AJ Watson: Codename - Shadow

The Red Room

The Red Room was a covert facility that floated high in the sky above Belarus. Agents took Alexei, Becca, Natasha, and AJ to a holding area while scientist took Katerina and Sasha to operate on thanks to Dreykov's orders. Melina walked through the corridor while carrying an unconscious Yelena and looked through a door where the Widow's were training.

She carried Yelena into the General's office and saw him sitting at his desk. Taskmaster and Ghost were in the corner of the room standing at attention. A moment later, Yelena started to stir in Melina's hold and groaned. She was still waking up and was out of it.

"My God." Dreykov said and got up and walked towards them. "Look at you two. So, uh, how was the family reunion?"

"Oh, it was awful." Melina replied. "They were clings and too emotional, and needy. As you can see."

Dreykov chuckled. "Just like old times, huh?"

"Hmm."

"Katerina Vostokoff and Sasha Shostakov." He said. "What's the deal with them? They were the only ones affected, right?"

"As far as I know, yes." Melina answered

"These gasses and antidotes, it's a pain in my ass. It's a problem. You need to sort it."

"I have nine pigs that will require attending to in my absence."

"I don't give a shit about your pigs." He responded and sat the two down in the chairs by the desk. He forcefully placed his hand on top of Melina's head. "Cut their brains out... Hmm? Identify the weakness."

"What about Romanoff and Belova here?" Dreykov sat on the edge of his desk and faced the two. "They're traitors. They turned their backs on their people. On their blood. They had nothing. I gave them a home. I gave them love." He stated as Yelena started to come to her senses. "Put that thing in them you do. You know, uh, chemicals. Turn them into two of your pigs." Dreykov smirked. "Can you imagine what I could do with not just one... But two Avengers under my control?"

Melina showed a slight expression of confusion at the mention of only two Avengers, when there were a total of four here. Dreykov took notice of this but kept it to himself for now.

"Wouldn't you like to speak to her first?" She asked.

"When you look into the eyes of a child you have raised, no mask in the world can hide that."

Dreykov reached over to touch her face but Yelena quickly grabbed his wrist. He kept going, and she eased her grip and allowed him to tap the side of her temple. Melina's face glitched and distorted before the general peeled off the photostatic veil along with her wig.

It was Natasha Romanoff under the veil... And Dreykov knew it was her.

"Welcome home, you two." Dreykov said.

Natasha's plan to switch places with Melina seemed to fail, which inflated the General's ego.

"Is this your plan?" He asked.

"My plan is for us to kill you." Natasha said.

"I'm alive. So, what do we do now?"

"What was our mother's names?"

"Ah..." Dreykov paused for a second. "Where we buried them, there was a tree... Um... A pink blossom. Beautiful. And there was a pair of tombstones with their names engraved on them."

"What were their names?" Yelena asked dangerously.

Dreykov chuckled at the girls. "Unknown."

Natasha had to hold Yelena back from immediately killing Dreykov right then and there. She made Yelena inhale deeply. "You don't feel anything? You feel anything when we killed your son and daughter?"