This chapter is inspired by Black Widow comic books. Hope you guys will enjoy.

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"Why did you call us here, Anatoly?" Oliver said as he, Sara, Matt and Natasha met with Anatoly in one of the Bratva hideouts in Russia.

"Someone has been targeting our men." Anatoly said. "In the past two weeks five of our lieutenants went missing. Recently we found where their bodies had been dumped."

"Why?" Sara asked before one of Anatoly's men handed him a file and he showed it to them to reveal a photo of a blonde woman and Natasha glared, while Matt noticed how agitated she was.

"Natasha, are you alright?" Matt asked as Oliver took a closer look and his eyes widened slightly, recognizing her.

"Wait a minute… that's the woman we saw in the dreamworld." Oliver said.

"Who is she?" Sara asked.

"That's my sister. Yelena." Natasha said. She took a breath as she summed up what had happened. "We grew up together. Trained together. But unlike me, she didn't really have… any moral compass. Values. She's always worked for herself. Didn't care who gets hurt, as long as she gets her way."

"Why is she doing this?" Matt asked.

"As I've said, unlike me, she has no moral restraint." Natasha said and they nodded. The Punisher did but the Vigilante didn't.

"What does she want?" Oliver asked.

"I've noticed a pattern in her kills." Anatoly said as he showed them some files of the dead members. They were all elderly people and Natasha recognized some of them.

"They're ex-KGB." Natasha said.

"Da." Anatoly nodded. "One of our men managed to get away and tell us she's looking for the old Red Room facility."

Natasha's blood ran cold as Matt noticed her heartbeat going faster, and they all noticed how on edge she was. It certainly said something, if Natasha was unnerved.

"Do you know who else might be on her list?" Sara asked and Matt then noticed Anatoly's heartbeat go faster.

"She's after you now, is she?" Matt realized and everyone stared at Anatoly in shock.

"Why?"

Anatoly looked down, ashamed. "Because I'm the one who took her, when she was a child and brought her into the Red Room to become one of the Black Widows."

"You did what?" Oliver and Sara demanded, not believing Anatoly would do something so immoral as taking a child.

"You must understand. We had lost Cold War. And we wanted to restore the Soviet Union. My superiors were going to do whatever it takes, by any means necessary." Anatoly had the decency to look ashamed, making them feel some sympathy for him. Natasha especially did understand.

"She wants to burn her past to the ground. I can understand that." Natasha said.

"She's too dangerous for us to take her on. I know I ask a lot but I hope-"

"We'll get her, Anatoly." Oliver promised.

"How are we gonna get her?" Sara wondered.

"She's not going to try get to you by taking Bratva head-on." Matt pointed out.

"But maybe we can lure her out." Natasha suggested as Oliver and Sara shot her incredulous looks.

"You want to use Anatoly as a bait?" Oliver demanded.

"Do you have a better idea?" Natasha pointed out. Before Oliver and Sara could protest, Anatoly intervened.

"I assumed you might suggest that. And I considered it myself." Anatoly got up. "I think I know the perfect place."

Natasha smirked, knowing where were they going to go.


They drove deep into the mountains as Natasha stared. "It seems that my past is coming back to haunt me."

"Yeah, it sure seems that this keeps happening to us." Sara noted. "Why is that?"

"I don't know why." Oliver admitted.

Matt also considered. The ghosts of their pasts seemed to keep coming back to haunt them but why? How could they make sure they could bury those ghosts forever? "It doesn't matter right now. What matters is that we need to find a way to move on and bury them forever."


Soon enough they entered some underground caverns as Matt heard echoes and smelled the rotten flesh and blood. "Where are we?"

"This is a grave. Grave for those who didn't survive the initiation." Anatoly said grimly as he pulled out a key as they neared some rusted door and opened the door to reveal rotten corpses lying around. Men, women, children and up above was the flag of the Soviet Union.

