"All-Fathers, give us strength..." Thor prayed quietly as they continued through the dense forest. For the past several months, the team had been helping their Captain take down every HYDRA base they could find.

This was supposedly, hopefully, the last one.

Thor had fought a great many evil in the Nine Realms, but he had no idea how cruel and unusual humans could be. The documents and video footage and the suicides were sickening to him.

Mankind was better than this, was it not?

"Heads up, lots of hostiles surrounding...nothing inside from what I can tell." Tony repeated FRIDAY's analysis of the area.

"Alright, spread out, we come at them together...Hulk?" An impatient growl answered him. "After you."

The Hulk roared to life as he was not the best at stealthy maneuvering. This was more of his forte.

Clint saw at least 100 HYDRA agents come out of the building going crazy. They were severely outnumbered.

But we're the Avengers...we got this...we took out an entire alien army in New York with no backup...these are just a bunch of assholes.

And they did...with hardly any injuries on the team thanks to the Hulk using the wiring on the surrounding wall as a lasso, every HYDRA soul chose the cyanide. The Avengers had given up on taking prisoners after the first week of this mission of taking out HYDRA once and for all.

"I'm retiring after this...I'm past the point." Clint whined.

Natasha gave him a look, then proceeded to lead him and Steve inside, while Thor and Tony circled the perimeter. The Hulk continued to go wild on anything and everything he could find.

Steve Rogers caught a lump in his throat, as he thought he heard a child crying. He motioned for them to follow him down a staircase. A couple minutes later, they finally made it to the bottom, the crying slowly getting more prominent.

"Could be a trap." Natasha speculated. Heroes always come to the rescue, a recording device with a bomb attached to it is something she has unfortunately dealt with a time or two in her past.

An echoing giggle sent shivers down their spine.

Clint found a power switch, adding light to their unknown whereabouts. It looked like an old asylum, that was for some reason underground. Why hide it?

Another laugh lead them forward. Looking from side to side, the rooms were all barred with no doors, like it was almost more of a prison than an insane ward.

Steve gripped his shield tighter. Something did not feel right.

"Cap!" Tony cried in his ear. "There's something out here that just went inside. Thor and I are coming to help you! I-" Static.

"Why do we need backup?" Natasha asked.

Clint had every hair standing up, he was so nervous. Cap didn't hear a bomb, I don't see anything too far out of the ordinary...what the hell?

They entered a chamber with so much science equipment and operating tables with jars and jars of blood and, OH MY GOD WERE THOSE...

Clint threw up, as Natasha gasped and Steve's knees buckled.

Dismembered bodies and skeletons were carelessly thrown in a circle, with small skulls lining the walls. This was the stuff of nightmares. All of these old experiments with human body parts were not just speculations from the military. And there were weird writings on the manuscripts and even on the wall with...

Blood.

Steve knew the Nazis were the bad guys...but this, this was inhumane...

"CAP! Y'ALL HAVE GOT INCOMING!"

The three turned around to see nothing as the lights went out, and Tony and Thor's cries of warning were said several feet away from them.

But it was too late...something was already coming towards them...