Infiltration into the Needle Base

The Infiltration into the Needle Base was a successful mission undertaken by Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, and Natasha Romanoff to prevent the Needle from selling weapons based on Chitauri technology.
==Background==
Helmut Zemo manipulated the world to believe that Bucky Barnes had attacked the United Nations, tearing the Avengers apart. The Avengers fought each other in Germany, leading to the arrest of those who stood with Barnes and Steve Rogers as they tried to reach Siberia to stop Zemo. This fight led to most of Roges' team getting arrested while Rogers and Barnes reached Siberia, shortly followed by Tony Stark, where Zemo revealed that Barnes was brainwashed by HYDRA to kill Stark's parents, leading to the three of them fighting and Rogers turning his back on the Avengers, leaving the team. Meanwhile, Natasha Romanoff went on the run, but reunited with her sister and helped her to bring down the Red Room, reuniting her family from the Red Room in the progress. She decided to help Rogers and Barnes break the rest of their team out of the Raft.Black Widow
While Rogers broke his teammates out, Romanoff went to Berlin to be questioned by Everett Ross for turning on the Sokovia Accords. Ross eventually convinced Romanoff to stop pretending not to have an ulterior motive, and she revealed that she was looking for intelligence about Chitauri weapons being sold on the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. Ross, feeling guilty about hunting Captain America, gave Romanoff the coordinates for a base for the arms dealers, the Needle, and allowed her to escape the facility where she was being held.Avengers: Infinity War: The Heroes' Journey
==Infiltration==
Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanoff, and Steve Rogers flew to Parkhar and reviewed their intelligence on the Needle. As they landed in Parkhar, they could not find the Needle's base, causing Rogers and Romanoff to realize that it was underground. The trio blew up a fuel cylinder from their Quinjet to draw their forces out. While Rogers and Wilson fought the soldiers outside, Romanoff followed one back into the base. Romanoff searched through the base and came across an exit from the tunnel, which she investigated and found a large B-52 bomber. She sabotaged the bomber and went to the next room, where she saw a toolbox. She threw a bolt to the side and discovered lasers protecting the corridor. She used tires from the B-52 to protect herself as she went down the corridor and used one to trick the Needle into thinking she had died. One of the agents came out and deactivated the lasers, allowing Romanoff to reactivate them and leave the corridor, where she came across a large ticking bomb outfitted with Chitauri technology. Romanoff called Rogers and Wilson for back-up, and they resolved not to allow it to detonate. Romanoff stole a weapon from the agent she encountered in the laser-protected corridor and used it to freeze the bomb, allowing Rogers to destroy it with a punch. The three then left the base and Parkhar.
==Aftermath==
Natasha Romanoff was impressed with her friends and their efforts to do the right thing despite the circumstances. The team continued tracking Chitauri technology, coming across another sale months later.Avengers: Infinity War Prelude They stopped the saleCaptain Marvel Prelude and continued living on the run until 2018, when Bruce Banner reached out for help. They retrieved Vision and Wanda Maximoff, rescuing them from an attack, and regrouped at the Avengers Compound. Their status as Avengers was restored as they joined the fight against Thanos.Avengers: Infinity War
==References==
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