Volume II: The Black Widow Part II
Note: This will be the fourteenth chapter of Volume II and the second part of the two part story, Peter has allied himself with Natasha Romanoff as they've agreed to work together to fight the Red Room and rescue Gwen Stacy. Peter reaches out to S.H.I.E.L.D. for help in extracting them out of Russia. Captain America will play a role in helping Peter getting out of the country. Peter will don a new stealth suit as he will soon face off against a powerful opponent he never expects to face, the Ultimate Black Widow. Natasha will be on a journey of redemption for all the things she's done.
Back in the States, at the Triskelion, May is sitting all alone in Nick Fury's office wondering if there's any news on her nephew Peter. Steve Rogers came in and spotted May all alone as she looked at the fellow hero like Peter.
"I didn't know that you were still here. I just came by to drop off somethings." Steve walk to the desk and drop somethings off.
"It's okay, I just praying for a miracle." May says to Steve.
"Peter is still alive out there, don't lost hope." Steve says to May.
"You seem to care much about him." May says to Steve.
"Your nephew is one the greatest heroes I had the privilege of meeting. When I first woke up from ice, I was totally lost in a different world, a different time, that was the day I met your nephew. At first I thought that he was a menace like the papers said he was, but after awhile I found out the he was just like me, a good man with a good heart. I didn't think that there were any heroes left in the world after I've gone away for so long, but your nephew brought the name hero back, he continued my mission and brought heroes into the world. When Loki invaded the Earth, we felt hopeless and we were just about to hang it all up, but then Peter taught us that this world needed us to fight back and showed us all the true meaning of being a hero. He didn't give up that day, and because of it, we rose up and we took back our world, that was the day the Avengers was formed. Your nephew didn't give up on us, so I'm not going to give up on him." Steve says to May.
"You really mean that, do you?" May says to Steve.
"I do, he's an Avenger, we're more than just a team, we're a family." Steve says to May.
"Thank you for doing this, Captain America." May thanked Steve.
"You can thank me once we find him, because we will find him. He's out there somewhere waiting for us to bring him home. Come on, let go to the operations room and wait for a lead to come." Steve says to May.
Meanwhile in Russia, at a small military outpost near town, the soldier are all doing their regular routines around. But inside the communications room, a couple of men are monitoring radio frequencies passing on through. Natasha and Peter are hidden in the air vent waiting, Natasha has an idea on how to get rid of them without them knowing they're here, she hacked into the landline of the room. The landline rang as the monitor guy is picking it and answered the call.
"Yes?"
"The commander wants to see you both immediately." Natasha's voice.
"Understood."
Both men got up and walked out of the room, after they're gone, Peter and Natasha jumped down from the vent and landed in a three point stance. Peter looked at Natasha doing the same landing pose he's doing.
"What?" Natasha says to Peter.
"Why are you doing that? That's usually my move." Peter says to Natasha.
"Believe it or not, I do more often when fighting or landing, must be a spider thing." Natasha says to Peter.
"Okay, whatever. We need to move fast before they come back." Peter looks around the controls.
Peter froze up as all of the controls labels are in Russian.
Peter sighed. "Would've helped if I learned Russian."
"I can help with that. May I?" Natasha knows Russian better than Peter.
Peter nodded his head as Natasha took the controls and types in for a secure transmission out of the country.
"Okay, give me the frequency codes to S.H.I.E.L.D." Natasha asking for the codes.
Peter came to the control and types in the codes to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s frequency channel, the dish is sending a signal of the country.
"Okay, time for you to reach out." Natasha gave him the mike.
Peter sits down and speaks. "Mayday! Mayday! Can you hear me?! This is Spider-Man to S.H.I.E.L.D.! Please response!"
(Triskelion)
In the operations room, Nick Fury along with agents Coulson and Hill, Steve is with Mary Jane, May, and George as they're worried for Peter and Gwen. One of the monitors received a transmission coming from another country.
"This is... to S.H.I.E.L.D... respond..." Peter's transmission is giving off static.
"Director Fury, we're receiving a transmission, it's foreign but it's on our own frequency!"
"Patch it through!" Nick Fury orders the monitor guy.
The monitor guy patched in the foreign transmission and amplifies it for everyone to hear.
"This is Spider-Man to S.H.I.E.L.D! Please respond" Peter still trying to reach S.H.I.E.L.D..
May gasped, she is shocked to hear that voice, as did most of his friends and S.H.I.E.L.D..
"My god, it's him! Peter!" May is shocked.
"Lock on to that frequency immediately!" Nick Fury tells his guys.
Steve went up to the mike and talked. "Son, can you hear me? This is Captain Rogers."
(Russia)
Peter smiled as he finally made it through to S.H.I.E.L.D. and hear Cap's voice.
"Cap, it's good to hear your voice." Peter smiled in relief.
"Your aunt came to me for help when she learned that you and Stacy were both missing. Where are you?" Steve asking Peter.
(Triskelion)
"Me and Gwen have been abducted by the Red Room and taken to their facility in Russia." Peter gave out his location.
"Russia? Damnit, this is not good." Maria Hill isn't pleased to hear where he is.
George came up and took the mike. "Peter, is Gwen with you?"
"No, I'm sorry, I escaped but they still have her held captive, but I'm going to go back and rescue her, I promise. Though I'll need help for a quick extraction once I get her." Peter says to everyone.
"Where is the facility?" Steve asking Peter.
(Russia)
Peter looked at Natasha as she's the one with the precise location to give to S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Natasha, they need the location of the Red Room, please." Peter asking Natasha for the location.
Natasha has already crossed the point of no return when she agreed to help Peter avoid the Red Room, but she'll also be betraying the other Black Widow she knows, including one she considered a sister.
Natasha sighed. "113 degrees east longitude and 70 degrees north latitude."
(Triskelion)
"Okay, 113 degrees east longitude and 70 degrees north latitude." Peter gave the Red Room location.
"Alright, use the satellite to zoom in." Nick Fury orders his men.
The monitor guys types and shows satellite imaging of Russia from far above at it zooms down to the Red Room facility.
"Did you get it?" Peter asking Nick Fury.
"We got it, it looks like a fortress isolated on top of a mountain, I'm impressed that you were able to escape from such a place alone, kid." Nick Fury says to Peter.
(Russia)
"Looks like the facility itself is protect by a small army and anti air turrets, it won't be so easy to get to. We'll try to get there as soon as possible, but I'll feel better if you can do something about those cannons." Steve asking Peter to do his part.
"I'll see what I can do about it, I'm going to try to get back into the facility to save Gwen by the time you get there." Peter says to Steve.
"How are you going to get back? That place is bound to be more fortified after your last escape." Steve says to Peter.
"Don't worry, I've made an unexpected ally over here. She can sneak me back inside safely undetected." Peter referring to Natasha Romanoff.
"Do you trust her?" Steve says to Peter.
