CHAPTER 3-MEET THE TEAM
Upon the conclusion of her meeting with Rogers and Romanoff, Daisy collected her baggage from her Camaro and followed the redheaded agent to the living portion of the compound. Upon reaching the room at which Daisy would be staying, Romanoff looked at the new recruit and said: "Steve and I are about to have a meeting with the other Avengers. You will be summoned shortly to the training hall where you will meet the rest of the team and we will start getting a better understanding of what you can do."
"Do I need to wear my suit?"
"No...just workout clothes will be fine."
As Romanoff exited the room, Daisy unpacked and proceeded to change into a black tank top and grey sweats with black sneakers. She then dimmed the lights and proceeded to meditate for about twenty minutes when the AI said: "Agent Johnson, your presence is requested in the training hall. The quickest way to get there is to follow the hallway out toward the main entrance and take a left at the hallway's intersection."
Let's get this over with.
Ten minutes later, Daisy was tapping on the door to the training room. Steve comes out into the hallway to meet with her.
"Perfect," he said. "You're just in time for the fun part. Lately, we have been working on hand-to-hand combat. We typically spar and watch each team and learn from their techniques and call out advice as a whole. With you being a more experienced combatant, I am wanting to pair you up with Clint and have y'all do a demonstration of sorts to the rest of the group. This will allow me and Natasha to better understand your abilities and allow the rest of the group to get some pointers at the same time."
"Alright, sounds good."
" Now I have already told the team about you, except for the part about your powers. I told them that you have some unique skills to bring to the team, but I want you to surprise Clint and the rest of the team during your spar with Clint."
Daisy nods in affirmation. Steve opens the door and leads the way inside.
"Everyone," he begins, "this is our newest recruit, Daisy."
The rest of the team choruses a greeting.
"As I said earlier, Daisy has received hand-to-hand combat training from S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives, so what better way to test her capabilities than to have her go against the former S.H.I.E.L.D, man himself, Clint?"
Clint stepped forward onto the mat. As Daisy approached him, he nodded at her and she returned the gesture. They both went into the ready stance and then Natasha sounded the bell for the match to begin.
No sooner than the bell hand rung, Daisy ducked as Clint's foot came sailing through the air in an arching roundhouse kick. She then lashed out with her own leg toward his planted foot before he could fully regain balance, but he somersaulted over her crouched form, escaping narrowly. Daisy spun around to see Clint coming at her with a right hook which she blocked; she feint a left jab before actually sending her right foot flying toward Clint, landing a successful hit.
The match continued on for a few minutes each one getting a few hits on each other, Clint gaining more than Daisy due to his more extensive training. Finally, Daisy decided it was time to reveal her powers. She was in the process of blocking a combo from Clint when she saw his leg shift then come swinging around. She focused a channel of vibrations at the arching leg and stopped in mere inches from her shoulder.
Clint looked at her in surprise and you could here the others, gasp in wonder.
"Surprise," Daisy said, then sent out a small vibration pulse that sent Clint sliding backwards a few feet.
"Alright that good people." called out Steve. "And now you all see what I meant earlier when I said that she had some unique abilities to the team. Daisy, nice job. I think that me and Natasha both agree that you some room to improve, not a whole lot; but I shall leave that to Natasha as you will be training with her."
Natasha said, "Not bad kid, looks like we'll both be able to learn something from one another."
"Looks that way."
Steve calls out, "Alright everyone, take a few minutes and talk with Daisy, I feel like you all have some questions for her."
As Daisy talked with the other Avengers they all asked about her training and what her interests were. Daisy was talking with Wanda that the Sokovian asked Daisy about her powers.
"Your powers, were you born with them?" inquired Wanda.
"Not exactly. I have had the potential to have them my whole life without realizing it. It wasn't until I was exposed to a chemical called Terrigen that my abilities manifested."
"That kind of is like my powers…. I did not have mine my whole life until I was exposed to the that gem that is inside Vis's head. This was before it was part of Vis though."
After a few minutes more of conversation, the Avengers all headed to their rooms to shower and settle down for the evening.
As Daisy felt the warm water running over her body, she thought: I think things are going to be just fine...this was just the change that I needed.
Sorry for the delay in updating...I have had a busy week with my two jobs and other activities. I hope that you all will read and review. Trying to determine who I should pair Daisy up with for a relationship. I am trying to decide between and OC or one of the Avengers. If I choose to do one of the Avengers, I am currently leaning towards Thor with a background story of him and Jane not have working out. Let me know your thoughts on that. Hopefully I will have more chapters soon...still trying to get ideas for missions for them to go on; but definitely have some fun training exercise ideas.