Clint picked up the file fury had left him. Fury had made a team for him (that obviously included Phil) and left him coordinates, a picture and a massive file about the female assassin. He made his way to the armoury, where he packed his costume, his bow, his arrows, his pistol, some S.H.I.E.L.D spy gadgets, a pocket knife, some S.H.I.E.L.D grenades and some other bits and pieces that would be used for disabling any stark-tech. He went down below where the quinjet and his 'team' would be waiting for him. Not really team in his opinion, just a bunch of rookie losers, Phil (Barton thought he was okay...) and a pilot. Barton didn't mean to seem moody...actually no, he thought, he did mean to seem moody; he was moody. Fury, Hill, Coulson and his 'team' was there as expected. Fury and Hill were only there to wish them luck. Barton didn't seem to understand why they were making a big deal over a Russian girl. Okay, so she could fight but so could Clint so he didn't see what the problem was. Hill hugged Coulson and wished him good luck. Coulson nodded to Fury and boarded the plane, as did the rest of the team. Barton was last to board but before he could, Fury grabbed him and whispered into his ear.
"Be careful Barton, stay alive. Good luck. You'll need it." Fury hurried off shaking his head.
That's weird. Fury never wished Barton luck on any of his missions and he'd been on many!
Barton boarded the plane.
The plane was on it's way to Moscow, Russia. Barton found an empty space and decided to look at the 'private' file. It told him loads. Some of her known past (so that bit was very short) her tactics, her most famously known assassinations, the project she was in at the red room. It spoke of her time at the KGB and some of her known missions. Barton clicked a button which opened up a holotable. The holotable showed a video of the Black Widow beating up about 15 armed guys, twice the size as her, and not getting hit once. It also bought up a picture of the beautiful woman in a revealing dress. It appeared that many aliases of the black widow has appeared on S.H.I.E.L.D's radar, all of them linked back to her. So she was a spy. A highly skilled spy. Was Barton beginning to feel scared? He jumped to the casual voice
"Wow... she's nice" Coulson said.
Barton just scoffed and quickly shut the file.
"Oh don't worry, Fury had already briefed me on all that this morning... and Hill" The sound of smugness in Coulson's voice made Clint want to knock his teeth out. He breathed. He walked off.
Barton was shooting arrows at a paper target. Coulson sat there watching giving Barton the odd compliment.
"The problem is, it's too easy. They're not moving, nowhere near as challenging" Barton said. Coulson just laughed.
"Plane's need a training centre or something, they can fit a lab in a FIELD OPS plane so why not a place for training?"
"Haha, I'll let Fury know your suggestion!" Coulson said. "In the meantime if you wanted to practice on some moving targets..." Coulson gestured towards their useless rookie team, getting drunk at the bar.
"OI! Fellas! None of that... get your shirts back on and put the drinks down...this is a mission, for god's sake!" Coulson ordered.
Barton then leant over and whispered into Coulson's ear.
"So why did fury give us such a shit team for such a 'impossible' mission?" Barton asked.
"Well, my guess is, Fury has used them as pawns, y'know? People to send for this assassin to kill as a distraction well you take them out"
"Ahh, I see" Barton said.
The plane came to a sudden jolt as it did a loop round and flew a bit higher.
Coulson looked out the window.
"Well we're in Russia, team, let's activate the cloaking device" Coulson shouted to the pilot.
Barton watched the wings of the plane disappear as the cloaking device was activated. They'd gone invisible.
The pilot began to land the plane. he then stopped mid-air.
"Please leave the plane" The pilot said.
"What does he mean, we haven't landed" Barton asked Coulson.
"We're jumping" Coulson said, throwing Barton a parachute. Barton had a sheer look of terror on his face.
"You scared?" Coulson teased.
"No... just getting Déjà vu" Barton said thinking.
He had jumped out of a plane once to land for a mission. Well he fell. Because of the way he fell, Barton got trapped by his foot in the parachute making him fall head first. He got his knife and cut free from the parachute and had to fall, with no support, from 5000 feet. He was in medical bay for two weeks, being unable to perform in missions with a broken ankle.
Barton snapped back to reality. He watched Coulson jump out, leaving just Barton. He grabbed his stuff. He held his breath. He jumped.
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