Chapter 4 – Order of the Eagle

"Your Clint? What'd you mean your Clint?" Rose asked again after a couple minutes of silence. Natasha still didn't know what to say. How the hell was she meant to explain that she was another dimension and by the looks of it Rose was living her life? For the first time in years she was speechless.

"I… em…" Natasha spluttered. For time since the Red Room she felt like she like she wasn't in control. Rose glared at her with a look that said get it out. After a couple of minutes Rose's face softened slightly.

"I'll tell you about me and then you'll tell me about you," Rose growled before going to sit on the couch. She knew she wasn't going to get anything out of Natasha by glaring at her. Natasha slowly walked over to the couch and sat down beside her. Rose tucked her feet underneath her before speaking.

"My name's Rose Stalingrad aka Death Adder. Apparently I'm Russian but I'm not too sure. The first thing I can remember was being trained by a group called the Red Room. I was meant to be for the Black Widow program but the first and only Black Widow – Natalia Romanov, died from the enhancers, they cut the program but carried on training me and some other girls. When I was seven they started the Death Adder program. It was two weeks before my 12th birthday when they killed all the other girls out me on the enhancers. The enhancers were a hell of a lot better than they thought… they strengthened all my senses, physical abilities, mental abilities you name it they probably strengthened it. The drugs they used on me after missions to wipe my memory only had some effect, because of the enhancers they didn't work properly. Once I woke up in a room with fifty dead bodies with no idea how I killed them. I accidentally touched one on my way out and I remembered everything that happened. It happens every time now if I can't remember something all I have to do is touch something related to it, it's my superpower I guess. I carried on working for the Red Room till just over a year ago and a half. I was on a mission in Berlin when Agent Barton found me, he chased me through Europe and eventually cornered me in Budapest. Agent Barton was sent to kill me, he made a different call. He took me back to S.H.I.E.L.D. after convincing me to join them and leave the Red Room, he convinced the boss to let me work there and I've never looked back. Then Oscorp took over and it all went to shit," Rose rubbed her temple. Natasha raised an eyebrow. Oscorp took over? They're never capable of taking over an organization like S.H.I.E.L.D. well not in her dimension anyway. In this dimension they obviously were.

"What happened to S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Natasha raised an eyebrow.

"Oh S.H.I.E.L.D., those were the days," she laughed, "S.H.I.E.L.D. was run by a man called Nick Fury. He did things he shouldn't to protect 'superheroes', people like me and Clinton. He let me work for S.H.I.E.L.D., he protected me. Five months into my partnership with Hawkeye things went south. We'd just come back from Vienna when things started to go wrong. Osborn was getting more and more control. I'm not too sure what happened but Osborn attacked S.H.I.E.L.D. slyly, very slyly. No one knew until it was too late. He took more and more control before he killed Fury and took total control. He started hunting superheroes as soon as he got into power and he managed to kill some of them… us I guess. He even killed his own son when he was trying to help Spider-Man escape. Spider-Man and his family got away but at the price of Harry Osborn. It was then we decided we had to do something and the Order of the Eagle was properly created, we'd been around a bit before but not properly." Rose smiled as she said the words. Natasha was getting answers but she was still confused and now new questions were starting to emerge.

"The Order of the Eagle?" Natasha asked carefully.

"Two master assassins, two super spies and three highly trained scientists. Together we keep the big guys out of the bad guy's hands." Rose smirked before turning to Natasha, "Your turn."

"My name's Natasha Romanoff aka Natalia Romanov aka the Black Widow," she explained. Rose froze.

"Impossible!" she breathed.

"And I'm from another, better dimension."

"What?"

"Me and my team were sent by Nick Fury to take down a device that can teleport people or things to another dimension. My dimension's version of you, Rosie, was about to get hit by the blast, I pushed her out the way and next thing I knew I'm here." Rose stayed silent for a couple of minutes before looking up at Natasha.

"Nick Fury… he's alive?"

"Yes."

"And there's no Oscorp?"

"There is but not as S.H.I.E.L.D., S.H.I.E.L.D. exists and my partner Hawkeye, Rosie and myself all work for S.H.I.E.L.D. Anyway Oscorp hardly has any power. Harry Osborn is still alive and so are your parents. I know the Red Room will have told you they're dead but in my dimension they are very much alive and they may be here too."

"Who are my-" Rose started but was cut off by a sharp knock on the door. Rose gut up and ran to the door.

"Hello," she smiled as she let Coulson and a few others into the room. Natasha recognised them instantly. How couldn't she? She'd been living with most of them for long enough and saw all of them nearly every day of her life.

"She's not a class B anymore and not even a class A! More like A*, we need a whole new class for her. Tell 'em what you told me. Oh this is Maria Hill, Dr Jane Foster, Dr Darcy Lewis and Dr Betty Ross and you already know Coulson, they are the other members of The Order of the Eagle," Rose explained. One thought popped into Natasha's head. Darcy had a doctorate… wow. Natasha quickly shook the thought out of her head and repeated everything she'd told Rose minutes before. After she'd finished Rose pulled Coulson aside and told him about Clinton.

