***Do not read if you haven't watched Endgame! You've been warned.

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Yup, it's official. My obsession with Avengers has exploded. I watched Ghost in the Shell last night featuring Scarlett Johansson, and this idea was born.

Let me explain a little about the film Ghost in the Shell if you haven't seen it. Basically the character Scarlett plays, Major Mira Killian, is a robot with a human brain that was transplanted from a human body, and she is part of a unit, Section 9, that takes down cyber terrorists. Instead of the past the film has given her, I have switched it so that she is Natasha Romanoff from the Avengers. There will be an explanation as to how she got from Vormir to where she is now. I really hope you guys enjoy this. I hope you don't think it's the dumbest idea ever. I will do my best not to mess it up or make it confusing. Happy reading!

2025

Mira Killian

Major Mira Killian was sitting in her apartment after her deep dive with the corrupted robotic geisha. Her friend, Batou, had tried to insist she shouldn't be alone, especially since she herself had gotten hacked by cyber terrorist Kuze while in the deep dive, but she wanted to be alone. She was struggling with something that she didn't know how to tell him. She kept having flashes of what she assumed must be memories. What was disturbing about these flashbacks were that they involved some kind of monster and possibly aliens, but the biggest flashback of all was her falling from a great height as the man above her screamed with his hand outstretched towards her. She felt confused. It gave her a headache too. Reaching for her medication, the stuff that keeps her brain from rejecting her robotic body, she pushed it into the holes in the back of her neck. Then she went to try to sleep. Perhaps in the morning things would be clearer.

Clint Barton

It had been two years since he'd lost Natasha. Two years since Thanos and the reverse snap. In that time frame, a deadly virus had swept across Earth, and it had taken the elderly Steve Rogers along with Clint's wife, Laura, and his middle son, Cooper. Lila and Nathaniel had survived, but the hole in their hearts from losing their mother and Cooper was there each and every day. Clint struggled with his own anger and rage. He'd gotten his family back only to have half of it ripped away again. It made Natasha's sacrifice seem like a tragic waste now. He thought about Natasha a lot lately. He wondered if she was with Laura and Cooper, if they were laughing together and in a good place. Lila was sixteen now, and Nathaniel was eight. Clint worried about them every day as he knew they needed a mother. He felt he wasn't good enough of a father sometimes raising them alone. Lila especially needed a mother since she was going through her teenage years. There were some things a young woman did not want to talk to her father about. As he wandered the semi empty house (the kids were in school), he heard knocking on his door. Curious, he went to answer it.

"Clint," Nick Fury said, standing there with his arms behind his back. "It's good to see you."

"Why are you here? I told you I'm out. No more missions," Clint said, crossing his arms.

"I know. It's just...there's something going on in Japan, and I don't trust a lot of people to take care of things like this," Nick said.

"Things like what?"

"We've got a cyber terrorist over there, and if it gets out of hand, things could get really messy for the rest of us," Nick explained.

"I can't leave the kids, Nick. I'm sorry," Clint said.

"There's one more interesting thing you should know," Nick said, pulling out photos from his folder and handing them to Clint, who reluctantly took them. He flipped through them, freezing on one in particular. He looked up at Nick.

"Are you messing with me right now?" he demanded.

"No," Nick shook his head. "That's real. Taken twelve hours ago."

Clint looked down at the photo again, wondering if he was going crazy.

"If I do this, I'm doing it alone," Clint said.

"Do you think that is wise?"

"For the first visit, yes," Clint nodded. This changed everything. He'd get Laura's family to watch Lila and Nathaniel. Nick didn't say anything else before walking off his doorstep. Clint looked down at the ghost in the photo again, his heart hammering. Natasha Romanoff was staring back up at him.

I know it's a super short first chapter, but I promise the other chapters will get longer and have more explanations about things. I think it will mostly be Clint and Natasha/Mira, but I may pop in some of the other folks from the Avenger films. I must say I am a Clintasha fan, so that's where this is going. I hope your interest is peaked!