Apex Avenger: Shadow Soldier

Ch 13

I'm just laying on the ground my hands behind my head staring up at the cell's roof when the room's heavy door opening is heard. I sit up to see Black Widow and Vision. Vision lays a tray of food and leaves, Widow looks at me trying to figure me out. She opens her mouth I assume to say something but she closes it. She closes her eyes with a sigh then opens them again.

"Y/N if there's a slim chance that you can hear me please give me a sign because I don't want to be the one to make the call to turn you in." She says vulnerably.

"I...I really care about you Nat, you're an amazing person and I feel like you give yourself a hard time which you don't deserve. You deserve the world and more. The reason why I really want to go on missions is to protect you and watch out for you. I know you don't need that because you're a badass assassin but I don't know I get fucken worried. What happened at the HYDRA base and New York I'd do it again in a heartbeat." I say and she looks taken back.

"Y/N-" She starts but my laughter cuts her off.

"Damn, this kid was head over heels for you Widow and man *sucks air through teeth* you destroyed her *chuckles* I'm surprised she didn't kill herself and shit, those dark thoughts were there." I say and she looks at me with pure hatred.

"Don't get mad at me baby. You're the one who pushed her away." I shrug amused.

"I didn't push her away!" She defends.

"Oh no? So getting fucked into oblivion and sneaking away the next morning and ignoring her isn't pushing her away?" I questioned confused.

"She ignored me! I tried to talk to her!" She exclaims.

"To say what? What she already knew that you just used her and didn't like her?" I scoff.

"That's not it and you know it!" She yells stepping closer to the glass.

"No I don't know!" I argue.

"Do you want me to admit that I regret that night?! Huh?! Because I do!" She exclaims.

"I regret you touching me the way you did, looking at me the way you did, fucking me into the bed until it almost broke the way you did." She rants.

For some reason my heart starts hurting emotionally but I don't show it instead I chuckle.

"That's a great way to get her ba-

"I regret it because that isn't how I wanted things to start between us." She cuts me off.

"Of course it being us we couldn't have a normal beginning, our start was you getting shot at to protect me." She says with a light chuckle and I roll my eyes.

"What a nice Romeo and Juliet story." I say boredly.

"You don't scare me Shadow, you can fool everyone else, but not me." She states trying to seem strong but I can see the cracks.

I shift into the gorilla troting up to her then stand tall the glass being the only thing seperating us. She places her hand on the glass in the middle of my chest.

"Please Smash help me get through to her." She whimpers.

Smash's eyes go from black to a flash of yellow before going back to pitch black.

I roar fogging up the glass. Natasha looks down a tear flowing down her face and she slowly wipes it away. Tony and Captain America walk inside.

"Come on Nat." Cap says softly pulling her away and they leave the room.

I turn back to my human self with a dark chuckle.

"Well if it isn't Tony Stark himself visting the prisoner. What an honor." I gasp.

"You aren't a prisoner this is and will always be your home." He says making me roll my eyes with a groan.

"Y/N I know you're in there you need to fight back! You're an apex predator, prey on this brain washing and snap out of this." He emphasises.

"Just give up Stark." I roll my eyes irritated.

"I won't ever give up because we're family!" He exclaims violently.

"No. We. Are. Not! You swear you are all about family but at the end of the day you only care about yourself because the bottom line is you rather have me as an ally than an enemy because I can destroy you in a heartbeat! I actually have powers while you're just a person in a suit and without it you're just a rich nerd in a shell of a man! My first impression of all this was right! You all just used me for when you needed me and when I needed you, you guys weren't there! What happened to "when we get set on finding someone we find them" huh?! I was fucken beat, tortured, raped! All because they wanted information about the Avengers before they turned me! And what did I do? *bitter chuckle* Didn't say a damn word because I was under the impression you guys would come for me but you never did! I was on the brink of death before I gave in *scoff* not that I had much of a choice anyway. Do you know how much it hurt to hear from HYDRA themselves that they killed Harry?! It destroyed me! You lied to me, you brought me here lying from the start. You wanted to protect me?! You failed Stark! I can't believe you can come in here with no shame and try to get me back when this is all your fault in the first place! So no, we aren't family. Hail HYDRA!" I finish tears threatening to fall.

The look on Tony's face is pure distraught, broken, pained hearing everything tears flow down as he closes his eyes and leaves without a word.

I then feel sick and rush to where a trash can is kneeling down and start throwing up black stuff. After I throw up everything I feel weak so I just sit on the floor staring off into space.

"Her eyes aren't completely black anymore but the iris still is." Bruce observes from the skybox monitor.

"What does that mean?" Steve asks crossing his arms.

"That Apex is coming through but Shadow is still there." Bruce explains.

"So like a Jeykll and Hyde situation?" Clint asks standing up walking up to him.

"It's plausible." He nods.

"How are we going to know who are we are talking to?" Steve asks.

"We're not." Bruce shrugs looking on.