"YOU SHOWED HIM WHAT?!" Coulson roared.

"He had to know… Daddy," Rose pouted. Rosie knew she was in trouble and she knew exactly how to get out of it. Coulson was like a Father to her and Clint like an annoying brother. She knew how to bend them both to her will, she figured it out months ago. She stared up at Coulson with puppy dog eyes.

"I'm sorry Daddy but he needed to know," she pouted. Coulson sighed and rubbed his temple.

"It's fine Rose, I'll sort it out," he muttered, "go talk with everyone else."

"Ok Daddy. I'm sorry," she pouted before walking away. As soon as Coulson went into Clinton's room Rose turned to the girls a smile plastered on her face.

"And that my friends is how you bend Coulson to your will," she smirked.

"Rose Stalingrad you little minx!" Hill gasped. Rose laughed as they all stared at her shocked. Apart from Natasha who smiled at her with a look of pride on her face.

"That's what I'm here for," she smirked just as her phone buzzed she took it out her pocket and swore, "SHIT!"

"What is it?" Betty jumped.

"Dr Banner's position has been compromised, an Oscorp units on its way to terminate him. Hill, Betty it's time to suit up." Rose ran to a cupboard in the living room. She threw it open and chucked a suit to Betty and Hill. She paused and turned back to Natasha.

"Natasha?"

"Yes?" Natasha looked over to her slightly shocked she remembered her name.

"We could use a little Widow," she chucked a suit at her before putting on her own. Natasha smiled as she slipped hers on. She slipped the balaclava over her face. Rose, Hill and Betty all wore the same suit.

"Dr Banner, your position has been compromised, prepare for an emergency extraction," Rose spoke into a com.

"Jet's ready girls let's get going!" Jane shouted and pulled a vent cover off the wall. Rose went in first followed by everyone else apart from Jane and Natasha. Natasha stared at the vent

"Don't worry it's just… well like a slide to the jet. I'll be going in after you," Jane reassured her. Natasha nodded and jumped in. Jane was right. It was basically a slide.

Natasha landed with a thud on the floor of the jet. Quickly she got up and moved out the way before Jane came down and went over to a seat. Once she was in she looked around the jet.

"Where'd you get this from?" Natasha asked.

"It was previously the Black Hawk, the X-Men's jet. We protect them now so they gave us their jet," Darcy flicked some of the switches as Rose and herself prepared for take-off.

"Ready for take-off. Get ready for Greenland Ms Romanoff," Betty smiled as the jet took off. As soon as they were out of the city the jet went supersonic. Next thing Natasha knew they were in Greenland.

"Right, Jane keep the jet going we may need a quick escape, Darcy stay at the guns everyone else let's get going," Rose instructed. Natasha could only tell who was who by the different weapons. Rose had Katanas, Hill had nun chucks and Betty had guns. They didn't have to walk for until they came across a small house.

"Hill watch the door!" Rose instructed as they ran inside the house. A man was hurriedly running around the place shoving things in bags.

"Bruce!" Betty cried running over to him. Bruce looked up and threw his arms around her.

"Dr Banner, you ready?" Rose asked. Bruce looked up and nodded.

"Who's that one?" he pointed to Natasha.

"New girl, let's get going! Oscorp's on their way now," Rose said.

"Let's go Brucy," Betty picked up a bag and dragged him out the house. Hill ran into the room in a panic.

"They're here and there's a lot of them" she panted. They all froze. This wasn't good.

"How many?" Natasha asked.

"A couple of hundred at least!" she panted.

"We can handle this," Natasha reassured the group.

"We've done it before," Rose backed Natasha up, "Dr Banner. Now would be a great time for you to get angry."

"Eagles, Dr Banner, come out with your hands up!" someone shouted for outside. They started to panic slightly. They need to act fast, if they don't they're screwed. Bruce looked back to the door before shaking his head.

"No, I can't, I'll hurt people!" Bruce shook his head. Natasha bit her bottom lip they don't have much time left. Someone better convince him to hulk up.

"Bruce please. If you don't they'll kill us. Please the Hulk can protect us, protect me," Betty lifted up her balaclava and put her hands on Bruce's chest. Natasha smiled, making it personal. Nice. Who knew Betty had the power of manipulation in her?

Bruce took one look at Betty and crumbled.

"Ok…" he whispered. They all pretty much jumped at the news. Now they'd win for sure. Oscorp Agents couldn't fight the Hulk. The Order of the Eagle were the best Agents Oscorp has and they're secretly working against them.

"Thank you," Betty reached up and kissed him passionately on the lips, "I'll see you soon honey." Betty backed away and Bruce started to transform into the Hulk. As soon as the transformation was complete the Hulk let out a deafening roar. Natasha smiled. Man she needed to hear that, it was a little piece of home.

