Chapter 10: Clint and Natasha waited a few minutes to see if Fury would help them, but as time went on their patience and faith with him slowly died out. "He's not gonna help, it's been almost an hour." Natasha said checking her nails.
"Maybe they're on their way? It takes a long time to put a team together, especially on short notice."
"Not if you're Nick Fury." Natasha gave the fake tree a hard thud. "Come on Clint, we're wasting time, for all we know Hans is probably tearing parts of Ana off as we speak."
Clint stared at Natasha. "Did you get attached?"
Natasha looked down. "That's not the point-"
Clint cut her off. "That's always the point Tasha." He walked over to her and put his arms on her shoulders. "You can't befriend anyone in this game, everyone we know is at risk and we have to cut off all emotions."
"Like the way it is with me and you?" Natasha stared daggers into Clint's eyes.
"That's different and you know it, we can protect ourselves."
Natasha let out a small chuckle. "Except when it comes to mind control, apparently." She looked up at Clint, whose eyes were full of guilt. "I'm sorry Clint, I didn't mean it that way."
"Yeah you did, but it's ok." He put his back to the fake tree. "I was weak."
Natasha tried to butt in but he lifted his hand to her lips. "No, it's true and I want you to know that I will do everything I possibly can to make sure it never happens again."
She wanted to hug him or give him a long kiss, but she was on the job and didn't want to show too much emotion, especially if any enemy agents were watching them. "It could have happened to anyone and I know you were just worried about how close I was getting to Anastasia. Don't, I'm not attached."
Natasha was lying to her partner and he knew it, but he knew that she would deny liking Anastasia because she didn't even know that she liked her yet. But Clint was glad that she was determined to keep her emotions in check, she was a sharper killer that way.
"Fuck it, let's go." Clint said exasperatedly.
Natasha looked at him quizzically. "What? You mean, you're done waiting?"
"What the hell? The back-up can catch up if they have to." Clint gave Natasha a wink.
"Ok, but how do we get inside without getting shot to bits?"
Clint stared at the small compact elevator inside the outer armoured tube and then stared at his bow. "I've got a plan."
Natasha hacked into the elevators code pass to open the doors. "You sure this will work?" Natasha asked with worry.
"Sure, I think." Clint stood back and fired three arrows into the elevator and sent it down to Hans's bunker. "Quick jump on top."
The two assassins jumped on the elevator as it zoomed down to the bunker. Clint let out a chuckle as they travelled downward. "What's so funny birdboy?"
"Nothing, I just really hope that I was right about this soviet tank armour, first time I ever hoped the Soviets were right about something."
"You mean you don't know?!" Natasha looked shocked.
"I thought you were expert on Russian tech?" Clint teased her.
They got to bunker in seconds and the sound of bullets rattled inside the elevator. "Jesus they're really giving it hell aren't they?" Clint asked.
"Maybe they thought it was the Hulk coming?" Natasha said with a sly grin.
"After you get through with them, I'm sure the Hulk would be a welcome change." Clint held his finger over one of the buttons on his bow. "Ready? Three, two, one!"
After the gun fire stopped Clint pressed one of the buttons on his bows and three load explosions went off under them. They elevator buckled slightly but it held very nicely. "Huh. I guess us Russians are reliable." Natasha said with a wink.
After the explosion, they could only hear emergency sirens and a scream of pain. Clint used one of his termite arrows on the roof of the elevator and melted a hole for him and Natasha to enter through. "Ladies first?" Natasha then pushed Clint in, he almost landed on his head. "OW!"
There was a lot of smoke from the built in extinguishers on the ceiling. They made sure to put every agent that wasn't killed in the blast out of their misery by slicing their throats. One of the agents had a suppressor on their machinegun. "Waste not what not I suppose." Natasha said after putting the suppressor on her Uzi.
They walked quickly through the halls and tried to find some sort of laboratory or research centre, but the bunker was like a huge maze.
"Dammit! We must have passed this hall 4 times already!" Natasha yelled.
"Alright, we'll split up, I'll go to the left and you check the right." Clint started walking to the left.
"Clint wait, do you think that's a good idea, I mean splitting up, really?"
"Hmm I guess, if you're afraid I'll find Hans first." He winked at her and ran to his left, He knew that the only way Natasha would split up is if he challenged her.
"You're on Barton!" She bolted in the opposite direction as her partner.
She wasn't bothered about Hans's location if she was entirely honest, all she wanted was Anastasia, but whenever she would think about it she always shook her head and paid no attention to her thoughts, just her instincts.
She ran and attacked any HYDRA agents like a panther. Quick, messy and precise, that was her most notable method, a method that Clint noticed when he first tracked her down almost 6 years ago.
