Hi, this is my very first fanfic so I would love someone to read this. Even if it's awful. I'm quite new here and still trying to get around how this works. Sadly, I don't own the Avengers -wipes tear- but I do hope I did a good job on this. Without further ado, here's the story!

Apocalypse Day

Chapter One

*Clint's POV*

It was supposed to be a regular day at the office. You know, kicking ass and taking names later. But of course, we're the Avengers and nothing is regular where we are concerned. But the day started out weird in the beginning. And I don't mean 'Tony's hiding something' weird. I mean 'something isn't right and be careful' weird. I had that feeling when we took this mission. A scientist was using human beings as test subjects for an anti-aging serum. In any illegal means necessary.

I had no idea what to expect. None of us did. Steve had an idea that we should split up. I wasn't having it, at all.

"No way, absolutely not! You don't have any idea what's in here." I said. Tony rolled his eyes.

"What's wrong Hawkie? Scared of the dark?" Tony asked. I had to resist sticking out my tongue at him, or sticking my fist in his face. I was serious, or trying to be.

"No Stark, I'm not! I'm just saying that splitting up is a bad idea." I said. But, as usual, Tony was already heading away to do his own thing.

"You're acting too much like Steve Hawkie, lighten up." He called out to me as he walked off. By the way, Hawkie, I hate that nickname.

Steve and I just look at each other and I sigh. Splitting up it is. Since Tony went straight ahead, Steve took the left corridor and I took the right. Why did I get the feeling that everything was about to get much worse? I made myself focus on where I was going. It was a narrow hallway. You know, the type that, if there were more than one person here that they would have to walk single file behind each other. That just made me even more nervous. The darkened hallway was interrupted by a sputter of an electrical outlet sputtering a few feet ahead of me.

*Okay...that's not a good sign.* I thought to myself stopping myself from going any further. Something told me that if I went any further down this hallway, I might not come out...at all. I shook my head to clear my thoughts. I'm an assassin; I should be able to go down a semi-darkened hallway without freaking out. I shouldn't be acting like a complete sissy. Natasha would get a kick out of this if she could see me right now.

I mentally shake myself and start again down the hallway, muscles taut and my gaze intent in front of me. The sputtering outlet going in and out, like it was mocking me or something. I was doing okay, or so I thought, when I stopped right in front of the sputtering light. There's a reason for what I did. I saw something sneaking around a corner, and, not joking, it didn't look human. Okay, I have great composure, all right. But I have never seen anything like that and it took all I had not to go running the other way screaming at the other two to high-tail it out of there and run like hell.

I thought about, but didn't do it. What, I had a rep to uphold here. As if my luck couldn't get any worse, Tony decided to talk over our com link.

"Get anything Hawkie?" I said nothing. The thing, whatever it was, obviously heard it. How it did, I have no idea, because its head snapped up and went rigid. Shit. And I was standing right in the middle of a semi-dark hallway. It would figure out I was there sooner or later. I looked around and saw an open air vent, thank god, and leapt soundlessly inside of it. I would have sighed with relief but I knew that, somehow, that...thing would hear me.

"Hey yo Hawkster, do you copy?" Shut up Tony.

"Are you deaf there short, stout and silent? Do you Copy?" Shut. Up. Tony.

"Yo Hawk, not funny anymore." SHUT UP TONY!

And just as I finish that thought, the thing, and I didn't even hear it or notice it, I was too annoyed with Tony at the moment that the...thing jumped right in my face. I will admit I screamed. I will not admit that it sounded girly, at all. I shimmied down the vent and out the first one I saw. Screw my rep or my dignity. Whatever that was scared the hell out of me. I stopped running after a while and Tony commed in at that point.

"Was that-you I-heard scream?" I could hear him laughing and I could just tell I wouldn't live this down for some time.

"I refuse to admit to anything and I have a reason for that. What I saw scared the hell out of me." I said.

"What do you mean Hawkeye?" Steve finally decided to join in then.

"I mean what scared the hell out of me didn't look...human." I said.

"You serious right now?" Steve asked through the comm.

"I'm not saying it to hear myself speak, so yes, very serious." I said.

"It couldn't have been that scary Hawkie." Tony with that nickname, when I get out of this, I'm talking to him about this.

"Until you have seen for yourself then you can't say that." I said scrubbing my hand over my face as I headed back to where I started.

"All right, we'll regroup. Maybe splitting up was a bad idea." Sure, now Steve says that. But I say nothing as I make my way back. Steve was already meeting me. Tony had yet to show up. He couldn't fly around in that suit of his in those narrow hallways.

"I guess Tony's taking his sweet time." I said, voice dripping with sarcasm.

"He can't fly, so he has to walk. Metal isn't exactly light weight you know." Steve said calmly. Ah, poor Steve. Still hasn't grasped the form of sarcasm. I'll make it a note to start teaching him when we get back.

"I know. This place just gives me the creeps." I said.

"Whatever you saw really did freak you out didn't it?" Steve asked, really looking at me now. I nodded somberly.

"You have no idea." I said. If one freaked me out, imagine what more than one would do. I didn't want to think about it. Steve was about to say something when Tony came running noisily(I so don't envy wearing that suit right now), and running past us as fast his metal clad body could take him and nearly clipping me in the process.

"Don't just stand there! Run for your lives, you idiots!" Tony called as he ran past us. Why Tony was running when he could have just shot them all to smithereens, I have no idea. But now he knew why I was so freaked out? Who's acting like a girl now?

"Tony what are you-?" Steve asked; looking in the direction he ran from. I did too, but I wished I didn't. Because it wasn't just the one...thing I saw, it seemed there was more than one. Talk about maybe 40 or more, all decayed and black sunken eyes that looked somewhat slitted. I also noticed, to my horror, that their teeth were sharp. Steve and I just looked at each other and high tailed it after Tony.

"Wait up man!" I yelled to him. *Way to leave a man behind, asshole.* I thought. Seemed it was just me and Steve. I don't know where the hell Stark went. And another thing, all those...things, they're chasing after us. This day just gets better and better.

So what do you think? Thoughts? Questions? Critique? I hope the character weren't too OOC. I wanted a bit of humor with the horror and drama. And maybe a romance element in there as well. You lot can tell me who can get together as I can't really decide. ;) Will update soon.