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Chapter 2
Natasha, Clint, Skulduggery Pleasant, Valkyrie Cain and Tanith Low sat in a circle around a warm, glowing campfire. After Clint abruptly fainted, Natasha caught him and harshly slapped him on the face, they had all called a truce and decided to just have little chat before going back to maiming each other. Tanith was sulking because no one would believe her when she said she wasn't trying to actually hurt the assassin, just scare her a bit. Natasha hadn't been planning on killing Tanith as Director Fury had told her and Hawkeye to survey the area, after an unexpected amount of energy rays had appeared there that morning.
"Soooo….." Hawkeye started awkwardly, avoiding eye contact with, well, everyone.
"Who are you?" Natasha continued quickly.
"Well, I'm Valkyrie Cain," the girl with the dark hair said. She gestured towards the skeleton with her hand, "This is Skulduggery Pleasant and the person who tried to kill you, well, that's Tanith Low," Natasha looked at Skulduggery Pleasant. He sat there with a contemplating look on his face. It looked like he was trying to decide if he should kill them now or kill them later.
Tanith cleared her throat; it was the first reference she had made to the rest of the group so far. She looked expectantly at the foreign duo.
"Oh yeah. Umm… I'm Clin-" Black Widow interrupted him harshly.
"This is Hawkeye and I'm Black Widow."
Tanith raised an eyebrow. "Why the hell do they call you 'Hawkeye?"
Hawkeye smiled – this was his favourite part. Like they had rehearsed it, Natasha swiftly grabbed a knife so thin that you could hardly see it from an angle. She threw it so far up that Tanith lost sight of it. Hawkeye, in one fluid motion shot an arrow, seeming to fly into space.
Skulduggery chuckled and turned his chalky head towards a nearby tree where the arrow had pierced the knife right through the centre.
Tanith nodded in grudging admiration. "Yep, I get it."
"So, what about you guys?" Hawkeye started, "How did you get those weird names? Are they like code names?"
Before anyone could answer Hawkeye's question, Natasha interrupted. "I think you have some more important questions to answer. Like, where are you from and why have you come to earth?"
"Come to Earth? What, you think we're like E.T or something?" Tanith responded with an amused expression.
"Don't play dumb with us. We have dealt with aliens before and you are not human," Clint tells the group.
"What year is it?" Skulduggery suddenly interrupted.
"Uh, what?" Clint said, staring at Skulduggery.
"What year is it?" He repeated.
"Um, 2013, 'course. Why?" Clint asked.
"Because I assumed that we might have travelled forward in time. But, apparently not," Skulduggery then continues to stare into space like he never spoke.
Suddenly, before anyone else could speak, a loud rumbling interrupted the silence. Everyone quietly drew their weapons. Skulduggery flexed his fingers.
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