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"Vicki, you will run three laps around the mansion as punishment, and on top of that, you will do 500 push ups, and not regular push ups, but weighted push ups" said Romanoff as Vicki found this unfair, but she did not dare say anything less she be punished even more.

"How much do you weigh Vicki?" asked Romanoff as he looked at Vicki.

"60 kilograms Commander" replied Vicki.

"Good, so five, five-kilogram weights will do" said Romanoff.

"Five kilogram weights?" asked Vicki in surprise.

"Yes, you heard me correctly" said Romanoff as he nodded his head and Vicki sighed, that was too much, how could she carry five, five kilogram weights on her back while also having to do 500 push ups? That was a death sentence, she only weighed 60 kilograms, and five of those five-kilogram weights would be 50 kilograms, she would be literally carrying an entire person on her back.

"But Commander… they are too… they are too much… I cannot possibly have all those weights on my back and still do 500 push ups" said Vicki as this sounded absurd to her, she would not be able to do it.

Everyone just kept quiet as they looked at Vicki, Tatiana knew that Vicki deserved this, she went too far, way too far, she knew the rules, no punching faces, but she went and did it anyway.

"Oh Vicki, you can do it, and you will do it" said Romanoff as he was not going to take this nonsense, he was not training madhouse agents here, he was training skilled dignified agents, and Romanoff was a very disciplined man, he did not condone such nonsense.

"But Commander, I cannot possibly…" said Vicki as she was cut off.

"You will do it Vicki, expect you want to forfeit your punishment, and we go back to how things were done in the old times" said Romanoff.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" said Romanoff.

"If you don't want to serve your punishment, you will stand completely still and let Natasha punch you in the face the same way you punched her" said Romanoff as he smiled and Vicki looked at Natasha who was holding the ice pack to the right side of her face.

Vicki did not want to be punched by Natasha, not at all, she did not want her to dare touch her, Vicki scoffed as she looked at the ground.

"You are presented with two options Vicki, choose the one that suits you best" said Romanoff as he smiled, he counted it lucky that he was in a good mood today, or else he would have dealt with Vicki himself, the good old fashioned way, because she needed to be tamed, she was too wild, he did not expect her to go that far.

"Hurry up Vicki, we do not have all day" said Romanoff as he looked at Natasha, Natasha did not want to have to punch anyone right now, her face was so numb, and it hurt so much, she was surprised how she did not have a bleeding nose because Vicki really punched her hard.

Vicki hesitated as both options were unfair, she could not believe that she was being punished to this degree all because of Natasha, it made her hate her even more.

"I choose the punishment" said Vicki as her voice was very low.

"What was that? Repeat yourself" said Romanoff as he clearly heard her the first time, but he just wanted her to repeat it again.

"I choose the punishment Commander" said Vicki as she looked at Romanoff and she raised her voice.

"Good choice" said Romanoff as he smiled, if there was something he was known well for, it would be giving hard punishments, people knew never to fall into his trap when it came to punishments, but well Vicki was new, she would learn eventually.

"Alright then, follow me Vicki" said Romanoff as he smiled.

"To where Commander?" asked Vicki as she was now scared.

"To where you will serve your punishment of course" said Romanoff.

"We are going now?" asked Vicki in surprise.

"Of course we are, the day is still young, and I am sure that a young woman like you will be able to serve her punishment well" said Romanoff as he smiled, he loved seeing the scared look of Vicki's face, it made him remember why he liked to train new agents in the first place, they were soft, and he liked to break them and mould them.

"Don't tell me that you are regretting your choice now Vicki?" asked Romanoff with a smile.

"No commander" said Vicki as she shook her head, she would rather die than have to stand still in place for Natasha to punch her, she would never allow that, never, for the sake of her pride.

"Then come on" said Romanoff as he did not like his time to be wasted, he had very valuable time, he just did not use his time anyhow.

"The rest of you, I will return soon, just wait here for me to explain what we will do next" said Romanoff.

"Yes Commander" said the others as they nodded their head.

