After SHIELD fell Steve and Chris moved further into town. With their apartment destroyed they needed to set up in another one. Steve liked it but he wanted to move back to Brooklyn where he was born. How could Chris argue?
Chris was now considered an official avenger. Hawkeye and everyone else still called her Trigger, but it was all in good fun.
"I mean come on guys. Can't I get a cooler name than Trigger?" Chris asked as they were riding to another mission. They were pretty sure Struker, Hydras lead head hunter, was using Loki's scepter to experiment on humans.
"Trigger is pretty cool." Clint said trying to contain his laugh.
"Screw you." Chris said punching his shoulder.
"I'm pretty sure that's Steve's job." Tony said over the comms and everyone started laughing but Steve.
"You get Hawkeye. Yeah you have the bow, but I'm the real sniper here."
"Rude." Clint said in mock offense.
Natasha was driving, and Clint and Chris stood up shooting people as they passed them by. Natasha slammed on the breaks and everyone jumped out of the moving vehicle and over the barbed wire fence.
"Shit!" Tony yelled over the comms.
"Tony, language. Jarvis, what do you have from upstairs?" Steve asked.
"Central building is being protected by some sort of force field. Strucker's technology is beyond any other base we've faced." Jarvis told them all.
"The scepter must be here then." Thor said.
Natasha and Chris took out the nest of some of their larger guns.
"Would you like to?" Tash said gesturing to the giant gun.
"No, I would love to." Chris smiled and stood behind the gun aiming it at the HYDRA men.
"This is taking a while." Tash said covering Chris.
"Well we kinda lost our element of surprise." Clint said.
"No one else wants to comment on the fact that Cap just told me to watch my language?" Tony asked them.
"You know the Cap, Tony. Always to pure and true." Chris said enjoying blasting people with the powerful gun.
"We have an enhanced in the field." Steve informed everyone.
Chris was then hit sending her flying away from the gun.
"Clint is down." Tash yelled. "Someone should deal with that bunker."
There was a roar over the comms and everyone knew that Bruce had gladly taken care of that.
"Thanks."
Steve ran over to Chris and helped her with the pain in the butts that had her surrounded. After they were knocked out, she grabbed one of their guns and helped Steve.
"Hey baby." Chris smiled at him.
"Hey gorgeous." He returned the smile.
"Please no flirting over the comms." Tony said in a slightly annoyed tone.
"Stark we need inside that main building." Steve told him.
"Drawbridge is down." Tony announced.
Steve and Chris ran over to Thor.
"The enhanced?" Thor asked.
"He's fast. Knocked me out of the seat without warning. Speaking of that. I want one of those guns." Chris said turning to Steve for the last part.
"No."
"Clint is pretty bad. We need an evac." Tash informed everyone.
"I'll get Barton to the jet. You, Stark and Carter get the scepter." Thor suggested.
"Deal." Steve said and they looked over to see a tank.
"They look excited." Chris said and stood behind Steve and he held up his shield for Thor. Thor struck the shield and took out everyone and the tank before taking off.
"For gosh sake watch your language." Tony joked.
"That's not going away any time soon is it?" Steve asked Chris.
"Nope." She smiled and kissed Steve before running off in opposite directions.
Chris was checking to make sure they had no enemies unaccounted for.
"We've got things handled out here." Tash said.
"Find Banner. It's time for a lullaby." Steve replied.
"I've got the perimeter secure." Chris informed everyone.
"Good job, beautiful."
"What did I say about flirting over comms?" Tony joked again.
"That was all him."
Chris continued to walk around sure to stay away from Tash and Bruce.
"There's a second enhanced. Female. Do not engage."
Chris raised her gun keeping a sharp eye out for both enhanceds.
"I got Struker." Steve told everyone.
"I've got something bigger." Tony said with a tone of disbelief. "Thor, I have the scepter."
Everyone met back at the jet and Steve picked Chris up in a hug and carried her on. Tony landed and looked at them.
"This is why we shouldn't date coworkers. It makes the rest of us feel awkward." Tony said coming out of the suit and sitting in the pilot's seat and beginning to take off.
"When are you two getting married anyways?" Tash asked.
"When there's no more HYDRA bases to take care of." Chris said as Steve put me down. She walked over to Clint and grabbed his hand.
"How you doing?" She asked.
"Been better, Trigger." Clint smiled knowing I hatter that name.
Chris rolled her eyes and walked away.
"Thor, report on the Hulk." Tash said.
"The gates of hell are filled with the cries of your victims."
Tash looked at Thor and Bruce held his head in his hands.
"Not the dead. The wounded. Whimpering and complaining and tails of sprained deltoids and gout." Thor said trying to recover.
"Good job." Chris said patting Thor's shoulder and giving him a smile.
"Banner, Dr. Cho is almost at the tower from Seoul. Can she set up in your office?" Tony asked.
"Yeah," Bruce said back.
Chris sat down in a seat and put in her headphones. Bruce needed his music and she needed hers.
They landed at Stark towers and unloaded Clint. Chris took off my headphones and helped Steve pack up their stuff on the plane.
"Everything is set, boss." Hill said coming aboard the jet.
"I'm not the boss, Cap is the boss. I just pay for everything." Tony said looking at Steve.
"Word on Struker?" Steve asked Hill.
"NATO has him."
"The enhanced?" Chris asked.
"Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. He has an increased metabolism along with improved thermal homeostasis. She has telekinesis and mental manipulating." Hill explained as the three of them walked towards the elevator.
Steve looked between the two of them.
"He's fast she can control your mind." Chris said and he nodded.
"I'm sure we'll see them again." Steve said and handed the tablet back to Hill.
"It says they volunteered for experimentation. Who would do that?" Hill said as Steve and Chris entered the elevator.
"Yeah, what monster would let a German scientist experiment on them to protect their country?" Steve said as the doors closed.
"You're not a monster." Chris said turning and looking at Steve after the doors closed.
"You may not think so, but others do."
"That's because they don't know the kind and caring man that I fell in love with. Which is good. I can't have any other women stealing my fiancé." She said holding his face.
"I love you." Steve said smiling.
"I love you too." Chris said and kissed him.
They got out and Chris went to go check on Clint.
"Looks like he's flat lining. Call it. What's the time?" Chris asked joking around.
"Nope. You're stuck with me forever. I'm just gonna be made of plastic." Clint said.
"You'll be made of you, Mr. Barton. Your own girlfriend won't be able to tell the difference," Dr. Cho said smiling at the team.
"I don't have a girlfriend." Clint said.
"That I can't help with."
"I'll see you later Clint." Chris said.
"Later Trigger."
"One of these days I'm gonna show you how I got that name." She said and walked out.