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They were assembled.
Natasha and Steve walk into the briefing, slightly later than usual. The sight of Steve in his Captain America uniform makes the other five in the room visibly relax. Bruce waves the two over to the empty seats beside him. Fortunately, the director of SHIELD wasn't paying attention to any of the occupants in the room, only the screen in front of him. He uses his index finger to scroll through the files on the screen and it's only when Steve and Natasha take their seat that he looks up. First his attention lingers on the three sitting across from him, but then he looks around at the others.
Finally acknowledging the others in the room, Fury nods at them. "I've called you all here today to discuss a serious matter. It's not serious now, but if we allow this to continue any further it will become serious. So I'm going to be frank here," Fury says scrolling his index finger upwards and having the files on the screen appear on the walls around the room. The Avengers begin to quietly read through the information in front of them while also listening as the director continues. Fury stands from his seat and goes to the image of the right side of him. One displaying some sort of weapon or machinery that didn't make any sense to anyone, except Tony and Bruce. They could only identify what the parts of the machine looked like, but had no idea of what that machine was capable of. "Hydra is back."
The director paused a moment, his eyes flickering to Steve's before he continued without giving the Avengers any time to process what he had said. "Yes, we understood that this day would come and we are prepared to handle such events that may occur. But, right now, I don't want any events to occur period. And neither does the council. We want things handled reasonably and cleanly. So that's what we're doing." Fury stops talking and clasp his hands behind his back waiting patiently, which is surprising to say the least, for his team to gather their composure again.
It only takes a moment before Tony and Clint, of course, get their thoughts gathered first. "So what are you saying?" Tony asks serious, leaning forward on his elbows.
"I'm saying that before Hydra grows and carries through with their plan of whatever they plan to take over next," Fury says mockingly, rolling his eyes, "we're going to stop them. We're not going to fight or battle against them, but we're going to do it the old fashion way. Captain I am sure you're familiar with that."
Clint furrows his eyebrow and clears his throat, "So you're saying that we're going to win this fight without actually fighting."
"Precisely. Instead of actually fighting, I'm sending you on an undercover mission."
"All of us?" Clint questions. "With all due respect sir, most of us are not equipped to deal with that area of expertise." Clint begins to cough, Tony's and Thor's name coming out between them.
Stark glares at Clint before promptly ignoring him and turning his attention back to Fury. "By you sending us on an undercover mission, you mean you're sending…" He trails of purposely for Fury to fill in the blanks.
Fury rolls his eyes, "You can guarantee Stark that you're not one of them. I need you here in the research department."
Stark whistles and nods his head, "Good because I don't do missions. That's more Katniss, Spangles and Little Red's type."
"Anyway, moving on," Fury says clearly fed up with Stark. "As I was saying, Stark when we brought down Hydra to get back Darcy we had collected a few artifacts. Some maps of possible locations, weapons that they've been working on to perfect in order to use against us and of course, anything we could get our hands on from their computer. I know what you're thinking, we've already looked at all this useless crap, and so that lead us to just throw everything away, including the flash drive that we never fully scooped through. Well when Hydra came back on our radar, let's just say… I had some agents go dig through the trash to retrieve this." Fury holds up a blue flash drive.
Natasha's eyes catch a hold of the drive and a flashback suddenly pops into her mind. Her eyes glaze over and the memory flash before her eyes…
She sits there for a minute, her mind wandering, until her hand subconsciously goes to the suit she's still wearing. After Bruce bandages her up, she slips off the suit and retrieves the notes and paper. Walking away, she walks straight up to Stark and dumps them in his lap. "That's all I found and I might destroyed a few computers and machinery while there." Natasha says pulling out her flash drive. "Oh and this." She tosses it to him and he catches it easily, flipping it around his fingers.
He nods and grabs the paper, secure the hard drive in his hands. "JARVIS?" he asks.
"Scanning information sir." She hears from inside the suit.
Tony seems to remember that flash drive too because the minute Natasha looks his way, he meets her eye. He gives her a slight nod than turns his attention back to Fury. "Stark, you were the one that first scan through this. What did you find?"
"Some old notes and rubbish. Nothing useful or at least nothing that JARVIS could find." Tony replies.
Fury smirks, "Did JARVIS happen to know that this drive had a code. A code used by Hydra to where they kept their most private and secret information. Information that they can't afford to drop into the wrong hands. Well at least in their mind."
"What did you find?" Steve asks leaning forward.
"Everything we'll need to take them down this time. And I'll need you, Romanoff and Banner to handle this while Barton, Thor and Stark stay with me working here."
Bruce's eyes shoot open, "So you're sending me on an undercover operation?" Fury nods. "Me? The one that can turn into a green rage monster? The one that is experienced in science and not spy work."
Fury nods "Don't worry Dr. Banner. You'll be fine especially when you have Romanoff and Rogers with you who are trained spies. I trust you three more and plus you'll be able to pull off 'the married couple with a child barely moving into a new neighborhood' part extremely well."
The room becomes silent and that would have been a perfect moment for a real surprise spit take. The spit take certainly would've brought everyone out of their trance and back into reality, but fortunately for Fury none of the Avengers brought anything to drink. That meant no clean up for him, more specifically his agents.
Fury counts the minutes down, tapping his fingers impatiently on the wooden conference table. After a full 5 minutes, Fury removes his gaze from the table to the others around him. Natasha's jaw had dropped, Bruce had paled and Steve's cheek had turned red.
Steve wasn't as shocked as the others, but this un-expecting news had definitely taken him back a bit. He was expecting Fury sending Natasha and Clint, but hearing that he was going on a mission with Natasha and Bruce was shocking to say the least. Also that he would be a part of a married couple with a kid. But what part would he, Natasha and Bruce play? That's what was confusing him.
A minute later, his, Natasha's and Bruce's eyes widen in realization. All three heads snap towards him simultaneously and they can't help, but gape at him.
Natasha raises an eyebrow, "Sir… are you saying that… that…"
"Sir, "Steve starts curiously, not liking the glint in Fury's eyes. "Are you-"
"Yes I am. Welcome to the 'neighborhood' Mr. and Mrs. Gordon and congratulations are in order on your two year old son, Aiden Gordon."
Let's just say it was very amusing for Fury to stand and walk straight out of that room without bursting into laughter at the look on his team's face. Boy wasn't this mission going to be very interesting. For him and for his team.