The Younger Agent - Natasha Romanoff x OC

Chapter 71 - Out Of Reach

Eleanor inhaled deeply to ready herself for the impact of the train and hopped up and down on the balls of her feet a few times to try and get some momentum. The roof of the truck did not have a lot of room to run to make that jump securely, so she needed all of the momentum that she could get. 

Time was running out. Eleanor could spot the track diverging from the road very soon, meaning she would miss her chance "It's now or never", she mumbled before sprinting forward a few steps and pushing hard with one foot to send herself flying towards the train.

Whilst hurtling through the air, she pulled her limbs into her body to form a ball so that there was less chance of an arm being chopped off. She thanked her lucky stars when she felt the impact of flying through a window, and not hitting a metal door and bouncing onto the tracks for an untimely death, Natasha would have killed her if she died. 

The thanks soon turned into holding in a groan of pain when she landed on the floor and felt the glass cut into her thighs when her limbs unravelled themselves from her body at the tumble into some chairs. There were some gasps and shouts around her when the ringing in her ears died down, the passengers of the train clearly not happy to see yet another person barrelling through the vehicle.

"Sorry! My bad", she half-yelled as she shakily stood and brushed the glass off of her legs and arms that were protruding from her skin. She ran forwards through a few carriages to reach the one that Steve was in, but as soon as she opened the door to Steve's carriage, she saw him flying towards her from a blast impact.

Her eyes widened and her body reacted on auto-pilot. Looking up she saw that there were some metal bars on the ceiling for luggage, so she jumped up and grabbed on, lifting her legs up to avoid being hit by Steve completely.

It worked, but when more blasts were shot, the train shook and she landed on the floor directly on her back between Steve and Ultron. She jumped up and smiled at the bot who was looking at her as though she was the most annoying thing on the planet. She couldn't damage him, but she sure was pestering him.

"Hi!", Eleanor smiled and waved, confusing both Steve and Ultron. Distraction complete. With the two looking at her like she was crazy, she ran to a pole that went from floor to ceiling, and swung herself around, booting the side of Ultron's face. Surprisingly, he went flying into the wall of the train and roared in anger.

Eleanor's eyes widened at the brief victory as Ultron flew back up again and Steve swung his shield at him. The victory was very short-lived, Ultron managed to blast Steve in the side, rendering the shield useless. He got thrown to the back of the train carriage, allowing Ultron to train his attention back on Eleanor.

"Hey, I don't have a big vibranium frisbee to hand so maybe we can make a deal?", Eleanor smiled with sarcasm lacing her words, further angering the already livid bot. Mission accomplished. 

He groaned and flew forward to pick her up by under one of her arms with his hand, and tossed her like a ragdoll into the ceiling above Steve. They both grunted when she landed on top of him and bounced onto the floor. "Ow", she rubbed her head and sat up next to Steve. Looking around she could see that their half of the carriage had been cleared of terrified passengers, which was one less thing for them to worry about.

"I'm going in. Cap, El, can you keep him occupied?", Nat spoke through comms, clearly having caught up to the now unoccupied truck with the Cradle in it.

"What do you think we've been doing?", Steve panted as he aggressively stood up and held out his hand to help Eleanor up as well.

"Thanks", she breathed out as she tried to hold back the black spots from completely taking over her vision. There had been far too many blows to the head for an average human to take. Nonetheless, she tried to shake it off and jumped into a defensive stance at seeing Ultron approach, though it felt futile as he could just toss her around again.