nine // unkown

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A Few Hours Earlier

"SO, ONCE WE'RE inside, I'll activate my tracker and Ross will come running" Natasha said putting on Melina's black suit, while Melina was putting on Natasha's white one. Anastasia was just in the corner of Melina's weapon room, eating an apple. 

"You are aware that you are still a global fugitive, yes?" Melina said putting her belt on. Anastasia stopped eating her apple for a second, sharing a look with Natasha. "You know the facility. There must be some way to land it" Natasha said looking at Melina. 

"Instruct them to confine us on level zero. Once I'm out, I can activate the landing protocol, we can descend within the hour" Melina said looking through a drawer until she gets a small box, which she opens, "Ah, problem."

"What problem?" Anastasia asks walking over to Melina. "I only have one earpiece set" Melina said putting one of the earpieces into her ear. "That's fine. Natasha, you and I will all have one. I mean I will be with Yelena anyway, right?" Anastasia asked getting a nod from Melina. 

Present

"Where did he take the vials?" Anastasia asked her mom, followed by Yelena, who grabs some wet wipes as she passes by a table.

Anastasia and Yelena stop at a broken mirror and use the wipes to wipe off the marker incisions, as Melina said through the comms, "Probably down to cold storage. Dreykov still has the widows under his control, so you have to expose them to this antidote."

Yelena looked at her little sister, not knowing what was being said. "Yeah. Sure. Easy" Anastasia said eyeing the open vent in the ceiling. 

"Are you going to tell me what we are doing?" Yelena asked her sister, who nodded and started to explain.

"Is this your plan?" Dreykov asked Natasha, who smirked at him and said, "My plan is to kill you." Dreykov looks right into Natasha's eyes and says, "I'm alive. So, what do we do now?"

"What was mine and Anastasia's mother's name?" Natasha asked Dreykov. Dreykov leaned back slightly and said, "Where we buried her, there was a tree... um... a pink blossom, beautiful. And there was a tombstone with her name engraved on it. What was her name?" 

Dreykov looked to the side and then back to Natasha, "Ah. Unknown." Natasha looked at Dreykov, with a couple of tears and asked, "You don't feel anything? You feel anything when I killed your daughter?"

"Is this your haunted past? Really?" Dreykov asked laughing at Natasha, "Thank you Natasha. You gave me my greatest weapon."

Dreykov walked over to Taskmaster and said, "Say hello." Natasha furrowed her brows as Taskmaster took off their mask and showed a girl with scars on her face. "When your bomb exploded, it nearly killed my Antonia. I had to put a chip in the back of her neck. In the back of her neck" Dreykov said pointing at his head.

"Look at her. You find it difficult to look at her? I do. She... She watches everything and she can do it. She's a perfect mimic. And she fights just like all of your friends" Dreykov said walking up to Natasha. 

"Can she hear me?" Natasha asked Dreykov, still looking at Taskmaster. Dreykov went over to Natasha and said into her ear, "What? You want to make her feel better? You want to tell her you're sorry? Well, you should have thought of that before you blew her face off." Natasha looked down in guilt. 

"Enough of all this bullshit. Go to work" Dreykov said to Taskmaster, "I have rats in the basement. Go." Antonia puts her helmet back on and leaves Natasha and Dreykov. 

As Taskmaster left, Natasha grabbed her gun and pointed it at Dreykov, "Well, that was a mistake." Dreykov looks at Natasha and raises his brow asking, "Was it?"

"You just sent away the one thing that would stop me from killing you" Natasha said still holding her gun at Dreykov's face. "Try then. Do it" Dreykov said to Natasha.

Natasha tried pushing the trigger, but some force was making her unable to. "Is the safety on?" Dreykov asked, taking the gun out of Natasha's arms with ease. He looked at it closely and shot up in the air, "No. Okay, try your knife."

Natasha grabbed her knife and tried to stab him, but once again some type of force was making her unable to, "You're in trouble," Dreykov whispered to Natasha, holding her left hand. 

"How are you controlling me?" Natasha asked looking at Dreykov. He shook his head and replied, "I am not controlling you, Natasha. Well, not yet." 

Natasha looks at him, shaking slightly, remembering her horrible past with him. "But there is a pheromonal lock. Smelling my pheromones prevents you from committing violence against me" Dreykov says faking a strike to the redhead, making her step back in fear. 

Dreykov walks around to sit in his chair, "I'm very upset with Melina. It's a shame I have to kill her."

"Come on, now. If we're just going to press buttons and hack computers..." Alexei told Melina who interrupted him, "Yes."

"There's nothing for me to do. I want to... I want to break something" Alexei said grunting. Melina looked at him and asked, "Oh, you do?"

Alexei grunts again. Melina looks behind Alexei and says, "Oh, there is something you can break." Alexei turns around with a smile, coming face to face with Taskmaster. 

