winter rose

"So... huh..."

Tony laughed mockingly.

"Aunt Perry still chose to be Hydra."

"Correct."

She nodded and admitted like this, leaving behind all the guilt and guilt she had in the past.

At the same time, Perry thought silently in his heart.

It's like Howard will cooperate with Zola after the paperclip project, can sell arms to the *** organization, and can sleep with the girl from the red house.

I didn't do anything extraordinary.

I'm just like anyone else in this world.

Just like there is evil in every person in this world.

We are no different.

she thinks.

"Tony has studied the space-time shuttle machine."

Natasha said suddenly, distracting the attention of the two people in the delicate atmosphere.

"Perry brought a lot of... er, useful helpers." She paused, with an awkward yet polite smile on her face.

"They're all trash." Perry lightly dismissed Natasha's kind flattery. "But fortunately, the intelligence department is still able to work as usual. In the past few years, Hydra has not stopped researching the infinite stones. Although the stones have been destroyed, we have collected the weak energy scattered all over the earth. , fusion..."

She paused, looked at her fingertips, and raised the corners of her mouth.

"There is also creation."

2021

Norway, Tonsberg

Brock looked at the crying woman in the hallucination, and clenched his fist slightly.

1 minute later to the scheduled time.He rushed in and covered her mouth, froze for a moment, and then quickly dragged her back out of the circle that confined the residual energy of the soul gem with all his strength.

Perry collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath, with undried tears still hanging on his chin.But in the next second, she stood up again, her face was calm, and her dark green eyes were filled with bitter blackness.

And between the fingers, a light yellow energy beam flows, which is extremely familiar.

"Again."

she said so.

Brock behind him didn't speak.

Perry turned and looked at him.

"Notify the action team of the next location."

Bullock took a step forward, and his breathing gradually stabilized.

"Arctic Ocean, the Cosmic Rubik's Cube. Then... find the soul."

"...So, we need a person to do this experiment."

Accidentally wasted Scott's opportunity to experiment with quantum time travel, and he was reluctant to continue the experiment.

Perry and Natasha were standing at the door with their notebooks, and next to them was Clinton who hadn't seen him for a long time and didn't know him very well.

"I come."

"I come."

The two spoke at the same time, and they looked at each other.And Clinton's attitude cannot be rejected.

"I'm more suitable than you."

"Did I say that I want to do the experiment myself?"

She raised an eyebrow with a slight sarcasm.

"It's very simple, Hydra has never had to hesitate so much when doing experiments. Because the experimental subjects are everywhere, and they can't refuse—"

"Perry."

Steve didn't know when he suddenly appeared behind her.

"This is the Avengers."

So she was silent.

Such a simple sentence also simply rejected all her possibilities.

Come to think of it, Captain America teamed up with Hydra.How ridiculous.

If it wasn't for—

"If we succeed this time, I will guarantee that there will never be another Hydra in this world."

She suddenly said such a sentence without beginning or end.

"I promise. Because everything they do now is their final use value. Today, that's all. However, compared to the possibility of sacrificing my own people, I will choose to let people who will die sooner or later do this. Experiment. Doctor Romanov next door has recently found an experiment subject to give him wings, rather than suffer that kind of torture, it is better to die like this."

She took a few steps to the door, pressed the headset and said.

"Brock, bring the experimental subject from the neurology department here."

Then he looked up at Steve again.

Although it seems to be looking directly, it is still dodging.

"It's up to you whether you need it or not."

She dropped this sentence and turned to go out.

The weather is fine, the breeze is warm and the sun is not dry.What was once the city center is now grass.

Perry was sitting at the entrance of the Avengers Headquarters, and Bullock, who had just brought someone in, was showing her a video of a whale swimming across the canal on his mobile phone.

"Wow."

She exclaimed in embarrassment.

"Passing by the Tower of London last month. I wrapped it all in red rose bushes. It's a field of flowers now."

"You can put flowers on your office desk."

"I didn't grow it for my own liking." She casually crushed the cigarette butt on his wrist.

"That's what I promised, but unfortunately I forgot."

Brock glanced at the little swelling on his wrist.

"So... we are all stepping stones for you to achieve your final goal, right?"

Perry laughed, she just looked at him so calmly.The arc of the corner of the mouth is full of sarcasm, not knowing who to address.

"Ok."

So he pretended to be relaxed and smiled.

"Sir, I am as loyal to you as Ian Black is to Mr. Lancaster."

She raised an eyebrow.

"you sure?"

"I'm sure."

He added another sentence.

"Ian Black is to Mr. Lancaster, and Dr. Lancaster is to Ian Black. I am indeed your best helper, am I not?"

