Chapter 11:

Just before the elevator opened, Clint sent an arrow through the metal doors and into one of the awaiting agent's heart. As the elevator doors pinged open, Clint clicked a button on his bow to make the arrow explode in the agents' body. Blood, organs and limbs were thrown all over the room.

The HYDRA agents were in shock as one of their comrades had just exploded before them in a split second. Natasha ran out of the elevator while firing a barrage of bullets at every HYDRA agent in sight. Clint fired another trick arrow, this one loaded with smoke.

Clint fired off three arrows at once to take out three more agents as Natasha continued to go rabid on the rest, due to the intensity of the moment and the blood splatter, neither of the two assassins noticed Crossbones taking aim.

He was aiming for Natasha who was jumping all over the place and was nearly impossible to hit with all the smoke, but Crossbones liked a challenge. He breathed deeply and squeezed the trigger firmly.

A bullet managed to graze Natasha's hip and knock her off balance. Clint spun around as she let out a small scream of pain. "Natasha!" He then saw Crossbones for the first time since Munich. How the fuck is that cockroach still alive?!

Clint drew back another arrow and fired it at Crossbones. He would have caught him through the neck if Crossbones hadn't lifted his gun in front of himself in defence. The arrow broke the gun in half and almost hit Crossbones but he was quick enough to dodge it. "Try aiming like a real man, Barton" Crossbones said as he disappeared into the smoke.

Clint drew another arrow and searched the room. "Natasha are you ok? Where are you?" He waited a few seconds before he got a response.

"I'm fine, was that Crossbones? I thought he was dead." Natasha started to come into Clint's vision as the smoke cleared.

"So did I, he's too dangerous to be left out loose here, I'm gonna go after him, you look for Hans and Anastasia. Can you move ok?"

Natasha too her hand away from her wound. "I'm ok, it's just a flesh wound. I think Crossbones retreated that way, I think he might be going to the armoury, you better get a move on."

"Not until I'm sure you're ok. Besides, he can have a nuke for all I care, I'll still beat him" Clint made Natasha lean against the wall as he inspected her wound. He rubbed some antiseptic on it and wiped off the remaining blood with a rag he took off one of the HYDRA agents.

"Thanks Clint."

"You did the same for me when I was shot, except more vodka." He said with a chuckle.

"No, not just for being my medic. I mean, thanks for stopping me earlier and being a better-partner- than-I-deserve partner."

"Natasha you don't need to thank me, not yet anyway. Although, you can be a pain in the ass." Clint teased as he finished working on Natasha's wound.

"I mean it Clint, thank you." Natasha said with a smile.

Clint kissed Natasha lightly. "Thank you for bringing me back from the dead in Egypt."

Natasha had a big smile on her face now. "So you do remember?"

Clint started running after Crossbones. "How can I forget, I wasn't that hammered!"

Natasha felt a lot less angry and bloodthirsty for Hans and a little happier for the first time since this morning. But she was still focused on the mission. Clint would have to wait for now.
She sprinted through the halls and was faced with multiple agents waiting on her. As she shot, sliced, hacked and kicked her way through the hoards of soldiers she felt concerned for Clint, Crossbones was a devious son of a bitch if anything.

Clint's way:

In a way Clint admired Crossbones, he was a consistent shot and a more than worthy opponent when it came to hand to hand combat. But with admiration also came distain and hatred.

Clint burst through a door at the end of the hallway and slowly edged his way around what appeared to be a supply room with an arrow ready. "Come on out Crossbones, show everyone what a real man you are. Are you afraid I'll put an arrow between your eyes? Cus you should be."
Clint's eyes travelled all over the room inspecting every inch and every dark corner that Crossbones could be hiding.

"What's wrong, Barton? Can't see me? That's a shame, because I can see you." Crossbones' voice was coming from every angle and it was impossible for Clint to follow the sound. "It's too bad that my rifle isn't here or else you wouldn't have made it past the elevator."

"Ohh you mean that rifle I destroyed back in Munich? Sorry about that by the way, was it a gift from grandma Crossbones?" Clint wasn't gonna let Crossbones get under his skin, he stayed calm and scanned the room.

"Tell me something Hawk, how is that little whore of yours in bed? Is she a natural redhead?" Crossbones said with a chuckle. "Is she as fierce in the bedroom as she is on the battlefield?"

"Keep talking asshole, this arrow has a one way ticket through your fucking mouth."

"Don't be so sensitive, Hawk. I doubt you've ever been with a woman let alone a woman like Romanoff." Crossbones knew that he was picking away at Clint's nerves, he had used this tactic before, but it never worked better than today. "It's ok Barton you don't need to worry about your little spider, I'll take real good care of her after I've killed you."

Clint wanted to shout something back at him but he couldn't lose his cool, he closed his eyes and let his ears search the room for Crossbones.

