Hey, everyone, I said I would try to update as soon as I could, and I updated. Though, sadly no one reviewed on my last chapter. :( But I'm updating now anyway in hope of a review. But I would still like to ask for idea. And I explained more of the project Archeress is part of in this chapter, but will be explained more next time, but I Still Need a Name for the Project! So if you have ANY ideas PLEASE Tell Me!
Now with that said...
Hawkeye's Apprentice
Chapter 7: Warning and a Temporary Member
"And what makes you think we'll just surrender?" asked Tony Stark, placing his helmet face plate of his armor down. The other Avengers got really to fight behind him. The Masters of Evil noticed this, but didn't bother move.
Enchantress shook her head, "I'm not in the mood to have one of our little battles, in which you lose, and so I'm just going to get to the point of this." Enchantress snapped her fingers. As soon as she did, everything but the Masters of Evil and Avengers froze in its place. Nothing moved. The Avengers were looked around, astonished, but their attentions when straight back to the Enchantress when she continued, "Master Loki ordered us to you to stay away from the other eight realms and out of his way, or your two archer will pay the price with their lives." With that Enchantress and the Masters of Evil disappeared and everything unfroze and continued as if nothing had happen. The Avengers just stood still for a few seconds, though to them it felt more like minutes.
Hank was the first to speak up, "What the heck just happen?"
"Loki has yet again tried to take over thee Nine Realms, and has foolishly taken our two friend archers prisoner," Answered Thor, who sounded calm, but with hints of anger in his voice.
"Wait, so are we just going to stand here and let Loki take control and hope we get Hawkeye and Archeress back?" asked Jan, the last thing she wanted to do was sit around when the archer duo could be being tortured, or already dead.
"Nye, I shall go to Asgard to defeat him and recue our comrades," said Thor confidently, not wanting to leave their friends in Loki's clutches.
"Wait, everyone," stated Steve. "We should think things through before we do anything. And if anyone is going to Asgard, they are not going alone. It took every one to defeat him last time, and if he's warning us this this, he will be expecting all of us, so things are going to be harder this time around." The others nodded, even Thor and Hulk. "I think should find out more before we do anything we will regret."
"Maybe we should learn more on Archeress while we're at it?" questioned Jan, they knew very little on the kid other than her codename, age, and the fact she uses a bow and arrows as weapons like Hawkeye.
"Why?" asked Hank, not getting why they would need to know more on Hawkeye's little sidekick. They knew the duo were being held prisoner, what else do they need to know?
"So we can, I don't know, know how along they can survive? Enchantress didn't say they were being held hostage, what if they are just stranded in another realm, being hunted, just to scare us more? If they were prisoner, how does he know we won't just split up and rescue them, so he won't have anything to bargain us to surrender with? We need to know more on Archeress, so if they are being hunted or stranded like I said, we have at least an idea how long they can survive? And we barely know anything as it is," Jan argued with the others.
The others were quiet for a moment, and then Steve was the first to speak, "I agree. We should look into Archeress."
"Will, then, "Started Tony, "We'll have to talk to SHIELD then."
"Why SHIELD?" asked Hank, the last thing they ever wanted to do was talk with SHIELD.
"Because she works for SHIELD," Stark answered.
"But she is only a kid!" Yelled Jan, surprised SHIELD would hire a fourteen year old, but part of her slightly suspected SHIELD would do something like that.
"Yes, but she is part of a secret project SHIELD had been working on for years. They train kids, who were orphaned or in the custody of Child Services with no hope of going home, to be future agents for SHIELD. Some of these kids, the one who are unusually talented or who extraordinary in a specific talent, like archery in this case, are give to be trained by agents who share in that talent, some Special Ops. Fury contacted me a few days ago, and asked me to have Clint train Archeress. According to him, he had planned to have Clint train her, since both specialize in archery, before the whole 'his partner turned Hydra Agent and the Break Out situation' problem. And he also said if I accepted to have Clint train her and let her stay at the mansion, he would lay of off the Avenger a bit for a bit and next time we accidently get involved in Hydra, we're off the hook. But he'll get to borrow Clint and Archeress every once in a while. Oh, and Archeress real name is Katherine Anderson, but she prefer to be called Kate over Katherine."
"So we going to talk to SHIELD then?" asked Steve, he could tell this wasn't going to go well.
