"Agent Romanoff, you go in through here while Agent Barton, you give her covering fire from here." The deep voice of Steve Rogers, otherwise known as Captain America, could be heard from all parts of their undercover little air plane.
There were eight people around a small table with blueprints and maps laid out across it. Four of which were slightly above average soldiers who managed to make the cut onto the Captain's team. The other four were above average human beings.
Iron Man in his gold and red suit stood across from Steve Rogers, gazing idly at a some layout he held in his hands for a computer system. Clint Barton stood to his right, listening clearly to what Steve Rogers was telling him. After all he was trained to be a field agent and he knew how to listen to orders. Natasha Romanoff stood to the right of Steve and was nodding uninterestedly.
They all knew the plan. Going over the plan again was more of a precautionary than a necessity.
"Tony, while Agent Romanoff and Agent Barton take care of here you will enter through the main window here and-" Steve started his orders as he pointed to various spots on the map, he didn't get far though as Tony quickly interrupted him.
"Shut down the whole systems mainframe from the command center, yada yada." Iron Man finished for him. "I'm well aware of the strategy Cap'n." He said with a roll of his eyes. Captain America merely gazed at him with a dark look. While Steve may have had a lot of respect for the man's brilliance, he disliked his attitude, his lack of respect for everyone around him, and his general disregard for all rules whether they were for his safety or the safety of others.
Steve remembered when Director Fury informed him and Agent Romanoff that Tony Stark would be accompanying him. He hadn't been able to hide his surprise nor had Agent Romanoff been able to contain her arguments to that.
While Tony may have many positive skills that were good to have around, his lack of ability to follow orders caused a problem in military situations such as this. Fury had then explained that Tony would be the only one capable of shutting down the highly advanced computer system this particular base had.
This base was located deep in the backwoods country of Germany, in an isolated area towards the border of Switzerland. Their orders were simple, stay out of radar, get in, shut the base down, and get out.
The terms of Germany's agreement to such a procedure were not well known to any of the members of the party, but the Director insisted that the weapons and computer technology this particular base was playing around with was highly dangerous and needed to be shut down immediately.
So the team rallied up and accepted what it was. The only one of them that may have had any real idea what they were going into might have been Tony Stark, but he wasn't about to mention it to any of the others. For once he was tight-lipped about knowing something that the others didn't, either that or he didn't actually know.
"Tony this isn't a drill and this isn't New York. This is a military operation that needs to go as close to possible to the plan we've laid out. We'll have a very small group of people and a very limited window of time." Steve Rogers spoke with a bit of agitation to this tone, but the message he wanted to get across was very well noticeable. "Don't screw this up."
He chose to ignore the eye rolling Tony responded with in light of the fact that the rear doors to the aircraft had opened, signaling that they were indeed here.
The plan was simple. They'd arrive in the dead of night with darkness as their cover and parachute in from a few thousand feet up.
Romanoff and Barton would sneak in from the right side of the compound while Tony created just enough of a distraction to keep the attention of the enemy without giving away who he was or why he was there, just something to distract them beyond the front gates.
As soon as Romanoff and Barton were in they would quickly and stealthily take out the guards to the right of the base and get underground in the base before Tony would follow.
Meanwhile, Captain would enter the left of the compound over the fence and take care of the left side of guards and the front guards, letting in his four teammates. Two of whom would stay on the upside of the compound while the other two went underground with the Captain from the opposite side that Romanoff, Barton, and Iron Man went into.
Once inside those two were to check for any captives as they had received intel of kidnapped scientists and researchers who may still be held prisoner.
As soon as it was confirmed that there were either no prisoners or that they had been evacuated safely, the other three teammates on the opposite side who were steadily working their way to the main command center would put their side of the plan into effect. Tony was to download all the information onto a hard drive so that they could have the intel and then erase everything, terminate the communications grid, shut down the system's mainframe, and set the compound's self-destruct timer.
Everything was relatively cut and dry.
Not only was it cut and dry, but it was actually going as plan.
The team jumped from the plane undetected and began their descent. Even Captain had to have a parachute at this distance, but they were a safe enough distance away that once they deployed their pitch black parachutes, you couldn't see a difference between the black of the parachute and the black of the sky behind them without shining a spotlight on it.