"I'll have to if I'm going to have any chance of rescuing Gwen." Peter says to Steve.
(Triskelion)
May came up and grabbed the mike. "Peter, it's me."
"Aunt May?" Peter says to May.
"Yes, it's me, I'm here and I'll still be here waiting for you to come home." May says to Peter.
Mary Jane walked up. "So will I."
"We all will, because you're both coming home, together." George Stacy says to Peter.
"So please be careful and come back home to me." May wants Peter back to her.
(Russia)
Natasha looked out the window and spotted the two monitor guys walking back towards this very room.
"Times up, we gotta go!" Natasha tells Peter.
"I have to go, Aunt May! I will come back to you, I promise!" Peter says to May.
"I love you, Peter." May says to Peter.
"I love you too. I gotta go, bye!" Peter ends transmission.
Peter and Natasha quickly erase any records and frequency codes that was just used from the communications computer. They heard footsteps coming closer, they've quickly jumped back up to the air vent they've used to sneak in. They both made it in time and closed it before the two men came into the room and finds everything exactly as they left it.
(Outside)
Peter and Natasha managed to make it out of the outpost before anyone knew they were there.
"That was too close." Peter walking beside Natasha.
"Now that you've got your message out, it's still going to be hours until your friends come to rescue you. They still have to travel half way across the world to get here, assuming they'll get here at all." Natasha says to Peter.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Peter is confused.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. has no jurisdiction here in Russia, even if they do decide to bring in an aircraft to extract you, there's still a number of fighter jets patrolling the skies, they'll need to move in fast undetected before all of Russia knows it. Are you sure that you want to go through with this rescue mission? There's no guarantees that they'll come for you." Natasha explained the risks.
"I know, but it's a chance I'll have to take. If I know Captain America, he'll come through, trust me." Peter is confident they'll come to his rescue.
Natasha smiled. "If you're going to do this, then you'll need a suit."
"Know where I can get one?" Peter is interested.
(Safe house)
Later at the safe house, Natasha shows him a secret room that has all the materials used to create the Black Widow suits all the Widows wear.
"Seriously? This is it?" Peter isn't impressed.
"What? It's black for stealth and the materials are flexible for anyone wearing them, every Black Widow makes their own design. What's the problem? You've worn black before." Natasha says to Peter.
"Yeah, it wasn't a pretty experience." Peter referring to the symbiote costume.
"Well, it's all we got." Natasha says to Peter.
Peter sighed. "Okay, I guess I can work with this."
"Got any suggestions how to design your new suit?" Natasha asking Peter.
Peter looked at Natasha in her Black Widow suit and has an inspiration.
"I just might." Peter smiled at the thought.
Back at the Triskelion, Nick Fury is protesting against this rescue mission into Russia due to the recent conflicts.
"Absolutely not!" Nick Fury protests this mission.
"Why not? We know that they're in Russia, Peter is heading back to rescue Gwen from the facility. So what's the problem?" May is wondering.
"Unfortunately, Russia is off limits, the world security council will not sanction missions there under any circumstances. Relations between the two nations are very fragile right now, this is a very delicate situation." Nick Fury explained of the situation.
"So what? We just sit here and do nothing? We leave them both there all alone?" Mary Jane protests.
"Of course not, but we have to look at the bigger picture. If we try sending any operatives there without permission, we'd be violating treaties and cause a biggest diplomatic crisis. The best thing we can do is try to use diplomacy and negotiate for their release." Nick Fury is suggesting alternative solutions.
"With all due respect, Director, if the Red Room is behind the abduction, then they'll deny their involvement and won't let their two prizes go so easily. By the time you've found a diplomatic solution, it could already be too late." Steve says to Nick Fury.
"Captain Rogers, what you're proposing is illegal." Nick Fury says to Steve.
"Don't bullshit us with your moral compass, Nick Fury!" May stands up and protests.
Phil Coulson and Steve Rogers are surprised by how tough a woman like May Parker truly is standing up to Nick Fury.
"I know all about you and S.H.I.E.L.D.! Since when did you let all the bureaucracy and red tape stop you from doing what needs to be done?! My nephew risks his life on a daily basis keeping the world safe and now you're refusing to risk your own life to save his." May says to Nick Fury with confidence.
"She's right, we can't leave them behind, at least I won't." Steve says to Nick Fury.
"Captain Rogers, have you been listening to what I just said about the risks?" Nick Fury says to Steve.
"With all due respect, I'm not looking to start a war, I just want to go over there and bring them both home. So give me the go ahead or I'll go AWOL and take the quinjet over there to save them myself. So what's it going to be, Director?" Steve Rogers gave Nick Fury an ultimatum.
Nick Fury looked at Captain Rogers to see that he's being very serious just like May Parker along with Mary Jane and George Stacy.
"Let this be clear, if this whole operation goes sideways, then we'll disavowed all of this and you'll have to face the full consequences for this, understood?" Nick Fury says to Steve.
"Understood, Director Fury." Steve understands the risk..
Nick Fury sighed. "Mission is a green light."
(Later)
Captain America dressed in his S.H.I.E.L.D. suit, is walking out of the Triskelion with a small squad of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents called the S.T.R.I.K.E., also Agent 13 is joining the mission.
"Alright, form up!" Captain America tells the team.
The S.T.R.I.K.E. all gather around to listen to Captain America.
"I want you all to know that we're about to enter very dangerous territory here, chances are that we might not make it back alive, even if we do, everyone who participated in this mission will face severe consequences. If any man wants to walk out of this mission, now is the time to do so." Captain America tells the team.
All members of the S.T.R.I.K.E. are still here and not a single man has backed away from this mission.
Captain America smiled. "Let go bring them home."
The S.T.R.I.K.E. all walked towards the quinjet but May Parker came out to the landing bay.
"Captain Rogers, wait!" May getting Steve's attention.
Captain America stopped and turns to see Peter's aunt on the landing bay.
"What is it, ma'am?" Captain America says to May.
"Just... please bring Peter back home to me." May asking Captain America.
George Stacy stands next to May. "And please bring my little girl home too."
Captain America smiled. "Yes, sir, ma'am."
Captain America salutes to them and walks away to board the quinjet. May and George stayed behind as they look at the quinjet taking off the ground. The quinjet is finally in the air and flies away towards Russia to save Peter and Gwen from the Red Room.
Back in the small town at the safe house, Peter has spent hours working on a new stealth suit using the same materials that the Black Widows use for their suits. Natasha just returned after being around town with a bag full of stuff Peter asked her to get.
"You're finally back, I was getting worried." Peter says to Natasha.
"I got you what you asked for, believe me, it wasn't easy getting all this stuff in a town like this. Oh, I also got you some food, you'll need your full strength." Natasha hands him a container.
Peter took the container full of soup, he grabbed a spoon and took a sip, only to find something unusual about it.
"What?" Natasha says to Peter.
"It's cold." Peter says to Natasha.
