Chapter 2: Mysterious Call
Natasha POV (Point of View)
She was in the Avengers new headquarters. She had just looked up at the wall when Cap (Captain America) walked into the room. He simply stated "Do you want to get to work or keep staring at the wall? I mean it's a pretty interesting wall."
She replied quickly back with the snarky comment of "I thought 'you' and Tony were still gazing into each other's eyes." They walked quickly to the Training Center where their new recruits were waiting. When Cap and Nat walked in they all flew down in pre-rehearsed dramatic music. They promised each other though never to tell their trainers (Cap & Nat) they had spent the last 2 hours working on that 20 seconds.
After a grueling workout for the new Avenger members they all went to their living cell. Their living cell was not remotely close to a jail cell as the name implies. Their spacious living quarters provided them with a place bigger than Barton's house with all the essentials and non-essentials they would ever need. Natasha was the only person who did not go plop down in bed after the training session. She went to her cell and got an appropriate change of clothes.
She wore red dyed leather boots, with black pants, a red sweater, and a black V-neck shirt. She walked back out of her cell only to bump into Cap. He curiously asked "Where are you going right after training?"
She replied, without too much emotion so she didn't show her depressed feeling, "Fury called, he had, well … disturbing news."
Cap replied "WHAT HAPPENED?" The amount of worry, concern and nervousness he had was clearly evident in his voice.
Natasha said "Fury called me to meet him. I will tell you on the walk to my car."" Natasha started explain that the SHIELD headquarters had been mysteriously programmed to self-destruct. They did notice an intruder in the building before the self-destruct was activated. The intruder was never identified because she was always facing away from the cameras even while fighting. SHIELD did remark her fighting styles were much like Black Widow's moves indicating the Red Room still existed.
That struck a nerve in Cap. He had fought Black Widow and she was no easy opponent. He could not imagine fighting an army as talented as she was. Only when Natasha said "Capsicle, you alright?" did he realize he had stopped right in the middle of a step.
He quickly replied "Yes, no, not really, a whole army of evil Natashas would be more dangerous than a whole army of Loki. Especially when we don't know who the soldiers are."
She replied "Well Fury said he needed help finding the intruder. You can come to the meeting but this is my mission. I need "me time" after so many 'boring' training sessions." She stated it with high levels of sass.
Cap said "Thanks but I do not want to be an intruder or an unwanted person there. Be careful."
As she revved up the engine of her Corvette she rolled down the window and said "Do you even know me?" She sped out of the garage leaving a thick blanket of smoke for Cap to start coughing on.
"Please, come back for me." Cap whispered even though he knew she had no possibility of hearing him.
Natasha arrived at the SHIELD Helicarrier because that was all that was left of SHIELD. She walked aboard and remembered the last time she was on the Heli-carrier, in Sokovia. The Heli-carrier was musty the last time she walked around here, now it was precisely clean with no hint that it was ever buried in dust.
She walked up to Nick Fury and immediately became distressed because of his body language.
He said in a low voice "There is something I did not tell you on the phone."
What do you think? Please leave constructive criticism below. Chapter 3 will be available Friday 2-19-2016.