*Third person POV*
"Why do we have to have a meeting this early?" Tony groans as he sits at the meeting table.
"No clue." Clint slumps into a chair, he doesn't really care about Tony's complaining, just wants him to shut up.
Hank sits down next to Tony, "Maybe if you didn't drink last night you would be fine."
"What were you thinking anyway?" Bruce asks as he sits across from Tony and Hank.
"What?" Tony looks up from his phone he pulled out to hack into the S.H.I.E.L.D. database.
Bruce sighs, "Nothing."
Thor comes in being loud as usual as he greets his friends and teammates. Natasha comes in after Thor and sits next to Clint. Logan comes in and sits down with his arms crossed. Steve comes in and sits next to Logan.
"Deadpool's here." Logan grumbles, already annoyed since he can hear him. Natasha sighs, most likely already feeling the headache come on. "He's pesterin' Coulson."
"Why's he here anyway?" Clint rests his crossed arms on the table.
Tony looks up and states as if it's obvious, "He loves to pester the Capsicle and Logan."
"This should be fun then." Hank says dryly.
Bruce sighs knowing things will be difficult and looks up when Furry comes in, "Bucky isn't here yet."
"He'll be here." Fury dismisses as he sits at the head of the table.
"Speaking of that," Tony sets his phone down, "Logan says Deadpool is here. How did he even get on the air ship?"
"He was let on." Fury states.
"What?! Why?" Tony exclaims.
"No clue, but I am going to find out." Fury says a bit annoyed.
"Maybe Coulson?" Hank suggests, remembering Logan said that was who Deadpool is with.
"Maybe." Fury agrees with Hank's suggestion with a nod.
"Not cool if it was him." Clint is already thinking of ways to get back at the agent.
"Agreed." Steve nods.
"Fury, what is the reason for the meeting?" Thor suddenly asks, seemingly the only to remember they are there for a reason.
"Loki is back with a new army." Fury says as if he's discussing the weather, when really it was a huge shock to the team, mainly Thor.
"What?!" Thor stands with a yell, "No, he is in Asgardian custody!"
"Not anymore. It seems he managed to escape." Fury says patiently.
"That is not possible!" Thor denies.
"Apparently it is for him." Fury sighs. Thor shakes his head, not able to believe that Loki could escape.
Natasha stops the possible argument, "That's not all, is it?"
Thor looks to Fury in question and Fury sits up straighter, "I've found possible candidates to join our ranks."
"Who?" Hank furrows his brow in curiosity.
Fury pulls up profile pictures and fighting statistics of a male and female, "Masquerade and Domino."
"Ok." Clint studies the two pictures. Masquerade has long brown hair, seemed Latino, and her uniform is simple, a red top, black pants that were ripped, mid calf boots, and some jacket. Domino is short, seems weak, and his uniform is different. It consists of a black shirt, cargo pants, a short purple trench coat, combat boots, and orange goggles around his neck.
"I'm going to need you to scope them out and see if they will be good assets for the team." Fury closes their profiles.
"As a team or one of us each take one?" Natasha asks.
Fury thinks for a moment, "Second option seems less threatening."
"I'll take Domino." Natasha is curious about him and what he is capable of.
Masquerade seems fun." Clint shrugs, one of her stats mentioned espionage.
"It's settled then." Fury nods at the assassin and spy.
"Meeting over?" Tony asks hopefully, "I really want to avoid Deadpool."
"I'm sure I can find something to occupy him." Fury sounds out of character, he sounds hopeful that he can keep the red suited menace busy and away from the team.
"Nothing dangerous and not me." Logan advises at first then growls out the last part and gets up leaving. Steve is quick to follow, knowing the older mutant has the best advantage with his super hearing.
"See you later friends!" Thor leaves quickly, also wishing to avoid the annoying mercenary. Tony follows Steve's example and quickly scrambles after the feral mutant.
"I'm gonna go get ready." Clint leaves to the changing rooms.
"Me too." Natasha quickly follows Clint out of the room.
"Hank and I were working on something in the lab back at the tower." Bruce stands up.
