We did get the whole team together. An owl was sent to Harry, who made great time in apperating over to the facility. Rocket, Rhodey and Nebula also came. Hulk and Rocket took the ship to get Thor. Natasha went to go get Clint.. And I came with her.

We flew into Toyko on the Avenger Quinjet. Natasha was piloting. I said "You know we don't know what we are going to find down there.." She then said "Our Friend." I shook my head "We don't know that Tasha... Clint lost everything.. That changes people. Hell that changed all of us" She looked over at me "He is our friend and team mate David, what is so hard for you to understand." I looked down "He's no longer Hawkeye.. He's Ronin. A bloodthirsty Vigilante." She scoffed "You're one to talk Blue Arrow." I raised my hands palm forward "Oliver and I showed restraint and only killed when we needed to, Clint is not doing the same. All I am saying is... be prepared for this to not be such a friendly meeting." She looked away and said "That's what I brought you for." I gave her a look "Really? That's all?" She looked sideways at me and said "Well you are the one who runs around with Vigilantes.. I figured you would know how to deal with one" I rolled my eyes "I see how it is my darling wife." She finally cracked at that and said softly "You are the only person I want to confront him with." I smiled at that "I wouldn't have it any other way hun."

We landed and set out. We knew his target, Akihika, Leader of a sect of the Japanese mafia. I was making it rain, as to make sure if a fight broke out I had the edge. I had to admit he made quick work of things, rivaling Oliver and myself in our hay day as the Hood and the Ghost. He then had a duel with the guy in the street, and it was a tense duel. However I knew Clint was just playing with him, drawing it out. Playing with his food. Finally he went for the kill, saying "What I want you can't give me" I then said "But we can.. Nice hood by the way." Clint then pulled down his hood and said "You shouldn't be here." He was tense, I tensed up myself, hand hovering over my housing unit, ready to tap it at a moments notice. Natasha then said "Neither should you." Clint then said "I've got a job to do." I nodded "Yes, and it's not this one." Tasha then said "Killing all these people isn't going to bring your family back." She then began to walk forward, I put a hand out to stop her but she smacked it away. "We found something, a chance, maybe." Clint then said "Don't. Don't give me hope." I then stepped forward myself. "Hope is better than this Clint. You are better than this. Come with his, be an Avenger again... one last time." I gave him a small smile. Natasha took his hand saying softly "I'm sorry we couldn't give it to you sooner." And with that we had recruited him.

A few days later we were back at the Avengers Facility. Bruce was working with Scott on the nano suits we would all be wearing for the time heist. Tony was still working on the Time travel device. Everyone was doing something.. Except me and Clint. Cint was in the break room, stewing I assumed whilst doing some pushups and situps and such. I had remembered some of Natasha's words not a couple weeks before. "Help him...like you did Oliver." I had never known Oliver to be as far gone as Clint was... Oliver didn't start good and go bad... He had started bad and went good. Learning restraint over time. Looks like I needed to be the teacher for Clint on how to find restraint... to control the darkness.

So I walked in to the room carrying two sets of bamboo sticks. I then said "Clint, ready up." He stood up and looked at me "Uh what?" I tossed the sticks which he caught. I then waves both arms outwards, the tables and chairs being pushed by the winds to the edges of the room. He said "What is this?" I got into a ready stance. "Training." He then said "you want me... to hit you with a stick... and call It training." I shook my head "No, I expect you to not hit me with the stick." He shook his head back "I don't follow." I cracked my neck and said "You want to play vigilante, So I am going to train you how to be one." He narrowed his eyes "With sticks?" I nodded "Yes, with sticks.. It was one of the ways Oliver and I used to train." He looked at me weirdly "Who? What?" I nodded "Oh yeah.. I forgot you have been living under a rock for the past 5 years. I was the Blue Arrow.. Star City Vigilante.. Oliver Queen was the Green Arrow. He died saving the universe 3 years ago in Crisis. We fought side by side for almost 8 years..." I looked down before looking back up and saying "I haven't suited up as Blue Arrow in 3 years. But if you want to take on the vigilante life.. I can teach you how to live up to the standards of best vigilante... Oliver Queen." He looked down before looking up and getting into a ready stance 'Okay man, what do you want me to do."

