Venom // Natasha Romanoff

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"I also turn into a giant black creature."
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After much persuasion, Nova joined Natasha with going to S.H.I.E.L.D. The brunette was keeping Venom at bay in fear someone would put her in a cell. She was sat in a helicopter with Natasha by her side. The red head couldn't read her at all despite her years of training.

No one knew of Nova's time in the red room minus Fury. During her assassination years, she was stealth. No one else had ever seen her face or figured out who she was. The girl had been killing since she was 10 outside of the Red Room so she was the best in the business. Better than Black Widow.

Nova had been told she was needed for her science and technology knowledge. The young girl was insanely smart and she knew it but never showed it. The helicopter landing broke her train of thought.

The two got off the helicopter and walked towards where Steve Rogers and Phil Coulson were leaving a jet.

"Agent Romanoff, Captain Rogers, Nova Black." Phil introduced.

"Ma'am. Ma'am." Steve greeted.

"Hi." Nat replied as Nova just nodded. "They need you on the bridge. They're staring the face-trace."

"See you there." Phil said before leaving the group.

"It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was gonna swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?" Nat asked.

"Trading cards?" Steve quizzed.

"They're vintage. He's very proud." Natasha continued.

Ahead Bruce Banner was moving awkwardly on his feet as he looked around. Nova stuttered in her step as she spotted the doctor.

"Dr. Banner." Steve called.

"Yeah, hi." Bruce shook his hand. "They told me you would be coming."

"Word is you can find the cube." Steve stated.

"Is that the only words on me?" Bruce asked as Nova looked at him sympathetically, knowing exactly how it felt.

"Only word I care about." Steve said.

"Uh, hi. I'm Bruce." He held out his hand for Nova who shook it immediately.

"Oh yeah I know." She smiled.

"W-what?" He stuttered.

"I read your paper on gamma radiation. It was brilliant." Nova grinned, rough English accent thick.

"Well, that's a first." Bruce mumbled. "So, what do you do?"

"I know a lot about science and technology. I also turn into a giant black creature." Nova nodded.

"O-oh! You're Venom?" Steve asked.

"Yeah." She cleared her throat.

"Gentlemen and woman, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's going to get a little hard to breath." Natasha smiled, joining the three.

The ground beneath them began to shake as the helicarrier lifted out of the water slightly. The three newcomers looked around the deck in wonder.

"Is this a submarine?" Steve asked.

"Really? They want us in a submerged pressurised, metal container?" Bruce quizzed.

The three walked to the edge and saw that they were rising from the water not going under. The turbines were making the water foam as it pushed upwards.

"No, no, this is much worse." Nova chuckled with Bruce.

Natasha lead the three inside of the helicarrier towards the main room where agents were working on computers. Venom was itching to come out and explore so he stretched from Nova's neck slightly and slipped back in when someone would turn around.

"Gentlemen, woman." Fury greeted.

Steve passed him and handed the director a 10 dollar bill before he walked towards Bruce and Nova. When he looked to the young woman she could tell he knew something that the rest didn't which immediately made her face turn stone cold.

"Doctor, Nova, thank you for coming." Fury shook Bruce's hand while Nova crossed her arms.

"Thanks for asking nicely. So, how long am I staying?" Bruce asked while Nova nodded in agreement.

"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you two are in the wind." Fury replied glancing at Nova for a second longer which she didn't miss.

"Where are you with that?" Nova quizzed.

"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet." Coulson spoke up. "Cell phones, laptops. If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us."

"It's still not gonna find them in time." Natasha spoke crouching next to screen that held the information on Clint Barton.

"You have to narrow your field. How many spectrometers do you have access to?" Bruce asked.

"How many are there?" Fury asked.

"Call every lab you know. Tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays." Nova spoke up.

"We'll rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for us to work?" Bruce quizzed.

"Agent Romanoff, could you show Dr. Banner and Black to their laboratory, please?" Fury asked.

"You're gonna love it. We got all the toys." Natasha said, leading them to the lab.

When they got there Natasha left the room as Bruce and Nova moved to their separate stations. Nova pulled out an energy drink and set it down on the desk after taking a sip.

"Hey," Bruce spoke up making her look toward him, "if you don't mind me asking, do you have control over Venom? Or does he only show up when you're angry like me?"

"He's not like the hulk he can come out when I let him but he's harder to keep at bay when I'm angry. He's more like a second person and he can stretch from my body without fully taking over it." Nova explained.

"I feel rude for asking, but can I see?" Bruce stuttered slightly.

"Yeah." Nova nodded.

Venom stretch from her body so his head was peering out of her shoulder. The black creature gave Bruce a toothy grin as the doctor looked stunned at the creature. Venom turned to Nova who looked back at him.

"I like this one." Venom spoke smiling at Bruce.

"He can talk?" Bruce quizzed, smiling back.

"Yeah, and God knows I get the brunt of it." Nova joked as Bruce let out a small chuckle.

"How you wound me." Venom mumbled, slipping back into her shoulder.

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