Clu's attempted conquest on the user world was failure, who knew that none of the weapons programs possessed on the grid wouldn't work in the user world. It was a complete and utter failure, Clu was disgusted by what a flawed plan he had come up with.

At first everything was going smoothly. He had gotten out, he had defeated Flynn and trapped him on the grid yet again but then once it came to the conquest part of his plan everything spiraled out of Clu's control...

The SHEILD agent known as Hawkeye slapped Clu hard across the face. Clu's hands and legs were all bound to a chair which he'd tried several times to break free from, his wrists were raw and bloody from where the metal was cutting into his flesh.

"I've asked you this question several times, where do you come from? I know you're not human. Our scientists tested your DNA, what are you?" Hawkeye asked waiting for Clu to answer.

Clu could taste more blood in his mouth, user bodies were weak and Clu thought of blood as messy and imperfect. His whole body ached from the countless beatings he'd endured just because he wasn't willing to answer their questions.

"It seems you're not going to speak yet again. Suit yourself." Hawkeye said, leaving the small room that was Clu's prison cell.

Clu heaved a sigh of relief as the SHEILD agent left. He was alone at last, just him and his thoughts. He longed to go back to the grid. He missed being able to repair himself at will unlike how his newly flesh and bone body couldn't repair itself just by picking out damaged code. The past few days ever since SHEILD captured him after his failed attempt at an invasion had been a living hell for Clu. They always came into his small prison cell to interrogate him and if interrogation wouldn't work they would torture him. It was always a constant beating, he hated these users with a passion but he couldn't fight back. He knew that for a fact.

What seemed like a few hours latter, though Clu couldn't tell how much time had passed by while he was in this cell, a new user one Clu hadn't met entered his cell. The user pulled up the chair that was leaning up against the wall and sat across from Clu.

"I don't no who or what you are but I want to know why you tried to attack this world." The user with and eyepatch said.

Clu just looked up at the user. "I wasn't trying to attack your world." Clu mumbled slightly.

"Then what exactly were you planning to do?" The user asked.

"Conquer it. I planned to conquer your world." Clu hissed with a straggled breath.

"And I see that you were the leader of this attempted invasion." The user said.

Clu looked down at his feet and didn't respond back. "I'm waiting for an answer." The user said.

The user strode over to Clu and grabbed his chin so they could meet eye to eye. "Well?" The user asked still waiting for Clu's response.

Clu slightly chuckled. "Do you think that I'd ever tell you anything? You can't force any information out of me." Clu said defiantly.

"I see we've got a bit of an attitude over here. I'm director Fury and you are?" Fury said.

"That's none of your business." Clu said giving director Fury a poisonous glare.

Directory Fury just shook his head in disapproval at Clu's response and then walked out of the room.

Clu's jaw still hurt from where he was last hit, he longed to rest but he decided against it speaking that when he was asleep he was at his most vulnerable. He didn't trust anyone in this government base, or at least he assumed it was a government base.

A few moments latter Hawkeye came back into Clu's cell.

"What do you want?" Clu asked struggling to break free from the chair that blinded him. Clu winced in pain when the cuffs dug deeper into his wrists.

"Huh, so it seems that you do talk." Hawkeye said eyeing Clu curiously.

"Of course I talk, that's completely idiotic that you thought that I didn't talk. Worthless user." Clu said trying to see how he could mess with Hawkeye. Hawkeye looked unfazed by Clu's comments and that annoyed him.

"You're looking pretty bad over there. You'd be living in better conditions if you would just cooperate with us." Hawkeye said.

"I'm perfectly fine where I am. I'd rather be here than tell the likes of you anything, user." Clu said.

Hawkeye just shook his head seeming annoyed and fed up with Clu, he walked over to Clu and began undoing the cuffs that bound Clu to the chair. Clu looked at Hawkeye skeptically as he undid the cuffs. Once the cuffs were off Clu moved his hands glad for his new found freedom.

"Get up." Hawkeye said.

"What?" Clu asked seeming confused.

"Get up before I regret undoing your cuffs." Hawkeye said.

Clu got up but then fell to the ground, not used to using his legs at the moment speaking that he'd been bound to a chair for what felt like several days.

"I said get up." Hawkeye said watching Clu struggle.