"It's Okroshka!" Natasha says to Peter.
Peter is unfamiliar with that word or the food.
"It's suppose to be cold, and it's all can I get you." Natasha says to Peter.
Peter doesn't want to argue and he reluctantly drinks up the cold soup as he hasn't had anything to eat since yesterday. Natasha looked at the suit Peter is making for the rescue mission.
"I see that you're almost done." Natasha talking about the suit.
"Yeah, I've already made the webshooters, all I need to do is finish the suit and make some batches of web fluids, and we'll be good to go." Peter explained to Natasha.
"Are you sure that you still want to go through with this?" Natasha asking one more time.
"I'm sure, I can't leave Gwen behind, I won't." Peter still made his decision.
"She's more than just your friend, isn't she?" Natasha suspects something between Peter and Gwen.
"Yes... she's my girlfriend, she's the love of my life." Peter confessed his feelings about Gwen.
Natasha smiled. "I knew it, you two have great chemistry."
"Thanks Natasha... So what's your story? What is this organization you work for, this Red Room?" Peter asking Natasha.
"It's a secret spy organization, pretty much like the S.H.I.E.L.D. of Russia, it formed by the K.G.B. during the Soviet Era, their purpose is train young girls from their youth to be grown up into the world's deadliest spies called the Black Widows." Natasha explained about the Red Room.
"I can't believe it, does your country leaders know about this, about they do to young girls?" Peter is shocked.
"No, after the K.G.B. and the U.S.S.R. disbanded, the Red Room still continues to exist in secret, conducting off-the-books operations all around the world, all in the name of Russia without letting their leaders know of their existence. That's just how the Red Room operates, in the shadows." Natasha explained more of the Red Room.
"So what do they really want from me and Gwen?" Peter is curious of the Red Room's intentions.
"More than a year ago, the Red Room have been hearing stories about a young man in red tights swinging around displaying extraordinary abilities beyond imagining, then later more heroes started to emerge. After what happened last summer, the world almost coming to an end, the Avengers was formed and the U.S. has its team of heroes, our country felt vulnerable without any superheroes protecting us. So the Red Room assigned me and Yelena to the states, we've been observing you for weeks, studying all your strengths and weaknesses, even your secret identities." Natasha explained of her mission.
"That's why you both went to our schools, you were watching us more closely." Peter says to Natasha.
"To be honest, being undercover at your school, as a teacher, it's the first time I've ever been in high school." Natasha smiled as she admits to Peter.
"Really? You've never experienced high school?" Peter is surprised.
"No, the Red Room has us all learning about espionage, languages, computer hacking, gymnastics, firearms, hand to hand combat, and assassination." Natasha explained to Peter.
Natasha looks out the window to see a mother with her two kids playing in the snow, Peter looked out.
"Sometimes I wonder what my life would've been like if the Red Room never took me in." Natasha says to Peter.
"I get you, more than you can understand. But I guess life isn't always about what we want. But you can still change yourself, make a new life, maybe start a family with someone." Peter says to Natasha.
Natasha is sadden. "Unfortunately, being a Black Widow comes at a price, a permanent one."
"What does that mean?" Peter is confused.
"I don't want to talk about it." Natasha isn't comfortable with this subject.
Peter decided not to pry too much out of respect, but Natasha couldn't keep it to herself all the time, she needed to let it out.
Natasha sighed. "When you're finally selected to become a Black Widow, the Red Room would see to it that we don't become anything than what they made us to be. They wanted warriors, not mothers, so they put us all through a process of sterilization, to keep us from ever having children, it's efficient, one less thing to think about."
"I'm sorry." Peter says to Natasha.
"For a long time, I've believe that no one can change their fate, so I never attempted to try and just sticked to being the only thing I always was, a trained killer." Natasha says to Peter.
"Natasha, what was done to you wasn't your choice, you never chose to be an assassin, the Red Room made that choice for you." Peter says to Natasha.
"Why do you care so much about me? After everything I've done to you and your girlfriend? I took you away from you home, your families. Why do you take pity on me?" Natasha is confused by his kindness.
"Because when I look at you, I see a person who was robbed of her childhood and forced into something that's not her. I see that you're tormented by guilt and regret, that you still some humanity in you. I care about you, Natasha, you can still change yourself and take back control of your life, it's not too late." Peter says to Natasha.
Natasha smiled as a small tear. "Thank you, Peter Parker."
"Sure... okay, so how do I sneak back into the Red Room?" Peter asking Natasha.
Natasha sits down and opens up a laptop with schematics of the Red Room facility, Peter got in close to take a look.
"I can get you back into the facility, but security will be more tighten than ever before. I'll smuggle you past the outer defenses, but you'll have to move fast and place charges on both the helicopters and the anti air turrets to clear the way for the extraction team, but our other biggest problem is the communication array, if we don't take it out then the Red Room will radio in the jets and it'll be impossible to leave by air, so once you're inside, place the charge inside the array, search around for you girlfriend and get to the topside landing pad for a quick extraction, assuming they get there in time." Natasha explained to Peter.
"They'll be there." Peter is confident.
"Okay, but there's still one obstacle left, the Black Widows themselves. They may not have powers but they're still deadly enough to be problem for us, we'll have to thin them first." Natasha says to Peter.
"So how do we draw them away from the Red Room?" Peter asking Natasha.
Natasha smiled as she looks at Peter. "I might have an idea."
Peter is confused as to what she has planned when she looks at him.
Meanwhile the quinjet is flying in through Europe, inside the quinjet, Captain America, Agent 13, and the S.T.R.I.K.E. are all geared up and prepared for anything they face.
"Cap, Nick Fury is hailing us." Agent 13 informs Captain America.
"Patch him through." Captain America gave the order.
A secured transmission was patched through as Nick Fury appeared on the screen.
"Director Fury, we're about to approach Russian airspace very soon." Captain America informs Nick Fury.
"There's still time to abort the mission Cap, last chance." Nick Fury tells Captain America.
"I understand, but no one gets left behind, not even an Avenger. I'm still going through with this." Captain America says to Nick Fury.
"The quinjet's stealth tech will get you into their airspace undetected by radar, but you'll need to avoid being sighted by any fighter jets on patrol, our satellites will guide you through the blind spots safely. But keep in mind, you only have a small window of opportunity to get in and extract them quickly before anyone catches on." Nick Fury informs Captain America.
"Don't worry, we'll get there in time to save them." Captain America says to Nick Fury.
"I'm being very serious, Captain, if they're not there by the time you arrived, then you'll be forced to leave them behind or put your entire team at risk." Nick Fury explained the risks.
"They'll be there, if I know Spider-Man, he'll pull through this, he always does." Captain America puts his faith in Spider-Man.
"Then Godspeed, Captain. The rest of us will be waiting on the Helicarrier for your return. Nick Fury out." Nick Fury cuts transmission.
