The fall of Moscow and the KGB is on the horizon. The USA - with Captain America as their noble leader - steps in to aid Russia in halting the uprising. However, Steve Rogers realizes that not everything is as it seems, and the red-headed and red-bl...
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"Natalia Alianovna Romanova is one of the six Black Widows. She has been under the alias Natasha Romanoff and is the leader of this shit show."
Maria Hill looked at Steve Rogers as she spoke. There was a glint in her eyes that put him on edge as she stared back at him from across the glass table.
Everyone else in the S.H.I.E.L.D. conference room was silent as Maria explained the violent, ongoing revolution in Moscow, Russia. Outside of the main edifice, agents and technicians bustled about, carrying on without a care in the world despite the chaos that reigned across the world. The sun was setting in Washington D.C., painting the sky in a stunning array of colors above The Triskelion, but the weight on Steve's shoulders was heavy, and he turned away from the projection screen that they had been staring at for hours. He stared out the window and sighed, crossing his arms across his broad chest that rose and fell steadily. It was war after war, battle after battle, and he was tired. It was not the kind of tiredness that sleep could fix. He was a soldier, a super-soldier designed to win wars but sometimes, the way to win was by holding out a hand in libation. A revolution was happening in Moscow for a reason, an important event that should ignite change in their government.
An army shouldn't be charging into the fray to disarm and control the people...
"Why do they want us tangled in this mess?" He asked, turning back to look at Maria.
"Our President just worked out a deal with Putin," Maria stated dryly. "It's not... well it's complicated. Tensions are high between the U.S. and Russia. If this revolution succeeds, Russia's central government will be overthrown." She explained.
He quirked his eyebrows at her response. It's complicated. "This leader... Romanoff... what's the big deal about her?" He asked.
Maria pursed her lips, seemingly to second guess her response. "I forget how old you are." She laughed, and he rolled his eyes at her playful quip. "The KGB, specifically The Red Room, train these women... assassins. The deadliest assassins in the world, who are essentially brainwashed. They have now turned against the KGB and destroyed the Red Room. Natasha Romanoff has killed hundreds of our ownand if she overthrows the Russian government, we won't be put in a good position." She said as she typed on the keyboard, pulling up a grainy video on the projection screen. The video translated the language Steve did not speak.
He watched closely with narrowed eyes.
The city of Moscow lay in ruins with people, mostly women and children, lying dead and dying in the streets. The camera is swiftly jostled around and then focuses on the gallows in the middle of the destruction, one of the only structures left standing in the city. "Сегодня наконец-то снимаем Наталью Алиановну Романову. Сегодня она умирает!" [Today, we finally bring down Natalia Romanova!] A man shouts enthusiastically as he stands proud on top of the gallows. The crowd of men cheers.
