THE WEAPON'S CREATION

Disclaimer: I own no part of the Avengers (I wish I did). All rights belong to Marvel. I only own the character Tess Rogers / Tesseract / Amalia Schmidt and her plot and dialogue.

SHELLEY HENNIG AS AMALIA SCHMIDT | TESS ROGERS | TESSERACT

[HYDRA'S WEAPON]

"THERE WAS NEVER A TIME WHEN I WASN'T A WEAPON. EVEN WHEN I BECAME A PART OF THE AVENGERS, I WAS STILL A WEAPON JUST ONE FIGHTING FOR A DIFFERENT CAUSE. BUT I DON'T CARE, BECAUSE I FINALLY FOUND A HOME WHERE I WAS MORE THAN AN ENHANCED SOLDIER"

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Tess Rogers was never normal. There was no part of her life when she wasn't raised to be a weapon, to fulfil the purpose in which she was created for. She didn't have a name either, until she was able to escape her 'home' where they poked and prodded her with needles to find the answers to their many questions about their experiment.

Their little weapon.

In 1940, Tess was five when her father, Johann Schmidt, forced Abraham Erskine to inject both himself and his young daughter with the Super-Soldier Serum. Erskine agreed – much to his displeasure – and he told the five-year-old, if she ever escaped, to head to America and look for him. Schmidt took an early version of the formula, which indeed gave him enhanced strength, but also demonstrated severe side effects.

Schmidt lost his hair, his skin turned a deep red, and his face and head became deformed, turning into a grotesque skull-like appearance. Tess' serum was more developed and caused her to lose the use of her arms and legs for a time and to age fifteen years in less than two. Her body, now capable of surviving the serum, became that of an adult.

She became faster, better and stronger.

But like her father's malevolent personality enhancement, Tess' anger increased as her patience lowered. She became a ticking time-bomb of a girl and everyone was wary of her.

In 1943, when Johann Schmidt found the Tesseract he used its power on his daughter, who only appeared to be in her twenties, forcing her to endure the never-ending torture. And finally, made her the first ever Enhanced. Still bitter that the serum worked better on his daughter, Schmidt trained her to become a soulless killing machine with no love offered to her. Unless, of course, she killed those he wanted dead.

Tess was originally known as Amalia Schmidt, a weapon of mass destruction who could disintegrate an entire fleet of soldiers with a flick of her wrist. Tess had a name in the facility, one that she hated; Tesseract. She preferred to just be called Amalia by the HYDRA soldiers who opened the cell door to give her food – not that they really spoke to her. She was meant to be emotionless, she was meant to listen without question but even for a five-year-old child that was force-grown into a twenty-year-old in two years, she had a conscience and understood right from wrong.

Tess decided to leave, to strike out on her own and to take Doctor Erskine up on his promise of America. After escaping the HYDRA base – with a small army of American soldiers, led by the Super Soldier, Captain America – a place that she had called home for only technically seven years – which was more than enough time to learn to hate it – she joined the Americans who had saved her and were fighting against the Germans and HYDRA. Tess became close to Steve Rogers after discovering Erskine's death, and he became the only person who was ever there for her and she became his sister.

Newly named Tess Rogers, Tesseract turned against HYRDA and helped demolish the organization. Using the powers given to her by the Red Skull; she unleased her full potential and became the weapon HYDRA intended her to be – however, the weapon just wasn't on their side. And after HYDRA's destruction, Tess believed they got everything they deserved but at the cost of almost seventy years of Steve and Tess' lives.

If only the little weapon remembered the first lesson she was ever taught: cut one head off, and another will grow in it's place.

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I'M REWRITING VOLATILE!

I must admit, it's not much different but I wanted to write it just a bit better.

~ Raven