Captain America and the team are still heading towards Russia hoping to get to them in time for extraction.
At the Red Room facility, the headmistress is still sitting in her office as there's still no sign of the missing spider, Yelena is inside the office.
"It's been more than ten hours and still no sign of the wandering spider?"
"He's all alone, isolated far away from his country with no help, and yet he's proven difficult to find. He's as slippery as a Leprechaun." Yelena tells the headmistress.
"Madame headmistress?"
"Yes, Go ahead."
"We've got a lead on the missing fugitive, he's been spotted in a town about 20 miles , positive ID, it's him!"
"Finally, some good news, send a team of two dozen Black Widows to that location immediately."
"Yes, headmistress."
"As for you, Yelena, I need you here to keep an eye on our new asset."
"Understood." Yelena comply with the order.
(Outside)
At the landing pads, a team of two dozen Black Widows all boarded helicopters and take off from the facility.
Meanwhile a helicopter is coming in towards the facility as Natasha Romanoff is piloting it, she spotted two helicopters leaving the facility.
"They've taken the bait, now is our chance." Black Widow is still piloting.
Spiderman is all dressed up in his new stealth suit created using the same materials used in the Black Widow suits, his has red eye lens and a red spider in the middle and in the back of the suit, his two black palms has red hourglasses like the Black Widow, he looks at the very facility he broken out of.
"Last time I was all alone and powerless, this time I'm ready." Spider-Man dressed in his new suit.
"Okay, here goes nothing." Black Widow is piloting the chopper.
"Unidentified aircraft, respond."
"This is Agent Natasha Romanoff, serial number 17539, requesting permission to land." Black Widow awaiting permission.
Black Widow and Spider-Man wait for the go ahead to land and hope that no one noticed what they're up to or they're toast.
"Clearance granted, you may land on pad 4."
"Copy that." Black Widow still piloting.
The helicopter is making its approach on the landing pad as both Black Widow and Spider-Man managed to sneak past the outer defenses. Black Widow unbuckled herself from the seat and got up.
"The easy part is over, now comes the hard part. This is where we split up, I'll go inside and see if I can find your girlfriend. Meanwhile you sneak around and place the charges on the turrets and helicopters. After you're done outside here, you'll sneak up and make your way to the communications array. We'll countdown to 40 minutes, be sure to get all that done before time runs out, because I'll detonate the explosives once the clock stops ticking. Do you understand?" Black Widow explained to Spider-Man.
"Yeah, I got this." Spider-Man understands.
Spider-Man and Black Widow have their timers synchronized at the same time.
"Good luck, Black Widow Man." Black Widow made a joke.
"Very funny, Nikita." Spider-Man makes a joke too.
"But seriously, good luck, Little Spider." Black Widow wish Spider-Man luck.
Spider-Man gave the thumbs up as Black Widow leaves the helicopter and makes her way into the facility, meanwhile Spider-Man took another way out and started sneaking around undetected.
(Inside)
Black Widow walks into the facility as Yelena came to her.
"Natasha, what took you so long?" Yelena greeted Natasha.
"I had hoped that the Little Spider might've been in that town, but I was wrong." Black Widow lied to Yelena.
"Not to worry, our sisters are already on their way to retrieve him." Yelena inform Natasha.
"I see. And what of the other spider?" Black Widow asking about Gwen Stacy.
"We've already taken blood samples enough to reverse engineer at the other facility. She's been through the reprogramming process, she survived and now she's one of us, a Black Widow." Yelena informs Natasha.
"Good... that's... very good." Black Widow hiding her emotions.
Yelena could sense that something is off with Natasha. Natasha is still shocked to hear what just happened to Gwen Stacy.
"Are you okay, sis?" Yelena asking Natasha.
"Yeah, just tired out, that's all. I'll catch you later." Black Widow acting normal.
"Sure, take care." Yelena says to Natasha.
Black Widow walks away feeling unusual than ever before, Yelena could tell something is off as she never seen Natasha like this before.
(Outside)
Spider-Man is still moving around undetected as he's placing some charges on the anti air turrets and the helicopters.
"There, that should do it." Spider-Man is finished placing the last charge outside.
Spider-Man just finished up with the charges outside as he's heading into the facility itself, more specifically the communications array.
In a nearby town, the Black Widows all mobilized to a restaurant, they all went inside guns blazing and surprised the hell out of everyone.
"Don't move!"
All of the patrons inside are raising their hands up in the air as the Black Widows are looking around to find the missing fugitive but there is no sign of him, leaving them all confused.
"Something is not right."
Back at the Red Room, Yelena enters the office of the headmistress as the woman herself received a call from one of the Black Widow.
"Report?"
"Madame, there's no sign of the fugitive, we had bad intel. We were..."
The transmission is giving off static as something is serious wrong here, it's being jammed.
(Outside)
At the helicopter that Black Widow used to smuggle Spider-Man in, a jamming device is blocking out all communications in or out of the facility.
(Inside)
"Something is jamming us."
"Yeah, but what?" Yelena is confused.
"Not what, who. He's here, Spider-Man is here. This is all his doing."
"How is that possible? He can't get back into the facility that easily." Yelena is even more confused.
"No, he can't, not alone, someone is helping him, and not just anyone, it has to be a Black Widow."
Yelena felt a betrayal. "And I think I know who."
Yelena pulled out her gun and walked out to the office to hunt down the traitor Natasha Romanoff. The headmistress activated the alarms to the whole facility. She then turns around to see the new asset here.
"Now, it's time for you to go kill Spider-Man once and for all."
(Outside)
Spider-Man is climbing up the wall towards the communications array as he heard the alarms going off.
Spider-Man sighed. "So much for stealth. I better act fast."
Spider-Man moved very quickly to get the final charge in place before they find the jammer and radio in fro reinforcements.
(Inside)
Black Widow then heard the speakers turned on as the headmistress is speaking.
"Attention, we have a traitor in our midst, Natasha Romanoff has gone rogue and is now considered an enemy of the Red Room, terminate on sight."
Black Widow then looks ahead to see the Red Room security coming towards her armed with batons.
"I need to get to the headmistress office and you're all standing in my way." Black Widow pulls out her two batons.
The guards all charged in at her, Black Widow ran towards them about to engage against them in combat.
(Communication Array)
Spider-Man climbed and made it to the communication array to see that there's nobody around here.
"Wow, looks like this will be a piece of cake. All I have to do is place the final charge and..." Spider-Man was about to finish his sentence.
Spider-Man's senses tingle as he jumped out of the way as tasers are fired at him, but he ended up getting caught off guard as he got drop kicked hard by someone as strong as him.
"Ow!! What the..." Spider-Man then took a look at his attacker.
She looks like a Black Widow, but her suit resembles that of Ghost-Spider, she has the same height and built, she pointed her gauntlet at Spider-Man.
"Move and I'll will kill you." Gwen threatens to kill Spider-Man.
