leap.

She crashed into one of the hydra mechs, staggering it. Her arm punched through the cockpit and pulled out the pilot, Alex swiftly taking his place. She modulated her voice to sound like Tony Stark himself - two reasons, perhaps that would give HYDRA the chills if they thought [i]THE Ironamn[/i] arrived, and because why couldn'T she have a little fun on the heroes account as well? [color=ff0000]"Mind if I drop in? Get the mutants out, I'll hold hydra here!"[/color] She called out over the mech's PA system.

Dismounting one of the hands on the armor, Alex put her bare hand over the control panel of the Mech. The nanites flown into the circuitry, creating a connection she could exploit. In mere second she punched through the Mach's firewall and was in it's communication system, her mind spreading across the local hydra network and shutting the mechs down by wiping out their control software, rendering the walking tanks dead in the water. That should give the others some breathing room, especially since the mech she occupied was now under her control ad the only one still functional.

Alex grinned, uploading dad's signature [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm_BoaDxhpE&feature=youtu.be&t=48s]song[/url] and blasting it out through the PA as she took aim with the Mech's gun and started mowing down the hydra soldiers with it.