"As you can obviously tell that's what I'm trying to do at the moment." Clu said getting hastily to his feet.

"Come with me." Hawkeye said.

"Why? Where are you taking me?" Clu asked.

"You'll see soon enough." Hawkeye said, he put another set of cuffs on Clu's wrists and put a blind fold over his eyes.

Clu could feel Hawkeye push him forward and he slightly stumbled. Hawkeye led him down several hallways, they took so many left and right turns that Clu had lost count.

Once they reached a room Hawkeye took off Clu's blindfold, the light blinded Clu for a second but his eyes quickly adjusted. The room was fairly small but much bigger than his prison cell. It had a small bed but it looked uncomfortable and a sink. Clu was thankful for the extra space, he was tired of being cooped up.

"What is this place?" Clu asked.

"Your new prison cell. Maybe you'll cooperate more." Hawkeye said.

Clu made a distasteful grunt in response and then walked into the room. Hawkeye just waited at the door.

"Ok you can leave now." Clu said waiting for Hawkeye to just leave him alone.

"Hmm I guess I should report back to director Fury telling him that you're finally cooperating to an extent." Hawkeye said.

"Humph, you wish. Like I'd ever cooperate with the likes of you, user." Clu said, sitting down on the small bed.

"User?" Hawkeye asked curiously, wondering what Clu meant.

He gave Clu one last look and then left the room, shutting and then locking the door behind him.

Clu laid his head back and rested on the bed. He was so exhausted but he willed himself to stay awake, his eyelids felt heavy. He just felt terrible all together, his suit was blood crusted and so was his face. He was highly uncomfortable in his prison attire.

"Is the subject cooperating?" Fury asked.

"To an extent. It has a big mouth, at first it was extremely quiet and now it just won't shut up." Hawkeye said with distaste.

"As long as the subject doesn't fight back then we should be fine. We still need to find out where the subject and his army came from. Agent Barton, I want you to continue interrogating him until he gives us answers. If he resists then use force." Fury said.

"Directory Fury, it's not a he it's an it. He is not human. And of course I can continue interrogating it, but maybe Natasha or Coulson would be the best one for the job." Agent Barton said.

"I'm sure you can handle this assignment just fine. If he doesn't cooperate the way we want him to then I'll send in Agent Romanoff or Agent Coulson." Directory Fury said. "You are dismissed, Agent Barton."

"Of course director Fury. Would you like me to continue my interrogation now?" Agent Barton asked.

"No. Give the subject a break for the time being. You can continue interrogating him in an hour or two." Fury said.

Agent Barton nodded and then walked out of the room. He walked into the break room only to be confronted by Natasha.

"Hey, how's your new assignment going? I hear you got assigned to a war criminal." Natasha said.

"My assignment is going fine and yes I got assigned to a war criminal." Clint said.

"Is your assignment as bad as Loki was when we had him as our hostage?" Natasha asked curiously.

"No, actually my assignment is not nearly as bad as Loki was." Clint said.

"Oh, well I guess that makes it easier on you." Natasha said.

"I guess but do you think you could help me with my interrogation?" Clint asked.

Natasha shrugged. "I don't see why not. When should we start our interrogation?" Natasha asked.

"I'm under direct order from Fury not to disturb my assignment for the time being, meaning that we can start our interrogation in an hour or two." Clint said.

"Seems reasonable enough." Natasha said.

Clu couldn't take it anymore, the strain of not sleeping for several days was taking a toll on him. He longed for a rest but he didn't want to be vulnerable especially not in this hellish place. Clu started to drift off but snapped himself out of it.

"No. I will not fall asleep." Clu said this to himself.

But of course his efforts of trying to stay awake didn't work and soon enough exhaustion overtook him and he passed out on the bed. The bed was highly uncomfortable and Clu tossed and turned in his bed. His wrists hurt from where the cuffs he was wearing dug into him and he could feel his face throbbing from where Hawkeye and other SHEILD agents had hit him when he had not cooperated with them.

Clu slept lightly and he could faintly hear the door to his cell open and then shut with a click, someone had entered his cell but he didn't no who. Clu's eyelids opened slightly and he turned over in his bed to see who it was. The SHEILD agent Hawkeye and another woman had entered the room.

"What do you want?" Clu asked gruffly.

