Natasha's pov (I know, some change of view finally!)
I stepped out of the helicopter into the clearing of the coordinates Fury told me. He said the girl here was to come in secret and was to be escorted to an isolation cell. I had Dr. Banner with me already so here we are. There was a creek, some hand crafted tools lying around the place like a vine for a clothing line, a vine hammock overlooking the creek, and rock carved tools like an axe and hammer.
"Wow, whoever lives here must be pretty clever." he said looking at a water wheel that collected water from the waterfall and brought it to a kettle hung over a fire which was connected to a bamboo tubing that brought the steamed water to land into a closed container that was collecting the clean water. "Yeah, no kidding." I mumbled looking at the contraption. We made our way to the house that hung in the trees with no way to get up.
"How do we get up there?" Banner whispered to himself, but I still heard. Looking around I saw nothing that could be used to reach the tall structure. Not a rope or ladder nor anything that could be climbed in order to reach the porch. "I have no clue." I spoke out loud for him. There were footsteps coming from behind us and a voice spoke up shocking me.
"It's easy really...I'm surprised you can't figure it out." Claire walked past me and to the main tree holding the home up. She hit it on either side of the trunk and a small vine appeared about a foot above her head on the trunk. She pulled it and somehow the tree's trunk opened up to reveal that it was hollow inside and had a ladder going through it.
She turned to us with a smile and I finally got a good look at her. She was slightly tanner than I last saw her, had a layer of dirt on her that made her look ragged. Her hair was tangled and held from her face with a torn cloth but the dirt gave her white hair a more brownish blonde look. Lastly, she was still the unhealthy thin she was before she disappeared.
"Hi Natasha." she spoke softly, her voice rough like she had been yelling or something and her eyes were puffy and covered up a bit the fact that she wore no contacts and her nose was red like she'd been crying. "Hi Renee." I greeted. She glared down at the ground but quickly hid her anger behind a fake smile. What is that all about? "Nice to meet you Dr. Banner, my father and I love your work on quantum physics and radiation."
Claire's pov
Why is Bruce Banner here? Father would love to be here. Father and I would spend nights together studying his work. Its truly Inspiring, his work, especially In astroscience and radiation. There Banner stood next to Natasha.
"Please, come up." i offered moving up the ladder and into the home. Nat smiled before moving inside the trunk and climbing the ladder. Natashia was looking in each room while Banner looked at the different things I had made to make life easier for myself. One he stopped on was the makeshift mill I set up to get electricity for myself. The next one he looked at was the lights I made.
I had used the air to pressurize sand over a fire to create a glass bulb form and had used wires I made by running a magnet over the sand to collect magnetic materials and molding them together over heat. "You live here?" Banner asked and I nodded silently watching them.
"So what brings you both here?" I ask curiously. Nat pulled out her phone and passed it to me to reveal Fury's message.
'Claire, Barton's been compromised along with the tesseract. I am putting together the avengers. I know you stole that file before so I'm not going to explain it. The situation is severe. I am pulling you in for relocation to a more secure location. You will be more informed upon arrival. Good luck.'
I nodded and put my hands out before me. "Okay, I'll go with you guys." I mumble.
