6 Months Later

Russia

"This is not how I wanted this evening to go." The man says to Natasha in Russian.
Natasha who was currently tied to a chair glares at him and replies in Russian "I know how you wanted this evening to go. Believe me, this is better."
"Who are you working for? Lermentov, yes?" He asks as one of his guards approaches the red head, the guard grabs the back of her chair, which was currently two inches away from a gaping hole in the ground. The man tilts her chair, causing her feet to come off the ground. Her breathing picks up slightly but she keeps herself calm as she continues to listen to her interrogator "Does he think we have to go through him to move our cargo?"
The guard finally lowers her chair, Natasha glances at him before answering "I thought General Solohob was in charge of the export business."
Her interrogator merely chuckles at her response "Solohob a bagman, a front. Your outdated information betrays you. The famous Black Widow and she turns out to be simply another pretty face."
Natasha raises her eyebrow "You really think I'm pretty?"
One of the guards then approaches the agent and forces her mouth open, she glares at him while continuing to listen to their boss "Tell Lermentov we don't need him to move tanks. Tell him he is out." He says as he walks towards the torture devices, as he picks one up he pauses "Well...you may have to write it down." He finished in English.

At that moment a cell phone starts ringing, one of the guards realises that's it's his phone, he quickly answers it, only to frown and turn to his boss "It's for her."
Their boss frowns before grabbing the phone "You listen carefully—"
The man is cut off as Coulson explains that they know exactly where they are and are prepared to kill them all and blow up the building if he doesn't pass the phone to Natasha.
His eyes widen before he gives the phone to Natasha.
Natasha sighs in frustration "We need you to come in." Coulson tells her.
"Are you kidding? I'm working."
"This takes precedence."
"I'm in the middle of an interrogation. This moron is giving me everything. Look, you can't pull me out of this right now."
"Natasha...Barton's be compromised."
Immediately Natasha stops, her eyes widen slightly before she focuses on her next task "Let me put you on hold."

She nods at the leader who walks over and takes the phone, however, she kicks him in the knee then headbutts him in the face sending him crashing to the ground.
Natasha stands she kicks one of the guards in the chest knocking him down, she then ducks the blow the other sends at her before swinging the chair around to hit him in the back. As he drops Natasha rolls across the floor towards the other guard, who was currently still trying to stand.
She uses the chair to knock his knees then slams on the wooden legs on his foot before headbutting him, as he stumbles Natasha swings the chair again, this time at his legs causing him to drop again.

The other guard stands and runs at her but she kicks him in the knee then does a spinning kick knocking him to his knees. She steps onto his back and flips through the air, as she lands on the chair it shatters beneath her. She quickly flips herself back up and then elbows one of the guards in the gut as he comes at her, she backhands him before jumping up and sending both of her feet into his chest, she starts to fall back, however, the moment her hands touch the ground she flips herself back up.
Natasha runs at the guard, she jumps up and wraps her legs around his head, and does a side aerial, causing him to crash painfully to the ground.
Natasha then merely grabs a metal chain and grabs their leader, she ties the chain to his ankle before tossing him into the hole.

She smiles to herself before grabbing her phone and her heels "Where's Barton now?" Natasha asks Coulson.
"We don't know."
"But he's alive?"
"We think so. I'll brief you on everything when you get back. But first, we need you to talk to the big guy."
Natasha pauses "Buffy? Coulson the girl likes me but she made it clear to Fury she would kick his ass if any of us turned up on her doorstep."
Coulson chuckles "I don't doubt that. But that's not who you are collecting. Fury thinks she needs a more...delicate touch... he's gonna go speak to her."
Natasha stops in her tracks "Really? Fury is gonna talk to Buffy? You do realise last time he tried to recruit her, it didn't go very well."
"He seems to think he can convince her. I've got the other Stark. You get the big guy."

Brooklyn, New York

Fury watches from the shadows as Steve demolishes the punching bag in front of him when the bag goes flying across the room Steve merely moves to grab another before continuing his workout.
"Trouble sleeping?" Fury asks as he steps into the gym.
Steve merely goes back to hitting the bag "I slept for 70 years, sir. I think I've had my fill."
"Then you should be out, celebrating, seeing the world." Fury tells him as he moves closer to the Captain.
Finally, Steve detaches himself from the bag and moves to unwrap his hands "When I went under the world was at war. I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost."
"We've made some mistakes along the way. Some, very recently. One of the bigger ones was about 2 years ago. You ever hear of a town called Sunnydale?"
Steve frowns in confusion "Yeah the town that is apparently now a crater."
"A girl did that."
"What?"
Fury chuckles "She's like you Cap, she fights to protect the world. We screwed up, didn't realise how bad it had gotten and she was the one who had to fix our mistakes. I don't want to have the whole world end up as a damn crater."

Steve nods in understanding "You're here with a mission sir."
"I am."
"Trying to get me back in the world?"
"Trying to save it." Fury says as he hands Steve the file.

Steve looks at the file hesitantly before taking it, when he spots the tesseract he sits down "HYDRA's secret weapon."
"Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you. He thought what we think. The tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world sorely needs."
Steve hands the file back to Fury "Who stole it from you?"
"He called Loki." Fury informs him as he takes the file "He's not from around here. There's a lot we'll have to bring you up to speed on if you're in. The world has gotten even stranger than you already know."
Steve scoffs and stands grabbing his bag "At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me."
Fury smiles and tosses him a different file "Read this and I bet you're wrong."
Steve catches the file and opens it "That's just the basics." Fury informs him "There's a briefing kit waiting for you back at your apartment."
Steve frowns as he looks at the photo of the young pretty blonde women, she couldn't be more than 23 years old "Buffy Summers?"
"She's a special girl, cap. And you're gonna need to know about her world, before you meet her."

