A possible future shows us Natasha
Romanova on a romantic sailboat ride with Matt Murdock. They are happy and
deeply in love and then Matt proposes….
Black Widow recoils from the vision
the Prophet is putting in her head. He tells her it is a glimpse of her future
if she accepts his offer to become an agent of Chaos. The organization is
responsible for the building of Dubai, having seen it in the future, they had
their agents in the past guide the decisions that led to this city. Prophet
presents himself as the one who receives the messages from the future and has
agents carry them out….
Prophet spirits Natasha to a
fishing village on the coast of Japan, telling her she disrupted his plans when
Damon Dran grew afraid and rebelled. She wants to know what he wants from her.
He responds with the Biblical account of Christ’s miraculous catch of fish on
the Sea of Galilee. He draws the lesson that if she joins them her life would
be so much better….
At SHIELD Headquarters, Maria Hill
is coordinating the search for Black Widow as Winter Soldier patrols the skies
in a jet. The realize that if Natasha is in over her head then they all are….
Natasha asks the Prophet what right
he and his company has to decide what is good for humanity, accusing them of
merely wanting power. He tells her she’s wrong and that he regrets using the
carrot (a reward) rather than the stick (a punishment) to persuade her. So she
draws a knife and slashes Prophet’s face, pushing him back into the sea. He
then teleports them to the top of a tall building in Dubai, and then onto a
city street. She grabs him by the throat and he teleports them to an icy
landscape where he floats away to leave her. But she shoots a cord around his
ankle and they fall to the ice. He tells her that she could have been special
had she chosen to join them and walks away. She chases him but runs into a band
of the invisible agents. She removes her belt, arms the explosives inside, and
hurls it at them. The blast hurls her unconscious into icy water….
As Hill and Bucky continue the
search for her, Isaiah Ross assures Liho the cat that Natasha will be back….
Characters: Black Widow, Isaiah
Ross, Liho, Maria Hill, SHIELD, Winter Soldier
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