"My name is agent Romanoff but you can just call me Natasha and may I ask who you are?" Natasha said trying to make a good impression.

Clu looked at her skeptically, he didn't trust any user especially this one.

"Just drop it, Tasha. It won't tell anyone it's name no matter how hard you pry." Hawkeye said.

"I am not an it." Clu hissed between gritted teeth.

"It's got some attitude, no?" Hawkeye asked Natasha.

"I can tell." Natasha said.

Clu looked at both users hatefully, he wished he could hurt them but he couldn't at least not in the condition he was in at the moment.

"Where are you from?" Natasha asked.

"Again with the same question? Why do you users repeatedly ask the same question over and over again if you know I'm not going to answer?" Clu asked annoyed.

"See Tasha. It never cooperates." Hawkeye said seeming annoyed with Clu.

Clu smirked slightly, he was finally get a reaction out of Hawkeye. Natasha caught Clu's smirk out of the corner of her eye.

"I see you got assigned to a cocky subject, Clint." Natasha said, walking over to where Clu was seated.

"Careful Tasha. It can be exceptionally hostile towards others." Clint said, watching Natasha carefully.

Natasha reached out to touch Clu's cut up and bruised face. Clu immediately flinched away from Natasha's hand, afraid that another hellish round of beatings was coming. Clu gave her an icy glare for attempting to touch him.

"I see no hostility." Natasha said eyeing Clu.

"Humph, don't let the likes of it trick you." Clint scoffed.

"I already told you I am not an it!" Clu yelled angrily, surprising Clint and Natasha.

"Then what's your name?" Natasha asked.

"My name is Clu." Clu said in a low voice not wanting to meet Natasha's eyes.

"Clu? That's it?" Natasha asked.

"Hmm I recognize the term. It stands for codified likeness utility, more proof that he's not human." Clint said.

"He's not human but he's still a war criminal." Natasha said.

"At least we now know it's name." Clint said looking at Clu with distaste.

"Say this guy looks like Kevin Flynn before he disappeared, very interesting." Natasha said.

At the sound of his user's name Clu's head jerked up. "See Tasha it recognizes Flynn's name. Now let me ask you again, where did you come from?" Clint said waiting for Clu to answer his question.

Clu laughed. "Yet again with the same question? How idiotic are you people? Such an imperfect world along with imperfect people that live in this wretched place. You call this a society? Please, don't make me laugh." Clu said smugly.

"So you see our world as imperfect?" Natasha asked.

"Well yes." Clu stated simply reminding Natasha and Clint of Loki.

"And why's that?" Clint asked.

"You users think yourselves so very much above my kind yet you can't even rectify your own society, so very pathetic. If only I'd been more prepared then my conquest of your world would have succeeded." Clu said.

"What do you mean by your kind? What are you?" Clint asked.

"Something obviously inhuman as you've called me several times. I'm not from this world. Hmm, what would Flynn always say? A digital frontier to reshape the human condition." Clu said.

"So you do know Kevin Flynn!" Clint said.

Dammit, Clu always had a big mouth and he knew that. He never knew when to keep quiet. "I uh never said I knew him..." Clu said trying his best to cover up what he last said.

"It seems we've got quite enough information out of you for today." Natasha said.

"So you're going to leave me alone?" Clu asked hopefully.

"No. You're coming with us." Clint said.

"What? But-" Clu said getting cut off and ignored by Natasha and Clint.

"Grab one of his arms and I'll grab the other." Clint said, coming closer to where Clu was seated.

Clint grabbed one of Clu's arms and Natasha grabbed the other. Clu struggled and violently twisted his body around, trying to break free from the two SHEILD agents secure hold on his arms.

"Hold still!" Clint said trying to get Clu to stop struggling.

"Tasha! Drug him, maybe that will get him to stop struggling." Clint said.

"Are you sure?" Natasha asked taking out one syringe that she was going to use to drug Clu.

"Absolutely." Clint said.

Natasha nodded once and then circled over to meet Clu face to face. Natasha reached out and stuck the needle into Clu's arm. A few seconds latter Clu's struggling became less violent and you could tell that he'd been drugged.

"Lets take him to Directory Fury. I'm sure he'd love to know what Clu has to say." Clint said.

"Right. That would be appropriate." Natasha said.