The Younger Agent - Natasha Romanoff x OC

Chapter 79 - Coffee Tripping

2016-

Even with the chaotic training days that the team had where the universe seemed to be against them, the group managed to band together and become a team that worked efficiently. It took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to get to the point where they could say that they were safe to go on missions. 

Steve, Nat, and Eleanor were used to training new recruits. During Steve's time in the military, he learnt a lot about training, and Natasha and Eleanor used to conduct a lot of training sessions during their SHIELD days. However, training enhanced beings and people in suits was a lot different to training new agents. 

In SHIELD training consisted of workouts, admin, and things like programming. These were all things that still needed to be drilled into the four new people's heads, but their physical training was a whole new ballgame. With Wanda, the two women still taught her hand-to-hand combat, but she didn't need to go into as much depth as they did, she had power enhancements and so most of the focus went on learning how to control those in an incredibly precise way. It was new terrain for everyone to be walking on, but success was achieved - which led to the first big mission.

Lagos, Nigeria. 

It didn't require the whole team, most missions don't. Unless there is a world-ending disaster, the people most appropriate for the job are picked. In this case, it happened to be Steve, Nat, Eleanor, Wanda, and Sam. The remaining people weren't the best for a stealth mission.

This one seemed like a personal one. Brock Rumlow from the STRIKE team, HYDRA scum, had been on the move. He didn't die in the Triskelion like they had thought he had, and now went by the name Crossbones and had a group of lackeys supporting him. Steve had been working on tracking him for months and had managed to intercept some communications which showed that a police station in Lagos was their next robbery target after completing a string of them.

The three women of the team were placed inside of a cafe to try and scope out the street ahead, whilst Steve was placed inside of an apartment and Sam was on a roof.

Eleanor sat with Natasha at a small table, both wearing sunglasses to remain inconspicuous to anyone who may recognise them, and Wanda sat by herself at a table behind them, all three with coffees in front of them to blend in. Eleanor planned to sit back slightly with this mission, it was the first big one other than fieldwork that Wanda was going on, so it was agreed that she take some of the lead to test what she had learnt. That wasn't to say that Eleanor was not going to be aware of and take in her surroundings, she just wouldn't voice them unless absolutely necessary.

So, she looked at her coffee as she took occasional sips, all whilst taking in what was going on in her peripheral, occasionally taking a full glance. 

"All right, what do you see?", Steve's voice came through their earpieces, making Eleanor take another quick look around just in case Wanda didn't make the correct conclusions.

In the corner of her eye, she could see Wanda in a cap attempting to look around subtly before looking back to her coffee "Standard beat cops. Small station. Quiet street. It's a good target". Eleanor allowed herself to smirk slightly as she brought her coffee up to her lips to take a tiny sip so that she didn't drink it all. Good answers.

"There's an ATM on the south corner, which means?".

"Cameras", Wanda swiftly answered, making Eleanor raise her eyebrows slightly at Nat who had briefly looked over at her. Natasha had to purse her lips slightly as she turned away to stop a smile from forming on her face. 

"Both cross streets are one-way".

Eleanor had full faith in the new trainee now, so continued looking around and building her own judgements. The people outside looked jolly and talkative which was nice to see, seeing other people happy can sometimes spark a warm feeling. But she didn't let herself get distracted by it, and kept her main focus, when she did briefly look over, at the police station. "So, compromised escape routes", Wanda responded.