Chapter Three. Meeting Black Widow and the Barton Family
Natasha Romanov, known as Black Widow, was outside Kenwood High School and she was startled seeing a familiar blue box emerging on the school grounds.
"The Doctor is here?" Natasha looked startled at the TARDIS's arrival. Little did she know it would not be the Doctor that she was familiar with.
The TARDIS door opened and she saw a man with blonde hair wearing a cricket uniform, a woman with a clean cut crop and a white top, a young boy in yellow wearing a light blue badge and a girl with curly/wavy brown hair wearing a blue/yellow/white striped dress step out of the box as the blonde man closed the door behind him. Natasha was alarmed by this as she only recognized two of them.
"That is weird." Natasha stated quietly, "Tegan and Nyssa are with the Doctor, or who looks like the Doctor. Which is him anyway? The boy or the blonde guy wearing a celery?"
She walked over to the TARDIS crew and approached them.
"Nyssa? Tegan? Is that you?" Natasha greeted the group, "And I assume one of you guys must be known as the Doctor."
"That would be me." the Doctor answered.
"How do you know us?" Nyssa asked.
"Wait a minute." Natasha quipped, "What do you...hold on. I am going to ask you a few questions."
"Ask away." the Doctor told her.
"Do you guys know a Mad Titan by the name of Thanos?" Natasha asked.
"He was mentioned before." Adric answered, "We never really met him face to face."
"Okay. What about the Master? When was your last encounter with him?"
"Castrovalva." the Doctor answered, "Before that he took the form of Nyssa's father Tremas and we saved Adric from the Master's clutches after I regenerated to this current form and he is pretty much dead, so we may think."
"What do you mean?" Nyssa asked.
"This is not the first time that the Master has cheated death." the Doctor answered, "However as Castrovalva was collapsing, I am pretty sure he did not make it out."
"Typical of the Master." Natasha chided, "an evil version of Houdini."
Nyssa and Tegan looked at each other before looking back at Natasha.
"What were your most recent events?" Natasha then proceeded to ask.
"Well," the Doctor began, "we had to deal with the Mara again and we saved Tegan from its hold."
"The Mara was terrifying to look at." Adric admitted as he shuddered at the memory of seeing the Mara's true form. Nyssa nodded in agreement.
"We also met my future incarnation and his wife Rose Tyler and companion Donna Noble at a futuristic library," the Doctor continued, "there Donna brought in her lover Lee McAvoy as a new companion and a woman named River Song gave me a brand spanking new sonic screwdriver before sacrificing herself to save everyone in the library."
The Doctor proceeded to show Natasha the sonic screwdriver and she seemed to be amazed by it.
"Lovely. So you met Rose Tyler then." Natasha replied, "What happened to your old one by the way?"
"It was destroyed by a Terileptil leader in one of my earlier missions." the Doctor answered, "as for my previous two adventures, I was in Sunnydale, California dealing with an entity that attacked a school dance and before that, the Cybermen and that was when the Balance came and they saved Adric from being killed in an explosion."
Natasha then snapped her fingers, "That is it! That is why I could not recognize the boy. Uh oh."
"What?" Tegan asked.
"I take it you guys are from another universe." Natasha stated, "Because I do not recognize Adric here in this universe. I do not know why but..."
"How do you not recognize me?!" Adric exclaimed, seemingly upset.
"I am sure there is a reason." the Doctor calmly assured his young companion, "This Natasha Romanov is from another universe, the same universe that my future self came from. The one where you didn't survive that freighter explosion."
"Oh gee," Adric looked down in frustration, "That is a comforting fact. I do not exist anymore in this universe."
"We should be getting in the school." Natasha suggested, "My friend is waiting for me."
"Sounds like a good idea." the Doctor replied before looking at Adric, "Maybe we will be able to keep our minds off of this traumatic revelation."
"Hopefully." Adric nodded.
Natasha walked into Kenward High School along with the Doctor, Nyssa, Adric and Tegan. They signed in as participants of the school's Fall Festival. The five met up with Laura, Lila, Cooper and Nathaniel.
"Ah," Natasha looked over at Laura's children, "Cooper, looking good as Cap. Nathaniel, I like your Sheriff Woody costume."
"Thanks Aunt Natasha." Nathaniel replied.
"Thanks Aunt Natasha." Cooper replied, "Lila did not wear a costume."
"She looks good anyway." Natasha replied, "You look very pretty, Lila. As do you as well, Laura."
"Thank you." Laura smiled and nodded.
"Thanks, Auntie Nat." Lila smiled, "Who are your new friends there?"
"Nice to meet you lot." the Doctor was the first to introduce himself, "I am the Doctor."
"My name is Nyssa."
"I am Adric."
"And I am Tegan Jovanka."
"So Doctor who?" Cooper asked.
"He is just called the Doctor, Cooper." Natasha answered, "Trust me on this."
"You met him before?" Laura asked.
"The Doctor. Yes." Natasha answered, "I thought I met Tegan and Nyssa before, but I guess I mistaken them for someone else with the same names."
"So I see." Laura nodded. Natasha didn't really want to get into full details about her times with the Doctor as she had met three incarnations as of now.
"Who are these lovely people?" the Doctor asked.
"These people are Clint Barton's family," Natasha answered, "his wife...now widower, Laura Barton. As well as his children, his two boys Cooper and Nathaniel Barton. Nathaniel is the youngest and finally, here is Lila, Clint Barton's daughter."
"Nice to meet you." the Doctor replied. Adric, Nyssa and Tegan all nodded in agreement.
The woman from the caverns was watching over the group as she appeared to be pleased with their presence in the gymnasium. She knew that one of them was set to be the new host for her master Aefriol.
