A mission in Evje, Norway goes
seriously wrong; ambushed by Shadow Council troops inside a tunnel,
Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter are killed. With his dying breath,
War Machine gives Black Widow the “escape hatch” a device from his
wrist. She presses the button and...
...finds herself in an Italian villa
five years in the past. She spends quite a bit of time working out
how the device operates and the villa contains a cache of supplies
and money for her to put the plan she has devised into action....
Natasha travels into the future to have
Henry “Beast” McCoy explain how time travel works, then works out
some details with Doctor Druid. She then goes back 44 years to find mad
scientist Dr Khronus and funds him in his secret lab to create a time
machine—and then keep refining it over the decades until he has a
version that can fit on her wrist. Years later she persuades a
general to include the device in War Machine's armor. Along the way,
she filches one of the weapons used to kill her compatriots and takes
it to weaponer Harry “Death-Ray” Evans, with a warning not to
sell the guns to anyone else. She has him create a device that will
sabotage the guns—and then knowing that he had sold the guns to the
Shadow Council, she detonates a bomb at her villa, killing him.....
With all this prepared, she returns to
the zero point and uses Evans' device to cause the enemy soldiers'
weapons to explode in their hands. With her comrades now safe, she
tosses the time machine into the flames, keeping the big secret to
herself.