Red Room

RR 10 The Doll

"No." But I will help her. I owe her. Loki turned away as Thor opened his cell. That haunting cry echoed in his ears once more and a tear slipped down his face. He wiped it off and turned to walk out of the cell. He was free, but he didn't want to escape Tony and Thor. He had to help Natasha.

Now that Loki was free, he also had his powers back thanks to Thor. He transported them from the prison and back to the portal where Heimdall was waiting. He needed his strength if he were to go from the prison straight to the Avengers Tower. Loki was unsure of what to do since he was technically a prisoner of Asgard but Heimdall was letting him go with the others. As he passed him, Heimdall gave him a stern stare and simply nodded his head. Loki joined Thor and Tony at the portal and was transported to Midgard, or as the humans called it, Earth.

As the rest of the Avengers waited for their friends and Loki's return, they continued to monitor Natasha's condition. The machine was making her jump through time years instead of days or weeks. Currently, she was about 22 years old and had already added hundreds of lives to her ledger. She killed without mercy and was no longer being brainwashed due to an incident that nearly killed her when she was 16 or so. She had killed world leaders, government officials, and even fellow members of Red Room, under Ivan's orders of course. She did what she was told without question. Steve, Bruce, and Clint all had to watch as Natasha was tortured repeatedly in order for her to be able to withstand any similar situation if captured. Bruce remembered reading about how cruel the Soviet Union was when testing out how low a person's body temperature could get without them dying. He would hear horror stories from it. He never thought in his entire life that he would actually see it; Natasha going through this until she nearly died, only to be brought back and have another test thrust upon her. Over and over again, the boys watched this horror. The horror of a young girl being put through this, and then growing up to be one of the best friends they ever had without knowing what she had been through. No wonder she never talked about it. No wonder she seemed so cold. Bruce thought about how hard his life had been, Clint also, and even Thor. But all of their childhoods put together would never live up to the horrors of Natasha Romanoff.

They boys did not want to watch the monitor another second, but they had to in order to make sure she was okay and her heartrate stayed normal and that her recurring injuries would heal. At one point, she almost had a hole blown through her stomach, but it eventually healed in a few days, with the help of medications and emergency surgery from Bruce as well as Red Room in Natalia's case. Ivan didn't want his precious project to be wasted all in one accident.

Currently, Natalia was on a mission to take out a major political official. He was a major arms dealer and had hustled Ivan out of a deal. He thought with his small army of hired criminals dubbed bodyguards would be enough to protect him from Ivan and his wrath. Little did he know of Ivan's secret little weapon, the Black Widow. So, Ivan sent her and no one else since they would just get in her way. The way she just took orders without a word or any hint of emotion scared the guys. She was almost like a zombie but they guessed that with the hell she went through her whole life taught her to do, and not ask questions. That could lead to a punishment with no mercy.

Natalia arrived at the mansion home of her target. She surveyed her surroundings and noticed many guards about the property. She saw a balcony with an open window on the second story of the home and called that her point of entry. All she had to do was make it there without being seen. She slinked over the iron gates quicker than any normal person would and then darted behind a tree. She noticed a line of trees leading almost straight to the window, starting a few yards to her right. There were three guards in her way to the tree line. She flattened herself to the ground and crawled lightning fast towards the men and took the first one out without a sound. She flipped the second one to the ground after crushing his windpipe and breaking his neck in a headlock. The third guys still hadn't heard anything but turned around to see a beautiful red headed woman standing before him. She smiled at him before fisting her knuckles into his nose, causing it to penetrate his brain. Boom, three dead in a matter of seconds. The rest of the way was easy as she climbed a tree and then went from one to another. She thought of how stupid the guards were to not to look up.