"One of the Red Rooms. One of the places they'd create Black Widows." Natasha said as they could tell she was being haunted by her past.

"I'm sorry. It has to be hard for you to come back here." Sara placed an assuring hand on Natasha's shoulder. Going back here would be the same as if Sara was coming back to Nanda Parbat, which had been abandoned after the League of Assassins was disbanded.

"I'm fine." Natasha said, quickly getting ahold of herself.

Matt suddenly sniffed something. "Thermite. There's thermite here."

"Like a bomb?" Oliver asked and Matt nodded. "Who would-"

Suddenly, a female voice echoed throughout the halls as they heard a female voice speak in Russian. "I should have figured you would come back here, sister."

"What do you want, Yelena?" Natasha demanded in Russian.

"You wanted her here, here she is." Oliver said.

"You've turned your back on what we stood for. That I can understand. But you? A hero? Friends? You actually make me feel bad for you." Yelena gloated.

And a moment later, a man with white hood, blue armor and a skull mask jumped down, with a bow and quiver and a sword and shield strapped to his back as they all glared.

"You again?" Oliver glared.

"Me again." Taskmaster smirked.

Sara and Matt picked batons from a weapon stand as Oliver pulled out his bow, as they engaged Taskmaster.


"Run!" Natasha grabbed Anatoly by his arm and they ran off. They kept running down the tunnels until they went out before Anatoly fell down, grazed in the leg as Yelena showed up.

"Where do you think you're going, sister?" Yelena said in Russian.

"Yelena, don't do this." Natasha pleaded.

Yelena gave her an incredulous look. "He destroyed my life! Your life and you defend him?!"

"People change. You can too." Natasha pleaded.

"Too late for that." Yelena glared as she aimed at Natasha but she disarmed Yelena of her gun as they exchanged blows.


Taskmaster flipped and kicked away an arrow Oliver fired at him, while he picked a shield and threw it as it ricocheted off a wall and knocked Sara and Matt down.

"Using Cap's moves against us?" Sara snapped as she got up with Matt.

"Try something original." Matt taunted.

"Well, why try something new, when you know the moves of the best?" Taskmaster challenged. He blocked the arrows with his bracers as Sara and Matt attacked Taskmaster, who dodged their attacks before he kicked Sara in the leg, forcing her on her knees and then he spun around, knocking Matt and Sara down.


Natasha dodged as Yelena scratched her in the abdomen with her knife. "We're not in Red Room anymore, sister."

"I did kick your ass, remember?" Natasha reminded.

"I've learned some new tricks." Yelena sprayed Natasha in the face with some smoke, blinding her before Natasha received a barrage of punches and was knocked down, as she groaned in pain. Natasha rolled away as Yelena tried to finish her off before Natasha wrapped her legs around her, trying to knock her down but Yelena used her arms to free herself. "Familiar. Don't you have something new?"

"How about this?" Natasha decided to fight dirty, kneeing Yelena in the abdomen and headbutting her before Yelena staggered back.


Oliver fired an explosive arrow that Taskmaster caught and threw it away as it exploded. "I'm not falling for that."

"I was just a distraction." Oliver smirked. Next thing Taskmaster knew, he was knocked down as a detonator fell off his belt and a countdown appeared, with few seconds left as everyone widened their eyes.

"Move!" Sara ordered as they ran down the tunnels, while Taskmaster ran off in another direction, picking a snowmobile, driving off. Then they felt tremors as everything collapsed before they got out, while the cavern entrance caved in.

"Phew. That was close." Anatoly sighed in relief.


Natasha grabbed Yelena's arm before she could stab her. "It doesn't have to be this way, Yelena."

"Too little, too late." Yelena sneered before there was an avalanche that sent them both rolling down the hill.

As Natasha recovered and dug herself out from the snow, she looked around. "Yelena? Yelena!"

Her voice echoed as Natasha looked saddened that she had lost the one person that was as close to a sister she had.


