Three Months Later:

"Director I'm sorry, but if your best agents have not found her, I request that they leave this country. They have been here for three months and you still have not given me a proper reason for why you want this girl."

Nick Fury ground his teeth and took a deep breath before letting it out slowly, trying his hardest not to punch the keyboard to disconnect the chat, he knew the Director of Australia SHIELD was having a field day over the fact that his agents had still not found Dianne, but there was nothing he could do. They needed to bring her in and question her, but no matter what they tried, they had not tracked her down, and he was starting to feel like a fool!

"They will not be leaving the country until she is in custody!" He finally said after calming himself down from screaming at her, the last time he had she had just laughed at him and told him to behave. "We need her to answer questions, had we known the contact she had whilst working for you we would have asked for a transfer of all her paper work..."

"But as you know paperwork is destroyed as soon as someone leaves." The woman cut off, spinning on her chair a little bit in boredom, she was starting to get sick of dealing with him. "Listen director Fury, Dianne is fantastic at hiding, look at her photo, she is the most ordinary looking person around, and there is a reason for that. She can slip in to any area that she wishes to and instantly join in, a chameleon we call her, you have one on your team as well. This was perfect for missions, but when she left it turned in to something that made it difficult to track her, plus her knowledge of small towns and off the radar locations is admirable as well as annoying. I am sorry Director, but SHIELD will no longer help you find her until you give me a full report on why she must be found in the first place. As you continue to refuse to do so, I have no other option but to terminate our help."

"With all due respect Director Ice, I don't care if you help us or not, my men will find her and they will bring her in for questioning. I am sure they are close to finding her any day now."

"Good luck with that Director Fury, and when you find her, please tell me how you managed it." She moved her finger to disconnect the chat, before pausing and looking at him, her green eyes narrowing. "And her presenting herself to your agent out of pure boredom does not count."

Before Director Fury could answer she had disconnected the chat, glaring at one of the guards who dared chuckle he stormed out of the room. He would keep Clint down there all bloody year if it took that long, he needed the answers that the girl held!


"Three months, this is insane! Bruce tell her to meet Barton so that we can get her over here!" Tony said, throwing his hands up in the air and staring at Bruce as he shook his head. "What do you mean no? I know you don't want her found, but I need Clint back here to do some tests and Fury isn't going to let him come back without her, so get her ass to Barton and let's go! This is getting annoying."

"She doesn't want to be picked up." Bruce said, flicking through his phone to look at the picture Tex had sent him, it was a dingo in front of a setting sun, a very beautiful picture that was now his background. "She doesn't want to be brought over here because she knows that she won't handle the interrogation by Fury, so it is safer for her to stay there."

"That's great, huge claps for her being loyal, but this is getting fucking ridiculous! My programs aren't even picking her up! And my programs are the best in the world! JARVIS tell him you are the best AI system in the world!"

"I am currently the number one Artificial Intelligence system in the world, although a number of countries are trying to recreate me." JARVIS said.

"Give up, Tony. She will be found when she wants to be found, but I will send her an email and Clint's location, hopefully she will play nicely." Bruce fiddled with his phone before typing a quick email out in Latin and sent it to her.

"Did you just send that in Latin?" Tony asked, frowning as he learnt something knew about the doctor.

"Yes."

"Are you going to elaborate on why you know Latin?"

"No."

"Tell me when she responds."

"Will do."


"You know for a SHIELD agent, you really don't know what you are doing..."

Clint spun around, arrow already notched and drawn, he glared at the tall woman who had walked in to the clearing with a bag slung over her shoulder and a dog toy under her arm.

"Though I must say, after three months this is the closest you have ever gotten to me... But I knew you were here, see you made a rookies mistake." The woman dropped the dog toy on the sleeping bag and then moved to the fire, picking up a branch of gum leaves and smirking at him. "You used them fresh, stupid, stupid idea when hiding. See these bastards stink the whole area out, I smelt you twenty minutes ago before I even found the path."

"I am guessing you are Dianne." Clint said, putting his bow down but keeping the arrow notched in case he needed to defend himself. "Purple hair, that's a change from the photo."

"Started to work as a burlesque dancer, needed a change."

"Sarcastic, I can see why Bruce wants to keep you secret."