"Sorry Fury." Hank gets up unapologetic, glad Bruce thought of something to get them out of here. They leave and walk side by side keeping an eye out for Wade.
"Bucky never did show up." Bruce states absently.
Hank is unbothered by the former Winter Soldier missing the meeting, "Probably busy again."
"Doing what?" Bruce is curious about what Bucky does when he's not with the team.
Hank shrugs, "Who knows."
"Not even Steve knows what he's up to most of the time." Bruce points out.
"Yea and they are pretty close." Hank mentions, now curious as well.
"My point exactly." Bruce glances at him.
"Oh well." Hank knows it won't do good to think more on it.
"Good luck Clint." Natasha smiles at him as she grabs her gun and straps it to her thigh.
"You too." Clint puts on his quiver.
"Don't need it." Natasha teases him.
"Of course not." Clint rolls his eyes, Natasha smiles at him one more time then leaves. Clint grabs his bow and leaves as well.
*My POV*
I'm jumping from roof to roof. I stop, tilt my head and take off in the direction I heard a noise come from. I know there is someone following me but they don't smell like a threat. I quickly come to a stop and am forced out of my thoughts as I dodge an attack. The person tailing stops a good distance away.
"Distraction." I mutter referring to the noise that drew me here. I turn my head and look as the person that lured me to this rooftop comes out of hiding. Of course, Wolf. He's probably been itching for another fight since I threw him in jail last time. I slide my foot behind me and bring my fists up into a fighting stance. Wolf narrows his eyes at my stance. "Thought you were in prison."
"Got busted out." He grins at me.
"By who?" I tilt my head.
"Like I'll tell you." He sneers at me.
I quickly move to the side thinking on who would bust him out. Wolf follows my movements, like a predator stalking its next meal. I swipe my hand out and create a cage around him. Wolfs growls in response, he never did like cages. I smile the slightest bit, "Your teeth are yellow."
I guess Wolf didn't like the comment, he doesn't look too amused. I shift my weight, a bit surprised that Wolf hasn't escaped yet. Wolf suddenly finds the chink that is in all of my creations and escapes trying to claw at me. For the next ten or so minutes Wolf keeps trying to claw or bite me and I keep dodging. That is until I get on top of the vent thing and create steel pipes around Wolf. He struggles against them but can't break free. I sit down to watch and he glares at me.
I shrug, "What?"
He rolls his eyes in annoyance, "You know what."
I shake my head and he stops struggling. When he does I jump down off the roof and get the police. The police come to take Wolf back to jail and I watch as they load him into the police van from the roof.
"Fury, you got all this?" I hear a female voice ask.
I tilt my head at the voice, so it is a female tailing me. I hear and smell her leave and just go back to patrol, not all that worried.
*Third person POV*
Clint follows Masquerade at a safe distance watching her just patrol. He is honestly getting a bit bored since nothing interesting has happened.
"Ughh, should've gone to that party instead." Masquerade sighs and grumbles under breath. She is as bored as her 'stalker'. Suddenly she's attacked by someone she didn't expect to see. She manages to dodge the attack just in time, "Aren't you supposed to be locked in a padded room or something?"
"You really underestimate me, don't you?" Psychosis giggles at her former protégé.
"Nah." Masquerade brushes her former mentors question off, "I figured you'd slip past the white coats."
"Then why did you ask such a silly question?" Psychosis waves her hand in the air.
"It was rhetorical. Aren't ya supposed to be a genius Vic?" Masquerade shoots back. Psychosis's eye twitches. "Oh, did I hit a nerve? My bad." Masquerade smiles, showing she isn't sorry in the least.
"Brat!" Psychosis charges at Masquerade throwing a punch.
Masquerade dodges the punch, "Me? A brat? That hurt Vic, and we used to be such good friends."
Psychosis drops down and knocks Masquerade's feet out from under her then stands back up. Masquerade does a backwards handspring back to her feet and Psychosis quickly tries to punch her former protégé but Masquerade ducks and hits her in the stomach. The insane woman jumps back trying to lessen the blow but ends up slammed into the building behind her by Masquerade's psychokinesis. Psychosis struggles, even though it is useless.
