"Cap, Incoming from your left!" Tony shouted into his comm. Steve covered himself, using his shield, to stop himself from being hurt by the explosion caused by a grenade. The Avengers were at a warehouse by the docks, which was said to be housing military weapons. Hydra were stealing the most dangerous weapons, so naturally, Fury sent the Avengers to deal with them.
Clint was on a nearby rooftop, shooting arrows at the agents. Tony was in the air, in his iron man suit, using his repulsor beams to take them out. Steve, Thor, Bruce, in his Hulk form, and Natasha were taking them out from the ground. "We need to get into that warehouse! Widow, can you get in?" Cap asked. "I need a path cleared!" Black Widow responded. Hulk took this as an order and cleared a pathway for his teammate. Natasha thanked him and snuck into the building, and by doing so, losing all forms of communication with her team.
"Hawkeye, do you have eyes on Nat?" Steve asked after a few minutes of fighting. "Negative! What about you guys?" Clint asked. "Jarvis, scan the building for lifeforms." Stark ordered. The A.I was about to do as asked but the building exploded. "Widow! Widow do you copy?!" The archer yelled, recieving no answer. As all Hydra agents were unconscious, the team re-grouped around the, now, demolished building.
"Jarvis, scan for Nat!" Tony ordered. Jarvis responded "Miss Romanoff is in there, she seems to be stuck under the rubble and has gone through an interesting development." The men had looks of confusion plastered to their faces and Bruce, who transformed back after the fight, asked "What do you mean development?" Thor went to dig the woman from the rubble whilst the A.I informed them "Miss Romanoff has seemed to have been de-aged." The God came back with an unconscious eight year old with red hair in his arms. "I can confirm with the computer assistant that Lady Natasha has indeed reversed in age." Clint didn't know what to do so he did the only thing logical at that moment, he fainted.
"Well, legolas is down for a while. How an earth are we going to explain this director eye patch that one of his best and hottest agents got younger and looks like a primary school kid?" Tony wondered out loud. "Um yeah, I think we might have another issue." Bruce told the men. "Which is?" Steve asked. "We don't know about her past, for one thing. And two, what would she remember when she wakes up? I mean if she remembers all of us and has her adult memories then that's great but if she doesn't, we are going to have to improvise answers to the questions she's gonna be asking." The realisation dawned on the team, except Clint and Natasha for obvious reasons. "Ah, but Sir Barton knows Lady Natasha very well so he could answer the questions she has got!" Thor bellowed causing the girl in his arms to squirm a bit. The four go wide eyed for a moment until the kid goes limp again and they sigh in relief.
"Lets get to the quinjet. Thor, pass the little assasin to Capsicle there and then pick up the older assasin. We're going to the tower and then calling Fury." Iron man then walked off back to the jet and the others followed after doing as they were told. Once they were on the quinjet, Steve placed the eight year old girl on the medical bed and Thor placed Clint in a chair and strapped him in. "Incoming call from Director Fury!" Jarvis told them. "Answer it." Steve groaned out.
Fury: Mission report!
"Well hello to you to Director." Tony said sarcastically
Fury: Don't get sarcastic with me Stark! Put one of the agents on as they would actually do as they're told!
"Yeah, about that... ClintisunconsciosandNatashahasbeenturnedintoachildandwearegoingbacktoAvengerstotryandfixher." Tony rushed out.
Fury: WHAT! YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT ONE OF MY BEST AGENTS HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A FUCKING CHILD BY GOD DAMN HYDRA AGENTS?!
"Yes that is exactly what i'm saying."
Fury: I will be at the tower to see this for myself.
The call ended and it was only then, they realised the shouting woke both Clint and Natasha. "Oh crap!" Tony muttered amd Steve shot back "Language!" under his breath. No one seemed to know what to do at that moment. "Umm, hey little girl..." Bruce stammered. "Do you know your name?" The girl seemed confused at the kindness in his voice before answering "Natalia Romonova." "Shit." The archer muttered before asking "What do you remember before waking up here Natalia?" She looked at him with innocent eyes filled with fear. "Uncle Ivan pushed me to my bed and handcuffed me to it. He said that little girls needed to be punished for not following orders. He got this electrical rod and put it to my skin. I must've passed out due to the pain. I didn't want to kill her. She was my friend and because I didn't do it they did it to her instead and then punished me for disobediance." Then she started begging "Please don't take me back there! I hate it and them! Please don't send me back to red room." Her russian accent was strong and clear.
