Venom | Avengers: Age of Ultron [5]

Chapter 27

We landed in a field outside of Ontario. "What is this place?" I asked as we bundled up in clothes stored on the jet. "It's an old S.H.I.E.L.D. Base. I saw it in the files once," Clint admitted as we filed outside. "Clint Barton, former Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.," He said to a machine gun that had popped up. A door opened, and everyone entered.

"Jesus, what happened here?" I asked, looking around at the tarnished building. "I think it was raided. Look, gunpowder," Bucky pointed to a mark on the wall. "Let's look around, see if anyone's home," Cap said. I took off down a hallway. Rounding a corner, I saw a message scratched into a window.

  Ward is HYDRA. I hadn't a clue who Ward was, other than a HYDRA sleeper agent. I met back up with the others in the lobby. "Looks like someone used to be here, but they left for some reason," Cap said. "Yeah. I found a message. Ward is HYDRA," I admitted. "Ward? Whose Ward?" Tanya asked.

"I don't know. Unless..." I trailed off. "Unless what?" We turned to see Natasha Romanoff standing in the doorway. "Are you here to turn us in?" Tanya snarled, glaring at her. "I'm here to join you. I doubled-crossed my team, so they're looking for me too. I figured you guys would come here. That, and Clint radioed me saying you all were on the way to Providence," She admitted. "Can we trust her?" Bucky asked, not dropping his guard.

In response, Nat dropped all of her weapons on the floor and held her hands up. "My contact within S.H.I.E.L.D. is Chebotaryova Kosana Anatolievna, also known as Black Widow, or, in some cases, the Redback Widow. We were trained in the same academy, and are the only two known graduates as of 2003," She said, and Clint lowered his bow. "Nat, it's good to see you," He said, and the two hugged. "There are more Black Widows?" Steve asked. "An entire academy of them. Asya and I were the only ones that escaped," Nat admitted.

"How do we know she's not lying?" Scott asked nervously. "It's her. Nat would never tell me her contact's name, until now," Clint defended. "Hold on. Tell them what you said after we played Uno with the other Bartons," I said. "'How about we play something other than getting our butts whooped by Ellie in Uno?'" She repeated. "Yeah, it's her," I said, letting my guard drop.

 "So, what were you going to say before Romanoff interrupted?" Cap asked. "This Ward character might be the same one that supervised me during my first field mission," I revealed. "It is. He's dead," Nat said. "Dead? How?" I asked, as her phone, which she pulled out, buzzed. "I take that back. He's not dead, but he's also not our problem right now," She said, slipping her phone into her pocket.

"What do we do now?" Wanda asked. "We drown the rats that didn't go down with the ship,"

a/n Well. Spoilers for my Redback series. Oops. Eh, it was pretty evident anyway.