Masquerade holds her there, "Now, I know you couldn't have gotten out on your own with the security upgrade. Who sprung you?"
"Why should I tell?" Psychosis grins.
"It was worth a shot." Masquerade then thinks aloud, "Let's see, where should you go for your little mind trip?"
"Anywhere is fine sweetie." Psychosis smirks at her.
"Oh!" Masquerade puts Psychosis in a three year olds dream world. Psychosis grew bored of that world but while she is in that world, Masquerade calls the cops then changes the illusion into her worst nightmare. Psychosis starts yelling and trying to fight invisible things. Masquerade watches as the cops haul her off then leaves saying, "Party time."
Clint taps his comm. link, "You get that Fury?"
"Affirmative, good work Barton." Fury confirms.
"Yep." Clint cuts the connection and heads back to what once was Stark Towers but after the rebuild became the headquarters for the Avengers'. It's nicknamed the Tower or Avengers' Tower. Clint finds everyone but Bucky in the living room on the huge horseshoe couch.
Tony looks up when the assassin and spy comes in and sits down, "Have fun?"
"Yea," Clint nods, "girl has got some moves."
"Domino was surprising. He took on a feral as mean as Sabertooth but walked away without a single injury." Natasha says impressed.
"Must have been quite the show." Bruce comments.
"He took on a feral without a problem?" Logan questions as he comes in with a beer and sits on the couch.
"Yes, he did." Natasha confirms.
"Huh." Logan grunts, "He looks scrawny."
"Apparently it doesn't matter to him." Natasha shrugs.
"Masquerade was badass." Clint jumps into the conversation.
Hank smiles at his friend, "Seems you had fun watching her fight."
"Yea," Clint grins, "she beat this chick at hand to hand and put her in some illusion after slamming her into a building with her mind."
"She sounds like a mighty warrior!" Thor yells like always.
"Yea..." Tony nods and gives Thor a sideways glance. He is highly sure him and Clint have talked to Thor about his yelling.
"They both have potential." Steve says calmly.
"Who's got potential?"Bucky asks as he finally comes in from the elevator. Everyone looks over to him but doesn't ask where he was.
"New recruits." Steve watches him walk over.
"Since when?" Bucky settles in at Steve's feet and leans back against his legs.
"Since this morning." Steve patiently answers. Bucky tilts his head back to look at Steve, expecting a better explanation. Steve shakes his head, "I'll fill you in later."
"Fine." Bucky responds shortly. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the elevator dings and Fury walks in to the living room.
"Security breach!" Tony exclaims.
"Hardly a security breach Stark." Fury monotones.
"My tower, I just let the team move in. Last I checked, not you. So yes, security breach!" Tony argues.
Fury ignores him, "Just thought I would warn you, Deadpool is loose."
"He's still on the air ship, right?" Tony asks hopefully.
"Let me rephrase that. He escaped." Fury crosses his arms.
"Ya might wanna fetch him then." Logan suggests. Clint groans in frustration.
"He managed to dodge the tracers." Fury informs.
Steve sighs, "Of course."
Bruce lets out a sigh; he can feel a headache start to appear. Natasha looks between Tony and Fury, "He shouldn't be able to get in here. Right?"
"With him, I'd want to stay alert." Fury advises the team.
"I need a drink." Tony heads to the bar that is also part of the living room.
"I will inform you if we find him." Fury nods and leaves.
"At least he warned us." Hank wipes a hand over his face.
"Aye." Thor nods.
Bucky grumbles, "I really wish he'd disappear from the face of the planet."
"If only." Bruce sighs wistfully.
"Wow, even you Bruce." Tony turns to face his friend with fake surprise, "Let me guess, he makes you mad and want to Hulk out?"
"Basically." Bruce grimaces, he hates The Other Guy.
"Drink? Anyone?" Tony offers.
"I'll take one." Clint walks to the bar. Tony hands him his beer and Clint sits back down.
"Anyone else?" Tony looks around.