Once the team was safely on the ground a couple miles behind the base, they split up and went in opposite directions around the sides of the base, one left and one right.
There was little to be said from any team member with the exception of Tony, who spent his time running whispering impatient comments on how it would be infinitely easier to just let him go in guns blazing and just finish it off easily.
However much he may have wanted to blow everything out of the water, Director Fury made it explicitly clear that they were to be as undercover as possible so that there was no time to send out any warnings to any other bases. Not even Tony could deny the logic in that. The less that Hydra knew, the better. If all they had to let them know that they had been attacked was a pile of dead bodies and a blown up compound, that would give them less to go off of when preparing for Shields next attack.
As the teams reached their designated spot, they sat in waiting for an extra few minutes as Tony continued on around to the front of the base.
He was there simply to be a distraction, so all he had to do was go rustle some trees around. Any form of wild animal at the front of their base would be just enough to catch their eyes. As he used the suits strength to shake some of the bigger branches from in front of the compound and hid in the brush, he commed the team.
"If your planning on breaking in, I'd do it now. I've got their attention as much as I can without being shot at." Tony spoke in his typical sarcastic tone, but with a slight sense of urgency underlying it.
"Acknowledged." Natasha responded curtly. "Moving forwards."
"Confirmed." Captain Rogers responded, he moved forward the same as theirs. "Tony, retreat and head back around to Barton and Romanoff." He added as he quietly jumped up the tall fence that bordered the base.
While Captain Rogers may have had an easy time climbing up the fence due to his enhanced strength and abilities, Natasha and Clint chose to do things a little differently. Clint acting as a human launch pad, knelt on one knee facing away from the fence and clasping his hands together as a step stool. Natasha came running towards him stepped into his hand, he stood up and she jumped at the same time, throwing her up to catch the top part of the fence and pull herself up and over. While the fence had spikes on the top of it's posts, there was no barbed wire and she was easily able to avoid being scratched.
She quickly noted the two guards walking down away from her direction towards the back of the base and pulled her silenced pistol, quickly shooting two shots in their direction and leapt down.
"Clear." She spoke to her ear piece. Barton shot a quick arrow that acted as an anchor to pull him up to the top of the fence and then he jumped down beside her. At this point Tony had reached them and just briefly used his suit's propulsion system to give him a boost over the fence and land on the other side.
All three of them moved straight forwards to the building in front of them that led underground.
Everything was going as planned, at the rate they were going it was looking to be an in and out job. Fifteen more minutes passed and Captain was telling them over the ear piece that he and his two soldiers had obtained a couple of hostages and were heading out of the compound now.
However, as soon as Tony plugged in his hard drive and began downloading the files contained on the computer, a woman field agent came from the hallway into the main compound.
She was wearing all black, very similar to Natasha's skin tight outfit, only hers were loser fitting in some areas to allow better mobility, or at least better comfort. Looked more as though she was wearing cargo pants with pockets to fit things in rather than skin tight latex. She had a long sleeved black shirt on and a black pistol strapped to her outer thigh. Aside from that she had nothing in her hands.
Her hair was thrown in a bun and it was hard to see the color of it in this dark lighting. The moment she saw what was going on she leapt into action. Beginning immediate hand-to-hand combat with Natasha who just so happened to be closest. Clint fired off a couple arrows, but it was as though the woman knew exactly where to move to be missed and even with her slight distraction of exchanging blows with Natasha, he couldn't hit her.
She swung right and Romanoff threw up her left arm and swung with her own right arm.
It went on that way for a few minutes just blocking and swinging until the woman got the upperhand and managed to swipe Natasha's legs out from underneath her, but it didn't last long because Clint had slung his bow on his back and was now close enough to throw punches of his own.
The noises they made must have been heard from over the com because next thing they knew Captain was asking what was going on.
"What's the situation?" No one answered at first, so he tried again. "Romanoff? Barton? Report in!"
"Chill Cap!" Tony said hurriedly, fingers swiping furiously across the keyboard, brow furrowed in concentration. "Had an uninvited guest join us, seems she doesn't want to leave our party." He added nonchalantly.
"She?" You could hear the surprise. Captain Rogers had accepted that women played more important roles in society now, but he was still surprised to hear of a woman in this particular base. In the Hydra bases most of the active members were strictly male, it seemed odd that there would be a field agent who was female. Shoving those thoughts aside and focusing on the matter at hand he asked, "How long until you are done? We don't have much longer. ETA on the plane is five minutes."
