The Younger Agent - Natasha Romanoff x OC

Chapter 89 - Fighting For Forgiveness

With not a lot of time at their disposal, the group came up with a plan relatively quickly. It seemed sound, but as it was a rushed plan there wasn't time to go through and check for flaws or gaps that could be manipulated by the others to get an advantage over them, they just had to trust that it would work. It reminded Eleanor of the plan to steal Sam's wings back in Washington two years ago. That plan was riddled with ways that it could go wrong, but they succeeded. She just hoped that this would follow the same path.

Steve would run to the helicopter waiting for them, along with Eleanor. Tony had more of a soft spot for her than he did for Steve, so there was more of a chance of trying to sway him with her there to talk to him as well instead of him just immediately blowing up the Captain. But for a safety blanket, their little tictac friend would tag along in his miniature form, holding onto Steve's shield so that he couldn't be seen. Sam and Bucky would stay in the airport to use redwing to track down the quinjet, and Wanda and Sam would be outside but hidden away as a backup.

The plan allowed them to be spread out around the area so that if Steve and Eleanor needed backup they could call on them to help and hopefully have an element of surprise. Though she doubted that Tony's team didn't know that they at least had Wanda, Clint, and Sam. Vision probably notified them that she had left the compound with Clint, and Sam had been with Steve from the very beginning.

As Steve and Eleanor ran out into the open with Scott as their stowaway towards the helicopter, all that ran through her mind was the fact that she would likely be facing Natasha in a confrontation in mere moments. It was bad enough that Eleanor had left and gone against the eyes of the law, even if those eyes were not seeing clearly, but now there was probably going to be an actual fight to get either the helicopter or the quinjet that the others had arrived in.

She felt her mouth dry up as they neared the helicopter, a rush of nausea passing through her. There was no way in hell that she would hurt Natasha, and she just hoped that Nat would think the same of her even if she was angry. Though Eleanor thought to herself that she probably did deserve a good punch in the jaw for doing a runner, even if she didn't have much of a choice.

Her thoughts were very quickly interrupted by a device being thrown onto the helicopter, sending an electrical buzz shooting through the vehicle, rendering it useless. Great. Now they just had to hope they were right in the fact that there would be a quinjet somewhere around. The two stopped in their tracks and looked up to what or who caused the malfunction, and lo and behold, Tony and Rhodey in their iron suits flew down and landed in front of them.

Eleanor's face scrunched when the metal suits clanged as they hit the floor, she had hoped that there was a slim chance that they would have been able to make a quick escape, but there was now just going to be immediate conflict. She was desperate for it to not escalate, but with the clashing powers of Cap and Tony, that wasn't a likely outcome. "Wow, it's so weird how you run into people at the airport", Tony spoke as his helmet retreated back into the suit and he turned to Rhodey, "Don't you think that's weird?".

"Definitely weird".

"Hear us out, Tony", Steve got their attention, and Eleanor could see the anger radiating off of Stark, making her hold her head higher as he looked between them. They needed to stand their ground. "That doctor, the psychiatrist, he's behind all of this".

Eleanor nodded, "He's right Tony, the psy-", she tried to start explaining how they knew these facts to give themselves more credibility in this situation instead of being viewed as reckless, but her head snapped to the side as they watched T'Challa in his Black Panther suit landing beside them. Oh, fantastic. They had reinforcements too.

"Captain, Agent", T'Challa nodded at the duo as he stood. "Your Highness", Steve continued the pleasantries whilst Eleanor just gave a curt nod.

"Anyway", Tony walked around to the other side of Rhodey, "Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago, can you help a brother out?".