"Well not any more, he was the one that told me to find you here. He said Fury is about to go ape shit, of course he said it with more class then that." She placed her bag by the sleeping bag and crossed her arms over her chest, Clint saw the handle of a knife tucked in to the waist band of her pants, as well as a tattoo peeking over the top of her collar. "What do you want from me?"

"Fury wants answers, answers that Bruce is not willing to share with him..."

"For good reason too!" Tex cut him off with a glare. "If they get their hands on those answers then we will have more then just one guy running around as a ticking time bomb! They want to recreate him in a safe style, the power of the hulk but with less triggers." She bent over and dug around her bag, before pulling out a file and throwing it at his feet.

"Project 66H. No doubt your boss has hidden it from you, and you might want to burn this copy once you are finished reading it, otherwise both our heads will be on the chopping board. Basically, if you are to scared to touch the folder, it's to create a human hulk. Using samples from Bruce to strengthen humans. I know they have done it before with Captain America, a super soldier, but this is different. These people wouldn't be super in any way other then using the full ability of their brains and strength. A good idea in theory, but just remember they will use them as weapons, human army more powerful then anything else, but can be stopped just as easy as killing a normal human."

Tex watched as Clint bent down and scooped the folder up, placing his bow and arrow down on the sleeping bag next to the toy as he read it, his frown slowly becoming more and more deep. "You see..." Tex begun, making herself comfortable by the fire and throwing another log on it. "SHIELD is a government agency, no matter what they say on the lid, there is always more shit down the bottom. They wanted me on this project a long time ago, luckily for me my mother is head honcho over here, Director Ice. She helped me leave, and she's been keeping you off my trail for three months now, god help her if Fury ever finds out."

"Why didn't you do it?" Clint asked, staring down at her. "Most scientists would jump at the chance to work with a project of this scale. It would make you millions, famous even."

Tex snorted in laughter, before digging around her bag to pull out a can of tinned baked beans, happily opening it up and eating it with the blade of her knife. "I don't sell out my friends, Agent Barton. Even more so when my friend turns in to a giant rage monster and would kill me if I ever did. No, I'm not interested in the project and I would personally kill anyone who tried to get their hands on the stuff they need. He is a man, Agent Barton, not a lab rat."

Clint nodded once and moved to his bag, pulling out the secure phone that Tony had given him and flicking it open, it took seven rings for Tony to pick up. "I got her, she's sitting here eating beans with the back of a knife, one that I am sure Natasha would love to get her hands on. Tell Darcy I'm not bringing a koala back with me, I can hear her in the damn background. Yes, tell Bruce she is safe, though her hair is now purple, I don't believe the job she took, but god knows... Yes she said she was a burlesque dancer... Ok I'll ask her..." Clint moved the phone from his face and turned to look at Tex, who was watching him with a raised eyebrow in amusement.

"Bruce wanted to know if you wore red or black on stage?"

Tex laughed and licked the knife free from the tomato sauce, before responding. "For him it will always be green."

"She said that it would always be green..." Clint said in to the phone, getting the feeling that he was missing something more important then a discussion on burlesque dancing. "Erm... Ok I'll ask, but you better explain quickly before I start to believe this!" Turning to Tex, who was now cleaning the knife with a hanky he asked his question. "He wants to know if you wore a garter with a blood red diamond?"

"Not this time, my garter stayed diamond free, though my bra did get a few tips."

"You know what, you tell him!" Clint said, shoving the phone to Tex and shuddering. He really didn't want to know what they were talking about, or what Dr Banner was in to!

"Hey honey!" Tex purred in to the phone, making Clint shudder once again, before frowning as she started to speak in a different language. "No, I didn't have to, I stayed with Fi. Everything from my work is in the bag, yes including the other things. Yes I brought that and showed him, yes I'll get rid of it in three minutes once he's finished reading it... … … Yes I do believe he thinks I'm now a burlesque dancer... I'll explain it once we are in the air. Yes my hair is actually purple, I'll send you a photo from the jet. Bruce, can we trust him? Fine, I'll go like a good girl."

Tex waited for Bruce to say goodbye before handing the phone back to a very confused Clint. "What the fuck did you two just sa- Oh, it's you Tony. Yeah, we'll be in the air in two hours, I'll text you then." Hanging up he looked to find that Tex had already put the fire out and was starting to pack up the camping site, making it look like no one had been there.

"Well, let's get going."

"Who are you?"

"Tex, the girl who holds the secrets to the Hulk. I'm also a kick ass Guitar Hero player."