Spider-Man's eyes is shocked wide open as he immediately recognized that voice.
"Gwen?... What have they done to you?" Spider-Man is still shocked.
The speaker nearby is emitting a ring as Spider-Man noticed and there's a camera watching.
"Welcome Spider-Man, I didn't expect you to come back, I guess I was wrong."
"What did you do to Gwen?! Answer me?!" Spider-Man looks very upset.
"I've remade her, cleanse her of her weak emotions, she now belongs to the Red Room, she is the Ultimate Black Widow. But I am curious to see how one super spider will fare against another. Black Widow, kill Spider-Man!"
"Understood." Gwen accepted the orders.
Spider-Man has only one charge left that he needs to place at the array but Gwen Stacy has been brainwashed by the Red Room and she's now ordered to kill Spider-Man against her will.
"Gwen... you don't have to do this." Spider-Man tries to reach through to Gwen.
Gwen is brainwashed as she uses her gauntlets to fire tasers at Spider-Man. The hero uses his acrobatics to dodge the attacks. Spider-Man checked the timer, five minutes left, he needs to place the final charge before Natasha detonates it, only he'll have to go through Gwen to reach the array.
(Inside)
Black Widow is in the hallway facing off against four guards, she jumped and wrapped her legs around one and does the hurricanrana. Another one is coming behind he as she does the sweep kick and tripped him off his feet. She flips back up on her feet, two guards came at her with batons, she pulled out he batons as she engaged them in stick fighting. She very proficient in Eskrima as she blocks each attack and then counters with an attack of her own, she managed to shocked them both simultaneously.
Black Widow looked around to see that she took down all the guards in the hallway successfully, she puts away her batons, but she heard footsteps coming from another hallway, she pulled out her gun and aims it, she sees Yelena coming out with her gun pointed at her. Natasha could see that Yelena's eyes are full of anger and betrayal. Both women came in closer with their guns still aimed at one another.
"Why?" Yelena felt betrayed.
"Because what we've done is all wrong, taking two kids away from their families, just like the Red Room have done to us. They brainwashed one and ordered us to kill the other, I can't do this anymore, Yelena." Natasha still aiming her gun.
"Since when did you care?" Yelena aiming her gun.
"Since I've meet the Little Spider and he showed me the errors of my way. It was thanks to him that I finally found the strength to change, to take back my life." Natasha says to Yelena.
"You're deluding yourself, you can't change who you are, none of us can." Yelena says to Natasha.
"You're wrong, Yelena." Natasha says to Yelena.
Both women still have their guns aimed at one another, they each move in quickly and disarmed the other of their guns, both went back to aiming guns again. They then switched to hand to hand combat.
(Communication Array)
Spider-Man is holding back against fighting Gwen as she throws in jabs and crosses and Spider-Man pulls himself back and blocks every strike. Gwen does the sweep kick and Spider-Man does the backflip, she missed.
"Gwen, this isn't you! You need to fight this!!" Spider-Man tries reaching out to Gwen.
"I'm fighting you!!!" Gwen yelled out.
Gwen does the martelo de negativa and managed to kick him off the ground hard with all her strength, Spider-Man fell down and felt all the pain she inflicted on him, she's not holding back. Spider-Man checks the timer as he's only got one minute left.
"I'm running out of time." Spider-Man says in his thoughts.
Gwen got herself on the ground as did Spider-Man. She strikes again with a roundhouse only for Spidey to catch her kick and toss her down on the ground.
"Sorry about this." Spider-Man apologizes to Gwen.
Spider-Man pulled out the last charge until Gwen spotted him holding a charge, she kicked it off his hand as Spider-Man rushed to get it, Gwen fired a grappling hook into Spider-Man's back.
"Ahh!" Spider-Man felt the grappling hook in his back.
Spider-Man tries to move as he's only got 40 seconds left, but Gwen is holding him back with all her strength.
(Inside)
Natasha and Yelena each pulled out knifes of their own and began swing and dodging every strike they both throw at one another. Natasha did the sweep kick and knocked Yelena off her feet. Natasha got an alert on her timer, she's only got 20 seconds.
"Crap, I don't have time for this." Natasha pulled out her detonator.
Yelena spotted a detonator in Natasha's hand, she fired her taser from her gauntlet and shot Natasha's wrist, she flinched in pain, forcing her to drop it, Yelena kicked it far away. Yelena side kick Natasha hard off the ground, causing her to fall. Yelena quickly grabbed the knife and held to Natasha's throat.
"It's over, Sis." Yelena has Natasha at her mercy.
(Outside)
At helipad, the soldiers searched the helicopter Natasha used to sneak Spider-Man in, they found the jamming device still active. The soldiers fired their rifles, destroying the device for good.
(Office)
The headmistress is inside the office watching the new Black Widow besting Spider-Man who isn't putting up much a fight, the signal around the facility is returning to normal.
"Madame, we've destroyed the jamming device."
"Good, if Spider-Man is going to through all the trouble trying to reach the array, he's trying to make his escape by air, we can't let that happen, ever."
The headmistress realizes that Spider-Man must've called in for help escaping Russia, she prepared to radio in the jets to keep that from happening.
(Communications Array)
Spider-Man is still trapped by Gwen's grapple line in his back, his timer is being and counting down with 15 seconds. Spider-Man is running out of time, he grabbed the line and pulled Gwen in with all his strength and kicked her back with a back kick. She got knocked down as Spider-Man webbed the last charge and pulled it to his hand.
"Time to blow stuff up!" Spider-Man armed the charge.
He tossed it hard at the array with all his strength and fired a webbing at it to cling to its surface.
(Inside)
Yelena still has Natasha at her mercy with a knife to her neck.
"Forgive me, sis." Natasha grabbed and twisted Yelena's hand.
Yelena felt the pain and Natasha kicked her off, she then looks at the detonator as the timer is has only 7 seconds left, she ran as fast as she can to the detonator.
"7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1"
Natasha managed to reach it and pressed the button.
(Outside)
The entire area exploded as all the anti air turrets and helicopters are completely destroyed in the explosion.
(Communications Array)
The communications array has been blown up as Spider-Man witnessed it happening, it came crashing down off the facility and fell down towards the mountain.
(Office)
The headmistress tries to radio in the jets but all communication are completely cut off as the array came falling pass her office window, she looked out to see it completely gone.
"Damn it!!!"
(Inside)
Yelena heard explosions from the outside, she realized that this was all Natasha's doing.
"What have you done, Natasha?!" Yelena asking Natasha.
"The right thing, Yelena. It's not too late to get out, you need to take back control of your life and leave the Red Room." Natasha says to Yelena.
Yelena gets up and grabbed her pistol, she aims it at Natasha.
"Being a Black Widow is all I know, there is no other way." Yelena aims at Natasha.