"What's wrong Barton? Gone quiet?" Crossbones dropped to one of the containers above Clint and took out his desert eagle with a built in red sight scope. "It's ok Barton, it'll all be over soon and Natasha will be my little plaything." Crossbones checked his magazine and aimed at Barton's head. "Game over, Hawk."

Clint opened his eyes and jumped to the left out of Crossbones aim and let loose an arrow into the barrel of the gun just as Crossbones took another shot. The gun exploded in his hands. As he tried to regroup Clint fired a taser arrow into his forehead and knocked him out cold.

Clint handcuffed him to one of the water pipes in the room and left him there for later. "You've got some explaining to do back in Shield for serial murder and weapons dealing, so sit tight."

"Fuck you, Barton! You and your Russian whore are dead, you hear me! DEAD!"

Clint ran through the hall hoping to catch up with Natasha, he was actually more worried about Hans, if Natasha had gotten to him while he was with Anastasia then the worst could happen. Clint couldn't care less about Hans' well being, he was more concerned with Natasha and his job. If she kills Hans then Fury would have to fire her under the grounds that she was mentally unfit to work with Shield.

Come on Barton, you know she isn't crazy. Natasha is fine...well, as fine as a soviet brainwashed solider/spy child can be. I better speed up.

Natasha's way:

Natasha made her way through the halls, trying to listen to any footsteps she could hear running away from her. Come on you cowards, show me where that Nazi prick is hiding.
She was approached by 3 of the guards from earlier, but she took out one of them with her handgun and dropkicked the other two to the ground. She gave the two of them widow bites and snapped their necks in one quick motion. It frightened her sometimes how easily she found killing someone was, but it also excited her.

She took one of the soldier's machine guns and proceeded onward. She had a serious determination in her, but a part of her just wanted to end the mission already. She would still relish in getting her revenge on Hans.

As she got closer to Hans she could feel her blood boil with every step. Natasha stopped in her tracks when she heard Hans' icy voice call her name over the microphone. "Natasha! Why do you want to hurt me? I want to help these people, all of them, even you. I am your saviour."

"You're a fucking psychopath whose uncle hugged him too much and I am going to kill you tonight, that's assured."

"But Natasha, I feel bad for you, I pity you and your life." Natasha clenched her fists harder around the handle of her gun. "When you were a child you had no mother or father, only yourself for protection. Why do you want to carry that burden? I can help you, let me be your protector just like Ana's"

Natasha was very still and didn't utter a single word, the only noise was her heavy breaths.

"Come Natasha, join the family you were meant to be a part of, I can make you strong. No more fear or pain and no more partners slowing you down."

Natasha screamed and fired her machinegun at all of the speakers and cameras around the halls. Hans' words were like a poison trying to slither into her heart but it wouldn't work, not on her.

Come on Natasha, make this mother fucker know what real pain is. Natasha wasn't in her right state anymore and Clint was nowhere to help her calm down. She was running into Hans' testing room seeing red.

Natasha threw the doors of the testing room open and was in shock of the sheer scale of the laboratory. It must have been the size of football pitch. It was nothing compared to the labs at Shield but the fact that it was all built underground was even more astounding.

The room was devoid of life, only computers and a few chemicals in different vials. It didn't look like anything radioactive. "Hans! Show yourself!" Natasha shouted around the room.

She noticed a small flickering light ahead in another room, there was a red light inside and a foul smell. She walked cautiously to the room and slowly edged the door open and regrettably looked inside. A heavy smell of rotting flesh hit her as she entered the room, she looked around in horror as bodies were hung on large hooks and cut open on steel tables for anyone to see. The bodies were of different gender, age and race and were all cut down to their prime.

She held her hand against her mouth and aimed her gun in case of any hostels

She found files showing pictures of Steve Roger A.K.A Captain America. There were also algorithms for some sort of drug, but it was different than the stuff that was used on Steve, instead the main source of power was the Tesseract. "Hans what the hell are you planning." Natasha said quietly to herself.

"The future, Miss Romanoff," A voice said behind her.

Natasha swung around and aimed her handgun at Hans. "Where is she?!"

"Please Natasha, I thought we could move past this, the girl is safe, they are all safe with me."

"Safe, they don't look very safe, they look mutilated and dead."

"They were the weak ones, the ones who couldn't be protected, but now, I can save everyone, now there will be no more pain. Ana would be proud of me."

"Ana isn't yours to have, now tell me where she is before I put a bullet in your brain."

Hans clicked his fingers and a large group of HYDRA agents surrounded her and Anastasia came in with them, dressed in a blue battle suit. "Now Natasha you're going to prove to Ana that you cannot save her and that only one of you will leave this room alive."

"Natasha please help me, I can't move, he put something on my neck." Anastasia looked like she was in serious pain.

"You bastard, what have you done to her?" Natasha lowered her weapon.

