(OC POV)
"You find anything?" I asked Natasha as I leaned over her shoulder, the women humming in a negative as she continued to type. I looked up at Steve and Barton entered the room, Steve handing a tablet to Thor which made the god frown in frustration.
"What's this?" Tony said as he came up behind me to see what they were looking at, Thor slamming the tablet in Tony's chest and looking at Steve.
"A message. Ultron killed Strucker." The captain said as everybody gathered around in confusion at his words, my eyes glancing at the tablet to see the mentioned man in his cell with the words 'Peace' written in his blood on the wall.
"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us." Tony said which made me smack his arm, his gaze turning to mine in surprise though I merely frowned at him.
"This is a smoke screen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?" Natasha said almost angrily as she finally turned to the rest of us, my hand falling to her shoulder as I gave my old friend an encouraging smile.
"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss." Steve said as he glanced at me, a soft smile on my face before I watched Natasha as she turned back to the computer.
"Yeah, I bet he…Yeah. Everything we had on Strucker's been erased." Nat she said which made us all look at the screen to see that the files had indeed been erased, an agitated sigh leaving me as I leaned back away from her chair and rubbed my temples while my necklace pulsed with life under my shirt.
"Not everything." The captain said and then we were looking through the paper files that we got from S.H.I.E.L.D, my eyes narrowing in irritation when Thor kept throwing the files that he went through behind him without care.
"Known associates. Baron Strucker had a lot of friends." Steve said as he set down a box of files on the main table we were at, the team glancing at the files which matching grimaces.
"Well, these people are all horrible." Bruce said as he pulled out a file and flipped through it, Tony leaning closer to him with a confused look on his face.
"Wait. I know that guy. From back in the day. He operates off the African coast. Black market arms." The genius said before taking the file from the doctor's hands, flipping through it to get more information from it. He handed Thor a picture of the man from surveillance footage, Steve giving him an exasperated look from the information he just gave. "There are conventions. Alright? You meet people. I didn't sell him anything. He was talking about finding something new, a game-changer. It was all very Ahab." Tony said as he looked back down at the file, Steve shaking his head in irritation which cause me to laugh quietly.
"This?" Thor said as he pointed to the picture, Tony and Steve leaning closer to look at it while I continued looking at the rest of the files with Nat.
"Ah, it's a tattoo, I don't think he had it." Tony said as I pulled out a file and glanced through it, sighing as I found nothing of importance which made Natasha hip check me with a small smile.
"Those are tattoos, this is a brand." The god said which made us all look up, Bruce taking the picture and downloading it into the computer to see if he could find the origin.
"Branding is a form of punishment. Whatever he did must have been bad." I murmured to Steve as I stood to his right, Thor murmuring in agreement from his left as he watched the doctor. The captain looked at me with a frown, glancing at Tony who stood next to me before shooting me a soft smile.
"Oh, yeah. It's a word in an African dialect meaning "thief". In a much less friendly way." Bruce said as he turned to look at us, my head tilting as I moved to the computer and looked closer at the brand.
"What dialect?" Steve said from behind me as I continued looking at the brand, my eyes taking me to the info on the side of the screen to see if it had the dialect.
"Oh god. It's from Wakanda." I said as I turned to the others, catching gazes with Natasha as we both winced at the new information.
"If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods…." Tony trailed off as he leaned closer to the captain, said man frowning as he shook his head slightly.
"I thought your father said he got the last of it." Steve murmured with a confused frown, all of us leaning closer to hear what they were saying.
"I don't follow. What comes out of Wakanda?" Bruce said as he got up from his chair and moved to join us, Steve turning to glance at his shield as Tony stared at the doctor.
"The strongest metal on Earth." The genius said before we all turned to look at the shield as well, Nat sighing and shaking her head while I mentally agreed with her.
"Where is this guy now?" Steve said as he turned to look at Tony, Clint's gaze catching mine in confusion while I merely shook my head at his obliviousness sometimes.
"Off the African coast. I'll put the exact coordinates into the jet." Tony said before leaving the room quickly to do as he said, Steve sighing before turning to look at the rest of us.
"Alright, let's move Avengers. We need to be there yesterday." The captain barked out and suddenly the room was a flurry of movement, everybody leaving to get geared up as quickly as possible.
"I'm coming with you." I said as I stood in front of Steve as he moved to leave, a small smile coming to his face as he tilted his head like he was considering it.
"Then move it." He said with a wink before brushing past me and getting ready himself, a soft blush coming to my face at his flirtatiousness before I did the same. Running to Natasha's room I burst in the door, guns and ammo getting thrown at me before I even asked.
"I'm gonna need my swords, Nat." I said as I clipped the weapons to my thighs along with the ammo, the woman pointing to her closet wordlessly as she zipped up her catsuit. I ran to said room and opened up the secret compartment in the back of it, sighing in relief when I pulled out the long black box that held my prized possessions. Lifting off the top, I grinned happily when I spotted to twin blades and their black hilts. In a flurry of movement, I was dressed in my own catsuit with my cloak clipped on and my blades hidden beneath it.
"Let's go." Nat said before grabbing my arm and dragging me out of the room behind her, my eyes rolling before I simply went with the flow and let her drag me.
"Barton! Move it!" I yelled with a playful wink as we ran by his room, the man shouting unsavory words back as he chased after us. We skidded into the hanger, looking around to see the only other person there was Tony.
"Nice to see you all acting like kids in a time of crisis." The genius said as he finished shrugging into his Iron Man suit, my eyes rolling as I strutted up to him and set my finger on his chest.
"Oh, you're one to talk Tony. Shall I bring up the Helicarrier incident?" I murmured quietly enough that no one else heard me, the genius narrowing his eyes before suddenly putting on a bright smile.
"Well, at least it lightens the mood!" he said overly cheerfully before shooting me a glare and stalking into the jet, Barton laughing and patting my back as he walked past me to follow the billionaire.
"I don't know how you do it, but you always were able to shut him up effectively." Nat said with a small grin as she moved to stand at my side, both of us glancing behind us to see the rest of the team filing in.
"It's a gift." I said as my eyes caught Steve's in time to see him assessing my outfit, a blush crossing his cheeks as he realized he was caught which made me grin.