"There's always another way, look at us, the Red Room stole us away from our families, stole our childhood, and stole our chances at a real family. I can't simply follow orders blindly and do what they tell me to do without question, I just can't do it anymore. For once in my life, I feel like I'm doing the right thing, making up for all the wrongs I've done." Natasha says to Yelena.
"Please Natasha, you're the closest thing I have to a sister. Don't leave us." Yelena felt conflicted.
"I'm sorry too, Yelena, but I have to follow my heart and do what's right. If you're going to shoot me, then do it. But I'm going to help Spider-Man save his girlfriend, even if it kills me to do it. You do what you have to do." Natasha leaves Yelena alone.
Yelena still aiming her gun at Natasha while her hands are shaking, Yelena has her finger ready to pull the trigger, but she stopped herself at the last second and chose not to kill Natasha. Yelena is feeling conflicted by Natasha's words.
(Outside)
At the place where the communications array used to be, Spider-Man looked around to see that they've succeeded in their mission to take out the array, turrets, and helicopters. But Spider-Man turns around to see Gwen is getting back up and still under the Red Room's control.
"Gwen, it's over. Please, there's no need for us to fight anymore." Spider-Man approaches Gwen.
"No... I have my orders... you must die!!!" Gwen fired a taser.
Spider-Man got caught off guard and got shot by a taser shot, he's still shocked by the voltage as Gwen runs and drop kick him hard as she landed in a three point stance.
"Gwen... I don't want to fight you!!!" Spider-Man refuses to fight.
Gwen does the sweep kick as Spider-Man does the backflip and got himself on his feet. He still hold himself back from fighting Gwen.
(Office)
The headmistress is still watching the fight between Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy, the hero still refuses to fight back against her. Black Widow came into the office with a gun pointed at her. The headmistress has a gun underneath her desk as she waits for the right opportunity to pull it out.
"Natasha Romanoff, the traitor."
"I don't belong to the Red Room anymore. You ordered us to abduct two kids away from their homes, brainwashed one and tried to assassinate another. I'm done taking orders from you." Black Widow still aiming her gun.
"How disappointing, you were the best. You should be thanking me, I took you out of poverty, I gave your life purpose, and this is how you repay me?"
"You didn't give me anything!! You took me away from my family, stole my childhood, robbed my chances at a having children and having a family, you turned me into something I've never wanted to be." Black Widow says with anger.
"And what are you going to do? Even if you do kill me, you'll never have a normal life, this is who you are, a Black Widow, always was and always will be."
"What you've done to me, to Yelena, to every innocent girls you've taken, I'll see to it that you and the Red Room will never to do this ever again, that's my promise."
The headmistress pulled out the gun to shoot, but Black Widow shot first and killed the headmistress of the Red Room without hesitation. She approached the headmistress's body to see that she is long gone from the world.
Black Widow then types on the keyboard and started hacking the headmistress's computer and accessing the Red Room database, she looked up anything related to Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider, she found the files on Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy, she then started permanently deleting their files from the mainframe for good.
(Outside)
Gwen came up behind him and wrapped her arm around his neck, Spider-Man managed to reach from the back to grab her mask and pulled it off, he then flips her off his back and broken the armlock. She got back up and strikes with a push kick but Spider-Man used both his arms to block the attack but he still got staggered a bit, she then runs and does the psycho kick on him, he got hit pretty hard on the head as he fell down on the ground.
"This is no good, she won't stop until I'm dead. If Spider-Man can't reach her, then maybe Peter Parker can." Spider-Man says in his thoughts.
Spider-Man gets up from the ground and takes off the mask, she shows Gwen the face of Peter Parker. Gwen looked at Peter's face as she looked conflicted by feelings.
"I'm not gonna fight you anymore!" Peter says to Gwen.
Gwen walked up closer to punch Peter in the face, he still remains standing on his feet.
"This isn't you, Gwen." Peter says to Gwen.
Gwen punched Peter again out of anger.
"Stop calling me that, I'm the Ultimate Black Widow!!!" Gwen says to Peter.
"No... your name is Gwendolyne Maxine Stacy!" Peter tries reaching through to Gwen.
Gwen punched Peter. "SHUT UP!!!"
Peter fell down on the ground hard, but he quickly got himself back on his feet, his face is getting bruised.
"Why won't you fight back?!" Gwen is confused.
"I'll never fight you... because I love you, Gwen Stacy." Peter says to Gwen.
Gwen felt a tear pouring out her eyes as she became enraged and tackled Peter down to the ground, she has her left hand grabbing his throat and her fist ready to deliver the finishing blow.
"I'm a Black Widow, and I have orders to kill you, so die!" Gwen says to Peter.
"Then do it, because I'll die for you. No what what happens, Gwen, I love you, I'll always love you, and I'm with you till the end of the line." Peter made one last attempt to reach through to Gwen.
Gwen hesitates to finish Peter off as his words are through to her, she lets go of Peter and stands up felling confused than ever. Peter got back to see that Gwen couldn't bring herself to finish him off in that moment, she's still in there.
"Gwen... I know you're in there... you've been brainwashed, you gotta fight it!" Peter says to Gwen.
"I... can't..." Gwen is feeling conflicted.
"Yes, you can! Because our love is stronger than anything, no matter how hard things got, no matter what obstacles came our way, we always over come them! Don't give up!" Peter is walking closer towards Gwen.
Gwen is still feeling conflicted as Peter embraces her in his arms, Gwen felt emotions that are too strong for her to ignore.
"Don't fight, come back to me, Gwen. I love you and I need you, so come back to me." Peter hugging Gwen.
Gwen felt more tears pouring down her eyes as memories came flooding her mind.
(Flashback)
At the Midtown High School, Gwen was drowning and dying until Spider-Man came to her rescue, he took off his mask and Peter did CPR on Gwen, he kept trying to bring air into her, she then cough out water and opens her eyes to see Peter's face.
Another flashback is on Christmas Eve, she and Peter are outside her house in a snowy night as they looked up and see a mistletoe hanging above the door.
"Mistletoe." Gwen whispered.
"Mistletoe." Peter whispered too.
She and Peter leaned in and kissed each other under the mistletoe.
Another flashback is of Peter and Gwen finally becoming a couple for the first time. They've kissed and look at each other's eyes.
"I love you too, Peter." Gwen smiled as she confessed her love for Peter.
(Present)
Gwen remembered everything, all her feelings came through to her, she fainted and Peter still has a hold of her. Gwen opens her eyes agains and they're back to regular blue as the she has been freed from the Red Rooms control.
(Inside)
Black Widow is deleting files on both Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy, the data has been permanently deleted from the mainframe. She then plugged in a drive into the computer as she's downloading data on the Red Room's operations. She turns to the monitors to see more soldiers inside the facility heading towards her and the spiders.
"Crap, come on." Black Widow is awaiting the data.
The computer is almost done with the download, she still watch the monitors to see more soldiers coming inside the facility. The download has finally been completed as she took the drive out of the computer. She then makes her escape out of the office to join up with Spider-Man.
