Rogue arrows ... or how Clint manages to cause simultaneous destruction in two different states entirely
Clint Barton didn't tend to spend much time in the kitchen. He had adapted during his time with the circus and then as an assassin to know the wonders of take out and re-heatable meals that could just be put in the microwave. They saved him time and meant that he never had to learn any impressive cooking skills that he would seldom use. He just had to hope that the place he had been sent on a mission had a take out shop of some sort or else he would have to attempt to cook and that never ended well in his experience.
When he moved into Avengers tower he relished in the fact that plenty of the others had cooking skills that he could take advantage of meaning he never really had to do anything for himself cooking wise. Even if no one was cooking, there was usually plenty of leftovers he could steal and, if he had to, he could revert to the take out menus he had stashed away.
Natasha was always willing to cook for him anyway as she knew of his lack of skills and despised his awful eating habits. She introduced him to the food of Russia and made sure he was well fed when she could, hoping to keep him away from the greasy food he frequented when left to his own devices.
Sadly for Clint, no one seemed to want to cook today and Clint didn't want to bother anyone but he was very hungry, well, he was always hungry but he was particularly hungry right now, and so he figured he would have to fend for himself for the first time in what seemed like ages.
Thankfully for him, he had had the forethought to stock up the freezer with ready meals just in case of a situation like this one and so he was ready to sort out his hunger. Fancying pizza out of the limited options he had, he popped the pizza in the oven and set the timer and settings. Being Hawkeye, though, he couldn't just press the button to start the oven. No, that would be way too easy and definitely not enough fun. Instead, he retreated to the vents and waited until someone came into the kitchen for something.
Poor Tony was the next victim, sorry, person to come into the kitchen. When the arrow whizzed past his head and embedded in the button to start the oven causing it to start making noises, Tony squealed like a little girl. Clint found the whole thing very amusing, especially as he was in the vents and Tony couldn't get to him. Tony found it less amusing.
When there was only five minutes left on Clint's pizza, the Avengers received the call to assemble. With one last longing look to the oven with his pizza in, Clint left with instructions to JARVIS to turn off the oven once it was cooked.
The battle against the Doom bots was short and destructive. Doom always had an over inflated sense of his own worth and his inventions worth and was convinced that his latest inventions would stand the test of the Avengers. The Hulk proved him wrong immediately and the others didn't have to do much. Hawkeye set up on a building to take out any stragglers that Hulk missed.
When he spotted one, Clint figured that the best method of dispatching it quickly and efficiently was with one of his explosive arrows. Firing it so it embedded in the metal exterior, he pressed the button on his bow and watched with satisfaction as it exploded.
At exactly the same time, JARVIS tried to inform Tony of something. Tony brushed JARVIS off, saying that it could wait until after the battle and when they got back to the tower and focused instead on capturing Doom. If JARVIS could sigh and roll his eyes then he would be but he listened to his creator, knowing that he wouldn't listen.
The Avengers were done soon enough and on their way back to the tower leaving S.H.I.E.L.D to clear up the destruction in their wake. They had a short plane ride home but they were quite shocked at the sight that greeted them. There was a smoking mangled mess of metal left in the kitchen in the place where the oven used to be.
"JARVIS? What happened?" Tony asked, shocked.
"I did try and tell you sir," JARVIS spoke sounding exasperated if it was even possible for him. "I believe that when Agent Barton made his arrow to explode in your battle earlier, that it caused the arrow he fired earlier to explode as well. I can only assumed it was also an explosive arrow and that the signal from Agent Barton's bow reached the tower and sparked the explosion."
"You did this." Tony whirled around on Clint who seemed shocked that his bow signal could reach that far. He then seemed to realise that that meant that his pizza was also destroyed. He seemed more upset at that until he saw the look on Tony's face. He then decided that it may be best for him to disappear and stay out of reach for a long while where Tony couldn't kill him for literally pressing the button to blow up his kitchen again. Tony called Pepper.
Clint was still very hungry, though, but he knew that he wasn't really in anyone's good books at the moment and so he would have to sort out food for himself. Deciding that he would be safer out of the building, he headed out in search of food and hopefully away from any angry assassins or billionaires and disappointed super soldiers.
Clint was banned from using any type of arrows or bow in the kitchen or out of the training rooms in the tower unless there was some kind of threat. Clint avoided any contact with the other Avengers and Pepper for a week.
This one is quite short so sorry about that. Hope you liked it. Unbeta'd so sorry for any and all mistakes there are.
Sorry it has taken so long to update, life has been so busy. I appreciate every person who reads, favourites or reviews all of my stories! I have gone back through and edited and changed parts of the previous chapters so hopefully there are less mistakes now.