She was enjoying using an automatic weapon for once, not caring about the clean up or noise, she was free to play with her prey as she wished.
Clint put his arrows away for now, he took out his Glock and searched out the halls, there was never any trouble, he was always a step ahead of his opponent and a much better shot.
He took out three agents by ricocheting two shots.
He may not have found Hans but he did find the security room very quickly. After snapping the camera guard's neck he scanned the monitors like a hawk. He talked into his earpiece "Nat, can you hear me? Natasha come in."
His earpiece wasn't working and he was having trouble finding Natasha on the monitors. "Come on, where are you? Ahh ha!" He found her kneeing a guard in the chin and knocking out a few teeth.
Natasha threw away her empty Uzi and took out her two handguns. "Clint can you hear me?" all that came through was rustling. "Either you're walking through leaves or there's no connection down here, figures." She walked through a few doors and checked anything that locked remotely like a cell until a voice came over the microphones above them.
"Agents Romanoff and Barton, it's so nice that you could visit, but I'm afraid you're without an invitation and you have been nothing but rude since you arrived! Perhaps I should ask Anastasia what I should do with you two, well Ana?"
He held her by the back of the neck and put a gun on the back of her neck. "You two should leave I...I don't want to say anymore." She looked up at Hans.
Natasha was in shock. What the fuck has he done to her? You sick bastard.
"That's enough now Ana, you're safe here, just tell the bad people to go back home that's all they have to do." Anastasia was silent for a while. "Now Ana you're just being a rude little girl. I said tell them to leave." He pressed the gun harder.
"...no! Natasha please he-" The sound of a smack came from the microphone and made Natasha and Clint flinch.
"You sick bastard, you're goin down." Natasha ran through the halls and killed anyone that slowed her down. I am gonna strangle that mother-fucker with his own organs.Clint heard everything on the microphone too and it enraged him past his breaking point, he looked at the monitors for another way to the upper levels and found a very small elevator that looked like a shuttle. "Gotcha." He ran through the halls with very little regard for his safety, he wouldn't care if he ran into a thousand other agents, in that moment all he wanted was Hans in a body bag with five arrows in him.
I'm coming to get you, you mother-fucker!
Thirty minutes earlier:"Dr Metzger? We have two unidentified agents entering through the elevator, they seem to be dressed in Shield gear and are coming for you."
Hans walked over to the monitors and grinned at the sight of the Black Widow and Hawkeye finishing off the victims of the elevator explosion.
"They're coming for the girl. Good."
"Sir what do we do, they're coming this way?" The HYDRA agent was sweating with fear and wanted to run out of the room. "Sir?"
Hans put his hand on the agents shoulder and give him a warm smile. "You will stay here and slow them down, I have faith that you will keep me safe." Hans slowly walked out of the room with two guards and went to a one man elevator. "Don't let him leave, you are all here until death. Hail HYDRA."
In a split second the elevator shut and travelled to one of the upper floors.
He walked over to the human testing lab, where he freed Anastasia from her chains and placed a gun in the back of her head. "It's ok my dear, I'm not going to hurt you, I want to protect you from the evil people in this world. People like Black Widow and Hawkeye, or should I say, agents Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton."
Anastasia had tears in her eyes and was hiding them from Hans, she didn't want to appear weak in front of him, men like him fed off off other peoples pain.
"It's alright my dear, you know you remind me of my daughter, she was beautiful just like you." Hans grabbed her face and made her look him in the eyes. "There will be no more tears soon darling, I won't let them get you. I'm going to call you Ana would you like that, Ana?"
He placed a small insect looking device on the space where her spine met her neck. Anastasia let out a whimper in pain. "You're strong now Ana, you can protect yourself, the way that daddy couldn't." He pressed a button on a small remote her had hidden in his pocket. "Now you'll listen and be safe, walk." After his command Anastasia walked in front of him but was still crying and screaming trying to stop herself.
He walked briskly behind her and kept the gun aimed at all times. "Good girl, it's not so bad when you stop resisting, now walk to the main monitoring room."
She did as she was told, she could feel the device on the back of her neck pinch her nerves into moving her legs and arms, she wasn't in control of her own body anymore.
"What do you want with me?" She asked as her voice was calm.
"I just want to help you and other people in the world be safe, no more death just peace and submission." He walked closer to her. "Like I said, I'm not going to hurt you, I could never hurt you darling."
She shivered as he placed his hand on her shoulder. "My daughter was with me one day in Berlin. Her name was Angelica, I called her Ana too. She had never been to the Capital of our great Country and she always wanted to go. My wife- her mother had just passed away from a car accident 6 months before and I couldn't say no. Couldn't say no!" His fists began to clench and his eyes were moist, but he kept smiling. "She was taken from me, I lost her in a large crowd. I searched for months just trying to find her, I can't remember how many times I was close to death while searching for her. In fact whilst looking for her I killed a man for the first time."
