A Mutant's Ascension

[POV Natasha]

I looked at the computer screen in front of me with a bored expression. This was really boring though… I understand that I love being a spy, but sitting on my ass like this every day is really boring and if not for my Regenerative Healing Factor, my nerves would have been damaged.​​

After returning from Patagonia I finally decided to move on with my life, sitting around throughout the day doing nothing was getting on my nerves… yes, I was still training my powers even after I have completely mastered them but I can't train throughout the day… I am not Rumi, after all.

So, I decided to do something myself… I have been helping Momo with her Projects and stuff but I found that I wasn't happy doing that kind of stuff… the action was somewhat lacking for my taste. I had no problems working for her and I am really glad how much she helped me but I would have liked a job with a little bit more action.

So, I spent a couple of days thinking carefully and found that I can only feel myself at peace if I was doing some kind of spy work. I would have denied this thought if I was thinking about it before I decided to take the final step with Reo… that obviously helped out a lot when I promised myself to him and I honestly want to spend my future with him.

So, I decided to try it out and found that I really loved being a spy. Reo said that it was quite obvious, after all, I was built to be a spy and I wouldn't have survived for so long if I didn't like being a spy. I would have given up somewhere in my life… that's why I decided to manage the spy network for Elysium.

Well, it wasn't too hard… I still remember when Eric dropped his jaw on the floor when he saw that I suddenly got so many powers out of the blue. He knew something was up but decided to hold his tongue back because he did not have any problems as long as Elysium was safe.

Maintaining the spy network was literally a joke, after all, Momo's laptop made the job so much easier that it almost took away all the fun from it… though peeking in Confidential Meetings made that even. It has been three months since I have taken over this job and it was somewhat fine even though I was bored most of the time.

A month ago, Reo took Fleur, and Jean to a place called Savage Land. I looked throughout the Government databases and found that there were some records about Savage Land, SHIELD knew the most about Savage Land but they knew close to nothing and if they knew by any chance they haven't updated their systems.

Reo brought back something called Anti-Metal from there, the thing has the ability to liquify other metals on contact. I don't want to imagine what Governments from around the world would do to get their hands on something like this. I also know that Fleur brought back some more stuff from there… namely dinosaur DNA, huge leaves which came from huge gigantic trees, and humanoid insect carcass.

I only found the Anti-Metal to be somewhat interesting, after all, I was interested in what kind of effects weapons made out of anti-metal would have. That is something that interests me… not that I need any weapon any longer to kill anyone. I sighed once again because the day has been boring till now…

A small notification light started to blink in a corner of the third display. Oh… that seems to be interesting because that notification should blink if something happening in Fury's office. I have started to wonder how Fury called himself a Spymaster… he was literally a fool if he still kept cameras in his own room even after, he knew that his systems were compromised??

Yes, I understand that only Fury can see the feed with his clearance level but that doesn't mean that he should be stupid. Well, who cares… I shrugged and pulled the video feed to the main screen. Oh… this is going to be interesting, after all, both Coulson and Hill are in there.

I saw through the whole meeting and I knew that there were two things I needed to do. First, I needed to inform Reo about this thing called the Tesseract, looks like something important and powerful and SHIELD is going to make weapons from that. The next thing was something personal…

I knew that SHIELD had marked me as MIA and they considered me still alive until my body was found but unofficially they thought me to be dead. That was an advantage on my side but I didn't mind giving it up if I could meet Barton, I owed him at least a last meeting. I am currently alive because of him… if he had decided to complete his mission then I would have been dead in a ditch.

Well, there was General Newman's project too but Reo already knew about it so I didn't bother with it. General Newman has been trying to get the green light for quite some time but every time he brings it up, the President puts it down. The new President is a smart guy…

They mentioned that Barton was overseeing, General Ross's Project, so to meet Barton, I needed his location. Browsing through the SHIELD gave me all the information I needed, Barton was currently posted in some facility in the desert of Las Vegas. It was a newly made underground base.

I activated the AI to record anything important, I needed to meet Reo first. I got up from the chair and put on my sweatshirt and left the room but not before locking the room. A violet sphere appeared right in front of me and I walked right into it appearing in Reo's training room in Knox…

I saw that Reo was holding some kind of purple ball in his hand. My instincts screamed at me, it was clear that the small purple ball in Reo's palm could kill me. My Regenerative Healing Factor will get fucked if I get hit by that thing. So, I decided to patiently wait for Reo, he had already noticed me, I had no doubts about that…

After a couple of minutes, Reo finally disintegrated the purple ball. I watched in utter fascination when he was playing with the destructive ball of energy… even though I knew that it could have killed me, I wasn't able to stop myself from watching that damn ball… I found it somewhat beautiful.

Reo approached me and before I could even say anything he pulled me into a kiss. I happily returned the kiss… when he kissed me, I sometimes thought that I was a teenager once again… I can't even understand how he can get such a reaction from me through a kiss. It almost felt magical… well, it was magical for me at least.

"So, what's up?" Reo asked me when he pulled himself back from me. I wanted to protest that he should have continued but the rational part of my mind gathered back my bearings.

"I was getting bored so I thought of paying you a visit, can't I do that?" I teased him with a small smile on my face, Reo looked at me for a few seconds before he started chuckling.

"Yeah, sure. You can come whenever you want. I like it" He whispered the last part and he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer to him and leaned down for another kiss… yes, that was definitely worth it.

I was once again disappointed when Reo separated from me, but I needed to tell him about the Tesseract and I also needed to visit Barton. "Reo, I wanted to tell you about SHIELD's latest project" I said and Reo gestured me to continue.

"They are experimenting with something called the Tesseract, I didn't find any relative information about that in the SHIELD archives" I said and Reo was already interested, just as I had thought. Reo knew about the Tesseract. "The only thing I found is that HYDRA used the Tesseract to create weapons and it was dug up by Howard Stark after the war" I finished and took a small pause.

"They are calling it PHASE 2 and Fury also mentioned something about Project PEGASUS" I finished and Reo nodded his head in understanding.

"I didn't think that SHIELD would use the cube so quickly, well obviously you wouldn't find anything about Tesseract in the SHIELD archives because they also don't know what that thing is. Fury had destroyed all information related to Project PEGASUS. Well, let it be for now… but keep me posted if you can" Reo said, well that explains why I didn't find anything about Project PEGASUS.

"Sure" I said, now I needed to ask him about my request. I don't know how he is going to react… well, here goes nothing. "I have a request?" I asked him somewhat nervously, Reo gave me an odd look.

"Don't need to be nervous, you can just ask me" Reo spoke in a gentle tone. Natasha, you have never lacked confidence don't muck up your perfect record now… I chastised myself.

"I wanted to meet Clint Barton, he was a friend…" I started to speak but Reo cut me off in the middle.

"Yeah, sure. Whatever you want" Reo said and for a few seconds, I didn't even register what he said. I thought that he wouldn't be happy because Reo didn't like SHIELD. I quickly snaked my arms around his neck and gave him a tight hug.

"Thank you" I whispered and separated from him, I noticed that he was still smiling at me. With that done, I decided to leave… I waved at him and opened myself a portal to Las Vegas and walked in…