Ok here are the standings:
Clint Barton / Hawkeye: 10
Steve Rodgers / Captain America: 10
Bucky / the Winter Soldier: 6
Pietro / Quicksilver: 1
And here we go.
Chapter Five
Skye
Skye took a deep breath and raised her hands. The gym shook, the wall in front of her was blasted to bits, but of course not that many bits because it was built to be Hulk-proof.
The blast left the gym floor shaking, and her earthquake powers just added onto that. She heard a thud and saw Banner had fell. His eyes were starting to glow green. Skye panicked.
Quickly she closed her eyes and concentrated on getting it to stop shaking. After a while it stopped. She turned around. Banner was recovering himself. The Avengers were looking at her with shock. "I can get the earth to shake in less than a millisecond." She said.
Glancing down at the floor she continued."As you can see, I'm not so good at making it stop." She sighed. "I guess I'll leave now..." Skye turned to walk out the door, knowing they'd want to get rid of her as soon as possible.
"Whoa Whoa Whoa wait a second." Stark spoke from behind her. She stopped. "You just showed us your powers and now your just going to leave!?" He said incredulously.
"What, you don't want me to." She asked/stated. "No, we don't." Stark said. Great, so they want to experiment on her. Just perfect. "I'm not going to be a lab rat either." She said.
"Weren't planing on making you one." Banner said finally recovering. Skye turned around and viewed their faces. They weren't the ones of fear that Skye expected. Barton, Stark and Rodgers had a bit of awe in their expressions.
Banner looked shocked, but they all did. It just showed on his face more. There also was a look on his face of excitement, probably because he believed he would get new knowledge from studying her powers.
Romanov had a look of curiosity and reluctance to trust a new person with destructive abilities. That was to be expected from one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best assassins.
Thor wasn't here. Skye guessed in the hour she'd been in her room he went back to Asgard. Sighing she looked to Stark. "What do you want then?" She asked.
Stark looked at the other Avengers. They nodded. "We want you to stay here." He said. Skye scoffed. "Why? So you can examine my powers until I'm of no use to you?"
Rodgers spoke. "Skye, you seem to be forgetting some of us have powers too." She hid her blush at that comment. "I know, but you guys all got it from some weird experiment." She said.
"Thor didn't." Stark cut in. "Thor is an alien. I was born with my powers but they were just activated." Skye stated. "How do you activate them?" Banner asked.
"Through a very dangerous process. If you don't have hidden powers, you are turned to stone and crumble." She said matter of factly. Barton snorted. Skye glared at him.
"I'm being very serious Barton." She said. Barton blushed in embarrassment. "So... You want me to stay why?" Skye asked again. Barton looked at Romanov.
The red head said "You know it's not safe for you out there yet. Remember the agencies are all tracking you down. No wonder with your powers. You are safer here."
Skye snorted again. "Yeah, because no one can break into Stark's tower. It is perfectly safe." She said sarcastically. "Pah-lease. I hacked into this thing when I was fifteen, no problem. And I did it again last month."
"Plus, Ultron broke in no problem. I think the agencies can too."Stark looked like the world just ended. "Jarvis, she hacked me twice and you didn't think to tell me!?" He yelled at the ceiling. "I tried to Sir, several times. I'm afraid you wouldn't listen."
Barton chuckled. Stark glared at him, which of course only made him laugh harder. "A fifteen year old hacked your servers and you didn't even pay attention when Jarvis told you. Great job, Stark."
"Whatever Barton. My firewalls are better than yours." Stark stated. "Weeeeellllllll I'm going back to the guest room..." Skye said. Stark just lazily waved a hand at her while continuing his argument with Barton.
Skye sighed again.(She seemed to be doing a lot of this lately.) And left the gym. Training area. Whatever.
Barton Pov.
Barton snorted at Starks lame comeback. 'My firewalls are better than yours'? It sounded like a four year olds insult. He faintly heard Skye say "Weeeeellllllllll I'm going back to the guest room..."
Barton turned his head a little and saw her leave. He also saw Stark waving her off like he didn't care. Which he probably didn't. But seriously, his comeback was stupid.
Barton decided to voice his thoughts. "That was a stupid comeback Stark. Even three year olds have better insults than that." Stark mocked being insulted.
"I will have you know I spent a lot of time coming up with that. And besides, your just jealous because you know I'm right." Stark said. Tony was incredibly annoying.
Now it was Barton's turn to mock hurt. "I could beat you any day." Stark stepped closer and got all up in his face. "Prove it." Barton pushed Stark. "Pervert." Barton said.
Tasha had clearly had enough. "Play nice boys. Now are any of you idiots going to address what just happened?" She said. "I'm not a idiot." Cap said with a frown.
Tasha just gave him a 'seriously?' look and glanced at Barton. 'You know what thinking in third person is weird.' Barton thought randomly. 'I'm going to stop doing it.'
