Sokovia, my home city... it was being bombed. Hydra asked for Volunteers, saying that they could make the bombings stop if some offered to go with them. They said, the volunteers would be granted the power to fight back, to end the violence that seemed to plague our city. My brother and I, we both stepped forward. It was only after their tests began that we came to learn that they were the ones behind the bombings in the first place.