"I've saved her-saved her from the evils of this world-saved her from you and Shield from ever controlling her again." Hans pressed a button on the remote in his pocket. "You will fight to the death to see if my design truly is the future for mankind's safety."

"You can't make me kill her."

"No, but I can make her kill you." He said as he pressed another button on the remote.

Almost immediately Anastasia lunged at her and threw a right hook to her face.

"Oh I'm sorry Natasha, did that hurt? Good." Hans was teasing her.

"Natasha I'm sorry, I can't control myself!"

"It's ok, I'm fine, I'll help you through this." Natasha got back to her feet and put her guard up. "Come on."

Anastasia was relentless, she kept swinging attack after attack, some of them landed but Natasha was keeping her guard well. She managed to dodge a lot of Anastasia's attacks and counter them, but she didn't want to hurt the girl so she needed to think of a way to keep her grounded. So, this is how Clint feels when I go berserk. I owe him a lot more than i realised. I need to get that device off her neck.

Natasha was just throwing Anastasia to the side when she could but the device was learning from her movements, it knew what she would do after an attack and made sure not to fall for it again. Anastasia was nearly in tears, she was hurting one of her friends and couldn't stop herself, she didn't like violence at all and it killed her to see Natasha draw blood because of her.

Natasha had a busted lip and a few bruises around her body, mostly on her ribs, she wouldn't be able to keep fighting her normal style if the rib attacks kept coming. She waited for Anastasia to attack her ribs again to grab her and throw her to the ground. She held her in a choke hold but tried not to squeeze too hard.

Hans watched the fight with a grin on his face, he had waited for his device to finally have a worthy opponent to test it for a long time. "Enough playing Ana, just finish her already!"

"Anastasia, I can get the device off you but I need to know if I can do whatever it takes?" Natasha said this under her breath so only Ana would hear.

Natasha looked at Anastasia's neck and found the device just where her spine met her skull. She tried to rip it off but Anastasia wasn't able to keep still. "Natasha, please get it off me! Whatever it takes!"

"Silence Ana, kill her!" After Hans barked his command Anastasia went in for a finishing knee strike, but Natasha saw it coming. She used Anastasia's momentum against her and slammed her firmly against the floor before cutting the device out of her neck with the knife on her ankle.

Hans panicked. "Grab them both!"

The HYDRA agents grabbed Natasha and Anastasia and cuffed them, Natasha tried to fight back, but her bruises and other injuries were far too bad. "Get your hands off her, you bastards."

One of the guards gun butted Natasha in the ribs and dragged her away from Anastasia, while the other guards pulled Anastasia by the hair. Hans walked over to her with a disapproving face. "Ana you have failed me, I thought you wanted to be safe?"

"Get away from her! I'm the one you want." Natasha pushed away the guard that hit her.

Hans smiled at Natasha. "Yes, perhaps you are the one I want?"

As Hans walked closer to Natasha an arrow went into his knee. He let out a loud scream as all the guards fell to the floor with arrows between their eyes. Clint walked in and aimed an arrow at Hans. "Let them both go and I won't send this arrow through your other knee, what's it gonna be?"

Hans laughed and looked up at Clint. "You fucking moron! I'm not gonna give up my life's work for some American who thinks he can control the world with a bow!"

"Wrong answer." Clint steadied his shot until he heard a voice behind him.

"Put down the bow Barton." It was Sin. She was holding a scorpion machinegun to Clint's temple.

"Hmm, well I can't say I've missed you, Sin." Clint slowly dropped the bow and went for a slash with his knife and knocked Sins gun from her hand. He was about to finish her until Crossbones appeared and punched him in the jaw.

"Now now, Barton, show the lady some respect." Crossbones aimed a handgun at Clint and readied his shot.

"No! Don't kill him, I'll do worse to him than death, but I'll let you use that bullet." Hans said as he pulled himself up. "Kill the girl!"

"NO!" Natasha screamed but Crossbones already took the shot and hit Anastasia in the heart.

The room was early quiet. "Take them both away, Crossbones." He grabbed Clint by the leg and dragged him away and dragged Natasha by the handcuffs.

"You son of a bitch, I'll fucking kill you both!" Natasha was screaming as Crossbones laughed and pulled her out of the room and let her watch Anastasia slowly die in a pool of her own blood.

Sin walked over to Hans and pulled the arrow from his leg. "Are you close to perfecting the serum yet Doctor?"

"I've told you, it takes time. this one could only take the serum at a concentrated dose administered by this device." He showed her the device that was one Anastasia's neck.

"Get it working quick, do you need Barton and Romanoff?"

Hans smiled. "They could be the best subjects for this serum."

Chapter 11 done and dusted!
I added the character Sin to spice up the HYDRA story, if you don't know her look her up in the comics - if you like the new character please tell me or if you don't like her I would still love to hear what you all think or tell me if you'd like another character added.
Thanks for reading again and please review!