Clint Pov. Again, except in first person
Ok much better. I suddenly became aware of Tasha's piercing glare. "I'm sorry, what?" I asked. Tasha rolled her eyes. "Moron." She said. I held my hands over my heart in fame hurt.
"I asked what do you think about Skye's new powers." Tasha said. Oh. I'm not sure... But I can't admit that. "Well, I believe we should help her get used to them and then invite her to the team." I said.
Bruce looked up at me while clearing his glasses. "Why do you want her to join the team. If I remember right last time we met a new person you wanted them as far away as possible. You even told her so."
I grinned sheepishly. "I just had a feeling she would be helpful to the team. I can't help but think she is connected to us in some way." I said. Tasha snorted. "Like what? She's our long lost daughter?"
Bruce looked up fast, clearly misinterpreting her statement. "Well with Starks record I wouldn't be surprised." I said, sniping him. Stark rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah." He said.
"But no, not like that Natasha." I said making sure to use that name in front of the team. "I'm not really sure how... It's just a hunch." I continued. Tasha looked me in the eye and gave a subtle nod. She understood.
"An agents instinct is always a good one. The question is, is this connection good or bad?" Tasha asked. An uncomfortable silence settled over us. "My firewalls are still better than yours." Stark muttered under his breath.
I shot him a glare while Tasha gave him a 'really? now?" look. Stark raised his hands in defeat. I have triumphed! Take that Stark. Stark must of assumed I was celebrating in my head and glared at me.
"You win this time Katniss. But watch your back..." He said. Stark tried to walk away looking cool but tripped over his own feet. I laughed quietly. He glared at me.
"You did not see that." Stark said. "Whatever helps you sleep at night." I said. He glared at me one last time and walked out, this time managing to get out the door.
We heard a clatter and an ow! from outside the door and I had to try hard to stifle my laughter. Tasha shook her head disapprovingly. "Some things will never change."
It was silent. The silence was starting to bother me so I decided to talk. "I used to think in third person." Tasha stared at me. "Good for you." She started to walk to the door. "Boys." She muttered.
"That was eventful." Steve said from behind me. I jumped with surprise internally. I can tell from Tasha's eyes she had forgotten he was still here too. "Yes. Yes it was." I said coolly.
Tasha and I walked out of the room together, leaving a confused Steve Rodgers in the training area. I need a new bow...
Third Person Pov.
Clint and Natasha walked out of the gym together and soon separated, going to different places. Clint was going to bother Stark until he got his new bow while Natasha was going to go do... spy stuff.
Stark at the moment was trying to update his computers after learning about Skye's hacking history and Jarvis was annoying him while he did it. Banner was in his own lab researching with the information Skye gave him to find the origin of her powers.
If he could find out what activated it, maybe he could use that to get rid of the Hulk. The Hulk had proven useful, but he wanted to try anyway.
Skye was in her room, staring at the pictures again, wondering where she went wrong. Steve was still standing in the middle of the gym looking confused. Thor was having an interesting time on Asgard...
Thor's Pov.
Thor was not having a good day. After Skye had came to the tower, Thor was called away by Odin for some important report. When he got back to Asgard, it turned out to be bad news.
Loki, who he had believed had died on the battlefield, had survived and impersonated Odin while Odin was in Odin sleep. When the All Father woke up, to say he was furious had been an understatement.
Loki had been thrown back in jail, this time one that couldn't be affected by magic or heavy weapons. And that wasn't the only news. Apparently, over the past thousands of years on Midgard, a Kree device had been located.
Mortals who had been designed as weapons by the Kree had activated it and gotten powers. They were called the Inhumans on Midgard. Not all of them were evil though.
Some used their powers for good and some didn't use them at all. Lady Sif went down to hunt them. Apparently when down on Earth hunting them she had come across an old friend of his.
No one would tell him who it was though, and Thor was very confused because he didn't have any other mortal friends. Sif had also met one of the Inhumans.
She had been hiding here powers from her friends and in here nervousness and fear had let them out. Sif had wanted to kill her but after observing her for a while decided not to.
According to Sif this mortal was brave and selfless, a good warrior. Had she have been able to control her powers, Lady Sif would have brought her back to train in the Asgardian ways.
Thor shook his head. The thought of Lady Sif murdering someone just because of what they are made him feel uneasy. It reminded him of most of S.H.I.E.L.D. before it fell. And Hydra.
Thor had just gotten back from a meeting with Odin. They had argued again, though this time about the Inhumans, not Loki. Thor said they should only kill the ones that were harmful, and the AllFather had said they were all harmful.
Thor argued they should give them a chance and after hours of meaningless fighting Odin finally caved in and said he would give them a chance.
Thor smiled at his victory. Then he frowned, thinking of the news on the powerful force he had a vision of. He was getting stronger. They would have to wait and see what became of them.
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