Rick Mason

Rick Mason is what happens when a soldier goes freelance: an international smuggler and independent contractor who can produce a campervan in Norway, a stack of fake passports, or a decommissioned aircraft for anyone whose money is good, armies and black-market dealers alike. His friendship with Natasha Romanoff is the exception to the invoice. She once pulled him out of a prison in Cambodia, and he has owed her his life since, which is why, when the Avengers split and Secretary Ross put out an order for her arrest, it was Mason who kept her hidden, documented and moving. He worries about her more than a contractor is paid to.