Here we go!

I don't own the Avengers or HIMYM, I just enjoy them both thoroughly.

I'm going to try to update this about once a week or so, but I'm not making any promises. Also, the timelines for the Avengers is going to be a little altered so that it fits with that of HIMYM. Just so you know.


Agent Maria Hill had worked for SHIELD for all of her adult life. In that time she had learned a few things that she had never expected. The most important of those things was this: never go into Nick Fury's office if you can help it. With only a few exceptions, no one who went into Fury's office came out the same, if they came out at all.

So she was more than a little worried when she came in one morning and found a message waiting for her on her computer. It read, "Agent Hill, report to Director Fury's office immediately. Priority one, zero contact." That meant drop everything and tell no one why. Very encouraging.

A few minutes later, she stood just outside the Director's door, waiting nervously. Before she could knock, the door slid silently open. She swallowed hard and then walked in as calmly as possible. Within the large office, Nick Fury stood facing away from her, looking out of his office window down at Washington DC. She knew better than to interrupt, so she simply said, "Agent Maria Hill, Level 6, reporting as requested, sir."

The longest moments of her life passed before Director Fury finally turned around and looked at her. His one good eye bored into her, measuring and evaluating every little detail. "Agent Hill," he began slowly, "Can I trust you?"

The question shocked Agent Hill. She was used to orders, directives; not questions. And "trust" was not a topic usually discussed within SHIELD. 'How do I answer that,' she thought, 'This has to be some kind of test.' She considered her words carefully before responding, "I swore an oath to SHIELD, but personally, you have no reason to trust me or not."

She thought that she saw the smallest ghost of a smile on the Director's face at her answer. He nodded and said, "Good. That's exactly what I wanted to hear. You're here to get a mission. At the end of it, I'll have the answer to my question."

He pressed a button on his desk, and a face appeared on one of the screens. It was a woman with brown hair and fair features, and she looked a little bit like Agent Hill. Director Fury was no longer looking at her, instead giving his entire attention to the screen. "This woman," he said, "stumbled onto some sensitive information. She's proven valuable in collecting and providing intel for us. She went out on assignment for us a few weeks ago."

Agent Hill nodded, thinking that she understood. "So do you need me to bring her in, sir?" Fury smiled wryly and said, "That won't be necessary. She's dead. I need you to replace her." She couldn't hold back her shock as she said, "Replace her, sir?"

Fury nodded, "That's right. We've spent a lot of time and effort getting her into a position to gather better information for us. We're not going to let that effort go to waste, so you're going to replace her. The tech department is already working to digitally replace you in pictures and film."

There were no questions involved. 'I don't have a choice. I guess I'll just have to do it.' Then aloud she asked, "Why do I need to replace her? Can't I just go in as myself?"

"No. This mission is to find intel on potentially dirty SHIELD agents. To do that, your name can't be connected to SHIELD. You'll report directly to me. To all other SHIELD personnel, you'll be working in the New York City field office like other agents. You're now Level 7, but you will officially continue at Level 6. Any questions?"

It sounded like more of a dismissal than a question, so Agent Hill simply said, "Just one, sir. What is my cover identity called?"

The Director nodded again, and said, "From now on, when you're off duty, you will be known as Robin Scherbatsky."


Next time: Robin (Agent Hill) arrives in New York City, meets some interesting people, and gets a smurf penis.

There we go, that's chapter 1! Ted and the others will show up next time. Also, I'm expecting other chapters to be a bit longer than this one, this was just to get things off the ground. Please review, let me know what you think, and if you have any ideas or guesses about where the story's going.