Natasha
Romanoff, the Black Widow, enters a building in Manhattan, beats up everyone
she encounters, blows a safe and makes off with an object, steps out of a
window and calls Hawkeye for her exit. An arrow with a line thunks into the
side of the building perilously close to her face and she climbs across to a
neighboring building, to be met by Captain America, Hawkeye having departed to
avoid talking to Nat. She hands over the item and vanishes when Cap isn’t
looking….
Nat
returns to her apartment and realizes someone is inside; she climbs out through
the hall window and walks the ledge to her window. As she is climbing through
she is transfixed by a flashlight beam and shot with three darts, falling out
of the window….
San
Francisco, three months later: Natasha is working as an architect. While
delivering plans to a construction site she scares all of the men by leaning
dangerously over the side of a high floor to retrieve a piece of litter before
skipping off with no concerns. While heading home, she is caught in the
background of a newscast so Hawkeye and Winter Soldier spy her on the news.
They decide to go check on her as she hasn’t been seen for months….
On
impulse Nat buys a motorcycle and heads home to her loving fiancé James,
unaware she is also under surveillance by Arcade, who is awaiting his orders to
kill her….