Natasha was marched through the cold hallways, the rest of the team behind her. Vision was contained in a gel matrix container. Wanda had a metal necklace that monitored her every move, eliminating her powers. Rhodey, Tony, and Sam where chained like her. They marched in a straight line, the black ninja dressed guards surrounded them armed with guns. There was no good way out, so Natasha decided they should wait for a better moment.
Sam and Rhodey were thrown into a cell together. The rest of the team marched on passed other cells, some containing people. A blonde woman and a scruffy man in one, Jemma Simmons in another. Wanda and Vision were separated from the group down a different hallway. Natasha and Tony were roughly pushed into a cell.
The guards left. A man stepped out of the shadows as they turned around to survey their surroundings.
"I'm sorry, what?" Tony asked.
"Hi," Coulson gave a small wave. "Yeah, kind of not dead, yay me."
"You are dead." Natasha said. "I read the official report, hell, I was on the helicarrier. We saw your blood on the cards."
"Well, technically I was dead, a couple days actually. Fury brought me back with project T.A.H.I.T.I. Wasn't all that fun. Don't worry I've had words with Fury already," Coulson said guiltily.
"I think I would like to have some words with Fury right now," Tony said. "Many words, in a loud voice."
Natasha walked up to Coulson and punched him in the face, hard enough to cause him to double over.
"Are you real?" she asked. "You're not like a robot are you? What did Fury give you to bring you back to life?"
"Alien DNA," Coulson said.
"So you're Inhuman?"
"No, I'm the same, mostly."
"And you didn't tell us?" Natasha asked, her voice rising. "We went to war over you."
"Technically, at that point I was dead. You needed something to bring you together," Coulson answered.
"But what about us?" Tony asked,."All this time, and you didn't tell us? You were a friend, a missed agent, a casualty we let happen, how could you not tell us you were alive?"
"Fury swore me to secrecy," Coulson said.
"You of all people should know that Fury's secrecy only makes more problems," Natasha said coolly.
"And we are kind of good at keeping secrets, I mean we're the Avengersand you didn't trust us?" Tony sounded hurt.
"What were you doing at the base?" Natasha crossed her arms.
"It was a project, classified content," Coulson said.
"No, I want to know what you were doing at the base. Don't give me the protocol crap, Phil." Natasha had become business like.
"It was S.H.I.E.L.D.," Coulson said. "Fury set up a new S.H.I.E.L.D, around my team, with me as director."
"I can't believe you," Natasha turned away.
"I'm sorry," Coulson hung his head.
"At this point I think we are way passed sorry," Tony said.
"Who was a part of your team?" Natasha asked. "When was it established? Who knows about this?"
"My team started after New York. It was Melinda May, Grant Ward, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Daisy Johnson. Not a lot of people know about me, Fury and Hill most importantly," Coulson said.
"And what?" Natasha asked. "You just weren't going to tell us? Most of us were a part of S.H.I.E.L.D. too, Phil."
"I couldn't tell you," Coulson said.
"Yes, you could have and should have, 'cause this is like the worst reunion ever," Tony said. "It'll get better when you see Cap, he's the sentimental one."
"Do you know why we're here?" Natasha asked.
"My base was attacked, my agents are prisoners, no one knows why. I think now would be a good time to end the friend conversation for now, and just be allies," said Coulson.