Steve came over to her and tried soothing her. "Shhh, It's ok. You're not going back there. We saved you from them and we will protect you. Bruce wants to check you for any injuries. Will you allow him to do that?" She nodded slowly and Cap looked towards the scientist, who nodded in return, and checked her. "Clint, Thor, Cap, over here please." They walked over to the billionare. "Alright birdboy, tell us what you know." Iron man said.
"I don't know much. I don't even think she ever told anything other than what scrapes the surface. Red Room was part of Hydra, they took Nat after they saw her jump from her second story bedroom window of her house, her parents were inside the burning house and she wanted to get help but her mistake was asking Ivan. He took her and put her with alot of other girls. Some were younger than her but the most were older. Nat was trained to become the Black Widow and she was the one to survive everything they threw at her. She was four when she became Hydra's property. She told me that they made her stonger, faster and more deadly than any other assasin. Her first kill would have been in a few weeks according to the timeline and then there would be more until she doesn't even flinch. And this is probably before they injected her with the syrum." Clint was stopped by all four men. Bruce finished his examination and injected little Nat with something to knock her out, he heard the last half of Clint's information. "What syrum?" Hawkeye looked around at the faces. "The woman has super soldier syrum in her veins. Well, a remake of it anyway." He exclaimed. "How do you think she heals faster?"
Avengers Tower
They placed little Natasha in one of the spare bedrooms as they don't know how many weapons were hidden the womans room. "Great. We have a child version of her friend, she doesn't remember us, Fury is going to murder us if we don't find a way to fix her. Oh, and we don't know much about her past other than her parents dying in a fire and her obviously surving that by jumping from a window, her being trained and tortured by Hydra but we don't know what it was like exactly other than the fact they loved handcuffs and electrical rods. Have I missed anything?" The playboy asked the group. "The fact that we don't know what happened in the warehouse to make Natasha an eight year old girl. But other than that, no." Bruce added.
"ALRIGHT YOU SONS OF BITCHES! WHERE IS SHE?" Fury yelled at the men. "Shh, she's sleeping in one of the guest bedrooms. We don't know how many weapons are in her actual room." Steve told the director. "Show me." He ordered. They led him to the bedroom and slowly opened the door. Fury peered in and saw the young assasin asleep in a bed that was way larger than her. "Shut the door." He then said to Barton, who then did as he was told. They all walked back to the lounge room and sat on the sofa's. "What happened?" One by one the Avengers replayed their story.
"So no one saw what happened?" They shook their heads. "And she doesn't remember anything but the Red Room?" They nod their heads. Fury rubbed his face in his hands and groaned. "Alright. If all she knows is Red Room then you all need to be hands on deck. Stark and Banner, not under any circumstances are you to go in the lab and before you protest, I will have S.H.I.E.L.D scientists work on this. You are all dismissed from missions until I say otherwise. She needs to know that she is safe here. Give her a new identity, say she is, I don't know, Barton's kid or something. Natasha Barton or Natasha Rogers. Treat her like a normal kid until we have something that will either bring back her future memories or actually turn her into an adult again." The Avengers lookes gobsmacked. "Whoa, hold up! We don't know how to look after kids let alone an assasin kid! We..." Tony was cut off by Fury saying "Treat her like your own kid. She has had a hell of a life. Worse than what you can imagine. If we can not find a way to fix this then... you will have to adopt her as your own. Welcome to parenthood. This is your new mission. Banner, send the blood to FitzSimmons. They are the only people I can trust with something as important as this." Bruce nodded his head and Fury left.
"Well, it looks like we have a daughter guys." Clint commented. "This is an interesting mission. Parenthood. Which one of us is going to let her take their last name?" Thor wondered out loud. "We all have enemies. But my name is less known than you guys. I'll let her have my last name." Clint pointed out to them. "Oh yeah, and what was her mothers name? What's the backstory? Uh uh she takes my name. Even though I am well known, my name can keep her safe by the amount of power I have. I am well known for having one night stands and I could say it was bound to happen eventually and the mother didn't want to keep her anymore or the mother was dying and sent her to me." The billionare stated. The others looked at him in suprise. "You put alot of thought into that. Anyone want to go against him?..." Bruce asked. After a few moments of silence, Thor declared "Congratulations brother Tony, you have a daughter." Everyone laughed.
I'm sorry if Natasha is speaking english, I don't know russian and I do not really trust google translate. Natasha was four when she went into Red Room. She's a quick learner. I will try to explain more in the next chapter!