Anastasia began clench up and hated everything about his touch, she wanted to sever her arm just to get his hand off, it felt like a disease on her shoulder. "I'm sorry for what happened to her, did you ever find her?"
Hans looked down at her. "Yes but she wasn't what I was looking for. She was dead and it was my fault, but I'm not sorry for what happened to her, she only strengthened my resolve to make this world a better place to live- a safer place." He gave Anastasia a slight push into the main monitoring room, where two different screens showed Clint and Natasha killing wave after wave of Hydra agents, it was a bloodbath to say the least.
"Now my little Ana you're going to help me get rid of these two pests once and for all, they want to hurt you and take you away from daddy."
Anastasia suppressed the urge to cringe. "I don't want to hurt them."
"Then we won't, just say what I tell you to." He smiled at her, his eyes almost looked like they were in a trance.
He picked up a microphone and greeted the two Shield agents. "Agents Romanoff and Barton, it's so nice that you could visit, but I'm afraid you're without an invitation and you have been nothing but rude since you arrived! Perhaps I should ask Anastasia what I should do with you two, well Ana?"
He held her by the back of the neck and put a gun on the back of her neck. "You two should leave I..." She turned away from the microphone. "...I don't want to say anymore." She looked up at Hans.
"That's enough now Ana, you're safe here, just tell the bad people to go back home that's all they have to do." Anastasia was silent for a while. "Now Ana you're just being a rude little girl. I said tell them to leave." He pressed the gun harder.
"...no! Natasha please, he-" She was cut off by Hans smacking her with the handle of his pistol. "WHY?! Why couldn't you just listen Ana? I want to keep you safe from them." Hans was hysterical and Anastasia realised that he wasn't talking to her anymore, he was talking to his dead daughter. It made her almost pity him.
"Take her back to the testing room, I'll deal with her later." Two guards took her out of the room, her body was like a ragdoll, she was still conscious but her limbs were like jelly after being hit by Hans.
Hans stared at the monitors awhile, he realised that the sound of him hitting Anastasia must have been heard over the microphone as Clint and Natasha bolted to the nearest elevator or stairwell to get to him. "Send more guards, I want them in the testing room, NOW!"
"Perhaps I can be of some assistance?" A dark and steely voice came from the other side of the room. "I would like to pay the Hawk back for his little gift in Munich."
Crossbones walked out from the shadow of the room and showed the burns from his left leg covering almost the entire left portion of his body, the charred marks just stopped at his jaw. He picked up a submachine gun with a scope from the rooms weapon rack.
"You better not hurt them just yet, I want time to play with them, especially miss Romanoff."
"Whatever you say Doc, I just want Barton." Crossbones left the room with an evil grin on his face.
Clint was sprinting through the halls and trying to get connection to Natasha. "Nat, Are you there?"
Clint was jogging through the halls. "Jesus! How big is this place anyway?"
He was about to stop moving altogether until he say Natasha run across the hallway ahead of him. She was moving so fast it only seemed like a wavy orange blur to Clint. "Nat, Stop!"
Natasha stopped and turned around but kept her guard up. "Clint?"
"Yeah it's me, are you ok?" He said with genuine concern in his voice.
"I'm fine, just trying to find a way to the higher levels, you?"
"Well I found the security room, there is a small elevator that can take us up to the next floor, I'm pretty sure Hans is there. It's just up ahead a little bit here, come on."
As they ran to the elevator, they were both sneaking looks at each other. There was something about how they worked that just turned them on.
They got to the elevator and Natasha tried to get in until Clint grabbed her. "Wait, they're gonna be waiting on us up there, we need a plan before we do anything crazy."
Natasha gave him a sly smirk. "I'm sure you already have a plan."
Clint smiled back. "Well I do have one small plan, but it could get dicey." He could tell that Natasha was getting more excited by this plan. "Then again that's the fun part, no risk no fun, right?" He gave Natasha a wink.
They both got into the elevator at the same time and it was only when they got inside that they realised how cramped it was, even though they had had sex that morning they were being a little awkward until Natasha pressed her lips against Clint's. "Hope your plan works."
Clint pulled out an arrow and pulled his bow string back as far as the space would let him. "I hope so too." He said with a small laugh.
There were at least 15 agents waiting for them, all with automatic weapons, one of them was Crossbones. "Remember Barton is expendable, but bring the whore in for testing."
One of the agents looked at Crossbones. "But I thought the doctor wanted them both?"
Crossbones looked at him with cold eyes. "Well accidents happen, don't they?"
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