Phantasm

Chapter 18

The team had not really talked about what to do with Alex with Andy or Clint. It made both of them a little frustrated. Finally Andy had enough of being out of the loop and stormed into the lab where the whole team was gathered. 

Steve was the first to see her and hushed the group. They looked up at her as Andy crossed her arms. 

"So, any news on what we're gonna do with Alex?" Andy asked and no one said anything. "No? That's funny, then why are you all huddled into a corner f the lab whispering?" She asked as she walked towards them. 

"Andy you know why we can't tell you anything." Tony said causing Andy to glare at him. 

"And why is that? Because I tried to kill her?" Andy asked and everyone just nodded. "Okay I get that but she gave us the bases!" Andy said, growing even more frustrated. 

"We think it's a trap." Natasha said looking right at her. "We think that she said those bases because it's a trap for us to go there and all get killed. That's why there are a few agents scoping out those areas right now. We have to wait for them to get back and tell us if the area is safe." Natasha explained and Andy nodded a little. 

"Well at least someone explained it to me. What are we going to do with Alex while we wait?" Andy asked and the team looked at each other before looking at her again. 

"We have no idea. Some had the idea of letting her go but that's suicidal. Others had the idea of keeping her here. Some had the idea of killing her. We don't know which one is the better idea yet." Steve explained and Andy nodded. 

"I mean I like the idea of killing her but if we kill her and she somehow is linked back to a base and it shows that she's been killed, that could also mean we would get ambushed here. They might already be planning an ambush if there's a tracker in her blood. Bruce or Tony might want to check on that." Andy rambled and they all looked each other. 

"I'll go check on the tracker." Tony said before gathering a few things and walking out of the lab to go check Alex. 

They stood in silence waiting for Tony to get back, not sure what to say to each other. 

After about 20 minutes Tony comes running back to the lab. "Tracker." Is all that he can say and everyone's hearts drop. 

"We need to lock down the building." Natasha says. 

"We need to evacuate everyone but us." Steve says.

Tony and Bruce are huddled together trying to figure out how to get the tracker out of her blood as the rest of the team is trying to figure out what to do with the tower. 

"Wait, where's Clint?" Andy finally asked and her eyes go wide. "I'm going to find him, if anything happens I'll be on comms." She yells as she runs out of the room to go find Clint. 

The first room she checked was the gym, empty. Then Clint's floor, empty. Her floor, empty. 

"Damn it Clint where are you?" Andy whispered to herself as she continued to search the tower for him. 

"Andy! I've been looking all over for you! What's going on?" Andy heard and she whipped around to see Clint running up to her, bow in hand. 

"Oh my god you're okay. Alex had a tracker in her blood. Don't know how we missed that one but we did. Let's get to the lab." Andy said but Natasha interrupted her in her ear. 

"Nope, go to Alex's cell. We need guards on her and I know you'll kill her if she steps out of line. Just don't kill her or open that cage." Natasha explained and Andy looked at Clint. 

"We have to go guard Alex." Andy said and Clint nodded, following Andy to Alex's cell. 

The team was trying to evacuate the tower when a crash was heard from a few stories above. "I'll go check. I'll call if I need back up." Tony said as his suit came together over his body. Before anyone could argue he was gone. 

Andy and Clint had heard the crash and gone running up to the source. When they got there Andy stopped. 

"Those are the guys that almost killed me in Spain." Andy whispered and Clint silently drew an arrow and pointed it at one of the men. 

"Excuse me fellas, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Tony said as he came into the room and pointed his repulsers at them. 

"You think you can boss us around? We have those little words that can turn him to a monster." The man said with a thick Russian accent. 

Clint kept his aim but moved to one of the men rifling through some of the stuff in a desk. 

"You keep thinking that you can get to him. You won't be able to." Tony said and Clint took that as a good time to shoot his arrow and make the man slump to the ground, dead. 

The Russian man looked from the dead man on the ground to where Clint and Andy were. 

"You two should watch your post." He said and they both took off running to Alex's cell. If she got out again, there would be hell to pay. 

As Andy and Clint reached the cell, the door was opening. Clint quickly shot the man at the controls and aimed an arrow at Alex. 

"Now Clint, is that anyway to greet me?" Alex asked as she stepped out. 

"Move one step and I will shoot you." Clint said tensing up. 

Andy looked at Clint and looked back at Alex. 

Alex smirked and opened her arms. "Then shot me, there will be Hydra agents swarming the tower in less than an hour." Alex taunted and Clint almost hesitated. 

Alex thought she had won and stepped closer to them. Clint released his arrow and hit Alex in the right shoulder. She grimaced at the pain but took another step. 

"The next one will go in your head." Clint said as he aimed at Alex's forehead.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." A voice said behind them. Before Clint could turn around he was knocked unconscious. 

Andy looked at the person behind her but didn't recognize her.  

"Andrea, so nice to see you again, we have so much to walk about." The woman said and before Andy could react, she was knocked out.