↳ CHAPTER ZERO:

SUMMARY ↵

HYDRA KNEW HOW TO WORK after being in disguise within SHIELD for many years. They knew people and had connections everywhere, in places SHIELD would never guess.

That is why, in 2013 they sent a HYDRA agent to Moscow, Russia to investigate at Vaganov Ballet Dance Academy which held a secret portion dedicated to train young girls to become highly trained assassins.

The most popular assassin to be alive today: Natasha Romanov.

Now, in 2015, they had captured the best candidate for the experiments HYDRA was investigating: genetic mutations for humans.

Immediately after testing upon many volunteers, the only successful results came in the form of Pietro and Wanda Maximoff as well as the new Russian assassin.

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Back at the Avengers tower, a bleep appeared on Tony Stark's screen. A frown appeared on Tony's face at the alert that had popped up on one of his many screens.

"Hey Natasha, do you know of Valentina Alkaeva?" Tony asked Natasha, as the group sat on the couch, chatting. It was a casual day for them all, days at work were quite boring after the attack of New York City.

Natasha frowned, thinking for a moment of her past life. "No I haven't heard of a Valentina, why?"

"Have you heard of Vaganov Ballet Dance Academy in Moscow?" Tony asked her sternly, knowing what her reaction would be.

Natasha immediately stood up and walked over to Tony and looked at the file that was pulled up on screen. "It says here that this Valentina girl is 21 years old and has recently been taken from the academy under the care of Strucker."

"That means he's experimenting again," Steve walked over to the two. "If Strucker is experiementing... this is bad. That might mean HYDRA has gotten ahold of the staff Loki had."

"Personally, I know that we need to rescue that girl, Steve." Natasha said. "She needs help whether she wants it or not." Being a weapon had been her life so Natasha knew that the girl would need help— to feel alive again.

"So, where is this base, Tony?" Steve crossed his arms, waiting for a snarky comment in return.

"They're in Sovokia."

"Let's send a suit to go get Valentina Alkaeva." Steve ordered. "And if there's a fight there, we should go."

"Good idea," Tony began. "Go get 'em sweetums."

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