Alina Shostakov is a Alexei Shostakov's daughter, trafficked to the Red Room with her siblings, Natasha and Yelena only she was there since birth, having no choice but to do as the said.
During a mission, she meets Wade Wilson, a mercenary with a l...
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- "Yeah, me too." -
"I see you kept Yelena's bracelet." Natasha mused as she and Alina got off the jet and started walking over the helicarrier.
"Wow, you have eyes. How impressive." Alina deadpanned as Coulson got off another jet with Steve Rogers.
"Agent Romanoff, Captain Rogers. Red Widow, I'm Agent Coulson and this is Captain Rogers." Phil introduced.
"Ma'am, ma'am." Steve greeted.
"Hi." Natasha responded and Alina nodded in greeting. "They need you on the bridge. They're starting the face-trace."
"See you there." Phil finished, walking away.
"I was told you're another Super Soldier." Steve said, looking to Alina.
"You were told the truth." Alina replied.
"Did you develop your own serum?" Steve inquired.
"No, from my biological father. It was passed down to me. Lucky me." Alina mumbled the last part sarcastically.
"It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice." Natasha started, cutting into their conversation, looking at Steve as the three walked further. "I thought Coulson was gonna swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?"
"Trading cards?" Steve asked.
"They're vintage. He's very proud." Natasha said as they saw Bruce Banner who looked extremely awkward and out of place while he walked around.
"Dr. Banner." Steve called and he looked towards them, moving over to join them.
"Oh, yeah, hi." Dr. Banner muttered, shaking Steve's hand and then Alina's. "They told me you'd be coming."
"Word is you can find the cube." Steve mused.
"Is that the only word on me?" Bruce questioned.
"Only word I care about." Steve responded.
"Yeah, me too." Alina assured the clearly uncomfortable man.
"It must be strange for you, all of this." Bruce gestured around them, speaking to Steve as Alina moved backwards, away from their conversation.
"Well, this is actually kind of familiar." Steve hummed.
"Gentleman, you may want to step inside in a minute." Natasha spoke up, walking over to the men. "It's gonna get a little hard to breath."
People on the platform started to call to one another, speaking through their earpieces as the helicarrier began to move upwards in the air., water draining from the bottom part.
"Is this a submarine?" Steve questioned, moving to the edge with Bruce.
"Really? They want me in a submerged, pressurised, metal container?" Bruce quizzed with a chuckle. The helicarrier rose further, revealing the fans that would keep it flying in the air. "Oh, no, this is much worse."
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The three were led inside by Natasha and they started to look around the bridge, Natasha smirking at them over her shoulder before strutting away. Steve seemed impressed by the helicrarrier, Bruce still awkward as he shuffled around while Alina just stood by the table, waiting to see what was next. As Fury moved towards the large circle table, Steve handed him a ten dollar bill, moving past him and Fury put it in his pocket.
"Doctor, thank you for coming." Fury said, holding his hand out and Bruce shook it.
"Thanks for asking nicely." Bruce muttered. "So, um, how long am I staying?"
"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the wind." Fury answered.
"Where are you with that?" Bruce asked.
"We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones, laptops... If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us." Phil chimed in.
"That's still not gonna find them in time." Natasha stated, flicking through Clint's file on a screen.
"You have to narrow your field." Bruce spoke up and Fury turned back to him. "How ,many spectrometers do you have access to?"
"How many are there?" Fury questioned.
"Call every lab you know." Bruce ordered. "Tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof and calibrate them for gamma rays. I'll rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places. Do you have somewhere for me to work?"
"Agent Romanoff, could you show Dr. Banner to his laboratory, please?" Fury requested and Natasha moved away from a fellow agents computer.
"You're gonna love it, Doc. We got all the toys." Natasha mumbled, leading Bruce away as Fury approached Alina.
"Miss. Shostakov." Fury greeted, shaking her hand.
"Fury." Alina nodded, letting go of his hand. "When can I be gone, too?"
"We had plans for you to stay on longer with S.H.I.E.L.D. after this is over. I'm guessing Romanoff didn't tell you." Fury explained.
"No, she didn't." Alina denied. "What makes you think I would join your organisation, anyway?"
"You have no one apart from Natasha." Fury stated and she raised an eyebrow. "Your other former co-worker, Yelena Belova, is no where to be found, off the grid potentially. Your father is in prison, mother and fake mother dead. Your fiancé is dead, too."
"So you think you can use my loss of people to make me work for you? Is that how you got Natasha to be an agent?" Alina questioned, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at the Director.
"No, Natasha wanted out of the Red Room. I'm sure you do as well." Fury answered. "But, the less you have, the less you have got to loose. Like myself."
"Maybe I want out of the Red Room but it's gone. Poof, destroyed with Dreykov. Becoming your slave instead of his doesn't mean our pasts won't exist." Alina shot back.
"Maybe not. But it's worth a shot to feel better about it." Fury tried and Alina didn't budge on her decision. "We can pay you."
"Finally, something that interests me."
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"We got a hit. 67% match." Agent Sitwell spoke up and Alina lifted her head off the table to look towards him. "Wait. Cross match, 79%."
"Location?" Phil requested.
"Stuttgart, Germany. 28 Konigstrasse." Sitwell answered. "He's not exactly hiding."
