The Field Trip Chapter 4
We continue up to the next level and I can only think to myself halfway through, halfway before sit down and eat a superheroes lasagne with your family.
‘Training floor’ FRIDAY announces as we arrive on the floor, before we leave Luke turns so us.
‘Okay so, this floor is totally open, the elevators are locked to all but us’ he eyes me as well ‘so feel. free to wander around. Black widow, Thor and Hawkeye are in the big room so that will be worth the watch, Red can show you the way¸ we’re on our break now but someone rather famous might be taking you the rest of the way…’
‘Come on guys’ I call, striding off in the direction of the room putting on a brave face ‘let’s see them train first’ a gaggle run after me and I pause outside the big doors
‘hey FRI’ I call out ‘please may you warn the inhabitants that outsiders are coming in and is tell Spidey he might wanna get a mask on’ I add, seeing a flash as Peter flies past on his web
‘of course, Red, you may enter now, Spider-man has left’ the automated voice replies and the door buzzes.
The others had risen to the challenge of showing-off, Hawkeye is at the punch bag, delivering cracking blows every few seconds, Thor is outside the glass doors on the lawn, chucking his hammer mammoth distances and calling it back into his hands. Nat is at the gun rage she fires 3 shots, hitting bullseye easily then throws the gun to her left hand, 2 more bullseye and back to the right again. Hawkeye sees us first and call through to Nat, they walk over quickly
‘hey guy’ Clint says ‘I’m Hawkeye and I think you’ve met Agent Romanoff’ a few of us nod, I wink at him
‘this is one of our training facilities, we have 3 more rooms like this here, however most of us prefer to work as a group’ he punches Nat lightly, she slaps him hard back.
‘Ow. We’re going to carry on training and maybe spar a bit if you’d be interested in watching. Nat is going to go a quick talk on shooting and guns and if your teacher agrees maybe a few of you could have a go on a silencer.’
A half of us grin at this and Nat takes over, leading us to a table laden with guns. She talks us through each gun and picks up a small pistol last.
‘this is my gun of choice it’s a 2.1 caliber pistol, it’s not a silencer but I have one of those here’ she pats her left thigh’ she then goes onto showing us how to load, dismantle and clean a gun, much to Mrs Scott horror. Finally, she spins the gun in her hand and presents the handle to our group.
‘so’ she smirks ‘who wants a go’ laughing at our confounded faces she pushes it into my hands. ‘you’re up Red’
‘Excuse me Miss… Agent Romanoff, Iris is part of our school community, you cannot teach her to fire a gun in my class’
The Black Widow looks like she’s biting back a laugh (or a growl… it’s hard to tell with that woman)
‘I’m not teaching her. FRIDAY please search Starks Terms and Conditions for trip’ she asks the AI
‘Of course, Natalia’ the voice responds ‘In paragraph 3 it states in demonstrations only those holding direct, and legal license of the equipment can use it’ Nat pushes me to the front
‘I’ll tell Maria you threw away the cake she made’ I threaten as she snaps the headphones onto my ears. The spy looks shocked ‘you won’t dare’
‘but Iris doesn’t have a license-’ The teacher questions
‘yes, I do, in case of a raid all interns attend a training course of sorts’ I explain to the teacher-my classmates are loving this
‘FRI’ I call again ‘Pull up my gun license’ at one a large projection of my license appears on the white wall. Nat smirks and fires 3 shots in quick succession hitting the target dead centre again. I follow her lead and fire as well, hitting just off 4 times and centre once.
‘do better’ Nat calls to me. I try again, aiming hard. 2 dead centres in quick succession.
‘Swap’ I call out again and without looking we chuck the guns between us catching the other’s, firing again hitting the targets head. They flop hopelessly to the floor. The class gapes. Nat turns back to the class
‘Okay children, who wants to learn how to kill a man’ Clint subtly shakes his head at her and she reviews the offers
‘fine. Who wants to know how to brutally maim a man’ Clint laughs slightly and takes over
‘Okay, now now we are going to run a little self-defence class, so boys come with me, girls over with Nat.’ a few boys groan at not being put with The Black Widow but she just rolls her eyes.
After half an hour’s hard work and Hawkeye occasionally yelling at Nat to stop teaching us to strangle people between our thighs we finish and sit puffing on the bench as Clint explains what’s happening next.
