78 Melina Vostokoff

"Aha! I knew you would come for me Yelena. I mean you did take your time and left me there, prison food is horrible by the way... hmm that's right where is Natasha" Alexei began ranting before stopping to ask an important question.

"I thought she would have been with you or-" Alexei was cut of by Yelena who lost her playful tone, "she left".

"What, what do you mean she left?" Alexei asked confused as to what Yelena meant. "I mean one day she was here next poof she was gone."

Jeff who was at the side watched all this and began to connect things, Natasha was Yelena's mysterious sister he had heard a lot about and from the way Yelena spoke about her just now they had some unresolved issues.

Jeff also had a strong feeling that the Natasha they were talking about was the Natasha he had in her mind.

"where is mom?" Yelena questioned her father changing the subject. "your mother? hmm where was it she said uh wait, I try to remember... uhh Peto no santa no pelio no wait I swear I know this... yes Saint Petersburg!" Alexei exclaimed the part as he remembered where she was.

"Saint Petersburg? what is she doing there?" Yelena turned to Alexei with a questioning look on her face. "I don't know, last I remember she said something about pigs or sheep or something."

Yelena quirked her brows at that before turning away to focus on the flight realizing she couldn't understand anything what exactly he was saying.

The flight continued in silence, the only sound being heard was that of the helicopter's rotor as they flew for saint Petersburg.

But said silence was short lived as Alexei began to question Batman on a whole lot of random questions which Batman responded to with silence.

"Not much of talker eh" Alexei spoke up seeing Batman was not uttering a single word. After that he began to talk about himself as the 'great' Red Guardian which caused Batman to look at him carefully, wondering how a super soldier got into such a shape.

"Oi guys I don't think we are going to make it", Yelena called out to them but Alexei spoke up, "no, we will make it".

Yelena took a look at the fuel gauge before shrugging and continuing to fly.

***

The helicopter fell straight down, they all stepped out as Alexei turned to Batman and spoke up, "you should have brought the Bat jet" to which Bats responded by narrowing his eyes and moving.

The four began their trek to find Yelena's mother, Inessa was by Yelena's side as the moved and spoke up.

"So I have been meaning to ask but why did you say that?" "say what?" Yelena asked as she turned to look at Inessa.

"when the Avalanche was happening, you said this would be a cool way to die, what did you mean?" Inessa clarified. "oh, that... yeah I meant it would be a cool way for me to die you know."

Inessa came to a halt hearing that before she continued to walk once more, "no, I don't know" she exclaimed as she returned to Yelena's side.

"well I have been thinking lately" Yelena began to explain, "everyone dies eventually no, so if I'm going to die I don't want to die in a lame way. I want to go out in a cool way" Inessa took one good look at Yelena before looking at Alexei then muttered to herself, "please don't let the mother be as dumb"

In a farm Melina had a smile as he tended to her farm animals, an alert went off on her tablet.

She quickly got the animals back into their pens and then pulled out a case before moving to another place to set up her sniper and looked through the scope.

As she did her eyes widened in surprise seeing both Alexei and Yelena alongside another lady and even more suprisingly the Batman.

The four soon arrived at her place, before Alexei could knock Melina opened the door. "Have I not taught you both nothing about alarms"

"There were no alarms" Alexei argued but had a tablet shoved in his, "you tripped every single alarm I have, I could shot you over ten times".

"Nice to see you again dear" she turned to Yelena with a smile on her face then to the other two "welcome to my home, it's a pleasure especially you Batman, come in"

The four made their way in to her apartment and as he saw a picture he confirmed something, this was Natasha Romanoff's family.

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