Clint? Laura? Where are you? (Book 1)

It Begins

Chapter 6

Natasha stayed up all night trying to decrypt the seeming impossible. She then suddenly thought of another code with translated with the use of books. Three symbols. That's what she had to find Clint and Laura. Natasha moved away from her laptop and went to get a coffee from the coffee machine. One latte. Tony walked into the room.

"Hey, you got any further yet?" He asked.
"No" Natasha replied pouring milk into the mug, "have you?"
"Jarvis is still trying to identify what code they're using" Tony said pausing "you sure you haven't got any idea about what their using?" He asked.
"I'm sure" Natasha said sitting back down at the desk to stare blankly at the screen awaiting answers. A few hours later she fell asleep with still no answer to the ever so more fatal question.

Natasha awoke startled by her dreams. She hoped that what happened in there didn't happen in real life. There was a beeping coming from her laptop. It had decrypted the symbols. Bengal Tiger Temple. Where on Earth was that? Natasha thought, "better go tell Tony."

Tony was standing leaning over a metal workbench welding some gadget.
"What does that do?" Natasha asked.
"It's an upgrade on the arch reactor I've been working on to make it hopefully more stable on a bigger scale" Tony explained, "any news on what the message means?"
"Yes, Bengal Tiger Temple"
"Well, that's a lot to work with" Tony rolled his eyes.
"Actually it is. See Bengal Tigers are only naturally found in one country, India, and a temple well how many do you think worship Tigers?" Natasha said.
"This is way you're the spy and I'm not" Tony remarks.
"Perhaps. Anyway can you set Jarvis to locate a Bengal Tiger Temple in India"
"Yes Miss Romanoff" Jarvis said.
"You can tell him things yourself, he recognises your voice" Tony said.
"Oh right ok thanks Tony" Romanoff said before picking up a piece of paper with one of Tony's many ideas.
"I have located a Bengal Tiger Temple, Miss Romanoff." Jarvis speaks up.
"Where is it?" Natasha starts,  "Actually don't tell me, send the coordinate to the avengers quinjet." Natasha walks out of the room with a slight spring in her step because they might finally be able to rescue Clint and Laura from their captors. She heads towards Cooper's room to tell him the good news. Throwing open the door to his room she saw Cooper and Lila sitting playing with some metal and plastic toy cars. They both looked at the intruder of their game. Natasha froze for a moment questioning whether to tell Lila the truth or not. She was so young. Only six. 
"Could you two meet me in the main living room in ten minutes?" Natasha asks. They both nod and go back to playing with the car for a little longer. 

Natasha walks into the living room and sits on the sofa. James is there reading a tech magazine. He looks up and nods towards Natasha then goes back to reading. The room was silent except for a single clock going tick tick tick as seconds past, it was a surprise that Tony even had an analog clock. Pepper and Tony walk in and sit on the opposite sofa. Steve, Thor, Wanda, Sam and Vision walk in laughing their heads off about something of another.

"Hey Tony, what did you want to talk to us about?" Steve asks sitting next to Natasha.
"Actually can you wait a minute whilst we wait for Lila and Cooper?" Natasha said as more of a order than question.
"Yeah sure" he says leaning back in the seat. A moment or so later Lila and Cooper enter. The rooms goes silent again. Cooper looks straight at Natasha, not blinking. 
"What's going on?" Cooper asks. Natasha motions for them to sit down on the only available seats.
"Well, Cooper you already know this but Lila"
"Yeah" she says in her innocent little voice, causing Natasha to almost break.
"Your parents, your Mum and Dad. Well they're missing, which is why you're here."
"Mummy and Daddy are gone?" She whimpers.
"Yes, but we may have a possible location." All eyes look at Natasha filled with hope.
"What's the plan?" Steve asks.
"We'll discuss that later. Lila it's your bedtime and Cooper it'll be yours soon, so put the toy car away in your room." Natasha says trying to make life continue as normal.
"Can we come with you? To find Mum and Dad?" Cooper asks, Lila nods agreeing with her brother.
"No, we don't know what dangers lie there so you'll be staying here with Pepper and Sam." Natasha explains gently. "Now off you two go." They leave the room.

Natasha finds herself staring yet again out at the world through a glass paign. It was the same view, even though parts of the city would have changed in the past 48 hours.  Climbing into bed Natasha starts to worry about Clint and Laura. Had they left it too late? Were they seriously hurt? Natasha sat up in her bed and clambered out in her pjs and walked upstairs to the Avenger's jet. Looking at the coordinates she guessed it would take around ten to twelve hours to get there at full speed. If she took off now she'd make it there an hour or so before mid-day here. Time differences would make it 7:00pm there when she landed. Starting up the engines she noticed someone get in. 
"Trying to run off ahead? That's not very clever." Steve said. 
"Yes well, they could be hurt or dying out there!" Natasha exclaimed. 
"Hey, it's going to be alright" Steve might of pulled anyone else at this point into a hug, but this was Natasha. "Let me go wake the others and we'll take off in half an hour. Ok?" He compromises. Natasha nods not wanting to put up a fight against Steve. 

Everyone was there ready for take off half an hour later. Tony was awake even if he was grumbling about being awake at this time of night. He soon stopped as he remembered the importance of leaving now that Steve had explained to them all before boarding the jet. Natasha and Steve restart the engines and they take off for their twelve hour flight to the other side of the world.