"Thank you. You saved my life." Anatoly said as they toasted in one of Bratva bars.

"Anytime, Anatoly." Oliver assured as they saw how saddened Natasha was.

"That wasn't your fault, Nat." Matt assured, holding her hand.

"I know it wasn't. I just… I know there's no point in dwelling on it but I wish there had been another way." Natasha said.

It took a bit of an effort but they managed to cheer Natasha up by playing games with the rest of the Bratva and toasting before Oliver, Sara, Matt and Natasha hugged Anatoly as he kissed them on their cheeks.

"You are my family. Never forget that. I owe you a lot." Anatoly said.

"See you around, Anatoly." Sara said.

"Dasvidanya." Anatoly said as Oliver, Sara, Matt and Natasha left.


Oliver and Sara were sleeping in their room in the plane as Natasha stared outside the window as Matt assured her. "Nat, if there's anything I can-"

"You don't need to help me, Matt. I'm fine, really." Natasha assured. "I'm not gonna blame myself for my sister's actions. I tried to reach her. She made her choice. But I appreciate that you're here for me." She smiled at him.

"We're in this together, right?" Matt smiled.

"Never give up. No matter what." Natasha said as deeper feelings came to the surface and they laid down on the chair, kissing passionately, while she took off Matt's shirt and he stripped Natasha of her top and unclipped her bra, tossing their clothes on the floor.


Yelena got up, breathing out heavily. She remembered everything hurting like hell after being buried in the snow but as she looked at her arms, no bruises or burns from the cold, nothing.

"I see that you are awake." A female accented voice said as a brown-haired woman in black suit entered.

"Who… who are you?" Yelena demanded.

"If not for me, you'd be dead. I and my associates have an offer for you. Join us and you can have your revenge on Natasha Romanoff and her friends. What say you?" The woman asked and Yelena smirked, intrigued.

"I'm listening."


Anatoly and his men celebrated in their club before suddenly, there was deathly silence. No one could let out a sound, even if they shouted at the top of their lungs, much to Anatoly's confusion. Suddenly, he saw his brothers shot with some red darts as they spasmed violently and fell down and Anatoly panicked, taking cover as he saw a bearded man in leather jacket with a shield with razor edges strapped to his back and the second one was a Caucasian brunette in red leather suit and red tinted glasses and some wrist guns and a dark-haired woman with Afro haircut and silver outfit enter.

As much as Bratva attempted to fight back, they couldn't. They stood no chance against them as Anatoly stared in horror seeing his brothers being brutally slaughtered. When Anatoly was left the last man standing, suddenly, all sounds were heard again as he crawled back in fear. "I thought you were a myth…" He stared at them in disbelief.

"You thought wrong." The dark-skinned woman said.

"It's time for you to reunite with your American friends, Mr. Knyazev." The bearded man said.


In comic books, Yelena Belova is a spy and assassin, who was trained in Red Room, just like Natasha and they were allies/rivals in comic books, depending on the circumstances. I'm quite ticked off the Black Widow film was pushed back because of coronavirus. Hope not too much, though, unlike Furious 9 that got delayed a year back.

And I think it's obvious who saved Yelena.

Hope you've enjoyed this chapter.

I think you can guess who it was at the end. Well, things are about to get messy.

And no, I'm not doing 5x13, since to be blunt, I hated the plot regarding gun control. While I think that it is an interesting topic, I didn't like how it was handled in the episode, basically the main point of it was that being in possession of a gun is wrong and people who have guns, need to be put in check. Honestly, I didn't have much problem with political agenda in the shows at first but the way they keep forcing feminism in Supergirl and Batwoman, plus occasionally gun control, is annoying, and it got worse in the first half of Season 4 of Supergirl with racial differences but then it got toned down. While still political, it hasn't been too pushy but more subtle and toned down in Season 5 of Supergirl.

So, the next chapter is going to cover 5x14.

Stay safe from coronavirus, guys.

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