Jay wore formal black pants, a dark grey shirt, a loose tie, and black boots, standing in an underground parking lot.

He was effortlessly moving, dodging the punch by the 6'3 muscular man whose body had turned into rubber.

He walked past, patting the man's waist, and numerous scarlet ropes of light appeared, tieing him up.

He stumbled, falling down, as Jay looked at Monica standing against a car, "you are going to make me do this alone?"

Monica waved her hand, smiling, "I just wanted to see if you can handle yourself. Do you want help?"

Jay put his hands in the pocket, lightly jumping, dodging the attack of the Absorbing Man, who had turned into stone to attack.

He put his leg down on the Absorbing Man's leg, pressing it until a few cracks appeared, "stop it. Just come with us, and I won't kill you."

Absorbing Man glared at him when his body changed again, turning into a diamond, making Jay step away, "that's new."

Monica worriedly walked forward, "need help?"

"Sure. Can you?"

Monica turned into light, moving at light speed, snapping her fingers in front of Absorbing Man. It caused an explosion causing him to fly backward, colliding against the wall, and the layer of diamond disappeared.

"Show-off," Jay passed by, curling his lips.

Monica chuckled, "you are just jealous."

"I am not. I can create explosions as well," Jay proudly puffed his chest out, walking over to the Absorbing Man.

"Uh-huh."

"You know, that awfully sounded like pity. It's almost as if you didn't believe me," Jay narrowed his scarlet eyes, staring lasers at her.

Monica patted his back, trying to hide her smile, "No, no. You are overthinking it."

The two took Absorbing Man with one arm each when Monica threw a cube on the ground and the three teleported inside a reinforced prison. They dropped him on the chair, as Jay took a sample of his blood and skin before walking out, when Jay's eyes fell on Coulson, "sorry to make you wait, but it's done."

Coulson nodded, walking in front of them until the three reached the cargo hold, where everyone was sitting.

Melinda watched the video on repeat on a tab through the Dwarf drone that Fitz created, with Skye sitting beside her.

Simmons and Fitz came at Jay, looking at him with shiny like children, waiting for candy.

Jay chuckled at their eager eyes, giving them the blood and skin samples, which Simmons snatched away, "thank you! I can't wait to figure out how this works!"

Skye leaned on Melinda, about to say something when she noticed Melinda's glare. She nervously sat up, clearing her throat, "so, how does that work? He can absorb properties of any material?"

"Is he like Katya?" Melinda asked.

Coulson shook his head, sitting down on the other couch, "No. He seems to be an artificial one."

Suddenly, he felt all the eyes on him, making Coulson blink back, "what? I read the reports. Jay isn't the only one who knows everything."

"What reports?" Melinda furrowed her brows.

"The one that I give him. Information that I have on certain people. Like Ian Quinn, who is trying to find a dangerous element called Gravitonium. Or Carl Creel, the Absorbing Man, who has been brainwashed by Hydra."

Coulson blushed a little, clearing his throat, "Carl was experimented on and brainwashed. We are not sure if the project was about giving him the ability to absorb the properties of other items. Or infuse the property of one, and something went wrong. Either way, we need to get rid of the effects of brainwashing and get more data on the Hydra hideouts."

"Brainwashing, that's complicated to break," Skye frowned when there was a shine on the table, a box appeared.

Skye pressed her lips, looking at the metallic case, "it's something to get rid of brainwashing, isn't it."

Jay leaned forward, opening the case, revealing the test tubes with scarlet liquid inside them, "these are the result of Project Scarlet which resulted in a substance that can wipe out brainwashing. But the Hydra brainwashing is different; there is a code embedded in the person. Primo is the only one who can get rid of that. Anyway, this is a start." 

Coulson rubbed his chin, "should I even ask why, and who made this Project Scarlet?"

"Do you want to? Jay scratched his cheek when Melinda narrowed her eyes, glaring at Coulson, "next time, I want to go in the field. Even if it is against Enhanced."

In Boston, An Old Alley,

Steve walked in, looking at the homeless man with an old cloth on him. He walked over, standing beside him, "in some ways. This is where it began." Bucky, who was looking like a homeless man, "when I said that we are going to the future...I didn't imagine something like this would happen."

Steve sighed, "I know. I wasn't either. Bucky...come with me."

"If you want information, then I wrote it all down and left it there."

"That's not it," Steve shook his head, "there is someplace you should see. Just trust me?"

Bucky looked up for a moment, "I am not going back to that underground hideout. It's no different than a cage."

Steve smiled, "I don't know where we are going. But let's hope it's not underground."

Bucky frowned, "what do you mean you don't know. If you don't know, then how are we going?"

Steve looked at his mobile, narrowing his eyes, "hmm, it says that they are here."

He looked around when he heard the voice of a bike rushing in. It skidded to them, coming to a stop as the woman in the white bodysuit removed her helmet, "boys, I heard you need a ride?"

Steve looked at the motorbike, "we are going all the way in that?"

"No, we are going with this," She threw down a cube, and the three of them teleported, appearing inside an aircraft.

Bucky blankly blinked, "did we just teleport?"

"Yes, I have a bit of experience with it," Steve almost looked happy since he wasn't the one who looked like a countryside boy.

The woman in a white bodysuit got off the bike, putting her helmet down, "It's a dagger. A stealth quinjet."

"You better put me back down," Bucky stared at her when she raised her hand. He fired a high electromagnetic charge which Winter Soldier tried to defend himself again. But without his metallic arm, he couldn't.

He got electrocuted, falling down, as the woman crossed Steve, sitting down in the position to drive.

"Why didn't we just teleport to the base?"

"Mm," the woman with golden-brown hair chuckled, "because I wanted to drive the Quinjet? We don't get to take these babies out much. Do you want to try?"

"Can I?" Steve pointed at himself, not sure.

"No. You don't have training."

"Ah, thought so."

Hours Later,

Bucky was tied to the chair, with Steve leaning on it as they got closed to the location.

The two of them opened their mouth, looking at the floating base, floating in the clouds, "is that?"

"Welcome to Red Room."

Bucky frowned, "I have heard of it. It's an organization that takes orphan girls and brainwashes them, turning them into black ops operatives."

White Widow landed the Quinjet, letting out a breath, "Yes. Years ago, Jay and two others came to us, freed us from the brainwashing. But we were ashamed about the assassinations and didn't exactly know what to do with our lives. So, Jay said, we are what we are. So we should own it. Now we do."

Bucky glanced towards her, "I think something was left in the translation. I highly doubt this is what he meant."

"No, I asked. This is what Jay meant," White Widow chuckled, standing up, "come on. Our Leader wants to see you two."