"And tell them we lost Clint and Kate, and it's only been a few hours since we got her?" added Hank.
"And in a different realm?" added Jan.
"Sadly, yes, yes, and yes," Answered Tony, then turn to the QuinJet, followed by the rest of the team. None of them were looking forward to this chat with SHIELD, but then again, they never do.
Stark had contact SHIELD as soon as they were in the air, and told them he needed to talk to Fury. At first it didn't work, but when they said that it was about Archeress, it only took a few minutes 'til they were allowed to land on the SHIELD hellicarrier. When the team got off, there was three regular SHIELD agents waiting for them, along with Special Ops Agent Mockingbird.
Mockingbird showed no expression as the Avengers got of their jet, but could tell something was off when neither Clint nor Kate showed. She frowned at this. The team look a little scared as the entered the landing bay of the Hellicarrier, but that was usual for anyone, but they seemed a little guilty about something. Though she continued to show no emotion other than a disapproving frown, she hoped nothing had happen to Clint or Kate, but they had only had the girl for a few hours, but then again, this was Clint. Anything could have happen. And something must have happen if they wanted to talk to Fury.
"So, what do you Avengers want? Did you lose Archeress already?" she asked, trying to sound emotionless, but they could pick up traces of humor in it.
"In a way..." said Stark, the group lined up on either sides of him, some looking guilty, others looking like they didn't want to be there.
"What happen to Archeress? And where's Hawkeye?" she asked, and she was sure they picked up on a bit of nervousness in her voice.
"Well... It's complicated," said Hank, not wanting to be the one to explain.
"Try me." She shoot back.
"Why don't we explain it when Fury gets here?" suggest Tony, who only wanted to explain it once.
"Then start," came a deep, commanding voice. They all turned to see the director of SHIELD, Nick Fury. He walked up and took his place in front of the Avengers, with Mockingbird right behind him.
Stark quickly told him while they were there, "We just want more info on Archeress, that's it."
Fury's glare saw straight through them, "What happen to Hawkeye and Agent Archeress?"
"They were, uh, sent to another realm by the Enchantress," Stark answered getting quieter as the short explanation when on.
"How did this happen? He's Only Had Her For What, Less Than 12 Hours?" Fury growled, furious that the idiots in front of him could even keep an eye on a 14-year-old girl for even a few hours, but not only that, got her and Hawkeye sent to another realm. After he got his agent back, he was going to kill them.
"We were hunting down the Masters of Evil and we split up, Archeress went with Hawkeye. And apparently the two ran into the Masters of Evil and didn't have time to get a way. And Enchantress sent them to one of the eight other realms; we don't know which one yet. And Enchantress warned us that if we tried to save them, they would kill them," explained Captain America. Fury still showed no emotion other than anger and annoyance. Mockingbird like him, tried to show no emotion, but was worried about the duo. They were smart enough to know not to get caught, so it probably wasn't their fault, but she was worried about the two. If they tried to get them back, they could be killed in doing so.
"But," added Jan, "We have a plan to get them back; we just want some more info on Archeress, since we don't know what she is capable of yet. Just a bit of info, and we'll leave right now."
Fury sighed, "All right, but as soon as you get them back, I want to know what happen exactly and I want to talk to Hawkeye." The way he said it told them that failure wasn't an option with him, and it was all most threating. He turned to Mockingbird, "Agent Mockingbird, fill them in on Archeress' abilities and go with them. Contact me as soon as you are done with the assignment and I will be expecting a debriefing on what happen, From All of You." With that he left before anyone could argue.
Once Fury was out of ear shot, Mockingbird said, "So, am I briefing you here or where we going?"
"We can go back to the mansion for now. And are you sure you want to go?" said Tony, as he turn to the QuinJet, and the others got on.
"Yes, I'm positive. I am going whether you Avengers like it or not." And with that, she boarded the QuinJet.
Tony shook his head, not sure why she would want to go with them and go to another realm and recue the two archers and maybe fight in a battle against frost giants or some other crazy other realm creature, but, then again, she didn't know the last part. With he shrugged a go on the QuinJet. Right now, they had to learn what they could on Archeress and focus on saving the two Archers before they were killed.
Well, that's it for chapter 7. Please Review. And I Still Need A Name For The Project Archeress Is Part Of! The sooner I get a Review and an Idea for a Project name, the sooner I update!
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