"Ok."

So she repeats too.

People came from behind, but neither of them spoke.Natasha stood at the door with the original experimental subject, and she looked at Perry.

"That experiment—"

"I see."

She raised her hand to interrupt her, motioning for Brock to take him away.

"Natasha, thank you."

"I'm very sorry--"

"If you're going to tell me to have the courage to face life I'll throw a sandwich in your face."

Seeing her momentary astonishment, Perry explained something naturally.

"Hydra's intelligence work is the best."

"so."

Natasha blinked and said nothing.

The two sat together at the door, leaning against the floor-to-ceiling windows.The bright sunshine makes people confused in front of their eyes, but the reality behind them is incomparably cold.

She glanced at the cigarette case next to Perry's hand, Perry smiled knowingly, and lit a cigarette for her.

The two female agents leaned against the door of the Avengers Building and began to puff. Their blurred vision was now covered by clouds of white mist, but the real was still real, and the illusion didn't change anything.

"I did not expect."

Natasha said suddenly.

"I do not have either."

Knowing what she was talking about, Perry cleared his throat.

"I learned to smoke after participating in World War II. Many nights when I didn't know Bucky, I smoked alone by the medical tent, far away from the medical alcohol."

"That sounds so lonely."

"Tsk, it seems quite lonely."

She agreed with the other party in a rare way, and then looked at her slightly sideways.

"What about you? A Slavic girl from the Red House?"

She smiled and said nothing.

So Perry didn't insist on asking further.

After half a cigarette passed, Perry continued to talk as if he picked up the interest of chatting again.

"Bucky smokes, and so do I. At that time, Lucky Strike and Camels were used as supplies every month, but I never smoked in front of him. Later, the two of us were together, and we never smoked together. Sometimes I very He skillfully helped him light cigarettes, probably because many girls he knew before were like this, so he was never curious, and he never knew...I also thought I almost forgot. "

Natasha paused, with a smile in her words.

"I don't want you throwing a sandwich in my face."

"Is it?"

She raised her eyebrows to look at her, the corner of her mouth was joking.

"But where are the sandwiches...?"

Sparks ignited between her fingers, and the falling ashes scalded her moderately.

Another cigarette.

So they threw the cigarette butts on the ground, and the water mist among the wet grass quickly extinguished the hotness.

"Fate chose us to bear, but let others be buried with us."

"No, Natasha. Fate never chose us."

Perry blinked.

"Fate treats us as ants, and he abandons us. When we can't remember, we are left alone, and when we remember, we are crushed."

There was a burst of light and light laughter.

The female agents laughed together, and the smell of tobacco between their lips and fingers was also mixed.

"Then what are you doing for it? Since we are just ants. We fight, refuse to admit defeat, and always want to change our way of life. But according to what you said, there is nothing we can do, so what are you doing for it?"

"Ah...for what. We all have nothing, don't we? Except..."

Perry's hand reached for the cigarette in her pocket, but she stopped halfway there.

She thought of the bright sunshine when she first saw the world, the gentle Margaret, the sweet smile of the glorious era, and the deep blue sea in her memory.

Perry frowned, the sourness at the tip of his nose rising and fading.

"All the way to today, sometimes I also wonder why I fight."

She took a deep breath, the bitter dark green looked at the brilliance on her ring finger, and seemed to be looking into the distance.

"For the people who love me, the people I love. These people are often the same group of people, because I only love people who love me. This seems to be the law."

"So, I'm fighting for the people I love. That's right."

she repeated.

"I fought for the things I cherished that I never had, and that's true."

Natasha looked at her fixedly, as if she also remembered something.She was the one during the Insight Project period, the one who fought at S.H.I.E.L.D. with a swollen ankle, and the one who ignored her at the airport.

That she, that casts a shadow from hell behind her.

"Choose evil over good. Tsk, this sounds like some sadistic girl comic."

"Sorry, but I'm the main character of a shoujo manga. This is life to me. Also, Steve is here."

She blinked, patted her pants and stood up.

"Steve and I may have been friends once, but we will never be able to make friends. After all, our three views are so different that they are almost opposite. He didn't use the Hydra experimental subject for kindness and principles, so the experimental subject has to go back and be safe. Wings. This sounds like all kinds of self-defeating girl comics."

"An Wing?"

"literal meaning."

When Steve walked to the door, neither of them said anything.

"Perry, everyone will have a meeting later to study where the Infinity Stones have appeared over the years. We need... your information."

His expression was still so indescribable.

"of course."

She nodded, the scarlet Hydra pendant on her chest gleaming.

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