CHAPTER SIX:
Natasha tells Alexei the route as we all wait for him in the helicopter. Gotta admit, I thought he would be smart enough to not make a scene. I guess we should've known that wasn't going to happen just by how this guy looked.
"You made a scene, didn't you?" Nat asks him. He doesn't reply in any actual language, instead when I look down I see the guy running. "We're gettin' you outta here." Before we even know it, the whole prison is in chaos, I kinda felt sorry for those who work there.
"Only because one guy is needed for five minutes." I mutter as I watch.
"Go to the upper level." Nat tells him. I see him fall down as he tries to. "Move your ass, super soldier." The fighting only gets worse and Nat groans.
"He's never going to make it." Yelena says.
"Get me closer." Nat takes off her headset, Yelena and I both look over at her like she's actually insane. "Either of you got a better idea?" There's silence and Nat gets up, therefore causing me to take her seat in the cockpit.
"You ever flown one of these before?" Yelena asks as I put the headset on.
"Am I alive? Do I know how to read?" I reply back. She shakes her head in disbelief and looks down to the side, seeing Nat land down. "Such a poser." She mutters. After a moment of seeing them fighting I sigh, taking the headset off, I get up as well. "Where are you going?" The girl asks me.
"They're not gonna live to tell the tale, even with Natasha there." I mutter, going to jump down.
"Hey-" I look over at Yelena for a second. "Don't be an idiot, alright?" I nod at the encouraging words the girl had given me before jumping down into the fight.
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I take out one Russian soldier and shoot another with the soldier's gun before getting to another. Kitted out in more defensive gear than the makeshift soldiers, I take out a sword and I slash at their legs a little before pushing them off the side of the bridge.
I duck at the sudden movement of the helicopter that had nearly hit me off the bridge, also.
"SERIOUSLY?" I hear Nat shout at Yelena.
"SORRY!"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"
"BACK UP! WE'RE BOTH DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB!"
I look over and see a few soldiers shoot at the helicopter and sigh, taking hold of the sword tightly. I aim for a second before throwing the sword at the soldiers. It comes back, flying into my hand after a moment of its absence. The Russian soldiers who stood before weren't there anymore.
There's an explosion from behind me and when I look over I see one of the turrets falling apart fully. Which seemed pretty good in the moment. I run and kick off another two soldiers as I get back onto the bridge to see Nat. Before I can even make a comment on the situation, there's a distant rumbling.
"That's not good-" I look over at the mountains as I say it. An avalanche. A fucking avalanche. Great.
"Tell me that's a good sign for us!" I look down at the guy we had came here to save and I immediately start to question if coming here was worth our time at all.
"MOVE YOUR ASS!" Nat tells him. I look at an oncoming Russian soldier and I look back at Nat, shooting at them without even looking. The avalanche was getting closer and closer as we stood there. Nat turns to Yelena in the helicopter. "GET US OUTTA HERE!"
The helicopter swings around and we both run for the rope, one getting on after the other. I climb up it while Natasha goes and saves Alexei from the doomed Russian jail.
"I NEED SOME HELP UP HERE!" Yelena shouts as I get up to the actual helicopter. I rush over to the cockpit and sit down in the seat, putting on the headset before helping Yelena fly the thing. The last one of us gets on the helicopter and there's silence- for a good whole two seconds.
"Oh, I'm so proud of you girls." He says. The two of the sisters don't pay attention and continue to do what they're doing, Natasha puts one of the spare headsets on. "Oh, you can't hear me, huh?" He grabs a headset of his own and puts them on, proud of himself, he chuckles and laughs. "Wow-" Suddenly, next to me, I see Yelena hit the guy in the face. I try to hold back a too big of a laugh, narrowing it down to just a chuckle. Alexei groans in pain, holding his face for a moment. "Why the aggression, huh? Is it your time of the month?"
"I don't get my period, dipshit. I don't have a uterus." Yelena says casually.
"Or ovaries." Nat adds.
"Yeah. That's what happens when the Red Room gives you an involuntary hysterectomy." She starts to make hand gestures to show what had happened also as she explains. "They kind of just go in, and they rip out all of your reproductive organs." The look of disbelief on his face was beyond me. "They just get right in there and they chop them all away. Everything out-"
"OKAY OKAY- Okay, okay!" He says, regretting bringing up said topic of conversation.
"-So you can't have babies-"
He sits down, as he speaks. "You don't have to get so clinical and nasty." He tells the girl. "How do you deal with this?" I look back over at him.
"I paid attention in my lessons. I'm one of the most trained medics you'll ever meet." I tell him.
"They can break every bone in your body while naming them." Nat adds.
"What about fallopian tubes?" Yelena asks.
"No." He says sternly. "It means so much to me that you came back for me." He says to the two girls.
"No, no. You're gonna tell us how to get to the Red Room." Natasha says
"Huh? Whoa, look at you, huh? All business."
"Trust me, this isn't pleasure."
"Little Natasha, all indoctrinated into the Western agenda."
I roll my eyes at the guys comment but don't make any remark back. "I chose to go west to become an Avenger. 'Cause the treated me like family."
"Well, where are they now? Where is that family now?"
"I hate to say it, but I'm still present." I remind the two at the back.
"Tell me where the Red Room is." Nat demands.
"I have no idea." I hear a scoff from behind but I can't even tell who it's from. "Okay?"
"Come on, you and Dreykov, were like...."
"Dreykov?"
"Yeah-"
"General Dreykov, my friend, huh? Gives me glory, Soviet Union's first and only super soldier. I could have been more famous than Captain America." I try to not laugh too much at the man's words. "Then he buries me in Ohio on that stupid mission. Three years! So tedious, boring me to tears." In the corner of my eye I see Yelena look behind at him and I feel the tension in the helicopter rise. "No offense, huh?" She turns back slowly and doesn't say anything. "Then puts me in prison for the rest of my life. Why, huh?" Silence. "Why? Why would he put me in... You know why? 'Cause maybe I want to talk about the withering of the state. Or maybe I don't like his hair or something and I say something casually about that. Maybe, you know, I want the Party to feel actually like a party instead of this sourpuss organization. But instead, no. He puts me in prison for the rest of my life-" I start to tune out of the conversation, a bit bored of what he was saying.
"Can we throw him out the window now?" Yelena asks.
"I like that idea." I nod in agreement.
"I think we should wait till we get to a higher altitude." Nat says.
"All right-"
"pochemu by nay sprosit melinou, gde ona nakhoditsya?" Why not ask Melina where it is? He shouts.
"Wait, Mom Melina?" Yelena looks back again.
"We thought she was dead." Nat furrows her eyebrows in confusion.
Alexei scoffs. "You cannot kill a fox that swift."
"Ew."
"What? She was the scientist, that strategist. I was the muscle. She worked directly for Dreykov, far more than I ever did."
"Could this not have been mentioned in the first place?" I ask, adding a hint of annoyance in my voice.
"Wait- are you telling me that Melina is working for the Red Room, present day?"
"She works remotely outside St. Petersburg."
Yelena scoffs. "Uh... I don't think we have enough fuel for St. Petersburg."
"No, we're good. We'll make it." He says.
"Okay." She says, yet even I knew that the chances of getting to St. Petersburg was low. There was no way we were gonna make it.
a/n- I don't get my period, dipshit
i'm also writing an incorrect quotes chapter for the end of this book :)