Chapter 25
By: MysticFantasy
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"Neither of our serums can be detected in our blood or be copied. This whole thing was a waste of time and your death sentence." Natasha said as she kept her pistols raised but not daring to pull the triggers since she might accidentally hurt Steve who was still being used as a human shield.
"I plan to prove that theory wrong." Henry declared.
"It's not a theory!" Steve declared. "Hundreds have tried to copy the serum but none of them have worked. Bruce Banner ended up turning his version of the serum into something no one could have imagined."
"I'm aware of Doctor Banner's work in trying to re-create the serum. The fool was lucky that the monster was all he got. Well, he would have been luckier if he had been killed. No one wants a monster around."
"You should look in the mirror if you want to see a real monster." Natasha said. "You manipulated the DNA of Steve Rogers and slipped it to me in order to create a child even you weren't sure would be born. Now that he had been born and is only a month old, you kidnapped him in hopes of getting something from him that he might not even have or you can get."
"You should know a monster when you see one." Henry challenged. "After all, you are the Black Widow."
"I am." Natasha said. "I know that I'm a monster and nothing I do can erase that fact. Everyone always tells me that I'm not that person any more but they don't know what I've done. Even giving birth to an innocent child doesn't keep me from knowing who I was. I'm even afraid that he'll turn out exactly like me. But know that he's his father's son is keeping me from worrying too much. Becoming a mother has changed me for the better. I refuse to allow my child to turn into me."
The spy looked into the eyes of her husband. His eyes were telling her that she wasn't the monster she believed herself to be. She believed him but only by so much.
He still didn't know everything she had done before meeting Clint and allowing him to take her to SHIELD where she was able to make a new start for herself.
"You've gone soft." Henry said. "Winter Soldier has told me everything that you've done. Even having a child by Captain America won't erase the things you've done. The people you've killed, the lives you've destroyed, the families you've torn apart...None of that can be changed because you think you can raise a boy to be like Captain America."
"He's my boy." Steve declared before suddenly elbowing the doctor's arm and ducking out of the gun's path.
Natasha took this chance to fire as much as possible.
The doctor fired his own weapon as he tried to get out of the path of Nathasha's bullets.
The soldier and spy quickly ducked behind a metal desk.
"Are you alright?" Natasha asked as she placed her hands on the sides of Steve's face.
"I'm fine." Steve answered. "Are you?"
"I'm about to tear this guys heart out with my own hands but yes, I'm fine." Natasha answered. "Let's get our son back."
Steve nodded and carefully looked over the top of the desk. Luckily, he still had his shield on his back because Henry left it there for his own security. The doctor had believed that Steve would order someone to take a shot if they had it which meant taking it straight through the soldier in order to get to the doctor. But the indestructable shield would protect him.
"He's not a fighter." Steve said. "Just a bragger. Thinks he's like Arnim. He's not even close to being like his great-grandfather."
"Think he'll make some mistakes?" Natasha asked.
"He'll definatly head to a lab." Steve answered. "All he talked about was trying to get the serum from either of us or James. I'd say he would go there to secure any information he thinks he has on us, James and the serum."
"Let's go." Natasha declared. "I want my son back."
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Henry Zola sneered in frustration as he burst into his lab.
"They cannot shut me down."
The white haired doctor rushed over to a computer and quickly entered a password that allowed him access to the files.
He quickly pulled up the saved files he had typed and saved. Years of study that he had done on Captain America and the Black Widow.
Years of work would now have to be saved and worked on if he was able to get out of this situation.
"Zola!" a voice yelled in the distance. "If you think you're going to outsmart us, you're wrong. You're nothing like your ancestor!"
The doctor sneered more at the sound of the super soldiers voice. He quickly types in a few codes and was in the process of saving his work when the screen suddenly exploded in front of him.
He growled in anger. His work had just been lost by a single bullet.
"You better say your prayers." Natasha declared with a dangerous tone. "You took my baby from me and now you're going to pay for it."
"Are you sure you want to do that?" Henry asked as he put his hands in the air by his head. "Winter Soldier is the only one with your son and only I know where they are. Are you sure you want to kill me and not know where your son is?"
"Where is he?!" Natasha demanded as Steve appeared behind her with his shield ready.
"I could give the order for Winter Soldier to eliminate your precious child right now if I wished to." Henry stated with a smug smirk.
Both Steve and Natasha were not happy with the way that Zola was leading them on. They know that their child was in the hands of the man who was once Steve's greatest friend and they both know that one wrong move could cost them not only their lives but their sons life.
They did not want to lose their son after having him in their lives for only one month.
"It seems we have come to a situation in which we need to bargin." Henry mused.
"No we don't."
BANG!