Under or Over: Hawkeye & Black Widow

CHAPTER #18

Agent Romanoff regained consciousness, but didn't open her eyes right away.  Her other senses were on hyper alert.  The skin of her wrists and ankles, told her she was in restraints on a cold metal table.  Her hearing said that the scientist was not alone in the room.  The smell of chemicals painted a picture of a medical building or hospital.  She couldn't feel the hearing device in her ear and knew the scientist had found it.  For now Romanoff was on her own, but agent Barton would be on his way to her, that she knew.  Testing her arms and legs carefully, she found they moved.  That meant she had control of the situation.  But everything changed the instant she opened her eyes and turned her head.  For a moment she was taken back to a different time and a different place.  The young girl she once was, shuddered in horror. Then her blood ran cold with hate and she was back to the present.  Romanoff saw rows of tables with children that were strapped down.  Both boys and girls, that ranged in age from around 13 to about 19 years old.  They were all naked and most had tubes running from their bodies to machines.  The few who didn't have tubes in them had been gagged. She made eye contact with the boy on her right side and then the girl on her left.  The girl's eyes were dead, even though she was still alive.  The boy's held terror.  The part of Romanoff that normally she suppressed and that only came out in nightmares, surfaced.  Only rage, kept her from loosing her mind.  Instead Black Widow took over.  Rapid calculations ran through her mind as she formulated a plan to get out of her restraints and help these children.  She wanted to kill all the HYDRA men and the scientist in a very painful way.  The promise of this is what kept her dangerously calm.

"Where am I?"

"Ah my beauty you are awake,"  the scientist said, making sure to stand on her left side, still believing she was deaf in the other ear.

Natasha shut down her emotions and put on her act. "What... what are you going to do to me?"  Pretending to be a helpless, useless woman, bought her time.

"Perfecting my serum... and having some fun," he laughed.

"You are a sick, disturbed monster!"  She hissed.

He smiled, "to you maybe, but these children love me and my employer thinks I am a genius."

When he began to remove her dress, Romanoff's mind shrieked at her to act, but she had to wait just a little longer.  She knew that Hawkeye would give her a sign and then she would react.  Her hand was almost free of the left restraint.  And one hand was all she needed.  She kept him talking, which distracted him.  He wanted to feel dominant and powerful, with her words she made him feel exactly that.  The scientist fell under the spell of the Black Widow. The web she weaved, eventually had him releasing one of her hands.  He'd told her enough that Director Fury would be happy, so she would kill him and everyone in the building that was not a child, when the opportunity arose.

While the Black Widow did her work, Hawkeye did his.  He needed to distract the guards, so he put an arrow head into the ceiling by the fire alarm. Later he would engage it and the fire it created, would set off the alarm, while he was in another part of the building.  Barton had located Romanoff, by finding the tracker from the scientist. He was in the rafters up in the ceiling of the industrial building.  The lights that were hanging from those beams, were so bright that no one could see him up there. He saw agent Romanoff was tied down, but one hand was free and the other was close behind. Barton set off the arrow head he had planted and a minute later the fire alarm went off.  

As soon as the alarm sounded, Black Widow was free of her restraints and had choked the scientist unconscious.  The guards that were near by called in for re-enforcements, then came in to stop her, but they had no chance.  She held nothing back and went on a killing rampage.  Hawkeye came down from above, took out two guards who tried to escape and then went to release the children. Only ten of the twenty children were alive.