"Aye, I will partake in the drinking of the beer." Thor walks over to the bar.
Tony snorts but hands him a beer then looks him in the eye and reminds him, "No throwing it on the ground. Understood?"
"Aye." Thor nods as he takes his beer then sits back down.
Tony sits on the couch beside Clint with his beer and starts conversationally, "So Steve."
"Yes?" Steve looks up and over at Tony.
"When are you and Bucky going to tell us that you're fucking?" Tony takes a drink of his beer.
"Do you have to be that straightforward Stark?" Steve groans in frustration.
"I wouldn't be me if I wasn't." Tony smirks.
"Of course." Steve sighs as he leans back against the couch.
"When were you planning to tell us Rogers?" Natasha crosses her arms in a motherly way.
Steve sighs, "I had to figure out how to tell you in the first place."
"Why?" Clint asks curious.
"What are we conversing about?" Thor doesn't understand some the words they are using.
"Steve and his boyfriend." Bruce informs the god.
"Boyfriend?" Thor's brows scrunch up in confusion. Bruce nods.
Natasha sighs and steps in to help Thor, "He's from another world Bruce, he doesn't understand our terms."
"Oh, I forgot." Bruce mutters sheepishly.
Natasha turns to Thor and explains it to him, "Thor, boyfriend/girlfriend are terms we use to call the person we are in a romantic relationship with. Now, when Tony said," Natasha makes a slight face of annoyance, "'Fucking', he was using a slang word that means sex. Last but not least, Steve and Bucky are in a romantic relationship, so they are boyfriends. This is the current topic of conversation."
"Why did you not say that?" Thor asks confused and a bit annoyed that that was not said outright.
Tony leans toward Clint, "Which one's he talking to?"
"I don't know." Clint shrugs.
"Thor, it's just how us humans are." Hank tries to explain.
"That is confusing but I will accept it." Thor declares with a nod.
"How is that confusing?" Hank asks. He wants to help the Norse god understand so there won't be any more confusion and misunderstandings.
"Why do you not just say what it means?" Thor asks.
"What? Sex?" Tony looks up from his tablet.
"Can we please get back to discussing on whether or not Domino and Masquerade should join the team?" Steve butts in wanting the conversation to end.
"Huh?" Tony completely forgot about that.
"He's right. We have to decide if they can join us." Bruce agrees.
"Oh right, that." Tony slouches back. Natasha rolls her eyes at him and Tony raises an eyebrow, "What? We were talking about important things! Steve and Bucky's hidden romance and we were educating Thor."
"He's right." Clint surprisingly agrees with Tony.
"You two really want to piss her off?" Hank eyes them like they're crazy.
"I'm not involved." Bruce shakes his head since he was involved in the earlier conversation.
"I'm staying out of it." Steve knew better than to push Natasha too far and Bucky shakes his head having learned she is not someone to anger.
"Can we get on with the meeting?" Natasha crosses her arms.
"Fine." Tony gets a glass of scotch and sits back down. With that, the meeting commences. Tony nods, "I say yes."
"Yes." Bruce agrees.
"Aye!" Thor bellows.
"Yep." Clint nods.
"Yea, sure." Logan takes a drink of his beer, he is curious about the Domino kid.
Hank nods, "Yes."
"Yea." Bucky just agrees even though he has no clue about this stuff.
"I believe they will do good here." Steve smiles.
"Good, for once we all agree." Natasha grins happily.
"Steve, Tony, and Clint didn't fight, impressive." Bruce points out.
"It's a miracle, really." Hank comments.
"For all we know, it can still happen." Tony pipes up.
"Don't jinx it." Clint warns.
"Why?" Tony raises an eyebrow.
Clint snorts, "I want a day without arguing."
"You normally start it." Tony says childishly.
"Here we go." Natasha sighs and leaves. Bruce and Hank head to the lab. Logan goes to the gym hoping to escape sounds of the argument. Steve nudges for Bucky to get up, grabs his hand when he does and they leave to wherever (no one really wants to think on where). Thor heads to the lab to spend time with Bruce and Hank.