Steve awoke a few minutes later, finding Tony tapping frustrated onto his laptop trying to fix Jarvis and undo whatever Nazari or Elena had done to the tower security. The elevators were still offline and the doors to the other floors were all sealed off.
Natasha was lay on the floor, barely conscious, as Clint gripped her thigh trying to stem the bleeding; from the looks of it she'd already lost a lot of blood. Her lack of sarcastic remarks and absence of insisting that she was fine was concerning. Clint was frantically trying to keep her awake an aware, but was steadily losing that battle.
Steve scrambled to his feet, head pounding and a throbbing in his neck where he'd been injected with whatever had been used to render him unconcious... He walked over to where Elena's dead body lay;
"Do we know why?" he asked the other solemnly. She looked so young, he couldn't understand why someone like her would be helping Nazari.
"She's from the red room" came Natasha's weak response from the floor. The three men looked to Elena silently; they all knew that the people who ran Russia's illegal spy training facility wanted Natasha dead, probably even more so than Nazari.
"Got it!" Tony said happily as the elevators opened. He carefully picked Natasha up, being the only one who hadn't recently been injured or knocked out, and led the others hastily to the exit.
Bruce met the others at SHIELD HQ having accompanied the agents who'd come to collect Nazari. Natasha, Clint and Steve were taken straight up to medical. A SHIELD clean up team was dispatched to the tower to collect Elena's dead body, and Tony stalked angrily up to the interrogation rooms, followed by Bruce.
There were lots of people heading in the same general direction; most of them armed. Something was wrong; they could hear Fury yelling, and they soon found Hill who was stood pacing in the corridor.
"Hill, what's happening?"
"Joynson's dead and Nazari is gone"
"Excuse me?! Tell me I heard you wrong?"
"I wish you did, somehow he fled. Stopping on the way to murder his nephew."
"How the hell?!"
"We're working on it Stark! We currently have no idea how this happened!"
"It's pretty obvious you still have someone on the inside on Nazari's payroll, no matter how sure your boss is"
Tony turned to storm off. Nazari would lay low for a while; recuperate. With Elena and Joynson dead he'd need to recruit some more willing followers. But he certainly wouldn't stop until Clint and Natasha were dead.