(Outside)
Peter still embraces Gwen in his arms as she sees breaks off and Peter sees her all normal.
"Peter?" Gwen teared up.
"Gwen!" Peter is relieved to see Gwen back to normal.
Peter and Gwen embraces each other's some more.
"I'm sorry, Peter. I'm so sorry." Gwen teared up some more.
"I know, it wasn't you fault." Peter hugs Gwen.
"You came back for me... you came back." Gwen hugging Peter.
"I promised you I would, I'll always come back to you. I love you, Gwen Stacy." Peter looked at Gwen's eyes.
Gwen leaned in and kisses Peter, they both continued kissing until Black Widow came in running and finally made it outside, she sees them back together again, she made a "Ahem" cough, they've stopped kissing as they see her standing there. Gwen recognized her as one of the two women who abducted them.
"What is she doing here?" Gwen is startled.
"It's okay Gwen, she's on our side." Peter assured Gwen.
"Hi, Natasha Romanoff, nice to meet you. This is all touching, but we really need to go right now, we've stirred up a hornet's nest, reinforcements are heading our way." Black Widow informs them.
"Right, time to go." Peter says to Gwen.
"Let's get the hell out of here." Gwen says to Peter.
"Uh... are you going to take your masks?" Black Widow reminded them both.
Peter and Gwen realize that their faces are exposed, they each grabbed their masks off the ground and puts them on.
"Okay, follow me!" Black Widow tells them.
Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Black Widow all head up towards the topside landing pad for a quick extraction.
Later they all finally made it to the landing pad only to see no extraction here on time.
"So what now?" Ghost-Spider asking Spider-Man.
Spider-Man sighed. "I really hoped that they be here. At least we gave it a try."
They all turned around to see the Red Room soliders made it to the landing pad with automatic weapons all aimed at all three of them.
Black Widow sighed. "We're so screwed."
"I'm all out of ideas, I'm so sorry to drag you into this, Natasha." Spider-Man says to Black Widow.
"Don't be, it was the right thing and never regret it. It's been fun." Black Widow says to Spider-Man.
"Then I guess we make our last stand. At least I'll die by your side." Ghost-Spider says to Spider-Man.
Spider-Man grabbed Ghost-Spider's hand as they're in this together, all of the soldier are ready executed them all, they were about to pull the trigger until they hear a sound coming from nearby.
Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Black Widow all hear it too as they turned around and looked down. The quinjet is hovering up in the air and surprised everyone at the landing pad, the ramp opens as a shield is tossed out and it took out several soldiers out, it bounced right back to Captain America.
"Cap!" Spider-Man is surprised.
"Looks we're just in time, son." Captain America smiled at Spider-Man.
The S.T.R.I.K.E. all have their guns aimed at the soldier as they fired, the soldiers also fired back at them. Captain America jumped in front of the survivors and uses his shield to protect them.
"Afraid we've worn out the welcome party, everyone get on board!" Captain America still defending with his shield.
"Right, let's go!" Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider and Black Widow.
They all started to board the quinjet for immediate extraction, Captain America is the last one to board the ramp.
"Alright Sharon, let's get out here!" Captain America tells Agent 13.
Agent 13 is piloting the quinjet, the ramp is about to close its as Natasha looked out to see Yelena on the landing pad. Yelena looked at the quinjet ramp close to see that Natasha is leaving with S.H.I.E.L.D. She stayed behind as the quinjet is getting high enough and fires it's thruster to fly far away from the facility.
The quinjet finally managed to escaped the Red Room facility with two spiders and a defector, Captain America walked up to the two teens to see how they are, they took off their masks for comfort.
"How are you two feeling?" Captain America asking them.
"We're both okay, thanks for coming to our rescue, Cap. I owe you one." Spider-Man is grateful to Captain America.
"No need, you're an Avenger, son, we always take care of our own, no one gets left behind." Captain America says to Spider-Man.
Ghost-Spider looked at Captain America, the living legend.
"Wow, so you're really him, Captain America." Ghost-Spider is stunned.
"I am, and you must be Ghost-Spider." Captain America meets Ghost-Spider.
"I am, but you can call me Gwen Stacy." Ghost-Spider introduced herself.
"So you're that Gwen, Peter mentioned you once. I can see why he's so smitten with you, you're quite lucky to have a guy like Peter at your side." Captain America says to Ghost-Spider.
"Don't I know it." Ghost-Spider smiled at Spider-Man.
Spider-Man then salutes to Captain America, he salutes back to him, he then went to the quinjet's cockpit where Agent 13 is piloting.
"We'll make it out of Russian airspace in one hour." Agent 13 informs Captain America.
"Good, stay on course, we're heading home." Captain America says to Agent 13.
Captain America looked back at Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider leaned against each other as they've been through a lot.
It's morning time, above the Atlantic Ocean close to the United States, the Helicarrier is hovering in the skies as Mary Jane, George, and May are on the runway awaiting the return of the quinjet.
"Hey look!" Mary Jane pointed out.
George and May looked at the sky to see the quinjet is finally returning back from Russia. It then makes it approach on the runway and lands itself down. The ramp opens and May just gasped and teared up, she and George both became shocked to see Peter and Gwen in the company of Captain America, Black Widow, Agent 13, and the rest of the S.T.R.I.K.E.
Peter and Gwen both see May, George, and Mary Jane here on the Helicarrier, they smiled as they're happy to see them all again. George and May are the first to walk up to them, Peter and Gwen ran up and gave them a hug.
"Aunt May!" Peter smiled and hugs May.
"I was so worried I'd never see you again." May smiled and teared up in happiness.
Gwen and George embraced each other after being apart.
"Thank god you came back home to me, Gwennie." George Stacy is relieved to have Gwen back.
"It's good to be back, I miss you too, dad." Gwen smiled and hugged her dad back.
Mary Jane came up to them both as Peter and Gwen broke off the hug, Mary Jane walked up and hugged them both.
"I'm so glad that you're both alright." Mary Jane hugging Peter and Gwen.
"We're okay, MJ, we here." Peter smiled at Mary Jane.
"Yeah, you're not getting rid of us that easily." Gwen smiled at Mary Jane.
Mary Jane stopped hugging and took a step back to see Peter and Gwen dressed in black suits she's never seen before.
"And what are you two wearing?" Mary Jane asking about the suits.
Peter and Gwen looked at their suits they've obtained in Russia.
"Oh! It's a long story." Peter says to Mary Jane.
"Can't wait to hear it." Mary Jane says to Peter.
May and George noticed the redhead woman wearing black, she's one of the two women who abducted Peter and Gwen.
"Why is she here?" May asking Peter.
"Aunt May, please, she saved my life, mines and Gwen's. She risked herself to saved us both, if it wasn't for her, we still be stuck in Russia. It's thanks to her that we were able to make it back home." Peter defended Natasha.
