The Mystery Figure

She loads it into the trunk of the car and we get in and we leave to buy a new one. It's nighttime now. For the first time in a while my mom turns on the radio. Cheap Thrills by Sia is playing. We are singing to it and having a good time.


We are turning left onto a bridge when something hits the car and an explosion happens and the car flips over and keeps rolling on the ground. I see everything in slow motion. I see my mom's hands come off the steering wheel, I see stuff fly around, the windows shatter, the windshield shatters, and I realize that I am not a big fan of flipping over a few times with a seatbelt on and being trapped in a metal vehicle. Luckily the car stops on its wheels, but unfortunately, the front half of it where my mom is sitting is hanging off the bridge over water. I'm sitting in the backseat. I don't know how I didn't get knocked unconscious. However my mom did.


For the first time in my life, I am genuinely scared. Fighting against the Avengers was hard but not scary because they are my family. Also, I didn't do a whole lot of fighting. Falling through the sky after my suit powered off was a little scary but I blacked out so I didn't have to experience a lot of the fall. But right now, my mom, who is my protector is unconscious and who knows when she'll wake up. It's been two minutes and I am for sure overreacting but I am in a country I don't know and it's nighttime and I'm a 6 year old with my mom who is on the run from the Government. Something else that is making me a little nervous is that I see a car with a masked person driving it.


The person gets out. Mom please wake up I think to myself not wanting the driver to hear me because all of the windows and both the front and back windshields are broken. I curl up and make myself as small as possible so the shadow figure can't see me as they get closer. Then I take in the fact that the explosion and car crash left fire on the bridge. My mom wakes up and as she moves, the car leans forward a little towards the water. Thank goodness she woke up I think to myself. My mom looks around for a second and nods to me and mouths "are you okay?" I nod back and we unbuckle our seatbelts which makes the car tilt towards the water a little more. Then my mom carefully climbs into the backseat. My mom looks out of the broken window and says "You should know, I'm a better shot when I'm pissed off." Then she shoots at the masked metal figure. The figure holds up a shield with a red logo on it blocking my mom's shots.


Then she aims to shoot again and the figure throws their shield at the car and my mom and I duck. The shield wedged itself into the broken window. The car starts to tilt more and my mom and I climb out of the back windshield. Well, my mom goes first and she lifts me out of it.


My mom has her gun out again and I am standing behind her at an angle so I can see what's going on. The car creaks a little and we look up to see the figure standing on top of the car. They do a flip off of the car holding their shield as my mom shoots at them. They land and my mom keeps shooting at them.


I am kinda helpless because I am a six year old with no powers and no special suit and my hand-to-hand combat would suck against the figure.


The figure is fighting like Steve does with his shield. The figure walks forward a little bit as my mom shoots and they throw their shield and kick her. My mom tries to flip them to the ground only for the figure to flip her to the ground. They are both lying on the ground. My mom and I look at the figure and their mask has a red glow on the part where their eyes are. It's as though they're scanning my mom. Then my mom does a kip up to a squatting position at the same time as the figure. This is getting weird. The figure is fighting the same as my mom and they fought like Steve with the shield.


The figure looks at the trunk of the car for a second and my mom says "You're not here for us." Then my mom pulls out one of her hidden mini knifes gets up and the two of them keep fighting. I would love to help but I don't know how. This person is much more advanced than I am used to and they are impersonating people I know and love who are great fighters.


If it were the actual Steve's fighting pattern I know a few of his weaker moves that he does and I take advantage of those to take him down but it looks like the figure has no weak moves.


They throw my mom to the ground face down and grab her by the hair. It's now or never I think to myself. I run at the figure and I kick them. They let go of my mom and I throw some punches and kicks and I use a few tricks my mom taught me. Those didn't work too well and I do another one of them and the figure kicks me really hard in the stomach and I go flying across the bridge and I land hard on my back on the ground next to the car. Geez they're strong. "Don't touch her!" says my mom. I lay there on the ground while the ribs that I broke start burning in pain. I lie down for another second before I sit up and stand up.


The figure has their back to my mom and is walking towards me and the car. I watch as my mom uses a special grappling hook type thing that she hooks around the figures ankles. Then she attaches that to a pillar on top of the bridge. The figure is unaware and keeps walking only to be pulled by the contraption and they slide on the ground and my mom starts running to the car where I am and she picks up a black package thing that has some test tubes with glittery red contents in it.


As my mom quickly puts the package thing in her pocket, the figure does a flip and slices the rope with a knife. They are coming down towards us and they bring their knife down right where my mom's hand was seconds before. My mom is holding the empty black briefcase to throw the figure off and she grabs the figure's shield. She uses the shield to block the figures knife. I am standing behind my mom and the shield so I don't get hit by accident. If I had my suit, I could end this fight right now. My mom moves and continues fighting.


The figure kicks my mom and she goes flying off the bridge into the water below. "Mom!" I scream. I run to the edge of the bridge to try to see her but it's dark out so no dice. I realize that I am in a dangerous position because the figure could push me in too. The figure stands next to me probably trying to make sure my mom died. I highly doubt that she did. My mom's strong and besides, she fell in water. I just hope that the package didn't fall out of her pocket as she fell. The figure stands there for a few seconds before grabbing me from behind. "Let me go! Mom! Help!" I scream. I thrash in the figure's arms trying to free myself from their grip but it's no use. Then I feel a sharp prick on my neck and I go unconscious.

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