The first contact.

Everybody knows that a ride in the subway of a big city feels exactly the same as jumping into an ocean of anonym humans. People go and come like waves in all directions. You see them once and two seconds later they disappear behind corners, columns, corridors, and leaving trains. You will never see them again, In fact, you will forget them before the present hour is finish. today, one of the rides, this ride, is going to be very different.

Ann Perkings is a strong, big, blonde woman in her thirties and she is sitting on the train like every Friday at 16:00 hour in direction to downtown. She holds her pink big bag with both hands in front of her and thinks already about the scones and cappuccino waiting for her in the cozy cafe in front of the duck's lake where she is going to sit alone holding a newspaper and simulating that she is not watching the romantic couples walking and holding hands together.

Of curse, Ann Perkings is not alone in the wagon, very close to her sits a young insignificant woman, there is nothing remarkable on her, she is probably in her twenties, has long black hair tied behind her head and a face with delicate features. She is not especially dressed, only blue jeans, a long jacket and a green scarf around her neck. With her brown long eyes, she looks through the people like she always does. If she would watch you directly into your eyes, you could realize that this one, is not exactly that simple woman that you think she is. In fact, at this precise moment, she is trying to stay calm, because the people around her, men and women, children and old passengers are saturating her senses with all the content inside their beings: feelings, toughs, ideas, and even sorrows. All of them flowing without permission through her head and provoking an avalanche of sensations that she uses to call: "the metro-horror-concert". Usually, her capacity to feel others moods and even to predict their intentions based on the mapping of their emotions is something she can deal with, but a subway ride requires some mental distance and a lot of concentration to create a border between her and all that people in such a reduced place.

A couple of meters behind the good Ann and the young woman with the scarf, there is a tall young man with a cap and a pair of old fashioned glasses standing near one of the doors, he is trying to look relaxed and remain unnoticed but I will tell you: he is always ready fo action. Steve Rogers never rests, not even on his free day in which he is supposed to enjoy an almost normal life out of the Avengers compound.

The train leaves one of the stations filled with new people when suddenly, Ann Perkings starts feeling unwell. She starts sliding slowly to her side, where a sitting man looks to her without understanding what is going on. Then, before she can ask for help, she starts shaking until the rest of the people sitting close to her leave their places with some distrust. At that moment, everybody thinks that the lady is having a collapse, an epileptic fit or something similar. Steve stands out and call for medical help: -"Any Doctors here?"- Everybody can hear his voice but nobody answers. Without anybody besides her to stop her fall, Ann Perkings reaches the floor exactly in the same moment that the woman with the scarf realizes that something "big" is happening again.

Miss Perkings has lost the color of her cheeks and her lips turn gray while her eyes remain locked somewhere in front of her. A second later the woman with the scarf realizes that nobody is going to help the woman on the floor. She also wants to think that she is having a Fit, but that "sense" in her is telling her something more. She starts sliding to Ann when an emerging need for explanation makes her look in the direction that Miss Perkings keep watching. -"Ahaa"- she thinks. The truth knocks her and she now knows that there is nobody casually feeling unwell on the wagon.

A young woman with red hair, almost a teenager, wearing black jeans and a black hoodie is watching Miss Perkings on the floor. She seems to ignore everybody else and starts to approximate to her, her mouth moves as incomprehensible words seem to come out but nobody would hear something. Only the woman with the scarf, now kneeling beside Ann seems to focus all her attention on what she is doing. Steve looks at the scene with little understanding of what is happening but he can see what happens next: The redhaired is willing to touch Ann with two fingers, only some centimeters before he reaches her, the other woman places her hand in the train's floor, both totally open as if looking for some support, then, she slowly lift them till reaching the level of the other one's eyes. There is a grotesque face emerging from the teenager and she stops her approximation in the same way someone would reach a wall with his entire body. The woman with the scarf makes a fast movement and places a hand over the poor Perkings to protect her. With the other hand, she is still preventing the girl from coming closer to them.

The whole scene is weird, Steve could swear that the redhaired woman was looking very aggressive and had something to do with the lady's collapse but her attack was being neutralized by a sort of energy coming from the other woman, which now, was looking daring in her direction while protecting Ann. He knew well enough that some humans can possess certain outstanding capacities, he just had to think in Wanda or her brother and he started to think that this one was one of those situations in which he will witness one incredible thing.

Around them, nobody seemed to realize what was happening, they seemed to be submerged in an invisible dimension. Steve rushed to help Ann while the other two women were giving a demonstration of an extraordinary battle in which he could not find the way to be included.

At that moment, the train stopped again and the woman with her long brown eyes looked by the first time to Steve. -"Take her away," said to him. The train was full of people, but she just talked to him as he would be the only one there- Does she know who I am? - Steve did not have time to think about the answer but he could feel the same trust Nat gave to him in every mission. He lifted Ann from the floor and went out of the train before the doors closed again. At that moment, lights in the whole station failed and everything stayed in darkness. He could hear the train starting to run again but when the light came back, he was standing in front of the empty rail looking into nothing.