She looked through the window outside to see the green scenery. That gave her some kind of comfort for the life she was living. She had escaped from her duties for a little while just to get in peace with herself, to remind herself why she was doing this and more important why she couldn't leave. She was lost in her thoughts. Remembering her past, a past when she had been happy, where her reason for fighting for was. She didn't hear the outside alarms in the base going off as she would have done if she was alert. She didn't realize the sound of the shoots, the metallic clangs or the grunts of the fallen men.
"Steve, Natasha here. The main door is open you can come now" said Natasha though her communication device. She was in the field outside the base that was not visible from the window. Her tone was neutral as she hadn't just beaten ten guys to get that door. She went inside and waited for Steve there.
"Coming in" Steve replied while he speeded up his motorbike to get to the enemy base main door.
He discarded the motorbike once he crossed the door and rushed to meet up with Natasha. Both of them were covered of dirt but without any wound or starch. They have crossed the exterior enemy's lines swiftly. They had just to get the information that Director Fury asked of them from the base. This base was just a huge building not really high all of it made of metal. The interior had no decoration either or the rooms they went through looking for the computer with the information. All were surgical clean barren corridors and offices. They followed the first corridor searching all the rooms they found even though it would be pretty stupid for the enemy to put the most confidential information that near of the entrance. But better be safe than sorry. Then the corridor divided in two. Surprisingly until that point no guards had been seen which made both Avengers be in a high level of alert.
"Natasha you take the left corridor I'll take the other. Call if anything happens" commanded Steve using the strict voice he had when he was conduction missions. He turned to run when Natasha grabbed his arm. He stopped and looked at her.
"Be careful Cap. This seems to quiet. I'm sure there is a trap somewhere" she said looking at him straight into his eyes. She had said that with all seriousness but couldn't help but add with a smirk "You have to return home so you can ask the SHIELD's nurse, Martha, out"
Steve had already turned and started running as he exclaimed "I don't have time!"
Natasha turned to retort but he had already disappeared through the corridor. She started to go into hers. Then the show began. Both of them were attacked. It nothing that they couldn't handle.
"I'm sure she would understand that you couldn't be with her like a normal boyfriend" Natasha continued probing Steve.
"But even so. She cannot like me. We have only spoken twice"
"But she is already in love with you. You are Captain America"
"I don't want someone to love me because I'm Captain America"
"What do you want Steve? I don't think you could stand a relationship with a normal civilian who knows nothing about you"
"Well in my time love was thought as… " Steve stopped his rambling when he heard through his communicating device an almost pained gasp coming from Natasha
Natasha had just entered the next room in her corridor half listening to Steve. When she slid the metallic door open, her world stopped for a few seconds. In the room stood a slender woman with a killer figure. Her long black hair was in a ponytail. At hearing the sound of the door opening she turned around.
Natasha felt as she could not breathe as she meet the other woman's eyes. They were identical to her own eyes. It could not be possible. It had to be a sick joke from the enemy. The other woman hadn't moved a centimeter. She hadn't tried to harm Natasha while she was in shock. When Natasha was starting to clear her head the woman bolted out of the room crashing into Natasha and sending her to the ground. She continued running without turning back. Sitting down on the floor was how Steve found Natasha. In the moment he heard her gasp and didn't answer to her name he had quickly undid his path and went through her corridor. He found her sitting on the ground with a shocked expression on her face. He hadn't seen what affected Natasha this way. He only caught a glimpse of black hair. He checked Natasha for any wounds but he couldn't find any.
"Natasha can you hear me? Hello.."
Finally her eyes started to focus and fixed on Steve's blue ones.
"It was her, Steve. It was her" she murmured more to herself than to Steve although she had said his name.
"Who?" asked Steve but Natasha was already on her feet and looking towards the direction the woman had took off. She wanted to catch the black haired woman but knew she had to sacrifice her desires for the mission. She tried to forget what happened and concentrate in her mission.
"C'mon Steve we cannot linger" barked Natasha ignoring his question. Taking about who she thought the woman was would open an old wound she had tried to ignore for a long time.
They continued walking down the corridor and had to fight many men and women. They didn't get any serious wound. As they went deeper into the corridor more guards they found. They finally reached the end of the corridor and hadn't found any room with the information needed or that looked like the central office. They followed up the same way they had come. Steve suddenly stopped. Natasha looked at him curiously as he started to feel up the wall. He had noticed a pattern about how the rooms where distributed in the corridor while they were walking back. But where he was touching the door should have been a door that wasn't there at naked eye. He kept pushing and knocking on the wall until one small plate of metal slid off to reveal a keypad to introduce some kind of code. Natasha quickly started up her devices to discover the code.
Once they introduced the right code the wall descended and a huge office was revealed. All the officers were running like chickens without head. They were saving up the information to get it to another base and deleting so it wouldn't fall on the wrong hands. Not a soul stood still, only the two figures at the end of the room. They stood with their backs turned to the two Avengers. One was a really tall man with black hair and broad shoulders. He was dressed with a black expensive suit. The other one was the woman found in the room by Natasha. Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing to look at the newcomers with an expression of fear. Seeing all sound had stopped in the room, the man and the woman turned around and saw the intruders. Natasha had once again the air knocked out of her lungs. Steve adopted a defensive pose. Suddenly the base started to shake. The sounds of machinery started up. As they looked into the big window at the end of the office, they saw the ground being farther away.
"Hello my Freunde" boomed the man in the suit. "I hope you enjoyed our base. As you can see we are going up in the air. But don't worry my dear Freunde. It is totally safe… for us. For you, as you can comprehend, it is not, especially if we are flying to our new base. We don't want you to know where it is, do we. So, goodbye dear Avengers. It was fun while it lasted. Darling please I think it's time that you accompany them outside"
The woman didn't say anything back. She just picked up a gun and a sword that were lying on a metallic table nearby and sprinted towards the two Avengers. She crashed into them and sent them flying outside the room. The door slammed close behind her.
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