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

Second Time Not So Lucky

Chapter 13

If she'd of known the cost she would have never have gone.

The piled into the jet and Natasha started the engines.

"We have take off" she announced as the wheels left the ground. There were many islands so finding Laura might take a while, hopefully the DNA scanner works properly, Natasha thought.

"Which island are we going to next?" Tony asked.

"I have no idea I'm just following the DNA" Natasha answered. A few minutes later they stopped and hovered in the air.

"Why are we not landing?" Steve said walking up to the cockpit to answer his question.

"Because the DNA leads to here, in between islands" Natasha stated.

"Meaning?" Tony asked

"It stops in the ocean." Natasha got up, opened a cupboard on the jet and took out several diving outfits.

"Put these on" Natasha slid into hers on top of her normal clothes. The suit was black and hugged Natasha's body, leaving nothing much to the imagination. She opened up the cargo bay of the jet and dived into the sea followed by Tony, Steve and Thor. Bruce thought that it would be a good idea if he stayed with the jet, as they didn't want a Hulk to deal with underwater.

Guns started firing through the water all around them.

"You've got to take out the turrets" Natasha said to Tony who launched a couple of missiles from his suit. The machines splintered into a thousand pieces across the ocean floor. They dove deeper reaching the seabed. There was a rock cliff about 100 metres away which they swam towards, with Thor whom kept becoming distracted by brightly coloured fish. Once they arrived Tony prepared to launch a missile but Natasha stopped him as she'd spotted a doorway. The door opened with ease, as if the kidnappers wanted them to come here. They entered the airlock allowing the air to flow in and replace the sea water. The next door opened and they were greeted with a present of soldiers firing rounds at them. Natasha and Steve managed to take them out with ease.

"Where now?" Thor asked.

"We need to find some sort of computer room, or transmission room, something that I can hack into, get the floor plan and Laura's location" Natasha explained. They split into two groups Steve and Thor on one, and Tony and Natasha on the other.

Every corridor was exactly the same, no markings or signs to distinguish them.

"Have you got a marker?" Natasha asked, "or something that would leave a mark?"

"Yeah, why?"

"The walls, thy're all the same."

"So it's like a maze, except if we get lost then we die" Tony said.

"Basically" Natasha took the pen from Tony and wrote a symbol on the wall.

"What does that mean?"

"Past, come on." They scouted the area, marking each new wall with a different symbol from the last. Nothing. Still absolutly nothing was changing, it felt like they were going in circles, slowly going mad. Natasha spotted a security camera.

"Wait" she called, holding her arm out in front on Tony so that he didn't walk right into shot of the camera.

"How are we getting past that?" Tony asked.

"We don't. We'll take another corridor round."

"I could just blow it up" he offered.

"No. You see the red mark on its wires?" Tony nodded, "that causes it to send off an alert if it's tampered with."

"What sort of alert?" Then a ringing sound started to echo along the walls, red lights flashed from nowhere.

"That sort" Natasha said, "Steve and Thor must have set it off, this is our chance to get in. They'll be providing cover."

"Ok, let's do it."

"On my count, one, two, ready?"

"Yeah!"

"Three." They ran round the corner, guards were waiting and tired to shoot Natasha and Tony down, but unfortunately for them Natasha and Tony were better skilled than them. They crept round corner after corner, until they met a solid heavy duty metal door.

"Rockets?" Tony asked.

"Rockets." They went flying into the metal, causing a huge sound, metal was flung everywhere. Tony took the first step into the new room. It was black, just like the last.

"Congratulations Natalia" a voice echoed from somewhere high in the room. Natasha took out her guns and pointed them directly at the sound.

"Oh, I thought you would have learnt from last time. Put those things down."

"Why should I?" Natasha fought back.

"Because of this" a lone light turned on in the room, illuminating the person. In his grasps was a woman of a pale complexion with brown long hair.

"Put her down!" Natasha shouted.

"You should know better than that, you know what happens to people when they boss me around." Tony noticed Natasha didn't answer, didn't flinch just remained to stare at the man.

"What do you want?"

"Well, that's quite simple really. You."

"Me? Why me? I'm nothing special."

"Oh on the contrary, you are very interesting and I have a use for you. A job proposition, but I knew you wouldn't just take it so insurance was needed."

"You sick son of a-"

"Enough!" He cut her off, "you will take the job, because if you don't she will die and her remains will be delivered to Cooper, Lila and Nathaniel at the end of their beds." Natasha didn't even react, as if she was use to it. Tony looked at Natasha, for the first time in a while he was scared for his friends decision.

"Do I get to know who the job is?" Natasha asked. Who? Tony thought that was a weird question, what maybe, but who?

"Yes, his name is Grant Ward. Do we have a deal?"

"Yes. Now give me Laura."

"As you wish." The man pushed Laura forward towards Tony and Natasha. Steve and Thor, reemerged trying to gather what was happening.

"You can't give yourself to this person Natasha, who even are they?" Tony whispered to Natasha.

"I can, and I have to. I know who they are but the less you know the better. Don't try to find me because you'll end up dead" Natasha warned as she started to make her way over to the man in a black suit.

"It's good to have us back in our ranks Widow." The man remarked, "now then let's discuss this job." The man tries to usher Natasha out of the room leaving the team standing with Laura.

"Of course sir" Natasha stated. Tony went to fire rockets at him.

"Oh I wouldn't do that" the man clicked his fingers and red dots appeared on everyone's chests, from snipers somewhere in the room.

"Now please leave before I change my mind." Natasha was gone, but Laura was back. 

A/N Thank you for reading this, I hope you've enjoyed. This is the end of this story but don't worry there will be a sequel soon.