Marseilles: Black Widow is held captive aboard a ship in
port. The head of the terrorist organization she has long been a thorn in the
side to arrives to gloat. She does not utter a word. At the boss’ command his
flunky shoots her in the head….
Six hours earlier: Black Widow is flown to the top of a
Marseilles church by Le Peregrine. She enters quietly, taking out some guards
before she can see into the nave where terrorists are holding many refugees hostage.
They are taking advantage of the chaos caused in Paris by Gray Gargoyle to
seize control of the hidden Ministry of Defense ops room in the church’s
basement. Natasha releases gas so she can battle the terrorists downstairs and
Peregrine is upstairs rescuing the hostages. Downstairs, Rapido, a baddie with
a chain gun for a right arm opens fire on Nat but she easily overpowers him.
Questioning the prisoners, Nat learns they were after France’s nuclear launch
codes and they were transmitted to a ship in the harbor. She invades the ship
but is caught and taken captive….
Now: The terrorists plan to call down a nuclear strike on
London just to show they mean business…and then the dead Black Widow speaks up.
She reveals she is a Life Model Decoy appropriated from SHIELD. And now that
Nat knows the terrorist leaders are all together, she says goodbye and then
detonates the explosives, destroying the ship. But Nat feels it was a hollow
victory….