"So Romanov finally found the balls to admit she has feelings for you?" May asked Hawkeye as they were inspecting some new weapons Fury had commissioned.
"Not exactly. All she did was kiss me."
"What the hell did you talk about in the shower?"
"Who says we talked?" He said with a devious grin.
"These devices are small enough to be undetectable under the skin, yet powerful enough to transmit audio and location. With the right tweaking we also managed to turn them into two way communicators, so the agents using them could also hear us." Fitz was telling the Hub's science department.
They were amazed, last year these scientists on a plane handed then monitors that could track heart rates and blood pressures, now they had reduced them to an inch long with a separate video feed set into a contact lens. One scientist saw a problem with it though.
"How do the agents wear these?" he asked.
"They are the perfect size to implant under the skin" Simmons explained.
"Eye colour?" Ward asked Romanov.
"Brown" Ward could clearly see that it was a lie. Romanov's eyes are blue, but the machine didn't spike.
"Nationality?"
"Birth or Accepted?"
"Birth"
"Austrian"
The machine still didn't spike. She was beating it, which Fury wouldn't be happy about.
"Do you feel better now that you have kissed Clint Barton?"
The machine spiked before Romanov could even answer the question.
"I swear to God I will kill you!"
"It's encrypted, we can't get through. He's using the highest levels of protection." The tech team told Skye as she sat down
"Easy as 1-2-3." Skye said as she tapped away at the keyboard. Within minutes she had cracked the encryption and shown up some of Fury's finest tech heads.
They stood there with their mouths hitting the floor.
"So how are you finding your internship?" Fury asked Amber and Kain.
"I've realised I know absolutely nothing about being in the field" Amber admitted.
"Yeah, we've got a long way to go before we're anywhere near as good as those guys. At least we enter at level 1." Kain agreed.
"Skye is a level 1 agent" Fury told them. Their faces dropped.
"Have you learned anything else?"
"Don't give Ward or Romanov a gun when they're bored." Kain deadpanned.
"Yeah, we learned that your upper level agents are completely crazy. The things they do in their downtime. I mean we heard the rumours coming out of the academy, but seeing it is something else."
"I've learned not to take things at face value" Amber admitted, remembering what they had told her about May.
"I've learned not to hit on a woman who tells you to back off and she's seeing someone." Kain also admitted, remembering the punch Skye had given him.
"Sir, may I ask you about plan X and why we don't learn about it in the academy?" Amber asked Fury.
"It's a level eight specialist protocol. Anyone under level eight is not authorised to use it."
"WARD, ROMANOV!" They heard Coulson shout. Skye looked up from the computer and Fitz-Simmons even poked their head out of a door to see Ward burst through a door closely followed by Romanov. Coulson, who is not as fit and limber as the two agents brought up the rear.
"You're so dead Grant Ward." she said chasing him. She finally caught him and ran at him. She didn't care that he had a massive cut across his throat. She jumped, locked his head with her thighs and used them to throw him down, except he was quicker than she expected and locked his arms around her thighs and ended up rolling and pinning her to the floor, using his weight around her middle and his hands to pin her arms.
The Hub erupted in applause. They didn't know what had happened to make her chase him, but they had never seen Romanov get pinned by anyone before.
"Coulson, I thought I gave you these two to stop this from happening?" pulling Ward off Romanov.
"I am so sorry, Sir. They were quicker than me."