Romanoff looked at Natasha, she still looked very much in pain, he would have to get her some pain killers, but that would be later, on second thought, he did not like seeing her like this.

"Kira, get Natasha some pain killers" said Romanoff.

"Yes Commander" said Kira as she nodded her head.

"Vicki, come along, we do not have all day, the sooner you start on your punishment, the better it is for you" said Romanoff as he smiled and he started to walk as Vicki reluctantly followed after him as she walked past Natasha and she shot her a glare, this was far from over.

"Natasha, are you alright?" asked Tatiana as she rushed to Natasha as soon as Vicki and Romanoff left.

"I'm not alright" replied Natasha as she hissed, her face just hurt so much right now.

"Here, some pain killers" said Kira as she walked to Natasha and she gave Natasha a bottle of pain killers and she held a glass of water in her hand.

"This should help" said Kira as Tatiana helped hold the ice pack on Natasha's face as Natasha opened the bottle of pain killers and she drank it along with the glass of water as Kira took the pain killers from her.

"You feel better?" asked Tatiana in concern.

"I hope that I will in a few minutes" replied Natasha as the numbness in her face was really killing her.

"Oh" said Tatiana as she shook her head.

"Do I have a black eye?" asked Natasha as she held the ice pack to her face.

"No, luckily not" said Tatiana as Natasha looked fine to her.

"Although below your eye is swollen" said Kira as she could only imagine how painful Natasha's face felt right now.

"Vicki went too far this time" said Artem as he scoffed.

"Tell me about it" said Olga as she shook her head, she did not feel sorry for Vicki one bit, she deserved that punishment of hers.

"She knows the rules, and yet she went ahead to do that" said Rodion as he sighed and he shook his head, Vicki was just so terrible.

"I would have punched her on your behalf Natasha" said Kira.

"No, then you would get punished for fighting Kira" said Tatiana as she looked at Kira.

"I don't care, as long as Vicki gets a taste of her own medicine, how could she do this?" asked Kira as she just shook her head, she needed to deal with Vicki, at least try to talk some sense into her, this was just too much, even for her, Natasha did not deserve this at all.

Natasha just closed her eyes as she started to feel the pain killers take effect, her face no longer hurt, but it was so swollen and cold from all the ice.

Natasha removed the ice pack from her face as she looked at Tatiana.

"How bad is it on a scale of 1 to 10?" asked Natasha as she could not see the damage done to her face herself.

"Oh 7" said Tatiana as she replied.

"That bad" said Natasha as she sighed.

"The swelling should go down soon, just give it a few more minutes" said Kira as Natasha put the ice pack back on her face.

"Natasha, don't you want to get back at Vicki for this? It's not fair that she does this to you and gets away with it" said Sofia as Natasha turned to look at her.

"I am not going to stoop down to her level, what is the point of getting back at her? It only shows that we are the same" replied Natasha as she did not care at all, besides Vicki was already getting punished for what she did, so Natasha saw no need to try to get her own revenge.

"I admire you Natasha, but I agree that Vicki cannot get away with this" said Kira as Natasha did not say anything at all as she just kept on pressing the ice pack to her face.

"The ice has melted" said Natasha as now the ice pack had become a water pack.

"Let me get you a new one" said Kira as she took the melted ice pack from Natasha and she threw it to Andrei.

"Andrei go get more ice" said Kira as Andrei caught the ice pack as he turned to walk to the locker rooms when he almost tripped.

"What is your problem?" asked Andrei in anger as he turned to look at Nikolai who had purposefully put his leg out to trip him.

"I don't have a problem you have a problem" said Nikolai as he looked at Andrei in anger as everyone turned to look at them.

"Something is wrong with you" said Andrei.

"No, you are the one that something is wrong with" said Nikolai as he shoved Andrei.

"That's it" said Andrei in anger as he shoved Nikolai back, he was not going to stand for this nonsense.

"You want to go, let's go" said Nikolai as he threw the firsts punch and he hit Andrei straight in the face.