Alexei laughs and puts on his helmet and gets into a fighting pose. Taskmaster does the same, but has knifes on the end of her fingers. "Melina, if this is the last that we... " Alexei says turning around wanting to talk to Melina, but is met with empty space, "Ah damn it."

Anastasia and Yelena are crawling through the vents, watching as soldiers are walking in two lines with guns in their hands. Anastasia, who was in the front leading, took the vent and slide it open. 

Anastasia hopped out and did a lunge with her right leg out as well as her right arm. Anastasia looks up and then stands up, "That was disgusting." Anastasia goes to the wall and watches Yelena also hop out and do the pose, "I don't understand how Natasha can do that. It was very uncomfortable." Anastasia laughs and then looks over the corner of the wall to see a guard by the elevator.  

"Would you like to do the honors Lena?" Anastasia asked, to which the blonde nodded her head with a big smile. 

As the guard neared the corner, Yelena jumped out and kicked the guy in the leg, making him fall down onto the ground unconscious. 

Anastasia rounds the corner, knowing her sister finished the job. Yelena grabs the guy's arm and starts to pull him. Anastasia just watches with a smile. Yelena stops trying to move the guy and looks at her sister, "Um, help would be nice."

Anastasia rolled her eyes and helped her sister move the guy, until they were at the fingerprint scanner, which was on the wall. 

"So, this was the big plan, huh?" Dreykov asked Natasha, as he brought up the security feed of Melina, who was in the control room, "Melina was going to land the Red Room and hand me over to the authorities." 

Dreykov touched his tablet, which made the door's fall down, locking Melina in the control room. "So, what now, you're gonna fold me into your pathetic little puppeteer act?" Natasha asked, causing Dreykov to stand up and ask, "Pathetic, huh?"

"Yeah, what would you call it?" Natasha asked him. "I would call it..." Dreykov started to only be cut off by Natasha, "When was the last time that you had a conversation with somebody that wasn't forced to talk to you?"

"You ran away to fight in the wrong war. The real war was fought here, in the shadows" Dreykov said, making Natasha shake her head, "You didn't fight in the shadows, you hid in the dark."

"Real power comes from undetectable influence" Dreykov said. Natasha leaned forward onto Dreykov's desk and asked, "If no one's noticed, then why even do it? You're nothing. You have nothing."

"There are 50 people on this planet..." Dreykov started, to only be cut off by Natasha laughing, "Oh, stop it."

Dreykov stands up and shouts, "Don't tell me to stop!" Natasha leaned in more and said, "If I don't tell you to stop, then how will you know when to shut up?"

Dreykov brings his right arm up and punches Natasha, making her stumble back with a smirk, "Come on, think I can't take a punch?"

Dreykov punches the red head once again, making her wipe her face and turn around and laugh, "God damn it, you're weak." 

Dreykov looked at the smirking girl and questioned, "Weak?" 

Natasha kept stepping back, as he kept stepping forward. "I bet it's easier to be tough in front of defenseless little girls, huh?" Natasha taunted the older man.

"That's enough" Dreykov said, punching Natasha harder, sending her to the ground. Natasha looked up at him with a smirk, making him kick her, sending her to the ground once again. "You wouldn't be so glib if you had any notion of the scope of what I've built. I own this world. Me" Dreykov said, watching Natasha struggle to get up.  

"You seem desperate to impress me" Natasha said with a smirk. Dreykov walked away from her saying, "I don't need to impress you. I don't need to impress anyone."

Natasha finally got off the ground, as Dreykov pushes his rolling chair away from his desk. "These world leaders, these great men" Dreykov says as he uses his ring to unlock his computer, "They answer to me and my widows. Look at them."

Natasha walks a little more forward to see a map with little white dots, that turn out to be different girls. "These girls were trash. They are thrown out into the street. I recycle the trash. And I give them purpose. I give them a life" Dreykov said, as he watched Natasha look at the pictures of the girls' closer. 

Anastasia and Yelena are walking through some room, that had refrigerator type cabinets with supplies in the them. Anastasia caught eyes on the red gas, "Mama, I found the location of the vials." 

"Very good little one. I've had a slight setback" Melina says using a handle to open the vent. "You and Yelena will need to get to the widows." Melina starts to crawl through the vents, trying to get out. 

"Since when you calling Melina, Mama?" Yelena asked as Anastasia grabbed the red gas. "Since I knew that she was my Mama" Anastasia said heading to the door, followed by Yelena. Yelena smiled at Anastasia. She was happy that her sister thought they were family. Maybe her childhood wasn't all a lie, maybe there was happiness there as well. 

AUTHOR'S NOTE

here is chapter nine. i hope you all enjoyed! please leave feedback and let me know if you enjoyed <3 love you and i hope you have a great day/night