Black Widow (2016 series) #11

“Friendship” as revealed by The Unseen last issue is a SHIELD base in the Antarctic, the fail-safe against SHIELD being overrun. With the turning of some keys, all of SHIELD’s data and resources will be destroyed instantly and permanently. Black Widow is there, impersonating an inspector from the main office. And suddenly, six girl assassins enter via the ventilation system and Natasha takes them on. A girl grabs one key from the official there and they zip away. The key is one of six needed to activate the fail-safe, each one held by a staffer, to be turned simultaneously (hence, six girls). Nat suggests they evacuate the base as she fights a girl, easily taking down the overconfident kid. Nat moves through the installation, dueling with the girls and eventually knocking out four more at once and recovering the stolen keys. She finds the remaining girl in the control room, holding a staffer hostage. Nat draws a gun and shoots through the man’s arm to hit the girl in the head. Nat takes the last key and finds the girl is not injured, due to her costume. Then Nat is clobbered from behind and sees Anya, declaring herself the new Headmistress. The girls recover the keys and put them into the six slots in the control room, ready to turn them and destroy SHIELD….