CHAPTER 8 – CLINT'S GREAT IDEA (Back to Varya POV)
"Hey Hel, how was the academy?" I ask her as I walk into the living room.
"Oh it was great, Tony got me in trouble!" Helena responds. "You?" she asks.
"I got a guy kicked out of the academy with in five minutes of my first lesson. By the end of the lesson two people were in the medical ward because of me and I embarrassed an entire room of highly trained agents as well as staying hidden for about 4 hours I think while most of the agents at the academy tried find me as well as beating sime woman named the cavalry while sparring." I recount.
"You suck, did anyone text you no one is home." She asks me.
"Nope, though no one but Thor bet we would be out at this time so they might have just not bothered." I suggest.
"Yeah your right." She says. "Want to watch a movie?" she asks me.
"Sure why not." I say which is exactly what we do. We fell asleep at about 2:00 in the morning. I got woken up by the elevator coming up towards the floor we were on so I wake up Helena and we hide. Except she forgot to turn off the T.V. so that when everyone steps out the first thing they hear is "Katniss!" from the hunger games.
"Um well that's suspicious, step out of an elevator and someone yells out for Bird brain here." Tony says while Bruce chuckles a little. I drop a pillow from Clint's nest on Tony's head from my spot in the vents. " Ow, what the hell?!" he yells.
"Hey that's from my nest!" Clint yells.
"That's where my facourite pillow went. Barton do you know how long I've been looking for that?" Natasha says angrily.
"Um Nat c'mon now be cool calm down." Clint responds.
"Warning, Warning Iron Man is about to land." Helena made Jarvis say.
"What Jarv! Why is iron man out without me?! And how did a pillow drop from nowhere?" Tony yells. Bruce just loses it and falls to the ground laughing in hysterics. "Something you want to share with the rest of us Brucie?" Tony says sarcastically.
"I believe lord Banner is attempting to say that you should Have more faith in your off spring." Thir says as he realises what is haplening and begins to laugh a booming laugh.
"Oh I get it." Steve says as he sees Helena.
"That took me too long to realise, I'm getting rusty." Natasha says. "And 3, 2, 1." Natasha says.
"Ohhhhh." Clint says a look of realisation on his face.
"Right on cue." Nat states.
"I'm sorry I can't do this." Hel says as she comes into view laughing really hard.
"Oh come on." I say as I jump down from the vents.
"You're back!" Tony says.
"Nah Shit Stark." Clint says. "How did you find my nest?" he asks me.
"Easy, I would've had it in the same place." I say. He smiles at me.
"Oh well since your back I should tell you that legolas here decided we needed more bonding time, so we have to do something that he won't tell us about until later." Tony says exasperated.
"I'll tell you now if you want." He says we all nod. "Ok well we will have two groups. One will have kidnapped one of the other teams players. They will have to try and contain that person while taking the other team out. Meanwhile the other team has to rescue their team mate or wait for them to escape and take out the other team. The tricky oart is that only one person on each team will be able to see. All the others will be blindfolded. So does the person who can see watch the person that has been kidnapped or guide the team?" he explains.
"I don't get it." Bruce says.
"Okay look. Team one consisting of myself, Steve, Helena and Thor. Only I can see, the others are blindfolded. We have Varya captive. We have to keep her contained and take out the other team. Team two consisting of Nat, Varya, Bruce and Tony. Only Bruce can see. They have to try to rescue Varya or wait for her to escape while taking out my team." Clint says.
"So it's a slightly more complicated version of goodies and baddies?" Tony says.
"No it's… ahh… well… basically yeah." Clint yields.
"How come you and Bruce can see?" Steve asks.
"Well I'm an archer I have perfect vision, it makes sense and bruce because it's more likely he will be scared of something if he can't see and I don't want to see the other guy. No offense Bruce." Clint explains.
"None taken." Bruce assures.
"I have perfect vision as well why can't I see?" I ask.
" Because it is un fair if the kidnapped person can see and the guards can't." Clint explains.
"Why am I the kidnapped one?" I ask him.