"Welcome back Hulk. It's good to see ya," Rose smiled, "You ready to smash?" The Hulk grunted and nodded as Betty pulled her balaclava back down.

"Great! Hulk?" Rose got his attention again as she pointed to the door and Hulk instantly got the message, "Smash." Hulk ran to the door and cried.

"Hulk smash puny Oscorps!" They heard Agents scream outside and they all smiled. That was a welcoming sound.

"That's our cue," Hill said before rushing out.

Within the space of fifteen minutes the last terrified Agent was smashed into the ground. Hulk let out a roar of triumph that Natasha couldn't help but smile at.

"Good job Hulk," Betty pulled up her balaclava. The Hulk smiled as soon as he saw her and muttered Betty. Natasha smirked and cleaned her weapons on the grass.

"Yes it's me. It's time to go now, we need to move you," she told him calmly. The Hulk nodded and followed them back to the jet. Once inside they all removed the balaclavas before putting down there blood soaked weapons. Slowly the Hulk turned back into Dr Banner and Betty handed him new trousers.

"Thank you Brucy," she smiled and kissed him.

"I'm just glad you're safe," he hugged Betty and kept his arm around her as they sat down, "Did I hurt anyone?"

"Only the Oscorp Agents sweetie, I love you Bruce," Betty buried her head in his shoulder.

"I love you too," he smiled kissing her forehead before looking up, "Where are you moving me?"

"Tibet," Hill replied quickly.

"No. I have somewhere better," Rose smiled, "I have a safe house in New York."

"New York, are you crazy?!" Jane squealed.

"Probably, but it's so obvious Osborn wouldn't think to look there!" Rose argued.

"If it means I'm closer to Betty I don't care. I've missed you," Bruce smiled lovingly at her. Natasha watched the pair, they were worse than her dimensions Bruce and Betty and trust her they were bad enough. Holding back the urge to gag Natasha spoke up.

"It's a good idea. It's right under his nose, he'd never expect it," Natasha nodded.

"New York it is then, Rosie give me the co-ordinates," Jane muttered. Rose recited the co-ordinates and Jane gasped in surprise.

"That's the old Stark mansion at Central Park!" she gasped.

"Yep, Mr Stark gave it to me when they went into hiding," Rose shrugged. Natasha's ears spiked up. Tony and probably Pepper were still alive, so now the only person she doesn't know about is Steve. She was snapped out her thoughts by someone coming over to her.

"So you're the new girl," Bruce smiled. Natasha looked round and smiled back.

"For now," she muttered, "Natasha Romanoff, Black Widow."

"Dr-" Bruce started.

"Dr Bruce Banner I already know," she smiled, "And I know more about you lot then you want from a stranger." Bruce's face dropped. Natasha was freaking him out and she was loving it. Her mouth curled into a devilish smile. Betty walked up behind him and whispered in his ear I'll explain later. Natasha laughed before going over to finish of cleaning her weapons.

New York – Clinton and Rose's apartment

They climbed up the vent and into the living room only to see Phil changing the locks. Without looking round he started speaking.

"We're locking Bobbie out, here's your keys," Coulson chucked a pair of keys over his shoulder which Rose caught with ease, "Hello again Dr Banner."

"Phil," Bruce nodded. Rose walked over to the answering machine and pressed the button to play the message.

"Hey baby it's me, I'll be back at four the mission was quicker than they thought. I'll see you soon," Bobbie's voice echoed in the room. They all looked at the machine for a minute before Rose jumped into action.

"Right everyone out!" Rose pushed them out the door after they'd quickly changed out of their catsuit and gave Bruce some better clothes, "Natasha get in my room. Bobbie never goes in there she knows my limits, not that she'll be getting in anyway but better safe than sorry." Natasha nodded and headed to her bedroom and Rose pushed her way into Clinton's. Once she was inside she heard the front door slam and guessed it was Rose.

"Hey baby I'm home!... Baby why's the door locked? Why can't I open the door?!" she heard Bobbie whine.

"Get lost Morse," Clinton hissed.

"Baby?" Bobbie whined again. Natasha rolled her eyes she was just as annoying here.

"I'm sending the divorce papers to your room on the Helicarrier. Oh and if you want your stuff it's too late, Rose has got them all and is burning them in the hobos bin."

Natasha jumped off the bed and ran to the window. Sure enough there was Rose dumping item by item into the metal bin allowing them to smoke away. Natasha smirked and went over to the door and pressed her ear against it. After a while and no sound came from the room she walked into the living room to see Clinton with his head in his hands on the couch.

"Hey," she spoke softly.

"Tell me… in your dimension did she do that to me, did I fall for it as long?" Clinton asked without looking up.

"Yeah she did but Clint found out pretty quickly," Natasha muttered, slowly she walked closer and leant against the wall, "It'll get better… trust me."