May walked up to Natasha as she herself has no idea what's going to happen since she kidnapped this woman's nephew and his girlfriend, but she's willing to accept the consequences of her actions no matter what.
"So you're the one who's been helping my nephew?" May looking at Natasha.
Natasha remained silent as she has no idea what to say or what May is going to do.
"Thank you... thank you so much for helping him come home. I mean it, thank you." May is very grateful to Natasha.
Natasha is surprised and relieved by what May just said, she felt better knowing that she did the right thing for once in her life.
Nick Fury and Maria Hill came walking on the runway to see that the mission was a success, both Peter and Gwen have been returned safely and with a Red Room defector. Captain America and Agent 13 came up to their superiors.
"I see that the mission was a success, Cap, well done." Nick Fury says to Captain America.
"Thank you, Director. So has there been any backlash concerning our trip to Russia?" Captain America is curious.
"No, brass doesn't know anything, and neither does the Russian government, so you all in the clear." Nick Fury informs Captain America.
"No surprise there, the Red Room still wants to maintain its secrecy and not lead their country know of their existence or their activities, so they're covering everything up to stay hidden." Natasha says to everyone.
"So you must be the ally that Parker was talking about?" Nick Fury speaking to Natasha.
"Natasha Romanoff, formerly of the Red Room, now a deserter." Natasha introduce herself.
She pulls out a drive and hands it to Nick Fury.
"Here, this is everything I've gathered on the Red Room's operations all around the world." Natasha explained of the drive and its contents.
"I hope you realize what you've done, helping Parker and Stacy escape has made you a traitor to both the Red Room and your country. If you ever go back home, they're going to put a bullet in your head." Nick Fury explained to Natasha.
"I know the price for my betrayal, and I don't regret it. It felt great doing the right thing for the first time in my life. It was all thanks to Peter Parker here for showing me that we can change ourselves." Natasha talks about Peter.
"Actually Natasha, it's thanks to you that I was able to reach out to my friends and family, and sneak back into the facility to rescue Gwen. If you didn't do all that, I'd still be stuck there back in Russia, so to me, you're the real hero, Natasha, thank you." Peter thanks Natasha for all she had done.
Natasha smiled as she felt gratitude from the person she once abducted away from his home, but after meeting him and questioning her choices, she decided to change herself and to become a better person than she ever was before. She may have found some small measure of redemption.
Inside the Helicarrier at the medical bay, Peter and Gwen are relaxing after being stranding in Russia for a day, the doctors uses their machines to examine them both for anything.
"How is Gwen? Did... do anything to her, to her physiology?" Peter asking the doctors.
"No... they're didn't sterilize her, she's completely healthy. She'll be alright."
"Thank you, Doctor."
The doctors left the bay as Nick Fury, Steve Rogers, Mary Jane, May, and George all came in to checkup on them.
"How are you both feeling?" George Stacy asking them.
"We're both seem to be doing fine, thank you for asking." Gwen says to George Stacy.
"I'm glad that you're both back safe and sound. Can either of you give us insights as to why the Red Room wanted you both?" Nick Fury asking them.
"They wanted to study our physiology, they even took samples of our blood. From what Natasha told us, the other Widows managed to get what they need from you, Cap, even from Tony." Peter explained about the Red Room's motives.
"But why? For what purpose?" Steve is confused.
"I don't know, Cap, but I have a feeling we'll soon find out." Peter is very concerned.
Everyone is very worried what they really wanted from them heroes.
Back in Russia at the Red Room facility, inside the headmistress's office, the woman's body is being zipped up inside a body bag and being carried out by soliders. Yelena is speaking to the higher ups of the Red Room.
"Agent Belova, status report?"
"The headmistress is dead, at the hands of Natasha Romanoff, she has stolen data from the computer and has escaped with the two spiders by air. Shall we go after them?" Yelena asking her superiors.
"No, that won't be necessary, we've gotten what we needed from those two, enough for Project Wolf Spider, and with the other projects still in development, the Winter Guard Initiative will soon begin."
The screens show images of Red Guardian, Crimson Dynamo, and Wolf Spider, all candidates for the Winter Guard Initiative.
"As for the Black Widows, for the time being, you'll be acting as overseer of the facility, Agent Belova."
"Understood." Yelena says to her superiors.
The screens signed off as Yelena is now sitting alone in her new office, she still thinks about Natasha and her conversation with her. Yelena is still questioning her own life in the Red Room, thinking if she's on the right side or not.
In Queens at Stan's diner, everyone including Steve Rogers is gathered to celebrate the return of Peter and Gwen, the waitress came by and hands them plates of burgers and fries, and cups of milkshakes.
"Here you go, everyone."
Peter and Gwen quickly took the plates off the tray as they're desperate for a decent meal, they chow down their food and sip down their milkshakes.
"Wow, you both sure do have quite an appetite!" May is saying to Peter and Gwen.
Peter and Gwen ate their food, Steve is taking a bite of his burger as he's surprised by the taste.
"Hmm, this definitely taste better than the last time I was at Stan's." Steve says to the group.
"You've been here before?" Peter is surprised.
"I was here for the grand opening, that was a very, very long time ago." Steve tells of his experience at Stan's.
"Anyway, thanks for coming to our rescue in time." Peter thanked Steve.
"You should thank your friend here, she was the one who asked for my help." Steve talks about Mary Jane.
"Thanks MJ." Peter thanked Mary Jane.
"You're welcome, Tiger. I'm just so glad that you're both home." Mary Jane says to Peter.
"Amen to that." George Stacy agrees.
"It's so good to be home." Gwen says to the everyone.
"It's thanks to Natasha Romanoff that we were able to get out of the Red Room, who knows what could've happened to us if she didn't risk herself for us." Peter says to the group.
Peter grabbed a glass of milkshake and holds it up.
"To Natasha Romanoff, to the Black Widow." Peter toast to the Black Widow.
Everyone joined in and raised their glasses. "To the Black Widow!"
Everyone enjoyed their milkshakes, Peter and Gwen are finally home thanks to the Black Widow.
At the Triskelion, Nick Fury and Maria Hill are walking down the detention block.
"Are you sure about this, Director?" Maria Hill has some doubts.
"I'm sure, Hill." Nick Fury is very sure of his decision.
They arrived and opened the cell door to see Natasha Romanoff still inside.
"Natalia Alianovna Romanova, how are your accommodations here?" Nick Fury asking Natasha.
"Being locked up doesn't bother me, I still a lot of atone for." Natasha says to Nick Fury.
"Well maybe you can do that outside of this cell. Normally, I don't give out deals to foreign agents I don't know, but since you've came highly recommended by Peter Parker himself and the data you've gave us on the Red Room's operations, I'm willing to make you an offer, one that could be well suited for a woman of your skill set, that is if you're interested." Nick Fury wants to make a deal.
Natasha seems interested in hearing his offer. "I'm listening."
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