I twirled my sticks before saying "The goal of this is patience.. Technique.. And control. Slade Wilson taught this to Oliver when he was marooned on Lian yu for 5 years.. And Oliver taught it to me before I time traveled to teach me restraint." I then began to take him through the pattern, sticks hitting sticks at a slow pace. He then almost immediately went out for an attack to try and hit me. I blocked it with ease and used the opening to strike him across the face, sending him stumbling back a step "Patience... technique.. Control. Again." We went at it again.. Once again almost immediately he broke pace to go for a hit, once again I blocked it and kicked him back. "Patience. Control. Clint, this exercise is not just to hit the other person. It's about restraint.. Surprise. Again." We went at it again, and again.. And again. After the 6th time of getting hit Clint huffed in frustration. "How am I supposed to learn the point of this exercise if you won't tell me it?!" I just smiled at him slightly, but with the rest of my features serious "Patience." I couldn't help but notice the similarity between me training Clint and Oliver training me when I joined the team on Coulson's Orders in 2014 before I time traveled. Clint was reacting the way I did.. And I was repeating the way Oliver taught me.

We practiced this a few more times before we heard Scott, Bruce, Harry and Rhodey all bickering in the next room. We paused to watch. Finally Scott said "I'm not ready.. I can't do this." Clint then said "I will." I bit my lip a little at the thought of sending on of our emotional wrecks back in time.. But the others agreed so Clint got suited up. Bruce was saying "SO you are going to feel a little discombobulated from the chronoshift. Don't worry about that." I then said "You may loose one of your senses as well.. Or speak another langauge.. Or puke... or pass out...Actually expect anything to happen.. But It will ware off." Rhodes then asked "So let me ask you something.. If we can do this, you know.. Go back in time, why don't we just find baby Thanos? You know... and.." He made the motion of strangling a baby. I rolled my eyes "Rookie mistake" Bruce then took over "Time doesn't work that way, changing the past doesn't change the future" I pursed my lips "Well..." Scott then said "How about we just go get in the stones before Thanos does, then he never gets the stones, problem solved." Bruce then said "Time doesn't work like that, who told you it worked like that" Rhodes and Scott then started listing "Star Trek, Terminator, Time cop, time after time, quantum leap, Wrinkle in time, Somewhere in time. Hot tub Time Machine. Bill and Ted's excellent adventure, basically any movie that deals with time travel." I then said "Okay, let me break it down for you as the ONLY person present who has EVER dealt with time travel. Time.. Wants to happen. Yes, we could travel to the past and change the timeline.. However the future we would return to would be worse, or maybe the same, Someone else would look for the stones and do the snap, or Thanos invades with an army and kills us all.. OR we don't change anything at all, the Time Bureau would correct time before we returned to the present. Not to mention we would create a pardox, because we would negate the reason we are time traveling in the first place leading to no time traveling leading to a destroyed timeline. Do I also not need to mention the fact we do not want to undo all the good in our lives that has been done in the past 5 years? Stopping Crisis, Tony's kid.. MY marriage? No our plan remains the same." Harry nodded "When I was a kid my mates and I dabbled in time travel which followed the same sort of rules David has described. We had a hand in the events that played out.. However we learned we were on a time loop. I cast the Patronus that saved my life.. Buckbeak was always saved by Hermione.. Even time travel has its place in the timeline. Time... wants to happen.." Scott then said "so wait.. So back to the future was a bunch of bullshit." I nodded "That is what we have been trying to tell you from the start." Clint then said "Lets just get on with this."

We went to the time machine, all of us gathered outside it. "Remember Clint.. Don't interact with anyone.. As tempting as it may be." He nodded. Bruce then said "Okay, going in 3,2,1." He then disappeared. Bruce then said "And returning in 3,2,1" Clint just reapeared, dropping to the ground. We ran forward, Natasha helping him up. Clint then held out a baseball glove "It worked." I smiled, the easy part was done.. Now for the harder part. The when.