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Clint walked from his room when his alarm went off at eight. He went along the upper floor railing where the rooms were kept. He was tempted to peak into the room next to see if Natasha was up or not yet but he didn't want to seem too attached to her. He went down to the floor of the factory and was confused to see only a few workers on the actual floor.
"Sir," a man saw him and waved him over. "Come with me," he beckoned and led him to a hidden stairwell. Clint was taken into a basement and was almost paralyzed. All around him were fighting areas. People were fighting other people, they were beating the living daylights out of each other. Over to one side he saw a few doctors trying to bandage up several hurting victims. He looked around different arenas and was shocked to see Natasha in one of them. He was overly stressed as he watched her get hit a few times. She was good at dodging but he hadn't seen her give any offensive blows.
"Most of our girls are our punch bags. They don't fight back much and most of them can't. They're weak and sometimes we lose them. We'll get you in a ring and you can start practicing."
"Practicing for what?" Clint asked his fist clenched.
"For anything, the world is training. Other worlds are coming, we have to be ready."
Clint was surprised, "how do you know that?"
"Let's just get you into a ring," the guy said looking wearily at Clint. Clint nodded realizing his questions were raising suspicion. He was put into a ring with a girl who had a white streak in her hair.
"Can't I fight a guy?" he asked as she stood in the other corner. "I'd like to improve my skills."
"Everyone starts with the girls, then they advance."
"Hey!" a guy suddenly yelled. Everyone looked over to see a girl with short red hair beating her male sparing partner to a pulp. The guy was screaming and yelling and she had him backed into a corner. She jumped from the ring as people rushed towards her and scaled some railing to the second floor before running out.
Clint was stunned at her exit and was definitely worried about her, but he had a mission and it had to come first, like always.
He tried to go easy on the girl but she was persistent, they all seemed to be very insistent and have a lot of stamina. He ended up doing more damage than Clint would have liked before she pulled herself from that match.
After a full day of fighting he was allowed to go back to his room. He peaked around the corridors and slipped out his window before he was caught. He went into the town and sighed pulling his phone out and calling Fury. He made his report on the situation. Let him know that they were making underground fighting areas. That they used the women in their group as punching bags. Then when he couldn't put it off anymore he told him that Natasha had snuck in and then run off. He told her that he lost her, again.
When Fury began yelling at him he snapped his phone shut and went out into the nearest town. He was looking for her and he was trying to think of where she might go. He had a long search in front of him and he didn't have a lot of ideas on where to start.