Stark Tower, New York

"Mr Stark." Coulson addresses the billionaire who was currently sat having Champagne with Pepper.

Pepper smiles as she sees the agent "Phil! Come in."
As she walks over to him Tony frowns "Phil? His first name is Agent."

Pepper ignores him and heads towards Coulson "Come on in. We're celebrating."

"Which is why he can't stay." Tony mutters before forcing a fake smile on his face.

Coulson merely hands him a file "We need you to look this over as soon as possible."

Tony stares at the file before glancing at Coulson "I don't like being handed things."

Pepper merely smiles and takes the file "That's fine, because I love to be handed things." She trades her champagne glass with Coulson before trading the file to Tony and taking his glass.

Tony rolls his eyes and focuses on Coulson "Offical consulting hours are between 8 and 5 every other Thursday."

"This isn't a consultation." Coulson says simply.

"Is this about the Avengers?" Pepper asks "Which I know nothing about."

Tony grabs the file and walks over to his desk "I thought the Avengers Initiative had been scrapped. Plus I didn't even qualify and Buffy told Fury to take his super squad and shove it."

Coulson turns to the billionaire "This isn't about personality profiles anymore."

"Whatever. Ms Potts, got a second?"

Pepper quickly walks over. The two speak before he turns on the holograms showing all the candidates for the Avengers Initiative.

"I'm going to take the jet to D.C tonight."

"Tomorrow." Tony argues.

"You have homework. You have a lot of homework."

"Well, what if I didn't."

Pepper smirks before leaning forward and whispering in his ear.

He grins and quickly agrees, "Fly safe."

"Work hard." She says before giving him a quick kiss.

Tony turns back to the holograms however he freezes when he spots a certain word, Slayer. Tony's head spins around to face Coulson "Why is she still in the file? She said no to Fury. She wants away from SHIELD and the government."

Coulson sighs, "This is a God we are facing Mr Stark. We need her now more than ever. She is the only person whose ever been able to defeat one."
Tony glares at Coulson "You want my help, fine. My daughter died last time she went up against a God, I won't let that happen again. So let me make one thing clear tell Fury to stay the hell away from my daughter."

Scotland

"The government is hunting us, demons, vampires are hunting us. Is there anything not hunting us!" Buffy exclaims in frustration.
"Buff—" Xander tries but she just continues to vent.
"I mean come on...go for the real threat. I'm used to the stupid supernatural-hating on us but now the government. I mean yeah Twilight is gone, but what happens when the rest of the government decides they were right and that Slayers need to be controlled and—"
"Buffy!" Xander yells effectively cutting the Slayer off "Breath!" He yells as he shakes her from her word vomit.
Buffy sighs "Sorry I was venting again, huh?"
"A whole lot of venting." Xander sighs and places his hands on her shoulders "Look for once things are quiet. We will find a way to deal with the government but for now, relax."

Buffy swings the bo staff around before she flips through the air and does a triple tuck. She lands on her toes and immediately leaps into the air swinging the staff.
She rolls on the floor and grabs a knife from her thigh and tosses it at the target. The knife goes through the target and lands five feet away leaving a gaping hole in the wooden dummy.

Breaking heavily the blonde stands she tosses the bo staff to the ground and moves to grab two long blades. As she lifts the blades from their place she sighs "I thought I made myself perfectly clear. It's been 6 months, how have you not processed this yet?"
Fury chuckles as he walks into her training room "It's good to see you to Ms Summers. You know I think you made the right choice in changing your name. The name Summers is more feared in this world."
Buffy rolls her eyes and swings the blades around as she continues to practice "What do you want Fury?"
"The world needs saving."
Buffy scoffs as she swings one of the blades around before tossing the other towards the wall "Again?"

Fury stares at the blade Buffy had tossed, only an inch of it was visible as the rest had been buried in the concrete "You're getting stronger."
"Everyday." She says simply before throwing the other blade in the air, she flips backwards and catches the blade in her hand as it falls.
She takes a deep breath before placing the blade back in its case, she then turns to face Fury.
"I think you'll be fine." She tells him "Just a little end of the world stuff. That's nothing. I'm sure SHIELD can handle this."
"We can't. We need a response team. The threat, this time, is bigger than any we have ever faced."
Buffy again scoffs "Wow Deja-vu where have I heard that before? Oh yeah... 8 times in Sunnydale."

Fury sighs and turns to the young woman "I can help you with your government problem. I have enough authority to make it clear that you and your girls are off limits."
Buffy eyes widen and she stares at him in disbelief "You're offering me a deal?"
Fury nods, glad he had finally caught her attention "I help you..and you help me."
Buffy sighs "Here's what I don't get, why do you need me, I mean come on I've heard about the rooster, I mean, Nat, Barton, the big green guy and dear old dad... pretty impressive. "
"You're the only person whose ever defeated a God."

Buffy eyes widen and she freezes, her whole body going rigid "You have got to be kidding me."
Fury shakes his head "Sadly no. We need you on this team."
Buffy sighs and turns her back on Fury running her fingers through her hair as she contemplates what to do "You can make sure Slayers are protected? We are left to our own, no one touches us?"
Fury nods "Yes Ma'am. I'll help you, and the moment we have Loki you are free to go."
Buffy sighs in frustration she tries to think of a way out of this, but the world was in danger, and if this deal could protect her slayers then she had no over choice "I help you capture him, then I'm done. Is that understood?"
Fury grins, surprising himself slightly that he had managed to convince her "Yes Ma'am. Plus we gotta have you there, you're the only person who can control your god damn father."
"When do we leave?" She asks.
Fury looks at his watch before tossing her a phone "Be ready the moment we have his location I'll call you in."