VENUS VADYAEVA. RED Room trained assassin, graduate of the Black Widow program. She'd nearly always been at the top of the class. Cold; smart; ruthless. The qualities that they were looking for. It'd taken a little while, but eventually, she'd gotte...
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∆ {1²} {TRAPDOOR} ∆
Tokyo, 7th May 2009
CLINT DIDN'T KNOW why Fury had insisted that he carried on with this mission. He'd been searching for the KBG agent for seven months, and he'd sent Natasha with him this time. He'd only seen his target a few times, and only glances on footage from security cameras. Now, they stood in the rain in Tokyo, where they'd received word of a sighting of her. Every other time he'd gone out to inspect one of the calls, the woman had been gone before he got there, but it seemed today was going to be his lucky day.
The pair of them were waiting on a roof top, both prepared to shoot to kill if it escalated that far. Natasha was slowly getting the hang of the idea that when Clint was with her, she didn't need to watch her back the whole time, but she was still tensed, anticipating a fight. It was raining, and the reflection of the neon lights off the water made it harder to see her when she finally emerged from a building.
This time, she was not wearing the elegant, blood red dress, and her hair wasn't neatly styled so it feel down her back, instead, the black waves bounced around her face slightly. This most certainly wasn't a party in Vienna; instead, the three assassins stood in the driving rain above the streets of Tokyo, all on high alert. Now, she wore a black catsuit that bore her virtually invisible against the darkening sky. A flash of silver caught his eye, and Clint instinctively brought his hand up to his shoulder to rub the scar from where one of her blades had pierces through the muscle of his shoulder.
And when she began to move, that was different too. Instead of an elegant gliding, as she had walked at the party, she now bounded and southern smoothly from rooftop to rooftop, above the heads of unsuspecting Japanese people.
Clint sent Natasha a nod, and the redhead ran into the darkness, as he looked around for a moment before following, using the time to prepare his bow and load it with a paralysing arrow.
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VENUS WAS STARTING to get tired of these missions. Simply infiltrate and kill, and then get the hell out. Today's was in Tokyo, a leash of information, or something similar. She didn't ask questions. It hadn't been hard to get in, and she'd completed the first part of her mission easily, but the hard part was getting out. She was well aware that SHIELD had been looking for her for the last seven months since the Vienna incident (- it hadn't washed over lightly) and she'd known every time they were watching her. That was why it didn't surprise her when she spotted a couple of them that night when she excited the building, slipping away the sword she'd used to complete her task. Unfortunately, they weren't the only ones after her. HYDRA seemed to have taken a certain interest in her skills, and the KGB had decided that she was to good to give to them, so she had two huge, governmental powers after her, both of her tails a couple of streets behind her and apart from each other.
While the SHIELD agents (one of which she recognised from Italy) split up, the group of five or so HYDRA agents stayed very much together. Venus wasn't sure how long it would take to get rid of them, but she was on a limit on her time. The KGB had taken extra precautions since Vienna, what with her... Extras and initial record of being a rebel in the Red Room in her early years. Since then, she'd learned a great deal. And once she learned something, she never forgot it. It was how she'd been trained. She moved faster as she began to hear the HYDRA agents move in the background, keeping low to the rooftops as she moved. It was times like this that she'd worked as hard as she did on moving silently.
It wasn't long after that that gunshots began to ring through the air, fired by HYDRA, that tore up the ground around her. Luckily, they weren't close enough for a clean shot at her. She assumed both organisations had given the same orders; capture of you can, kill if necessary. At least SHIELD were sticking to their orders. Dodging bullets, she raced along the roofs, her eyes glowing a slight tinted purple colour as the adrenaline coursed through her veins. Eventually, she dropped down between two buildings and looped around so she was behind HYDRA, completely prepared to fight. She drew out her swords, one still red at the tip as she drew up behind the first agent. A simple slicing movement across their neck, and they crumpled to the floor. Simultaneously, she stabbed her other blade into the base of the next closest agent's neck, effectively paralysing them. By the time the other agents had turned around, she's managed to slip back into the shadow of the dearest building.
The agents looked around confused, murmuring nervously, before one of her swords caught the light of one of the bright signs that stood out in the dim rain, and one of the agents opened their mouth to warn the others as they saw it, but Venus moved too fast. A sword punctured through HYDRA's average armour and they collapsed to the ground, the weapon still in their chest. With no time to retrieve it, she whirled around to face the remaining two, fairly confident that SHIELD wouldn't intervene until she'd dealt with the threat herself. With her one sword in hand, the two remaining men exchanged glances and raised their guns. She simply knocked the first gun away into the street using the blade of the short sword before she used the momentum to bring the weapon down on the other man's wrist, causing him to let out a yell of pain. The action would disable him long enough that she could deal with the other man. A simple sword to the leg, and he would be unable to follow her. But that wasn't enough, she reminded herself as she looked down through the rain at him. She'd been trained to leave no witnesses, which was what she'd have to do. She had a brief moment of indecision, before she reminded herself what'd happened last time, and she acted again. A second later, he had a sword through his chest and she turned to the last person. She didn't hesitate this time, and stabbed her weapon through his throat.
Venus sighed slightly under her breath as she turned around and retrieved her other sword, slightly fed up of just killing and killing and killing. Of course, no-one else could know that, or her predicament would get even more complicated. She started hearing the S.H.I.E.L.D agents as they begun their journey down towards her, and quickly realised that she'd been lingering for too long. A swift glance around was enough to give her an escape route, and she darted into the shadows, carefully putting her swords away as she did so. She made her way up to the rooftops again as fast as she could, the rain drumming down even harder, and the agents arrived in the street where she'd been moments before. There were some muffled words exchanged before one of them spotted her and both of them moved. Unfortunately, she hadn't moved fast enough, because after a moment, the man from Vienna appeared on the roof in front of her, pointed a loaded bow and arrow at her. She had no doubt the other agent would be behind her as she stopped carefully, drawing her swords again and deciding that she needed to stop putting them away if she was just going to get them back out again.
"Nice to see you again," the archer joked, but was met with a cold, blank face from Venus.
"Yeah? How's your shoulder?" She asked sharply, subtly looking for a way out as she considered the situation. The jovial look on his face vanished slightly, and his eyes flicked to the person standing behind her, giving them a slight nod. Venus stilled herself, listening from anything from behind her, and when she heard the faint click of a gun, she dropped down towards the roof just as it fired. A curse erupted from behind her as she sprinted towards the archer, deflecting the arrow he fired at her, before she brought her sword up towards his face and he caught it with his bow, as she'd been planning. She spun around so she was next to the edge of the roof, and that the archer's back was facing the other S.H.I.E.L.D agent. She smirked slightly at him before she pulled them backwards over the edge of the roof. The other agent let out a yell- something that seemed to be
'Clint!' as Venus let go of the archer and twisted her body so she could land on the pile of mats she'd seen on the way past and left - there was no safe way she could've dealt with both of them. Besides, something about the second agent's voice had sounded strangely familiar, and it unsettled her. Where would she have crossed paths with someone from S.H.I.E.L.D? She shook it from her head and continued, preparing to get an earful about the S.H.I.E.L.D agents when she got back - most probably something harsher.
{A/N:} I love Venus. I have so much planned for her that I'm already getting emotionally attached. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.
