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Natasha was feeling sick and tired. She counted the amount of time she was stuck underneath this hell hole. She lost count for a while, but she estimated that she have been here for at least a few hours. Natasha felt naked without her weapons and her hands bonded together, but she knew she was too weak to go against whatever she was going against if she were to escape now. She kept her cool and tired to focus on the bigger picture.
Suddenly there was an explosion that occur the level above hers…
At the Avengers Tower
"Jarvis put up camera 8 during the fight!" Tony ordered.
The camera had managed to capture Natasha being shot by the dart again and was brought out by a few soldiers.
"This doesn't makes senses, even for Natasha to be falling for the same trick twice" Clint said
"But if this was to be look at another angle, why Natasha? And whoever he is, that is one great hatred to keep on trying." Sharon said.
"I am more focused about the dart that was shot. We all seen Natasha walked away with 3 bullets to her. But that dart got to pack one hell of a poison to cause her immediate effect." Bruce comment.
"This is starting to get even crazier than crazy. I would run more test on the dart, with Bruce. The rest of you continue the search." Stark ordered.
At The Basement
"[Whats going?!]"
"[Secure the main door]"
"[His too fast!]"
There shouting everywhere, obvisouly someone had managed to break into the lab or whatever this shit was suspose to be for. Natasha took this chance and began unscrewing the metal chain that bounded her limps. She bited her lips with all her strength and started spitting them out.
"[Arghh..I am hurt…]" Natasha whispered enough for the two guards watching her to hear it.
One of them went nearer to her, but the other focused on pointing the rifile at Natasha.
"[What should we do?]"
"[Are you sure she isn't faking?]"
The both guards questioned each other. It was just a split second when the both guards turned to make eye contact. Natasha hooked the metal chain that was restricting her movements on to the first guard and broke his neck. The second guard started shooting at her but she took the first guard as her human shield. She took a pistol from the first guard's wrist, before delivering a headshot to the second one. She dragged her tired and injured body towards the second guard to retrieve the keys to finally unlock herself.
It was at least a few hours that means that her organs were starting to fail. Natasha realizes that she might not have the strength to actually escape all the way. She hoping whoever or whatever that caused the explosion was because they knew she was here and was here for her.
The door was blasted opened, Natasha pointed the gun she had towards the door and was about to shot when…
"[Natalia its me! You are safe now..]"
Its was James. Natasha let go of the breath she was holding, and felt relief. Before another thought strucked her.
"[You shouldn't be here! That's what he wanted! To lure you!]"
"[There is no time, we got get out of here]" James said, wrapping his human arms around her waist to help her up, before giving her a semi hug.
"[There is no way we can make it out alive. I am in no condition to fight an army right now, and we are walking into a trap, there is no way else but to do this….]" Natasha whispered
At the Avengers Tower
"Mr Stark it seems that Agent Romanoff's SHIELD tracer have been switched on" Jarvis alerted
"I am on my way, alert the rest and sent the coordinates to Fury" Tony said grabbing his Iron Man helmet.
At the Basement
"[You sure this would work?]" James asked, firing another round towards the never ending soldiers.
"[This is the best shot we have and we are taking it]" Natasha said punching and disarming some soldiers.
Natasha's body was getting weaker any moment, James could see it. She was actually fighting on autopilot mode. Soon the pair made it to the rooftop.
"[He has it James, the poison, the fail switch. He knew what that could do to me… You got to be careful, we didn't even know he was still alive..]" Natasha whispered, sitting at a corner knowing that she was about to faint anytime.
"[I promise that you make it, so you better stay alive! And we'll kicked that son of the bitch ass together!]" James said holding her head and out it on his tight as a cushion.
"[I am…tired…I just…wanna..go home]" Natasha struggled her eye lid getting heavier every second, before she started coughing out blood.
"[The poison, its attacking your organs! I will get you of this alive, I promised, and then we'll go home!]" James shouted.
"Freeeze! Whoever you are! Keep your hands away from Natasha!" Hawkeye said pointing his bow at James.
"[Your team is here, you hear me! We are gonna get out of this alive!]" It was too late Natasha had already fainted. Her face was as pale as the Russia snow. Her internal bleeding was very serious; some of her organs had already failed.
"I mean no harm! I need the medic right now!" James shouted feeling a little weird having the need to switch to English.
"Iron Man! Get help! Natasha is injured! What have you done to her?!" Hawkeye shouted at James to get away from Natasha. Helicopter was starting to arrive, Natasha was given help.
"We are losing her!"
"Get us to the helicarrier! Fast!"
Medics were shouting all over the place, and the Avengers had taken James into custody.
Back at SHEILD base
"What have you done to her?" Nick Fury questioned the Winter Soldier like a criminal.
"I have done nothing but save her!" James shouted.
"You have got quite a resume here. You are a legend, killed more people in the war then the Russia army ever did. Why chose to be captured by the Avengers?"
"I wasn't captured! I choice to come in. You are making a huge mistake here, only I can help Natasha and if anything happens to her you will get to see how I earned my name!"
"Who are you and what is your real name? You better come clean, Natasha is still in danger and I suggest that you tell me everything you know."
"What I know is that I don't owe you anything!" James slammed the table with rage.
Behind the one way mirror in the room, stood the while Avengers
"You still believe his Bucky Cap?" Iron Man asked.
"He bears the resemblance, but the attitude is not him at all. Something must have happened after his fall." Steve said.
They were then interrupted by Sharon entering the room
"Hows Natasha?" Clint asked.
"She is stable at the moment, but she is still in danger unless they can stop the poison." Sharon updated the whole team.
An Hour Later
Fury seems to have given up trying to force any information out of the Winter Soldier, and he ordered James to be locked at a top security jail cell. But that didn't stop Steve from visiting…
"Who are you? Do you remember?" Steve asked gently standing at the other side of the jail cell.
"Like I said it before and I will said it again, I owe you nothing! Now unless you are here to help me get to Natalia I suggest you piss off!" James said hoplessly sitting on the floor.
"Its not that you don't want us to know who are you. Its because you don't know who yourself. But I know, I can help!"
"I never needed it! Right now I don't care if I am the President of America or a worker in Mcdonalds. Right now without Natasha I am nothing!"
"If you really care about Natasha as much as you clam to. Then give us something to work on, before its too late." Steve said.
"And what makes you think I would trust you?"
"Its simple, Natasha trust us to have her back during a fight, you just have to trust us. And I would trust you"
There was a moment of silence, as if James have refused to speak to him. Steve turned and was about to leave before James spoke again.
"It's a fail switch. The posion is targeted to the serum that she was injected with. "
"And what can cure that posion?"
"Nothing anybody can think of, not even Tony Stark. But I can."
"The liquid you injected into Natasha the first time she was infected with"
"Ya, but that was just stage 1."
"You give me your trust, now I am giving you mine" Steve said it unlocking the metal wall of the jail cell.