‘Okay so now you have the chance to spar with one of us, who wants to go first’ a volley of hands get thrown up but Nat narrows her eyes and picks Flash the butthole that made the rude comment earlier.
‘Can’t I fight, you know a man’ he states rudely as he steps onto the mat. Clint snorts ‘Scared of a girl? Well that’s not a first with Nat but she is the best fighter here, the only one known to beat her is Red Dawn but she could use her Dawn so…’
The next 4 seconds is spent with Nat wiping Flash on the floor, she finishes with her signature move and he struggles for a few seconds before admitting defeat. She laughs and calls me up.
‘Red’ I resist a groan and walk slowly up to my mentor
‘Серьезно, мама-паук, у меня есть секрет, чтобы сохранить’ I raise an eyebrow at the redhead (seriously mama spider I have a secret to keep)
‘и я хочу хорошего боя в отличие от этого довольно грубого джентльмена, который думал, что может победить меня’ she replies reaching down to kiss my forehead lightly and stroaking my hair out my face (I want a good fight, unlike this rather rude gentleman who thought he could beat me)
‘люблю тебя мама паук’ I whisper, and we take up different side of the mat. (love you mama spider)
Everyone is gaping at our conversation, not understanding it of course but getting the fact the Black Widow had kissed my forehead and spoken her language with a schoolgirl.
Hawkeye nods ‘You know the rules then, powers, cheating, pranks, and weapons are allowed, first to knock out or incapacitate their opponent wins the match. And as you both know, No killing.’
For the next 7 minutes after Clint does the count down my thoughts mainly consist of ‘dodge, block, punch, duck, kick aww fuck that hurts’ but when Nat finally body slams me, I tap out immediately.
‘Giving up so easily Red, that’s new’ The spy laughs and give me a hand up
‘Просто подожди, пока мы начнем тренировку сегодня вечером, я позабочусь о тебе с помощью друга’ I smirk (Just wait until we start training tonight, I’ll take care of you with the help of a friend)
‘Ее зовут Рассвет’ Nat counters (is her name Dawn)
‘Of course,’ I reply in English
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‘You really can’t resist showing off can you’ a deep voice call from behind. Thor is doing the ‘Asgardian lean’ as we call it hammer in hand, full armor on. The class swoons as a group and rushes off to him. The god enjoys the attention answering multiple questions about thunder and age and Asgard. I perk my ears at one.
‘Do you know PIris’s girlfriend?’ Izzie asks and the group quietens. Thor stammers slightly, I jump in.
‘Hey Uncle Thor-yes they know about Val, FRIDAY decided to announce it to the entire group at the beginning’ I walk over to him
‘Oh, then yes, Val lives here as well while she’s in training and will take over as King in 7 years. I knew her family well and brought her here to train as an Avenger after she discovered her powers’ he swings his hammer from hand to hand as the group erupt with more questions
‘who can lift the hammer?’ someone calls over to him, the God grins, he loves answering this one. He drops it with a thud.
‘go on’ he prompts ‘have a try’ everyone clammers around and he turns to me
‘an AI told your friends about Val?’ he questions so I tell him the story ‘ahhhh’ he replies ‘I told Stark AI was a bad idea, but did he listen. No’
‘does Stark ever listen?’ Nat says behind us walking through the gaggling schoolgirls and picking up Mejor easily, the girls gape
‘you can only wield my hammer if you are worthy’ Thor explains
‘who in the avengers is worthy then’ JoJo asks eyeing Hawkeye who hasn’t moved to pick it up.
‘urm. Steve can, I don’t think Tony, but Val and Nat can’
‘Can you Uncle Clint?’ I ask as he glares back at my friends, and claps his hands at Nat.
‘give me’ he states, and she chucks it at him hard. He catches it and falters for a bit before raising it above his head
‘I am now ruler of Asgard bow down to me mighty Thor’ he yells laughing. Then winks quickly and lobs it at the gang of schoolgirls. They run screaming out the way before it hits them. But I catch it in one hand and swing it easily.
‘excuse me’ FRIDAYS voice rings out again and a few jump but most are used to the AI by now ‘Mr Stark says to meet him at the elevator or you will not have enough time to see the living floor’ the others whisper, excited to meet The Mr Stark and I lob the hammer back to thor who catches it easily and give Nat a quick hug.
‘see you tonight’ I call as we make our way out of the room