The Younger Agent - Natasha Romanoff x OC

Chapter 51 - Identity Theft

By the time Natasha and Eleanor had walked back into the room that everyone else was in, they had all seated themselves around a table on the other side of the room, sitting awkwardly whilst they were clearly waiting for the two women. Maria was seated to Fury's left, with Steve standing at the other end of the table with Sam. 

Natasha placed herself down opposite Maria and gestured for Eleanor to sit in the chair next to her, the one next to Fury. Eleanor simply nodded as the Director gazed at her.

As soon as she sat the Doctor practically ran to her as he crouched in between Fury and Eleanor. He started by wiping the excess blood away from her face, and then cleaning the wound with alcohol, causing her to let out a harsh wince before hardening her expression as the cleaning proceeded. Natasha sent her a sympathetic smile before turning her attention back to Fury as he began moving slightly. 

He picked up a photo with the hand that wasn't in a sling and stared at it before sighing, "This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility". He then threw it down in frustration, and Eleanor spotted the clear face of a younger Alexander Pierce. "See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues". Eleanor wanted to reply that him faking his death is contributing to her trust issues but she bit her tongue. 

Sam moved around the table behind Natasha to get a look at the photo. "We have to stop the launch", Natasha spoke after leaning back in her seat slightly. 

"I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore", Fury opened up a case that contained three chips, their use Eleanor was unsure of. 

"What's that?", Sam looked on edge again at the lack of certainty surrounding this situation.

On the less deep part of Eleanor's large gash, the Doctor started placing butterfly stitches, it was hard for her to focus on what was being said with the Doctor's face being directly in front of hers but she managed to refocus when Maria began talking.

"Once the helicarriers reach three thousand feet", she then flipped her laptop around showing the helicarriers and satellites on the east side of the U.S., Eleanor just about saw this as she moved her head slightly, "They'll triangulate with Insight satellites, becoming fully weaponised".

Fury looked as though he was about to speak, but as the Doctor started stitching up the deeper parts of the cut, he absentmindedly said, "This is incredible how narrowly it avoided both eyes, you were close to being blinded".

This caused Eleanor to widen her eyes in horror, whilst everyone else looked at him as though he was crazy. Looking around he saw everyone looking, so he sheepishly bowed his head before carrying on with the stitches, "Sorry, continue". 

"Anyway...", Fury began, "We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own". The screen showed the inside of the hellicarriers, and how the targeting blades were located in the middle, inside what looked like a capsule. That's what the chips were.

"One or two won't cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work because if even one of those ships remains operational, a whole lot of people are gonna die", Maria looked incredibly anxious about the situation, which was not surprising, this was a lot of pressure on the small gang of national outcasts.

"We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We have to get past them, insert these server blades, and maybe just maybe, we can salvage what's left...".

"We're not salvaging anything!", Steve half-shouted as he interrupted the Director, and Eleanor agreed with him. This was years and years of HYDRA infiltrating SHIELD, this goes too deep for them to be able to try and scrape actual parts of SHIELD out, the whole thing just needs to be shut down. Even though that was painful to think about.