"Because you will be tied to a chair so because you are lower down it's more likely you will be accidently hit in the face, you won't kill whoever did it like most of the your team but you also won't be terribly hurt. Or turn into a green monster, or have a metal face." Clint says.
"Oh, ok." I say.
"Weapons?" Tash asks.
"No WIDOW BITES!" Clint says. "I will not get 'bitten' by those again EVER!" he swears to her.
"That was only one time and it was your fault." She defends.
"It was NOT." Clint yells.
"Ok, Ok guys focus. What weapons are allowed?" Steve asks attempting to defuse the situation, it works.
"Well I was thinking we have each other's weapons. So just randomly Steve gets widow bites, I get iron man, Natasha gets another iron man, Tony gets the shield, Helena gets the hammer seeing as she can lift it up, Thor get a modified version of my bow since his asgardians strength would most likely break my bow, and well Bruce keeps his hulk and Varya is Varya which cannot be changed so." Clint finishes.
"That sounds like a good idea Clint, just one problem, all of those weapons are lethal." I say.
"Well for all of them there are ways to use them so there are not." He explains. Everyone nods. "Alright I booked a place for this weekend. We will have seven hours to do this. Also if Varya escapes we have the option of getting her back or kidnapping someone else." Clint says to everyone, again we all nod.
"Until then it is four in the morning, night everyone." Bruce says. We all go our separate ways murmuring goodnights to each other.
In two days we were going to be team bonding. So we had disbanded into our groups to talk strategy. So far it wasn't working well. Nat was yelling at Tony for being a smart ass, Bruce was trying to defuse the situation while trying to remain calm himself and I was tied to a chair. They had long ago decided that I should find the best way to get out so they tied me to a chair. I was here just trying not to move so I didn't set Bruce off. I wanted to yell at them to shut up so he didn't accidently kill us but I didn't think more noise would help. I thought Clint was our best option but I was tied to a chair. Then I got an idea.
"Jarvis would you please inform Clint of the situation with Dr Banner in here and that I am currently unable tied to a chair so I cannot calm him down in anyway and the others haven't noticed." I quietly request.
"Of course Ms Romanova." Jarvis responds. "He says he is on his way and is coming up with a plan, he asks me to tell you to remain very still and quiet. Also to try and subtly tell the others to shut it." Jarvis responds.
"Thankyou Jarvis." I respond quietly. I try to quickly think of how to silently get someone's attention. "Jarvis can you please make the door open with as much normal door opening noise as possible?" I ask him.
"Of course Ms Romanova but didn't Agent Barton tell you to be quiet?" Jarvis asks me clearly concerned. If computers could be concerned.
"just trust me I have an idea." I respond. Si the door opens with an overly loud woosh, which was exactly what I was hoping for. Everyone looks over at it wondering who is coming in.
"Dr Banner would you please walk out the door and come back in when your skin is the right shade at least. Tony go get some scotch and come back in when you have calmed down enough to sit down and shut up, Nat, Clint is on his way I want the two of you to go up to the roof where you can vent before coming back down and being civilised. Meet back here in twenty except doctor banner who can take as much time as he needs. Then we can try all this again." I tell everyone. They all do as I said without complaint. When everyone leaves the room I attempt to get free.
"Jarvis can you please lock the door and vents tight so I have to try and escape." I ask him.
"Of Course Ms Romanova." He says and I hear the door lock. I then proceed to attempt my exit from the chair and the room. I am cuffed, taped and roped to this chair at my feet, stomach, neck and hands. I get my hands free first using my pocket knife that was in my boot. Luckily I could just reach it. I use it to cut off all of my bindings except my neck because I don't want to slice my neck open, so I simply undo it with my hands. Then is the harder part, getting out of the room.
(Tony's POV)
After getting sent from the room for scotch I headed straight for the bar.
"Getting kicked out of a room i built in MY tower by a 15 year old girl. Pfft." I grumble to myself. I get my scotch and sit at the bar. "How's Banner going?" I ask Jarvis about 10 minutes later.
"He has successfully meditated to the point that he is safe however he believes it is important to remain isolated for a little while longer." Jarvis informs me. "Sir Ma Romanova asked me to lock her in the room so she could try and escape while she was still bound to a chair." Jarvis tells me.
