Lab Accidents
Chapter 5
So sorry the fifth chapter took so long to post! I've been super busy lately! DX
Ever since his most recent lab accident, Clint had begun calling Tony the stupidest genius to ever walk the planet. Clint had said planet, because he thought that Loki was a stupider genius than Tony, but since Loki was locked away on Asgard, he decided to stick with planet to keep the confusion to a minimum.
"I swear, you'd better not be building anything dangerous." Bruce hollered as he made his way lazily to a desk at the opposite side of the lab, clutching a warm mug of coffee as he took small sips to keep his tongue from getting burnt.
"Depends on your definition-..." Tony mumbled, then noticed Bruce's unamused glare, "Kidding."
"Good." Bruce ran a hand through his slight bed-head and opened up his latest project on the holo-table in front of him.
"So what are you doing?" Bruce yelled over after emptying his mug.
"Something incredible." Tony answered, then continued after earning another unamused look from Bruce, "A new electric arrow for Clint, and I finished the blade Natasha asked about." He pointed to a long blue and black knife on the workbench beside him.
"At least it doesn't sound life threatening... Until you give them to Natasha and Clint." Bruce finished with a shudder.
Tony's expression turned from a smirk to a worried glance down at the weapons he was building.
"Kidding." Bruce winked, repeating what Tony had told him moments ago.
Tony scowled back and finished off the arrows.
Clint and Natasha entered the lab sweaty with bottles of water in their hands a while later. Natasha grabbed the blade from the workbench and powered up the electric circuit without bothering to ask Tony first. The blade sprung to life, much to Natasha's pleasure as she maneuvered the blade around in her grasp until she swiftly threw it towards Clint.
Tony and Bruce gasped, expecting to see Clint slide the ground dead with the knife in his heart. But instead, they watched as Clint caught the blade midair and he too examined it. "Nice." He said to Tony, testing it's weight in his hand.
"Thanks." Tony breathed out a sigh of relief.
Clint tossed it back towards Natasha the same way she had thrown it at him, and she caught it just as easily. Bruce and Tony once again breathing out a collective sigh of relief when Natasha wasn't impaled by the flying knife.
"Stop doing that!" Bruce yelled, his hands raking through his hair in panic as the knife settled once again into Natasha's grasp.
"Just practicing our mad spy skills." Clint said, hopping onto the counter and grabbing, without permission, one of his new arrows.
"Can I test it?" Clint asked excitedly, examining the tip.
"Not without your bow-" Tony began, but was interrupted when Clint pulled his collapsable bow from a holder on his back, holding it out in front of him before pressing the button that released it.
"Okay then." Tony said, handing him a new energy-containing quiver to put the electric arrows in.
"New quiver?" Clint questioned, clipping it onto his back.
"Electric arrows." Tony said proudly.
"Awesome." Clint stuck his tongue out at Natasha. "My presents are better!"
"Can your presents impale an unsuspecting archer from across a workshop while he tests his "better" presents?" Natasha replied, flipping her knife around in her hand.
Clint backed away from Natasha and towards the lab's targets on the far wall.
"Okay Legolas, go for it." Tony said once he had made sure the arrows were all prepared for testing.
Clint took one arrow from the quiver, notched it on his bow's string, pulled the string back, aimed at the very center of one of the targets, and let it fly.
An electric shock rippled through the target, causing it to burst into flames on impact.
"Shit!" Tony covered his eyes with his arm for a second before motioning to Dummy and his fire extinguisher. "Don't just stand there!"
Dummy took off towards the smoking target.
"When it's a chance to spray me, he's there in nano seconds..." Tony complained, then turned to Clint. "So the good news is the arrows are effective, bad news is that we'll need a new target."
"Jarvis!" Tony hollered.
"An order for a new, electricity absorbing target has already been placed, sir." Jarvis replied moments later.
Tony nodded to himself, Jarvis was always one step ahead of him.
"Thanks Stark." Clint said, then before Natasha and him left the lab, he turned around and walked backwards towards the lab's doors. "Not for the arrows! For not burning down the tower!"
Once Clint and Natasha were long gone down the hallway, Tony turned to Bruce, who was barely containing his laughs.
"Who's gonna tell him about the first seventeen attempts on the arrows?" Bruce chuckled uncontrollably.
Tony laughed too. "They'll never know."
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"Told you." Natasha said knowingly, hunched over a desk surrounded by monitors that showed various rooms in the tower. Her and Clint were currently watching the security camera that was situated in Tony's lab, with the volume all the way up so that they could hear what Bruce and Tony were saying.
She held out her hand expectantly.
"I swear, I thought he was getting better about the constant lab accidents." Clint replied, taking a twenty out of his back pocket and slapping it down on Natasha's outstretched palm.
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It was tons of fun to write!
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