BXBX NOVEL Chapter 14 Lagos
After the little Quinjet incident, things went in a similar manner as they did in the movie.
Their mission was to prevent Rumlow, a Hydra agent, from getting access to something that was being developed by a lab in Lagos.
They\'d eventually found out that it was a Biological weapon.
Rumlow\'s team infiltrated the lab, Falcon, Captain America, and Wanda were the assault team while Natasha was on recon.
Captain America went into the building while Wanda and Falcon cleared out the people outside the building.
Though, he was a little late as Rumlow was of the building out before Cap could get to him.
Rumlow escaped the building while ten more Hydra agents were backing him up.
They were going to be making their getaway in an armored vehicle.
This was when Natasha came in.
"Haah!" She ambushed one guy with a precision strike to the back of his neck and incapacitated him. At the same time, she tased another person.
She ducked to dodge the attack of one person while swiping his legs as she tased the guy who was approaching her from behind. She punched the guy who\'d just fallen in front of her in the neck to incapacitate him.
\'4 down 6 more to go.\'
By this point, three guys had approached her. She escaped their encirclement by using the hood of their armored car as a springboard to kick one of the guys right in his face, knocking him out. Then, she used the momentum generated by the kick to slide to the other side of the hood of the car.
There was another person who had been approaching her from the front of the car as she moved to the other side. She wrapped her leg around that guy\'s neck and flipped him over while jumping off of the car\'s hood, pinning him down and knocking him out.
By then, she had already been approached by another two guys and she had to get into a hand-to-hand melee with them. She dodged their punches while trying to counter and look for an opening. Within seconds she found an opening and parried one guy\'s punch while redirecting the other one\'s attack to the guy she\'d just parried.
This created an opening for her to stab one of them in the neck using a pocket knife while using her taser bracelet to knock the other out.
Seeing that the last two guys were about to approach her, she opened the door of the car in the face of one of them, disorienting him for a second and taking advantage of that moment to shoot a projectile taser from her bracelet to the guy\'s face.
Not seeming to care about his own life, the last guy approached her with a mad charge.
Nat used his own momentum against him as she slipped around the guy\'s head and imbalanced him, making him fall face-first into the hard concrete floor with a bang.
All this time, Rumlow had been looking for an opportunity to ambush her. He\'d let her take out every single one of his men just to get an opportunity to get her.
"Argh!" He\'d grabbed her hair and pulled her back. Nat turned around and hit his arm at a particular muscle release point which should\'ve made him lose his grip.
But after punching him three times unsuccessfully, she changed tactics and swiped his legs, trying to disbalance him while twisting him to use his own force against him.
She was successful in getting him to loosen his grip on her hair since he had to free his hand to balance himself, but he didn\'t fall.
As Rumlow balanced himself she used her taser bracelet to hit his neck in hopes that he would get knocked out.
That was when Alex interfered, he amplified the discharge by many times through the use of ‹Basic Lightning Manipulation›.
"Arghh!" Rumlow fell to the ground.
"Aah!" The shock wasn\'t only felt by Rumlow who got incapacitated, but also by Natasha. Since Alex had used her bracelet as a medium to discharge a huge amount of electricity, it also got fried and got extremely hot.
Natasha could see that it had gotten ruined after that extremely strong electric discharge and was really hot. She took it off as soon as possible and threw it off. Her wrist had some light burns after that.
She was very surprised by the bracelet\'s malfunction. This was the first time that her weapons had done something like this. Although it helped her, she was curious about what happened.
But she didn\'t have the time to think about the broken bracelet. She had to call her team here. She was seeing that the shock had only affected Rumlow for a few seconds and he was already getting up.
She understood that he must\'ve gone through some version of the super soldier serum made by Hydra. So, she wasn\'t going to be a match for him in direct combat. She needed backup.
-Guys, I got Rumlow! I need backup.- She said into her intercom.
Just as she finished, Rumlow had already gotten up and he was about to attack her.
By this time, Captain America had come out of the building into a balcony and was visible to Natasha.
Seeing that Rumlow was getting up with Natasha seeming pretty roughed up, he jumped from the 5th floor while using his shield as a cushion for the fall.
Rumlow had already charged Natasha as she was barely defending herself from his assault.
She had already realized that he had been enhanced by some sort of knockoff super soldier serum and was staying on the defensive, trying to buy time until the others came.
Within moments, Steve ambushed Rumlow who was about to deliver a punch to Natasha\'s abdomen, and swiped his legs.
Cap was a far different beast when compared to Natasha. His swipe directly had Rumlow off his legs as he fell down.
As Steve started to engage Rumlow in heavy melee combat, Natasha thought that she could get a breather for a few seconds before backing him up but she didn\'t have that luxury.
From the armored car that was Rumlow\'s getaway vehicle, four more men rushed out. Probably the last of the assailants.
Natasha sighed exasperatedly as she engaged them. Thankfully though, a flying bird came in time and helped her out by engaging two of the people. It was Falcon.
He\'d rushed here after he and Wanda had gotten rid of everyone there. Wanda was also on her way.
Sam and Natasha made quick work of the last remaining four assailants.
Then they turned to Rumlow and Steve\'s fight.
"…You\'re coming with me!" Rumlow had a malevolent look on his face as he pressed the button in his hand.
*Click*
Instantly there was a big ball of fire in front of Captain America\'s face while Rumlow had vaporized completely. It seemed to have gotten stuck in its place though, as there was a crimson glow that seemed to be containing it.
It was Wanda. She had contained the explosion with much difficulty as evidenced by the expression on her face.
She tried her best to throw the explosion upward since she didn\'t know how long she would be able to contain it.
Alex decided to interfere here again as he didn\'t want the destruction of the research center to be blamed on Wanda. There were still people in there.
He didn\'t want their deaths to be on her conscience.
Wanda didn\'t feel any different but Alex channeled his new ability ‹Weak Magic Affinity› that he\'d gotten from bonding with Wanda. He tried to augment it with Wanda\'s chaos magic while trying to enhance her abilities to be able to channel more magic.
Although this created a greater burden on Wanda\'s body, she was able to hold the explosion long enough to bring it up to the clear sky before letting it completely explode.
The moment she released the explosion though, she fainted with a nosebleed. The improper channeling and overexertion had been too much for her physique.
The major reason was that Alex hadn\'t had the time to augment her body yet. He wasn\'t able to enhance her base stats since there was no time.
Unlike in the movie, Natasha had been able to at least hold her own for a while against Rumlow. This wasn\'t just because of the stronger taser, but also because she had been slightly enhanced by him over the previous night.
He\'d suppressed the ‹Host Enhancement› since he didn\'t want it to come off as unusual in such a situation.
Natasha suddenly being able to beat a guy that\'s been enhanced beyond human levels would come off as very suspicious.
It was the same with Wanda. He had suppressed the skill since he needed her to have a normal reaction to overexerting her powers.
Natasha picked up Wanda as they looked at the huge explosion in the sky.
"Let\'s go, Steve, Sam... Wanda needs help," Natasha called out so that they would move to the safe house.
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