The Spider Is Down
Natasha is injured when on an assignment and is now unable to talk and do many other things. The rest of the avengers now help her get back to being the Black Widow
Chapter 1: Not another Day in the Office
It started out as an ordinary day. Well if you call saving the world an ordinary day. The avengers were fighting a lab experiment gone wrong. A young man had mixed the wrong chemicals to create a potion that had him end up as a mutant. This thing was fast. Steve tried attacking with his shield but he was basically useless. Thor was on Asgard and Clint was on his vacation so being a few Avengers down was difficult but they still had Hulk. Unfortunately Hulks tactics were to 'Smash' and it wasn't helping one bit... so Tony decided he needed distract the mutant while Natasha went in for the final take down. He tried to get the attention of the mutant but it wasn't working. Good thing Tony had rockets installed into his suit. As soon as that missile hit the mutant's back his full attention was on Tony. The time was ready. "Now!" Said Tony, Natasha jumped to stab him with a tranquilizer dart. The mutant, he was quick and punched her, right in the stomach. Natasha's body was flung onto a wall bricks smashed as she hit the wall. Her head was bleeding, and not just a little bit. "Natasha!" Said Tony who thankfully put a tranquilizer dart into the mutant. That was one problem sorted…The blood was thick and it was everywhere, they needed to get her out quick. Tony knew what to do immediately "You're going to be okay Natasha!" Tony picked up her up and Natasha saw Steve running towards her with Bruce who had just de-Hulked. That was the last thing she saw before she blacked out...
Natasha was took to Stark Tower's personal hospital ward which had all the supplies needed and more to help Natasha. Bruce was a doctor so he was already looking at Natasha's injuries on the way to the hospital. Tony had gone back to the tower ahead to make sure everything was prepare for when she got there. But they didn't even know how severe her damage was yet so Tony wasn't sure what to tell the rest of the doctors. Almost immediately, Pepper knew something was wrong. "What happened?" Pepper said as she put her hand on Tony's shoulder. "It's Natasha. She was injured on our assignment." Pepper was surprised and now very worried. Natasha was one of her friends and she was never injured or even missed a shot! "How bad?" Tony's frown wasn't a good sign. "It's bad" It was weird, Pepper thought to herself. Tony seemed so anxious and angry. He was never angry not at anything. He wasn't even making jokes. If this hit him hard then maybe it was very serious…
The elevator door opened about 15 minutes later with a team of medical specialists already at Natasha's side who was unconscious on a hospital bed, along with Steve and Bruce, who looked exhausted. He was telling the doctors several things at once and Pepper and Tony didn't get the chance to see what was going on as she was quickly took into a room. J.A.R.V.I.S. was showing scans of Natasha's brain and from Bruce's reaction, it didn't look good. Bruce kept focusing on one part of Natasha's brain.
It was hard at first but after a few more scans on Natasha's brain Bruce could conclude what was wrong with Natasha's brain. When she hit the wall the first thing that landed on it was her head. When her head hit the wall it made some serious damage… That was the easy part over, now he had to tell everyone. Before he could tell them, he needed to calm down. Bruce told everyone he needed five minutes to himself and went to his personal floor in Stark tower. They all had one. Well, everyone but Thor. No one really used their floor though. Everyone already had a place to stay, but it was always their If they needed it.
Bruce's heart was pounding. This wasn't just anyone, this was Natasha. His friend, his fellow Avenger. He was obviously upset and was finding it hard to keep his anger under control. The only think that was keeping him calm was thinking of Natasha's health and how horrible it would be with a Hulk sized footprint in the floor. After taking some stress relief pills, Bruce sat down on his bed and just felt like he was going to scream.
Steve out of all the Avengers present, was remaining very calm. Tony caught on to this and wondered why. "Cap? Why are you not freaking out like the rest of us?" Tony said wanting to know the answer. Steve smiled. "In the army, we learned many things about ourselves. One of those things was having to remain calm. Some of my friends were blown up and we couldn't just freak out about it, there was a war going on, we just had to keep going and take care of them. If they were injured we simply helped them without being upset or angry. To this day I still have the same tactic when someone I care about gets hurt" Steve didn't tell anyone the real truth. He was extremely upset. He loved Natasha and she wouldn't love him back. He had to keep his emotions on the inside.
"Wow" Tony said. "Thanks for the sob story Grandma, it was very touching" Tony laughed. Pepper saw what it did to Steve. Tony was always like this it was his way of getting through stressful situations "Tony that was really rude!" Pepper smiled at Steve. "I think staying calm is the best way to get through pain Steve" He smiled back. "It shows you have great self-control"
The elevator door opened and Bruce entered quickly back into the room where Natasha was being held. He quickly looked over the scans of her brain again and was now confident to tell everyone. He walked out slowly and opened his mouth, at first he didn't speak and the he said "Can you all come in here" Bruce gestured everyone towards his office.
When everyone was sat in his office he closed the door and put Natasha's X-rays on the wall. "Natasha is going to be okay." Pepper let out a sigh of relief. "But she's not completely okay…" Tony said knowing that it was too good be true. "Yeah." Bruce frowned.
"So what's wrong?" Pepper was very confused, she wasn't a doctor, but was it simple logic? Should she know what's going on?
"When she hit the wall it hit a certain side of her brain. It has damaged her Temporal Lobe and part of her Frontal Lobe."
"What does this mean though?" Steve began to become aggressive even after his statement from earlier.
"She won't be able to talk and possibly not walk. She will find it very hard to communicate with the rest of us as the Temporal Lobe controls how you understand things people say and how you talk."
Pepper began to cry. "Oh my god" Tony took Pepper into his arms almost at the point of crying himself. Steve hit the wall with his hands.
"What about the Avengers?" Tony asked.
"She won't be Black Widow for a while. The best thing you can do is be there for her. All of us…"