IG-88 & Black Widow

IG-88 & Black Widow is an installment from the IG-88 / Marvel Series and the 95th episode of Season 1 of the IG-88's Adventures Series. It is set to be released on Deviantart in the future.

## Plot

In 1995, young Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova are whisked away by their surrogate parents, Alexei Shostakov, originally Russia's Captain America known as the Red Guardian, and former Black Widow Melina Vostokoff from their home in Ohio. As their mission ends, Romanoff and Belova are put through the Red Room for further training.

In 2016, following the battle between the Avengers & 88 Squad at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Romanoff is a fugitive from the government for violating the Sokovia Accords. She escapes from PreCure and U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross, fleeing to a safehouse in Norway where she reunites with her contact Rick Mason. Elsewhere, Belova is still working for the Red Room where she kills a former Black Widow, only to come in contact with a substance called Red Dust that removes the Red Room's control of her. She sends the antidote to Romanoff's safehouse in the hopes that she will return to help her.

As Romanoff unknowingly drives off with the antidote, she is attacked by Taskmaster, who is after the Red Dust. Romanoff manages to evade Taskmaster and is saved by The 88 Squad. She and the squad learn that the Dust came from Belova, and they head to Budapest where Romanoff and Belova reunite.

However, they are attacked by Black Widows and The Horde Of Darkness. While escaping, Romanoff learns the Red Room is still active and that its leader, Dreykov, is still alive. In order for her to join S.H.I.E.L.D., her mission was to kill Dreykov. After detonating a building with him and his young daughter Antonia in it (an act that has haunted her), both were presumed dead. Romanoff, Belova, and The 88 Squad evade Taskmaster and The Horde Of Darkness and meet back up with Mason who supplies them an aircraft. Unbeknownst to them, PreCure is secretly watching them via a tracker box disguised as a SNES IG-80 has.

The 88 Squad, Romanoff, and Belova break Shostakov out of prison to learn where Dreykov is and he tells them that they need to speak with Vostokoff who has been living on a farm in Russia using mind control on pigs. Belova reveals that while they were not a real family, she still wanted to believe that they were so, while Shostakov and Vostokoff admit that they too wished they were a real family. However, PreCure, whom were disguised as the hooded butlers that were working for Vostokoff, arrive and take The 88 Squad, Romanoff, Belova, Shostakov, and Vostokoff into custody.

While interrogating the heroes, Dreykovs' agents, Taskmaster, and The Horde Of Darkness attack Ross' plane. Romanoff, Belova, Shostakov, Vostokoff, PreCure and The 88 Squad try to fight them off, but the villains capture Romanoff, Belova, Shostakov, and Vostokoff and take them away to the Red Room, which is located on an aerial base. Seeing no other option, Ross allows The 88 Squad to rescue them on the condition that PreCure watch over them.

As Dreykov congratulates The Horde Of Darkness on finding them, Romanoff learns that Taskmaster is Antonia, who had suffered damage so severe that Dreykov was forced to put a chip in her head to help her, turning her into the perfect soldier. Romanoff also discovers that she cannot harm Dreykov due to a pheromone lock he installed in every Widow, and that he has been controlling Widows all around the world via his control desk. After goading Dreykov into punching her in the face, Romanoff intentionally severs a nerve in her nasal passage to negate the pheromone and allow herself to attack Dreykov and The TGWTG Squad.

After being freed by PreCure member Maya Henderson, Vostokoff attempts to take out the ship's engine while Shostakov battles Antonia and Belova searches for the other Widows who are sent to protect Dreykov, all while The 88 Squad & PreCure find and fight The Horde Of Darkness.

Dreykov and The TGWTG Squad escape as the Widows gang up on Romanoff, but Belova creates a Red Dust bomb that releases the Widows from mind control. Romanoff gets into the control desk and copies the locations of the other Widows worldwide to a portable drive just as the ship begins to explode and fall. After suffering another defeat, The Horde Of Darkness escape, but not before PreCure secretly launch a tracker on their ship.

Before leaving the control room, Romanoff picks up two vials of Red Dust that survived Belova's bomb. Vostokoff, Shostakov, The 88 Squad, and PreCure are forced to escape the ship via aircraft / 88 Starship just as Belova takes out Dreykov's escape ship, killing him.

Romanoff gives Belova a parachute as she and Antonia have one final battle through the sky before safely landing on the ground. Romanoff uses one vial of Red Dust on Antonia, freeing her from servitude. The rest of the Widows arrive as Belova, Vostokoff, and Shostakov say goodbye to Romanoff, with Belova giving her her vest to remember her by and Romanoff giving Belova the last Red Dust vial and the portable drive, telling her to find and free the other Widows. As they leave along with a recovering Antonia, Ross & PreCure, seeing how much The 88 Squad and Romanoff put into this mission, give the heroes a free pass, but warn them that if they screw up again, they will be put into custody. As Ross and PreCure leave, The 88 Squad bid farewell to Romanoff as she looks on in the sunset.

Two weeks later, Romanoff, now sporting blond hair, reunites with Mason who has supplied her with a quinjet. She rides off to free the detained Avengers from the Raft.

In a post-credit scene, Vostokoff's real hooded butlers, whom PreCure fought, defeated, and took disguise as, wake up in a grass field in pain, with one commenting how strong PreCure is.