"Oh how's she going?" I ask him mildly curious.
"Well she got out of the chair about five minutes ago, after thoroughly searching the room for an exit she seemed to sit down to think about it all, her new course of action is concerning me greatly." Jarvis explains.
"Show me." I request. Jarvis puts the security camera's video feed on to the tv screen. Varya appears to be looking at the window. Up and down around the edges of the window. "She seems to be looking for a way to get the window off. Why would she do that?" I ask rhetorically.
"I believe she intends to scale the tower sir." Jarvis answers anyway.
"That's insane Jarvis tell her that's insane. She is ten stories up." I reply while panicking a little.
Varya seems to look at the roof so I assume she is talking to Jarvis. I can hear what she is saying because the video has audio I just can't hear Jarvis talk.
"Yes I am well aware that is why that is not my plan. Well not exactly, I'm doing something that I did at the academy. This is just a bigger building. And besides, I'm only going I window over from this room. Five steps max. I promise Jarvis I will be fine." She reassures. She manages to get the window out. Then Steve and Thor enter the room I'm in and see what I am watching.
"What the hell is she doing?" Steve asks as the two enter the room.
"Being crazy that's what." I say as Varya climbs onto the outside of the building. She climbs along until she reaches her target window. "They are specifically designed to NOT open from the outside Varya!" I yell at the screen. She seems to realise they don't open quickly.
"Should have seen that coming, okay just think. Um I can't go back to the other room because if I attempt to turn around I will fall ten stories. But none of the windows will ope… oh that's brilliant." She says to herself.
"What? What's brilliant." I yell.
"She can't hear you Tony shut up." Steve says now panicking as well.
"Arghh." I say as I turn around where my eyes fall on the balcony. "Oh crap Varya you won't make it, it is too far!" I yell when I turn around.
"What where is she going?" Steve asks.
"The only window that opens from the outside, the window door of the balcony." I explain.
"That is brilliant indeed, lady Varya would surely be a formidable foe, lady Sif and Lady Varya would get along very well I think." Thor says proudly.
"Not the time Thor." Steve says.
"I'm almost there Tony stop freaking out." Varya suddenly remarks.
"You can hear me?" I say.
"No Jarvis I can't hear him but you wouldn't be telling me how insane and crazy and stupid I was being if Tony wasn't yelling it at the security feed he is watching." Varya states matter of factly. "Ahh there we go." She says as she lands on the balcony.
(Varya's POV)
I finally landed on the balcony when Tony, Steve and Thor all ran out and hugged me. Thor was smiling, Steve looked like he wanted to kill something and Tony looked terrified.
"You know I'm not great with physical contact." I remark.
"Well get great with it and don't ever do that again. You could've died or worse, your parents might've seen." Steve says.
"Might have seen what Rogers?" Nat says. As she, Clint and Bruce walk into the room.
"I scaled the building from the planning room to the balcony to make my escape." I say.
"How high?" Nat asks.
"Ten stories." I respond.
"Anything over twelve and you're grounded." Nat says.
"Got it." I respond.
"Spies are weird, also sorry for losing my cool." Tony says as he finally stops hugging me. "Also if Helena found out about this she would kill you." Tony says.
"I know, now is everyone ready to go back to strategizing?" I ask everyone nods.
"Thanks for coming to help Clint." I say as I walk by.
"You did good kid, also I have a slightly different rule, if I don't know about it and you are unsupervised nothing over eight stories unless it's life or death." Clint says I nod. So team two heads back into the strategy room while Clint re-joins his group.
Two hours later…
"Okay so plan is Varya escapes and takes out any guards and meets Bruce in this cave then the two of them make their way to this tree line where they will climb the trees, Bruce will tell Varya where Thor is in the trees with his bow and Varya will shoot him with the bow she makes. Meanwhile Natasha will be using Jarvis in the suit for navigation and stunning Helena since she has Thor's hammer. At the same time I will be taking out Clint's suit since I have the shield and can get closest." Tony explains. We all nod.
