When arriving at the agency Clint was given the ground rules, and then he did the testing. He used his collapsible bow, but before asked a question that confused Coulson and Director Fury.
"Do you want me to simply hit the targets, or use a different tip for each?" the assassin asked.
"Are you serious? What do you mean?" questioned Fury.
"I will show you. The first round will be all the same, and then I will show you about the blowing up one when I am done," Clint said in a snide tone.
Barton proceeded to breath. When the buzzer sounded, Clint repeatedly shot the bow and arrow as effortless as someone would act using a gun. Not even twenty seconds later, Clint yelled done. He had hit the six targets right in the middle. It was the same spot every time. A bull's-eye. Neither the agent of the director saw the man move. Barton was standing in the same spot.
"Now I am going to show you the other arrow I was talking about," the assassin explained to the dumbfounded pair.
Clint pressed a button on his bow. The button shifted arrow tips around the bottom of the quiver, and then the tip connected to the arrow shaft. When the arrow moved up a little in the quiver Clint took it out and set it up to shoot. All he did was move his arms, and then shot. It was a perfect bulls-eye again. Then the archer pressed another button, and the target blew up.
Clint gave the two men a few minutes to comprehend what just happened. After that Clint told them about the different tips and uses. "I have drawings of others that I wanted to have made, but I was brought here before I could do so. One that I designed emits a gas that knocks people out for a while, another is a grappling arrow, and last but not least one that electrocutes people," Clint stated proudly.
A while after, Coulson became Barton's handler. That day he became S.H.E.I.L.D. Agent Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye.
End of Flashback
Agent Phil Coulson brought up both Agent Barton and Agent Romanoff's files. On there was a video that he started to play. The video was of a mission that Barton and Romanoff did together. It happened to be one of the recent ones. After finding the number he needed, he got up and dialed it into a cell. The person on the other end grunted a greeting.
"Let me talk to the person in charge," Coulson spoke.
After a minute another greeting was said. "Let me talk to the girl. You should know that there are snipers prepared to bring the building down, and you will not even make it to the lobby. Now let me talk to the girl," the agent said in a deadly town.
A minute later Romanoff was on the other end. "Hello?" she asked hesitantly.
"Agent Romanoff" Coulson started.
"I am in the middle of an interrogation, and this guy is about to give me everything," Romanoff explained.
"Natasha, Clint's been compromised," whispered Coulson.
"Let me put you on hold," Natasha said. After that all he could hear were grunts. He couldn't help but smile. Natasha was like a daughter to him, and he acted like a proud papa. When she came back on, he told her the plan. She would go after Bruce Banner, and I would get Tony Stark. Director Fury was in charge of handling Steve Rodgers. After hanging up Coulson prayed that Clint could be saved. If he can, Natasha would be the one to do it.
Even though Clint and Natasha did not think people noticed the way they looked at one another, but he knew. He spent enough time watching and listening to them banter back and forth. Coulson just hoped that the love that the partners shared would save Clint from the demigod's control.
In Russia
Agent Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, was still thinking about what Agent Coulson said about her partner. On the way to retrieve Bruce Banner, she could not help but remember how the archer came into her life.