"Not much longer, but it will be a lot faster if you just let me work." Tony responded agitated.
Meanwhile, Clint and Natasha struggled against with the woman not quite capable of getting the upperhand. She had just punched Clint with enough force to cause him to stumble back with blood dripping from his chin, when she immediately turned to block the punch that Natasha was throwing her way. Leaving her back exposed, Clint rushed forward just a second faster than she could turn around to respond from grabbing her arms and pulling her against his chest holding her arms at an awkward angle behind her back.
Natasha came forward ready to knock her completely out and end this fight, but she was prepared for that and using Clint as a post, she jumped up and propelled her feet outwards sending Natasha flying back into the opposite wall as well as throwing Clint backwards.
The two went tumbling across the floor and he lost her grip. She rolled over backwards landing on her feet in a crouching position before leaping forwards at Clint who had just managed to get standing. Stopping only once she had slammed him into the same wall that Natasha was still leaned against trying to regain her breath.
"Tony, anytime now would be nice." Natasha growled out through clenched teeth as she used the desk to her right to pull herself up and jump back into the fight.
"Just about there." He said as he finally finished hacking the codes for closing the system down and setting the self-destruct mechanism. As soon as he slipped in the code he'd gained, the system asked him to confirm, he spared a brief glance over at the three fighting figures before slamming his metal covered finger on the enter button, watching the screen go black before booting up a red self-destruct timer.
The response was instant. The base alarms began sounding and red caution lights blinking in every corner and the woman who had fervently been throwing or blocking punches, fell to the ground screaming and clutching her head.
Her response was so quick that Clint and Natasha slammed into each other in the space where her body should have been and Tony threw his arm up ready to fire in surprise.
No one knew what to do. The wailing from this woman was so loud and torturous that they all froze in surprise.
"What is that noise?" A pained voice spoke from Jared Timber, one of the four soldiers that had come for the mission.
"It's the uninvited guest." Said Tony drily. "Apparently, she didn't like our housewarming gift." Nobody appreciated his dead sense of humor.
Through the screaming there were some unintelligible mumbling as sobs began to form from this hysterical woman. It was like a switch had been flipped, where a strong, powerful fighting machine had once stood, now was a crying, wailing woman who was capable of nothing other than being upset.
"Listen to her Tony! That isn't from her failing to stop us." Natasha responded uneasily, eyes wide with surprise at her, hands clutched over her ears.
"Please make it stop!" They managed to hear one coherent sentence, with that one sentence she repetitively spoke between screams clutching her hands over her ears and putting her head between her knees. "Just make it stop, turn it off!"
"She's in pain!" Clint spoke with surprise.
"Well whatever she is, just grab her and get out of there!" Captain's voice answered quickly, "By my count, you have just under four minutes before that thing blows and even less before our plane takes heads out. The whole base is headed your direction by now."
"Fuck this!" Romanoff yelled, grabbed one of her holstered pistols and brought the butt end down on top of the screaming womans head. Silencing her immediately. "Alright let's go." She said looking at the surprised faces of Clint and Tony.
Iron Man came flying over and grabbed her with his metal arms before running out the door that all three had come in, Natasha and Barton hot on his heels. As soon as they made it through the long corrider and out of the bunker, Tony took off to the air, figuring he could just as easily fly out of there. The special Shield air craft hovered over the exit they'd just taken and Tony landed just inside the aircraft.
Clint quickly turned the notch on his arrows to a latch, grabbed one and shot it at the edge of the aircraft. He wrapped an arm around Natasha who in turn wrapped her arms around his shoulders and the arrow he'd loosed pulled them up and into the aircraft.
Once on board the plane took to the skys to get out of radar of anyone who might come to figure out the explosion. It wasn't long before the team was staring out the back end of the airplane when red lit up the night sky as the base was laid to waste by it's own equipment.
Captain closed the doors on the explosion as they flew to safety.
"Okay, so who is that?" He asked as he turned around to look at the unconscious woman who was draped across Tony's arms. The three team members who'd witnessed the whole thing exchanged glances at each other briefly, trying to form a response.
"I don't know." Is all Natasha could come up with.
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